Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

When is a server not a server? When it’s a Storage Server. Ask people what a storage server is, and you can expect to hear a variety of answers. Some will say it is a regular server with added ...

Microsoft has announced a new release of its Windows Storage Server 2008 software, a product previously codenamed Breckenridge. As with previous versions of Windows Storage Server, the 2008 R2 release ...

Microsoft delivered a completely new way of looking at our disks and storage in Windows Server 2012, with the biggest change in how storage is laid out and provisioned. Here's how to create and manage ...

Seagate’s Business Storage Windows Server is a fast file server, and it delivers better default security than Linux-based devices. But it’s write speed renders it less appealing for client backups.

Remember when gigabyte drives were big? Recall when a terabyte of storage was enormous? Those days are long gone when your business is moving to petabytes. To manage that kind of storage you need a ...

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Server SAN is a cost effective method of pooling compute and storage that is managed via a single software-defined interface. It can enable enterprises to effectively tear down silos and operate in an ...

IBM has added a new member to its Spectrum Scale Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) portfolio that featuers a faster controller CPU and more throughput and that is designed to work with Nvidia’s DGX ...

Lenovo and IBM on Thursday said they finally came to a deal under which Lenovo will acquire part of IBM's server business for about $2.3 billion in cash and Lenovo shares. The headlines, and much of ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...