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The far reaching benefits of
Reduced cost,
IT efficiency
increased response
24 Five big trends to watch
Virtualisation, cloud co
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pods and SSDs are just
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some of the topics co
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to Jim McCluney,
President and CEO of
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replication and recovery
38 Is virtualisation the
answer to disaster
recovery
Virtualisation has
takencentre stage in the
The business case fo
IT world for plenty of
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good reasons which can
broadly be summed up
under the headings of:
EDITOR’S LETTER DEPARTMENTS
cost savings, Green IT
and manageability
Welcome to the
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ISSUE CONTENTS
latest issue of
SNS Europe. As
06 Newsfile
08 Promoting energy
the global credit
efficiency
crunch contin-
08 SNIA Forums
10 The far reaching
ues to bite, no
10 The analyst
benefits of IT efficiency
one is quite sure
where or how it will all end. For the
16 Technology
16 Reduced cost, increased
storage networking community, it
response
seems that the messages it has been
preaching for a long time now - con-
42 This Life
21 The advent of 21st
century storage
solidation, efficiency, virtualisation,
de-duplication and more - are striking
24 Five big trends to watch
a particular chord with end users. Yes, Regularly updated
Storage Networking news,
budgets are tighter, and the project white papers, case
32 Bank improves data
studies and industry
approval process is somewhat labori- initiatives can be found replication and recovery
at the SNS Europe
ous when compared to 12 or 18 website:
www.snseurope.com
months ago, but few companies can
34 The business case for
SNS Europe is the only
publication to be email archiving
afford to ignore the significant finan- endorsed by
cial savings offered by smarter use of
38 Is virtualisation the
IT. Our end user features confirm this,
answer to disaster
while the CEO interview highlights the recovery?
ongoing technology developments that FRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPHY
BY: HATIM BOUBAKRA
will be offering the next generation of
savings, credit crunch or not.
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