IBM this week showed off the result of more than three years of development when it unveiled its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller at its lab in Hursley Park, England. Previously known as "Lodestone, ...

Midrange storage has evolved into the most important segment within the storage market as the industry has shifted its focus from monolithic high-end arrays to midrange devices in response to ...

A new type of storage "device" is emerging. It's a storage subsystem, totally defined by and delivered in software. John, a senior partner at Evaluator Group, has 30 years of experience in enterprise ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...