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Drew Robb

Drew Robb is a contributing writer for Datamation, Enterprise Storage Forum, eSecurity Planet, Channel Insider, and eWeek. He has been reporting on all areas of IT for more than 25 years. He has a degree from the University of Strathclyde UK (USUK), and lives in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.

The Data Center of the Future

Data centers already account for over half of corporate IT budgets, and META Group projects a 70%...

Easing Server Sprawl and Storage Traffic Load

According to most analysts, the amount of stored information is growing at a rate anywhere between 50 percent and...

Trust, Mistrust and Consumer Information

Recent Harris Interactive surveys reveal that most customers still do not trust companies to handle their personal...

User Power Gathers Steam in Storage Industry

When the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP) announced its existence at the end of September, few gave the...

Case Study: The Stocks Must Go On

At the theaters on Broadway, they say that "the show must go on." But if you drive...

Is the Tide Turning in Battle Against Hackers?

It's a quagmire. No, not Iraq. The Internet. The war against hackers has been going on for decades and...

Maximizing Storage Value with IP SAN

While Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Networks (SAN) have enabled the industry to move towards a more centralized and...

Hiding the Storage Plumbing

Over time computing does get easier. For example, it took Earthlink founder Sky Dayton eighty hours to...

Opening the Serial (Storage) Box

It's always fun, as a kid, being the first in the family to open a new box of cereal...

Getting Beyond M&M SANs

"Most SANs are like M&Ms" hard and crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. This observation...