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Storage arrays are dead; long live the tape library I've been watching and waiting for years for a vendor to proclaim the demise of disk storage, and this week it finally happened. The vendor who made the bold statement is Sun, specifically CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz. Adaptec's little SAN that can Many different combinations of drives, controllers, and software are available in storage arrays for small and midsize businesses, but one example that you should not miss is the Snap Server 720i that Adaptec trotted out last week.  September 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: NetApp crowns new entry-level storage array king NetApp today is announcing new heirs to the thrones of its entry-level storage arrays, the FAS250 and FAS270. These crown princes, the FAS2020 and the FAS2050, yield more capacity, better performance, and improved manageability -- at a similar or lower price. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source storage gets a virtual lift It has been a while since I last discussed Coraid, but two announcements the company made at LinuxWorld earlier this month have me thinking about AoE (ATA over Ethernet) these days. August 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT The SMB backup dilemma Every time I hear a pitch for an SMB backup solution it comes complete with a chilling statistic that suggests smaller companies are tone-deaf to data protection. July 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Midrange SANs master high-end features SAN storage systems continue to evolve quickly, with features trickling down from market leaders such as EMC and Hitachi Data Systems to midtier players. The three systems reviewed here, from Compellent, iQstor, and Xiotech, offer a surprising array of functionality including nearly every feature one might find in $250,000 enterprise-class systems except CAS (content addressed storage). Their impressive feature sets include 4Gbps FC (Fibre Channel) connectivity, iSCSI support, tiered storage, local and remote replication and snapshots, and even thin provisioning, boot from SAN, virtualization, and automatic expansion of volumes. Compellent even provides automatic migration of data from first- to second- or third-tier storage -- an ILM (information lifecycle management) tool that is usable without requiring a complex setup. Both Compellent and Xiotech offer monitoring and support services similar to those the tier-one storage vendors provide to large enterprises, allowing customers to respond proactively to projected failures. July 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP brings sanity to storage Hewlett-Packard is developing new storage hardware that will make it easier for administrators to assign the right amount of storage to different departments in an organization. June 19, 4:42 a.m. PDT Suit up your storage network with business sense No longer capable of remaining on the sidelines as a separate administrative domain, today's networked storage must be managed with a deeper awareness of business objectives. June 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT Startup skirts datacenter bottlenecks with cache Seeking to alleviate the bottleneck woes of I/O-intensive apps, startup Gear6 today announced CACHEfx, a scalable cache appliance that makes as much as 5TB of cached data available to applications without having to retrieve it from storage. May 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Clustered NEC arrays scale from gigabytes to a petabyte Taking a cue from its supercomputing legacy, NEC Corporation of America on Wednesday introduced a series of storage arrays that achieve new benchmarks in scalability, performance, and availability for the storage vendor by scaling from a terabyte to a petabyte nondisruptively and offering different hard drive classes in the same enclosure. May 10, 4:46 a.m. PDT Startups class of '06: Where are they now? In 2006, InfoWorld uncovered 15 startups that emerged after the nuclear winter that followed the dot-com bust with cool, useful technologies. Well, another year has brought a new crop of startup darlings, such as the companies we're profiling each day in May for our Month of Enterprise Startups (MOES) feature. But MOES got us thinking about last year's startups. In the year that has followed, how have these innovators fared? May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: Intransa realizes dreams of 10Gb iSCSI Ever since the announcement of 10Gb Ethernet, many storage managers have looked forward to 10Gb iSCSI. The hope was that for the first time, iSCSI would actually have not only a cost advantage over FC (Fibre Channel), but a performance advantage as well. May 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST EqualLogic adds to storage array product line Storage appliance maker EqualLogic says its newest product improves performance by doing a better job of balancing the data load between storage arrays in a network. February 20, 12:22 p.m. PST SAN and NAS virtualization After some years of false starts and false hopes, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, is finally proving its worth. All the major vendors have embraced it, most notably IBM, EMC, and HDS (Hitachi Data Systems); the solutions themselves have improved; and customers, typically large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements, understand how to deploy it and where to get good ROI. No longer a technology in search of a problem, storage virtualization offers a way to address a wide range of storage management woes. February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Will EMC's information gamble work? In June 2006, EMC announced that it would acquire RSA Security for $2.1 billion, only to be met with a healthy dose of analyst skepticism and a 3 percent drop in its stock price. Many on Wall Street considered the price tag too high in light of RSA’s 2005 revenues of $310 million. Moreover, industry observers were disquieted by EMC’s unrelenting buying spree: RSA was merely the most expensive purchase out of a whopping 23 acquisitions it had made since early 2003, which have crossed the spectrum from systems management to content management to BPO. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM enhances entry-level storage products IBM is adding features and capacity to its entry-level disk storage array products for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) to match that of more expensive enterprise-level systems. January 16, 4:44 a.m. PST Storage: Hardware takes a backseat Ask two IT managers what were the most important storage trends for 2006, and you’ll probably receive two sharply different answers. The reason is that, this year more than ever, storage events defied any simplistic, black or white, one-sided description. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Technology of the Gods January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Review of reviews It’s coming up on closing time for 2006. All around us, everyone is going into holiday mode. Not to be curmudgeonly contrarians, InfoWorld will be following suit, taking a one-week break before returning on Jan. 1 with our first print issue of the year. (It’s really only a semi-hiatus; InfoWorld.com will continue to perk over the holidays with a slightly reduced slate of stories.) December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Storage budgets may not keep up with demand in 2007 Although demand for more storage capacity is a continuing problem for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), only about 37 percent of companies surveyed plan to increase spending on the technology in 2007 according to a forecast released Thursday by industry research firm Gartner Inc. October 19, 3:06 p.m. PDT SMEs, say farewell to DAS Not long ago I had an interesting conversation with a group of folks from a major storage vendor. They had requested a briefing to discuss how to improve their infrastructure to better support product reviews. October 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Clustered storage winks at the enterprise The rationale for deploying a clustered storage system is in many ways similar to that of deploying clustered servers: You get better scalability, both for capacity and performance, and more resilience than traditional solutions can provide. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC-HP storage race heats up Number two storage systems maker Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has closed the gap between it and number one EMC Corp. to what research company IDC calls "a statistical tie." September 1, 4:55 a.m. PDT IBM 'Turbo' storage products target EMC If turbocharging makes cars faster, IBM believes turbocharging its storage products will help it pass rival EMC. August 22, 4:19 a.m. PDT Sun launches midrange storage arrays Sun Microsystems announced a new family of external storage arrays Thursday to compete with Hewlett-Packard and IBM for midrange business customers. August 10, 4:25 a.m. PDT Cedars-Sinai cures storage ills with clustered NAS If your job is a daily fight against time to save lives, the vagaries of a storage system should not get in your way. This is the problem that Dr. Parag Mallick faced at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Applied Molecular Medicine in Los Angeles, where he is the director of proteomics for the research division of the hospital. The solution Cedars-Sinai chose was clustered NAS. June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT When plain NAS beats clustering If clustered NAS is the way to go, why do traditional NAS systems still account for the majority of deployments? June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25 The top technology slot in the enterprise has changed. Once, forward-looking CTOs and CIOs scanned the horizon for new technologies that would improve the lot of IT. Today, as many of this year’s top 25 CTOs can tell you, technology leaders must also focus on understanding the business goals of the enterprise -- and then craft technology strategies to meet those objectives. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT LSI, IBM expand midrange storage LSI Logic launched on Monday new midrange storage arrays with end-to-end 4Gbps Fibre Channel support for mid-sized businesses. May 9, 4:33 p.m. PDT NetApp moves into high-end storage Network Appliance on Monday will make its move into high-end storage with the launch of a new line of storage arrays geared for large enterprise applications and data consolidation. May 8, 8:10 a.m. PDT EMC refreshes Clariion storage EMC on Monday will unveil a new design for its Clariion midrange storage aimed to give midsized businesses more performance and flexibility, and will roll out the first arrays based on the new architecture. May 8, 4:29 a.m. PDT The last word on SNW Spring If you were at the Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring show, you may have noticed a wall covered with life-size photos of some large cabinets containing storage gear and servers. Those photos were stand-ins for the actual equipment, which was located at the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Technology Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews EMC rolls out entry SAN and archiving software EMC introduced the EMC clariion AX150 and AX150i storage systems and the EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email and Archive Services for Reports. The AX150 systems, available with Fibre Channel or iSCSI connectivity, support as many as 10 host servers and scale from 750GB to 6TB of SATA II storage. Pricing starts at $5,600. The new Archiving Services offerings are based on a unified archiving platform for collecting, retaining, securing, and discovering all kinds of information, including e-mail, reports, documents, images, Web content, video, and transactional data. Prices vary by configuration. EMC Clariion AX150 and EMC Documentum Archive Services, EMC April 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Effective long-distance data protection Protecting data properly is challenging in any circumstances but can be even more difficult to do at a remote office. It’s easy to understand why: Most data-protection tasks require both human labor and the computing power necessary to move large amounts of data, digging into two resources that are typically in short supply at a remote office. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC ramps up storage for SMBs EMC Corp. Monday will roll out storage arrays for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) that double the capacity of previous models and add new tools to ease installation. April 3, 4:34 a.m. PDT HP plots an effective e-mail archiving grid Security, scalability, and performance are the most obvious factors to consider when choosing an e-mail archiving system for your company. To be well prepared for responding to litigation or audits from regulatory bodies, you want a well-protected system that can quickly extract relevant messages from the millions or billions you’ve archived. March 3, 3:00 a.m. PST HP to enhance storage arrays, software HP is expected to announce on Feb. 21 a variety of enhancements to its high-end and mid-range storage arrays and storage software that will aid customer consolidation and management of heterogeneous storage environments. February 9, 9:58 a.m. PST Communications panel studies lessons of Katrina An independent panel to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on communications networks, convened by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), met for the first time Monday. January 30, 2:10 p.m. PST EMC unveils disk array with more than 1 petabyte capacity EMC on Thursday announced its largest high-end array yet, offering hardware with a scalability range that allows it to be used in mid-sized shops as well as the largest enterprises. The DMX-3 array also sports three different types of Fibre Channel drives that allow users to move storage across tiers of disks inside the array. January 26, 1:35 p.m. PST EMC: Profit dips in Q4 due to one-time charges Profit at data-storage company EMC tumbled in the fourth quarter due to charges for, among other things, cutting jobs and repatriating income earned abroad. January 24, 6:43 a.m. PST Storage virtualization and iSCSI don't mix As more and more products enter the market, iSCSI is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to FC (Fibre Channel) SAN technology. Not only is iSCSI cheaper than Fibre Channel, but the technology is less complex to implement. Because it uses the familiar IP network protocols, it simplifies the IT skill set needed to maintain the SAN. Thus, though it’s not as fast and has a lower maximum capacity than FC systems, iSCSI meets the needs of many small businesses and non-mission-critical enterprise storage applications, such as departmental file sharing and near-line data storage. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST What isn't storage virtualization? Vendors often use the term "virtualization" to describe myriad products, including global name spaces, virtual storage area networks (VSANs), pooled NAS (network-attached storage), thin-provisioning software, virtual file systems, virtual tape libraries, RAID arrays and disk clusters, and virtualized application and file servers (such as EMC's VMWare). But although these technologies all use some sort of virtualization, they don't actually qualify as storage virtualization. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Virtualized storage, real rewards As senior director of enterprise technology operations at Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a prison management firm that handles more than 60 facilities, Brad Wood faces several challenges. His group manages approximately 100TB of data -- including inmate medical records, operational records, e-mail, and so forth -- across four Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) storage arrays in two datacenters. Because of federal and state rules, much of the company’s data is mirrored three or four times to keep it accessible in case of failure. Adding to the complexity, Wood buys his hardware based on current price and performance, so he has a mix of suppliers. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list See correction at end of article January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Storage vendors move beyond blocks and LUNs No single storage technology stole the spotlight in 2005, but the year was nonetheless an exciting one that featured new products in areas such as data protection and virtualization as well as important developments in disks, tapes, and switches. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Top technologies of the year Welcome to our first issue of the year. For those of you who took a break, re-entry into the heady universe of work may be a bit discombobulating. Fortunately, last Saturday, the world’s ever-considerate timekeepers saw fit to give us an extra sliver of time -- a leap second-- to prep for the new year. And now, with the pop of the cork (or was that the buzz of a pager?), we’re ready to herald 2006, a potential banner year for the enterprise. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Hard disks: the autumn years I once reviewed a RAM-based storage device, a huge rack-mounted backplane equipped with memory cards and an SCSI interface. It was hot, loud, and expensive, but I was convinced I had the future roaring away in my living room. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Six iSCSI SANs unleashed We've all been hearing about the simplicity and low cost of iSCSI for years now -- and how iSCSI would topple FC (Fibre Channel) as the storage networking technology of choice for shops moving from DAS to SAN. Yet entry-level SAN systems, such as those from Dell/EMC and Hewlett-Packard, although quick to adopt low-cost SATA drives, have continued to stick with FC interfaces. Even those that have offered iSCSI typically included FC as well. Fibre Channel has remained king, even for small SAN deployments. October 3, 4:00 a.m. PDT Configuring storage on the wire There are three ways of connecting a server to an iSCSI SAN. You can use a standard gigabit NIC with a software iSCSI initiator, or an iSCSI accelerator such as the Alacritech SES2002 adapter I used with Windows, or a true iSCSI HBA such as the QLogic QLA4010 I used with Linux. The standard NIC and the Alacritech accelerator both require a software initiator, but the QLogic adapter has iSCSI smarts on the card itself, allowing it to offload iSCSI packet processing from the server’s CPU. Because a standard gigabit NIC places that load on the host CPU, periods of high I/O can put a substantial dent in the performance of the server -- not an issue with a true iSCSI HBA, which represents itself as a storage controller to the OS -- not merely a network interface -- and handles all iSCSI operations itself. October 3, 4:00 a.m. PDT How I tested I took all six arrays and ran them in the lab for several weeks, running performance tests under Linux and Windows using software initiators and iSCSI HBAs from Alacritech and QLogic. In addition, all the arrays were tested for failure situations, both at the disk and the controller level. The Linux tests were conducted on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server with dual 3.6GHz Xeon EM64T CPUs and 4GB of RAM running Red Hat Advanced Server 4.0 using the beta channel Linux iSCSI initiator (Version 4.0.3.0-2) and the QLogic QLA4010 iSCSI HBA. The Windows tests were run on a Newisys 2100 server with dual Opteron 250 CPUs and 4GB of RAM running Windows Server 2003 and using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator and the Alacritech SES2002 dual-port iSCSI accelerator. October 3, 4:00 a.m. PDT EqualLogic aims at enterprises, backs Microsoft EqualLogic unveiled a new storage array, the PS300E, its first product targeting enterprises as well as its traditional midrange customer base Tuesday at the Storage Decisions conference in New York. The storage area network (SAN) company also stepped up its partnership with Microsoft, announcing support for the vendor's new System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) continuous data protection software. September 27, 9:04 a.m. PDT EMC stresses end-to-end security NEW YORK - EMC is looking to focus on providing end-to-end security for its customers and delivering more management capabilities in its software offerings, according to executives speaking at the company's analyst day in New York on Thursday. August 4, 10:06 a.m. PDT A bundle of storage for SMBs According to a recent IDC study, U.S. sales of disk storage systems in 2004 came close to $8.7 billion, accounting for more than 38 percent of the worldwide revenue for that segment. Note also that Western Europe came in second with $6.9 billion, followed by Japan with $2.7 billion, and other Asian/Pacific countries with a combined total of a little more than $2 billion. August 4, 5:00 a.m. PDT Zetera: Storage at the speed of light Once you’ve been on the teams that invented the drive controller standards used by billions of machines, it’s a tough achievement to top. So when Bill Babbitt, Bill Frank, and Tom Ludwig of Zetera created a new network storage paradigm, they simply got rid of controllers altogether. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Rackable iSCSI system stacks up Meeting growing storage requirements is no longer just a matter of accommodating a few more files. Thanks to legislation that mandates the archiving of e-mail and customer records and to the increased use of multimedia and VoIP apps, storage needs can double or triple in a very short time. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT EMC, IBM extend storage strategies EMC and IBM pushed ahead their respective storage strategies last week, with EMC releasing a high-end storage array system and IBM extending virtualization technology. EMC unveiled a juiced-up system with capability to store up to one petabyte of data. At the same time, IBM unveiled a virtualization engine and strengthened its relationships with several storage partners. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT EMC announces Symmetrix 7, rebrands as DMX-3 EMC unveiled its Symmetrix DMX-3 high-end, storage-array system, previously code-named Symmetrix 7, Monday. The system will begin to ship in early September, according to company executives speaking on a conference call. July 25, 8:21 a.m. PDT EMC to unveil Symmetrix 7 arrays EMC will announce on Monday two new versions of its high-end Symmetrix array that will more than triple storage capacity, quadruple cache, and double internal and external throughput, according to sources. The array, however, isn’t expected to offer major improvements of some other features, such as virtualization and combined management features. July 22, 12:45 p.m. PDT 3PARdata turns up the volume management 3PARdata is a storage systems provider known for thin provisioning, that is, the creation of virtual volumes bigger than the actual disk space in use by a volume. Although other vendors deal in thin provisioning as well, 3PAR makes the automatic, on-the-fly expansion of volumes simple to set up. In a new software release, 3PAR has added two new features, Dynamic Optimization and Remote Copy, to its InServ Storage Server. July 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Virtualization, regulations to keep disk storage strong The disk storage systems market is set for continued steady growth over the next four years, according to a report market research company IDC released Thursday. The growth will be fueled by the need to store information to comply with global regulations, the availability of inexpensive, easy to manage tiered storage products, and the emergence of new technologies such as storage virtualization. July 8, 9:22 a.m. PDT Hitachi to bolster storage arrays Hitachi Data Systems is expected to launch July 11 a series of mid-range to high-end storage systems that offer customers high availability and performance at a modest price. July 1, 12:05 p.m. PDT Product previews JBoss upgrades open source portal JBoss this month rolled out Version 2.0 of its JBossPortal, an open source and standards-based portal that’s part of the company’s JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware System) stack. JBoss Portal 2.0 features support for the Java portlet API specification JSR 168, SSO (single sign-on) capabilities across the portal and portlets, content-management features for directory and file management, and the capability to run multiple portal instances inside one portal container. JBoss Portal 2.0 also offers Web-based administration for customizing security settings, such as user and group access and roles. JBoss Portal 2.0, JBoss June 27, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun, EMC bolster storage lineups EMC and Sun Microsystems today released updated and new systems designed for the growing content-addressable storage market. June 20, 10:23 a.m. PDT Built for comfort, not for speed If any technology is transforming from budget buster into budget saver, it’s storage area networks. Just a few years ago the cost per gigabyte of SAN storage and the expertise necessary to implement a SAN far exceeded the resources of small and even midsize businesses. June 13, 5:00 a.m. PDT HP iSCSI pack kicks DAS Migrating file servers, e-mail servers, and databases from DAS to networked storage improves resilience and performance, and it’s probably less expensive in the long term, but it requires a mastery of a variety of storage technologies — a mastery many small companies lack. No wonder they choose to stay with the old-fashioned but easier-to-manage DAS. June 13, 5:00 a.m. PDT SNIA works toward ILM standards Implementing an ILM strategy is neither simple nor straightforward for any organization. For one thing, although the point solutions offered by storage vendors today address parts of the problem, true ILM must encompass the whole datacenter. June 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT SNW's debut performances My previous columns on the recent SNW (Storage Networking World) have been almost entirely focused on some very popular names in storage, but I don't want you to think that startup companies are not present at the show. They're often the ones making a splash with new, original ideas and breakthrough products. April 28, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun adds new functions, features to StorEdge 6920 Sun Microsystems today announced several enhancements to its Sun StorEdge 6920 that are designed to help customers consolidate storage assets and ensure data availability in a reasonably priced midtier system. April 12, 5:00 a.m. PDT HDS adds NAS appliance to storage lineup Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) on Monday entered the network-attached storage (NAS) market with a new blade as part of its high-end virtualization platform, the TagmaStore array. The blade is the first Hitachi-developed NAS offering. The company will continue to sell third-party NAS products as part of an agreement with Network Appliance. April 4, 8:43 a.m. PDT Friendster scales the network with open source Who says open source can’t measure up to commercial software for mission-critical applications? Far from being a mere quick fix or low-cost alternative, open source software is helping real-world companies solve their most pressing IT problems. April 4, 6:00 a.m. PDT Storage blade coming to IBM's BladeCenter IBM has developed a new storage array designed to slide into the chassis of the company's BladeCenter line of ultra-thin blade servers, a company executive has confirmed. March 25, 4:45 a.m. PST HP bolsters information lifecycle management lineup Hewlett-Packard beefed up its ILM (information lifecycle management) offerings today, delivering on some technology it demonstrated to customers last year. March 22, 2:25 p.m. PST EMC issues Clariion call for iSCSI EMC entered the iSCSI (Internet SCSI) SAN market with a bang last week, rolling out a new range of Clariion arrays that use IP technology. February 18, 3:00 p.m. PST Sierra Logic builds a bridge An alien family visiting Earth for the first time would probably be intrigued by the large number of different sects, groups, or associations we human beings come up with. February 11, 3:00 p.m. PST IBM launches virtualization assault on EMC IBM on Friday took aim at its primary competitor, EMC, by announcing storage virtualization software that allows EMC users to utilize storage systems from EMC, Hitachi, or IBM. December 10, 8:34 a.m. PST SNIA nails down ILM definition The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) last week detailed its vision of ILM (information lifecycle management), effectively leveling the playing field by providing vendors with a common blueprint from which to build solutions. November 1, 6:00 a.m. PST Crossroads to develop intelligent iSCSI storage Crossroads Systems has announced it is collaborating with iVivity to develop new gateway and intelligent iSCSI storage systems. The new products will provide intelligent Crossroads storage routing software in a hardware platform based on iVivity's iDiSXsilicon technology. October 20, 3:03 p.m. PDT IBM powers up high-end disk arrays IBM took a major step last week in its plan to remain at the forefront of storage technology by introducing two new disk arrays -- the DS6000 for the upper midrange market and the DS8000 for the high-end market. Both systems are designed for ease-of-use and modular for lower cost. They also feature high-end storage capabilities and virtualization technology, all in systems considerably smaller than previous versions. October 15, 3:00 p.m. PDT IBM brings high-end storage functions to midrange IBM on Tuesday announced two new storage products – upper midrange and high-end disk arrays designed for ease of use and lower cost. The DS6000 and DS8000 feature higher physical storage capacities, a modular architecture, and additional visualization technology, all in systems considerably smaller than previous versions. October 12, 1:41 p.m. PDT IBM supersizes storage arrays IBM this week is expected to debut its highest-capacity storage arrays, although the products' real differentiator is a mix of management technologies designed to help customers get a better handle on where to store growing volumes of data. October 11, 2:55 p.m. PDT Building a SATA bridge There are exceptions, but it seems to be an established rule that startups will come up with the most innovative and daring solutions to various IT problems. October 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Fixing what's wrong with backup It's no secret that the old-fashioned approach to data protection – backing up copies to tape -- often can't keep pace with the disproportionate information growth faced by many companies. September 24, 3:00 p.m. PDT Sun looks for props with new server, storage hardware Sun Microsystems will hold its quarterly product launch this week, unleashing a raft of new hardware offerings spanning servers to storage. September 20, 6:00 a.m. PDT Entry-level storage market heats up If you thought IBM was running behind its competitors with storage products for SMBs, think again. The latest announcements from Big Blue target the entry-level segment, proposing two new TotalStorage arrays, the DS300 with iSCSI (Internet SCSI) connectivity, and the DS400 with FC (Fibre Channel). September 10, 3:00 p.m. PDT Emulex, Snap aid IBM storage effort See correction below September 9, 2:14 p.m. PDT Hitachi upgrades storage line Hitachi Data Systems on Tuesday announced a new enterprise storage lineup with new features such as a virtualization that allows customers to manage up to 32 Petabytes (PB) of internal and external storage. September 7, 1:45 p.m. PDT HP, Sun to resell new high-end Hitachi array Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. both plan to announce Wednesday that they will resell a high-end disk array being introduced by Hitachi Data Systems Corp. September 7, 6:08 a.m. PDT Storage revenues increase in Q2 The latest storage numbers are in and -- big surprise -- storage spending is up. 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