One way to more closely couple servers and storage is to use a storage device's native processing power to run applications. That's right--we should soon see a storage device that runs applications.

Dell Monday unveiled server and storage technologies that, combined with its networking hardware and new data protection software, could make it a solid challenger to Hewlett-Packard and Cisco in the ...

A network server that is dedicated to storage. A network attached storage (NAS) device is a true storage server because it is dedicated to data access and nothing else. However, a file server, ...

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 ...

I've seen many small to large corporations embrace decentralized storage policies to let the employees deal with their own Exchange Server storage in the form of PST files which is usually caused by ...

If you're intimidated by BYOD and new device onslaughts, centralising storage and server-based computing as well as a security-focused VDI strategy will help you give BYOD a positive spin. Many IT ...

He has this ingrained faith that somehow SAN storage (or any big name storage) is inherently 'faster' than having drives in a server. He cannot seem to comprehend that a storage array with 4 1G ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new channel-release preview of Windows Server build 17639, highlighting two new features. Windows Server build 17639 gets delivered to Windows Insider Program ...