© moriza A File Area Network (FAN) is an approach to organizing various file-related technologies within an organization. Proper implementation supples a scalable, flexible, and intelligence driven...

© kalandrakas (on vacation) An interesting write up on the top five current trends in storage: The Five Biggest Storage Trends. I don't know if these are in any particular order but the list...

© makou0629 As a key component to the backend storage systems within a data center, switches and routers play an important role in consolidation and virtualization. This document provides a great...

The demand for smaller yet storage rich devices have lured chip makers into into a frenzy. SanDisk this week introduced a line of SSDs that will be available in 4, 8, and 16 GB capacity with READs up...

© roland This is really cool! For those of us who use BitTorrent to access, store, and share data through the Internet, D-Link is giving away a free upgrade for its NAS device that includes the...

© Jef Poskanzer From the IDG News Service, Seagate will be introducing a solid-state drive next year. Definition from Wiki: A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state...

How often do you work offline without an Internet connection? We are becoming more tightly coupled to the Internet than ever before as the use of web applications continue to proliferate our lives....

© Sam UL Durring the process of data backup we can question the validity of backing up everything or performing some form of selective backup. Duplication of data in the backup stream can be a...

Probably the most daunting tasks facing the data center is predicting, identifying and fixing the problems that plague us. And you already know your job is getting tougher as IT infrastructures...

So which is it - is storage virtualization the best thing to hit the industry or just another tool that could cause you more problems than it's worth? The experts (in particular, one Dr. Kevin...

When a business requirement passes along the application delivery lifecycle and becomes a functional update to a production service for the business and customer, how many times will it have been...

When it comes to technology, I'm more than a little bit of a skeptic. Sure, we all have problems that could be potentially devastating, but I tend to take claims made by vendors with a large...

Suppose you had a terrific method of providing huge storage capacity, but the price was too inhibitive for it to get off the ground. Such was the problem with Magnetic RAM (MRAM), which uses magnetic...

If you could ask your technology provider anything, what would it be? Okay, now what should it be? Sterling Commerce has developed a guide for financial institutions, which isn't a bad guide for...

How long have you been avoiding the fully-functional disaster recovery schematic? Ooo, that long? It's not without some warrant that companies avoid a comprehensive disaster recovery structure -...

What's one of the biggest causes of downtime? Surprisingly, it's not power failures or server overload. According to a recent Gartner study, 40 percent of service downtime is caused by...

Ready to harness all of your data at once? Keeping up with it all is more than a full-time job. But one company believes it has the answer to your woes - a tera-scale real-time analytics platform...

Big servers are on the way back. That's because data managers are now realizing that separating computing tasks may not be the best choice. Bigger servers are returning to the data center in hopes...

Thanks to a product designed to help the dental industry with its document storage, one company is seeing the spin-off product as a revolution that's about to take over the paperless document...