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Falling 10GbE Prices Spell Doom for Fibre Channel
The days may be numbered for the dominant data storage interconnect technology.
[June 18, 2009]
Storage Security Is More than Just Key Management
It will take a whole lot of effort to get end-to-end data security, but it has to be done.
[January 16, 2009]
Predicting the Future of Storage Technology
After batting .800 on this year's predictions, it's time once again for our intrepid enterprise storage columnist to peer into his crystal ball and see what's in store for the storage market for 2009 and beyond. [December 18, 2008]
Building a Storage Architecture for E-Discovery
Discovery systems pose unique challenges for storage architects if they want to keep up with data growth, performance and backup and recover. (December 1, 2008)
Storage Virtualization: Good News for Consultants
Storage virtualization has some limitations that could make it ill-suited for high-performance environments. (November 21, 2008)
Helping Storage Keep Up With Server Virtualization
If you virtualize your server environment without taking storage into consideration, your performance will likely suffer. (October 29, 2008)
Three Acronyms That Could Change the Storage World
The storage networking world could be profoundly changed by three emerging technologies. (September 12, 2008)
Solving the Storage Error Management Dilemma
Disk drives, tapes and storage networks can create inadvertent errors. What the storage industry needs is a comprehensive framework to discover them before they become a problem. (August 18, 2008)
Data Corruption: Dedupe's Achilles Heel
If you're thinking about purchasing a data de-duplication solution, you need to take a hard look at the issue of data corruption. (July 16, 2008)
Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future?
Despite the outcry from the open source faithful, Linux file systems will require some changes to handle the 100 TB environments that will become commonplace in the not too distant future. (May 29, 2008)
Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For
Linux file systems have a number of limitations that make them a poor choice for large and high-performance computing environments. (May 9, 2008)
Gearing Up For Solid State
Flash-based solid state drives are beginning to show up in enterprise storage, and while promising for high-performance applications, they have some reliability issues that must be addressed. (May 2, 2008)
The Future of NFS Arrives
NFSv4.1 and Parallel NFS will finally bring the 24-year-old protocol into the high-speed networking age. (March 26, 2008)
Building a Perfect Storage World
If users, vendors and standards bodies all got along, this is what the storage world might look like. (March 3, 2008)
Can Storage Benchmarks Be Trusted?
Hardware isn't the only benchmark category that could use an overhaul; file system benchmarks can be just as misleading. (February 21, 2008)
All We Are Saying Is Give Tape a Chance
Online backup vendors have got it all wrong by using disk instead of tape. (January 16, 2008)