In most companies, data storage has long been viewed as a necessary evil--technology plugged in to back up data in case of a disaster. But that thinking is evolving, as the type of data stored and ...

Assessing any investment in storage is a question of balancing cost, performance and capacity. We look at some of the most useful storage performance metrics – capacity; throughput and read/write; ...

This will be the year in which IT managers, data center administrators and other constituents who care will finally get some more industry-wide visibility into what their green IT or eco-efficiency ...

The data storage industry has evolved significantly in the last three decades, but what has happened in the last 10 years has been another order of change entirely. The maturation of the cloud and the ...

Driven to cut energy consumption in the datacenter and server room, companies are becoming increasingly interested in the amount of power their IT hardware consumes. Yet organizations face the ongoing ...