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Features in this issue

• Storage industry index

  May followed April's dramatic decline.

• API Swaps: Only Skin Deep

• Saving Media from Extinction

  What do whales and digitizing analog broadcast tapes have in common?

• Microsoft Scales Data Center Wall with MPIO

  Microsoft is exhausting data center managers' objections to running Windows in the data center.

• Bocada clarifies backup picture

  by  W. Curtis Preston

  Bocada's latest version of BackupReport could make your life easier if you have to track multiple backup servers.

• TCO analysis: does it work for storage?

  TCO analysis is all the rage, but use with caution—the numbers can be twisted by vendors trying to make a sale.

• Virtualize the right way

  by  Marc Farley

  Here are some guidelines for designing virtualized systems.

• Migrating Data No Picnic - and No Bargain

  To describe data migration as complex is an understatement and tools to assist in data migration, meanwhile, are few and far between,

• Brocade, McData Bolster Midrange Families

  Dominant Fibre Channel switch vendors Brocade and McData have both made significant enhancements to their midrange 2Gb/s Fibre Channel switch platforms.

• How to make your budget case

  by  Tom Pisello

  Justify yourself to the budget committee - here's how.

• Network appliance raises the bar for NAS/SAN convergence

  by  Michael Desmond

  The FAS900 series breaks new ground in bringing together file and block storage.

• Director or core switch: which one works for you?

  Each brings with it certain assumptions about reliability and manageability. But there's hope: The architectures are converging.

• The Whys and Wherefores of Failed Backups

  Despite all the effort storage administrators pour into backup, backups fail about 40% of the time.

• Storage Manager Profile

  NAS vs. SAN? Who Cares?

• Definition

  Direct Memory Access

• Get top performance from database storage

  by  Benjamin Kuo

  Taking your SAN beyond backup to run production databases requires the right layout, good practices and better integration. The benefits: high performance, floor-space savings and streamlined operations.

• Towards the new data center

  by  David Braue

  Modular servers, separate storage and networked storage all add up to flexibility and efficiency unprecedented in the glass house.