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FEATURED ARTICLE

Patching storage
By Jenney Fields, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.

Simply starting the process is probably the hardest part of creating a patching strategy. Some tips? Define the infrastructure categories that need patching and prioritize based on your threshold for risk exposure. Then, create a supportability matrix. This defines criteria such as how and when each entity should be patched based on things such as the vendors' preferred patching method. http://storage.itworld.com/4631/031210patchgh/index.html

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Poll: What's your biggest data protection headache?

• Backups take too long
• Can't determine whether backups succeed or fail
• Backups are system hogs
• Product incompatibility
• Pass the aspirin - there are too many to list