Drew Robb

The days when storage meant how much disk space is on a hard drive may be long gone, but the vast majority of organizations still don't have dedicated

The subject of storage grids is gaining some momentum within the industry as perhaps the next big thing.It probably started a couple of years ago when

McData has announced a series of Application Services Modules (ASM) aimed at adding more intelligence to switches. They cover virtualization, backup,

Archiving is certainly one of the hottest areas of storage right now. It lies at the heart of a subject that is near, though perhaps not so dear, to the

Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is getting a lot of coverage in the storage industry press as the latest and greatest. Instead of backing up files once a

Storage managers have been barraged by a wave of claims on the subject of data retention (see Can Data Ever Be Deleted?). The argument is that every

Inspired by Enron and other data cover-up fiascos, legislative bodies around the country appear to be taking the words of Joni Mitchell to heart:Don't it

Business continuity is relatively easy for large enterprises. They have the IT staff and the deep pockets to be able to spend millions of dollars

Backup tapes and tape libraries were supposed to have gone the way of the dinosaurs by now. The much-hyped disk-to-disk (D2D) solutions have been

Backup and snapshot technologies focus on making, managing and storing copies of data as it exists at specific single points in time (i.e., SPIT copies).

You can't be too careful these days when handling other people's data. Leaks are exposed ruthlessly in the press, shareholder confidence is eroded, and

The pairing of server blades and storage seems to be all the rage these days. IBM, for one, recently released a few products pairing the two technologies: