VMware vSphere and Storage
The latest incarnation of VMware's leading virtual server software accommodates storage better than past versions, but does it eliminate all the storage allocation headaches associated with virtual machines? We take an in-depth look at vSphere and how it interfaces with storage, as well as how other server virtualization products handle storage.
Fast SAS Challenges FC Drives
The newest SAS drives -- SAS-2 -- offer speeds that challenge Fibre Channel (FC) for disk system performance supremacy, and storage arrays that support them are showing up more often. In this in-depth look at SAS-2, we describe its place in the data center, if it's a viable alternative to FC and if pairing SAS-2 with SATA for internal tiering is feasible.
Quality Awards IV: NAS Systems
In this fourth edition of the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards for NAS arrays, users rank the leading systems for initial product quality, sales-force competence, product features, product reliability and technical support. See if NetApp can repeat its double win from the last NAS Quality Awards survey.
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This was first published in December 2009