Stories by Beth Schultz

Cloud storage a steep climb

It's been nearly five years to the day since Amazon introduced its groundbreaking Simple Storage Service -- or S3, as it's more commonly known. But despite that offering's track record, many enterprise IT executives still struggle with the notion of using cloud-based storage services to hold their corporate data.

Seven issues IT staff should know about storage

Thanks to virtualisation and a host of other technologies, storage has left its silo. Its performance affects the whole computing organisation. Fortunately, new technologies that cross the boundaries of storage, management and compliance are smoothing over performance issues and easing the pain (and expense).