Storage Hardware Section Index

If your recently bought storage system isn't delivering what your vendor promised, you're not alone in your frustration. Henry Newman explores why this is becoming increasingly common and what you can do to protect your enterprise.

If you're seeking a file storage solution, one of F5's many product offerings may be just the answer you're after.

When Thailand suffered massive flooding in late 2011, it sent a huge jolt to the hard disk drive storage market. The impact continues to be felt, but how deep is it and how long will it be felt?

Is Sepaton's product line of disk-only offerings with their focus on data footprint reduction strong enough to bring an end to tape's hold?

The results of our Linux fsck testing were posted last month. Now it's time to address the big questions that remain: What do the results tell us, what do they mean, and is the performance expected?

LTO technology has been around for many years, and numerous vendors sell products built around it. With LTO-5 released this year and LTO-6 on the horizon, how does an enterprise chose from the myriad product choices?

Looking to add capacity but not complexity? Addonics' RAID Tower XIII20 can deliver up to 20 3.5" drive bays presented as four individual storage devices over  an eSATA or USB 3.0 interface, for a price that helps make it well suited for many departmental or remote office environments.

Our Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Just how bad is the Linux file system scaling problem?

IBM's venerable storage portfolio includes tape, disk, SAN and NAS. Even more important than the hardware, however, is the intelligence Big Blue offers to easily and efficiently manage  enterprises' ever increasing storage needs.

The  QNAP TS-879U-RP Turbo NAS is offers more than just file storage. This small but mighty box is easy to install and configure, and has the potential to replace multiple servers.

Tackling big data storage requirements, the company offers ActiveStor parallel NAS solution touting scalability, simplified management for HPC operations.

Oracle continues leveraging the servers and ZFS software it picked up in its acquisition of Sun. The recently released Sun ZFS Storage Appliances are one example of this. Learn what the Sun ZFS Storage 7120, Sun ZFS Storage 7320 and Sun ZFS Storage 7420 have to offer.

Server virtualization is far more advanced than in storage virtualzation, which causes provisioning headaches for storage admins. Overland Storage believes its DynamicRAID technology will help bridge this gap.

The vendors would not deliver the promised hardware for  our real-world testing. We ponder why and issue a challenge.

Looking for a SAS or SATA disk array? Nexsan's product line may lack the hype of the major players' but its high value proposition and low price point make it a worthy contender.

DataDirect Networks  is positioning  its three product categories -- storage arrays, files systems and web object storage systems  for the cloud -- to deal directly with the convergence of storage and compute power resulting from organizations'  ever-growing volume of data.

HP is a leader in multiple technology avenues. Recently, its massive portfolio of products, built both organically and via acquisitions, has made HP a storage giant. See what it has to offer.

If you have servers or storage devices, chances are you have at least a component or two from LSI Corp's arsenal of RAID and HBAs, controllers, SAS switches, PCIe-based solid state storage adapters and various software options, which are all sold through major server and storage OEMs as well as through the reseller channel.

Bundled appliance offering backup, archiving and disaster recovery aims to remove complexity for mid-market enterprises.

Panasas is no longer the lone wolf in advocating for scale-out storage. Now, it faces competition from both traditional storage OEMs and several startups. See how it stacks up.

A rundown of the NAS pioneer's four primary product families: FAS Series, V-Series, E-Series and Flash Cache.

Between internal R&D and various strategic acquisitions, Dell has built an extensive portfolio of NAS, SAN and DAS gear in recent years. Here are four product families any enterprise in search of a storage solution would be remiss in overlooking.

Our examination of the ever-growing Linux file system scaling problem continues. In part 2 of our State of File Systems Technology series, Jeff Layton describes the approach and specs to be used in running  the fsck wall clock time  benchmark/test.

Wondering why your ext 3/4 maxes out at five disk drives and what you can do about? Henry Newman and Jeff Layton are going under the hood in this four-part series to determine what is at the heart of the ever-growing file system scaling problem. This installment explains the problem and what their testing and evaluation process will be.

EMC's acquisition of Isilon has been the cornerstone of its big data strategy. Enterprises wrangling large volumes of  file-based data will find  many of their needs met with Isilon's core offerings.