Infostor Archives for Month, Year

News Analysis Trends

E-mail management/archiving strategies

E-mail management and archiving issues have captured the attention of storage professionals-as well as their executive managers-because of the rapidly exploding capacities involved as well as legal and compliance issues.

HP merges storage automation technologies

Hewlett-Packard has announced a complete reorganization and re-branding of its portfolio of data-center automation technologies and, in the process, disclosed its plans for merging its Storage- Essentials storage resource management (SRM) software with the server, network, and storage automation products recently gained through the company’s $1.

Invista 2.0 bolsters block virtualization

EMC is continuing to build out its virtualization portfolio with the release of the second generation of its Invista block-level virtualization product.

Start-up makes SAN out of servers

Seanodes has entered the storage industry with a novel approach to creating high-performance virtual storage pools from the unused storage capacity found in application servers.

Survey shows rapid adoption of data de-dupe

Market research firm TheInfoPro (TIP) has released the latest results from its ongoing survey of Fortune 1000 IT managers, and it is no surprise that data de-duplication remains atop the list of storage technologies end users plan to spend money on in the coming year.

Users extol the virtues of iSCSI, part 1

In the first installment of our series on iSCSI case studies, we focus on companies that have implemented, or will soon implement, iSCSI-based IP SANs in virtual server environments.

Case Study

Managing growth with storage virtualization

Storage virtualization and thin provisioning help a Midwest financial firm manage server growth, avoid resource constraints, and delay the purchase of a large array.

Esg Insight

Persistent data, part 2

I appear to have struck a chord with one of my previous columns (see “IT’s new dirty little secret,” InfoStor, October 2007, p. 22).

New Products

Products

Each month, InfoStor rounds up timely new product announcements, providing a buyer’s guide for professionals.

Special Report

SAS plays supporting role in media and entertainment

In the digital content market, it’s all about high speed and high capacity, and SAS (and SAS/SATA) storage systems fit the bill.

SAS product highlights

Here’s a quick sampling of some of the SAS products that went into production shipments over the last couple of months, with a focus on products targeted primarily at the channel.