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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. Data explosion shakes up IT In just three years, the bytes of data generated by digital cameras, mobile phones, businesses IT systems, and devices will equal the number of grains of sand on the world's beaches. September 13, 7:54 a.m. PDT Baby steps for open source storage Continuing on the topic of open source storage from last week, I would like to wish a belated happy birthday to the Aperi project, the first anniversary of which passed last month. I probably was not the only one to miss marking the occasion, as its first public update on the project went generally unnoticed.  August 31, 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 Oracle looks to broaden appeal of Coherence data grid software Oracle has brought out the first version of the Coherence in-memory data grid software since acquiring Tangosol earlier this year and over time hopes to dramatically widen the appeal of the product. August 13, 8:54 a.m. PDT Microsoft's Live Skydrive online storage service goes beta Microsoft renamed its free online storage service Thursday as Windows Live Skydrive, and relaunched it with several interface tweaks as a beta preview open to anyone. August 10, 4:23 a.m. PDT FTP: New tricks for an old dog Not only has the multimedia revolution increased our appetite for storage, but it has also beefed up our portions, as average file sizes just keep getting bigger every day. August 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Fast guide to fancy SAN management No longer tied to a monolithic enterprise price tag, many of the sophisticated storage management capabilities outlined below can now be found in affordable SAN midrange systems from Compellent, iQstor, Xiotech, and other vendors. July 5, 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 Classic Storage Insider, part II Mario Apicella is on vacation, so in his absence we present two classic Storage Insider columns. This week, we're revisiting storage management: learn more about strategies to keep seldom-used archives away from your first-tier storage and data deduplication. June 29, 3:00 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 Taking the low (end) road According to a study recently published by IDC, a remarkable 92 percent of all server shipments worldwide in 2006 were volume servers (units that cost up to $25,000 each). That's nearly 7 million shipments, to put a number on it. HP shipped the majority of those servers, about 34 percent, followed by IBM and Dell, each with 20 percent. June 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun ZFS breaks all the rules It’s somewhat surprising that in the past five years, file systems haven’t changed much on any platform. There are dozens of file systems available for UNIX-like operating systems -- ext3, XFS, UFS, and ReiserFS for example -- and Microsoft’s ubiquitous NTFS, but since the journaling revolution, there’s been a dearth of innovation in mainstream file systems, until now. June 7, 3:00 a.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 Onaro looks to bridge app-storage gap Seeking to aid enterprises in their ongoing struggle to better align storage resources with application requirements, Onaro today released an upgrade to its SANscreen Application Insight product. April 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC taps users to expedite e-discovery Seeking to improve enterprise governance of e-mail and file archiving systems, EMC today announced upgrades to its EmailXtender e-mail management and DiskXtender file archiving products. April 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT Prepare for the upcoming data deluge Have you read "The Expanding Digital Universe"? It's a study, commissioned by EMC and put together by IDC, on the amount of digital data that we can expect to see in the next few years. (As due diligence disclosure, IDC is part of IDG, the same editorial group to which InfoWorld belongs.) April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT StorNext 3.0 expands enterprise storage tools Quantum Monday updated its StorNext storage management software, joining the trend among vendors that are expanding storage systems for enterprises. April 2, 1:04 p.m. PDT Should you trim your file servers? If you like cooking, you may have played the same game that I sometimes play while waiting in line at the grocery store: Checking out what other shoppers have in their baskets and trying to guess what meals they have in mind. March 30, 3:00 a.m. PST 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 LeftHand boosts its SAN/iQ Many companies would embrace the superior performance and enhanced reliability of clustered storage were it not for the fear that adoption would cost a fortune and lock them into proprietary hardware. February 26, 3:00 a.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 Hitachi and Archivas tie the knot The news of Hitachi Data Systems revealing its intention to buy Archivas probably did not surprise anybody because the two vendors have been partners for quite some time. February 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Hitachi Data Systems confirms Archivas purchase Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) on Tuesday confirmed its intention to acquire online storage management software vendor Archivas to strengthen its content services business. February 6, 8:45 a.m. PST Hitachi Data set to buy storage vendor Archivas Storage systems vendor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) will acquire storage management company Archivas, it plans to announce Tuesday. February 6, 5:05 a.m. PST CA begins simplification of product names CA has unveiled plans to simplify the naming of its entire software range over the next 12 to 18 months to better brand the products and more clearly indicate their function. February 2, 5:29 a.m. PST CA unhappy with its storage business While software vendor CA is pretty happy with the financial performance of three-quarters of its business, its storage management operations are not up to par, according to executives. February 2, 4:16 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 Profiling your infrastructure Last week'scolumn explored how Onaro SANScreen Foundation can bring more control to your datacenter by creating a comprehensive view of servers, storage, and applications. That single overview helps monitor vital signs and enforce SLAs. January 26, 3:00 a.m. PST HP reorganizes storage, server software Hewlett-Packard is adding a new business unit within its Enterprise Storage and Server (ESS) organization as a way to highlight its IT management, automation, and virtualization software. January 23, 8:51 a.m. PST EMC demystified Reporters just love EMC. After all, there’s always something new to write about, given that the company has spent the past three years on a punch-drunk buying spree, acquiring shiny new companies at a rate of roughly one every other month. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Is storage management already past its prime? It may sound hasty to dismiss a technology that many companies have yet to deploy or even evaluate, but some of the vibes I am getting lately from vendors suggest that storage management applications may become obsolete before becoming mainstream. January 19, 3:00 a.m. PST A storage benchmark in the making No other storage topic is more sensitive for vendors and more important for potential customers than performance measurement. I've had vendors refuse to send me a product for review because of disagreements on which speed benchmarks to use during the evaluation. January 4, 3:00 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 Data deduplication: Too much of a good thing Deduplication was without a doubt one of the hot topics in storage last year. It should stay so in 2007. The rationale behind deduplication is that it's simple to the point of being obvious: Reducing the amount of data moved from Point A to Point B will improve performance and reduce the capacity needed during backups or other copy activities. December 28, 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 The last word on unified storage This year in storage seems to be ending exactly as it started -- very busily. And it's a pattern that will continue in 2007, no doubt about that. December 14, 3:00 a.m. PST Dell, Microsoft collaborate on storage tech Dell and Microsoft rolled out a new storage system on Wednesday for file and application data that integrates hardware and software from both vendors. December 6, 5:52 a.m. PST Girding up for storage grids? It went by rather quietly during the vendors' announcement fracas, but the recent changing of the guard at the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) means the group has a new board of directors and a new Chairman, Vincent Franceschini. November 16, 3:00 a.m. PST Update: Former CA CEO sent to prison Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive officer of Computer Associates International Inc., was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison and a US$8 million fine on securities fraud charges. November 2, 11:23 a.m. PST Throwing down the gauntlet over power and cooling costs EMC is in the spotlight this week, with a mammoth announcement that covers just about every product line, including Symmetrix, Clariion Celerra, and Disk Library. October 26, 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 Sun strengthens storage partnerships Sun Microsystems is strengthening ties to its top 10 industry partners in a new program being presented to customers Wednesday at a Las Vegas conference. October 11, 5:04 a.m. PDT HP taps Microsoft for SMB storage Hewlett-Packard Co. is leveraging Microsoft Corp. software in a new portfolio of storage products aimed at taking on EMC Corp. in the small-to-medium-sized (SMB) market. September 18, 9:56 a.m. PDT Copan takes on conventional storage You may remember that just two years ago, Copan began shipping the Revolution 200T, an archiving system that emulates tape libraries by using cabinets filled to the brim with SATA drives. The Revolution was the first system to pack almost 900 SATA drives into a single cabinet and to complement that exceptionally dense capacity with management software for great reliability and low power and cooling requirements. (Here's a quick recap of how the Revolution works.) September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Storage software market grows without EMC EMC and Symantec missed out on a boom in storage software sales in the second quarter, according to research by IDC. September 11, 4:45 a.m. PDT Sun integrates StorageTek service Sun Microsystems on Tuesday announced it has combined its service offerings with that of StorageTek, the storage vendor it acquired one year ago for $4.1 billion. August 29, 4:40 a.m. PDT Financial services: High pressure, high performance When it comes to sheer IT “bling,” financial services is never outshone. High margins, deep pockets, and intense competition in investment, banking, and insurance have pushed these companies to the edge of just about any technology there is. Storage, grid technology, Web services, virtualization, VoIP -- you name it, financial services companies have bought it. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Let the summer storage tournament begin When I heard about EMC purchasing RSA, my immediate reaction was a mental nod of approval. After all, it has been almost a year since Joe Tucci presented the company's plans for integrated storage and security, and EMC has not yet shipped a single product to execute that vision. July 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Storage consortium Aperi enters Eclipse without Sun After joining the open source community of Eclipse last week, the people from the Aperi storage group had one more reason to celebrate this Fourth of July. It took Aperi eight months to get to this point, but the controversy that has surrounded the consortium since its birth has not lessened -- in fact, it's probably stronger than ever. July 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Adesso gets in sync, new CEO Adesso Systems announced a new chief executive officer Wednesday as part of its reinvention as a provider of intelligent synchronization-as-a-service to make it easier to develop mobile and distributed applications. June 28, 1:22 p.m. PDT Can a federation tackle the data management puzzle? I could probably fill up my column just reporting on who's buying whom -- or who's partnering with whom -- in storage, but I would probably end up just talking about big names such as EMC and their latest acquisitions. June 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hitachi goes for the content-addressed storage goal It's too bad that the U.S. World Cup team lost its first game, against the Czech Republic. Team USA actually played good football soccer, but you'd never know that from the 0-3 final score or from looking at the game's highlights. June 15, 3:00 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 CA scoops up MDY CA Inc. will be able to more fully flesh out the information management piece of its storage business with the acquisition of records management software and services vendor MDY Group International Inc., announced Tuesday. June 13, 9:40 a.m. PDT NetApp embraces HPC for data management I don't see other storage vendors sitting still, but it's undeniable that Network Appliance has been extra busy lately. Without digging out all the announcements made in the past 12 months or so, it's fair to say that NetApp has been adding major capabilities to its products, including virtualization, data encryption, and data protection. June 12, 5:00 a.m. PDT Bringing CAS to the masses Back in 2001 when EMC bought Belgian startup FilePool, only a few people knew what CAS (content addressable storage) was. Even fewer people knew that FilePool's Paul Carpentier was the mind behind CAS. June 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT CA delays Q4 2006 financials, restates Q3 In an unexpected development, CA Tuesday delayed issuing its final fourth-quarter and full fiscal 2006 results and restated its third-quarter results, in part due to the impact of a new sales-commission plan. May 30, 7:35 a.m. PDT Symantec looks beyond storage Last week in San Francisco was my first time at the Symantec Vision event, and I was surprised by the number of attendees (a crowd that would make Steve Jobs jealous) and by the relentless sequence of hands-on training and break-out sessions. Numerous Symantec partners populated the exhibits; Dell, for example, was showing off its newest array, the PowerVault MD1000. May 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Symantec releases free version of Storage Foundation Symantec has released a free version of its Veritas Storage Foundation product, designed to entice enterprise customers into installing the storage management software on servers running outside of the data center. May 9, 4:05 p.m. PDT A new Sun set to rise on storage You don't very often see an emotional farewell like the one the new CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, delivered saluting former CEO Scott McNealy. May 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP and storage startup set sights on ILM HP did it again. In closing one of last year's columns, I was hoping to persuade Hewlett-Packard (and other vendors too, to be fair) to make small, focused, perhaps more frequent announcements, instead of opening the fire hose every six months or so. April 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT Get ready for the virtualized enterprise You may remember Neterion and its 10 GbE Xframe HBA from some of my previous columns or blogs. April 20, 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 Metered Web services Amazon’s new simple storage service, S3, burst on the scene a few hours before I had to hop on a plane. There was enough time to sign up for an account, download and run some sample programs, snag the documentation, and take the pulse of the blogosphere. But now, Wi-Fi-less at 35,000 feet, I can’t connect my laptop to the S3 data cloud in order to try out some of the ideas it has sparked. Frustrating! March 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Iron Mountain outsources product development Information protection and storage services provider Iron Mountain has outsourced some of its product development to Symphony Services, a product development company with centers in India, according to executives of both companies. March 17, 9:58 a.m. PST Expanding beyond the storage fabric Do you still see Brocade and McData as switch vendors? If you do, it may be time for an update, because the two companies have moved their offerings well beyond the fabric. March 16, 3:00 a.m. PST StorageTek takes spot in Sun's four key brands Sun Microsystems now considers StorageTek one of its major core-business brands, a company executive said Tuesday. February 21, 5:42 p.m. PST Three lessons for successful e-mail archiving To say that e-mail -- once regarded as a primary corporate productivity tool -- has become a gigantic pain in the neck for many companies is probably an understatement. February 16, 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 EMC tolls the ILM bell, again Whatever you think of EMC, you should give the company credit for at least one virtue: perseverance. In fact, since the very first briefings I had with them years ago, EMC has been a relentless and vocal advocate of ILM (information lifecycle management) strategy, both in person-to-person talks and with product announcements. February 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft injects more smarts into Windows Storage Server 2003 Intelligent storage. It's golden if you've got it when you need it. But it's a pain if you're simply setting it up for that proverbial rainy day -- or on it. Like my rainy Friday, during which a static charge due to all this dry Northeastern weather took out not only my beloved ThinkPad T42p's power supply but also its USB ports and its fingerprint scanner. Yeah, the same scanner I'd been using in lieu of the ultrastrong Windows password that IBM's fingerprint utility made me add. The same password that apparently isn't the same ... at least not how I remember it. February 2, 3:00 a.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 Portable storage devices: The curse of convenience Have you been following the story about cell phone records being sold on the Internet? The Chicago Sun-Times published an interesting article on this not long ago, but this outrageous practice has been going on for quite some time. January 19, 3:00 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 EMC to cut 1,000 jobs, but company will grow in size It may sound counterintuitive, but although storage giant EMC plans to cut 1,000 positions over the course of 2006, the storage giant expects to end the year with a larger total headcount. EMC plans to continue hiring staff to fuel its R&D (research and development) efforts and sales and marketing reach around the world as it cuts back on positions elsewhere in its operations, the company announced Friday. January 6, 9:39 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 Storage software market up again in Q3, IDC says Demand for storage software products continues to grow, with revenue up 10 percent in the third quarter, marking eight consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year growth, according to data published Monday by IDC in its Worldwide Quarterly Storage Tracker. December 12, 4:09 a.m. PST Predictions for 2006: The storage saga continues It's that time of the year again: The festivities are closing in, the New Year is knocking at the door, and everyone committed to public writing feels compelled to dust off the crystal ball and impart their predictions for the coming year. This time, in addition to coaxing predictions out of my magic sphere, I'm going to make suggestions about how to cope with what's coming. December 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Moving beyond the SAN Are you satisfied with the way you manage storage at your company? If you are, good for you, but according to a survey just released by the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), your company is a lucky minority. November 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Computer Associates rebrands as CEO speaks of 'new CA' Computer Associates International's turbulent past is claiming a final victim: the company's name. From now on, the software vendor wants to be known only by its longtime nickname, "CA." November 14, 4:08 a.m. PST Riding a 10G gale at SNW Fall Despite some annoyances caused by Hurricane Wilma, the 2005 SNW Fall repeated the success of previous shows, albeit with perhaps just a little more spice. In fact, unexpected and off-stage news, namely HP finalizing the acquisition of AppIQ, and IBM planning -- together with other major storage vendors -- to extend open source software to the new frontier of storage management seemed to hit attendees just as much as Wilma's best efforts. November 3, 3:00 a.m. PST Update: IBM leads group to create open-source storage software IBM and eight other storage vendors are teaming up to form an open-source organization initially called Aperi, Big Blue announced Tuesday. The companies intend to work together to develop common storage software to manage different vendors' systems, making it easier for users dealing with disparate storage systems. The software will be made available free of charge. October 26, 3:54 a.m. PDT Tracking the buzz at SNW Fall I am writing this column only hours before getting on the flight to Orlando, Fla., where Storage Networking World Fall is about to begin. October 25, 12:00 p.m. PDT Scaling the SAS learning curve Aside from the SNW Fall and the Storage Decisions conferences I mentioned last week, another major October storage show opened its doors this month: the London-based Storage Expo. For U.S-based storage mavens, it's a show worth visiting because many storage vendors rehearse demos of new products there before an official launch in the States. October 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP eyes AppIQ After I completed my review of AppIQ's Storage Authority Suite 4.0, I learned that Hewlett-Packard plans to acquire AppIQ. Although neither company had ever hinted at that possibility, I was only slightly surprised. October 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP’s VTL sticks to the basics I am not going to join the misguided gang cheering the death of tape -- tape is alive and well, as the relentless flow of new products proves. But CTOs have significantly reduced the cartridge’s sphere of influence in favor of the more flexible, faster, and less expensive VTL (virtual tape library) approach to backups. October 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Smart switch for smaller SANs Most SAN administrators are interested in adding more capabilities -- including replication, mirroring, virtualization, FCoIP (Fibre Channel over IP), iSCSI, NAS, and so forth -- to their networks. You can add each of these to a SAN via software or a specialized appliance, or you can get them all in one shot with an intelligent FC switch. October 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Catching the virtualization wave I am back to my normal life after Hurricane Rita pushed me off the charts for 10 days, and I'm savoring my full immersion in the storage pond. As usual, there is no wanting for storage news, and the just-completed Storage Decisions conference and the upcoming Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall shows have vendors and their PR people in even more of a media-coverage frenzy than usual. October 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP lays down the storage gauntlet Is it just me or has HP taken a more determined and assertive attitude lately? I've been overwhelmed by the number of new and different products the company has been putting on the market in the last few months -- and I'm only looking at storage. September 8, 4:00 a.m. PDT CA makes next storage management move Computer Associates International (CA) is expected to announce general availability of BrightStor r11.5, the second release of the company's bundle of integrated intelligent storage management applications on Tuesday. The new version of the bundle provides support for additional devices and applications along with streamlining disk and tape backups, according to a company executive. September 6, 5:09 a.m. PDT EU approves Sun-StorageTek deal The European Union on Friday gave its approval for Sun Microsystems to complete its $4.1 billion cash purchase of Storage Technology, according to the Louisville, Colorado-based storage vendor known as StorageTek. August 29, 5:07 a.m. PDT Plasmon develops compliant write-once UDO media Plasmon has developed a new optical disc for compliance-based systems that allows selected data to be physically destroyed on the disc while leaving other data intact, the company said Monday. August 29, 4:53 a.m. PDT > Storage |
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