A divide within the storage industry over how to connect storage systems to the rest of the network is growing--and leaving customers with a growing sense of unease.
The Economic Development Board of Singapore (EDB) and 10 of the world's leading storage players have come together to help promote and develop Singapore's network storage industry.
Proponents argue that it's a strategic market, but analyst Ashok Kumar says the truth is decidedly different. His conclusion: The heady days are history. How will the key players in the market fare?
Analyst Ashok Kumar says the business is about to get rocked by a technology shift, but too few companies are paying attention to the writing on the wall.
Analyst Ashok Kumar attributes an abysmal year in network storage to bickering industry groups who succeeded in nothing but fostering confusion. Nice going, guys.
There are plenty of popular strategies for reducing enterprise storage usage, but up until now I've never heard the usage of Facebook or instant messaging listed amongst them -- but there's a first time for everything.
South Australian distributed backup start-up Memory Box splits up users' data and spreads it in encrypted form across many customers' PCs. But can the company build trust amongst customers who could be worried about their data being stored on other people's hard drives?
Faced with the thought of a USB drive, notebook PC or backup tape going missing, most IT managers look to some form of encryption as the first layer of defence. However, according to one storage security expert, that's largely a pointless exercise.
Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies.
Mammoth growth in storage volumes is a fact of life, but even so it's helpful to pause occasionally and try and work out whether our information strategies have fallen hopelessly out of step with the pace of technological growth and changes in costs.
Before you jump on the iSCSI bandwagon, weigh the features and potential advantages of the technology against your needs to determine whether it's right for your organisation.
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Are you really exposing yourself to significant risk as long as the data on your network (data in transit) and in your storage (data at rest) is not encrypted.
Dan Warmenhoven, CEO of Network Appliance discusses grid architecture, life cycle management and how he intends to keep his company at the forefront of storage innovation.
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At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...
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The Rack Station RS408 is an attractive NAS solution with plenty of performance, plus lots of extras to tempt the smaller business.
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Consumer NAS drives don't get classier or easier than the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus, but we'd like to see Gigabit Ethernet on it.
Maxtor's Shared Storage Drive provides a simple way to organise, centralise and backup digital content such as photos, music and documents over a home network.
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