Drew Robb

In a traditional storage management environment, an IT administrator gets involved in many manual actions: setting up storage LUNs, virtual arrays, RAID

Server blades certainly aren't what they used to be. For the past couple of years, they tended to be thin and lean, but there now appears to be a trend

It's been more than a year since IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) unveiled an extensive line of AMD-Opteron-based products for its System x and BladeCenter lines.

When we look back at 2007, it is doubtful the year will be viewed as a marquee one for hardware. Sure, quad-core came into its own. But not much more can

As blades become increasingly commonplace in the enterprise, vendors are refining their offerings to ensure their blades are a cut above the competition.

Dubbed 'Shorty,' there's nothing small about the BladeSystem c3000 enclosure -- aside from its footprint.In the 1995 movie "Get Shorty," John Travolta

Big Blue is bringing scale up to a scale out world.Aimed at the higher end of the x86 market, IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) now offers several high-performance

For fast access to huge volumes of data, Big Blue's high-performance Fibre Channel array is hard to beat. The IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo series

The timing of this server snapshot is somewhat unfortunate, as the year-end server numbers will not be out for yet another week or two. Based on third

Virtualization technology is finding its way into most organizations these days. According to IDC, Virtual machine (VM) deployments are expected to grow

Companies like AAA and its Canadian equivalent, CAA, have been bringing roadside assistance to vehicle owners for years. They, in turn, look to Campana

The 4-socket segment is a cash cow for the x86 space. With the PowerEdge R900, Dell is entering territory formerly the domain of the higher-end OEMS. How