Back in the old days when data center performance was largely a factor of the type and quantity of hardware available, resource management was a fairly straightforward matter. Not to say it was easy, but improvements to server, storage or networking, as

Surging revenue from storage, security and virtualization brought record financial results at EMC in the fourth quarter, the company reported Tuesday.

Don't just implement storage and leave it alone. It's critical to monitor storage performance with tools such as Iometer. Compare resource metrics and run storage reporting tests.

Storage management is tricky, especially in a virtual infrastructure. You can reap virtualization cost savings with thin provisioning, a reduced port count and deduplication.

The cloud-based service addresses some of the biggest problems in health IT: data archiving, migration, and sharing medical images across providers, systems, and locations.

Brocade's installed base of Fibre Channel SANs is both an asset and an albatross.

Compellent today announced the next generation of its storage area network, which adds support for non-disruptive movement of data volumes between arrays as well as a new controller that offers Fibre Channel over Ethernet and iSCSI transport protocols.

We've been staring a simple truth in the face for a few years but generally trying to ignore it because the implications are big.  That truth: If we are to get the most out of highly virtualized, cloud-ready environments we are probably going to have to rethink the way parts of IT are organized.

NetApp's new FlexPod architecture was designed with Cisco and VMware, the two companies that also work with EMC in developing the Vblock infrastructure.

One of the great challenges in the Cloud Computing world is to create portable metadata, so that specific files, and not just bits and bytes, can be easily transported among storage subsystems throughout a Cloud environment that might span several countries. This is a tougher technical challenge than, say, juggling two oranges. In fact, the EU thinks it's at least a $20 million challenge, so has funded roughly that amount to IBM and several European companies to research it.