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Northern Storage Suite is the most complete SRM package on the market today, offering a real-world solution to all your storage challenges. It provides comprehensive reports and centralized control of all storage devices, automated "fine-tuning" of related network processes, storage chargeback and the option of involving users in storage management. Northern Storage Suite has both the flexibility and power to adapt your storage resource management strategy to even the most complex and demanding environments.

For a limited time, existing Northern Quota Server customers can upgrade to the complete Northern Storage Suite for up to 70% off list price. Quota Server customers on Premium Support are eligible for a free upgrade to Northern Quota Server+ (Northern Quota Server 2003 and Northern Storage Portal).

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You can now add e-mail to death and taxes as the three unavoidable, and not entirely welcome, facts of modern life. Indeed, e-mail management has emerged as an organization's fastest growing cost and, as a result, a key challenge. But for MS Exchange mailbox management to be effective, organizations need a framework that addresses all storage issues universally and raises user awareness of the need to use their allotted space - for files as well as mailboxes - intelligently and economically. Northern Quota Server 2003 is just such a solution.
Read more about how Northern Quota Server can help you stop the e-mail explosion.

NORTHERN PARTNERS UP WITH NETWORK APPLIANCE
Northern is adding NetApp storage system support to its Northern Storage Suite, offering customers flexible, easy-to-manage storage solutions.

INTERNET EXPLORER LOSES MARKET SHARE
Although Microsoft still dominates the Web browser space, its Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to open-source rival Mozilla.

BUSINESS EXECS MUST LEARN TO EMBRACE ILM
Corporate IT operations are moving ahead with efforts to develop information life-cycle management (ILM) schemes that can efficiently and cost-effectively store data so that its level of availability is consistent with its importance to the business.

MICROSOFT: THE REALITY BEHIND THE IMAGE
There's something about the slow-starter strategy that works like an absolute charm for Microsoft. Throughout its history, the company has recovered from mediocre product launches that ultimately morph into smash hits.

MICROSOFT READYING SIMPLER ID MANAGEMENT
Microsoft is developing a portal-like interface for its identity management platform that will let users self-manage their identity information and provision network services.

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New SysAdmin question of the week:
"Is your company using diskless workstations?"

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