When Thailand suffered massive flooding in late 2011, it sent a huge jolt to the hard disk drive storage market. The impact continues to be felt, but how deep is it and how long will it be felt?
Complying with privacy and data protections laws and the numerous regulations designed to protect sensitive and confidential customer information can get expensive. But noncompliance is more costly. Follow these four simple guidelines to reduce your compliance costs while remaining compliant.
There are some good reasons why Sun's open source ZFS file system is so popular.
WAN optimization promises huge gains in network performance, but how does it accomplish that?
IronKey has developed a system for enterprises to manage and control risky flash drives.
The market for WAN optimization is maturing, but companies like Riverbed and Blue Coat are still going strong.
NetEx says its HyperIP protocol can restore data quickly from remote replication sites.
Some analysts say the answer is yes — and perhaps sooner than you think.
A recent move by the software giant suggests that it thinks the future of storage is in the cloud.
A new service brings data center automation within reach of small businesses.
One analyst thinks data center automation will be here within five years, which means you better start planning for it now.
They're early in development, but some new technologies hold promise for reducing server virtualization's demand on storage environments.
Virtual machines are a big drain on storage resources. Here's a few steps you can take to control them.
VMware may be worried about Microsoft's virtualization entry, but storage users will have to wait a while for Hyper-V's functionality to rival that of VMware.
RAID, NAS and sophisticated backup schemes have moved from enterprises into homes. So which high-end storage technologies could be next to work their way into the family den?
From iPods to USB memory sticks, consumer storage devices present potential security threats, and companies have sprung up to fill the need.
Storage users will have to wait for Windows Storage Server 2008, but Server 2008 will give them plenty of storage features to play with until then.
As data losses go, the British government's 2007 fiasco will be hard to top.
The server virtualization leader aims to manage everything in data centers — with help from storage vendors.
Storage automation is gaining thanks to its server counterpart, but it still has a ways to go.
With increasing regulatory demands and complex technology, storage security has become a discipline in its own right. Still, many companies don't include it in their security plans.
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