Storage system and application software

How customers could be affected by MinIO-Nutanix dispute

MinIO revoked Nutanix's open source license, which could mean customers would have to work with Nutanix on how to best use its Objects product moving forward. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

Tips to plan storage elements of artificial intelligence

Author and data engineer Chinmay Arankalle explores how organizations can manage storage for AI. Management and storage options include data lakes and high-performance storage. Continue Reading

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• Ryan Arel, Former Associate Site Editor

Biotech company saves on data management through software

Biotech maker PacBio gleaned big savings and organized a mountain of data when it added data management tools for its local hardware and data silos. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

Key differences in software RAID vs. hardware RAID

Hardware RAID generally costs more than software RAID but may offer better performance. Consider factors like cost, performance needs and OSes to find the best fit. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

image compression

Image compression is a process applied to a graphics file to minimize its size in bytes without degrading image quality below an acceptable threshold. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

image

An image is a visual representation of something, while a digital image is a binary representation of visual data. Continue Reading

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• Andrew Zola

Key features of a distributed file system

Distributed file systems enable users to access file data that is spread across multiple storage servers. A DFS should uphold data integrity and be secure and scalable. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

Zadara revs up F1 team's capabilities with edge storage

Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen uses Zadara to store and access race and technical data so that it can improve race analysis and mechanical performance. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

Pure Storage customers can buy, rent and now lease products

Pure Storage unites disparate SaaS products under the new Evergreen umbrella and adds the Evergreen Flex tier as a lease-to-own option for hardware. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

DataCore Bolt strikes at enterprise Kubernetes

DataCore brings an enterprise-ready version of OpenEBS' Kubernetes storage management with DataCore Bolt, the company's first software release since acquiring MayaData. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

IXsystems aims for the enterprise with latest OS updates

IXsystems brought performance and feature updates to TrueNAS and TrueNAS Scale in a major update that the vendor hopes will make it more attractive to the enterprise. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

What are some tips for storage of sensitive data?

Loss or theft of sensitive data can lead to legal, compliance and business consequences. Be sure to take proper precautions to securely store that data. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

Dell cuts data center redundancy for SMC Corporation

SMC Corporation eliminates data center redundancy using Dell Technologies storage and HCI products to develop a private cloud for the global company. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

Storage OSes get spotlight at Dell Tech World

Dell storage software superseded any hardware news at the vendor's annual user show, highlighting cybersecurity and emphasizing its commitment to Project Alpine. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

TGen saves time and expands research using MemVerge

TGen needed more memory to get over HPC analysis issues; the nonprofit used MemVerge's Big Memory software to create larger memory pools and get research and analysis done faster. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

Hammerspace connects virtual studio of Jellyfish Pictures

The Hammerspace Global Data Environment enables collaboration and savings for Jellyfish Pictures, a U.K.-based animation studio with artists working across the world. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

LucidLink speeds up metadata downloads for faster file access

Metadata Streaming enables users of LucidLink's Filespaces to access petabytes of data faster without slowdowns, a new feature in the latest Filespaces update. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

MemVerge, Liqid create composable memory pools before CXL

MemVerge and Liqid combined software with Intel Optane to make composable memory pools that can do today what the CXL standard will do in the future. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

IBM quietly introduces software-only Spectrum Fusion

IBM has added to its Spectrum Fusion lineup with a software-only version, which also includes data protection for containers and app monitoring for the new and older HCI versions. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

Quantum adds Scalar tape storage for hyperscalers, enterprises

The Quantum Scalar i6H, along with the Quantum RAIL architecture, enables hyperscalers and enterprises to use tape in a scale-out fashion like other storage media. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

Nvidia buys Excelero to speed block storage access in DPUs

Excelero's NVMe storage pooling technology will become integrated with Nvidia's DPU technology stack for faster block storage access in data centers. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

Pure Storage enables healthcare org's cloud Kubernetes

Pure Storage's Portworx products and AWS managed EKS service creates digital infrastructure for CHG Healthcare, enabling faster app development and portability across clouds. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

NVMe-oF storage provider Pavilion Data raises $45 million

NVMe-oF startup Pavilion Data completed a series C1 funding with an additional $45 million, while keeping its focus on helping customers tackle modern workloads. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

DDN launches high-performance AI storage with AI400X2

DataDirect Networks' AI400X2 comes with double the performance and nearly twice the capacity of its previous model, and new features for AI storage such as automatic tiering. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

Dell EMC Container Storage Modules hit general availability

Dell EMC announced the general availability of its six Container Storage Modules that are designed to make legacy storage container-ready. Dell also announced a unified CSI driver. Continue Reading

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• Adam Armstrong, News Writer

Storage for edge computing is the next frontier for IoT

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Storage for edge computing is the next frontier for IoT

IoT edge devices are getting smarter and will need local storage for machine learning and other AI operations. Is the industry ready for the challenge of storage for edge computing? Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Mexican production studio storage needs supported by Quantum

Quantum's StorNext File System supports new Mexican production studio looking to grow their business worldwide with an expandable NVMe storage setup and ongoing tape backups. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

How the Container Storage Interface can aid Kubernetes use

Compared to in-tree plugins, the Container Storage Interface simplifies Kubernetes integration with storage devices, but thorough testing of CSI drivers is a must. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Civo and StorageOS partner for Kubernetes in the cloud

Civo, a managed Kubernetes cloud service, selects StorageOS to provide lightweight, persistent storage for their customers' container application needs and future database storage. Continue Reading

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• Tim McCarthy, News Writer

Nvidia finalizes GPUDirect Storage 1.0 to accelerate AI, HPC

Nvidia GPUDirect Storage's driver hit 1.0 status to enable direct memory access between GPU and storage and boost the performance of data-intensive AI, HPC and analytics workloads. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Guidelines to implement storage for AI workloads

Organizations with AI-enabled projects need an effective way to store, retrieve and share massive amounts of complex data. These tips will help meet AI data storage challenges. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

Big data vs. artificial intelligence: How they compare

Artificial intelligence can help synthesize and analyze the large volumes of information provided by big data initiatives. The two are different, but they work well together. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

How intelligent storage optimizes IT infrastructure with AI, ML

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Optimal architectures for intelligent storage systems

Explore the best, most optimal architectures for intelligent storage and how these systems improve storage performance/utilization to help get more bang out of your data set buck. Continue Reading

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• Dan Sullivan

Optimal architectures for intelligent storage systems

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Storage optimization strategies for time-series data stores

Storing time-series data should depend on how the data is used and its age. Discover tips for saving data for comparative analysis, machine learning and other purposes. Continue Reading

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• Dan Sullivan

Storage optimization strategies for time-series data stores

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Computational storage fundamentals explained

Computational storage is an emerging technology, but it isn't too soon to develop an understanding of how it can be used to address storage latency and performance issues. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

5 containerized storage tips to keep in your back pocket

Interested in data storage containers? Ensure you get the most out of a containerization strategy and don't miss out on any benefits because of common misconceptions. Continue Reading

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• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor

Computational storage may ease edge storage efforts

Before diving into storage at the edge, ensure your organization can meet the technology's lofty space and resource requirements. Computational storage can help. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

How AI is changing the storage consumption landscape

Deep learning, machine learning and neural networks are drastically changing how storage is consumed. Find out why this is happening and what products are helping meet this need. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Get to know edge storage and the technology around it

Edge computing changes how data is managed between the network endpoints and data centers or the cloud. Learn about the various components that make up an edge system. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

5 areas to assess when rethinking storage at the edge

Does your organization have the right edge storage resources? Here's what you need to focus on to ensure your organization keeps pace with changes at the edge. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Maximizing containerized storage performance and flexibility

Are you taking full advantage of container storage? When properly deployed, containers can bring significant benefits, including better flexibility and performance. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

6 key AI data storage questions answered

Want to know what to watch for when planning storage for AI workloads? Find out the key considerations and challenges for dealing with the complexities of AI. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

Container data storage's emerging role now and in the future

See how application workload and cloud portability requirements are driving container storage preferences in the latest research from the Taneja Group. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group
• Jeff Kato, Taneja Group

Computational storage terminology explained

Computational and edge storage are changing the way we manage data at the network edge. Understanding the terminology around this technology can help clarify how it works. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

Q&A: SwiftStack object storage zones in on AI, ML, analytics

Q&A: SwiftStack's founder and president Joe Arnold says disk-based object storage can deliver the concurrency and throughput that AI, machine learning and analytics workloads need. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Portworx helps Esri with stateful container storage for IoT

GIS specialist Esri addresses stateful container storage problem with Portworx' Enterprise software-defined storage in upcoming ArcGIS Analytics for IoT service. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

SwiftStack layoffs reflect change in focus to AI, analytics

Object storage vendor SwiftStack hands out layoff notices for the holidays -- cuts sales, marketing, partner team members, while shifting focus to analytics, AI, machine learning. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Computational storage for IoT and other potential use cases

IoT is the main application for computational storage. Another potential use case is inside scale-out server architecture, but those applications are still under development. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Leading storage for AI tools address workload capacity, performance

Today's AI storage platforms provide organizations stand-alone and prepackaged products designed to address the data storage and capacity needs of their AI workloads. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

8 factors that make AI storage more efficient

AI workloads need storage optimized for performance, capacity and availability. Discover everything you'll want to consider when planning storage for AI applications. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Why application intelligence is the linchpin of modern data centers

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Why application intelligence is the linchpin of modern data centers

AI-based application intelligence tools help IT cope with growing scale and complexity by automatically detecting workloads, analyzing requirements and making recommendations. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

SwiftStack 7 storage upgrade targets AI, machine learning use cases

SwiftStack's latest upgrade extends its ProxyFS file system to the edge and cloud namespace to file data namespace to cater to artificial intelligence, machine learning workloads. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

AI storage platforms meet machine learning, data analysis needs

Learn which storage for AI products organizations should consider buying, based on how machine learning and AI tasks will be performed and how data is collected in their environments. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

New NVMe IBM storage for Spectrum Scale cuts install time

IBM introduces new NVMe-based flash storage system bundled with Spectrum Scale, enables Spectrum Discover to access backup date, and updates pay-as-you-grow pricing. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

6 criteria for selecting the right AI data storage

Buying the wrong storage AI platform could have serious implications. Learn the six considerations that can affect your organization's product choice and strategy. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

The secret to reliable storage provisioning for DevOps

Cloud storage and intelligent storage can help provide DevOps teams with the reliable, fast and flexible storage they require at every phase of the application delivery process. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

The secret to reliable storage provisioning for DevOps

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Storage strategies for machine learning and AI workloads

Learn how organizations are using machine learning and AI to create actionable insights and what challenges they face as they develop their storage strategies. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

Manage and provision storage for DevOps

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How to optimize storage for AI, machine learning and deep learning

AI and deep learning apps use large data sets and fast I/O. But storage can cause performance issues. See what features your AI and deep learning storage systems should have. Continue Reading

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• Kurt Marko, MarkoInsights

Machine learning for data analytics can solve big data storage issues

Discover how AI and machine learning -- with support from major vendors and technologies like Lambda architecture, FPGAs and containers -- address big data analytics challenges. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Machine learning for data analytics can solve big data storage issues

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Machine learning for data storage optimizes data analysis

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Open source machine learning accelerates winemaking

Using open source machine learning, Palmaz Vineyards developed a tool to automatically alert winemakers of environmental conditions. Soon, the data flowed like wine. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

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

AI for storage management gets real

AI for storage is popping up everywhere, though much of what we're seeing is the automation of routine tasks. Discover what vendors are doing to use AI more creatively. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

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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• John Edwards

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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• Carol Sliwa

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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• Garry Kranz

New IBM AI reference architecture uses Nvidia supercomputers

IBM introduces new AI reference architecture that channel partners will build with Nvidia supercomputers, the IBM Spectrum Scale parallel file system and IBM flash storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell EMC AI reference architecture builds on Isilon all-flash

For its AI product strategy, Dell EMC is pursuing the same approach it takes with other storage products. Namely, that it’s better to have multiples of similar storage gear than to leave a gap in ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

In-vehicle mobile data storage is Quantum's next target

Quantum Mobile Storage is designed to capture vehicle data from self-driving cars and easily offload it to a Quantum StorNext appliance. It's built to handle harsh, mobile environments. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Hitachi storage technologies underpin AI and cloud plans

Hitachi Vantara is making several pivots from the storage vendor previously known as Hitachi Data Systems. But has it gone too far from its core storage technology? Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Hitachi analytics sharpens heterogeneous storage management

Upgraded Hitachi Vantara analytics for storage improves visual mapping of application storage and integrates dynamic-cooling IoT technologies from Vigilent. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Catch the next wave of digital IT transformation: Learning tech

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Catch the next wave of digital IT transformation: Learning tech

IT learning technologies, such as machine learning and AI workloads, are gaining traction and could be the next wave of IT investment that drives competitive advantages. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

Lustre-based DDN ExaScaler arrays receive NVMe flash

High-performance computing specialist DataDirect Networks spruced up its ExaScaler SFA-based flagship with nonvolatile memory express flash, and it bought Lustre from Intel. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Vexata fires up NVMe flash storage to tackle analytics

Vexata claims about two dozen customers are using its all-flash NVMe VX storage arrays. Vendor says the product upgrade targets growing need for fast storage in cognitive computing. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Container applications need backup: Who knew?

The concept of containers, ephemeral applications running across private and public clouds, has grown in popularity over the last few years. It has quickly become clear that the transient nature of containers and container applications isn't compatible with the enterprise, however. As a result, data persistence has arrived in the world of containers and made it necessary to back up container data, protecting it the same way as all other enterprise data.

Securing container data has its own set of processes and requirements, though, and how container backups and data protection are implemented depends largely on the design of the container ecosystem. Vendors take a variety of approaches -- including products, agents and plug-ins -- to back up container applications. This article tells you what you need to know about backing up container data and explores the options available for container backups.

Ransomware is a serious threat that's having a deleterious impact on businesses worldwide. While backing up data is an important tool in the war on ransomware, an unlikely ally has emerged in the form object storage technology, which can add an extra layer of protection beyond traditional backups. When properly implemented, object storage can reduce the chances of ransomware encrypting your data. It could even help get all or some of your data back after an infection without paying a ransom. Find out how object storage can help better protect your valuable data from ransomware.

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Crossbar ReRAM hits 1x nanometer process milestone

Crossbar recently chalked up another milestone in its quest to get on-chip non-volatile resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology to market. The Santa Clara, California-based startup licensed its core ReRAM ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Managing storage for IoT data at the enterprise edge

Edge computing, the cloud and internet of things data are changing the way businesses store, analyze and manage all the information generated at the perimeter of the enterprise. Continue Reading

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• Alan R. Earls

IoT initiatives and other emerging workloads force data center change

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IoT initiatives and other emerging workloads force data center change

Internet of things projects and other new technology, such as analytics and machine learning, are tied to software-defined storage and public cloud use, changing the face of IT. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

Red Hat updates Gluster Storage for OpenShift container apps

Red Hat beefs up its Container-Native Storage with block and object interfaces and a significant increase in persistent volume density for use with its OpenShift Container Platform. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Persistent data storage in containerized environments

The most significant challenge to the rise of containerized applications is quickly and easily providing enterprise-class persistent storage for containers. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

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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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

Qumulo Core data-aware arrays help researchers manage sequencer data

Carnegie Institution for Science's embryology department manages research data with Qumulo Core data-aware NAS storage, taking advantage of advanced analytics. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

The need for application-aware storage

Server virtualization leads to unpredictable workloads. Application-aware storage could be the answer. Continue Reading

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• Terri McClure