Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

When is a server not a server? When it’s a Storage Server. Ask people what a storage server is, and you can expect to hear a variety of answers. Some will say it is a regular server with added ...

A network server that is dedicated to storage. A network attached storage (NAS) device is a true storage server because it is dedicated to data access and nothing else. However, a file server, ...

Dell Monday unveiled server and storage technologies that, combined with its networking hardware and new data protection software, could make it a solid challenger to Hewlett-Packard and Cisco in the ...

Microsoft delivered a completely new way of looking at our disks and storage in Windows Server 2012, with the biggest change in how storage is laid out and provisioned. Here's how to create and manage ...

Microsoft this week summarized the top Storage Spaces Direct improvements that will be coming to Windows Server 2019. Storage Spaces Direct is a way of pooling disk storage, but it isn't new. It's ...

A more resilient Storage Spaces in the forthcoming Windows Server 2016 gives software-defined storage a major boost, promising to usher in more intelligent converged infrastructure. Software versus ...

Lenovo and IBM on Thursday said they finally came to a deal under which Lenovo will acquire part of IBM's server business for about $2.3 billion in cash and Lenovo shares. The headlines, and much of ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...

I've seen many small to large corporations embrace decentralized storage policies to let the employees deal with their own Exchange Server storage in the form of PST files which is usually caused by ...

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There is a very interesting technical side to IT infrastructure, which we are obviously very keen on exploring here at The Next Platform. But there is an economic side that we also watch like a hawk.