Drew Robb

After years of unfulfilled promise and false starts, online backup has become one of the hottest segments of the storage market, fueling startups and

To keep up with rapid data growth and performance needs, enterprises have deployed appliances en masse and used them to create countless virtual tape

It's that time of year once again, so we spent the last few days chatting with analysts and vendors to see what they think will be the dominant trends in

Remember all the hype about Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)? Not that long ago, you couldn't get through a storage press release or presentation

Backup reporting, change management, capacity utilization, provisioning, performance monitoring, automation, migration. These terms roll off the tongue of

Consolidating servers and data centers is a great way to cut support and infrastructure costs. IBM, for example, estimates that its own project of

The assignment seemed easy at first: find out whether bit error bugs (known as silent corruption) are a serious problem, and then find someone who's had

"In three years, SAS will completely replace Fibre Channel," was the bold prediction made earlier this month by Patrick Rogers, vice president of

The first article in this series highlighted how SMBs can harness online backup as the cornerstone of their disaster recovery (DR) actions. This article

Online backup seems to be all the rage as of late. Vendors are springing up either catering to a specific niche or claiming to do everything for next to

Intel is just a chip vendor, right? Not anymore.A casual glance at the company's home page reveals news stories about rugged PCs for elementary schools,

thin provisioning is something of a tightrope act, promising users loads of storage in the hopes that nobody will actually need it all, while delivering