Storage


Readers Sound Off: The Value of IT Education

Readers respond to our observations about degree programs in information technology.

Buckle Up for a Bumpy Ride in 2005

What are the key storage trends and where they may take us in 2005? Our storage expert, Jon Toigo, claims there's a lot of upside that may help offset the post-2004 malaise.

This Year, Give the Gift of Biodegradable Storage

What can you do with dead or unneeded disk drives? Here are some suggestions.

Uber-SAN Switch? Don't You Believe It

Can a new switch from Brocade ready unite different SANs based on non-interoperable switches from different vendors?

An Open Letter To IBM

A note on the impact of iSCSI in the storage industry.

Data Lifecycle Management and the Mainframe Mindset

Without storage manageability, we can't effectively address storage costs, which take up to 60 cents of every storage hardware dollar. So why, in the distributed systems world, are we stuck without decent management tools?

Rumors and Rumblings at SNW

Toigo sorts out fact from fiction



Why We Need a Data Management Summit

The thought of a vendor association dictating a schema for how companies should characterize their data is a frightening one.

Alacritech: iSCSI’s Quiet Champion

The company's president and CEO helped create SCSI earlier in his career, and the company has since overcome some interesting technical challenges.

Scary Storage

Fall Storage Networking World at exactly the right time, on the eve of Halloween, since it is where you can go to watch the industry eat its young. Big players often use the venue to announce that they are swallowing up smaller firms.

Breece Hill's Turnaround Kid

Breece Hill's CEO, Phil Pascarelli, uses common sense to develop and evaluate storage products. His company is a model of the way things should work.

Storage Game Shows

Like The Dating Game and other highbrow TV fare of yesteryear, the time may be right for the development of new game shows—focused on the storage industry itself.

A Tale of Two Announcements

Important announcements from Hitachi Data Systems and Computer Associates may look similar from 50,000 feet, but on closer inspection they're quite different.

What Does Storage Want to be When it Grows Up?

A Computer Associates vice president for marketing of BrightStor products suggests storage management today is a child still in the throes of personality development.

Arsenal Digital: A New Take on an Old Strategy

With Arsenal Digital's service, an off-site backup company can set itself up as an electronic vault.

The Interconnected Dimensions of Grid Storage

Despite its name, grid storage has little or nothing to do with grid technology. But the technology holds promise.

NetApp and Grid Storage: More Than Just Marketing?

Is Network Appliance's grid storage campaign just marketing fluff?

My Dog Ate My (Storage) Home Work

Could the future of storage be in plastics?

Get A Degree – Fast!

SNIA gets into the education business

Happiness, Nothingness, and Long-Term Storage

So-call regulatory compliance solutions are just data movers.