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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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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
SmartNICs: The Key to High-Speed Converged Networks
The SmartNIC can improve both throughput and scalability, and can provide a variety of functions, including cybersecurity, storage functions such as deduplication and mirroring, and more. This is a discussion exploring the topic. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
Getting Serious About Containers and Flash Memory
The common use of containers to speed up distributed applications is transforming data centers all over, but what is the effect on storage? Explore how containers are being used today with flash-based storage systems. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
IT Brand Pulse Awards
IT professionals were surveyed across six categories of brand leadership. Here are the vendors that IT pros selected as innovation leaders for 2020. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
Next Great Breakthrough in Flash Memory
Breakthroughs in flash memory keep occurring, and advances raise density and speed and decrease costs. What will be next with flash products? Will it be multiple levels beyond QLC? Here is a panel discussion among five leaders who dig into flash technology and its future. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
SPI NAND Host-Side Error Correction
Error code correction is a key technology for maintaining reliability and extending memory longevity in SPI NAND flash. Compare integrated and host-based ECC by looking at three major areas. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
Open Source Processors for Next-Generation Storage Controllers
Open source software tools are enabling a high level of innovation for storage controllers and data center architectures. Here is an introduction to storage controller SoC devices and more. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
Using Computational Storage to Handle Big Data
Computational storage examples already in use illustrate ways to overcome bandwidth and data processing issues. Find out about other promising directions to explore for the future as well. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
Using PM and Software-Defined Architectures to Optimize AI/ML Workloads
Explore how you can close AI, machine learning and analytics workload performance gaps using persistent memory and software-defined architectures. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
Using Software to Improve the Performance and Endurance of High-Capacity SSDs
NAND flash technologies with more levels per cell deliver larger SSDs at much lower per-bit cost, but strength and performance can suffer. Here, you will find insights on how you can use machine learning and AI to enhance endurance of QLC. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
Analyzing the Effects of Storage on AI Workloads
Wes Vaske, a principal storage solutions engineer, discusses some of the challenges and methods for overcoming unique challenges for architecting storage systems for AI workloads. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
Hands-On Testing of Persistent Memory's Effects on Analytics Performance
What is persistent memory and how does it work? Look at the basics here, as well as a review of the Intel Optane implementation and some real-world persistent memory examples. Continue Reading
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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
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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
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
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
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tip
25 Feb 2021
Build an effective edge data storage plan
IoT data storage is a key edge storage use, but not the only one. Stay on top of this movement in IT and make sure an edge infrastructure plan is in place. Continue Reading
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News
24 Feb 2021
Next Pathway update targets Hadoop migrations
Next Pathway's data scanning and migration tools can now analyze Hadoop ecosystems and translate its codes to cloud-based data warehouses such as Snowflake and Amazon RedShift. Continue Reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tip
23 Feb 2021
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
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News
22 Feb 2021
Cloud file storage still nascent, but growing quickly
File storage lags behind object and block storage in the market, but Nasuni's offering on Google Cloud indicates a growing appetite for the format. Continue Reading
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News
18 Feb 2021
Violin, Stratoscale data storage technologies rise from dust
StorCentric's data storage technologies added Violin Systems in a bargain pickup last year. Zadara this week snagged the remnants of Stratoscale's HCI software. Continue Reading
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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
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News
16 Feb 2021
DataCore's Caringo buy spotlights need for object storage
Object store acquisitions by DataCore, Nvidia and Quantum underscore the growing importance of object storage to address enterprise workloads ranging from archives to analytics. Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Feb 2021
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
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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
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Feature
14 Feb 2021
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
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Feature
14 Feb 2021
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
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Feature
14 Feb 2021
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
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Opinion
14 Feb 2021
Cost-effective snapshot management tips and strategies
Snapshots may be an optimal way to copy and protect data, but they can lead to some unexpected consequences. Find out what those are and how to avoid them. Continue Reading
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Opinion
14 Feb 2021
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
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Infographic
14 Feb 2021
Efficient data storage tips to achieve a green data center
This illustrated guide to energy-efficient data storage offers tips on offloading data to the cloud and areas to review when estimating storage costs. Continue Reading
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News
12 Feb 2021
IBM, LucidLink the latest to tackle cloud file storage
Startup LucidLink has bundled its Filespaces file system with IBM's Cloud Object Storage offerings. Distributed work teams can access shared data as network-attached storage. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2021
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
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News
09 Feb 2021
IBM flash storage seeks wider appeal with FlashSystem array
New IBM flash storage includes 1U FlashSystem building block starting at 38 TB. The launch comes as IBM consolidates storage products around its FlashSystem flagship. Continue Reading
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News
08 Feb 2021
Cloudian adds object storage for containers on VMware vSAN
Cloudian's integration with VMware's vSAN Data Persistence platform allows its customers to consolidate on-premises and cloud-native applications on the same object storage software. Continue Reading
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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
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Big Memory for 3D Animation and Visual Effects
Learn about the big memory impact on animation. Continue Reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
