What’s after RAID?

In the storage industry, we have come to accept the concept of RAID. We started with striped and mirrored drives and have evolved to striped drives with parity or dual parity. RAID6, the latest version of RAID to take over the thinking in the storage industry is not...

Extending the Value of Data DeDuplication

Most IT departments understand the value of data deduplication but we’ll recap them here: Less Disk – Data de-duplication reduces disk utilization by 90 percent or more. Less Cost – With less disk, logically you spend less on disk but the savings extends to...

Real World Return on Investment for Storage Virtualization

Storage virtualization is not a new concept – a number of vendors have been offering storage virtualization as an effective means of managing storage growth while extending the life of existing storage resources for sometime now. The challenge for many IT departments...