Drew Robb

You have an urgently needed storage project and all you need is management approval. You put together a presentation so good that it could persuade a New

User concerns were front and center at this week's Storage World Conference — not the least of which were worries about data tapes after recent

Remote storage access is a challenge for any organization with branch offices separated by distance from the corporate data center.Latency, in particular,

Processor clock rates may be getting faster all the time, but the impact on storage performance has been nominal for some time. Seek time, operations per

Recent data security breaches like the loss of backup tapes at Bank of America and Ameritrade are boosting the fortunes of storage security vendors such

Handicapping storage vendors is like trying to pick the winner of a horse race — depending on how they evaluate the field, veteran watchers (of both

Like the causeways that link a tapestry of islands and sand bars around the Florida coast, SAN islands are being connected like never before, signaling

Due to a numbers of factors ranging from compliance to legal issues, e-mail archiving costs are spiraling upward.One contributor is the vast increase in

You walk into Starbucks and ask for a Grande Latte. The price up top says $10, plain as day. But that seems high, so you inquire about a discount. They

After years of vendor announcements and the promise inherent in standards such as SMI-S, you'd think that storage interoperability issues would be a thing

The network-attached storage (NAS) market has changed a lot over the last five years. Network Appliance revolutionized the field in the late 1990s by

In a typical storage system, a major challenge is keeping track of where each block of data sits on all of the disk drives in the system. As the storage