Cisco Makes SANs VM-Aware By Paul Shread -
Published November 12, 2008
The switch maker has partnered with VMware to create what Cisco calls the first 'end-to-end virtualized SAN.' [more SANs/NAS News]
Virtualization Coming to HP SANs By Judy Mottl -
Published November 6, 2008
With a little help from LSI, the IT vendor builds a SAN platform that promises easier storage management and cheaper cost. [more SANs/NAS News]
Storage Technologies for a Slowing Economy By Marty Foltyn -
Published October 17, 2008
This week's Storage Networking World conference seemed to focus more on economic reality than on the hottest new storage technologies. [more SANs/NAS News]
Storage Vendors Brace for Economic Storm By Paul Shread -
Published October 9, 2008
Storage vendors haven't been able to completely escape the perfect financial storm threatening the global economy, according to financial analysts. [more Industry News]
Storage Fabrics Get Secure By Paul Shread -
Published September 23, 2008
Security is becoming an increasingly important part of storage fabrics, judging by recent announcements from Cisco and Brocade. [more SANs/NAS News]
IBM Trains Sights on EMC By Judy Mottl -
Published September 9, 2008
Big Blue revamps its storage strategy to take on the market leader. But who will be left standing once the dust clears? [more SANs/NAS News]
3PAR Soups Up Thin Provisioning By Paul Shread -
Published September 4, 2008
The utility storage company says its new ASICs give users high capacity utilization without a performance hit — and the company has numbers to back up the claim. [more SANs/NAS 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]
Sun Says Open Source Storage Is Catching On By Paul Shread -
Published August 20, 2008
Sun cites growing membership, dozens of projects and even a reference customer as evidence that its open source storage strategy is connecting with users. [more SANs/NAS News]
Brocade Defies Downturn By Paul Shread -
Published August 13, 2008
The storage switch maker's results are the latest indication that the storage market is holding up despite economic headwinds. [more SANs/NAS News]
EMC Adds Flash to Clariion Line By Judy Mottl -
Published August 5, 2008
With new flash drives and thin provisioning technology, EMC's midrange storage line is starting to look a lot like its high-end offerings. [more Hardware News]
Overland Snaps Up Snap By Paul Shread -
Published June 30, 2008
The data protection vendor is acquiring the Snap NAS product line from Adaptec for a mere $3.6 million.
[more SANs/NAS News]
Is Storage Recession-Proof? By Paul Shread -
Published May 23, 2008
For now, at least, the answer appears to be 'yes.' So which vendors are benefiting from the resilience in the storage sector — and who's getting left behind?
[more Hardware News]
Brocade Unveils 8-Gig Switches, HBAs By Paul Shread -
Published May 13, 2008
Brocade is shipping new 8-gigabit per second Fibre Channel fabric switches and HBAs — but does the storage world really need another HBA vendor? [more SANs/NAS News]
HP Unveils 'Extreme' Storage By Paul Shread -
Published May 6, 2008
The new 9100 Extreme Data Storage System is HP's entry in the emerging market for Web 2.0 storage.
[more Hardware News]
Making Global Data Centers More Manageable By Lynn Haber -
Published November 7, 2008
One IT services company got a handle on its global data centers through server virtualization and a common storage infrastructure from Brocade, EMC and Emulex. [more SANs/NAS]
Choosing the Right High-Performance File System By Drew Robb -
Published October 10, 2008
With several high-performance file systems to choose from, we outline some of the options out there and which applications they may be best suited for. [more SANs/NAS]
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 SANs/NAS]
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 SANs/NAS]
Small Businesses Face Big Storage Demands By Lynn Haber -
Published August 15, 2008
Like many small businesses, Weiss Group LLC had all the storage issues of a large enterprise — with none of the budget. [more SANs/NAS]
Sorting Out Your Storage Options By Jennifer Schiff -
Published July 21, 2008
With all the storage technologies out there, how do you choose which one's right for you?
[more SANs/NAS]
What Is Web 2.0 Storage? By Dave Rowell -
Published July 18, 2008
Everyone's talking about storage systems designed to meet the exploding data needs of Web 2.0 companies, but what will these systems look like, and what kind of data requires such a system?
[more SANs/NAS]
DataDirect Helps Batman Take Wing By Lynn Haber -
Published July 1, 2008
Post-production company Pacific Title used DataDirect's storage platform to help make The Dark Night, coming to theaters later this month.
[more SANs/NAS]
Storage Fit for a Superhero By Judy Mottl -
Published June 23, 2008
Visual effects firm Soho VFX turned to Blue Arc for help bringing the Incredible Hulk to life. [more SANs/NAS]
Apple Sours on Storage Hardware By Drew Robb -
Published June 5, 2008
As Apple exits the storage hardware business, it turns its attention to software and takes steps to provide for hardware users.
[more SANs/NAS]
Keeping Data Safe with Reldata By Lynn Haber -
Published June 2, 2008
E-discovery services provider eDirect Impact turned to Reldata for a storage solution that could reliably handle rapid data growth without costing a fortune. [more SANs/NAS]
Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future? By Henry Newman -
Published May 29, 2008
Despite the outcry from the open source faithful, Linux file systems will require some changes to handle the 100 TB environments that will become commonplace in the not too distant future.
[more SANs/NAS]
EMC Kicks NetApp's NAS By Drew Robb -
Published May 22, 2008
EMC can't keep its Celerra NS unified storage appliances on the shelves — and could be a big reason behind NetApp's slowing growth rate.
[more SANs/NAS]
Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For By Henry Newman -
Published May 9, 2008
Linux file systems have a number of limitations that make them a poor choice for large and high-performance computing environments.
[more SANs/NAS]
The Best-Kept Secret in Enterprise Storage By Jennifer Schiff -
Published April 25, 2008
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. [more SANs/NAS]
NEC's HYDRAstor Gets High Marks from Nonprofit By Jennifer Schiff -
Published April 15, 2008
NEC's grid architecture helps the Anderson Center for Autism and others scale performance and storage as needed while eliminating duplicate data.
[more SANs/NAS]
No SAN Is An Island By Leslie Wood -
Published April 3, 2008
Storage vendors and professionals find their roles are changing as storage begins to converge with broader IT infrastructures.
[more SANs/NAS]
A Small Business Guide to Network Attached Storage By Drew Robb -
Published March 27, 2008
Businesses of all shapes and sizes are strapped for storage. Our guide covers the gamut from highly affordable to high-powered network-attached storage options. [more SANs/NAS]
The Future of NFS Arrives By Henry Newman -
Published March 27, 2008
NFSv4.1 and Parallel NFS will finally bring the 24-year-old protocol into the high-speed networking age.
[more SANs/NAS]
Storage Basics: Understanding Storage Routing By Charlie Schluting -
Published March 21, 2008
Routing for your storage network is a non-standardized thicket that's nothing like what you're used to on your IP networks, but it pays to understand how it works. [more SANs/NAS]
Cisco, Brocade See One Big Happy Fabric By Dave Rowell -
Published March 19, 2008
The top switch vendors see data center fabrics converging — and they're developing platforms to be at the center of it all when it happens.
[more SANs/NAS]
RAID Turns Rad By Jennifer Schiff -
Published March 12, 2008
RAID pioneer Garth Gibson discusses Tiered Parity, the latest step in the storage technology's evolution.
[more SANs/NAS]
Can Storage Benchmarks Be Trusted? By Henry Newman -
Published February 21, 2008
Hardware isn't the only benchmark category that could use an overhaul; file system benchmarks can be just as misleading.
[more SANs/NAS]
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 SANs/NAS]
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