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Feature 22 Mar 2023
Understand how the CXL SSD can aid performance

Although CXL SSDs are only in the research phase, their performance shows promise. When used as simple memory extensions, they should improve programs that manage large data sets. Continue Reading
Feature 09 Mar 2023
How SSD data reduction can help enterprises

Data reduction techniques have been difficult to achieve on SSDs, but vendors appear to be making progress. The more effective the data reduction, the more affordable SSDs become. Continue Reading

Guest Post 05 Mar 2021

Flash Memory Technologies and Costs Through 2025

You will learn how flash memory technology and design changes are dramatically shifting who the cost leaders are and some of the challenges in the market. Continue Reading
Guest Post 05 Mar 2021

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
Guest Post 05 Mar 2021

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
Guest Post 05 Mar 2021

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
Guest Post 05 Mar 2021

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
Guest Post 05 Mar 2021

Designing Powerful AI Systems with NVMe, PCIe and Logical Volumes

Explore some give-and-take and performance factors to consider when designing storage systems for AI and ML workloads. Technologies covered in this presentation include PCIe switching and fabrics, NVIDIA’s GPUDirect Storage and others. Continue Reading
Guest Post 05 Mar 2021

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
Guest Post 05 Mar 2021

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
Guest Post 05 Mar 2021

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
News 03 Mar 2021

Pure Storage cloud deployments include dedicated bare metal

Pure Storage on Equinix Metal allows customers to build a Pure Storage cloud on dedicated all-flash tenants. Equinix is rolling it out in 18 U.S. and international markets. Continue Reading
News 02 Mar 2021

StorOne builds hybrid flash arrays based on Seagate hardware

StorOne S1 flash management stack is tuned for optimal run on Seagate Exos Application Platform 5U servers. Four configurations are available that mix Seagate disk and SSDs. Continue Reading
Feature 26 Feb 2021

COVID-19 research spurs IHME to 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo storage

Seattle's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation opts for 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo hybrid storage appliances to handle massive data sets generated through COVID-19 research. Continue Reading
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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 failure occurs). Continue Reading
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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 devices and platforms, and what is required for a successful deployment. Continue Reading
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 23 Feb 2021

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
News 16 Feb 2021

Pure Storage nudges all-flash toward hybrid workloads

Pure Storage all-flash revolves around unified fast file and object storage to consolidate local and cloud-based application data on a single high-performance flash platform. Continue Reading
Opinion 14 Feb 2021

These 5 IT buzzwords for 2021 reflect data storage priorities

As a mature IT discipline, the pace of change in storage has slowed, but there is still plenty of buzz about underlying technologies you'll need to know about in 2021. Continue Reading
14 Feb 2021

These 5 IT buzzwords for 2021 reflect data storage priorities

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Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

Big Memory for 3D Animation and Visual Effects

Learn about the big memory impact on animation. Continue Reading
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

MRAM: Latest High-Performance Applications

This is a discussion around MRAM and how the technology can benefit your organization. Continue Reading
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

Bringing NVMe/TCP Up to Speed

Stay up to date on the recent enhancements made to improve NVMe/TCP performance. Continue Reading
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

Big Memory Software

Take a look at software-defined memory, combining persistent memory and DRAM. Continue Reading
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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 should know. Continue Reading
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

Annual Update on Enterprise Storage

This presentation takes a look at the latest developments in enterprise storage. Continue Reading
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
Guest Post 04 Feb 2021

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
News 29 Jan 2021

QLC flash drives are hot '21 trend, pressure HDDs on price

Hot 2021 trends in memory and storage will include the ramp of QLC SSDs in enterprise flash arrays, pressuring HDDs on price, increasing Optane adoption and NVMe over TCP. Continue Reading
Opinion 26 Jan 2021

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
News 25 Jan 2021

Vast Data storage packages Nvidia GPU for AI processing

Vast Data storage reference architecture combines the vendor's Universal Storage all-flash system with Nvidia DGX supercomputers. NFS multipathing over RDMA boosts AI data training. Continue Reading
Feature 19 Jan 2021

New Infinidat CEO discusses storage transition

Ex-Western Digital exec Phil Bullinger replaces founder Moshe Yanai as CEO of storage vendor Infinidat. Bullinger says Infinidat surpassed 6 exabytes under management last year. Continue Reading
News 06 Jan 2021

Enterprise data storage startups to watch in 2021

Launching a data storage startup is always challenging, and the pandemic made it even tougher in 2020. Here are six startups that can change the way enterprises buy storage. Continue Reading
News 31 Dec 2020

30 TB PCIe 4.0 SSDs, 20 TB HDDs push storage limits in 2020

Enterprise storage drives continued to push the limits of performance and capacity in 2020, with fast new PCIe Gen4 SSDs at 30 TB and energy-assisted HDDs at 20 TB. Continue Reading
News 21 Dec 2020

Research lab mixes Excelero NVMesh, SSDs for performance pop

La Jolla Institute turned to Excelero NVMesh to help deal with SSD storage required for COVID-19 research, two 10-foot microscopes generating TBs of data a day, and remote work. Continue Reading
Tip 18 Dec 2020

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
News 17 Dec 2020

Wholesaler rings up Christmas sales with HPE Nimble Storage

National Tree Company remedied sluggish performance with an HPE Nimble Storage dHCI converged all-flash system, boosting order processing and sales in time for the holidays. Continue Reading
News 16 Dec 2020

Intel launches fastest Optane SSD, 144-layer QLC NAND SSDs

New additions to Intel's memory and storage product roadmap include Optane's fastest solid-state drive yet and dense 144-layer QLC NAND SSDs that top out at 30.72 TB. Continue Reading
Guest Post 14 Dec 2020

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
Guest Post 14 Dec 2020

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
Guest Post 14 Dec 2020

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
Guest Post 14 Dec 2020

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
Guest Post 14 Dec 2020

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
Guest Post 14 Dec 2020

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
Guest Post 14 Dec 2020

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
Guest Post 14 Dec 2020

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