| Bull castration, snake eaters, opium and a whorehouse: the life of storage guru Dave Hitz If you're surprised that the founder of an IT company is familiar with the intimate details of bull castration, then you haven't read the life story of Dave Hitz. Pack rat nation As they play in the global information economy, U.S companies stash away more data than they can handle effectively. The six-part 2009 New Data Center series opens with a look at how they're coping with the escalating problem. Thinking outside the storage box Unbridled growth in storage and the rise in Web 2.0 applications are forcing a storage rethink. Is this the end of the SAN as we know it? Three tips for dealing with (lots of) unstructured data Storage watchers predict storage capacity for unstructured data will soon surpass the amount of stored structured data. Here’s advice on how to make sure your storage environment is efficient and reliable. Reader survey: Data storage by the numbers With data storage requirements growing out of hand, we asked nearly 300 readers to tell us how they're dealing with the challenge. Here are the results. How flash is changing storage... And five vendors pushing flash-based solid-state technology into wares for the enterprise.
Plus: View the slideshow of product highlights. NAS best practices There's a right way and a wrong way to do network-attached storage. Get best practices in our Product Guide's How-To section. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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