ILM: RIP

It’s official: ILM (Information Lifecycle Management), the three year old storage industry marketing thrust, is in critical condition. The good people over at the StorageNetworking.org have politely raised the red flag on ILM in three reports (see Information...

Coolest New Box: Sun Fire X4500

Sun may be getting their game on if the X4500 is any evidence. Packing 24 TB of storage and 2 dual-core 64bit Opterons into a 4U box, it is the first system anywhere to leverage the very cool ZFS. ZFS: Google File System For The Rest Of Us Google’s GFS...

Social Storage

Want to see the real time evolution of online storage into a packaged application? Check out a couple of new online photo sites. The latest twist: enabling users to build picture-based timelines (OurStory) or digital picture collages (Tabblo). Will either hit it big?...