Ethernet SAN: At the Intersection of Enterprise Storage and Cloud Scale

by Kevin Brown

Business demand for technology continually increases, but businesses have no tolerance for waste. This forces IT into a survival-of-the-fittest mode, ridding the data center of underperforming products -...

What You Should Know About Securing Your Public Cloud — But Didn't Know to Ask

by Rand Wacker

While the cloud makes it far easier to procure and deploy computing resources, it also mandates a new set of security requirements that differ from systems running in an organization’s traditional priv...

Virtually Invisible: Meeting Lawful Intercept Challenges in Virtual Environments, Part Two

by Ran Nahmias

This article is the second in a two-part series introducing the virtual Tap and exploring how it can cost-efficiently meet many of the needs of Lawful Interception. The first part addressed the challenges ...

The PCIe Advantage in Storage Systems

by Osman Javed

With the increasing demand for data from a wide variety of storage devices in an enterprise-class storage system, it has become necessary to use point-to-point data transfer protocols such as PCI Express ...

Virtually Invisible: Meeting Lawful Intercept Challenges in Virtual Environments, Part One

by Ran Nahmias

This article is the first in a two-part series addressing the challenges associated with Lawful Interception (LI) and compliance inherent to virtualization within converged network environments. The second ...

The Power of Information Availability: Safeguarding Healthcare Data

by Robert Gast

As the healthcare industry embraces health information technology (HIT), with electronic health records (EHR) at its core, new concerns arise. Eliminating points of failure, which can result in data loss ...

Harnessing Unstructured Data Requires New Thinking, New Solutions

by Seiji Shintaku

Imagine that you own a storage rental building and you hire someone to manage the building for you. The manager begins by creating a spreadsheet listing all the tenants in the building. Several months...

How to Talk Cloud and Influence Your CEO

by Jason Cowie

You know private cloud deployment is a strategic must-have for your company in 2012. But does your CEO know it? One of the key challenges facing Chief Information Officers this year will be communic...

Green Data Center: Myth vs. Reality

by Dan Fry

This article is the second in a three-part series exploring current myths in the data center. Part one explored DCIM myths. Part three will explore the myths surrounding convergence in the data center.

NAC, 'BYOD' and Security Automation: An Interview with Gord Boyce of ForeScout Technologies

by Priscilla Tate

Editor's Note: Priscilla Tate, the director of Technology Managers Forum, interviews Gord Boyce, CEO of ForeScout Technologies about the security challenges of IT Consumerism, the Network Access Cont...

A Virtual Coup: Exploring NexGen's Shared Storage Solutions

by Kim Borg

In today’s data intensive environments, with their myriad business critical applications, it’s become all but a mandate for organizations to expand their virtualization capabilities in an effort to drive...

Moving the Enterprise Forward With 12Gb/s SAS, Part Two

by Harry Mason

This article is the second in a two-part series exploring the future of Serial Attached SCSI. Read the first part here .

As we move forward with SAS technology, and with the advent of low latency storage dev...