Drew Robb

Over recent months, Enterprise Storage Forum has prepared a series of buying guides covering all aspects of storage. This one takes a somewhat different

A simplistic definition of the public cloud is that it is one big amorphous pool of storage that exists “elsewhere.” While there are many options

The subject of high availability (HA) appears to have taken on even more importance of late. As a result, several of the storage vendors have been

Gartner lists Big Data (BD) as one of its “Top 10 Strategic Technologies.”"Big data is a topic of growing interest for many business and IT leaders, and

Just as data centers are seeing efficiency boosts from virtualizing their servers, the same can be achieved by virtualizing storage. Hot on the heels of

With data volumes growing exponentially, many companies are looking to save money of their storage costs. And often companies that want save money on

Recent natural disasters have shown many companies firsthand that everything can be gone in a flash.“With research consistently showing that one major

There is no question about the performance advantage of flash storage. However, cost has kept it from being widely used in the data center, except for a

Virtualization and cloud computing do a fine job of increasing efficiency by abstracting the underlying physical resources. Abstracting those resources,

The cloud has become so pervasive that right now there are probably ten new cloud storage products for every one traditional storage product. These are

A couple of weeks ago, we issued a tape storage buying guide that included a tape archiving solution from Spectra Logic. It turns out that tape archiving

Like Rodney Dangerfield, the tape storage market gets no respect. Yet it remains a multi-billion dollar slice of the overall storage pie. Therefore,