The modern SAN (Storage Area Network) manufacturer is contending in a brutally competitive world. Every manufacturer has a list of bells and whistles. This checkbox of feature haves and feature have-nots is the starting point for any comparison shoppers’ entry into the research, recommendation and purchase process. This, of course, is nothing new and is accompanied by the usual tactics which (unfortunately) include FUDD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, and Disinformation) as well as features that are otherwise useless and looking for a market.
Nearly all manufacturers to-date have adopted the new “standard” …

If you haven’t already, right now is the time to virtualize your storage environment. If you’re still unsure aboutthe value of storage virtualization, consider the following advantages:

Better Storage Utilization - With a virtual storage environment, you can get much better performance out of your disk sub systems by combining all those spindles that were previously dedicated to each server. Second, when you have all those resources combined, you can better allocate your capacity across your environment in addition to benefiting from technologies like dynamic capacity expansion and thin provisioning.
Easier to …

Most people in the storage industry have known Overland Storage for years as a manufacturer of some of the best tape loaders and libraries in the industry. Overland was also one of the first companies to make an affordable disk to disk backup device called the Reo, which quickly became an industry success. What you may not know is that with the acquisition of Snap Appliance, Overland has entered the NAS and iSCSI storage market place. With Overland’s excellent engineering and support teams this is sure to …