Integration software and middleware
IT integration is an important but often complex aspect of IT strategy, and is essential to any organisation that require efficient sharing of information between different products sourced from many suppliers. Every major vendor has their own integration software and middleware offerings, including messaging and enterprise application integration, and making the right choice for your organisation is critical. We examine the latest trends and technologies.
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02 Dec 2025
CIO interview: Innovation in reworking business processes
David Holton, chief transformation officer at Cambridge and Counties Bank, talks IT modernisation and agentic AI Continue Reading
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01 Dec 2025
Interview: Dominic Redmond, group CIO, PageGroup
The recruitment firm’s IT chief is looking to use data-enabled technologies, including automation and artificial intelligence, to enhance workplace activities and boost employee productivity Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2006
Storage virtualization acquisitions need careful consideration
Storage virtualization alleviates traditional storage growth problems by implementing a layer of abstraction between applications and physical storage, allowing storage to be combined and treated as a ubiquitous resource, regardless of location. This buying guide helps you understand the most important considerations involved in storage virtualization product selection, identifies specific points of interest for software, hardware and VSAN product categories, and presents a series of basic product specifications that will start you pick the best product for your organization. Continue Reading
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07 Nov 2006
NetApp to acquire Topio
Six months after EMC acquired heterogeneous replication provider Kashya, NetApp jumps on the bandwagon by announcing plans to acquire Topio for $160M. Continue Reading
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26 Oct 2006
What storage managers are buying and why
The second installment of the 2006 edition of Storage magazine's exclusive Purchasing Intentions Survey reveals key storage technology purchasing decisions by storage managers across all industries. Continue Reading
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23 Oct 2006
SATA boosts RAID 6 use
High-capacity SATA disks are driving up the use of RAID 6, which has prompted vendors to create new ways of overcoming the performance hit incurred with dual-parity protection. Continue Reading
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14 Sep 2006
Three ways to create clustered storage
Clustered storage systems run on storage servers, NAS gateways and hosts. Here's how to determine which clustered file-system architecture is best for your needs and storage environment. Continue Reading
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11 Sep 2006
Data storage compliance's impact on storage product choices
Data storage compliance is having a tremendous impact on the storage organization, as well as the management practices employed to retain, search, certify and destroy data. It's not just regulations like SOX or HIPAA that influence storage -- there are well over 10,000 regulations that affect data storage, backup and protection across a range of industries. But companies are often left alone in their quest to identify the regulations that relate to them, identify what data should be saved and implement storage to meet those regulations. This article covers the essential goals of data storage compliance, examines implementation considerations and obstacles and reviews the impact of compliance on storage. Continue Reading
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21 Aug 2006
IBM spruces up storage line
IBM floated a raft of announcements across its storage line, but analysts say they are still waiting for the updates stuck in the research phase. Continue Reading
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14 Aug 2006
EMC sheds light on RSA integration plans
As the dust begins to settle on EMC's $2.1 billion acquisition of RSA Security, the hard work of integration begins. What's EMC strategy here? Continue Reading
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02 Aug 2006
SRM tools improve storage planning and deployment
Why are storage administrators struggling to identify their storage resources and utilise those resources to their best potential? Continue Reading
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24 Jul 2006
Resellers come around to storage virtualization
Storage virtualisation has been around as a concept for years, but value added resellers are finally finding ways to sell it. Continue Reading
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19 Jun 2006
Storage Word Search: Summer IT fun
How about some summer storage fun? Try out SearchStorage.com's Word Search game. See if you can find the 15 terms listed. Continue Reading
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19 Oct 2005
Elements of a data protection strategy
In this excerpt from Data Protection and Lifecycle Management, Tom Petrocelli addresses the importance of securing data for regulatory compliance and outlines the five components of a data protection strategy. Continue Reading
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20 Sep 2005
SAS drives product roundup
Serial-attached SCSI (or SAS) drives offer significant storage capacity at a much lower cost, while maintaining reasonable performance. Find out who the vendors are in this market. Continue Reading
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12 Jul 2005
Tony Asaro: Blogs and more
Read what Tony Asaro is talking about in this month's blog, and listen to him speak in a number of webcasts. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2005
Managed services: Looking to the long term
IT directors looking for an easy way to manage increasing volumes of data by buying more hardware could be storing up problems... Continue Reading
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22 Feb 2005
Accommodating arrays
Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need -- costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less-critical data. The arrays also come with mixed RAID configurations. But selecting the right mix of disks and RAID levels requires understanding the impact of those decisions. Continue Reading
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14 Dec 2004
Grid gobbledygook hits storage
Fearful as always of missing the boat, storage vendors are jumping on the grid bandwagon, unveiling visions that are about as useful today as a chocolate teapot. Continue Reading
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09 Dec 2004
Data storage history quiz
We tend to take storage for granted these days, and expect bigger, better and faster performance out of our hardware and software. But did you know that storage has a long and illustrious history that started out not so big or so fast? Take our data storage history quiz and see how much you know about the beginning of data storage. You just might be surprised. Continue Reading
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31 Oct 2004
Fast Guide: Storage Management
Managing your storage infrastructure has never been harder. Complex systems, unbelievable data growth rates and squabbling vendors are just a few of the issues hampering your ability to manage storage. This Fast Guide to storage management has everything you need to learn how to plan your storage environment, make sure it's running smoothly and stay on top of the trends fueling the next generation of storage management. Continue Reading
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18 Jul 2004
Enterprise-class RAID functions, part 2: N-way mirroring, splitting and more
With the convergence of RAID and lower-priced storage technologies, advanced RAID functions can be enjoyed by any small-to-medium sized organization with critical data. Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2004
Startup steals a win with thin provisioning
The Allant Group chose 3Pardata for its thin provisioning software, while dirty sales tactics kept EMC out of the deal. Continue Reading
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10 May 2004
'Whispering keyboards' could be next attack trend
An IBM researcher's found a way to lift passcodes and other sensitive data by recording the sound of keystrokes. Continue Reading
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18 Jul 2002
EMC and HP allow mix and match storage
Rivals EMC and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to expand a cross-licensing agreement for certain storage system application... Continue Reading
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10 Jan 2001
SMS to boost open system productivity
Tivoli is promising to bring the benefits of system managed storage (SMS) to the open systems world with its Storage Tank... Continue Reading
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21 Oct 1999
White Paper: Software solutions for effective network power management
Uncertain power conditions can wreak havoc on small businesses, however, there are ways to limit the risk of computer data loss Continue Reading