Storage


TapeLabs: More than Just VTL

VTS: three new (and important) letters in the storage world

When Standards Aren’t

Now you see it,now you don't. New products bear a startling resemblance to what you may already have.

On the Road Again: Multipathing and More

Products and technology uncovered in recent travels that piqued the interest of our storage commentator.

The New ECM Crowd: Little Guys with Big Ideas

Is enterprise content management the right tool for data management?

Acopia Networks Brings Threads Together

The mirror cracked ... thanks to suspicious information

Time For a SAN Report Card

The old song "Who's Sorry Now" is playing loud and clear in many IT shops.

Readers Respond

Perfection is indeed a worthy goal….and we try.



Storage Pain: The Consumer View (Part 2 of 2)

The mints get passed as the conversation turns to information lifecycle management.

Storage Pain: The Consumer View (Part 1 of 2)

Food to soothe the savage beast…..and maybe solve some problems.

Next-Generation Storage: Think Virtual

With improvement in storage virtualization products’ features and reliability will the technology choices get any easier?

Bigger Can Be Baffling

EMC's latest mega-storage product leaves our storage analyst baffled

Son of Tagmastore Targets Sweet Spot in Entry-Level Storage

HDS wants to take the market by storm

File System Virtualization: What War?

Good, better, best? There's no answer in sight when it comes to file system virtualization.

Oops—They’re Doing It Again

First, SMI-S, then Continuous Data Protection, and now ILM: SNIA’s on another meaningless standards-making jag

When It Comes to ILM, Storage Vendors Want to Lock You In

When it comes to information lifecycle management, storage hardware vendors want to lock you in to their platform.

Improving Storage RAS - The Case for Migrating to RAID-6 Arrays

RAID-6 overcomes data-loss problems of RAID-5 arrays, but common hardware implementations are still needed to maintain performance.

What's The Future for Storage in Europe?

No, we're not in Kansas, anymore…..but where will European-based IT end up in the years to come?

The Devil Is In the Details

Is it true that the storage world is upside down in the southern hemisphere, too?

The Big Gulp Theory

Who does the second-guessing is not always who pays the piper.

FilesX: New Tape Killer?

Disk-to-disk solutions are marketed as tape killers. We found one product that may actually live up to that claim.