Drew Robb

The sports world is well acquainted with fan frenzy, but the storage world is in the midst of its own bout, courtesy of one of its newest catch phrases,

Storage administrators are not noted for their deep philosophical bent. Seldom are they spotted congregating around the water cooler discussing the

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is all the rage these days. Whether it's a data center in rural Denmark, downtown Columbus, Ohio, or one belonging to

There seems to be no stopping the appliance juggernaut. Outside of the storage world, appliances are finding an abundance of applications. They take care

E-mail archiving start ups are like wonder drugs — the latest and the greatest one pops up just about every other week. For a while, the field

IDC's storage market stats contained a surprise in the first quarter: Revenues from worldwide external disk storage systems grew 5.9 percent in the first

Conventional wisdom says that when you need lots of storage capacity, NAS just doesn't cut it. You have to have a Fibre Channel SAN, they say, for larger

Compared to earlier years, a noticeable shift at this week's Storage Networking World (SNW) show was the number of vendors hawking storage appliances.

The "V" word was everywhere to be heard at this week's Storage Networking World conference in San Diego. Analysts, end users and vendors alike preached

In the first article in this series, we covered benchmarking in general. Now it's time to dig in to a specific set of benchmarks that are frequently used

Content-addressable storage (CAS) is all about retrieving stored information according to content rather than location. Initially, CAS gained ground as a

Five years ago, Network Appliance was an $800 million company with a clear identity as a NAS provider. Today, it has transformed itself into a $2 billion