VERSION 2.0 and a Challenge to FUD

摘要

This special edition of Storage Management Solutions introduces our version 2.0. We are offering readers a new "look and feel" for the magazine, with an effort to make it even more reader-friendly. For those of you who are new readers, we deeply appreciate your inter-est and hope that SMS becomes a regular toolbox for you. For veteran readers, we are delighted to provide you with the quality material you have come to expect. The part that hasn't changed is the content. We will continue to offer technical features, tutorials and case studies pointed at dispelling the fog that obscures storage management. Managing storage is managing complexity. IT management is deciding which data to protect, which data is mission critical for business performance, where to keep the data, how fast it needs to get from IT center to the variety of users, what solution or solutions will meet the need, the budget and the staffing...This forms the backdrop for operating in a data center. But this is anything but all.