- Storage Sprawl Podcast: Closing doors to data
- Storage Sprawl Podcast: The new 'dispersed storage' model
- Storage Sprawl Podcast: Small SNW plays make big waves
- Storage Sprawl Podcast: IT's voracity for capacity could spell disaster
- Storage Sprawl Podcast: The death of arrays, with a twist
- Storage Sprawl Podcast: Speeding I/O the old-fashioned way
- Storage Sprawl Podcast: True tale of ID theft
- Storage Sprawl Podcast: The SMB backup dilemma
- Storage Sprawl Podcast: Spending at a crossroads
- Storage Sprawl Podcast: InfoWorld research, part 2
November 06, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Closing doors to data
In this episode: a new service-monitoring app puts IT managers back in control of remote datacenter access 
LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on November 6, 2007 06:50 AM
October 30, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: The new 'dispersed storage' model
In this episode: The new approach, being driven by a pair of startups, preaches breaking data apart it for the sake of safeguarding it LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 30, 2007 06:17 AM
October 23, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Small SNW plays make big waves
In this episode: SAS, FCoE, CNA hint of rich horizons, at the Storage Networking World show LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 23, 2007 06:13 AM
October 16, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: IT's voracity for capacity could spell disaster
In today's episode: parity pioneer Panasus unveils technology to end data corruption caused by drive failures LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 16, 2007 08:44 AM
October 09, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: The death of arrays, with a twist
Sun Microsystems may have issued a death sentence to self-standing storage, whether it intended to do so or not, but the irony is still to come LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 9, 2007 06:28 AM
October 03, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Speeding I/O the old-fashioned way
DataCore revs up applications with one of the oldest computing concepts: memory caching LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 3, 2007 05:55 AM
July 31, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: True tale of ID theft
Companies must do their part to take a bite out of ID theft right now and not wait for legal mandates. LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 31, 2007 09:19 AM
July 24, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: The SMB backup dilemma
When it comes to products choice, of course, is king – but with SMB data protection solutions proliferating, confusion might just reign supreme LISTEN!
Posted by Caroline Craig on July 24, 2007 08:23 AM
July 17, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Spending at a crossroads
Spending on infrastructure may be the traditional means of expanding services, but new vendor moves could tilt customers toward services LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 17, 2007 08:46 AM
July 11, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: InfoWorld research, part 2
InfoWorld research on what SAN, NAS, tape and optical drives, disk-based backup, virtualization and storage management all have in common LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 11, 2007 04:25 AM
July 06, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Spending and purchasing trends
We're back with the weekly Storage Sprawl podcast. In this installment: InfoWorld research on storage spending and purchasing LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 6, 2007 10:20 AM
March 02, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: The commoditization of HPC, or not
Hewlett-Packard, it seems, is hoping that with the Polyserve acquisition it can transform HPC into a commodity. It might make HPC easier, but some assembly will still be required LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on March 2, 2007 07:24 AM
February 16, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Thinking small
In this installment: Kicking that big vendor habit. Smaller players, such as Revinetix and Yosemite, can help with innovative technologies Download file
Posted by Tom Sullivan on February 16, 2007 06:28 AM
February 09, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Hitachi weds Archivas
Though they hardly eloped, Hitachi and Archivas tie the knot but maintain a certain degree or privacy about the union and product road map LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on February 9, 2007 07:33 AM
February 02, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Farewell McData
In today's cast: As Brocade officially eliminates competitor McData, not everyone in the industry sees fit to celebrate LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on February 2, 2007 07:09 AM
January 25, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Profiling infrastructure
Akorri's BalancePoint suite marks a new approach to management LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on January 25, 2007 07:13 AM
January 18, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: What's wrong with SRM?
In today's cast, a question: Is storage management already past its prime? One certainty is that IT needs a remedy to the complicated management and monitoring of storage resources LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on January 18, 2007 09:42 AM
January 11, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: News from CES
In today's cast: Enterprise-class storage is not always a highlight at the Consumer Electronics Show, but this year hybrid drives are on display LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on January 11, 2007 10:37 AM
January 04, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: A benchmark in the making
In today's cast: The Storage Performance Council's SPC-1 benchmark is five years old, it's true, but the performance measurement spec is just coming into its own -- even without EMC LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on January 4, 2007 08:17 AM
December 14, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: The last word on unified storage
In this episode: Dell and Microsoft stitch together file and volume serving on Windows, capping off a year full of storage buzz LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on December 14, 2006 06:32 AM
December 07, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Simplifying for small business
Vendors including Hewlett-Packard and LSI Logic put SAS and direct connections in the limelight -- to catch the eyes of SMB customers LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on December 7, 2006 07:12 AM
November 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Security beyond e-discovery
Legislation that kicks in tomorrow will require companies to take a more proactive role monitoring their data. LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on November 30, 2006 08:26 AM
November 16, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Girding up for grids
In today's cast: Storage grids are intriguing, true, but SNIA and vendors must clarify the technology's boundaries and definitions before it can go mainstream. LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on November 16, 2006 10:16 AM
November 09, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: The need for speed
New wares from NetApp and Panasas prove that storage performance still matters. Plus, the week in storage news with EMC, Oracle and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on November 9, 2006 07:00 AM
November 02, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: News from SNW Fall
At Storage Networking World, disk encryption, SAS and iSCSI further their quiet revolution LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on November 2, 2006 07:10 AM
October 26, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Power efficiency comes to storage, finally
EMC, with its new Symmetrix DMX-3 950, is boasting up to 70 percent more efficient power and cooling. Even if those numbers are a stretch, the claim kicks off a storage conversation that customers need LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 26, 2006 04:37 AM
October 19, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: SMEs need DAS no more
SMEs can leave direct attached storage behind thanks to new offerings from Pillar Data and Xiotech that ease networked storage while keeping the price down LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 19, 2006 07:19 AM
October 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Clustered storage eyes the enterprise
A new release from Isilon Systems boosts performance, strengthens data protection and, as a result, makes clustered storage all the more attractive LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 12, 2006 08:37 AM
October 05, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Ignore virtualization no longer
Startup Incipient introduces a virtualization solution that resides within a Cisco switch module -- and presents the opportunity to reconsider block virtualization LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 5, 2006 06:19 AM
September 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Putting open source in the storage jar
Like the mix of chocolate and peanut butter before them, open source storage applications are beginning to catch on LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 28, 2006 08:51 AM
September 27, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: EMC's grand vision
We look at how EMC's new Infoscape product, as well as its purchase of Network Intelligence, fit into the big picture. Plus, the week in storage with news from IBM, Storage Bridge Bay and Oracle LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 27, 2006 06:35 AM
September 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Still searching for a data security turning point
IBM and Sun unwrapped new tape encryption technologies, but your datacenters won't be any more secure because of them. You've got to go beyond encryption Download file
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 21, 2006 04:54 AM
September 18, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: The promise of persistent data
Copan boasts more efficient support for persistent data via a new architecture and an array of partnerships LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 18, 2006 07:07 AM
September 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: A tale of two acquisitions
Emulex bought Sierra Logic because of its complementary SATA technology, and that makes sense, but can the same be said for Tandberg grabbing Exabyte? LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 13, 2006 06:39 AM
August 29, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Product review of Quantum DLT-S4
Quantum looks to take on LTO with its new DLT-S4, injected with the formidable DLTSage management software, as well as large capacity and a moderate cost LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 29, 2006 07:23 AM
August 24, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storge Sprawl Podcast: Seagate's Maxtor plans
Seagate forks its roster into diverse low- and high-end lines as it finally lays out intentions for the Maxtor brand, but will the strategy to more closely match competitors' products work in a top-heavy disk drive market? LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 24, 2006 06:34 AM
August 17, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Xiotech's SSD push
In today's podcast: Xiotech hones its compliance focus with fast-tier storage, SSD drives and an archive management service LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 17, 2006 06:24 AM
August 11, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Security and storage at a crossroads
In today's podcast: Storage researchers and users follow divergent paths, and a look at new products that came out this week LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 11, 2006 08:23 AM
August 09, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Brocade, EMC and McData
This week in storage news: Brocade buys McData, and EMC details a new records management strategy LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 9, 2006 08:10 AM
August 03, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: Strengthening iSCSI
Amid the torrid summer, a host of new products add variety, manageability, and resilience to iSCSI networks LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 3, 2006 06:36 AM
August 02, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl Podcast: The summer of storage
Today, a conversation with Patrick Hynds, senior architect at NTP Software. I speak with Hynds about why this is the 'summer of storage' as well as the problem of storing what he calls junk and how that figures into the personal petabyte. (P.S. Reposting as I incorrectly identified Hynds in original post.) LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 2, 2006 08:36 AM
July 27, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl: SMBs get big attention
In today's podcast: Small and mid-sized businesses are attracting large vendors -- this week that includes HP and Iomega LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 27, 2006 08:10 AM
July 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage Sprawl: HP, IBM steer toward SMBs
In this episode: Hewlett-Packard announces a new lineup of networked storage wares tailored specifically for small and medium-sized businesses, while Big Blue takes aim at the same space with continuous data protection software LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 25, 2006 08:01 AM
July 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Sony's first foray into Blu-Ray recording can store 25GB. Without dismissing the exceptional capacity for backing up and archiving data, another facet of the BWU-100A is its ability to store hours of high-definition movie clips LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 20, 2006 05:31 AM
July 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
The summer storage tournament begins: Charged with new products, purchases, and alliances, storage vendors including EMC, Exanet, Sun, and NetApp mount up to joust LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 13, 2006 08:14 AM
July 11, 2006 | Comments: (0)
In today's podcast I look at EMC's vision for the newly-purchased RSA Security, which financial analysts criticized -- but industry experts say Wall Street does not grasp the tectonic shift in storage toward holistic information management LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 11, 2006 07:16 AM
July 07, 2006 | Comments: (0)
In today's podcast: the Aperi storage group joins Eclipse sans Sun Microsystems -- just not without a healthy share of controversy LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 7, 2006 05:51 AM
June 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)
NetApp's carefully planned entrance into the SMB storage realm came this week in the form of StoreVault S500. The company, it appears, kept a close eye on the feature sets its rivals offer and, at about $5,000 for the 1TB entry-level system, StoreVault promises to be competitive LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 30, 2006 05:57 AM
June 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)
The new face of NAS: faster, cheaper, more scalable and clustered. Just not for every storage situation. Plus, the week in storage news LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 20, 2006 09:23 AM
June 15, 2006 | Comments: (0)
CAS competition heats up as Hitachi Data Systems shoots TagmaStore into digital archiving, while NetApp took to the field on Monday LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 15, 2006 09:25 AM
June 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)
NetApp embraces high-performance computing for data management via the long-awaited integration of Spinnaker's clustered architecture with Ontap OS LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 12, 2006 05:41 AM
June 01, 2006 | Comments: (0)
CAS for the masses. That's CAS, as in content addressable storage. Whether you've heard of it or not, this technology could become as popular for data archival as NAS is for storing live files LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 1, 2006 10:09 AM
May 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Was Veritas sleeping the enemy, meaning Microsoft? Too early to tell which company will win the suit Symantec brought against Microsoft, it's already quite clear who will be the losers LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on May 25, 2006 09:16 AM
May 23, 2006 | Comments: (0)
From the InfoWorld Test Center: Dell's PowerVault ML6000, one of a new breed of modular, scalable tape library that is also easier on your budget. Plus, the week in storage news with moves from IBM, Hitachi, Samsung and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on May 23, 2006 07:03 AM
May 18, 2006 | Comments: (0)
This time we analyze the post-Veritas acquisition Symantec's intentions to move beyond storage. In short, the message at its Vision 2006 show: 'you ain't seen nothin' yet.' LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on May 18, 2006 06:25 AM
May 16, 2006 | Comments: (0)
In this episode we look at IBM's forthcoming Viper database and why, despite the innovations it brings, Microsoft and Oracle are killing DB2 LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on May 16, 2006 06:23 AM
May 11, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Storage vendors rewrite the rules: Dell, EMC, IBM and LSI Logic unwrap a whole host of new wares -- and that means better bargains for IT shops LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on May 11, 2006 05:44 AM
May 09, 2006 | Comments: (0)
How virtualization can help keep disaster recovery costs under control. Plus, Sun, EMC and NetApp ratchet up NAS LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on May 9, 2006 06:28 AM
May 04, 2006 | Comments: (0)
A new Sun set to rise on storage: With Jonathan Schwartz now at the helm, Sun details its new storage horizon LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on May 4, 2006 05:43 AM
May 02, 2006 | Comments: (0)
From the InfoWorld Test Center, we prop open the hood of Workshare Protect 4.5 for eliminating data leaks. Plus, the week in storage news LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on May 2, 2006 10:12 AM
April 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)
HP unwraps a whole host of ILM-centric products, and startup Scentric looks to make the intelligence layer smarter LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 28, 2006 08:28 AM
April 26, 2006 | Comments: (0)
EMC unleashes a raft of new products at its conference, while HP adds archiving, data protection tools, and NetCustomers enables migration to Ingres LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 26, 2006 09:59 AM
April 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Get ready for the virtualized enterprise: A handful of vendors are offering products that further virtual I/O infrastructure LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 20, 2006 06:14 AM
April 18, 2006 | Comments: (0)
From the Test Center: We look at Iomega's REV Loader 280, a fit for some, but not all, SMBs. Plus, the week in storage news LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 18, 2006 10:26 AM
April 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
The last word on SNW Spring: When the old guard meets the up-and-comers, users benefit with new business analytics, large capacities slipped into a small footprint, and never before realized ease-of-deployment LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 13, 2006 05:25 AM
April 11, 2006 | Comments: (0)
The database backup wars are alive and kickin' -- we look at why you should care, and offer advice that might come in handy prior to purchasing. Plus, the week in storage news with moves from Intel, Toshiba, Exabyte, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 11, 2006 11:24 AM
April 06, 2006 | Comments: (0)
We examine data protection, specifically guarding against information leaks and unauthorized access. And the week in storage news LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 6, 2006 09:08 AM
April 04, 2006 | Comments: (0)
A first taste of Storage Networking World Spring: new products bring serial attached SCSI, iSCSI, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, continuous data protection, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 4, 2006 06:16 AM
March 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Expanding beyond the storage fabric: Don't make the mistake of calling Brocade and McData 'switch vendors' any longer LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on March 30, 2006 07:45 AM
March 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)
How to know when it's time to leave those NAS boxes behind. In storage news this week: offshoring takes the blame for a data leak, Fujitsu details a 200GB drive for notebooks, and Kashya updates its data recovery platform LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on March 28, 2006 06:30 AM
March 24, 2006 | Comments: (0)
InfoWorld Storage Sprawl Podcast
Optical and tape drives duel for archiving dominance: A handful of vendors may be pushing alternative archiving technologies, but disk drives are getting high praise from the low-end market LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on March 24, 2006 05:32 AM
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