Featured Articles

  1. White Paper: Value-Centric Storage: An Enabling Platform For Doing More At A Lower Cost 3/4/2009
    In today's fast moving competitive business environment, companies and their IT managers are faced with not only growing volumes of data but the harsh reality of ever-increasing budgetary pressures. The mantra of “doing more with less” has become a recurring, underlying theme in the lives of storage and IT professionals around the globe. By iQstor Networks
  2. Actual Storage Utilization And Your IT Bottom Line 1/26/2009
    IT budgets are shrinking even as the reliance on data availability grows. Now more than ever, IT managers must spend carefully to keep from negatively impacting the bottom line. One area where IT departments can realize significant savings is in storage. This document provides a simple breakdown of the actual costs paid for storage when real-world utilization and performance numbers, in addition to costs, are surfaced. By Pillar Data Systems
  3. Actual Storage Utilization And Your IT Bottom Line 1/26/2009
    IT budgets are shrinking even as the reliance on data availability grows. Now more than ever, IT managers must spend carefully to keep from negatively impacting the bottom line. One area where IT departments can realize significant savings is in storage. This document provides a simple breakdown of the actual costs paid for storage when real-world utilization and performance numbers, in addition to costs, are surfaced. By Pillar Data Systems
  4. Thoughts For A National CTO 1/21/2009
    First and foremost, I think it's absolutely necessary that the National CTO candidate have a strong technology background. This sounds like an obvious standard but, as you and I both know, the role of a CTO frequently trends more towards marketing than technology. By Jered Floyd, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Permabit
  5. High Availability And Disaster Recovery For Virtual Environments 1/8/2009
    Virtualization is being increasingly used by IT departments for server consolidation and testing purposes. Virtual servers are used to reduce operational costs and to improve system efficiency. The growth in virtual servers has created challenges for IT departments regarding high availability and data protection. It is not enough to protect physical servers but also virtual servers as they contain business critical data and information. By Dr. Vas Srinivasan
  6. High Availability And Disaster Recovery For Virtual Environments 1/8/2009
    Virtualization is being increasingly used by IT departments for server consolidation and testing purposes. Virtual servers are used to reduce operational costs and to improve system efficiency. The growth in virtual servers has created challenges for IT departments regarding high availability and data protection. It is not enough to protect physical servers but also virtual servers as they contain business critical data and information. By Dr. Vas Srinivasan
  7. Lowering Overall Costs By Implementing A Long Term Data Preservation Strategy 1/5/2009
    Data growth rates, the high operational costs of managing more storage than ever before, and a national power grid that is not likely to keep up with power demands in the near future is creating a perfect storm that is driving enterprises to look at new approaches to data management. By The TANEJA Group, Inc.
  8. Lowering Overall Costs By Implementing A Long Term Data Preservation Strategy 1/5/2009
    Data growth rates, the high operational costs of managing more storage than ever before, and a national power grid that is not likely to keep up with power demands in the near future is creating a perfect storm that is driving enterprises to look at new approaches to data management. By The TANEJA Group, Inc.
  9. Benefits Of Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) 12/12/2008
    Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is the proposed industry standard being developed by an ecosystem of Fibre Channel and networking product vendors to drive network convergence in the enterprise data center. The technology will map native Fibre Channel traffic onto Ethernet frames, and be capable of benefiting from proposed enhancements to Ethernet. By Fibre Channel Industry Association
  10. Benefits Of Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) 12/12/2008
    Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is the proposed industry standard being developed by an ecosystem of Fibre Channel and networking product vendors to drive network convergence in the enterprise data center. The technology will map native Fibre Channel traffic onto Ethernet frames, and be capable of benefiting from proposed enhancements to Ethernet. By Fibre Channel Industry Association