In Depth

In Depth

Storage management and strategy

• EMC ViPR software-defined storage: Why, and can it succeed?

  EMC’s ViPR software-defined storage aims to provide a multi-vendor management layer with cloud and big data capabilities. But can it convince other storage companies to play ball?  Continue Reading

• Can hyperscale computing eclipse enterprise storage?

  Pioneered by Facebook and Google, hyperscale computing and storage is built on cheap commodity parts with redundancy at device level  Continue Reading

• The dark side of software-defined datacentres

  As different suppliers have different strategies for software-defined datacentres, is the lack of standards leading to chaos?  Continue Reading

• CW500: Thinking outside the big storage box

  Big data doesn’t necessarily mean big storage infrastructure  Continue Reading

• How to tackle big data from a security point of view

  Before leaping into big data, companies must be clear what they are trying to achieve, otherwise their investment will be wasted  Continue Reading

• Public sector backup strategy: Easier than ever; harder than ever

  Public sector backup strategy is a complex beast that must operate in large and heterogenous IT environments.  Continue Reading

• BYOD policy and the data protection products that can help

  We look at BYOD data protection in backup apps and specialist products as BYOD policy demands backup and remote wipe capabilities  Continue Reading

• Server consolidation gains boost trading house’s national business bid

  When Indian financial services company Destimoney struggled with capacity, availability and rapid business growth, server consolidation came to the rescue.  Continue Reading

• Software-defined datacentres demystified

  As datacentre managers increasingly rely on software and automation, what can a software-defined datacentre bring to the enterprise?  Continue Reading

• How IBM researchers hope to change the world

  IBM's Zurich research labs opened its doors to reveal some of the technologies we can expect to be using in 10 to 15 years  Continue Reading

• Tune Raid performance to get the most from your HDDs

  Tune Raid performance at the storage controller to match application I/O demands to optimal hard drive (HDD) performance  Continue Reading

• Is cloud data storage right for your organisation?

  Find out if cloud data storage is a serious option for you with this evaluation of its suitability for primary, nearline, backup and archive data  Continue Reading

• Options in small-business storage for server virtualisation

  SMBs moving to virtualised servers need shared storage to support a new, dynamic environment. We survey the key file- and block-level options in small-business storage.  Continue Reading

• Big vendors tail startups in primary storage deduplication

  Primary storage deduplication can slash disk utilisation rates, but it has yet to gain widespread mainstream product implementation. It’s coming though, and startups lead the way.  Continue Reading

• HPC storage requirements: Massive IOPS and parallel file systems

  We survey the key vendors in HPC storage, where huge amounts of IOPS, clustering, parallel file systems and custom silicon provide storage for massive number crunching operations.  Continue Reading