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comes of age
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CONTENT
Sky high email
storage
EDITOR RECOMMENDS
S MAR /
brought down
to earth
18 Building the case for
WAN optimisation
Global law firm turns to
Silver Peak Systems for
real-time information
23
How long can you give
30
haring and desktop
up your market share? virtualisation.
APR 2009
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flexible
With memories of snow
and chaos still fresh in
our minds, it’s time to
follow the good old
scouting wisdom and
Selling storage software in
‘Be Prepared’
a troubled economy
ISSUE CONTENTS
08 Cloud computing - the myth
and the reality
EDITOR’S LETTER DEPARTMENTS
11 Data migration – moving
workloads across any
platform
Welcome to the
04 SNIA UK
latest issue of
12 Sky high email storage
SNS-UK. Doom
06 Newsfile
brought down to earth
and gloom may
be the order of
08 The Analyst
18 Building the case for WAN
the day, as the
optimisation
‘sins’ of the past
12 Technology
decade or so catch up with us all
23 How long can you give up
market share?
finally, but the message coming from
42 This Life
the storage networking community is
26 Consolidation comes of age
not all darkness and misery. Yes,
plenty of businesses in all industry 30 Selling storage software in
sectors are struggling to cope with the
a troubled economy
rapid change in financial conditions, Regularly updated
Storage Networking news,
but those looking to move forward
32 Dealing with the demands
white papers, case
studies and industry
of the virtual world
with any degree of positivity cannot initiatives can be found
at the SNS UK website:
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SNS UK is the only
savings offered by the smarter use of publication to be
flexible
endorsed by
IT, storage networking included.
Hopefully, our end user focused sto-
39 Unhealthy data security
ries serve as great examples of what
can be achieved with the right
approach to necessary change, with- FRONT COVER DESIGNED BY:
out which there will be plenty more
Mitchell Gaynor
casualties to come!
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