Articles about storage

Company addresses cloud storage issues by deploying a storage controller locally. Continue Reading »

As the march toward virtualization starts to extend past server and storage infrastructure, a lot of IT organizations are starting to look at the number of databases they have to manage as the next great opportunity to reduce costs. Continue Reading »

There’s a lot of consternation these days when it comes to I/O performance in virtual server environments. A lot of IT organizations are convinced that as the number of virtual machines running on each server increases, the subsequent I/O contention this creates results in a need for faster storage systems because application performance can’t be allowed to degrade. That kind of expense, unfortunately, is enough to dampen anyone’s virtualization enthusiasm. Continue Reading »

Virtual machine contention for disk resources creates increased opportunities for data loss. Continue Reading »

A lot of IT organizations are moving in fits and starts toward building their own private clouds largely through ongoing efforts to virtualize their server environments. But as IT organizations continue down that path, many of them are discovering that they’ve put too much emphasis on the server aspects of cloud computing when it turns out that modern storage systems are going to be at the root of any successful cloud computing deployment. Continue Reading »

With multiple applications now starting to routinely share access to the same storage, performance issues have started to dog both virtualization and private cloud computing deployments. And, as is often the case across the history of IT, new technologies have suddenly emerged to address the problem. Continue Reading »

New launch eliminates need for disk-based primary storage. Continue Reading »

There’s a lot to rightfully complain about when it comes to data management. Most IT organizations don’t really have any effective data management policies in place, which generally results in low utilization rates of expensive primary storage systems. Continue Reading »

ViSX G3 family of appliances makes Flash memory easily accessible to VMware sites. Continue Reading »

One of the fundamental issues with distributed computing has been that in order to scale any application, it generally requires the addition of another server. But deploying that server obviously takes a fair amount of time to provision, which tends to make distributed computing a little cumbersome. Continue Reading »