Avoiding a Data Crunch

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JON WILLIAM TOIGO is an independent information technologies consultant. He is the author of eight books, including The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management (Prentice-Hall PTR, 2000), and has written numerous white papers and trade press articles on business automation and storage technology issues. Toigo maintains an information clearinghouse covering data storage and storage management at www.stormgt.org on the World Wide Web.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 282 Issue 5This article was published with the title “Avoiding a Data Crunch” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 282 No. 5 ()
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican052000-nQAfwmlcRCD902lvUQIT4

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