As today’s e-business applications become increasingly datacentric, storage always seems in short supply. Add the increased capacity requirements of multimedia and on-demand video being deployed more ...

This week, we’re looking at IBM’s storage-area networking virtualization products. In my previous newsletter, I described IBM’s SAN Volume Controller. Now it is time to look at the company’s ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Storage vendors are out in force at the VMware Partner Exchange, held this week in Orlando, Fla. And with good reason. Storage is a keystone of a virtualized IT environment and the move towards cloud ...

French company Seanodes has introduced software architecture that it says allows companies to leverage unused processing power in its storage infrastructure to create a virtual storage pool. The ...

Virtualized storage is hardly new, but it has been reinvigorated by interesting solutions from major vendors, such as Hitachi’s TagmaStore and IBM’s SAN Volume Controller. You can now count EMC as a ...

I have a Win 10 Pro/64 box with 4 SATA drive bays that I'm using as a 2nd-tier backup storage box (Veeam repository). When I first populated the box, I did a "thin provisioning" and created a 16 TB ...

The 50 coolest software-defined storage vendors of the 2022 Storage 100 bring software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. Software is at the heart of storage.

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More Utility storage vendor 3PAR and NetApp announced June 5 a ...

The term hard drive refers to the actual storage medium — either in the classic sense with rotating magnetic discs (HDD) or as a modern SSD with flash memory. The term drive refers to the electronics ...