Drew Robb

What will Microsoft Vista do for small businesses? It will make the bankrupt solvent overnight. It will take a mom-and-pop outfit and turn it into a

Virtual Tape Library (VTL) technology has been growing at a fast clip in recent years. According to IDC, the worldwide VTL market will reach $1.4 billion

A lengthy database recovery process can cost a company its shirt. Database downtime in large companies, in turns out, can equate to millions in losses or

With storage requirements moving into the tera-, peta- and exabyte ranges, companies need to refine their backup strategies to ensure availability of

Many small businesses have avoided Linux for a variety of reasons: not enough applications, complexity of installation or that it requires too much

The storage world is abuzz with the potential of open source storage projects such as Cleversafe and Amanda. What could they mean for enterprise storage?

While most organizations have a handle on structured data residing in their databases, it's the vast number of files residing outside of databases that

NAS has had its detractors in recent years. Some say, for example, that it doesn’t scale as well as SAN and isn’t really suitable for

Convergence was supposed to be all about data and voice. But with that process well in hand, virgin territory for further convergence has emerged: the

NetApp may have snapped up Decru, and EMC has just devoured RSA Security and Network Intelligence. But there are still plenty of promising storage

Two important trends have emerged over the last three years that have brought the worlds of network management and storage much closer together. First,

EMC has rolled out the information lifecycle management (ILM) bandwagon relentlessly over the last couple of years. And it's easy to be put off by the