Drew Robb

The Spectra Logic's Press and Analyst Day took place last week in Boulder, Colo. The company had enough news, technology and ambition to make it a

DataDirect Networks (DDN) of Chatsworth, Calif. is positioning itself to deal with what it calls a "nuclear explosion of information" that is forcing the

A lot went on this week at Oracle OpenWorld: 45,000 attendees, hundreds of sessions, dozens of press releases and quite a few shiny, new products. What

Deduplication was the province of a couple of startups such as Data Domain about ten years ago. Since then, it has almost become ubiquitous.  In fact, it

HP is synonymous with a lot of things--printers, ink, laptops and computers. Yet it is also one of the giants of the storage world, where it offers a

Compiling this list was a little like trying to name the top 10 classic rock songs of all time. Nobody is going to agree with your selection, as there are

LSI Corporation offers a broad portfolio of 6Gb/s SATA+SAS silicon, software and board-level solutions that include RAID and host-bus adapters;

Panasas has been around for quite a few years as a major proponent of scale-out storage. For years, it seemed the company was one of the lone voices in

EMC held its annual forum in Long Beach, Calif. earlier this month. Cloud computing, of course, dominated the messaging. But there were plenty of other

NetApp (formerly Network Appliance) is one of the big players in the world of storage hardware. It pioneered the network attached storage (NAS) market in

Big data is one of those amorphous terms--no doubt some vendors will move from 500 GB to 1 TB drives and call that big data."Big data has no particular

A few years ago, Dell might not have merited a storage buyer's guide--a few low-end storage servers and some relabeled gear from other storage OEMs were