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Storage: More Data, but More Options to Deal with It

By Dick Weisinger

The high rate at which new data is being created and collected is causing many IT staffs to worry over how best to cope.  A survey conducted by InformationWeek and presented by IT freelancer Kurt Marko found that, on average, organizations

Storage: Growth Predicted for 2011

By Dick Weisinger

While the economy may still be quite a ways from firing on all cylinders, some areas in IT are beginning to pick up.  Storage is one area that is looking bright.  A principle reason for the optimistic outlook is the

Storage: Outlook for 2011

By Dick Weisinger

As organizations continue to generate ever more structured and unstructured data, the management of storage for that data is becoming increasingly important.  Storage has been transformed from being a boring conversation about tapes and disk drives to a hot topic

Storage: Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiency with Storage Virtualization

By Dick Weisinger

While unstructured Data in the enterprise is growing at a break-neck speed, the actual enterprise dollars being spent on hardware for new storage has remained relatively flat over the last 10 years.  Moore’s law when applied to the increasing storage

Storage: Open Source Hardware Creates Peta-Byte Capacity on the Cheap

By Dick Weisinger

First there was server virtualization technology like VMware and Citrix Xen.  But there hasn’t been much equivalent activity around storage virtualization.  It’s really been the software to support storage virtualization that’s been lacking.  Storage hardware costs have dropped significantly.  Commodity