Archive Vendor profile: Arsenal Digital succeeds where others failed Key strengths: Focus on data protection, compliance, diversified service relationships. Posted November 28th Data Domain reduces data storage requirements by 20:1 "Global compression" allows customers to retain more data on-site for more time. Posted June 13th Network emulators are key to disaster recovery, business continuance test environments Packages fill the void when vendors don't test. Posted May 2nd Vendor profile: LeftHand Networks keeps it simple with iSCSI Targeting SMB market, firm offers cost-efficient IP SANs. Posted November 22nd SNIA increases education options for end users and integrators The SNIA's new Education Continuum features technology and solutions tracks, hands-on training at the SNIA Technology Center and the promise of an improved certifications process. Posted June 14th Vendor profile: The Vixel key to success — create your own market Innovative back-end switching technology leads to Emulex purchase. Posted April 5th Vendor profile: StoreAge relies on out-of-band virtualization Faced with an expanding list of competitors, StoreAge is counting on the technical prowess of its Storage Virtualization Manager. Posted August 11th Vendor profile: Inrange features strong enterprise products and support Customers love the newly acquired Inrange, so why doesn't EMC? Posted May 26th Vendor profile: Innovative InterSAN excels in automation Through its Pathline product, InterSAN provides end-to-end path management, while automating storage provisioning and management processes. Posted May 5th The ups and downs of 2003 After all the ups and downs of the past two years, storage and storage networking budgets are starting to loosen up. Posted April 28th Vendor profile: Hustling Hitachi Data Systems has EMC in its sights Relative newcomer Hitachi Data Systems has come a long way in a short time and is now battling EMC in the field and in the courtroom for storage supremacy. Posted February 10th Vendor profile: DataCore setting new virtualization standards Based on its SANsymphony product and its strong business partnerships with leading IT companies, DataCore is well-positioned to prosper. Posted December 23rd Vendor profile: CreekPath offers integrated management platform Former SSP CreekPath seeks to manage storage infrastructures while aligning storage and business objectives. Posted August 26th Vendor profile: FalconStor aims to provide a complete set of storage services FalconStor's vision is to provide virtualization, mirroring, replication acceleration, backup/restore and storage provisioning. Posted July 22nd Vendor profile: BMC views enterprise management from an application perspective BMC's business strategy calls for integrating storage management into its systems management approach and delivering solutions that link storage to applications. Posted June 3rd ADIC's success depends on embedded intelligence, manageability Anxious to shed its image as a tape vendor, ADIC is working hard to be viewed as a storage management company. Based on its rapid growth and expanded product lines, it seems destined for success in this quest. Posted May 6th Computer Associates responds to exponential storage growth with new branding strategy From the enterprise to the small business, from mainframes to distributed servers, CA's management software offerings can help users create a well-managed storage environment. Posted April 22nd Debunking some storage networking myths Users need to separate SAN truth from fiction in order to successfully plan, implement and manage networked storage. Posted February 11th Vendor Profile: Under strong new leadership, StorageTek is focusing on customers Long an innovator in tape and tape automation, StorageTek is counting on its enhanced disk products and virtualization expertise to maintain its competitive position in the global storage market. Posted January 21st Virtualization: Which definition is right? Virtualization has many definitions, according to columnist Barb Goldworm, but one fact remains: It allows multiple users to share resources and insulates them from changes to physical devices. Posted January 7th Disaster recovery requires dedication to the details Since the September 11 attacks, top management has become very interested in how well corporate data assets are being protected. Now is a good time to examine backup and restore plans and make recommendations for the future. Posted November 19th Q&A with new SNW Online columnist Barb Goldworm Industry veteran Goldworm discusses networked storage, IP technology, virtualization, interoperability and more. Posted November 19th Related Articles Data archiving improves database performance, decreases storage networking complexity Organizations are compelled by legal and regulatory reasons to store a lot of data that – most likely – will never get looked at again. To alleviate this IT headache, many companies turn to data archiving. Posted November 12th Disaster recovery, interoperability are recurrent themes at Storage Networking World With the specter of September 11 still fresh in their minds, speakers at last week's Storage Networking World show put fresh emphasis on disaster recovery, while renewing their ongoing demands for enhanced interoperability. Posted October 29th In the new world order, the need for storage security is crystal clear Although many people may be disoriented by the appalling events of September 11, the need for enhanced storage security has never been more straight forward. Posted October 1st SAN security: not a big problem — yet Appropriate access controls and solid enterprise security are the best weapons to use in the war against SAN invaders. Posted May 25th Feedback: feedback@snwonline.com Questions: questions@snwonline.com Technical difficulties: webmaster@snwonline.com