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Howard Marks's Most Recent Articles
Understanding Private Cloud Storage
InformationWeek, November 28, 2009
Options abound for this new technology. We help you sort them out.

SSDs Ready For The Enterprise
InformationWeek, September 05, 2009
Flash-based solid-state drives are fast and green -- and expensive. Get best results with a data classification strategy.

Virtualization Success Is In The Cards
InformationWeek, June 06, 2009
PCI-SIG standards help VMs learn to share.

Tech Road Map: Keep An Eye On Virtual I/O
InformationWeek, June 06, 2009
New offerings and approaches feed multicore servers the virtual bandwidth they need.

Know Your Options
InformationWeek, April 11, 2009
Other ways to store more data on primary systems include compression and single-instance storage.

Deduplication Joins The Primary Storage Reduction Fray
InformationWeek, April 11, 2009
Vendors are lining up to help you trim data bloat. Better choose carefully.

New Options Power Always-On Apps
InformationWeek, February 28, 2009
Know your systems to find the failsafe failover that works best.

What To Look For In Virtual Server Backup Products
InformationWeek, February 21, 2009
Virtual machine backup software is evolving rapidly, and there's no one best tool.

Practical Disaster Recovery For Midsize Companies
InformationWeek, December 20, 2008
In this InformationWeek Analytics report, we profile new technologies that can protect the business without breaking the bank.

Self-Healing Storage Systems Boost RAID Capabilities
InformationWeek, August 02, 2008
No-maintenance RAID arrays are more efficient and offer higher performance.

Symantec's Backup Exec 12 Is Evolutionary Upgrade
InformationWeek, July 26, 2008
Stalwart backup product gains remote management capabilities.

Data Domain Reclaims Title For Fastest In-Line Dedupe
InformationWeek, May 16, 2008
The DD690 device boosts the vendor's claimed data ingestion and deduplication rate to 170 Mbps for a single backup stream and to 388 Mbps aggregate for multiple streams

Deduplication Checklist
InformationWeek, May 16, 2008
Here are five key questions to ask before committing to a data deduplication system.

With Data Deduplication, Less Is More
InformationWeek, May 16, 2008
Deduplication technology is moving beyond backup and into other applications.

Send It Out: The Resurgence Of Storage As A Service
InformationWeek, February 23, 2008
If an in-house compliance archive is out of reach, consider outsourcing.

Data Compliance: Guilty Until Proven Tamperproof
InformationWeek, February 23, 2008
The answer to a barrage of laws and regulations requiring IT to store data for increasing periods of time? CAS and locked NAS.