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It is widely acknowledged that data is exploding and companies are now being forced to manage petabytes instead of terabytes.

Why is it when I discuss storage with a prospect, they want to know what brand I'm selling, yet when we discuss cloud storage, the storage brand name never comes up?

There are many famous theorems associated with an equilateral triangle, but one not so famous is called 'The Peichel Decision Triangle'.

The latest craze in storage is something called Hybrid storage. By definition, Hybrid storage is data storage that uses flash or DRAM, typically in SSD format, for performance along with slow spinning SATA or SAS HDD for capacity.

Normally I leave future predictions to fools and meteorologists. But the business of IT is changing so fast that I feel the urge to give future predicting a shot. So in the next 1 to 2 years, here is what I think will happen.

It's that time of year. Time to create my holiday storage wish list. Time to dream about all of the storage toys that promise to make life easier and fill me with joy, just like I do every year.

Tape is unreliable. Tape is slow. Tape is expensive. Tape is bulky. Tape is dead. Which of those statements is true?

Once a year, at the beginning of the new fiscal year, DataSpan holds its' national sales meeting to celebrate the previous year's accomplishments and set direction for the coming year.

I am winding up a six-week internal training session on our storage solutions and if there is anything that rang loud and clear, it’s that storage is complicated. For a number of reasons. Why? Let’s look.

Over the 38 years of our existence DataSpan has developed expertise and services around data backup and recovery.

I spent the last few weeks meeting with customers and interestingly enough, the topic that was top of mind for them was primary storage.

Where do you turn for information and help when you have an IT issue you need to resolve?

Spencer Rogerson, Sales Engineer at DataSpan completes (AACA) training.

It seems that archiving is meant for long-term data retention to satisfy compliance requirements. As far as I can tell, we have none. Should I be thinking about archiving our data?

Unified storage can present all major connection protocols from one controller through one management interface.

It's time to replace your aging storage infrastructure.

Chances are that over the years your data center has grown by need or demand, not by design.

Confused and need some help understanding storage virtualization?

It's that time of year again. Time to create my holiday storage wish list. Time to dream about all of the storage toys that promise to make my life easy and fill me with joy.

There are at least 10 more wannabes trying to gather attention but like Roemer and Johnson, they are lost in the noise. Tell me, which one wins your vote? Who do you want to buddy up with for the next 4 years?

Every time you make a backup of your data, you are making a protection copy to use in case you need to recover that data, either in whole or some subset.

Eaton is among the first companies to offer power distribution units that are integrated with the Cisco EnergyWise technology.

Storage Services Company Experiences Strong Growth in All Key Verticals, Including Manufacturing, Engineering, Legal and Education.

Luxury jet service provider turns to Dell Compellent to implement a new SAN in less than 24 hours following a data center flood that took out the previous system.

The reality is that cloud storage is everything that the tier one storage isn't. Let's take a look to see what I mean.

New Option Gives Customers the Ability to Choose Between Physical and Virtual Appliances, Offering Ultimate Flexibility and Performance.

On August 4th, 2011 DataSpan announced a new value-added-reseller (VARS) partnership with the award-winning Data Robotics, Inc. (Drobo).

Small and Medium Businesses Report Huge Time and Cost Savings with Drobo; Give Drobo Five out of Five in Performance.

Cloud computing is definitely the buzz word du jour. Every IT vendor is promoting the concept and every trade magazine is telling us it is the future.

As a storage administrator, what if you walked into a shop that had no storage and you could design your storage array from scratch? What are the features that are a must have in your ideal storage?

There are times in IT when customers or manufacturers will do something that makes you scratch your head and say really? Had any good ones lately?

What do pickups have to do with storage arrays?

Failing to plan your data’s Restore Time Objective (RTO) and Restore Point Objective (RPO) for backup and restore is a plan to fail.

I am continuously surprised by the number of customer that I meet that have no real backup or recovery plan.

Does the prospect of clouds in your future make you feel glum? Before clicking past consider that the types of clouds that I'm referring to could make for a bright and sunny future.

Why is it that most customers say that when it comes time to purchase new storage equipment, they would rather deal directly with the vendors than go through a VAR?

Do you get what you pay for when buying or upgrading your Storage Area Network?

Everyone is talking about Flash or SSDs (Solid State Drives) today and how they are the wave of the future.

What do we do when our data storage arrays get full of "stuff" with varying degrees of value?