TechTarget Delivers Premier Issue of Storage Magazine
Posted on March 15, 2002
IT media company TechTarget announced that is has shipped the premier issue of Storage magazine to a controlled circulation of 50,000 IT professionals responsible for managing and implementing enterprise storage systems. Storage will provide analysis and guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. The magazine's sponsors at launch time include EMC, Cisco, VERITAS Software, BMC Software, Computer Associates, Brocade, and Kodak.
"Storage management is taking its place alongside application development, systems management, and network management as one of the key disciplines in enterprise IT," said Storage Editor-in-Chief Mark Schlack. "Today, managing storage means everything from developing policies for optimizing operations to preparing for disaster recovery. Our mission is to be an objective, critical source of information that helps storage managers make informed decisions about what is working today and what they'll need to plan for in the future."
The first issue of Storage contains a mix of articles led by a cover story profiling how companies like United Airlines are developing storage-centered customer information systems. Columns are written by senior storage architects, veteran storage consultants, and Storage editors. Columns include "Trends," "Beyond the Firewall" (in which an insider offers a behind-the-scenes look at the storage industry), "Best Practices," "Integration," and "Careers."
The March issue of Storage includes feature-length articles exploring issues and technologies at the forefront of storage today and those shaping the future of storage. Articles include:
- How Storage Keeps The Customer Satisfied: How companies are managing terabytes of customer data while feeding multiple applications that serve many users.
- The New Face of Disaster Recovery: New, post-Sept. 11 approaches that extend data protection without busting budgets.
- Exchange and NAS: How Microsoft's Exchange 2000 has thrown a curve ball at managers of network-attached storage systems.
- Technology Report: A monthly feature. The first issue looks at how storage resource management (SRM) tools can ease the job of the storage manager.
- Cheap Decisions Can Cost You: Why enterprise storage professionals should stop buying hardware as a stopgap measure and start investing in building a storage utility.
- Also: Secure SANs, TCP Offload Engines, Storage Pros Thriving in Large Companies.