Storage Management Section Index

However you feel about cloud storage, it is a consideration for many applications. Evaluating cloud providers to determine the best solution for an enterprise is often an arduous and complex task. Learn what you can do to make it less painful.

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.

SSD performance potential can be tough to achieve. As the claims get increasingly higher, do they make sense or even matter anymore?

When planning your virtual infrastructure, not thinking about the storage implications could be disastrous down the road. Most admins consider latency and overlook other critical issues, like these four potential showstoppers.

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.

Henry Newman revisits his 2011 predictions for the storage industry and prognosticates about 2012 and beyond.

The benchmark arms race must end. It's time to shift the focus from peak performance to what really matters--scalability.

Taiwan firm pairs portable hard-drive enclosures with RAID external storage systems to help secure the mobile workforce.

Startup backs global namespace file virtualization solutions in a bid to help enterprises manage the sprawl of unstructured data without doubling down on pricey storage.

The storage industry continues to make the same mistakes over and over again, and enterprises continue to take vendors' bold statements as facts.  Henry Newman ponders why enterprises continue to believe the current evolutionary file system path will meet our needs today and in the future and cost nothing.

Why does the storage industry continue to make the same mistakes over again and continue to take bold statements as fact?  

Numerous backup options are on the market. Which one is the 'best' is a matter of opinion. Which one is best for your organization is a question only you can answer. Here's a short list to help get you started.

After years of minimal involvement in ediscovery, IT is increasingly responsible for the critical data management and collections phases of ediscovery. As  email archives and backup take on new ediscovery responsibilities, three factors are driving this change.

What does 'big data' really mean? Here are 6 implementations helping define it.

Ediscovery is increasingly falling into the IT organization's hands. This presents a challenge for ediscovery vendors who are used to dealing with IT secondary influencer but selling directly to legal.

These eight storage companies are pushing cloud, SSD, big data and virtualization to the next level.

Complying with privacy and data protections laws and the numerous regulations designed to protect sensitive and confidential customer information can get expensive. But noncompliance is more costly. Follow these four simple guidelines to reduce your compliance costs while remaining compliant.

With so many definitions of the cloud and so many vendors rushing into the market, choosing which cloud services and implementations to pursue is tricky. Here are 7 to consider that make sense and add value.

With VMstore, Tintri aims to mitigate one of virtualization's biggest pain points: storage.  The company is billing the 8.5 TB hardware appliance as the industry's first VM-aware storage system.

You can save money on storage by following the rules and ignoring Moore's Law.

SSD dominance shows no sign of abating as the aisles of Storage Networking World demonstrated earlier this month. With nearly half the vendors touting their latest flash products, we look at 10 to keep a close watch on.

Bigger, better, faster, more. Is adding storage the solution? Is there a cure for storage addiction?

Trends include project management, cloud positioning, social media, interdisciplinary teams, interoperability, and in-house eDiscovery.

HP also introduced an iSCSI SAN blade and a data deduplication system.

SANsymphony-V storage virtualization software is tuned specifically for virtual server and virtual desktop environments.