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 ...

Microsoft this week summarized the top Storage Spaces Direct improvements that will be coming to Windows Server 2019. Storage Spaces Direct is a way of pooling disk storage, but it isn't new. It's ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As someone who writes about a wide variety of technical subjects, I maintain a fairly extensive lab environment so I can experiment with the techniques that I write about. Unfortunately, my lab ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IDC predicts worldwide external enterprise storage revenue will drop 5.5 percent year over year in 2020, while server sales will decline 3.4 percent due to the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus ...