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Blog Post
22 Jun 2017
FlexPod SF converges NetApp SolidFire onto Cisco hardware
SUNNYVALE, California -- NetApp today launched its second SolidFire-based converged product this month, this time in partnership with Cisco. The FlexPod SF extends the FlexPod converged ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Apr 2017
Cisco gets MDS 9700 ready for 32-gig FC storage
Cisco 6 FC storage module brings 32 Gbps support across MDS 9700 director family. Cisco and partners certify UCS C-Series servers for 32 Gbps-ready host bus adapters. Continue Reading
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News
03 Apr 2019
Long-awaited Intel Optane DC persistent memory module debuts
Intel promises lots of speed from the Optane DC persistent memory module it took a long time delivering. It also rolled out a new dual-port Optane SSD and ultradense flash SSD. Continue Reading
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News
02 Apr 2019
Storwize launch brings NVMe to midrange IBM flash arrays
IBM brings NVMe to the midrange with the latest Storwize SAN array, which includes Spectrum Virtualize software bundle for storage management, data protection and security. Continue Reading
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News
02 Apr 2019
Pure Storage buys Compuverde, expands file storage
Pure Storage's second acquisition builds on its unstructured data focus, as Compuverde's file system software runs in virtual NAS or hyper-converged modes. Continue Reading
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Tip
01 Apr 2019
3 NVMe-oF questions to consider when deploying the technology
Deploying NVMe over fabrics is a relatively simple process. However, make sure to check out three important areas before launching this technology. Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2019
Komprise launches NAS migration tool, user-driven archiving
Komprise says customers wanted NAS migration as a separate tool, so it now makes it available even if you don't buy its full Intelligent Data Management platform. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Mar 2019
Flash memory vs. RAM: What's the difference?
Even though vendors refer to flash memory and conventional RAM -- the main memory of your PC or server -- as solid-state memory, these two memory types are significantly different. Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Mar 2019
5 Ceph storage questions answered and explained
What do you need to know about Ceph open source storage to decide if it's right for your organization? See how it compares to object storage alternatives, and optimize its use. Continue Reading
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News
27 Mar 2019
Portworx adds security and DR options for container storage
Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp have invested in the container storage software startup. Now, the company aims to get those vendors' customers interested. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Mar 2019
NAS vendor RackTop Systems gets first funding haul
RackTop Systems has racked up its first round of outside capital, six years after launching its “cyber-converged" BrickStor NAS appliances. The Fulton, Md.-based vendor received $15 million in a ... Continue Reading
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Guide
25 Mar 2019
NVMe storage know-how for an easy and optimized transition
Discover who's making the move to NVMe technology, how to ease the transition to and maximize the performance of this new storage technology, and find out where it's headed next. Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Mar 2019
What's new in Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?
Microsoft has increased the capacity, resiliency and other advantages of the software-defined storage that comes with Windows Server 2019. Find out about all the benefits. Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Mar 2019
7 storage questions ahead of Dell Technologies World
We'd like to know where Dell EMC stands on midrange storage, NVMe over fabrics, data protection, hyper-convergence, cloud and containers, among other things. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2019
SoftNAS Cloud users get security fix for vulnerability
SoftNAS says a web server and load balancer component it added to strengthen security for its Cloud NAS actually could enable unauthorized access to the web admin interface. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2019
At Dell Technologies World, Dell will put its stamp on EMC
Dell EMC storage has taken on more of a 'Dell' feel over the past year, thanks in part to reliance on PowerEdge Servers and spinning out Pivotal Software into a public company. Continue Reading
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News
21 Mar 2019
Pure Storage AIRI trains FlashBlade NAS at hyperscalers
Pure Storage teams with Nvidia and Cisco to bring out FlashBlade with Hyperscale AIRI, extending its AIRI partnership with Nvidia, while introducing Pure-Cisco FlashStack for AI. Continue Reading
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Tip
21 Mar 2019
Data migration checklist: 6 steps to ease migration stress
Following a detailed data migration strategy with extensive upfront planning can simplify complicated and labor-intensive SAN data migration projects. Continue Reading
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Answer
20 Mar 2019
Where is QLC NAND the most useful in the enterprise?
Quad-level NAND has its benefits, but is it right for enterprise-level companies? While it can be plagued by performance and durability issues, the technology still has its uses. Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2019
Ctera Networks and HPE combine for hyper-converged gateway
Ctera and HPE partner on new Edge X Series cloud gateway appliance that integrates Ctera's global file system and HPE's SimpliVity hyper-converged software. Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2019
SwiftStack adds a disk object-based AI reference architecture
SwiftStack's reference architecture for AI and machine learning bundles Nvidia servers for compute and disk-based Cisco or Dell EMC servers to scale object storage. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Mar 2019
NVMe for AI: A powerful pairing
NVMe storage capabilities provide the bandwidth and low latency that demanding AI and machine learning applications need to access and manage the massive amounts of data they use. Continue Reading
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Quiz
15 Mar 2019
Is your SSD storage acumen up to snuff?
Take our quiz to find out if you're up to speed on solid-state technology in areas such as SSD form factors, management strategy, security and innovation. Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2019
Alluxio adds support for more than 1 billion files
An update to Alluxio's data management software boosts scalability to more than 1 billion files, adds a POSIX API and enables a job service for replication and data transfer. Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2019
Mellanox SmartNIC SNAPs into NVMe SSDs
As it waits to get acquired by Nvidia, Mellanox brings out an NVMe SNAP device that lets storage vendors place code directly on BlueField SmartNIC network cards. Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Mar 2019
NVMe over TCP details and features you need to know
NVMe/TCP is here. The new specification lays out how to deliver data across an existing TCP network, making implementation simple and cost-efficient for organizations. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Mar 2019
With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing
Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon. Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is ... Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2019
Dell EMC ECS update focuses on security, management, search
Dell EMC updates on-premises ECS 3.3 object storage, formerly known as Elastic Cloud Storage, with new and improved capabilities in the areas of security, management and search. Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2019
Lightbits Labs launches TCP-based NVMe-over-fabrics storage
The NVM Express consortium finalized the specs for NVMe-over-TCP fabrics in November. Lightbits Labs' launch features software-defined storage, an appliance and an accelerator card. Continue Reading
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Tip
11 Mar 2019
7 NVMe storage gotchas to avoid
Avoiding common deployment errors when implementing NVMe technology will save you time, money and professional embarrassment. Here's what to look out for. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Mar 2019
Vexata readies VX-Cloud architecture with server partners
Vexata is thinking outside the box. The NVMe all-flash array vendor is sampling VX-Cloud Data Acceleration Platform reference architecture with major server vendors. The hardware design combines ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Mar 2019
Paradox: Violin Systems all-flash stays small to grow large
Violin engineers all-flash storage systems for data centers that require ultrafast performance. The vendor also added ISE G4 arrays from X-IO for secondary storage. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Mar 2019
New Axcient CEO takes over at 'new company'
Axcient's new CEO started this week at a company that has the same name as it did at its beginning but looks quite different after a recent merger. David Bennett, formerly the chief revenue officer ... Continue Reading
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News
07 Mar 2019
Computational storage takes spotlight in new NGD Systems SSD
See how startup NGD Systems' 16 TB NVMe-based SSD can run applications inside the SSD controller to eliminate the need to move data between storage and host. Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2019
Infinidat InfiniBox preps SMB protocol nodes for Windows
All-flash arrays command most of the attention, but Infinidat claims its InfiniBox arrays deliver the performance of flash on commodity-priced spinning disk. Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2019
Hammerspace adds Kubernetes CSI driver for containers
Startup Hammerspace updates product with Kubernetes Container Storage Interface driver and multisite global namespace to facilitate data access in container environments. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Mar 2019
How blockchain storage could benefit the enterprise
Whether your organization is a potential buyer or seller of blockchain data storage, the technology could change how you look at storage. Discover where blockchain is headed. Continue Reading
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News
04 Mar 2019
Talon Storage 2019 roadmap: Object and storage consolidation
Talon plans to add new capabilities to manage large-scale deployments and consolidate storage in the cloud, including an option for built-in object storage due in Q4. Continue Reading
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News
01 Mar 2019
Pure Storage cloud arrays add flash to Rackspace Service Blocks
Rackspace data centers have the option to buy Pure Storage FlashArray//X as a consumable service on a dedicated array to facilitate running block storage in clouds. Continue Reading
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News
27 Feb 2019
Startup Vast Data: Death to disk storage
With $80 million in funding, the all-flash startup unveils its exabyte-scale Universal Storage system that it claims will make disk storage unnecessary in the data center. Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2019
New NVMe Western Digital SSDs target cloud, hyperscale and edge
Western Digital adds two new enterprise NVMe SSDs as the enterprise and cloud markets shift from SATA SSDs to faster NVMe. The new drives include 64-layer 3D NAND. Continue Reading
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Answer
26 Feb 2019
Is QLC NAND the right choice for you?
QLC drives can offer high storage capacity and low cost per gigabyte, but speedier alternatives may hold more appeal for some organizations. When does a switch to QLC make sense? Continue Reading
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Guide
26 Feb 2019
Effective multi-cloud storage strategies and management techniques
Is storage in a multi-cloud environment right for your organization? See what you need to do to deploy, manage and effectively use multi-cloud for data storage. Continue Reading
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News
21 Feb 2019
Compuverde helps German university consolidate storage
German university licenses more than 1 PB of Compuverde software-defined storage to consolidate an unknown number of NAS systems from NetApp and smaller vendors. Continue Reading
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News
20 Feb 2019
Pure Storage all-flash gains ObjectEngine backup appliance
All-flash vendor Pure Storage provides ObjectEngine inline deduplication appliance to reduce data locally and shuttle it to S3-based object storage for analytics, DR and reuse. Continue Reading
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News
19 Feb 2019
Lenovo TruScale adds twist to cloud infrastructure on demand
With TruScale Infrastructure Services, Lenovo tries to catch up with Cisco, Dell and HPE, customizing TruScale to a customer's workload and helping customers avoid capital expenditures. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Feb 2019
Veeam revenue edges up in 2018; acquisitions possible in 2019
Veeam Software narrowly missed its goal to become a $1 billion revenue company in 2018, falling $37 million shy and probably six months short. Veeam founder and executive vice president Ratmir ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Feb 2019
NetApp founder Dave Hitz steps away after 26 years
Retiring founder of NetApp Dave Hitz says the vendor is well-positioned for industrywide storage transitions, but recent sales results show challenges remain. Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2019
HPE InfoSight to add support for partners' storage products
HPE GM of storage Milan Shetti outlines plans to add support for partners' storage products in its InfoSight predictive analytics platform and talks up its AI operations-centric strategy. Continue Reading
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News
13 Feb 2019
New Dell EMC all-flash Isilon hardware compresses NAS data
Dell EMC Isilon F810 all-flash NAS array and ClarityNow software tackle unstructured file data through increased performance and data reduction over previous versions. Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Feb 2019
Top 5 enterprise storage trends of 2018
Dave Raffo won't pretend to know what 2019 will bring to the world of enterprise data storage, but he does know what he learned while following the data storage industry in 2018. Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2019
IBM Storage Solutions draw up blueprint for blockchain storage
IBM offers up blueprints for blockchain storage, with NVMe arrays and software for scale-out. Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Feb 2019
Cloud repatriation and the trend away from all things cloud
Companies are starting to backtrack when it comes to their enthusiasm for public clouds. More and more are bringing workloads and storage resources back in-house. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Feb 2019
Hot data storage technology trends for 2019
Hot storage tech trends for 2019 include cheaper, denser flash and multi-cloud data management that can benefit the consumer and create better performance and data protection. Continue Reading
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Infographic
11 Feb 2019
A secondary storage management answer to mass fragmentation
A study finds mass secondary data fragmentation across storage silos is negatively affecting IT staff morale and the ability of enterprises to comply with regulations. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Feb 2019
The best enterprise storage products of 2018
Get to know the 15 top enterprise storage products selected from a field of more than 100 in the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage annual Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Dell EMC PowerMax
Formerly VMAX, PowerMax flash from Dell EMC is rated to deliver 10 million IOPS. All-flash PowerMax maintains the VMAX multicontroller, but replaces SAS SSDs with NVMe. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2019
Best data storage products 2018: Products of the Year
For the 17th straight year, 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage award gold, silver and bronze to the best storage hardware and software products and services of the year. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Cloudian HyperStore 7
New multi-cloud capabilities vault object storage specialist Cloudian to first place with its HyperStore product. Judges were particularly impressed with its functionality. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Broadcom Brocade SAN automation
Broadcom automates SAN management using a command-line interface and open source tools connecting to Brocade fabric and switches in a storage area network. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
HPE Nimble Storage arrays
Our Products of the Year judges give HPE's all-flash arrays high marks for built-in analytics, automation, ease of use and price-to-performance balance for midmarket enterprises. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 5.6
With the latest version of VirtualWisdom, Virtual Instruments adds greater automation to both the discovery and resolution of storage system and network management issues. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Pure Storage AIRI
AIRI is a preconfigured hardware stack for data-intensive analytics. It combines Pure Storage's all-flash FlashBlade and Nvidia Tesla-based DGX supercomputers. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Portworx PX-Enterprise
PX-Enterprise, which helps users deploy persistent storage with containerized applications, stood out among other competitors for its innovation and value. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2019
Quobyte Data Center File System 2.0
Startup Quobyte's 'up-and-comer' distributed parallel file system caught judges' attention as being easier to deploy, operate and manage in high-performance environments. Continue Reading
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News
07 Feb 2019
Top Dell EMC storage technologists talk NVMe, SCM and containers
Podcast: Dell EMC technologists discuss their 2019 expectations for the growth of storage class memory, NVMe-oF, multi-cloud, container and smart storage technologies. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Feb 2019
Data storage startups to watch in 2019
Failure is a more likely outcome than success for a storage startup. Still, intrepid newcomers offer innovative technologies in cloud, backup, convergence and flash. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Feb 2019
IBM storage revenues skid to the finish line
IBM storage hit another blue period last quarter. After pulling out of a revenue slump to start 2018, IBM last week closed an uneven year with declining sales of storage hardware, mirroring flat ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Jan 2019
Zerto IT Resilience Platform bends with Elastic Journal
Zerto is set to launch the latest incarnation of its flagship product that converges backup and recovery, and will enable users to recover to a point in time going back years. Zerto 7, the new ... Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2019
2019 IT focus: Storage architecture for big data analytics
Top storage technologists and analysts predict IT organizations will focus on revamping their storage architectures to make better use of data for analytics, AI and IoT in 2019. Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2019
Vexata storage gets a boost from Fujitsu deal
Fujitsu North America agrees to sell Vexata arrays. The vendors plan demos in the Fujitsu Solutions Lab and are preparing reference architecture SKUs for Oracle, SAP and VMware. Continue Reading
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Tip
30 Jan 2019
7 misconceptions about the NVMe protocol and NVMe technology
See what you need to know to avoid some of the common misperceptions about NVMe technology and making possibly expensive mistakes with your organization's NVMe architecture. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2019
Cloud storage outlook favors private and multi-clouds in 2019
Experts say 'we've reached the point of no return' on cloud storage, as cloud-native applications, private and multi-clouds and Kubernetes gain prominence in 2019. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2019
University of Utah prescribes Hitachi storage for data woes
University of Utah Health extends its Hitachi Vantara storage implementation, adding the Hitachi Content Platform object storage to modernize its data center. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2019
Enterprise flash storage price drop tops 2019 predictions
Flash storage buyers will find lower NAND prices and more enterprise options in 2019, according to the crystal balls of industry executives and analysts. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Jan 2019
Advantages of object storage and how it differs from alternatives
File and block storage might provide better performance, but granular metadata and near-infinite scalability make object storage equally beneficial. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Jan 2019
Get multi-cloud storage off on the right foot
See the questions to ask and the various players to query as you get started with your multi-cloud strategy. Success is all about gathering the right information upfront. Continue Reading
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News
23 Jan 2019
DataCore storage gets Kubernetes and Docker plugins
New DataCore plugins for Kubernetes and Docker will help customers developing container-based applications and microservices to access its software-defined storage products. Continue Reading
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News
21 Jan 2019
Storage startup Termaxia stares at clouds
A startup claims it has pilots and production deployments in place for its petabyte-scale appliance that provides continuous availability without a cache. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Jan 2019
Storage Migration Service eases Windows Server transfers
See how SMS eases the process of migrating Windows servers, simplifying the administrator's job and minimizing the disruptions to users and applications. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Jan 2019
Take that, Rubrik! Veeam gets $500M investment
One day after Rubrik pulled in more than a quarter of a billion dollars in fresh funding, rival Veeam Software picked up nearly twice as much. Veeam today said Insight Venture Partners has invested ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jan 2019
Rubrik pockets $261M in funding to chase AI, ML techs
Rubrik, which helped change the role of backup in data management, is shopping for new technologies for its Cloud Data Management platform. Rubrik today said it completed a whopping $261 million ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Jan 2019
Cloud and software-defined storage products: 2018 POY finalists
Multi-cloud data management and container support are themes among the 2018 software-defined and cloud storage finalists of TechTarget's Storage Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading
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News
14 Jan 2019
Enterprise storage arrays: 2018 Products of the Year finalists
Eleven storage vendors, including legacy brands and some startups, entered arrays for consideration in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2018 Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading
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News
14 Jan 2019
Storage systems and management tools: 2018 POY finalists
Storage management tools candidates for the 2018 Storage Products of the Year competition skew heavily toward simpler interfaces and greater access to real-time data. Continue Reading
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Guide
14 Jan 2019
2018 data management and storage Products of the Year finalists
The field of entrants in our 17th annual Products of Year contest has been winnowed down to 51 contenders vying for gold, silver and bronze glory in five data storage categories. Continue Reading
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Tip
11 Jan 2019
Hybrid cloud vs. multi-cloud storage: Choose wisely
Stuck deciding between hybrid and multi-cloud? When it comes to cloud storage, it's important to choose the right approach for the task at hand, which will vary by business. Continue Reading
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Tip
10 Jan 2019
6 steps to how blockchain storage works
See how blockchain technology has the potential to provide a secure and reliable enterprise data storage environment with our step-by-step guide to blockchain data storage. Continue Reading
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News
09 Jan 2019
All-flash startup Storbyte previews Eco-Flash file system
Storbyte Eco-Flash drive technology situates Hydra ASIC chips on drives to prolong endurance in write-heavy environments. Eco-Flash stripes data on multiple M.2 modules. Continue Reading
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News
09 Jan 2019
Toshiba set to launch 16 TB HDD for cloud-scale users
Toshiba will try to get a jump on rivals Seagate and Western Digital with a new 16 TB hard disk drive that targets cloud-scale users in need of low-cost, high-density storage. Continue Reading
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News
08 Jan 2019
Cloud, data management top 2019 enterprise data storage options
Data management -- on premises and in the cloud -- appears on the rise as a 2019 spending priority for storage pros, while flash arrays and converged infrastructure may have peaked. Continue Reading
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News
02 Jan 2019
2018 M&A in storage centered on flash, cloud and backup
No billion-dollar blockbusters in 2018 storage M&A activity as vendors stayed away from big deals and concentrated on filling gaps in their flash, cloud and backup portfolios. Continue Reading
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Feature
31 Dec 2018
The top 5 data storage questions we answered in 2018
As storage continues to evolve, many readers still are curious about the basics. In 2018, common data storage concerns included RAID, capacity and different storage architectures. Continue Reading
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Answer
31 Dec 2018
What's the best multi-cloud storage strategy for minimizing risks?
Find out the steps to take to construct a unified multi-cloud security strategy where components work together to provide a single, comprehensive approach. Continue Reading
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Tip
27 Dec 2018
New NVMe interface specification focuses on management
An NVMe management interface builds on the existing standard, allowing users to monitor NVMe devices. NVMe-MI may represent a significant step forward for the technology. Continue Reading
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Tip
27 Dec 2018
See how file system structure can drag down NVMe performance
Find out what matters when it comes to file system design and how to prevent file systems from becoming bottlenecks to achieving optimal performance in NVMe-based storage systems. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Dec 2018
Dell’s VMware, Nutanix duke out HCI market dominance
Major storage and server vendors are angling for position in hyper-converged systems. But as has been the case for a while, the jockeying really is for who finishes in third place. The battle for ... Continue Reading
