Drew Robb

Companies around the globe are jumping on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) bandwagon. According to Forrester Research Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., 40 percent of $1 billion-plus companies will be implementing ITIL by the end of this year. “ITIL has become the de facto standard for enterprise service delivery processes,” says Thomas Mendel, an analyst with […]

A number of market trends have made records management, retention management, e-discovery and litigation functions increasingly daunting and complex for organizations. Digital content, for example, is growing exponentially across numerous repositories and applications, including enterprise applications, file servers, portals and application servers. At the same time, email has become a primary communications tool, forcing businesses […]

An unknown startup company from Salt Lake City known as Berkeley Data Systems has effectively pulled the rug out from the online backup industry with the launch of a secure backup service known as Mozy. Typical prices for online storage are somewhere on the range of $20 a month or $200 a year, although this […]

When is a storage network not a storage network? Some SAN specialists quibble that NAS isn’t really storage networking as it is just another box plugged in to the existing IT infrastructure. No separate storage network, they say, has actually been established. And there is some truth to this. Now another vendor is arguing that […]

The SAN switch market is certainly showing some healthy signs. According to Dell’Oro Group, existing SAN users have increased the amount of backup they require and want to backup to multiple locations. This has ramped up demand in SAN-related gear such as switches. Further, the legislative picture is propelling more and more users into the […]

Surviving a disaster — natural or man-made — is never something an enterprise can predict in terms of what might happen in the event of a strong hurricane, widespread power outage, fire or explosion. Yet during the disaster, the company should have a viable way to use a remote disaster recovery site to stay online […]

There is no doubt that disk storage systems remain the heart of storage. According to IDC, this segment accounts for over $20 billion dollars annually – almost double the combined total of storage software, tape automation and Fibre Channel gear. It’s no wonder, therefore, that vendors are rolling out a steady stream of newer and […]

America’s love affair with wireless connectivity continues to grow with no end in sight. The FCC reports that U.S. cell phone usage now exceeds landline usage, with close to 200 million American cell phone lines in operation. Notebooks outnumber desktops these days and most laptops come with wireless as a standard feature. As a result, […]

EMC remains the worldwide leader for disk arrays, owning about 25 percent of the SAN market. But the company knows it cannot afford to rest on its laurels to stay ahead of the competition. HP, in particular, is quick on the heels of EMC, lagging by only a fraction of a percent, according to IDC. […]

SAS aced the enterprise server category in the Datamation Product of the Year 2006 awards with its SAS Enterprise BI Server — a product that is far more than the typical enterprise server. ”SAS Enterprise BI Server includes components such as Web Report Studio, OLAP Server, Web OLAP Viewer for Java, Add-In for Microsoft Office, […]