By the time this article is published, most of you will have returned to work after a holiday break and settled down for the year ahead. Considering this is my first 2008 column, I decided to write about some areas that will take center stage this year. (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

You can achieve considerable cost savings if different tiers of storage are parceled out to business units on a pay-for-use basis. (Journal Article - December 1, 2007)

It might be premature to declare nightly full backups dead, but tools like continuous data protection and snapshots can reduce a company's dependence on full backups without compromising data protection. (Journal Article - December 1, 2007)

The fall 2007 edition of Storage magazine's exclusive Purchasing Intentions survey reveals some subtle changes in storage managers' buying plans as new technologies gain greater consideration. (Journal Article - October 1, 2007)

Storage systems account for a big chunk of the data center electric bill. Here are some ways to reduce your costs. (Journal Article - September 1, 2007)

Those of us who work for tech magazines are sometimes accused of looking beyond the horizon too often. There may be some truth to that, but part of our job is trying to discern the future. (Journal Article - July 1, 2007)

There may be a slight respite for storage managers who have spent the last few years trying to keep up with runaway storage growth, according to the results of Storage magazine's spring 2007 Purchasing Intentions Survey. (Journal Article - May 1, 2007)

You'll almost always get a better price for maintenance and support if you negotiate service contracts separately from the price of new arrays. (Journal Article - May 1, 2007)