More articles by Herman Mehling

Panasas and IBM are just two of the storage vendors turning to an old idea to improve RAID rebuild times.

Virtualization users find that their storage costs can greatly exceed what they paid to virtualize their servers.

Phase change memory could be the technology that moves the data storage industry from HDDs to solid state drives.

The TRIM space-saving command will be in every SSD by mid-year, one analyst predicts.

SSD makers have come up with a number of ways to maintain the high performance of the pricey drives.

RAID is laboring to keep up with explosive data growth, but experts see ways to make the technology go further.

Solid state drives may be known for blistering performance, but that performance can degrade over time unless the SSD vendor has taken steps to prevent it.

Vendors from EMC to Sun are standardizing on Intel and AMD chips. Will the movement toward commodity architectures affect performance?

BlueArc and Panasas are also among the storage vendors working to solve the problem of I/O constraints caused by server virtualization.

Cisco's new server has the potential to recast both the data storage and server virtualization markets.

The storage software vendor inks reseller deals with Tech Data and Ingram Micro, a sign that storage virtualization could finally be ready to catch on.

Vendors from EMC to Sun are standardizing on Intel and AMD chips. Will the movement toward commodity architectures affect performance?

Cisco's new server has the potential to recast both the data storage and server virtualization markets.