Storage Management Section Index

Data center transformation, data analytics, and integrated data management top the Evaluator Group's list of the biggest challenges that IT will face in the coming years.

The key to managing midrange storage systems is finding a balance between capacity and utilization.

The collections process for eDiscovery is showing signs of moving away from service providers and coming in-house.

The cost of disk storage isn’t dropping as fast as it has in years past and storage density improvements are going to take far longer until new technology enters the market in 2013 or 2014.

There is no shortage of technologies and techniques that can help you get more out of your storage dollar. Here are 10 more ways to keep costs down.

Will storage management technologies improve over the next few years? For storage administrators, it’s going to be a slow journey out of storage management Hell, according to Henry Newman.

eDiscovery development and dollars are moving fast into areas under IT’s direct control and there are many driving factors that are making eDiscovery more attractive to IT.

The amount of digital information increases tenfold every five years and CIOs don’t have the option of sitting on their hands.

If the cost savings and consolidation benefits of virtualization haven’t caught your eye, here are 10 more reasons you should virtualize.

Managing unstructured data has never been more important. It’s a growing danger within many enterprises and threatens to disrupt the best laid regulatory compliance plans.

There are many ways to lower the costs associated with storage. Here are a handful of tips for making storage more cost efficient.

The downloadable EnergyCheck software discovers hidden opportunities for recapturing power, cooling and space capacity, as well as cost savings.

The cost-per-megabyte equation has gone out the window. There are a variety of new metrics that must be used to calculate the true cost of a storage system.

IT should bring its own set of buying criteria to the table in the early stages of the eDiscovery process, especially since the critical success factors for eDiscovery purchases mimic those of storage management buys.

Enterprise Storage Forum visited VMworld this week. Here are the top 10 takeaways. Some are obvious and some are forecasts of where we might be headed.

Attendance is up and storage is taking center stage as IT pros make their pilgrimage to VMware’s VMworld conference.

VMware delivers vFabric as part of its cloud strategy, leveraging its SpringSource technologies.

The company is adding storage provisioning to its Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager software and touts support for VMware View 4.5 VDI deployments.

Acquisitions have the storage landscape in constant flux, but some vendors fall under the category of untouchable.

Five storage management tips from which every storage administrator can benefit.

Akorri’s latest cross-domain management software lets SAN administrators monitor and optimize performance and capacity utilization.

Oracle is investing in Sun's Unix platform and will use technologies from OpenSolaris as part of the next Solaris release.

There are three major stages of eDiscovery that, if done well, will also help solve storage management, compliance and governance issues.

The recent EMC Forum in Long Beach featured news of the imminent release of Unisphere for unified array management, VAAI and vBlock, the first tangible product from the EMC, Cisco and VMware partnership.

There is a lot of confusion over what constitutes the cloud. So let’s define some cloud terminology narrowed down by eDiscovery.