Another major advantage of an HBA is how naturally it scales. Consumer motherboards usually top out at six to eight SATA ...

FOXBORO, Mass. — EMC held its user forum last week at the home of the New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, using the opportunity to expound on its vision for virtualization and the cloud. One ...

Facebook already built its own data center and its own servers. And now the social-networking giant is building its own storage hardware -- hardware for housing all the digital stuff uploaded by its ...

In this storage vendor profile we look at IBM, which has a long history and in IT much more widely than just storage. It’s still a big player in servers, services and research and development (R&D).

Nearly two years ago, Facebook unveiled what it called the Open Compute Project. The idea was to share designs for data center hardware like servers, storage, and racks so that companies could build ...

Hewlett-Packard is following in the footsteps of Facebook and Microsoft in embracing open hardware designs with its new low-cost Cloudline servers. Cloudline servers are no-frills cloud servers that ...

Everyone always wants to know what the “next great thing” will be. As for the hardware storage industry, key technologies from both inside and outside the storage realm are merging to form ...

How many virtual machines can you fit on a host server? That's a frequently-asked question when IT pros consider which hardware options to purchase for their virtual hosts. In this tip, I share things ...

Would you pay $3,600 a year just to store your files? That’s the price Google quoted for 20TB of cloud storage, an eye-watering sum that forces you to question the value of convenience. For many, the ...

The end of the earnings season is always a good time to take a step back and see who shined (and who not so much). Let’s take ...

MENLO PARK, CA—Building 17 of Facebook's headquarters sits on what was once a Sun Microsystems campus known fondly as "Sun Quentin." It now houses a team of Facebook engineers in the company's ...