Is an incentive program the right way to drive increased greenness in storage and server operations?
Why storage pros should focus on resiliency, manageability, and their "junk" drawer
Why relationship selling must stop
Disaster recovery tends to become a focus during any period of economic uncertainty -- and 2008 will deliver uncertainty in spades if market pundits are correct.
The downside of thin provisioning at the array level is not being fully articulated by any vendor.
Seagate’s announcement of Momentus drives with DriveTrust technology holds promise for enabling IT to secure data at rest
The move will likely have mixed impact on most CA customers, although mainframe shops should expect some benefits
Though StorHouse is principally a data warehousing system, its stronger value may be as a database archiving solution.
How much would you spend for 2 TB?
The need to build resilient low-cost infrastructure for hosting e-mail archives is growing fast.
Storage standards don’t top the list of customer needs.
Is Microsoft's Vista responsible for a push to hybrid drives?
In less than 18 months, perpendicular recording has gone mainstream. It is one of those little-noted technology innovations, but one that is extraordinarily important.
SANs are out, virtual grids (aka storage clusters) are in.
Feedback on our column about clustering inefficiency.
Is a software-only solution to storage manipulation on the horizon?
New vendors trumpet products with lower price tags, but if they lock you into a single source, what’s the point?
As you consider your archive options, don’t count out optical.
No, Systems Network Architecture (SNA) isn’t making a comeback. Instead, Nortel’s Secure Network Access (also SNA) deliverable is the latest take on a hot new network security paradigm
While top administrators are spending money for things they don’t understand, IT professionals fail to see the value in overpriced goods.