Primary storage devices
Primary storage devices refer to storage hardware for data in active use, in contrast to storage used for backup purposes. They include SAN and NAS primary storage devices, non-volatile flash storage and other types of storage media. Find resources about primary storage and storage hardware, including RAID arrays and storage arrays, on this topic page.
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07 Feb 2023
Western Digital releases dual-actuator HDDs
WD has quietly released a dual-actuator HDD, bringing dense drives with higher transfer rates, but customers can't reap the full benefits just yet. Continue Reading
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07 Feb 2023
NetApp adds storage buying options, arrays
NetApp introduces a myriad of buying options and hybrid cloud capabilities for VMware workloads on Google Cloud. Soon-to-come: new QLC all-flash arrays. Continue Reading
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26 Jan 2018
Report: Dell-EMC storage aftermath may trigger IPO
Is the Dell EMC storage merger causing buyer’s remorse? According to published report, Dell Technologies is considering a return to the public market to satisfy the massive debt incurred from its ... Continue Reading
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10 Jan 2018
Startup Liqid looks to make a splash in composable storage
Liqid composable storage infrastructure is based on Liqid Grid's custom PCIe fabric switch and orchestration to provision bare-metal servers from disaggregated devices. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Jan 2018
Eight data storage startup vendors to watch in 2018
Even as other storage startup companies fail, newcomers have appeared to take on established enterprise vendors. Can they ride the momentum for flash, hybrid cloud and SDS? Continue Reading
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Opinion
10 Jan 2018
SDS, HCI and CDP are key to dream enterprise storage system
Easy to implement and manage may be the buzzwords of the day for enterprise data storage systems, but too often daily experiences of IT professionals belie that rosy scenario. Continue Reading
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28 Dec 2017
iXsystems: 'weird' but profitable NAS vendor
Here’s something you rarely hear from high tech companies today: “We’re a hardware company in our heart and soul.” That is how executive vice president Brett Davis introduced iXsystems during a ... Continue Reading
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13 Dec 2017
Quantum Xcellis scale-out NAS tackles unstructured data
Quantum's new system takes on scale-out NAS and object markets. The vendor says its Xcellis NAS tier will scale from 40 TB to petabytes without a performance hit. Continue Reading
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11 Dec 2017
Hitz: NetApp market growth hinges on cloud, data management
Storage stalwart NetApp celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017. NetApp founder Dave Hitz reflects on its evolution and the impact of Cloud OnTap, Data Fabric and SolidFire HCI. Continue Reading
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07 Dec 2017
Dell EMC all-flash surge collides with softening storage demand
Growth in Dell EMC all-flash storage is one of the bright spots in what remains a tough slog for legacy array vendors. Dell Technologies on Thursday reported consolidated revenue of $19.6 billion ... Continue Reading
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30 Nov 2017
Qumulo File Fabric fuses on-prem, cloud storage for studio
Qumulo's File Fabric gives FuseFX ability to burst workloads into Amazon Web Services, giving it a virtual fourth location for file storage for its special effects rendering. Continue Reading
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20 Nov 2017
Infinidat embeds SAN, NAS replication in InfiniBox R4
Infinidat's software upgrade eschews SCSI in favor of custom IP-based replication protocol. The vendor claims InfiniBox R4 delivers target writes at sub-400-millisecond latency. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2017
Panasas storage, director blades split into separate devices
Panasas hybrid storage offers 57 PB of raw capacity with 200 shelves. ActiveStor Director 100 sits atop a rack of Panasas arrays. Customers can scale types and capacities of media. Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2017
Dell EMC all-flash SC Series prepped for launch
Dell EMC all-flash inclusive added to the mix for SC Series and Unity arrays. The vendor said each of the midrange storage products has a large customer base. Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Nov 2017
Are you ready for NVMe storage and the future of flash?
Three factors to consider beyond technical capabilities before designing and investing money and resources in a low-latency NVMe flash storage network. Continue Reading
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01 Nov 2017
Elastifile scores OEM deal with Dell EMC
Cloud NAS vendor Elastifile has struck an OEM deal with Dell EMC, one of the startup’s first investors. Dell EMC will integrate Elastifile Cloud File System and CloudConnect cloud transfer and ... Continue Reading
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30 Oct 2017
Cisco telemetry data gets streamed from MDS 9700 32G modules
Cisco SAN telemetry sensors capture insight on network fabrics to aid capacity and infrastructure management. The FC feature provides real-time instrumentation analytics. Continue Reading
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Guide
24 Oct 2017
Hard disk vs. flash storage: The fight of the century?
When deciding which storage method you want in your corner, the benefits of flash storage are very appealing. But should you forget about hard disk arrays entirely? Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Oct 2017
Gen 6 Fibre Channel helps support flash, but lacks adoption
Sixth generation Fibre Channel has the potential to solve fabric-level bottlenecks, but companies tend to choose Ethernet because it has evolved more rapidly. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Oct 2017
Buying NAS: Do you want performance and scalability?
Although SANs still rule the modern the data center, the NAS array maintains a position high up on tech buyers' shopping lists for new primary storage. Continue Reading
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06 Oct 2017
A year later: Pros and cons of the Dell and EMC merger
Our experts take measure of the Dell EMC acquisition, the storage and technology merger of the century, a little more than 12 months after the deal closed. Continue Reading
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05 Oct 2017
Scality Connect ports S3 apps to Azure Blob storage
Scality's Connect software opens access to Microsoft Azure Blob services for S3 API-compatible applications, making it easier to port S3 API apps to Microsoft cloud storage. Continue Reading
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05 Oct 2017
Data Dynamics StorageX 8.0 adds analysis, S3 support
Data Dynamics beefs up StorageX file management software with new single-view analysis portal and support for Amazon S3 API-compliant object storage. Continue Reading
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05 Oct 2017
Microsoft Azure taps NetApp Ontap for native NFS storage
NetApp Ontap will become available in Microsoft public cloud as the Azure Enterprise NFS Service. Will we see NetApp do the same for Amazon Web Services? Continue Reading
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Buyer's Guide
05 Oct 2017
Investigate how copy data management systems curb data sprawl
The top copy data management vendors offer innovative products to reduce the staggering amount of data that organizations create by replicating multiple copies of production data. Continue Reading
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03 Oct 2017
Infinidat boxes up $95M funding haul
Infinidat picked up $95 million in funding today to help fuel an aggressive product expansion – including moves into secondary storage and a public cloud offering. Goldman Sachs Private Capital ... Continue Reading
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27 Sep 2017
Dell EMC’s XC (Nutanix) HCI box protects MS Hyper-V VMs
Dell EMC today enhanced its Nutanix-powered XC hyper-converged platform by adding data protection features for Microsoft Windows Hyper-V. The news, made during Microsoft Ignite, shows Dell EMC is ... Continue Reading
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26 Sep 2017
Branson’s Veritas Vision 2017 warning: Act now on climate
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson stepped away from his hurricane relief efforts last week to warn against climate change inaction at Veritas Vision 2017 in Las Vegas. Branson said the recent ... Continue Reading
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18 Sep 2017
Enter Your Great Storage Product in the Products of the Year Competition
In just a few days, the door will shut—and your outstanding data storage product will be left standing out in the cold rather than in the running for a Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Storage ... Continue Reading
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30 Aug 2017
Tegile becomes the latest Western Digital acquisition
Western Digital's acquisition spree continues with the pickup of flash vendor Tegile Systems. The drive-maker says Tegile storage complements its ActiveScale object storage. Continue Reading
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22 Aug 2017
Tegile IntelliFlash array family welcomes all-NVMe sibling
A rack of Tegile's IntelliFlash N Series NVMe arrays scales to 60 PB of effective capacity. Tegile promises 3 million IOPS in a single array with full data services at low latency. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
02 Aug 2017
Disaggregation enables on-demand resource pool management and creation
Disaggregation may not be a new concept, but it has become more important to IT in recent years. Here, it means breaking computers down to the core elements of compute, memory, I/O, storage, cache, network fabric and so on, to enable resource pool management and create more agile, cost-effective data centers. Done correctly, disaggregation lets you stand up and break down infrastructures almost instantly while better serving the needs of individual applications. Meanwhile, resource utilization soars, and resource pool management costs decline because of the automation that's enabled. Delve into the world of disaggregation and find out how vendors are applying the concept to their products.
Hybrid cloud storage can let you run, manage and move primary storage workloads between the cloud and on-premises data center. It can also improve IT agility and cut costs. Today, a number of products and services fulfill the promise of the hybrid cloud like never before, knocking down barriers that have inhibited wider adoption. Hybrid cloud products open new possibilities for deploying production applications, but you must choose wisely.
Pundits have predicted the demise of the hard disk for years. Not only is solid-state much faster than hard disks, the price differential between the two storage technologies is rapidly disappearing. Yet the HDD vs. SDD controversy continues with the death of the former still a long way off. The question shouldn't be when hard disks will disappear, but instead, how to best use flash technology within the memory-storage continuum that starts with tape and goes to L1 cache, the fastest and most expensive memory in a system.
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02 Aug 2017
HDD vs. SSD: Is there room for disk in a solid-state world?
Although SSD vs. HDD speed is vastly different, for the foreseeable future, hard disks will have a place in our increasingly solid-state and even DRAM-centered data centers. Continue Reading
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01 Aug 2017
Startup Morro Data launches CloudNAS services for SMBs
Startup Morro Data makes available hybrid cloud storage services for SMBs, blending an on-premises cache appliance for frequently accessed data and Amazon S3 or Backblaze. Continue Reading
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25 Jul 2017
SoftNAS Cloud NAS software paces itself when moving petabytes
SoftNAS engineers encountered a problem early this year with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure clouds that caused a delay in the SoftNAS Cloud NAS 3.5 release. The engineers hit a snag while ... Continue Reading
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17 Jul 2017
TrueNAS X10: iXsystems' open source storage contender
The TrueNAS X10 entry-level hybrid array from iXsystems provides a low-cost alternative to legacy arrays. The unified array scales to 360 TB in 6U for $55,000. Continue Reading
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13 Jul 2017
New WekaIO file system incorporates flash, object store
WekaIO launched its scale-out file system, which is optimized for server-based flash storage and designed to tier data to cheaper object storage on premises and in public clouds. Continue Reading
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06 Jul 2017
Hyper-converged infrastructure vendors offer range of storage options
Hyper-converged infrastructure vendors have integrated software-defined storage, compute and networking into easy-to-use, turnkey appliances. But the transition from a traditional, three-tier architecture to a hyper-converged data center can take getting used to. That's why it's important to carefully assess hyper-converged infrastructure vendors and the HCI appliances they offer when making this change. We'll show you ways to simplify the process.
Today, we mostly store unstructured data on NFS-based NAS file servers. More efficient, flexible and practical object storage is a rising alternative, however, particularly in products that layer file-based interfaces on top of object-based storage for the best of both worlds.
Tiering and caching can make a huge difference in active data storage performance. These two processes work in different ways, however. Tiering is about more than distributing data into hot, warm and cold tiers, while caching increases the speed of reads and writes. Both tiering and caching require choices.
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30 Jun 2017
With trepidation, Tintri storage takes Nasdaq plunge
Tintri heads into the July 4 holiday wearing a new status symbol: publicly traded company. Still, it's initial public offering came a day late and $40 million short. Shares in Tintri storage ... Continue Reading
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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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09 Jun 2017
Dell EMC storage revenue drops – was the calendar to blame?
Dell EMC revenue from storage systems in the first quarter dropped 16% from 2016 according to IDC, a fall Dell EMC executives blame on a change in the vendor’s reporting calendar. Dell EMC uses the ... Continue Reading
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News
07 Jun 2017
DDN GRIDScaler parallel file system aids consolidation
To consolidate storage, Van Andel Institute chose DataDirect Networks' GRIDScaler GS7K parallel file system arrays and WOS object platform for active archiving. Continue Reading
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07 Jun 2017
Solving enterprise-class storage challenges in the age of convergence
In this age of data center convergence, with technology evolving faster than ever, planning how to transition from traditional yet rigid environments to more agile software-defined ones is among the trickiest challenges facing IT shops today. Fortunately, a plethora of options exist to lengthen the life of or implement a wholesale replacement of current enterprise-class storage.
Rapid advancements and developments such as memory-based flash DIMMs, the emergence of nonvolatile memory express, greater densities and lower prices enable flash data storage to meet the requirements of the most demanding enterprise-class storage use cases.
The varied and competitive world of cloud-based disaster recovery has changed the way we protect and secure data to recover from disaster. Discover the must-have features to consider when shopping for a disaster recovery-as-a-service provider to protect enterprise-class storage.
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07 Jun 2017
Multiprotocol unified storage systems poised for growth
With support for block, file or both types of data on the same device, unified storage architecture is a flexible storage option for the modern data center. Continue Reading
- 07 Jun 2017
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05 Jun 2017
Tintri IPO filing shows spikes in sales, heavy losses
When technology executives discuss initial public offerings these days, they usually say how the goal has shifted from rapid growth to fiscal responsibility. In other words, investors want to see a ... Continue Reading
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Photo Story
30 May 2017
Speeds of storage networking technologies rise as flash use spikes
Speeds of storage networking technologies are rising as faster flash storage is gaining adoption, giving IT organizations more options to meet their performance needs. Continue Reading
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25 May 2017
HPE flash upgrade covers 3PAR, MSA, new Nimble array
Hewlett Packard Enterprise previews flash upgrades to 3PAR StoreServe and hybrid MSA systems, plus its first Nimble Storage array for reusing backup and copy data. Continue Reading
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22 May 2017
Infinite io clusters its network storage controller
The Infinite io network storage controller 'bump on the wire' proxy scans storage to capture metadata in flight and speed movement of inactive files to the cloud. Continue Reading
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17 May 2017
OpenStack Ocata storage projects add enterprise features
The Cinder, Swift and Manila OpenStack storage projects focused on performance, stability, scalability and enterprise-level capabilities in the latest Ocata release cycle. Continue Reading
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09 May 2017
Upgraded Nexsan Unity unified arrays get jolt of flash
Nexsan eliminated the need to run its E-Series arrays as Unity back-end storage. JBODs with RAID allow FASTier flash cache SSDs to run on 12 Gbps storage shelves. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
04 May 2017
All-flash data center still an idea in development
The concept of the all-flash data center isn't new, and as the cost of SSDs continue to decline, vendors are pushing the of the all-flash data center like never before. Reality is a different matter, though. When it comes to older data, slower technology tiers -- such as tape and high-capacity HDDs -- and the cloud can still save plenty of money and resources. So how much flash is enough? It depends.
IT resources must remain continuously available nowadays. Establishing data center resiliency through technologies like replication and erasure coding, as well as implementing continuous backup and instant recovery, is only a start. Learn how to develop a resiliency plan of your own.
An increasing array of backup, disaster recovery and archiving services has turned the public cloud into a favorite target for secondary and tertiary data. Advances have also made the cloud a viable option as a primary storage tier in the storage hierarchy. Particularly if tier-two or tier-one workloads could benefit from the scalability, resilience and broad accessibility the public cloud delivers. Here's why.
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04 May 2017
Data center storage architecture gets smarter with AI
Trends, such as event-triggered computing, as exemplified by Lambda Architectures, converge on data center storage to hasten data center intelligence evolution. Continue Reading
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04 May 2017
Building an IT resiliency plan into an always-on world
A multipronged approach is the best protection against unaffordable and unacceptable downtime in today's 24/7 business cycle. Continue Reading
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04 May 2017
Scalability drives SAN market growth
Better performing, more scalable and capacious storage area networks are required for ever-growing amounts of unstructured data, demanding applications and big data analytics. Continue Reading
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Feature
04 May 2017
Is an all-flash data center worth it?
The elevated cost of flash technology is a reason to limit flash usage. Find out what other factors go into a flash purchase and how it's used in today's data centers. Continue Reading
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Opinion
04 May 2017
Evolution of storage technology ending one-size-fits-all approach
Some storage vendors want you to think that one type of storage will work for all scenarios and enterprises. Thanks to changes in storage technology that's not always the case. Continue Reading
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02 May 2017
Western Digital earnings rosy, NAND issues remain
Western Digital reported a solid $4.6 billion in revenue during last week's earnings call yet chip and NAND flash supply issues hang over the vendor. Western Digital, which sells hard disk drive ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Apr 2017
All-flash Synology FlashStation NAS welcomes 'little brother'
Midrange NAS provider Synology America Corp. is expanding its FlashStation all-flash storage platform. Synology FlashStation FS2017, which became available April 27, is the "little brother" to the ... Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2017
Seagate sees 10 TB drives as sweet spot
While much of the storage world is talking up NVM Express and other flash technologies, Seagate is pushing ahead with shingled magnetic recording, heat-assisted magnetic recording and large ... Continue Reading
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News
19 Apr 2017
New Virtual Instruments software improves NAS, flash models
Version 5.3 of Virtual Instruments' Load DynamiX 5 software supports time-based NFSv3 workloads, eases preconditioning of flash arrays and improves the user interface. Continue Reading
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13 Apr 2017
Persistent container storage vendors take center stage
Portworx expands persistent storage features with PX-Enterprise upgrade. Virtuozzo Storage adds erasure coding to file and block, while StorageOS makes beta available. Continue Reading
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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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10 Apr 2017
Elastifile builds file system for cloud, flash storage
Elastifile's distributed file system designed for use with flash hardware and on-premises and public-cloud storage is adding CloudConnect capabilities for AWS and Google. Continue Reading
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10 Apr 2017
Toshiba ships capacity-optimized 8 TB HDD
Toshiba has started volume shipments of its MG Series 8 TB HDD -- the largest capacity-optimized, 3.5-inch enterprise HDD the company has ever produced. The 7,200 rpm, 6 Gbps SATA HDD improves ... Continue Reading
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05 Apr 2017
Flash, hybrid RealStor added to Seagate storage arrays
Hybrid and all-flash Seagate RealStor arrays are sold to original equipment makers to build branded storage systems. The all-flash pricing is pegged at less than $50,000. Continue Reading
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04 Apr 2017
Microsemi upgrades controllers based on HPE technology
Semiconductor maker Microsemi unveils SmartROC 3100 and SmartIOC 2100 SAS and SATA technology gained in the PMC-Sierra acquisition. The chipset is used to build custom server boards. Continue Reading
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04 Apr 2017
Qumulo funding set for sales/marketing expansion
Qumulo closed a $30 million funding round today, which the scale-out NAS startup will likely use to hire more former Isilon employees. Qumulo is striving to replace Isilon as the scale-out NAS ... Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Apr 2017
Purchase of NAS arrays driven by need for capacity, desire to expand
As unstructured data continues to lead storage growth, businesses are opting for scale-out NAS arrays to handle current and future capacity. Continue Reading
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03 Apr 2017
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 boosts performance, containers
Red Hat's latest Gluster storage update improves performance, deepens container support and introduces space-saving alternative to three-way replication to ensure data integrity. Continue Reading
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28 Mar 2017
ZeroStack gives Intelligent Cloud Platform Nimble back-end
ZeroStack's "private cloud in a box" software is now available on Nimble Storage boxes. The vendors this week launched a joint partnership to sell ZeroStack Intelligent Cloud Platform software on ... Continue Reading
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23 Mar 2017
New Drobo NAS eyes home business, department workgroups
Low-end NAS specialist Drobo is pushing further down market, launching a performance-oriented hybrid NAS aimed at small businesses and distributed collaboration. The five-bay 5N2 Drobo NAS is a ... Continue Reading
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08 Mar 2017
HPE acquisition of Nimble gives it another SAN platform
Surprising HPE acquisition snares hybrid flash vendor Nimble Storage for proposed $1.2 billion. HPE picks up Nimble arrays and vaunts InfoSight storage analytics and monitoring. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Mar 2017
SAN arrays maintain primary data storage dominance, for now
Solid-state flash is the most sought-after technology for primary storage, as storage area networks remain the main focus of increasing capacity for most enterprises. Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Mar 2017
Data storage infrastructure starts with science-fiction inspiration
Find out what happens when you take a cue from an old science-fiction movie and build an 'interocitor' that becomes its own storage infrastructure. Continue Reading
- 03 Mar 2017
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23 Feb 2017
Nexsan Unity adds compliance archive appliance
Nexsan Unity arrays integrate optional secure compliance archive for petabytes of unstructured data. Data files written to primary storage are immediately copied to the archive. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
10 Feb 2017
Announcing the best data storage products of 2016!
This year marks the 15th edition of the Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year awards, recognizing the best storage products of the past year. Nominated products competed across six categories, with the top in each category receiving bronze, silver or gold. Judges graded finalists on innovation, performance, manageability, ease of integration and use, functionality and value.
Modern storage arrays may offer previously unheard of max capacities, but that doesn't mean you won't have problems meeting today's ever-increasing storage capacity and performance requirements. We explore how to squeeze more bits and bytes out of storage systems without negatively affecting storage network performance through best practices for evaluation and configuration as well as tools to help with monitoring and management.
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09 Feb 2017
Zadara Storage Cloud
Zadara Storage Cloud provides block, file and object storage-as-a-service either on-premises hardware managed by Zadara, in the cloud, or both. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2017
Avere Systems Cloud-Core NAS (C2N)
Building on its NAS Edge filer technology, Avere rolled out Cloud-Core NAS (C2N) product, which puts file and object storage in one system that spans on-premises and the cloud. Continue Reading
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Guide
09 Feb 2017
Best data storage products 2016: Products of the Year
Learn more about the best data storage products for 2016 in backup/DR software, backup hardware, storage and SAN management, server-based storage, and all-flash and disk/hybrid. Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Feb 2017
Future of the Ethernet drive may hinge on NVMe over Ethernet
Despite their debut two years ago, drives that connect via Ethernet have been mostly a curiosity. The Ethernet flavor of NVMe over Fabrics may change that. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jan 2017
Quantum video storage customers range from police to pot growers
Quantum's scale-out storage business is growing like a weed, with the help of a large weed grower. While Quantum's DXi disk backup library increased the most of all its product lines last quarter, ... Continue Reading
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Guide
06 Jan 2017
Data storage systems: 2016 Products of the Year finalists
We've culled through the entries for this year's Products of the Year competition and narrowed the field to these 54 finalists in six data storage systems categories. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Oct 2016
HPE launches new XP7 based on Hitachi technology
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched its high-end enterprise storage array upgade today at the same time as Hitachi Data Systems. The HPE XP7 and HDS Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) use the same ... Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Aug 2016
Seven tips to improve data storage efficiency
Storage networks, server-side flash, network cache, software-defined storage and all-flash or hybrid arrays help storage performance and efficiency. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Aug 2016
Seagate, WD see exabyte growth with high-capacity enterprise HDDs
Unit shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) may be on the decline, but the exabytes that Seagate Technology and Western Digital are shipping with their high-capacity enterprise HDDs is spiking. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Jul 2016
RDMA over Fabrics: a big step for SSD access
Shared storage access for servers has been the most basic requirement for storage networks. Performance demands for multiple systems accessing data continually increase due to improvements in ... Continue Reading
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Tip
17 Jun 2016
Storage Spaces Direct builds on Windows Storage Spaces
With the new Direct feature, Windows Storage Spaces can use local storage for failover clusters. It also supports JBOD storage. Continue Reading
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Opinion
06 Jun 2016
Servers and storage become inextricably linked
The rise of flash storage and convergence technologies makes it tougher to see storage and servers as separate entities in a software-defined world. Continue Reading
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Tip
03 Jun 2016
Why the standalone EFSS market isn't going away just yet
Enterprise file sync-and-share allows for simpler file access and sharing on the consumer and business level. Success stories like Box may indicate that EFSS is sticking around. Continue Reading
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