Storage Industry News

Financial analysts' research shows organizations are still buying storage despite an overall slowdown in IT spending, thanks to deduplication, disaster recovery and compliance. But one analyst says the third quarter "may be ugly."

Larry Cormier, vice president of worldwide marketing for LeftHand Networks, explains why FCoE is not a threat and why iSCSI SANs may be the killer app for server virtualisation.

Seagate's 1.5 TB 3.5-inch Barracuda hard drive marks the largest jump in hard drive capacity in the history of hard drives, representing a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1 TB for a 3.5-inch drive.

While iSCSI is clearly emerging as the storage networking protocol of choice for SMBs, the choice for enterprises isn't so clear-cut. The decision is between Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and InfiniBand. Learn the pros and cons of all three protocols and find out which is the best fit for your big customers.

Enterprise content management technologies help companies meet compliance requirements and improve business processes, bringing order to unwieldy, unstructured content.

Get the top five storage tips of the first half of 2008, as chosen by SearchStorageChannel.com readers.

As part of its open storage initiative, Sun brings out a new Thumper storage server and dense JBODs as storage for systems built with Open Solaris and ZFS.

Learn how to find, qualify and hire business intelligence (BI) professionals. Get a list of core questions to ask candidates, and learn the biggest mistake to avoid when filling BI jobs.

Clustered storage vendor DataDirect Networks has gained a foothold in the rich media and Web 2.0 markets that larger storage vendors like EMC and NetApp are trying to move into.

Despite Brocade's claims that Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is still years away from reality, Cisco says it has customers close to adoption on the server side with FCoE storage arrays coming next year.

With its data archives growing by terabytes a week, the research center at Johns Hopkins University uses Caringo CAStor clusters to manage archived and active data.

Get the lowdown on how solid-state drives work, how they differ from disk and what applications your customers should use them for.

NetApp officials say to expect OnTap 8, which will integrate NetApp's GX clustering software into its primary operating system, in 2009.

Pillar promises customers more than 80% utilization on the Axiom 600 disk array, which can support up to 832 TB of raw storage.

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Location-based intelligence, which lets users analyze demographic and other map-based data, is catching on with business intelligence vendors thanks to customer demand.

Despite speculation, QLogic isn't killing the SANBox 9000 Fibre Channel switch. It has, however, given up trying to compete as an enterprise director and is setting its sites on SMBs.

If you're interested in providing managed backup services, make sure you've got the right message and can execute both backup and retrieval well. Learn best practices for providing managed backup services, including sales pitches, customer communication, services branding and retrieval testing.

Business intelligence (BI) search, which helps users find the reports they're looking for, should be a no-brainer for most organizations.

Leveraging data deduplication can maximize your client's storage capabilities. Learn how to choose the right data deduplication technology to meet your client's storage needs.