December 2007

• December 31, 2007 31 Dec'07

  IBM to invest in grid storage

  According to a report from an Israeli news source, Globes, IBM is set to pay between $300 and $350 million for an Israeli startup, XIV, which is still in stealth mode and reportedly specializes in ...  Continue Reading

• December 31, 2007 31 Dec'07

  Top 10 technology IPOs of 2007

  The market for tech IPOs heated up in 2007, and while EMC spinoff VMware attracted investors beyond anyone's expectations, other stocks tailed off late in the year.  Continue Reading

• December 31, 2007 31 Dec'07

  Storage Outlook '08: Storage vendors' New Year's resolutions

  What can you expect in the next 12 months in the storage arena? A look at the goals that leading storage vendors Symantec, HP, EMC, VMware and Brocade have set in 2008.  Continue Reading

• December 24, 2007 24 Dec'07

  Storage Outlook '08: Building out iSCSI SANs

  David Dulek at Fastenal Company Purchasing says adding iSCSI SANs using newly installed Cisco director switches will be top priority for his company in the new year.  Continue Reading

• December 21, 2007 21 Dec'07

  GlassHouse ready for IPO

   You can count GlassHouse Technologies among the companies expecting storage spending to increase - or at least hold steady - in 2008. The storage consultant firm filed for an IPO this week, which ...  Continue Reading

• December 21, 2007 21 Dec'07

  Buffalo unleashes 100 GB Flash drive

  Even my friends who don't normally follow the storage business are atwitter over an Engadget report that Buffalo has unleashed a 100 GB behemoth flash drive upon the world. Geeks everywhere are ...  Continue Reading

• December 20, 2007 20 Dec'07

  Top 5 storage management tips of 2007

  Here are the top five storage management tips of 2007, based on readers' interest, covering storage security, thin provisioning and LTO-4 tapes.  Continue Reading

• December 20, 2007 20 Dec'07

  Don't let NAS consolidation impair performance

  Learn how to avoid some common NAS upgrade mistakes.  Continue Reading

• December 20, 2007 20 Dec'07

  Storage Outlook '08: Sun reveals plans for disk arrays

  Sun's disk systems portfolio will be expanded and updated in 2008, from Thumper to NAS and new low-end disk arrays, according to Sun executive VP John Fowler.  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2007 19 Dec'07

  Intel gets inside of FCoE

  Fibre Channel vendors aren't the only ones pushing the new Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard designed to help Fibre Channel devices take advantage of 10-gig Ethernet.  Intel is also ...  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2007 19 Dec'07

  Buying guide for email and document management tools

  Email and file/document management is a core element of any compliance strategy. Many software tools are available to help organize, classify, migrate and secure that data so that an organization can meet compliance obligations.  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2007 19 Dec'07

  Email/document management product specifications

  Email and document management tools are necessary elements of an organization's compliance or litigation strategy.  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2007 19 Dec'07

  One year after FRCP, struggles continue with e-discovery

  It's easy for IT managers to feel like they're just foot soldiers in the e-discovery process. But experts warn of trouble ahead for those not aware of their role under the FRCP.  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2007 18 Dec'07

  Buying typical storage for video surveillance? Rethink that!

  Up until now you (corporate IT) have not had to worry about video surveillance. That job was up to the security guys, those guys that wore uniforms and pretty much kept to themselves. But be ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2007 18 Dec'07

  Web 2.0 companies go for new managed storage service

  Some users prefer the performance and features of Nirvanix's managed storage service to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).  Continue Reading

• December 17, 2007 17 Dec'07

  Consumer storage craze sweeps vendors

  Update 12-19-07: Data Mobility Group's Robin Harris has a very interesting take of his own on this phenomenon over on his blog, StorageMojo.   Did you know Sun now has a Chief Gaming Officer? That ...  Continue Reading

• December 17, 2007 17 Dec'07

  Sun and NetApp take their fight to California

  For those of you still following the NetApp / Sun soap opera with popcorn at the ready, here's the latest: the whole case, including all suits and counter-suits between the two parties, will be ...  Continue Reading

• December 17, 2007 17 Dec'07

  Onaro adds support for NAS, VMware to app monitoring software

  Onaro answers customers' calls for a application performance tool that monitors VMware environments and supports storage virtualization and NAS.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2007 14 Dec'07

  Creating half a mirror out of 3 drives totaling 300 GB

  Storage management expert Ashley D'Costa answers a reader's question: "Can I create a logical array from my disk bay, which has two disks totaling 300 GB by installing RAID 0?"  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2007 14 Dec'07

  Storage virtualization, server virtualization shake hands

  More data centers are virtualizing storage after implementing VMware for server virtualization.  Continue Reading