The Need for a Terminology Bridge

When data is moved off of a disk array, is it called migration, tiering, archiving, disk grooming, hierarchical storage management, deletion, move, disposition, or something else? What kind of migration? Is ...read more >

The Business of Enterprise Storage will be the Consumer

The data storage capacity requirements for consumer devices will increase as part of the economic recovery. This demand is fueled by the availability of inexpensive digital storage devices, increasing interface and ...read more >

Managing Cloud Storage

The cloud computing model - with its ability to remotely "borrow" for a fee various IT components through a specialized or open interface - offers an important new technology approach, and storage is a natural ...read more >

Ethernet Storage Gaining Momentum

This article is focused primarily on the recent expansion of the charter of the IP Storage Forum, and its renaming to the Ethernet Storage Forum. As the name suggests, the broadened charter now potentially enco ...read more >

Safely Securing Data - New Views of Encryption and Key Management

Data in networked storage environments is significantly more vulnerable to unauthorized access, theft, or misuse than data stored in more traditional, direct-attached storage. Aggregated storage is not designed ...read more >