Larry Ellison's assault on the data storage market is officially under way. Pillar Data Systems, the company into which the Oracle chief has poured $150 million of his personal funds, has come out of ...

In the life of any network environment, it is not uncommon for hardware to be replaced as technology improves. The item that is most likely to be replaced, whether due to improved performance or ...

Innovation is ultimately driven by need, and networked storage is no exception. The competitive business climate demands increasing data storage capabilities, including availability, recovery, ...

As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

The acceptance of server and storage virtualization has enabled a paradigm shift in how data center infrastructure is purchased and deployed. End user companies are migrating from purchasing separate ...

LAS VEGAS -- April 27, 2004 -- Apple has now introduced Xsan, a high-performance, enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at $999 per system. "Apple's pro video and IT customers ...

The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...

For a long time now expanding storage meant buying more servers and disks. This has proved to be a costly method for increasing storage, and is often an inefficient way of doing things. We are now ...