Rudolph Technologies was looking for a storage network to keep up with its rapid growth. A Compellent SAN provided the answer.

Bandwidth and data integrity issues could limit enterprise use of external storage clouds.

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.

The economy has kept a lid on storage spending, but there are plenty of startups and established names ready to pounce on the recovery.

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

Based on acquisitions, it appears EMC is finally coming to grips with the needs of smaller more nimble operations.

Sun Microsystems is partnering with BridgeHead to help hospitals store and manage data — a move that just might get the company some healthcare stimulus dollars.

EMC's long experience in acquisitions helped it win the hand of Data Domain — and it will help the data storage giant with what comes next.

You've got all that data sitting around collecting dust. Why not find a way to do something useful with it?

The Data Domain deal may be done, but the process of sorting out the winners and losers is just getting started.

Recent steep drops in the price of 10Gb Ethernet NICs mean that Fibre Channel's decade-long dominance will soon be over.

HP and other data storage vendors are helping users replicate to different storage product families to save on disaster recovery costs.

As Google reportedly nears the release of its cloud storage service, it could stand to learn a lesson or two from the enterprise storage king.

Data storage vendors are forming partnerships and repositioning themselves in hopes of getting a piece of the electronic medical records stimulus spending.

Even in tough times, there's more to data storage purchasing decisions than saving money.

Storage hardware sales may be suffering, but customers are still opening their wallets for some data storage technologies.

Data storage pricing is so far holding up despite the tough economy, but deals are out there to be had, especially in services and other value-added elements. And hardball negotiating tactics appear to be on the rise.

Drive and component manufacturers are getting psyched about 6Gb/s SAS, but storage users will have to wait a while before they can get their hands on the next-generation SAS products.

With all the storage technologies out there, how do you choose which one's right for you?

As Apple exits the storage hardware business, it turns its attention to software and takes steps to provide for hardware users.

E-discovery services provider eDirect Impact turned to Reldata for a storage solution that could reliably handle rapid data growth without costing a fortune.

Fujitsu's Eternus line provides mid-range and high-end customers the performance, reliability and scalability they crave — they just don't know it yet.

NEC's grid architecture helps the Anderson Center for Autism and others scale performance and storage as needed while eliminating duplicate data.

Data storage technology gives the world champion Boston Red Sox a competitive edge.

It involves some tedium, but configuring disk arrays is the most critical part of building a SAN. Here's what you need to know.