JOURNAL ARTICLE - The midrange array category for the Diogenes Labs?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Storage magazine Quality Awards appears to be fertile turf for underdogs.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Systems | Surveys

JOURNAL ARTICLE - It seems like everyone is talking about thin provisioning. It's no miracle cure, but the technology can do wonders.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Clustered storage combines multiple arrays or controllers to increase their performance, capacity or reliability. In many cases, it's a cost-effective way to meet today's storage needs.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Grid Computing | High Performance Computing | NAS | Storage Systems | Vendor Selection

JOURNAL ARTICLE - There are pros and cons to running multiple protocols through a single array controller.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | iSCSI Protocol | Storage Architectures | Storage Controllers | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Clemson University bets on lots and lots of low-cost storage to enhance its profile and attract top faculty.
Posted: January 17, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Education Industry | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | University Programs

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Don't be alarmed by all the recent industry news; it's a good time for storage consumers.
Posted: January 16, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Industry | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Despite the attention they get, storage benchmarks can be manipulated to unfairly compare products with vastly different configurations.
Posted: October 18, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Cache | Performance Testing | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - When a prominent storage vendor built a 1,000 node storage test grid, it learned plenty of lessons, and a lot of what it learned can be applied to architecting enterprise storage systems.
Posted: October 18, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Grid Computing | SAN | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Forget what you might have heard about host-based volume managers. Here are seven reasons why they deserve some respect.
Posted: October 17, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Storage Management Software | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Twice a year, Storage magazine polls many of you so we can get a better handle on the storage technologies and products you're using and planning to buy (see "Buying update: Storage managers' purchasing plans").
Posted: October 17, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Storage Industry | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - If some of your apps don't require a recovery time objective in seconds, asynchronous replication delivers many benefits over synchronous replication.
Posted: September 17, 2007 | Published: September 1, 2007


Topics:  RPO | RTO | Storage Capacity | Storage Replication | Storage Replication Software | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - The third year of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for enterprise arrays saw some shifts among the vendors, but a familiar theme prevailed as Hitachi Data Systems won again.
Posted: July 20, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Enterprise | Storage Systems | Surveys

JOURNAL ARTICLE - New arrays with a mix of SAS and SATA drives let you set up tiering in a single box. But proceed with caution: Numerous inoperability issues need to be resolved.
Posted: July 20, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Disk Drives | SCSI Devices | Serial ATA | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - In the second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for NAS systems, top NAS vendors like Network Appliance and EMC scored well, but BlueArc emerged as the surprise winner.
Posted: June 29, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  NAS | Storage Appliances | Storage Hardware | Storage Systems | Surveys

JOURNAL ARTICLE - You'll need to juggle the right number of ports on your switches and arrays to maximize performance and reduce the management complexity of your applications.
Posted: April 12, 2007 | Published: April 1, 2007


Topics:  Host Adapters | Storage Capacity | Storage Switches | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Everyone thinks about online data in the same way: You write it, read it, rewrite it and keep it forever. But many organizations have far more data that's written once, read a few times and kept alive forever.
Posted: February 14, 2007 | Published: February 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Storage | Optical Storage Devices | Storage Best Practices | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Our fifth annual Products of the Year awards honor 15 new or improved storage products that had the most significant impact in 2006.
Posted: February 14, 2007 | Published: February 1, 2007


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Business Continuity Planning Software | Storage Appliances | Storage Hardware | Storage Management Software | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - EMC and Hitachi use very different architectures for their top-of-the-line arrays. Here's how they measure up.
Posted: January 15, 2007 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Controllers | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Following sound SAN design strategies allows you to reduce the number of SAN islands, strengthen your primary SAN, make storage easier to manage and provide more data protection.
Posted: December 12, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Data Migration | SAN | Storage Consolidation | Storage Switches | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - In its first year in our survey, EqualLogic PS Series proved its mettle by unseating Sun FlexLine as the highest rated midrange storage array.
Posted: December 12, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Storage Systems | Surveys