Drew Robb

Analysts and vendors tend to act a lot less seriously at this time of year. In fact, plied with a healthy dose of Christmas cheer (or Christmas beer in

The storage world is abuzz with the potential of open source storage projects such as Cleversafe and Amanda. What could they mean for enterprise storage?

What's up with all these new RAID types such as RAID 5EE and RAID 6? What's next, RAID 666, a scheme that guarantees your data will survive Armageddon?

Two important trends have emerged over the last three years that have brought the worlds of network management and storage much closer together. First,

Data centers have traditionally been cooled by chilled air blown out of air conditioning units. More recently, though, with heat densities rising, vendors

Direct attached storage (DAS) was supposed to be on its last leg by now. After more than a decade of steady encroachment by storage area networks (SAN)

Server users aren't the only ones who need to worry about power and cooling issues. Rising capacity demand means that storage now accounts for nearly as

EMC has rolled out the information lifecycle management (ILM) bandwagon relentlessly over the last couple of years. And it's easy to be put off by the

Rydex Investments had been using direct-attached storage (DAS) or SCSI-attached storage in conjunction with an AIT library for backup purposes. This

Storage market data released last month by Gartner highlight an alarming trend: The big vendors keep getting bigger, and the rest are being squeezed into

Quantum acquires ADIC, Sun steals StorageTek, Symantec sucks in Veritas, Brocade breakfasts on McData, EMC eats up everybody, and just this week, QLogic

What EMC wants, EMC gets — or so it appears. Just as it was completing its acquisition of RSA Security earlier this week, it also announced the