From the editors

As enterprises evolve their next-generation IT infrastructures, storage is taking on new style. Discoverability and recoverability are guiding principles. Optimization and virtualization are critical goals. The tools and technologies for enabling all are getting jazzier all the time, and today’s storage networks and systems are becoming faster, smarter and better than ever at keeping data accessible yet safe and in compliance with corporate policy and regulatory rules. In this, the third in our six-part New Data Center series, we explore these and other of the splashiest storage trends and technologies.
Julie Bort and Beth Schultz

Storage Podcasts

	Ann Winblad, renowned VC, on why Scalent Systems is a New Data Center company to watch.
	OnStor’s Bob Miller on purpose-built storage appliances.
	Network Appliance’s Manish Goel on data-protection strategies.

New Data Center voices

Storage in the Enterprise, a twice-weekly newsletter by Deni Connor, senior editor.

New Data Center Strategies, a weekly newsletter from Andreas Antonopoulos and other analysts at Nemertes Research.

New Data Center on the road

Get a total immersion education in a range of advanced technologies at Network World’s free IT Roadmap conferences. Click here for locations and dates.

Next Generation Data Center. A new IDG World Expo conference focusing on new t echnologies and their impact on the data center. Coming: Aug. 6-9, San Francisco