14 20
3
CONTENT
EDITOR RECOMMENDS S
Data Retention -
16 Curing backup issues
Balancing Business with IT Service and Support
Coping with the
significant data storage and
information management
challenges caused by the
Freedom Of Information and
JUNE
25 28 Forward
Data Protection Act.
Thinking
34 Storage in difficult times
2009
can bring
8 tips to help end users
ROI and the channel focus on
the top five priorities for
spending in 2009.
ISSUE CONTENTS
Network
Convergence
13 Promoting the Power of 3
14 Data retention - balancing
business needs with IT
EDITOR’S LETTER
DEPARTMENTS
16 Curing backup issues
Welcome to the latest
issue of SNS-UK. 05 UK Committee
20 Service and support keep
Economic doom and
NHS in good spirit
gloom, and politi- 09 Newsfile
cians’ extravagant 25 Network convergence
expense claims 13 SNW Europe
,might be the stories
28 Forward thinking can
14 Perspective
bring a quick ROI
of the moment, but
for those involved in the storage network-
32 Storage in difficult times
ing world, the magazine provides wel- 16 End user focus
come relief and inspiration. Our two end
36 Businesses need to be
user focus stories provide great insight as 25 Technology more confident about DR
to how smart use of smart storage tech-
nologies can bring substantial business
benefits - and a rapid ROI. Network con-
Regularly updated
vergence is the latest (and final?) take on
Storage Networking news,
white papers, case
the Fibre Channel and Ethernet roadmaps,
studies and industry
initiatives can be found
and well worth learning about; other arti-
at the SNS UK website:
WWW.SNS-UK.CO.UK
cles provide valuable reminders that end
SNS UK is the only
publication to be
users need to ensure that they implement
endorsed by
new technology to fit their business
needs, and not the other way round -
which still happens all too often. Finally,
after a successful SNIA Academy in
FRONT COVER DESIGNED BY:
London, there’s we focus on the autumn’s
Mitchell Gaynor
must-attend event - SNW Europe.
WWW.SNS-UK.CO.UK JUNE 09
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