iSCSI-based storage arrays have not captured a substantial percentage of the storage market, but there are a number of compelling products out there. A healthy level of competition in this space, ...

Although backups are essential for casual users, their utility jumps to the next level in home labs filled with VM-based ...

M anaging a home lab can get expensive – and I’m not just talking about the upfront costs of buying the underlying hardware.

What if you could transform a corner of your home into a high-tech hub for experimentation, learning, and innovation? Imagine a compact setup where you can manage your own network, experiment with ...

I'm re-building my home lab storage machine at the moment and one thing I've never tinkered with before is Fibre Channel and FCoE so I thought it might be worth looking into to see if I can get some ...

While storage array snapshots offer quick, hardware-level data protection, they are not a standalone substitute for traditional backups due to limitations in protection, management and retention ...

Xiotech Corp. announced on Friday that it will soon be shipping three new products including new storage analysis software and an updated version of its storage array with up to 1.8 petabytes of ...

Smaller organizations typically have lower overall storage requirements and fewer users, so the demand for capacity and performance are not so acute. Instead, the midsized storage enterprise favors ...

Nearly all enterprise and mid-range storage arrays come with snapshots. But that’s not the only place you can manage them from. Backup software also comes with snapshot functionality, and in fact some ...