Henry Baltazar

Despite the massive layoffs throughout the industry, the task of finding storage administrators with hands-on SAN-building experience is no easier than it was last year. The major reason for this continuing scarcity is that there really werent that many IT professionals with these valuable skills to begin with, in direct contrast with the surplus of […]

Storage Technology Corp.s application storage manager, or ASM, mixes tape and disk virtualization into a powerful, efficient storage system. From a technology perspective, ASM functions in a manner similar to HSM (hierarchical storage management) systems. ASMs virtualization software gives clients a virtual network drive they can store data on, but it hides the fact that […]

FalconStor Inc.s IPStor 1.0 software blends storage virtualization and SAN-over-IP capabilities into an impressive package that earns eWeek Labs Analysts Choice distinction. Most companies looking to centralize storage resources turn to proprietary hardware-based systems from vendors such as EMC Corp., which use storage processing units to manage resources. IPStor is the first IP virtualization package […]

Netware 6 brings much-needed improvement to the Novell Inc. operating system—especially minimizing the need for fat client software—but not enough to warrant a major reinvestment. eWeek Labs tested NetWare 6 Beta 3, which showed impressive improvements in file and print services. Novells Native File Access is perhaps the most important file service advance, allowing NetWare […]

According to rumblings within the storage world, the explosive growth of hard drive capacities we have benefited from for several years is about to come to a screeching halt in the near future. Thanks to a phenomenon known as superparamagnetism, current hard drive technologies are expected to stop growing once they get to a density […]

MTI Corp.s Vivant D-100 fibre Channel RAID unit provides the familiarity of a direct-attached storage product while offering the ability to be upgraded to a full-fledged SAN device. Judging from analysts market predictions, storage area networks will dominate the IT landscape over the next few years, but looking at todays spending patterns, we see that […]

In a disaster, is your data as well as your hardware insured? The cost of replacing the hardware could just be a drop in the bucket compared with what the data itself is worth. Security managers and representatives from top network security vendors discussed this and other legal, political and management issues at the NetSec […]

For most business users the demand for storage is being stimulated by companies and users coming to the realization that the one thing on their computers they keep, upgrade after upgrade, generation after generation, are the stored data files. The rapidly growing demand for storage can affect any enterprise, be it a large company or […]

Eweek Labs web server benchmark, like most benchmark efforts, was an arduous series of trial-and-error events in which we used all our resources to squeeze as much performance as possible out of our Tux, Apache and IIS-based Web servers. eWeek Labs analysts, like most technophiles, were intrigued and amazed by the extraordinary numbers that Tux […]

SERVERS Dell is preparing to push rack density and server modularity to the extreme with its new blade and brick server architecture models, according to executives I spoke with at Dells Enterprise Day, in Austin, Texas, last month. Blade servers, often referred to as ultradense servers, put the power of a server onto compact blade […]