Instead of predicting which technologies will take over the data center, we give you the ones most likely destined for the scrap heap of history.

Before throwing additional storage capacity at a problem, make sure it's really necessary, and consider new capacity optimization technologies.

The HP Oracle Database Machine processes data in a hurry, thanks to InfiniBand, smart software and other features.

Energy avoidance may be a good place to start, but energy efficiency should be the goal for your data center.

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.

EMC completes its transition from data storage vendor to IT management company with the new Ionix product line.

There's no end to ideas for saving on data storage costs, but here's a few to get started.

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

A small information management services company turned to DataCore and Citrix for an affordable storage and virtual server environment that worked.

EMC wants to be enterprises' one-stop shop for data management, but the company's vision doesn't end with storage.

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.

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.

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.

One company turned to iSCSI, OpenSolaris and Linux, commodity hardware and even solid state drives to control data storage costs.

Data doesn't stop growing even in a tough economy. Here are some strategies to help you manage.

Storage remains a priority for end users, but in some cases budgets have been cut and vendors are more willing to deal.

One analyst thinks data center automation will be here within five years, which means you better start planning for it now.

There are a number of steps storage managers can take to make the most of their storage resources in tough times.

If you virtualize your server environment without taking storage into consideration, your performance will likely suffer.

They're early in development, but some new technologies hold promise for reducing server virtualization's demand on storage environments.

When it comes to storage and data center energy costs, users aren't getting enough information, according to a recent report.

Forest products company Rayonier got its sprawling data center operations under control with help from server and storage virtualization.

Virtual machines are a big drain on storage resources. Here's a few steps you can take to control them.

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.

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.