Paul Rubens

In the storage industry, looks can be deceiving.Established data storage vendors seem to have it pretty good: margins are healthy, barriers to entry

 VMware has launched the final part of its software defined data center puzzle: a virtual SAN product called Virtual SAN. The product has been in beta

Quality of service (QoS) is a powerful storage system feature. Adoption so far has been limited, but it is becoming clear that storage QoS is a capability

Server refreshes give organizations virtualization hosts with more processor cores and more power than ever before. That means it's possible to pack more

The cost of storage media is plummeting: both hard and solid state drive capacity has never been so inexpensive.That would be great news for companies

When it comes to using cloud-based storage, the service level agreement (SLA) is everything. It's a rather dry document, but it lays out in writing

Software-defined storage (SDS) is set to revolutionize the storage industry over the coming years.But this shouldn't come as a surprise: after all,

Data replication plays a key part in many organizations' disaster recovery strategies. There are a number of ways of achieving it, including the

If storage were free, where would you put it? The obvious answer is "as close to the processors as possible."But when you're talking about big data, it

Enterprises have never stored as much data as they do today and -- thanks to legislation, regulatory requirements and media coverage of hacker attacks --

Server virtualization poses some serious challenges for storage systems and the administrators that maintain them. This simple fact is probably one of the

When Thailand suffered flooding on a massive scale at the tail end of 2011, it sent a huge jolt to the hard disk drive storage market.That's because the