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Light Reading, Inc. ("Light Reading") is committed to your privacy. We created this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to inform you of our information gathering and dissemination practices for www.lightreading.com, www.byteandswitch.com, www.unstrung.com, www.next-gendatacenterforum.com, and www.nextgenerationservices.com (collectively known as the "Site"). You can generally visit our Sites without revealing any personal information about yourself. However, when you engage in certain activities on the Sites, such as registering to subscribe to one of the Light Reading newsletters or to participate on the message boards, we may ask you to provide certain information that is personally identifiable.

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Baptist Memorial Healthcare (8), Brocade (1446), Cisco (1596), CommVault (252), Computer Associates (CA) (574), Dell (969), EMC (3163), Emulex (554), Falconstor (424), General Motors (GM) (24), Google (86), Hewlett-Packard (HP) (1906), Hitachi Data Systems (HDS, Hitachi) (1234), IBM (3363), Intel (1129), Iron Mountain (145), Maxtor (222), McData (1008), Microsoft (1822), Network Appliance (NetApp) (1335), Overland (223), QLogic (721), Sun Microsystems (Sun, StorageTek) (2072), Symantec (Veritas) (1391), Wal-Mart (16), Xiotech (224), Xyratex (128), Yahoo (41)

Content-Addressable Storage (CAS)

Appliances (239), Archiving (2326), Backup (2454), Backup (328), Classification & Search (140), Compliance Assessment (32), Content-Addressable Storage (CAS) (52), Data Centers (3551), Disk Arrays (967), Document Management (99), Email Management (219), Equipment (1568), Fibre Channel (120), High-Speed Interconnects (InfiniBand, etc.) (619), IP (100), IP SAN (297), IP Storage Networking (179), NAS (1559), NAS Management (484), Network File Management (64), Other Disk-Based Backup (563), Partnerships (956), Policy-Based ILM (57), Replication/Mirroring (117), SAN (2106), SAN Extension (41), Services (1383), Software (2139), SRM/SAN Management (1428), Switches (580), Tape Libraries (841), Virtual Tape Libraries (169)

Data Security

Compliance Assessment (32), Data Centers (3551), Data Security (430), Hardware/Appliances (304), Security (56), Security (1982), Services (1383), Software (308), Software (2139), Storage Consulting (23)

Grid Computing

Appliances (239), Archiving (2326), Backup (328), Backup (2454), Classification & Search (140), Clustering (117), Data Centers (3551), Disaster Recovery (216), Disk Arrays (967), Document Management (99), Email Management (219), Enterprise (66), Equipment (1568), Fibre Channel (120), Grid Computing (334), Hardware/Appliances (304), HBAs (845), High-Performance Computing (HPC) (325), High-Speed Interconnects (InfiniBand, etc.) (619), IP (100), Network File Management (64), Online Backup (94), Optical (45), Other Disk-Based Backup (563), Other Storage Services (423), Replication/Mirroring (117), SAN (2106), SAN Extension (41), SAN Management (46), Security (56), Security (1982), Server (240), Services (1383), Software (2139), Software (308), SRM/SAN Management (1428), Switch/Storage (127), Switches (580), Tape Libraries (841), Virtualization (991), WAFS (123), WAN Optimizers (333), WAN Storage (25)

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)

Appliances (239), Archiving (2326), Backup (2454), Backup (328), Classification & Search (140), Clustering (117), Compliance (1396), Compliance Assessment (32), Data Centers (3551), Disaster Recovery (216), Disk Arrays (967), Document Management (99), Email Management (219), Equipment (1568), Fibre Channel (120), Hardware/Appliances (304), HBAs (845), High-Performance Computing (HPC) (325), High-Speed Interconnects (InfiniBand, etc.) (619), Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) (547), IP (100), IP SAN (297), IP Storage Networking (179), Monitoring (9), Multi-Tier Storage (25), NAS (1559), NAS Management (484), Network File Management (64), Online Backup (94), Other Disk-Based Backup (563), Other Storage Services (423), Policy-Based ILM (57), Replication/Mirroring (117), SAN (2106), SAN Extension (41), SAN Management (46), Security (1982), Security (56), Server (240), Services (1383), Software (308), Software (2139), SRM/SAN Management (1428), Storage Consulting (23), Switch/Storage (127), Switches (580), Tape Libraries (841), Virtual Tape Libraries (169), Virtualization (991), WAFS (123), WAN Optimizers (333), WAN Storage (25)

ISCSI

Appliances (239), Backup (328), Disk Arrays (967), Equipment (1568), IP (100), IP SAN (297), IP Storage Networking (179), iSCSI (1571), NAS Management (484), Software (2139), SRM/SAN Management (1428)

Storage Virtualization

Appliances (239), Backup (328), Disk Arrays (967), Enterprise (66), Equipment (1568), Fibre Channel (120), IP (100), Network File Management (64), SAN (2106), SAN Extension (41), Server (240), Software (2139), SRM/SAN Management (1428), Switch/Storage (127), Virtual Tape Libraries (169), Virtualization (991)

Thin provisioning

Appliances (239), Archiving (2326), Backup (2454), Backup (328), Data Centers (3551), Disk Arrays (967), Document Management (99), Equipment (1568), Fibre Channel (120), High-Performance Computing (HPC) (325), High-Speed Interconnects (InfiniBand, etc.) (619), IP (100), Metro Storage (6), Network File Management (64), Online Backup (94), Optical (45), Other Disk-Based Backup (563), SAN (2106), SAN Extension (41), Server (240), Services (1383), Software (2139), SRM/SAN Management (1428), Switch/Storage (127), Switches (580), Thin Provisioning (99), Virtualization (991), WAN Storage (25)

Virtual Tape (VTLs)

Archiving (2326), Backup (328), Backup (2454), Classification & Search (140), Data Centers (3551), Email Management (219), Equipment (1568), Hardware/Appliances (304), Network File Management (64), Policy-Based ILM (57), Replication/Mirroring (117), Security (1982), Software (2139), Switch/Storage (127), Tape Libraries (841), Virtual Tape Libraries (169), Virtualization (991)

WAN Optimization/WAFS

Appliances (239), Backup (328), Data Centers (3551), Disk Arrays (967), Equipment (1568), Hardware/Appliances (304), High-Performance Computing (HPC) (325), High-Speed Interconnects (InfiniBand, etc.) (619), IP (100), Metro Storage (6), Online Backup (94), Other Disk-Based Backup (563), Other Storage Services (423), SAN Extension (41), SAN Management (46), Security (1982), Services (1383), Software (308), SRM/SAN Management (1428), Switches (580), Tape Libraries (841), WAFS (123), WAN Optimizers (333), WAN Storage (25)