Enterprise Storage Forum Staff

Converged fabrics based on Data Center Bridging (DCB) technology hold the promise of reduced capital (CAPEX) and operational (OPEX) expenses in the data center in terms of port costs, cable costs, and power and cooling expenditures. According to this recent piece from the Taneja Group published on InfoStor.com. “As with prior convergence trends, fabric (or […]

There has been some new activity in the RAID arena with companies like Infortrend and Arena-MaxTronic adding to their respective product families, according to a recent report from sister site InfoStor.com. “Infortrend recently began shipping a new addition to its Enterprise Scalable Virtualized Architecture (ESVA) RAID family that includes 8Gbps Fibre Channel host interfaces and […]

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) today unveiled a number of new networking offerings for virtual data centers, the latest in the networking giant’s push for converged data and storage networks. Topping the list is FabricPath, a new feature of Cisco’s NX-OS operating system. The implementation of the emerging Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) standard […]

Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) has combined its data backup and security products for small businesses and given them centralized reporting, making it easier for small companies to adopt comprehensive data protection strategies. With about half of all SMBs lacking proper security and backup and recovery, such combined offerings could help narrow that gap. InfoStor.com provides the […]

Despite persistent double-digit unemployment, IT professionals could see modest pay increases this year, and hiring could make a comeback, according to a report from Datamation.com. Data storage admins and other networking and systems professionals could see around a 1.9 percent salary increase this year. IT salaries appear to be on the rise, but don’t get […]

In a year of dramatic change and mergers for the data storage industry, it should come as no surprise that the most-read stories on Enterprise Storage Forum this year were about … dramatic change and mergers. With EMC (NYSE: EMC) besting NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) in the battle to acquire Data Domain, IBM and Oracle fighting […]

2008 will go down in history as a year of extraordinary financial upheaval, but for storage users, it was also a year of major technological change, as technologies such as solid state drives (SSDs), data de-duplication and pNFS entered the mainstream, while the economic backdrop had users clamoring for any technology that could help them […]

Could EMC (NYSE: EMC) be the best match for Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA)? One commentator thinks so. With $2.6 billion on its balance sheet and a massive cost-cutting plan that could save the company $700 million or more a year, Sun doesn’t appear to be in imminent danger of going out of business. But with […]

Why are we asking? Let’s face it: most storage news coverage tends to be about fancy products that solve a problem you may not even know you had. We’d like to change that. Enterprise Storage Forum is looking for a few good storage managers who can write about storage from your hands-on, in-the-trenches, real-world perspective. […]

This year small and mid-sized businesses saw processors go dual-core, on-demand applications take off, storage capacities soar, VoIP deliver value and much more. And, of course, every new technology promises to do more, faster and for less money. While no product or technology will ensure business success, the wrong ones can make the challenges of running […]

Sponsored by Storage Security: Staying Out of the Headlines Speaker: LeRoy A. Budnik, Managing Partner, Knowledge Transfer Storage security has become one of the hottest issues in IT, as high-profile database breaches and lost data tapes have catapulted the issue off the pages of trade journals and onto the nightly news. Companies report that just […]

Storage Management: Does It Have to Be So Difficult? Speaker: Marty Foltyn, President, BitSprings Systems Has storage management technology evolved, or are new technologies such as SRM, ILM and DLM merely buzzwords? Marty Foltyn of BitSprings Systems will examine current storage management practices in today’s enterprises. This Webcast will answer the following questions: How […]