The New Style of Storage

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
	Onaro’s Doug McNary on the benefits of storage resource management.

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

Julie Bort

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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• Protecting data from insider attacks Enterprise-ready open-source security tools• Three CISOs share security expertise •	• Researchers analyze storage management • Boot-from-SAN technology • CitiStreet wins with virtual tape
• 10 best practices for your SOA• Three CISOs share security expertise Don’t forget the VPN contract!• Five steps to mobile device lockdown •	• Storage change management • Mercantile Exchange and change management • The perils of automated security
• UPS’ grid journey • McDonald’s serves up Wi-Fi • Gannett’s VMware network	• Researcher: Storage management• Spam guru: the latest threats IBM exec: autonomic update •
• UPS exec: tips for grids • Grid computing comes of age • JPMorgan Chase’s capacity on demand	• 10 best practices for your SOA • Achieving application optimization • SOA governance
• Podcast: Ed Amoroso, cybersecurity for everyone Podcast: Bill Yerazunis, the “spam ecosystem”• Podcast: Kevin Prince, hacker’s 2007 targets •	• Taking VMware beyond the basics • Managing virtualization • Five virtualization tips
• Protecting data from insider attacks Enterprise-ready open-source security tools• CISO inner circle •	• Six proven wireless products • Managing wired/wireless nets • Five steps to mobile device lockdown