FarSighted Speaks with Richard Stallman, Industry Pioneer, Visionary and Keynote Presenter at the Storage Developer Conference

Richard Stallman (or RMS, as he is often known) founded the free software movement in 1983, and began developing the free GNU operating system in 1984. He will present the keynote on September 11, 2007, at...read more >

How Storage Professionals are Dealing with Increased Business Demand
By Robert Stevenson, Managing Director, Storage Research, TheInfoPro

Over the past few years, Fortune 1000 (F1000) Storage organizations have seen continuous increases in business demands for information growth - a trend that is not expected to slow down any time soon....read more >

The Heat is On: Storage and Energy
By Fred Moore, President, Horison Information Strategies

Electricity is mission-critical to most every business in the modern world and without electricity, there is no IT industry. The faster micro-processors become and the faster a disk spins, the more energy it takes...read more >

Advancing Storage Management via SMI-S and Management Frameworks
By Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Storage Group; co-chair of the SNIA's Management Frameworks Technical Work Group

Storage management solutions have evolved greatly in recent years. While the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) has delivered a breakthrough in standards-based management, we...read more >

Implementing a Strategic File Area Network: Insights from Leon Verriere, Infrastructure Consultant at Mohawk Industries

As File Area Networks (FANs) begin to emerge in corporate enterprises, Mohawk Industries has been at the forefront of this trend. During a recent roundtable discussion, Mohawk Industries Infrastructure...read more >

The State of iSCSI: Continued Rapid Market Growth; Expansion Beyond Windows Stronghold
By David Dale, Industry Evangelist & Director Industry Standards, NetApp; Chair SNIA IP Storage Forum

Over the past year, we have seen continued rapid growth in the market for iSCSI storage around the world. The bulk of this growth has been in the Windows market, as iSCSI SAN solutions continue to displace...read more >

How's Your Archive? Do You Really Care?
By Jeff K. Porter, Senior Technologist, Information Management Solution Group, Office of the CTO, EMC Corporation; Chair, SNIA Data Management Forum