A Better File System for Linux? By Sean Michael Kerner -
Published October 30, 2008
Oracle's Better File System for Linux (BTRFS) is gearing up, but what will it do and who will use it? [more Technology News]
3PAR Soups Up Thin Provisioning By Paul Shread -
Published September 4, 2008
The utility storage company says its new ASICs give users high capacity utilization without a performance hit — and the company has numbers to back up the claim. [more SANs/NAS News]
Sun Also Rises on SSDs By Judy Mottl -
Published June 4, 2008
Following on EMC's heels, the vendor plans to push solid state technology throughout its storage portfolio.
[more Technology News]
Blue Coat Picks Up Packeteer By Sean Michael Kerner -
Published April 22, 2008
The acquisition will boost Blue Coat's WAN optimization and acceleration offerings and add WAFS technology too.
[more Technology News]
Intel, LSI Promise RAID Breakthrough By Paul Shread -
Published April 9, 2008
Intel and LSI say they plan to change how RAID is deployed on servers and workstations, but users will have to wait for details.
[more Technology News]
Tapping PC Resources for Storage Needs By Judy Mottl -
Published January 15, 2008
RevStor has come up with the storage equivalent of a computing grid, tapping unused disk space in PCs to create a storage network.
[more Hardware News]
EMC Goes Solid State By Paul Shread -
Published January 14, 2008
The storage giant adds solid state drives and thin provisioning to its high-end Symmetrix arrays.
[more SANs/NAS News]
Storage That Really Lasts By Jennifer Schiff -
Published September 11, 2008
If you want to preserve data for the really long term, as in thousands of years, Norsam Technologies' analog HD-Rosetta disk may be your best bet. [more Technology Features]
Solving the Storage Error Management Dilemma By Henry Newman -
Published August 18, 2008
Disk drives, tapes and storage networks can create inadvertent errors. What the storage industry needs is a comprehensive framework to discover them before they become a problem.
[more Management Features]
NFS Enters a Parallel Universe By Drew Robb -
Published August 7, 2008
The network file system protocol is getting its biggest overhaul in more than a decade, and the results could be profound for end users. [more Technology Features]
What Is Web 2.0 Storage? By Dave Rowell -
Published July 18, 2008
Everyone's talking about storage systems designed to meet the exploding data needs of Web 2.0 companies, but what will these systems look like, and what kind of data requires such a system?
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future? By Henry Newman -
Published May 29, 2008
Despite the outcry from the open source faithful, Linux file systems will require some changes to handle the 100 TB environments that will become commonplace in the not too distant future.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Gearing Up For Solid State By Henry Newman -
Published May 2, 2008
Flash-based solid state drives are beginning to show up in enterprise storage, and while promising for high-performance applications, they have some reliability issues that must be addressed.
[more Technology Features]
Moving Beyond the Benchmark Brouhaha By Greg Schulz -
Published April 2, 2008
A look at the reasons behind the refusal of EMC and other storage vendors to participate in benchmarks — and a suggestion for improving the usefulness of benchmarks.
[more Technology Features]
The Future of NFS Arrives By Henry Newman -
Published March 27, 2008
NFSv4.1 and Parallel NFS will finally bring the 24-year-old protocol into the high-speed networking age.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Cisco, Brocade See One Big Happy Fabric By Dave Rowell -
Published March 19, 2008
The top switch vendors see data center fabrics converging — and they're developing platforms to be at the center of it all when it happens.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
RAID Turns Rad By Jennifer Schiff -
Published March 12, 2008
RAID pioneer Garth Gibson discusses Tiered Parity, the latest step in the storage technology's evolution.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Building a Perfect Storage World By Henry Newman -
Published March 3, 2008
If users, vendors and standards bodies all got along, this is what the storage world might look like.
[more Technology]
I/O, I/O, It's Off to Virtual Work We Go By Greg Schulz -
Published December 3, 2007
I/O virtualization and converged I/O networks offer users the promise of greater efficiency for their server and storage networks. We look at some of the vendors and protocols that promise to make unified data center fabrics a reality.
[more Technology Features]
Making Sense of VMware Storage Options By Greg Schulz -
Published September 25, 2007
Storage vendors have been rushing to market with products that support VMware. We give you some issues to consider as you take a closer look at them.
[more Management Features]
Using Fear to Sell Storage By Henry Newman -
Published August 21, 2007
Storage vendors use your fear of data disaster to sell you their products. We give you three rules to follow to make sure you get beyond the hype and get what you need.
[more Management Features]
Is There Intelligent Life in Storage? By Drew Robb -
Published July 31, 2007
Early signs of intelligence are finding their way into RAID data protection, switch platforms and disk arrays, with much more in the pipeline. Vendors and users are lining up, but do they see eye to eye?
[more Management Features]
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