Storage Hardware

Doing the Storage Limbo

Storage vendors have done their best to bring down storage costs and complexity for the small and mid-sized business market, but many small businesses...

Lost in Translation

In my role as a storage and high performance computing consultant, I was recently working for a customer who was installing a very...

Holographic Storage Appears

An idea more than 40 years in development is beginning to work its way into the storage marketplace.InPhase Technologies will ramp up volume production...

De-Mystifying De-Duplication

Even as the price of storage continues to come down, the amount of data enterprises need to store and back up continues to go...

Security Startup Thrives in an ILM World

NetApp may have snapped up Decru and EMC gotten its hands on RSA Security, but there are still plenty of promising storage security startups...

Storage Horizon 2007: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Another year has come and gone, and so it's time once again to look back on our storage predictions for 2006 and look...

The Twelve Storage Trends of Christmas

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

Open Source Storage: Disruptive Technology or Distant...

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

Quantum Puts Rocksoft to Work

Quantum entered the data de-duplication market this week, using technology picked up in its August acquisition of ADIC. It is the first product implementation of...

I/O Standards: What Went Wrong

The idea for this article came out of a talk I was asked to give on why the I/O stack we have today...

Revving Up RAID

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...

Dell, Microsoft Unify Storage

Dell and Microsoft have created a new midrange storage server together, a machine capable of handling file and block-based application data in one box. The...

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