storage in comment and analysis
What's the fuss about... virtualised IT infrastructure?
Comment From applications to storage to that all-encompassing future we know as web services, virtualisation is making strides. The second is to have sufficient storage resource to cope with the amount of data that needs to be managed day by day. [20 Sep 2002]
Devil's Advocate: A new 'soft' technology
Comment Given the limitations of data storage and retrieval, Martin Brampton tries out a new way of organising his life with a rather old technology - paper. In fact, I suspect that it is similar to the data that is stored in online storage systems. [04 Oct 2005]
Analysis: NAS and SAN uniting
Comment The world's two main networked storage architectures - SAN and NAS - are breeding. EMC, IBM and less well-known storage specialists such as BlueArc are beginning to mix and match the best elements of network-attached storage (NAS) devices and... [26 Jan 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: EMC's declaration of independence, the insecurities of the board and diminishing mobile mania
Comment In light of the growing importance of managing storage, this week EMC and Accenture joined together to create Information Solutions Consulting, a new business targeted at bringing "end-to-end, platform-independent storage consulting services" to... [15 Jul 2002]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.04.2004
Round-Up Just thinking about the sheer number of terabytes of data required was a dizzying experience, particularly for those people selling enterprise storage solutions. Google's new Gmail service promised free 'email for life' with a gigabyte of online... [16 Apr 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: EMC's top spot scrutinised, UK Even-More-Online, revenge of the helpdeskers
Comment It is blindingly obvious to just about everybody that storage management is no longer an issue about disk space or RAID or HSM controllers attached to a system. Computer Associates was announcing BrightStor - its new brand name for the advanced... [16 Jul 2001]
How to detect data leaks
Comment DLP tools incorporate a wide range of modules to protect sensitive data across the corporate infrastructure, including monitoring and protecting network gateways, email, end points and storage. Ever-increasing email attachment file sizes and multi... [19 Mar 2008]
Devil's Advocate: Overwhelmed by data
Comment IT managers figured out long ago that only a small minority of users create storage burdens that need to be controlled. By and large, it is far easier and cheaper to simply provide the increasing storage that people want than to attempt to police... [21 Oct 2003]
Devil’s Advocate: Overwhelmed by data (2)
Comment Last week I looked at the problem of coping with the exponential growth in data storage. Given that much email is material that might once have been transmitted verbally, that is a lot of new data storage. [27 Oct 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.12.06
Round-Up The technology (which doesn't exist yet) could also allow Apple, Samsung and others to build mind-numbingly tiny mega-storage media devices. Despite his well-reported reputation as a visionary, it's almost certain he wasn't alluding to the future... [15 Dec 2006]
IP: All the commentary and analysis... in one place
Comment Crossing the Channel: What IP can do for storage a potent source of growth for the networked storage market", according to one analyst house Some of the significance of IP in storage, by Anthony Plewes. [15 Sep 2003]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The way to mobile security
Comment It also has a flash memory slot in which I can put up to an extra 8Gb of removable storage, and a few USB2 ports through which I can stream as much data as I want to external storage devices, be they thumb drives or portable hard drives. [15 Jul 2005]
Inside Dell: FactFile
Comment Russell Holt, VP and GM, Storage PowerVault and Dell/EMC storage More storage: Higher-end switches, hubs and routers manufactured by Dell Net profit: $1.46bn, $1.86bn, $2.31bn, $1.78bn The executives: [30 Jan 2003]
Jeff Bezos
AS Profile In the past year Amazon also introduced its novel Simple Storage Service - effectively hiring out spare online data storage - which was developed by its in-house Web Services team and demonstrates how the company is continuing to evolve. [12 Oct 2007]
John Lamb's Week: Hail the red-eyed road warriors
Comment Storage, now a critical element in the IT mix, also creates a fair number of headaches for user companies, not least the incompatibilities between storage products from different vendors. Both network area storage (NAS) and storage area networks... [02 Feb 2001]
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