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• Flexible Computational Storage Solutions

  Learn how you can simplify and provide hardware and software flexibility in computational storage architectures, the breadth of software options to unlock the benefits of computational storage and more. Continue Reading

• Keys to Making Computational Storage Work in Your Applications

  Computational storage applications require careful analysis, and the trade-offs will generally be increased cost vs. increased performance. Learn about real-world deployments from different companies in the market. Continue Reading

• Scaling of New Memory Technologies Used for Persistent Memory

  New memory technologies are gaining wide interest as persistent memory in storage systems. Here, you will find a review of different memory in the market and their characteristics, scaling challenges and more. Continue Reading

• What Do Users Need to Know About Next-Generation Form Factors?

  Learn about challenges organizations face in terms of storage performance and meeting application needs while juggling other responsibilities, including managing budgets and rack space. Continue Reading

• Annual Update on Computational Storage

  Computational storage allows data to reside close to processing power, thus allowing processing tasks to be in-line with data accesses. Stay on top of the IT architecture by reviewing this update. Continue Reading

• Best Storage Strategies for AI and ML

  Learn about what has changed with artificial intelligence (AI) from a storage perspective and AI trends to know, including some insights on the motivation behind computational storage and training.Continue Reading

• Annual Flash Update -- The Pandemic's Impact

  Will COVID-19 lead to a flash market collapse? Will 3D XPoint memory undermine SSDs? Will SSDs finally displace the HDD? Find out how the market is faring today and its outlook.Continue Reading

• Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions From Day Three

  In this FMS on-demand content library, delve into storage trends and updates -- from computational storage to artificial intelligence and machine learning and more.Continue Reading

• Will QLC Flash Replace Hard Drives?

  Will QLC flash replace hard drives everywhere? Are its capacities high enough and its cost low enough to make hard drives obsolete? This panel discussion explores key questions around QLC flash.Continue Reading

• Accelerating Flash for a Competitive Edge in the Cloud and Beyond

  Explore what changes to NAND SSD data placement and management mean for real-life apps focusing on the most popular NoSQL databases which are largely used in the cloud, the different configurations, and more.Continue Reading

• The Role of Flash in Enterprise Data Protection

  IDC research director Phil Goodwin delves into how customers are using flash to meet evolving data protection requirements, the business benefits this brings to the table and more.Continue Reading

• Top Five Ways Ethernet SSDs Can Improve Storage Solutions

  Ethernet-attached SSDs offer a simple way to boost storage performance and decrease cost. This panel discussion explores ways to connect SSDs to a network.Continue Reading

• Using the New EDSFF (E3) SSDs Effectively

  The new EDSFF form factors allow higher system density and more effective forms for high-performance racks. Here is an overview of the specifications and status of EDSFF E3.x and insights on effective use.Continue Reading

• Where the New High-Speed Interfaces Fit and How They Work Together

  This panel discussion explores the new CXL and Gen-Z interfaces that allow for the ultra-high-speed connection of all kinds of new technologies, including accelerators, coprocessors, memories and other devices.Continue Reading

• Solid-State Storage Developments

  IDC's Jeff Janukowicz explores solid-state storage. Dive into recent SSD developments, how SSDs will continue to reshape the enterprise landscape and five things you should know about enterprise solid-state storage.Continue Reading

• Speed Dating With PM Application Developers

  Here are three use cases highlighting the motivation for using persistent memory and the delivered results. Learn about how a memory startup, a social networking company and a cloud and enterprise software provider all use persistent memory.Continue Reading

• Storage Processors Accelerate Database Operations

  Storage processors with industry-standard SSDs can add value for many data-intensive applications. Here is a look at how you can use storage processors to speed up data workload.Continue Reading

• Technical and Market Directions for Persistent Memory

  Learn how persistent memory is evolving, how it is maximizing performance in next generation applications, and explore market growth projections.Continue Reading

• Relevant New Storage Technologies for Digitally Transforming Enterprises

  Eric Burgener, research VP in the infrastructure systems group at IDC, explores digital transformation trends from the storage perspective and new storage technologies involved in today's digital transformation movement.Continue Reading

• Software and Services Define Future Infrastructure Consumption

  Here is a look at public cloud growth, some of the trends behind the increasing demand for storage performance from public cloud, use cases, what that means for partners in this ecosystem and more.Continue Reading

• NVMe at Scale: A Radical New Approach to Improve Performance and Utilization

  Here is your introduction on how apps can transform by making the right infrastructure choices that enable NVMe to scale, with minimum limitations, HPC and next-gen HCI use cases and more.Continue Reading

• Optimizing SSD Performance With AI and Real-World Workloads

  Here is a real-world use of AI methods on advanced XL-flash SSDs in which a recurrent neural network serves as the underlying model and produces substantial performance improvements.Continue Reading

• IDC Real-World Applications and Solutions for Persistent Memory

  Progress in using persistent memory has been quite slow because of the lack of standards, suitable interfaces and systems software. Here is a look at persistent memory in the real world.Continue Reading

• Introduction to Enterprise/Cloud Storage

  Looking for a recap of the flash market over the years? You will find it here as well as some insights on the impact of newer technologies -- such as NVMe over Fabrics -- on system architectures.Continue Reading

• Gen-Z: An Ultra-High-Speed Interface for System-to-System Communication

  Kurtis Bowman, president of the Gen-Z Consortium, provides an overview of the Gen-Z fabric, including bandwidth, security and more.Continue Reading

• How Can We Solve the Problems Holding Up Persistent Memory Adoption?

  Many reasons have stopped persistent memory from gaining wider usage. Here is a look at some of the key issues and how you can solve them.Continue Reading

• How Zoned Namespaces Improve SSD Lifetime, Throughput and Latency

  You will find an introduction to the NVMe ZNS Command Set. Learn about the benefits (lifetime, throughput, and latency) of ZNS SSDs using real-world workloads and comparing it to typical SSDs.Continue Reading

• IDC Closing Remarks

  Here, you will find final commentary from IDC's Eric Burgener about solid-state technologies and how you might consider using those in your own data center and as you build your infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Flash in the Era of Digital Infrastructure: What CIOs Need to Know

  Explore the changing nature of applications and workloads, the shift from hyper-converged to composable and disaggregated infrastructure, edge computing and more.Continue Reading

• CXL: A Basic Tutorial

  Here is a brief introduction to Compute Express Link (CXL). This is a new high-speed CPU interconnect that enables a high-speed, efficient performance between the CPU and platform enhancements and workload accelerators.Continue Reading

• Evolution of SSD Storage in Public Cloud

  IDC analyst Andrew Smith explores flash-based services in the cloud. Review key offerings and how cloud providers are delivering services to the market and using flash and SSD to bring about those services.Continue Reading

• Virtual FMS Show Awards

  The 13th annual Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Awards winners were presented by Flash Memory Summit's emcee Jay Kramer and TechTarget Group Publisher Jillian Coffin. Get to know the 2020 winners.Continue Reading

• Annual Update on Persistent Memory

  Explore some of the new developments happening within the persistent memory market, the best fit applications, use cases for persistent memory and more.Continue Reading

• Cloud Workloads Driving Flash Adoption

  Learn which workloads are impacting flash adoption and why, current trends, workload-related attributes to know about, what IDC means by cloud infrastructure and more.Continue Reading

• Optimizing NVMe-oF Storage With EBOFs & Open Source Software

  Data-driven apps run faster on multi-server systems when the available flash storage is networked to maximize usage, but one problem is how to network standard NVMe drives at fair costs while achieving high performance. NVMe over Fabrics can help.Continue Reading

• Software-Enabled Flash for Hyperscale Data Centers

  Software-enabled flash is a technology that redefines digital storage in a new way. Here you will find an introduction to software-enabled flash and its key capabilities.Continue Reading

• SuperWomen in Flash Leadership Award

  The SuperWomen in Flash Leadership Award honors women who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the flash memory technology ecosystem. Here is a look at the 2020 winners.Continue Reading

• The New Face of High-Speed Interfaces

  CXL is a CPU-to-device interconnect protocol that targets high-performance workloads. Here, you will find an introduction to the CXL specification. Explore the latest developments, use cases and more.Continue Reading

• Making NVMe Drives Handle Everything from Archiving to QoS

  Learn how the existing ZNS architecture for NVMe drives can be suited for better host data placement and scheduling than traditional block I/O and tradeoffs. Javier Gonzalez also briefly touches on the Zone Random Write Area concept.Continue Reading

• Monitoring the Health of NVMe SSDs

  Many capabilities have been built into NVMe technology, including enhancing error reporting, logging, management, debug, and telemetry. Here are insights on how you can manage the status and health of NVMe SSDs (like notifying users when an SSD ...Continue Reading

• Optimizing NVMe Drives for Your Applications

  Ensure higher endurance and performance of your NVMe drives by incorporating Software Log Structured Array, which through efficient garbage collection and remediation reduces write amplification.Continue Reading

• Evolution of Ethernet-Attached NVMe-oF Devices and Platforms

  As NVMe-oF ecosystem continues to mature, storage systems now have design choices for the type of external and internal fabrics to use, as well as the various attach points. Learn about Ethernet-attached storage, specifically NVMe over Fabrics ...Continue Reading

• Benefits of Native NVMe-oF SSDs

  Deploying NVMe-oF natively at the SSD level is an approach that can yield greater scalability, performance, reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) while also helping to contain compute and memory investment costs.Continue Reading

• Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions from Day Two

  TechTarget is hosting the Flash Memory Summit 2020 on-demand content library. Here, you can review presentations from day two of the conference and look at the Best of Show and SuperWomen in Flash Leadership award winners.Continue Reading

• Compare entry-level SAN arrays for the SMB market

  Performance, capacity and data protection features are a few of the many factors SMB organizations should consider in their comparisons of entry-level SANs.Continue Reading

• The best enterprise storage systems and products of 2020

  Nearly 100 products and services competed for top honors in the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage annual Products of the Year awards. Find out which won gold, silver and bronze.Continue Reading

• The best enterprise storage arrays of 2020

  Vast Data, Dell EMC and Infinidat show that flash storage rules the data center in the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage Products of the Year 2020 disk and disk subsystems category.Continue Reading

• The best enterprise cloud storage of 2020

  Winners address cloud NAS, hosted cloud and cloud-native application management, highlighting the technology's growing importance in an evolving IT world.Continue Reading

• The top data storage and management tools of 2020

  These storage system and application software category winners all deal with the cloud, as organizations modernize their infrastructure and leave their data centers behind.Continue Reading

• Pay-per-use pricing model can boost digital initiatives

  Consumption IT shifts the burden of infrastructure support to vendors and expenditures from Capex to Opex. Can pay-per-use pricing keep pace with your digital business roadmap?Continue Reading

• Track these 4 emerging storage technologies in 2021

  As they seek to increase the efficiency and performance of data storage systems in 2021, administrators should keep these four emerging technologies in mind.Continue Reading

• 3D XPoint Optane Memory Markets: Bits, Revenue, Costs

  Here you will find a review of some 3D XPoint Optane products, technology, competition, costs, a detailed update on wafer capacity, bit growth and more.Continue Reading

• Big Memory for 3D Animation and Visual Effects

  Learn about the big memory impact on animation.Continue Reading

• The State of NVMe Interoperability

  Here is an outline of the latest NVMe technologies and new standardization initiatives. You will learn about some resources currently available to help enable interop, and more.Continue Reading

• Hyperscale Storage in 2025 and How We Got There

  Hyperscale storage in 2025 is likely to take up an ever-increasing percentage of the overall storage market. Here is a look at where the market is heading and how we got here.Continue Reading

• Using 3D XPoint Persistent Memory Effectively

  There is a lot of excitement around 3D XPoint, but there are some hidden potholes that can interrupt the most promising efforts. Designing around these potholes is a must.Continue Reading

• NVMe in Cloud Applications

  Large installations such as Facebook, Mellanox, Western Digital, and Microsoft choose NVMe technology for their cloud storage. Learn about NVMe technology at scale, deploying NVMe flash on Facebook, and much more.Continue Reading

• NVMe Technology in the Real World

  Explore some real-world capabilities of NVMe 1.4 and NVMe-oF 1.1, learn from HPE on how NVMe over Fabrics is evolving to redefine next generation SAN, and more.Continue Reading

• Annual Update on New Memory Technologies

  Review attributes of various new memory technologies, emerged technologies and what should be the focus for the data center.Continue Reading

• Big Memory Software

  Take a look at software-defined memory, combining persistent memory and DRAM.Continue Reading

• How Storage Professionals Should Respond to COVID-19

  TechTarget presents 2020 research on the impact of COVID-19 on storage spending and provides guidelines for coping with rapid change and massive unpredictability.Continue Reading

• Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Enterprise Storage Today

  What do vendors and end users alike need to know about flash memory today? Dive into what industry experts have noticed about the technology this past year and ten key things that you should know now about flash.Continue Reading

• TechTarget Storage Media: What Sets Us Apart

  Jillian Coffin, VP of Market & Digital Strategy at TechTarget, provides an overview of our online global storage communities, our content and audience data around evolving buying dynamics.Continue Reading

• Handling Slow Disks in Heterogeneous SSD Deployments

  You'll learn about differences between some disk performance specifics and how these performance variations can be managed.Continue Reading

• RRAM: Now Used in IoT, AI and Data Center Storage

  This is an update on resistive RAM memory. Learn about features, advantages, latest developments, and the operation and construction of resistive RAM memory devices.Continue Reading

• Accelerating Performance With NVMe-oF

  Can you accelerate your performance with NVMe-oF? George Crump, former storage industry analyst, and CMO at StorOne, explores the pros and cons of NVMe-oF to help you determine if your data center is ready for it.Continue Reading

• MRAM: Latest High-Performance Applications

  This is a discussion around MRAM and how the technology can benefit your organization.Continue Reading

• What Will Replace Flash and When?

  Will flash memory keep improving into the next decade? IT leaders provide perspective on the great non-volatile beyond as well as an analysis on technology trends, product roadmaps, and more.Continue Reading

• NVMe Market Research

  NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics is an emerging market. What progress has been made over the last five years and where is the market heading? This analysis helps answer these questions.Continue Reading

• Annual Update on Enterprise Storage

  This presentation takes a look at the latest developments in enterprise storage.Continue Reading

• Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions From Day One

  Check out what happened during the first day of the Flash Memory Summit virtual conference. From storage technology trends and challenges to what IT pros should expect to see happen in the industry in years to come.Continue Reading

• Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Big Memory Management Today

  As persistent memory becomes a more common form of system storage, big memory management will continue to grow to be a very popular topic. But how are implementations going? What are some key issues that have become apparent? Here are ten things you...Continue Reading

• Managing Data Growth in the Zettabyte Era

  Terabytes have given way to petabytes and now to zettabytes. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT and analytics are all affecting the massive growth of data.Continue Reading

• 3D XPoint in 2025 and How We Got There

  3D XPoint has become known as a flash competitor that has actual products, use cases and support. Analysts expect markets for 3D XPoint to rise steadily. Here is a look at the market.Continue Reading

• Bringing NVMe/TCP Up to Speed

  Stay up to date on the recent enhancements made to improve NVMe/TCP performance.Continue Reading

• Storage Environments With NVMe-oF Technology

  Chuck Piercey, director of product management at Kioxia America, explores how the NVMe-oF protocol enables a new deployment of storage called "desegregation," which enhances Kubernetes deployment.Continue Reading

• Challenges in Hyperscale: What Hyperscalers Care About

  Here are some insights around potential problems with deploying in hyperscale and what hyperscalers find valuable.Continue Reading

• Implementing Big, Fast Persistent Memory

  Persistent memory software architect Steve Scargall explains how it is possible to bridge the gaps between memory and storage.Continue Reading

• Introduction to Big Memory

  Discover why there are always tiers of memory and storage when it comes to big data and big memory, gaps that can cause performance issues, how a memory hypervisor can help alleviate these problems and more.Continue Reading

• Using Persistent Memory to Accelerate Tweet Search

  As an option to improve per-node throughput, Twitter sought to test the storage of tweet data in persistent memory instead of SSDs. Discover how they integrated the technology and results they saw.Continue Reading

• An Introduction to the Storage Networking Industry Association

  Here, you will find a brief overview of what the organization is, how they are serving the storage community and an update on what they have been up to in the last year.Continue Reading

• Preview of NVMe 2.0: Impacts for the Data Center

  NVMe has rapidly evolved from a disruptive technology to a core element in storage architectures. Review where NVMe was last year and preview the 2.0 specification release.Continue Reading

• SSD Reliability and Debug at Scale

  IT pros at Facebook discuss flash reliability at scale in the Facebook infrastructure and how they are solving the problems they have run into.Continue Reading

• 3D XPoint vs. NAND flash: Why there's room for both

  While there are key differences between 3D XPoint and NAND flash -- in terms of performance, cost and uses -- the two technologies will likely coexist for years.Continue Reading

• Compare 3 file and object storage products

  Looking for a product that supports both object and file storage? Explore the varying features of Dell EMC, NetApp and Pure Storage systems.Continue Reading

• Calculate HPC storage costs based on these 8 factors

  IT teams that want an accurate estimate of HPC storage costs must account not only for the technology itself, but for staffing, support and ongoing operational expenses.Continue Reading

• Enterprise data storage 2020 Products of the Year finalists

  The field of entrants in our 19th annual Products of the Year contest has been reduced to 47 contenders vying for gold, silver and bronze status in five data storage categories.Continue Reading

• Object storage systems: Benefits, alternatives and use cases

  Along with proving itself a reliable option, object storage has stood the test of time. It can tackle unstructured data and the cloud, and it's overcoming performance challenges.Continue Reading

• What the 4 PMem App Direct Modes mean for your organization

  Do you know the difference between the four Intel Optane persistent memory App Direct Mode types? Find out how you can use each of them most effectively.Continue Reading

• 7 ways data storage management in 2020 has changed

  2020 has been a year of storage management change, from the rush to the cloud to VDIs for all to more automation. Learn about the trends and post-pandemic expectations.Continue Reading

• Breakthroughs Enabling Enterprise QLC SSDs

  This keynote presentation focuses on innovations that allow all-flash arrays with QLC to have the same endurance and performance as TLC-based arrays.Continue Reading

• The Evolution of Data Centers in the Data-Centric Era

  Data processing units (DPUs) can break through storage roadblocks. Hear more from Pradeep Sindhu, CEO and co-founder of Fungible.Continue Reading

• Using Hardware Acceleration to Increase NVMe Storage Performance

  Learn how Marvell is seeing the industry leverage hardware acceleration to bolster NVMe application performance from their VP of marketing of their flash business unit.Continue Reading

• Today's Trends in Cloud and the Future Enterprise

  IDC's Matt Eastwood takes a look at digital transformation and the impact it is having on infrastructure and the foundational importance infrastructure has to the business.Continue Reading

• Intel Optane Persistent Memory: From Vision to Reality

  Here is a look at Intel's new memory technology that creates a new tier in the memory and storage hierarchy. See some examples of how the technology is used.Continue Reading

• NVMe Technology: Powering the Connected Universe

  President of NVM Express Amber Huffman talks about fixing the memory and storage hierarchy with NVMe at the center, refactoring for the next decade of growth within NVMe, and more.Continue Reading

• Accelerating Deep Neural Networks with Analog Memory Devices

  Using neuromorphic computing based on analog memory devices could provide extremely high performance and greatly improved energy efficiency for inference and training of deep neural networks (DNNs). Here are some insights to know about.Continue Reading

• Storage as the Driver of Change: Rethinking Data Infrastructure

  This keynote presentation from Western Digital's President Siva Sivaram explores the advancements in semiconductors, flash technologies and data architectures.Continue Reading

• DNN Accelerator for the High-Performing Space Computing Program

  Like most applications, space systems are migrating from centralized to distributed processing for more autonomous decision making, lower latency, less dependence on communications systems and lower power. Here is a look at what NASA is doing.Continue Reading

• Storage Processors to Unleash the Full Potential of Flash Storage

  It is time to simplify infrastructure, stop the over-investment in storage and scale more efficiently. Here are insights to help you unleash the full potential of your flash storage investment.Continue Reading