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Two years ago, CWDM was the hot topic at all the conferences and trade shows, and every DWDM vendor, it seemed, was working on a CWDM counterpart. But the technology [...]

By InfoWorld Test Center staff In EMC's march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company's Rainfinity (global file system) and […]

With its latest major storage center update, Compellent Technologies has turned to thin replication for bandwidth management and more cost-effective disaster recovery. Traditionally, thin replication has allowed a user to […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems, trying hard to establish a foothold in the U.S. enterprise-class SAN market, will introduce a series of new storage systems Sept. 26 that the company claims feature […]

I was browsing quickly through a bunch of references, researching thoughts for this year-end column, when all of a sudden -- perhaps due to the accumulated effect of all that […]

Fibre Channel vendors in 2004 continue to face pricing pressures, according to the Yankee Group. The research firm estimates that the total Fibre Channel SAN component market in the first […]

christopher walton christopher.walton@rbi.co.uk After targeting the SME market last month, storage switch vendor Brocade has shifted its attention to the enterprise arena in an effort to reduce the lifecycle management […]

Following the storage market is like watching a three-ring circus: It's never boring, but there's so much happening, it's easy to miss part of the action. Despite a lackluster economy, […]

Insatiable demand for data has forced radical changes to storage technology, writes Nicholas Enticknap There seems no end in sight to the massive growth in IT storage requirements,which really started […]

There is a high level of anxiety among general business managers about ensuring continuity in the event of an IT failure, from whatever cause. Paradoxically, for many of them it […]

Taking the tedious out of storage management New-style automated hierarchical storage management products add more smarts to managing aging data. n By Deni Connor What once was old is new […]

If nothing else, 2002 is going to be the year that storage over IP and 10G Ethernet switching become reality for brave souls on the cutting edge. Both could deliver […]

There's a scene in the movie 'Pretty Woman' in which Julia Roberts goes into an expensive dress shop with a wad of cash that she is supposed to use to […]

Infrastructure is cool again. The back end is back in vogue. And data storage rivals security as a hot tech topic today. Unlike the past few waves of technohype, this […]

The price of storage capacity is plummeting, but storage needs will continue to rise, driven by applications like email and digital imaging. As a result, many organizations will move to […]

DURING THE height of the dot-com era, Internet startups--short of time, money, and expertise--leaned on storage service providers (SSPs) for both the infrastructure and the management they needed to save […]

The economy has slowed, but data growth certainly hasn't. Our expert offers 10 tips to help you squeeze the most from your enterprise storage investment. In these days of budgetary […]

According to rumblings within the storage world, the explosive growth of hard drive capacities we have benefited from for several years is about to come to a screeching halt in […]

A Full Market We're just now beginning to see the long-predicted data explosion. According to a University of California, Berkeley report, the amount of new information being generated is expected […]

SANs aren't yet the perfect solution to burgeoning data and shrinking backup windows, but products are starting to show promise. Summertime ... imagine kicking back by the pool, basking in […]

NEW YORK - Unable to gain user confidence in storage-area networks on their own, six top vendors are joining to pledge product interoperability and provide coordinated support. Brocade, Compaq, EMC, […]

DESPITE all the hype, storage area networks (Sans) are in their infancy, and hampered by a proliferation of standards and lack of true interoperability guarantees, according to analyst IDC. But […]

E-BUSINESS is all about the ability to adjust scale quickly. In hardware terms, that may mean adding terabytes of storage to your network fast. Prompted by an influx of new […]

SERVICE PROVIDERS OFFER REMOTE STORAGE A NEW TYPE OF NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDER MAY SOON emerge to rival Internet service providers and application service providers, selling storage as a utility over […]

Young market offers attractive benefits, but must address security concerns for wide acceptance IT LEADERS HAVE long been evaluating various build vs. buy and lease vs. buy scenarios. Soon after […]

Software tools, such as three released last fall, could bring IT managers closer to the data sharing they thought they were getting when they first bought storage-area networks (SAN), analysts […]

A slew of storage-over-IP proposals have obsessed storage vendors for the last year, dislodging conventional ideas of direct-attached storage and splitting partners and competitors alike. Heavy-hitting storage and network infrastructure […]

The need for storage within enterprise shops is growing at an inconceivable rate. As a result, a new breed of outsourcing providers -- storage service providers (SSP) -- are entering […]

Analyst firm IDC says that the storage software market is heating up - and that revenue from storage software will more than double by 2004 as a result of e-business. […]

Comdex: SAN management dominates show floor By Agam Shah IDG News Service LAS VEGAS - As storage area networks (SAN) grow, managing them becomes difficult. A number of new hardware […]

Members of the storage community talked last month with Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor at Imation's SAN Solutions Lab about Fibre Channel's future, the problems users have in deploying […]

Network executives are intrigued by storage-area networks because SANs offer the promise of improving the storage and retrieval of the mountains of data companies generate every day. But the expense, […]

Network World readers, especially those with large data storage requirements, are moving toward storage-area networks in a big way, according to a recent survey conducted by Enterprise Management Associates. EMA […]