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Dealing with (lots of) unstructured data; 10 woeful tales of data gone missing Product Test Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Splunk 5 Ways to see Network trouble coming Find and fix problems before they impact your network. Learn how in this Webcast, "Become a Network Psychic: 5 ways to see trouble coming and stop it before it starts." John Gallant CEO of Network World will introduce and Erik Swan, CTO, of Splunk will review timely information regarding troubleshooting and proactively monitoring the network. Review this program today. Spotlight Story Five reasons to love iSCSI Test Alliance member Joel Snyder broke out of his security niche and put the screws to a dozen iSCSI SAN servers in a recent test. In this special New Data Center podcast, he follows up with his top five reasons iSCSI should get lots of enterprise attention this year. Listen now. Related News: 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. 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. The big data-center synch With Fibre Channel over Ethernet entering the data-center scene, IT execs are plotting their ways to data and storage convergence. Fibre Channel over Ethernet: Go or no go? Some experts say other options are just as good, if not better, for converging data and storage networks. Don’t let the thin provisioning gotchas getcha Get the most out of this advanced storage technology with this how-to guide. 10 woeful tales of data gone missing Backup tapes, the repositories of millions upon millions of personal data records, are slippery little devils. Here are 10 examples of backup tape disappearances – the recent, the classic and one just plain unusual. Podcast: Why data deduplication makes sense in a tight economy IT departments have had to place lots of projects on the backburner till better days. Sepaton’s Fidelma Russo, executive vice president of engineering and development, tells why data deduplication shouldn’t be one of them in this special New Data Center podcast. 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? 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. Podcast: Know your storage efficiency quotient URL to come With storage growth tracking at 60% annually, optimizing capacity and finding efficiencies are prime enterprise concerns. Get pointers on how to increase storage capacity but not space or energy used in this special New Data Center podcast with Mike Workman, CEO of Pillar Data Systems. Betting on SuperNAP In Las Vegas, data center takes power and cooling to the limit. Data gone missing 10 woeful tales involving backup tapes: some current, some classic and one just plain unusua. Sponsored by Splunk 5 Ways to see Network trouble coming Find and fix problems before they impact your network. Learn how in this Webcast, "Become a Network Psychic: 5 ways to see trouble coming and stop it before it starts." John Gallant CEO of Network World will introduce and Erik Swan, CTO, of Splunk will review timely information regarding troubleshooting and proactively monitoring the network. Review this program today. Preparing for IPv6. Get concrete facts on what IPv6 adoption means for your organization in this Executive Guide. Learn how IPv6 and IPv4 can coexist and the role of NAT devices in this new world. Find out if you need to develop a business case today and how to get started. Download this Executive Guide now. Take Control of Network TCO by Automating IPAM Join ESG and Infoblox to learn about reducing network TCO while boosting network availability by automating IPAM. 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