Storage Management Section Index

The rise in popularity of VMs and the speed at which they can multiply, is forcing storage teams to find ways to automate a provisioning process that, in many shops, is still manual.

VMware has unleashed vSphere 4.1 with a slew of new storage features that bring storage hardware acceleration to the company’s virtualization platform.

There is so much hype these days in storage that it’s hard to get a handle on what is truly important and what is mere marketing fluff.

Hadoop provides a framework for storing and analyzing petabytes of data. Should EMC and Oracle be worried?

Dell is the latest storage networking vendor to make the most of solid state drives with automated tiering.

Emulex is moving beyond its core market for storage networking adapters and into storage management software.

Despite reports of layoffs, Symantec's storage and backup software division remains hard at work.

IBM beats EMC to market with sub-volume data storage tiering.

By acquiring the object-based storage software maker, NetApp adds another piece to its growing unified storage portfolio.

How to spot signs that an IT vendor might not execute on its product strategy.

Storage networking vendors say flexible storage environments are just the thing for alleviating virtual I/O bottlenecks and capacity constraints.

Storage salaries can reach six figures, but how do you break into the field when every company wants experience?

EMC claims its new Celerra software cuts VMware storage needs in half, doubles cloning speed and automates failback.

The security and storage software firm previews a new file system designed to maximize server use and manage unstructured data.

3PAR beats EMC to the punch with storage tiering at the sub-LUN level.

Instead of predicting which technologies will take over the data center, we give you the ones most likely destined for the scrap heap of history.

Enterprises don't seem to be in much of a hurry to turn to the cloud to meet their storage networking needs, presenting a big obstacle for cloud storage providers.

Before throwing additional storage capacity at a problem, make sure it's really necessary, and consider new capacity optimization technologies.

The RAID array maker for HP, HDS, NetApp and Sun picks up a critical piece of management software.

It wasn't all clouds and SSDs at Storage Networking World this week.

EMC's latest move into IT management involves configuration management and data center mapping, and the company also discusses its SSD roadmap.

The solid state storage vendor could put Incipient's storage virtualization technology to good use.

The HP Oracle Database Machine processes data in a hurry, thanks to InfiniBand, smart software and other features.

Energy avoidance may be a good place to start, but energy efficiency should be the goal for your data center.

EMC's long experience in acquisitions helped it win the hand of Data Domain — and it will help the data storage giant with what comes next.