Storage


On the Road: Trends to Watch

Fall is a busy time for storage announcements and shows. Here's what's ahead.

Storage Companies Look to Services for Growth

Vendors are increasing their focus on services to complement hardware and software products—and increase revenue

Lunar Backups—True Off-Site Storage?

The moon may soon be home to your backup files

Catching Up With CA

Computer Associates' BrightStor team presents an impressive display of management applications

Best of the Fall Trade Shows

From panel discussions to workshops (where you can ask your own tough questions), this fall's trade shows offer a wealth of information and perspective from vendors big and small.

EMC on the Brain

Vendors must learn that juxtaposing one’s own products with EMC’s as a means for advancing one’s own value proposition is silly.

Python Offers Intelligent, Provocative Approach to Tape Automation

Spectra Logic proves it offers products and pragmatism; Python will raise the bar for other vendors.



Black Outs and Virii and Worms, Oh My!

Imation Corporation survey shows IT infrastructure poorly safeguarded, despite recent natural and man-made events

NuView Sequels Keep Coming

StorageX answers a specific problem with a good solution. But how can the company cope with a niche solution that refuses to remain just a niche solution?

Hitachi Data Systems' Hu Yoshida Looks Ahead

The author of a foundational white paper is struggling to figure out what the storage utility model really is.

Ten Storage-Related Jobs You Don’t Want

Plus a few you might want to think about

Revivio Redux

More on replication, crash-consistent images, and Revivio's technology

Identity Management: Untangling Meta and Virtual Directories

We discuss how organizations use virtual directories to interface enterprise applications and identity data with Clayton Donley, CEO of OctetString, a virtual directory provider.

Virtualization Platforms: Almost a Believer

DataCore does what vendors ought to be doing: they put up their customers as proof that, whatever your intuition tells you, their stuff delivers.

Storage Management: Headed for the Switch

Sun's must-read white paper articulates its vision of switch-based storage management as well as anyone could today. The question is, can we get there from here?

EMC: The Software Company

EMC's acquisition of Legato Systems raises interesting questions

Fibre Channel's Dog Days of Summer

Debate heats up over Management Information Bases

A Smart Solution for Protecting Distributed Data

Iron Mountain offers practical, off-site backup for small-to-medium sized firms

Microsoft vs. Network Appliance: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing

Longhorn changes the rules of the NAS game, but performance and price still matter most when shopping for NAS devices.

Revivio Takes on Mirror-Splits

Time Addressable Storage writes block-level changes in real time, letting you go back in time