Friday, June 13, 2003
“Utility” enhancements make a splash at N + I A bevy of software and systems vendors unveiled products designed to make more efficient use of network resources, such as servers and storage gear, at Networld + Interop in Las Vegas last month.
Monday, March 31, 2003
Virtual options pose real challenges for network admins Your data centre topology is starting to scare you. You've got firewalls connected to VPN termination devices connected to load balancers connected to intrusion-detection systems, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) offloaders, distributed denial-of-service appliances, caches - all sitting in front of your server farm and back-end data storage.
Thursday, March 06, 2003
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Thursday, January 23, 2003
HP plans SAN-level storage virtualization In one of the first attempts by a top IT vendor to support network-based storage virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co. this week announced plans to use new software to let IT administrators manage all of the disk space on storage-area networks (SAN) as a single entity.
Thursday, November 28, 2002
Aiming to split data wheat and chaff While storing data is becoming an ever-larger expense for IT departments, two companies are promoting the idea of taking older, less-critical data off high-end servers and placing it on more affordable machines.
Thursday, November 28, 2002
The grid scalability struggle Grid computing might be one of the biggest buzzwords in the industry today, but those in the know say the technology has some distance to go before reaching maturity.
Sunday, May 12, 2002
Storage on the edge Every company uses networked-shared storage, whether it's implemented as a ring of trusty old file servers or as a speedy, expensive SAN (storage area network). As workloads increase — both the frequency of transactions and the quantity of data to move and store — IT managers are learning that their older storage systems have trouble keeping up. Perhaps the systems don't meet performance requirements, creating a bottleneck for applications. They may be too difficult to manage, imposing excessive downtime for maintenance and upgrades. Or maybe the problem is finding the right way to protect the stored data.
Monday, December 24, 2001
A year of unfulfilled promise for storage Any way you slice it, 2001 could have been a better year for the storage technology industry. But despite the promise and hype surrounding the three key storage issues of the year — virtualization, IP storage, and SAN (storage area network) and NAS (network attached storage) convergence — 2001 ended up being little more than a staging ground for future progress, according to industry experts.
Thursday, December 20, 2001
What’s new for 2002? CIO (U.S.) compiled a list of technologies it thinks have a shot at making it big in 2002. The current economic climate makes the crystal ball even cloudier than normal, but these apps seem headed for the big time sooner rather than later.
Sunday, December 16, 2001
A year of unfulfilled promise for storage Any way you slice it, 2001 could have been a better year for the storage technology industry. But despite the promise and hype surrounding the three key storage issues of the year — virtualization, IP storage, and SAN (storage area network) and NAS (network attached storage) convergence — 2001 ended up being little more than a staging ground for future progress, according to industry experts.
Sunday, September 30, 2001
Storage Virtualization: How, What and Why Corporate marketers have discovered — and are busily hyping — the concept of ‘virtualization’. But the precise definition of ‘storage virtualization’ depends very much on who’s using the term.
Sunday, September 30, 2001
Storage virtualization: How, what and why Corporate marketers have discovered — and are busily hyping — the concept of “virtualization”. But the precise definition of “storage virtualization” depends very much on who is using the term.
Thursday, April 19, 2001
The virtual connection: TV station discovers solution to storage needs Complex storage networks comprised of multivendor technologies are commonplace in today's IT landscape, but adding storage onto a mixed network can often wind up straining a company's bottom line.