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  • New storage technologies to deal with the data deluge

    Enterprise storage demands are reaching a critical point, and vendors are scrambling to develop new products to deal with the data deluge. We look at how these technologies will help manage the major pain points for storage administrators.

    Written by Robert L. Scheier • 25 March 13 10:17

  • How big is the sound of music?

    Music fans and major recording artists are adopting lossless audio file formats to keep copies of their music thats as close to a master recording as possible, leading to multi-terabyte-sized home music storage systems.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 21 March 13 10:07

  • Tape storage finds new life in the enterprise and beyond

    Tape is not dead - far from it. In fact, many enterprises depend on it for cost-effective long-term storage. Tape is also finding new applications in the virtualized and increasingly video-centric world of IT. As enterprises deal with bigger sets of data, tape will play a vital role going forward.

    Written by Stephen Lawson • 23 Jan. 13 15:45

  • 'Black swan' predictions for 2013 include solar storm

    If you are making a list of tech predictions for next year, as this story does, it may be a good idea to put the solar maximum on this list. The next one is expected in 2013, says NASA.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 20 Dec. 12 11:05

  • 13 events that defined Cisco's 2012

    From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 12 Dec. 12 17:58

  • 2012: The year in quotes

    Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some of the comments that stuck with us as 2012 winds to a close.

    Written by Nancy Weil • 12 Dec. 12 13:45

  • "The Human Face of Big Data" offers a geek-out-worthy coffee-table book

    "The Human Face of Big Data" is an ambitious and attractive new large-format book that aims to give readers, through photography and short articles, a glimpse of how powerful new data processing capabilities are changing people's lives. Author Rick Smolan is a photographer who gained fame for his "Day in the Life" series, which included an edition focused on the Internet in 1996, "24 Hours in Cyberspace." He says that his latest work is based on the premise that "our planet is beginning to develop a nervous system."

    Written by Elizabeth Heichler • 30 Nov. 12 21:25

  • Hurricane Sandy leaves wounded servers in its wake

    Data recovery experts have been kept busy in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which left a slew of data centers underwater, damaging equipment and threatening a significant loss of business-critical data.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 19 Nov. 12 11:09

  • New York, New Jersey financial sector well prepared for Hurricane Sandy

    Lessons from 9/11 have helped ensure the financial services sector in New York and New Jersey is prepared for disasters, and even shorted the time to recover when regional events happen.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 27 Oct. 12 10:14

  • Storage systems get supersized

    Old storage architectures with general-purpose controllers that service all the new functions along with the normal I/O workload won't be able to scale. Here's why storage systems will need to become full-scale storage computers. Insider (registration required)

    Written by Stacy Collett • 08 Oct. 12 15:24

  • Creating cohesive storage management

    Vendors of storage management tools are moving toward a 'single pane of glass' product that can automatically provision, resize, back up and recover storage across multiple public and private clouds, across systems from different vendors and for virtual machines running hypervisors from multiple vendors.

    Written by Robert L. Scheier • 08 Oct. 12 10:13

  • Opinion: What it's really like to be a digital nomad

    Mike Elgan is a digital nomad. Almost all his worldly possessions are in storage and he's living for now in Sparta, Greece. But living the digital nomad life isn't what you think.

    Written by Mike Elgan • 06 Oct. 12 11:06

  • Could gas shortage pop WD's helium drive plans?

    With worldwide demand and prices at an all-time high, Western Digital's plans to use helium in its drives may be ill-timed as the world's reserves are quickly drawing down.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 01 Oct. 12 10:13

  • JavaScript training for every employee? One company says yes

    One software company is requiring all its employees -- from the CEO on down -- to learn JavaScript. The goal: A better understanding of what customers and engineers need.

    Written by Howard Baldwin • 19 Sept. 12 11:39

  • Flash storage can help some IT operations, despite cost

    A small but growing universe of enterprise IT shops are adopting -- or at least evaluating -- flash storage technology, and they're finding that it can be cost-effective in spite of its high price tag.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 13 Aug. 12 10:14

  • Oracle's Hurd brims with confidence about SaaS, social and Cloud

    To hear Oracle President Mark Hurd tell it, the $37.1 billion hardware and software company is well ahead of competitors on any number of fronts, from transitioning customers to SaaS and the cloud, to incorporating social technology into its products.

    Written by John Gallant • 16 July 12 22:23

  • U.S. regains supercomputer lead

    The U.S. is once again home to the world's most powerful supercomputer, rebounding after it was knocked off the top of the list by China two years ago and Japan last year.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 16 July 12 10:10

  • Microsoft Office must evolve to remain successful

    Office has been a wildly successful product for Microsoft, but its continued dominance is far from assured as software moves to the cloud and employees bring their own tablets and smartphones into work.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 14 July 12 18:17

  • Microsoft Office must evolve to remain successful

    Office has been a wildly successful product for Microsoft, but its continued dominance is far from assured as software moves to the cloud and employees bring their own tablets and smartphones into work.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 14 July 12 18:17

  • Opinion: Moving the new wave of technology from disruptive to productive

    A focus on integration and the user experience will be key to success.

    Written by Nicholas D. Evans • 12 July 12 17:26
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