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Storage is a hot spot for your company. Volume, management, cost and accessibility are all burning issues. How will your storage strategy handle the heat? New data center technologies such as information life-cycle management, pay-as-you-go capacity and virtualization could determine the outcome.


	Storage as utility Pay-as-you-go storage options are electrifying companies by making cost management and capacity planning far easier than with previous on-demand plans.

	Unstructured, yet essential Don’t overlook audio clips, Word documents and other desktop data when plotting your new data center storage strategy.

	A vision of togetherness One analyst explains how server and storage virtualization will one day converge, enabling unified, and even autonomic, management of today’s distinct systems environments.

	Designing for the new data center Four experts contrast new data center approaches against traditional methods for solving tough business problems.

	Target: the new data center Scott Hopkins, vice president of technology planning for Harte-Hanks, shares his roadmap for an entirely virtual new data center.

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