http://www.eweek.com Data Storage - RSS Feeds en-us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:46:12 -0500 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:46:12 -0500 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:14:53 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Survey-Reports-Most-Data-Centers-Not-Ready-for-Cyberattack-468895/?kc=rss - If you ask AFCOM, the world's largest data center industry association, most of its member clients aren't prepared nearly well enough for if a sophisticated cyber-attacker or even if an unsophisticated hacker decides to target them. If you also ask about the status of mainframes in most data c...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Survey-Reports-Most-Data-Centers-Not-Ready-for-Cyberattack-468895/?kc=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:30:55 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Maximizing-ROI-with-Virtual-Storage-Solutions/?kc=rss - Video Content....]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Maximizing-ROI-with-Virtual-Storage-Solutions/?kc=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:25:59 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/How-to-Assure-Quality-in-Your-Data-Center/?kc=rss - Proper quality assurance (QA) of a data center is not a trivial matter. We need to ensure that our data centers are fit for the purposes to which we and our users put them. The first step in assuring quality in your organization's data center is to make sure you understand what quot;fit for th...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/How-to-Assure-Quality-in-Your-Data-Center/?kc=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:12:59 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Intel-Numonyx-Reveal-Stacking-Breakthrough-in-PCM-Research-464563/?kc=rss - Intel and its solid-state processor research affiliate, Numonyx, on Oct. 28 revealed what they described as a quot;key breakthrough quot; in their continuing research on phase-change memory, or PCM. PCM is a relatively new type of nonvolatile memory chip that combines many of the benefits of cur...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Intel-Numonyx-Reveal-Stacking-Breakthrough-in-PCM-Research-464563/?kc=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:09:53 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/New-Data-Center-Infrastructure-Approaches/?kc=rss - Video Content....]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/New-Data-Center-Infrastructure-Approaches/?kc=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:14:05 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/How-to-Better-Protect-Business-Data-Using-Continuous-Data-Protection/?kc=rss - Organizations often believe they can adequately safeguard their data solely using disaster recovery (DR) tactics such as nightly tape backups combined with high availability (HA) solutions that maintain local or, preferably, remote replicas of production servers. But this is a misconception. HA and ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/How-to-Better-Protect-Business-Data-Using-Continuous-Data-Protection/?kc=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:27:30 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Win-7-Backup-Support-Mostly-Just-a-Marketing-Opportunity-794544/?kc=rss - With the official launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 on Oct. 22, the requisite announcements from myriad companies with products that support the new operating system are coming fast and furious. This certainly holds true for a growing number of data backup companies that are wasting no time tout...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Win-7-Backup-Support-Mostly-Just-a-Marketing-Opportunity-794544/?kc=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:48:01 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/EMC-Profits-Down-24-but-Still-Beats-Street-Predictions-631878/?kc=rss - External storage market leader EMC reported Oct. 22 that it banked $298 million in profit in the third quarter on total revenue of $3.52 billion, but also that its profit was $95 million or 24 percent less than a year ago. Overall revenue was down 5 percent from a year ago. Nonetheless, EMC, ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/EMC-Profits-Down-24-but-Still-Beats-Street-Predictions-631878/?kc=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:11:39 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Samsung-Fusionio-Deal-Brings-New-Attention-to-SSD-Advances-in-Data-Center-217205/?kc=rss - With the announcement Oct. 20 that Korean IT device giant Samsung, which sells more NAND flash than anybody in the world, has made a substantial investment in U.S. enterprise storage newcomer Fusion-io, the solid-state world recorded another noteworthy achievement in the technology's ever-increasing...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Samsung-Fusionio-Deal-Brings-New-Attention-to-SSD-Advances-in-Data-Center-217205/?kc=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:50:52 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Micron-Introduces-Two-New-HighPerformance-Flash-Chips-787731/?kc=rss - Micron Technology, which was forced to close down its NAND flash memory production facility in Boise, Idaho, in 2008 in a cost-cutting measure, is keeping its two remaining fabrication facilities co-owned with Intel busy in Lehi, Utah, and Manassas, Va. The company announced Oct. 19 that it is...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Micron-Introduces-Two-New-HighPerformance-Flash-Chips-787731/?kc=rss Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:30:10 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/3PAR-Ships-NewGen-ThinProvisioning-Storageware-324974/?kc=rss - Utility storage provider 3PAR, one of the few companies not talking much about the glories of deduplication, introduced a new generation of its thin-provisioning storage software Oct. 12 that it says can reduce the upfront cost of a storage technology refresh of legacy systems by as much as 60 perce...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/3PAR-Ships-NewGen-ThinProvisioning-Storageware-324974/?kc=rss Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:10:34 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/New-Iomega-Green-Desktop-NAS-Device-Aimed-at-SMBs-Home-Users-745060/?kc=rss - Iomega keeps cranking out desktop storage machines that off the top appear to be way underpriced. But that's simply the result of continued intense competition in the marketplace right now, and the customer gets to reap the benefits. Back on Aug. 31, the company rolled out its StorCenter ix4-...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/New-Iomega-Green-Desktop-NAS-Device-Aimed-at-SMBs-Home-Users-745060/?kc=rss Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:37:29 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/VMware-Beefs-Up-vSphere-Disaster-Recovery-Function-190750/?kc=rss - At last month's VMworld 2009 conference in San Francisco, VMware CEO Paul Maritz told a large audience of developers, customers, partners, analysts and journalists that VMware planned to put muscle on the bones of its basic vSphere 4.0 Cloud OS virtualization manager, and that is indeed starting t...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/VMware-Beefs-Up-vSphere-Disaster-Recovery-Function-190750/?kc=rss Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:50:09 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Analysts-Debate-Whether-NetApp-Will-Be-Acquired-794464/?kc=rss - Networking provider Brocade Communications Systems made some headlines and subsequently saw its stock price jump Oct. 5 when it was leaked that it might be up for sale. That got some people in the data center business thinking again about NetApp, a highly successful storage appliance company tha...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Analysts-Debate-Whether-NetApp-Will-Be-Acquired-794464/?kc=rss Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:32:38 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Compellent-Ships-PreConfigured-Virtualized-Storage-Bundles-for-SMBs-559128/?kc=rss - Compellent on Sept. 30 launched a series of Fibre Channel storage packages in preset configurations for small and midsize size businesses that have little or no IT staff. The QuickStart SE bundles consist of storage software and hardware in starter configurations. They include a number of high...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Compellent-Ships-PreConfigured-Virtualized-Storage-Bundles-for-SMBs-559128/?kc=rss