Henry Baltazar

Windows Server 2003 has a number of features that have the potential to make storage management easier and more efficient. These enhancements will not provide immediate benefit, but, during the next year or so, they could make Windows Server 2003 more manageable from a storage perspective. The Windows Server 2003 iSCSI driver, which is expected […]

Its hunting season for storage management vendors, and the big boys are targeting the assets of smaller companies to augment their product lines. The real winner, of course, wont be the company with the most acquisitions. Success will be determined by the speed and efficiency with which large vendors like EMC and Veritas can weave […]

Reliability, good performance and interoperability typically top the requirements list for enterprise storage solutions. But as SANs and NAS continue to expand, security will become an increasingly important evaluation criterion. Storage consolidation is a major goal at virtually every enterprise these days, but as storage networks move into the IP world, these consolidated storage infrastructures […]

During the last two years, network-attached storage systems have made their way into virtually every type of organization—from small companies to the largest of enterprises—and several newly released products demonstrate that NAS is becoming more flexible, scalable and reliable than ever before. eWEEK Labs recently evaluated three products that both augment NAS and push it […]

AMDs soon-to-be-released Opteron processor has the potential to shake up the server market, but the question remains: Will major server vendors be willing to develop servers with it? Its far too early to tell if Opteron-based servers will be able to eat into Xeon or Itanium server sales, but if AMD can swing some momentum […]

Entries this year covered everything from host bus adapters to storage management software. While last years finalists and winner were all software tools, hardware products took the top spots in this years program. WINNER NetApp FAS900 Series Storage Appliances (FAS960, FAS940) Network Appliance Inc.s NetApp FAS900 Series Storage Appliances successfully blend the capabilities of NAS […]

Innovation in the NAS market is making this already practical technology even more powerful. By now, just about every organization—from Fortune 500 companies to small mom-and-pop shops—has a NAS system running somewhere in the network. NAS technology is really easy to use and it provides companies with much-needed file serving capabilities. And new innovations push […]

EMC Corp.s upgraded Control Center framework (see review) takes steps to simplify elements of SAN management, but other approaches are emerging on the rapidly evolving storage landscape. Applications are beginning to move away from the hosts, where they have traditionally resided, and into the networking components of storage area networks, creating new management efficiencies. Companies […]

EMC Corp.s Control Center 5.1.1 shows that the powerful hardware vendor is serious about becoming a legitimate software company—even if that means supporting the products of rival vendors. EMC Control Center 5.1.1, which started shipping last month, is basically a management framework, to which several EMC tools can connect to add functionality. Control Center 5.1.1 […]

Its eXcellence Awards judging time again for eWeek Labs analysts and some of our Corporate Partners. This year is shaping up to be the most challenging ever, at least as far as picking a winner in the Enterprise Storage category is concerned. This years Enterprise Storage entries have really impressed me, and we judges have […]

Vertical server consolidation can be difficult, but its probably the most efficient way of reining in multiple and far-flung servers. A select few organizations belong to the “data—all of the time, at any price” category and have the freedom to throw millions of dollars worth of hardware at a problem. For those in the elite […]

During an exclusive evaluation of the Sun Fire 15K at Sun, in Menlo Park, Calif., eWeek Labs found that the server, announced and made available last week, has a host of features that make it attractive for high-powered server consolidation and for companies that need raw computing power to crunch numbers and run simulations. The […]