Storage Area Networks (san)
168 Stories
Downturn to dull flash, Ethernet storage
News Cost-conscious storage environment will see firms pass over solid-state drives and delay switch to Fiber Channel over Ethernet, says HDS CTO.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Storage software, Virtualization, IT budgeting, Infrastructure/architecture management, Industry Veteran, Fiber, Storage, enterprise storage environment
IT 'consumerization' poses challenges to CIOs
Insight perspective As socio-economic factors are driving the demand for desktop virtualization, CIOs have to make changes if they are to stay ahead of the game.
Tags: Virtualization, Data centers, Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage area networks (SAN), Desktops, Technology, Security, Environment, phone, CIO
Virtualizing desktops in your enterprise
Insight perspective Citrix Systems executive offers a step-by-step guide for enterprises to successfully prepare for, and implement, desktop virtualization.
Tags: Virtualization, Data centers, Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage area networks (SAN), Desktops, Disaster Recovery, Security, Worker, TCO, information technology
iSCSI--the future of storage
Techguide iSCSI is here to stay and will eventually supplant a significant portion of the installed base of Fibre Channel SANs out there.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage software, Fibre Channel, EqualLogic, EMC Corp., LeftHand Networks, Storage, provisioning, network, SAN
EMC, Microsoft team for share of IT budgets
News In a joint interview with CNET News, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and EMC's Joe Tucci talk about the pressures on tech spending and about partnering to woo customers.
Tags: Storage software, Data backup, disaster recovery, Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, IT Budget, EMC Corp., VMware Inc.
IBM deduplicates Tivoli
News Big Blue offers deduplication technology in Tivoli Storage Manager 6, which it claims to have enhanced scalability and able to handle a billion objects.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Data backup, disaster recovery, Storage software, IBM Corp., Backup, International Data Corp., Storage Management, Tivoli Storage Manager, Storage
Data storage worlds uniting
News The world's two main networked storage architectures--SAN and NAS--are breeding.
India's schools to enjoy IT spending boost
News Educational institutes are set to double spending on IT from this year to 2012, particularly on new software and infrastructure purchases.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, IBM Corp., India, IT-spending, ERP, network, leader, network infrastructure, IT budgeting
BrightStor Arcserve Backup Release 11.0 for Windows
Product Reviews BrightStor Arcserve Backup Release 11.0 for Windows
Clustering enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2 improve migration time
Techguide An enhancement to Windows Server 2008 R2 is clustered shared volumes. Rick Vanover provides an overview of this important change.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Migration, Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Storage, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, clustering, Rick Vanover, Server
Data center upgrade helps hotel to save
News Use of IBM servers and storage system lets The Fullerton Singapore increase efficiency and meet its green goals.
Tags: Servers, Storage, Hardware, Hotel, IBM Corp., Getronics, customer service strategy, MIS, Singapore, Storage
Netgear SC101 Storage Central
Reviews More than just a networked hard drive enclosure, Netgear's SC101 provides some very useful features at a low price, making it a compelling choice for shared storage.
How to resize tablespaces
Techguide Bob Watkins shows you how to resize BIGFILE tablespaces directly using ALTER TABLESPACE.
IBM, NetApp join forces against EMC
Techguide IBM and Network Appliance have announced a new manufacturing partnership, through which the two companies will jointly market some storage products in an effort to take on market leader EMC.
EMC turns up the heat in storage virtualization
Techguide Storage vendor EMC has released details about its upcoming entry into the storage virtualization market, provoking an uncharacteristically pugnacious response from seasoned campaigner, IBM.
