• Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 February, 2012 01:29

  Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

• Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's cloud

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 February, 2012 01:24

  Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same time offering excellent performance, the company said on Tuesday.

• EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

  By Stephen Lawson | 07 February, 2012 11:38

  EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.

• Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software

  By Lucas Mearian | 07 February, 2012 00:26

  Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5.

• EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards

  By Lucas Mearian | 06 February, 2012 08:32

  EMC today launched its long-awaited "Project Lightning," now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash cards for servers as a caching element to increase I/O performance by up to 4,000 times.

• Open source FreeOTFE encrypts disks handily

  By Ian Harac | 09 March, 2011 06:09

  FreeOTFE may sound like a political bumper sticker, but it stands for "Free On The Fly Encryption." The "Free" part is self-explanatory; "On The Fly Encryption" refers to the encrypting/decrypting of data as it is written to or read from your hard disk.

• How to pick NAS for any business

  By Jon L. Jacobi | 05 November, 2010 01:42

  Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways.

• Big data - Part 2

  By Brad Howarth | 20 September, 2011 10:12

  A second technology making a significant impact on solving Big Data problems is in-memory computing, which takes workloads that were traditionally resident on disk-based storage and moves them into main memory. This delivers a performance improvement many times above that which has been possible previously.

• Big data - Part 1

  By Brad Howarth | 19 September, 2011 10:12

  According to IDC’s Digital Universe report the data created globally on an annual basis will leap from 1.2 zettabytes this year to 35 zettabytes in 2020 (one zettabyte is equal to one billion terabytes).

• The evolution of hard disk drives

  By Lucas Mearian | 07 January, 2011 13:22

  A punched card was once the basis for digital information used for computer programs and data storage. They were widely used throughout the first half of the 20th century in processing machines to input data and to store it. Punch cards could be fed into the first commercial computer, IBM 305 system, which then stored the data on hard disks

• Delorean hard drive is perfect for time machine

  By Chris Brandrick | 30 November, 2010 12:16

  Attention all Back To The Future fans: If you're in the market for a new hard drive, then the folks over at Flash Rods have something just for you. Flash Rods latest, known as the Delorean Time Machine Hard Drive, contains a 500GB Seagate drive within the chassis of the much-loved Delorean from the Back To The Future trilogy.

• Burning questions: Virtualisation

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

Whitepapers about storage

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  A Governance Guide for Hybrid SharePoint Migrations

  Cloud-based computing represents a powerful new option for managing enterprise content, offering increased flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost for IT infrastructure, data storage, and applications. However, for a variety of business and technical reasons, most organisations will take a phased approach to adopting cloud-based services, which will require them to continue to maintain their on-premises SharePoint environments during the transition. This white paper, written by Chris Beckett from SharePoint Bits, discusses some of the benefits and risks of hybrid SharePoint deployments, and presents governance considerations that are essential for ensuring a successful migration.

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  Managing Trust - Data protection and compliance for financial services

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  Secure File Sharing in the Cloud: Maximizing the Benefits

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  8 Critical Requirements for Secure Mobile File Sharing