Acopia is a network-turned-storage-focused company with a new product for managing the network resources that support file access and data movement.
A widely respected storage veteran looks at connectivity issues, including SCSI/iSCSI, plus Microsoft and storage management.
SCSI implementations may be different in terms of the way data packages flow, but all are members of the same family. Arguments over the superiority of any implementation are heated.
Many vendors are touting storage solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but only one company tells it straight—SOX isn't a storage issue at all.
Rainfinity's GridSwitch streamlines moving data across platforms for NFS- or CIFS-mounted storage devices.
A proposal for a “three dimensional approach”: automating storage provisioning and device management, data movement, and data replication.
Our recent column about historical revisionism and EMC brings immediate reader response.
Why does an SMB need—or want—a SAN at all?
Readers sound off about recent comments from previous columns
Did EMC announcements threaten to drive the industry down the path it chose, or was the company just using reverse psychology to spur cooperation?
Storage vendors use "grid" as a sexy, futuristic-sounding metaphor, but grid storage has nothing whatsoever to do with grid computing.
LiveVault's data protection service replaces tape backup in small and medium-size businesses.
SCO has at last turned over a list of files and code snippets it claims violate its intellectual property rights.
Last year saw a dearth of real industry leadership, especially in storage technology, and a lot of posturing and posing. Why can't innovators with great ideas find venture capital?
Our storage columnist offers vendors four simple goals for the year ahead.
While many products today talk a good game about policy-based data management, Arkivio is once again ahead of the pack.
Clustered file system advocates have positioned their solutions as alternatives to the monolithic file systems (such as WAFL).
WAFL enabled a new type of appliance-based storage hardware and set the bar for all other NAS vendors—which makes Network Appliance’s purchase of Spinnaker Networks all the more puzzling.
New legislation will doubtless require encryption of data traversing networks and Fibre Channel fabrics.
Cobbling together solutions for disk-to-disk-to-tape may actually drive the cost of Tier 2 disk above the price of solution sets that combine the functionality.