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.
Perhaps it is time to begin buying storage on the basis of business value.
MAKO is a slimmer, more elegant, and more capable implementation of their existing technology that combines several new architectural features that make it worth a look.
Invio Software's goal is to create tools that aid storage administrators in defining workflows around commonly performed tasks and enable automation so you focus your attention on the more recalcitrant aspects of your infrastructure.