The author explains common RAID levels — and makes a case for why you should consider RAID 10.

Users report that SAN performance can double after defragging.

RAID is laboring to keep up with explosive data growth, but experts see ways to make the technology go further.

Much has changed since storage networks first appeared — and the biggest changes may be yet to come.

SAN vendors say fragmentation isn't a problem with their systems, but a few point fingers at Windows.

The Cleveland Indians hit a home run with a new NetApp and CommVault storage system.

A large financial institution turned to Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom to solve problems in its EMC, Cisco and Brocade SAN environment.

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.

Sun and Oracle have been silent as their merger nears approval, but pundits have been anything but quiet.

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.

Clustered file systems can give you an easy route to highly available storage. We outline some of the options.

Linux BTRFS is coming — so what's the big deal?

The storage world as we know it is about to change — and not all RAID vendors are ready.

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.

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

Clustered file systems can give your storage environment greater resilience. Using Linux GFS, we show you an example.

With cross-platform compatibility, a plethora of features and a hard-to-beat price tag, Openfiler is giving enterprises an attractive alternative to proprietary network storage operating systems.

File system benchmarks can be difficult to evaluate, creating tough choices for storage customers. We offer some tips on what to look for.

At EMC World, the data storage giant expanded its dedupe offerings, held a love fest with Cisco and VMware, and CEO Joe Tucci answered some tough questions.

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

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

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

Steve Wozniak's new gig at Fusion-io involves developing flash drives for everything from SANs to PC gaming.