Drew Robb

Deduplication burst onto the scene about a decade back. Its popularity is such that so a multitude of products and services now include some kind of

File Sync and Sharing is invading the enterprise. Here are 10 things storage professionals need to know about it. Click here now.

File sync and share has become a hot category of late. With so many business users sharing data over consumer-grade file-sharing services, it was only a

EMC World just ended in Las Vegas this week. Now that it’s over, here are some reflections from myself and others on the high points and major

EMC gone wild?It seemed so at this week’s EMC World in Las Vegas. As well as releasing a ton of new products which will be covered below, the company has

Putting vast quantities of data into the cloud is one thing—being able to manage it is quite another. For that, you need cloud-integrated storage, which

The race to the cloud is on. Companies are falling over themselves to get onto the cloud, much the same as they rushed headlong onto the Internet in the

You can tell that desktop virtualization is gaining traction by the number of storage vendors coming out with products aimed at the Virtual Desktop

Social data is being created at an unprecedented rate. Facebook has around a billion users, and Twitter is at the half-billion mark. That’s a massive

"Know before you go" is a popular maxim. And it very much applies to cloud storage. Here are ten questions to answer before you rush to the cloud.1. What

As storage analyst Greg Schulz puts it, “Big data is a great, big catch-all for things.”That said, there are some stand-out storage tools around designed

The health of the storage industry is shown by the steady emergence of new startups. Even though the volume dipped in 08 and 09, it never stopped all