Faster, smarter, safter, the new style of storage includes e-discovery, virtualization, optimization, backup management.
The New Data Center series
Part 1: The best products and practices for building the next-gen IT infrastructure
Part 2: Futureproof weapons and strategies for accomplishing your next security mission
Part 3: Storage
- Growing green storage
- Easing the pain of e-discovery
- Peak performance for storage
- Backups: from boring to insightful
- Case study: storage virtualization
- Q&A: New standards for storage grids
Storage video
 | Andrew Brill, senior network planner at Kaiser Permanente, on ITIL’s role in the company’s transformation |
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 | Onaro’s Doug McNary on the benefits of storage resource management. |
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Storage Buyer's Guides
Research storage products, including those for backup and recovery management, storage resource management and virtualization, in this one-stop shop.
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. 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
New Data Center Topics
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