There's a helluva lot going on in the storage world these days. Part of it can be attributed to the natural evolution of the tech market. (Journal Article - May 1, 2008)

Dedupe and virtualization don't solve the real problem. (Journal Article - July 1, 2008)

Remote replication on virtual machines adds up to a disaster recovery plan that can really work. (Journal Article - April 1, 2008)

It seems like everyone is talking about thin provisioning. It's no miracle cure, but the technology can do wonders. (Journal Article - April 1, 2008)

I/O obstacles could throw a monkey wrench into virtual server environments, but there are alternatives to traditional methods. (Journal Article - March 1, 2008)

2008 will be an exciting, competitive and sometimes confusing time to be a storage professional. It won't be enough to be a great storage tech. (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

Data protection is changing rapidly: Point-in-time recoveries, faster legal discovery response times and near real-time disaster recoveries are becoming new requirements for corporate data protection. (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

By the time this article is published, most of you will have returned to work after a holiday break and settled down for the year ahead. Considering this is my first 2008 column, I decided to write about some areas that will take center stage this year. (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

As deployments of virtualized servers proliferate in enterprise IT environments, there are growing concerns associated with creating, managing and protecting these newly created virtual machines (VMs). (Journal Article - February 1, 2008)

There are numerous ways to embed virtualization into your storage infrastructure. Here are the pros and cons of the various approaches. (Journal Article - January 1, 2008)

Backing up and recovering data from virtual machines is easier said than done. (Journal Article - December 1, 2007)

You can achieve considerable cost savings if different tiers of storage are parceled out to business units on a pay-for-use basis. (Journal Article - December 1, 2007)

Virtualization can be a tricky technology for storage managers who need to apply traditional methods while navigating new obstacles. (Journal Article - December 1, 2007)

Anyone who doubts the power and impact of virtualization isn't seeing the whole picture. (Journal Article - November 1, 2007)

Successful data migration projects require as much planning as doing. Use this checklist to make sure you have all the bases covered. (Journal Article - November 1, 2007)

The fall 2007 edition of Storage magazine's exclusive Purchasing Intentions survey reveals some subtle changes in storage managers' buying plans as new technologies gain greater consideration. (Journal Article - October 1, 2007)

When a prominent storage vendor built a 1,000 node storage test grid, it learned plenty of lessons, and a lot of what it learned can be applied to architecting enterprise storage systems. (Journal Article - October 1, 2007)

With virtual servers taking over the data center, planned storage systems must reap the benefits of virtualization. (Journal Article - September 1, 2007)

There's a green movement marching through the data center and the focus is shifting to storage. (Journal Article - September 1, 2007)

VMware might be the best thing that's happened to networked storage since, well, networked storage. (Journal Article - August 1, 2007)

Most of the emails and phone calls I get from vendors and PR people feature overblown phrases like "industry-leading," and are peppered with the typical tech litany of something being the first, fastest, biggest and so on. (Journal Article - March 1, 2007)

As file servers multiply, they become more difficult to manage. File virtualization appliances make it much easier to migrate files and recapture stranded storage capacity. (Journal Article - March 1, 2007)

Clustering techniques increase the availability of mission-critical ERP apps, but they're sometimes complex to set up and manage. (Journal Article - February 1, 2007)

Vendors need to deep-six their marketing hype about virtualization and concentrate on the problems it can solve. (Journal Article - January 1, 2007)

EMC and Hitachi use very different architectures for their top-of-the-line arrays. Here's how they measure up. (Journal Article - January 1, 2007)