NetApp Bid Four Times for Data Domain By Paul Shread -
Published June 4, 2009
An SEC filing reveals that NetApp raised its bid for Data Domain twice before merger talks became public — and that Data Domain had interest from another company besides EMC. [more Industry News]
EMC Unveils Tool to Prevent SAN Outages By Paul Shread -
Published May 12, 2009
The data storage giant unveils the final piece of its IT compliance and configuration management lineup, spanning applications, networks, servers and storage. [more Management News]
EMC Ties Symmetrix to VMware By Paul Shread -
Published April 14, 2009
EMC's new high-end data storage array is built for a new era of virtualized data centers. Will Clariion users see the same architecture some day? [more Hardware News]
EMC Vows to Keep VMware By Paul Shread -
Published March 11, 2009
The data storage giant adds root-cause analysis technology to VMware and says its will hang on to its virtualization subsidiary. [more Management News]
Iomega Combines Storage with VMware By Judy Mottl -
Published February 25, 2009
The EMC unit's new NAS devices provide easy and cheap data storage for small businesses looking to protect virtual environments, but they aren't a threat to NetApp — yet. [more Management News]
IBM Adds Dedupe to Tivoli Storage Manager By Judy Mottl -
Published February 6, 2009
Data de-duplication, database integration and reporting and monitoring tools are among the new features of IBM's storage management software. [more Management News]
EMC Wants to Manage It All By Drew Robb -
Published August 25, 2008
The storage giant's first Forum 2008 highlighted flash drives, Clariion arrays, and Web 2.0 and cloud storage plans — along with an ambitious plan to unite all information under EMC management. [more Management News]
The State of the Data Storage Job Market By Drew Robb -
Published March 16, 2009
Storage and IT professionals have a lot more to worry about than just the economy. Automation and the demand for broader IT experience are other issues threatening job security. [more Management]
Storage Admins Cope With Budget Cutbacks By Drew Robb -
Published February 26, 2009
With both budgets and staff getting cut, storage managers are finding they need to justify everything they spend while saving as much as they can on data storage costs. The results can be painful for vendors, too. [more Management]
Data Storage Vendors Keep An Eye On Green IT By Leslie Wood -
Published February 9, 2009
With the Obama Administration and the economy likely to keep Green IT issues in focus, data storage vendors say they're working on both their products and their own practices. [more Management]
Saving Big Money With Open Source Storage By Drew Robb -
Published February 5, 2009
One company turned to iSCSI, OpenSolaris and Linux, commodity hardware and even solid state drives to control data storage costs. [more Management]
Making the Most of Storage Budgets By Esther Shein -
Published November 14, 2008
There are a number of steps storage managers can take to make the most of their storage resources in tough times. [more Management]
Reducing Virtualization's Storage Demands By Paul Rubens -
Published October 24, 2008
They're early in development, but some new technologies hold promise for reducing server virtualization's demand on storage environments. [more Management]
Getting a Handle on an Unwieldy Data Center By Lynn Haber -
Published September 30, 2008
Forest products company Rayonier got its sprawling data center operations under control with help from server and storage virtualization. [more Management]
Combating Virtual Machine Sprawl By Paul Rubens -
Published September 19, 2008
Virtual machines are a big drain on storage resources. Here's a few steps you can take to control them. [more Management]
Closing the Green Storage Gap By Greg Schulz -
Published August 28, 2008
IT vendors are preaching 'green' technology, while users are focused on the other green — the bottom line. But the two sides are a lot closer than they realize. [more Management]
Saving the Planet, One Storage System at a Time By Leslie Wood -
Published August 21, 2008
Rising energy costs are giving rise to a new generation of eco-friendly storage products — and leading storage vendors to reevaluate their own internal practices. [more Management]
Solving the Storage Error Management Dilemma By Henry Newman -
Published August 18, 2008
Disk drives, tapes and storage networks can create inadvertent errors. What the storage industry needs is a comprehensive framework to discover them before they become a problem.
[more Management]
NetApp's Virtual Storage Strategy Gets Real By Drew Robb -
Published August 14, 2008
Beyond quickly provisioning virtual volumes, NetApp aims to ease management while taking into account the high availability and disaster recovery complications that crop up when virtualization is thrown into the mix. [more Management]
Hyper-V Not Yet Ready for Storage Prime Time By Paul Rubens -
Published July 11, 2008
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.
[more Management]
Managing Storage in a Virtual World By Drew Robb -
Published March 20, 2008
Server and storage virtualization create greater efficiency and utilization, but they can also increase storage consumption and create their own management headaches. [more Management]
VMware's Storage Ambitions By Paul Rubens -
Published January 4, 2008
The server virtualization leader aims to manage everything in data centers — with help from storage vendors.
[more Management]
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Electricity use in data centers is skyrocketing, sending corporate energy bills through the roof, creating environmental concerns and generating negative publicity for large corporations. "Going Green" means looking to technologies like virtualization, energy-efficient chips and racks, and implementing policies that extend beyond the data center to all of your organization's employees.
