Storage capacity keeps growing , but unstructured data grows at least as fast . IT organizations have tried to contain costs, but tiered storage has not worked out that well . Although there are technical limits to the effectiveness of tiered storage, the biggest challenge is a business one: Disk drives...

In his latest blog post, Michael Hay of Hitachi Data Systems points out that expensive tiers of storage ought to be reserved for business data that generates positive cash flow . By extension, he suggests, non cash-generating applications should be restricted to lower tiers of storage. The logic here...

Much discussion in the cloud computing world has focused on a simple question: Is a private cloud infrastructure worthy of the name? It's been posed in many ways, with some going so far as claiming that there is no such thing as a private cloud. Although discussions like these are all too common...

We hear it every day: Do more with less. But what does that really mean? Can we move forward and expand our capabilities without investment? How much will our resources be cut back? Whether we are talking about what we have or what we do, "do more with less" sends a clear message: The status...