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Answer
25 Aug 2020
What are VMware vVols and how do they work?
VMware's new Virtual Volumes allow virtual machines and applications to be better allocated to storage. The feature is now available in beta. Continue Reading
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Answer
30 Aug 2019
Hyper-V vs. VMware comparison: What are the differences?
Hyper-V and VMware are in a perpetual battle for supremacy in the virtualization market. Although the two hypervisors have similar features, capabilities are somewhat different. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Implementing Big, Fast Persistent Memory
Persistent memory software architect Steve Scargall explains how it is possible to bridge the gaps between memory and storage. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions From Day One
Check out what happened during the first day of the Flash Memory Summit virtual conference. From storage technology trends and challenges to what IT pros should expect to see happen in the industry in years to come. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
NVMe Technology in the Real World
Explore some real-world capabilities of NVMe 1.4 and NVMe-oF 1.1, learn from HPE on how NVMe over Fabrics is evolving to redefine next generation SAN, and more. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Annual Update on New Memory Technologies
Review attributes of various new memory technologies, emerged technologies and what should be the focus for the data center. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Big Memory Software
Take a look at software-defined memory, combining persistent memory and DRAM. 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
Annual Update on Enterprise Storage
This presentation takes a look at the latest developments in enterprise storage. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Enterprise Storage Today
What do vendors and end users alike need to know about flash memory today? Dive into what industry experts have noticed about the technology this past year and ten key things that you should know now about flash. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
TechTarget Storage Media: What Sets Us Apart
Jillian Coffin, VP of Market & Digital Strategy at TechTarget, provides an overview of our online global storage communities, our content and audience data around evolving buying dynamics. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Handling Slow Disks in Heterogeneous SSD Deployments
You'll learn about differences between some disk performance specifics and how these performance variations can be managed. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
NVMe in Cloud Applications
Large installations such as Facebook, Mellanox, Western Digital, and Microsoft choose NVMe technology for their cloud storage. Learn about NVMe technology at scale, deploying NVMe flash on Facebook, and much more. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Using Persistent Memory to Accelerate Tweet Search
As an option to improve per-node throughput, Twitter sought to test the storage of tweet data in persistent memory instead of SSDs. Discover how they integrated the technology and results they saw. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
An Introduction to the Storage Networking Industry Association
Here, you will find a brief overview of what the organization is, how they are serving the storage community and an update on what they have been up to in the last year. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Preview of NVMe 2.0: Impacts for the Data Center
NVMe has rapidly evolved from a disruptive technology to a core element in storage architectures. Review where NVMe was last year and preview the 2.0 specification release. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
SSD Reliability and Debug at Scale
IT pros at Facebook discuss flash reliability at scale in the Facebook infrastructure and how they are solving the problems they have run into. Continue Reading
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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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News
03 Feb 2021
Panasas storage yearns for expanded enterprise presence
After six years as chief operating officer, Panasas CEO Tom Shea took the helm last year to pilot the company's storage roadmap. Continue Reading
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News
29 Jan 2021
QLC flash drives are hot '21 trend, pressure HDDs on price
Hot 2021 trends in memory and storage will include the ramp of QLC SSDs in enterprise flash arrays, pressuring HDDs on price, increasing Optane adoption and NVMe over TCP. Continue Reading
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News
29 Jan 2021
Qumulo update, Quantum arrays target unstructured data
File vendors Qumulo and Quantum product launches differ in approach, but the impetus is identical: giving enterprise data centers the tools to subdue sprawling unstructured data. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2021
Storage as a service trending in 2021
Questions for 2021: Can Dell reach the Apex? How green is HPE's GreenLake? Large vendors highlight storage as a service as a hot area, but mass acceptance could take years. Continue Reading
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Opinion
26 Jan 2021
3D XPoint vs. NAND flash: Why there's room for both
While there are key differences between 3D XPoint and NAND flash -- in terms of performance, cost and uses -- the two technologies will likely coexist for years. Continue Reading
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News
26 Jan 2021
DataCore Software buys Caringo to fill object storage gap
DataCore's acquisition of object storage pioneer Caringo plugs a hole in its software-defined storage and advances its goal of block, file and object storage from a single vendor. Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Jan 2021
Hyperscale shift to 18 TB, SMR HDDs top '21 hard disk trends
New 20 TB energy-assisted and SMR hard disk options are starting to ship, but experts predict the top 2021 trend in data center hard drives will be the transition to 18 TB HDDs. Continue Reading
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News
25 Jan 2021
Vast Data storage packages Nvidia GPU for AI processing
Vast Data storage reference architecture combines the vendor's Universal Storage all-flash system with Nvidia DGX supercomputers. NFS multipathing over RDMA boosts AI data training. Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Jan 2021
Compare 3 file and object storage products
Looking for a product that supports both object and file storage? Explore the varying features of Dell EMC, NetApp and Pure Storage systems. Continue Reading
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News
21 Jan 2021
Hitachi Vantara follows the herd on Kubernetes storage
HKS allows Hitachi Unified Compute Systems systems to directly manage file volumes and objects on clustered Kubernetes nodes. Hitachi acquired the software code from Containership. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Jan 2021
New Infinidat CEO discusses storage transition
Ex-Western Digital exec Phil Bullinger replaces founder Moshe Yanai as CEO of storage vendor Infinidat. Bullinger says Infinidat surpassed 6 exabytes under management last year. Continue Reading
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Tip
12 Jan 2021
Calculate HPC storage costs based on these 8 factors
IT teams that want an accurate estimate of HPC storage costs must account not only for the technology itself, but for staffing, support and ongoing operational expenses. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Jan 2021
Enterprise data storage 2020 Products of the Year finalists
The field of entrants in our 19th annual Products of the Year contest has been reduced to 47 contenders vying for gold, silver and bronze status in five data storage categories. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2021
Services, cloud dominated data storage news in 2020
Storage as a service, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes storage, economic fallout from COVID-19, and backup mergers and acquisitions dominated data storage news in 2020. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2021
Enterprise data storage startups to watch in 2021
Launching a data storage startup is always challenging, and the pandemic made it even tougher in 2020. Here are six startups that can change the way enterprises buy storage. Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Jan 2021
Object storage systems: Benefits, alternatives and use cases
Along with proving itself a reliable option, object storage has stood the test of time. It can tackle unstructured data and the cloud, and it's overcoming performance challenges. Continue Reading
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News
31 Dec 2020
30 TB PCIe 4.0 SSDs, 20 TB HDDs push storage limits in 2020
Enterprise storage drives continued to push the limits of performance and capacity in 2020, with fast new PCIe Gen4 SSDs at 30 TB and energy-assisted HDDs at 20 TB. Continue Reading
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News
29 Dec 2020
VMware sues new Nutanix CEO Ramaswami for breach of contract
VMware said Nutanix CEO Ramaswami broke his contractual obligations when he interviewed for top job at its HCI rival while still working as VMware's chief operating officer. Continue Reading
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News
28 Dec 2020
Zadara VPSAs help power Pratum security services
Security services firm Pratum was ahead of the curve in adopting Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array (VSPA) storage as a service to quickly scale capacity and performance. Continue Reading
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News
21 Dec 2020
Research lab mixes Excelero NVMesh, SSDs for performance pop
La Jolla Institute turned to Excelero NVMesh to help deal with SSD storage required for COVID-19 research, two 10-foot microscopes generating TBs of data a day, and remote work. Continue Reading
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Tip
18 Dec 2020
What the 4 PMem App Direct Modes mean for your organization
Do you know the difference between the four Intel Optane persistent memory App Direct Mode types? Find out how you can use each of them most effectively. Continue Reading
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Tip
17 Dec 2020
9 VDI storage best practices to better connect remote workers
Learn how to plan and deploy VDI storage to make your remote workers more productive and efficient. It's all about knowing your users and picking the right devices. Continue Reading
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News
17 Dec 2020
Veeam acquisition, Google-Actifio highlight 2020 storage M&A
Data protection vendors Veeam, Actifio and Datrium were acquisition targets in 2020; Google and VMware opened their wallets; and Intel sold its memory business -- but kept Optane. Continue Reading
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News
17 Dec 2020
Wholesaler rings up Christmas sales with HPE Nimble Storage
National Tree Company remedied sluggish performance with an HPE Nimble Storage dHCI converged all-flash system, boosting order processing and sales in time for the holidays. Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Dec 2020
7 ways data storage management in 2020 has changed
2020 has been a year of storage management change, from the rush to the cloud to VDIs for all to more automation. Learn about the trends and post-pandemic expectations. Continue Reading
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News
16 Dec 2020
Intel launches fastest Optane SSD, 144-layer QLC NAND SSDs
New additions to Intel's memory and storage product roadmap include Optane's fastest solid-state drive yet and dense 144-layer QLC NAND SSDs that top out at 30.72 TB. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
Breakthroughs Enabling Enterprise QLC SSDs
This keynote presentation focuses on innovations that allow all-flash arrays with QLC to have the same endurance and performance as TLC-based arrays. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
The Evolution of Data Centers in the Data-Centric Era
Data processing units (DPUs) can break through storage roadblocks. Hear more from Pradeep Sindhu, CEO and co-founder of Fungible. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
Using Hardware Acceleration to Increase NVMe Storage Performance
Learn how Marvell is seeing the industry leverage hardware acceleration to bolster NVMe application performance from their VP of marketing of their flash business unit. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
Today's Trends in Cloud and the Future Enterprise
IDC's Matt Eastwood takes a look at digital transformation and the impact it is having on infrastructure and the foundational importance infrastructure has to the business. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
Intel Optane Persistent Memory: From Vision to Reality
Here is a look at Intel's new memory technology that creates a new tier in the memory and storage hierarchy. See some examples of how the technology is used. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
NVMe Technology: Powering the Connected Universe
President of NVM Express Amber Huffman talks about fixing the memory and storage hierarchy with NVMe at the center, refactoring for the next decade of growth within NVMe, and more. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
Accelerating Deep Neural Networks with Analog Memory Devices
Using neuromorphic computing based on analog memory devices could provide extremely high performance and greatly improved energy efficiency for inference and training of deep neural networks (DNNs). Here are some insights to know about. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
Storage as the Driver of Change: Rethinking Data Infrastructure
This keynote presentation from Western Digital's President Siva Sivaram explores the advancements in semiconductors, flash technologies and data architectures. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
DNN Accelerator for the High-Performing Space Computing Program
Like most applications, space systems are migrating from centralized to distributed processing for more autonomous decision making, lower latency, less dependence on communications systems and lower power. Here is a look at what NASA is doing. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
Storage Processors to Unleash the Full Potential of Flash Storage
It is time to simplify infrastructure, stop the over-investment in storage and scale more efficiently. Here are insights to help you unleash the full potential of your flash storage investment. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
What You Need to Know About DNA Data Storage Today
Learn about DNA data storage from a senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
GPUs, CPUs and Storage: Bringing AL and ML to Data Centers Everywhere
Leaders from Nvidia discuss capitalizing on GPUs and new parallel programming models to make artificial intelligence and machine learning available everywhere. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
The Future Adaptable Data Center
The modern data center must evolve to address the demands of changing workloads. Here, you will gain insights from the VP of Data Center Engineering at Xilinx on the future of the adaptable data center. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
14 Dec 2020
Flash Memory Summit 2020
Flash Memory Summit was virtual this year, spanning three days. Here, you have unlimited access to the exclusive Flash Memory Summit keynote presentations and sessions. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Dec 2020
How the computational storage drive is changing computing
Take a closer look at computational storage technology and products, and how localized computation is changing storage architecture and the compute-storage dynamic. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Dec 2020
4 sources of storage latency and PMem's emerging role
Controllers, the software stack, and external and internal interconnects have an outsized impact on storage latency. Learn about their affects and how PMem is countering latency. Continue Reading
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News
10 Dec 2020
Seagate, Western Digital outline progress on RISC-V designs
Seagate and Western Digital provide updates on their RISC-V-enabled processor designs that can drive advances in data storage and security at the network's edge. Continue Reading
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News
09 Dec 2020
Hitachi takes its NVMe flash storage into midrange
Hitachi storage for E Series adds two midrange block arrays based on NVMe flash technology. E590 and E790 scale to 360 TB and differ in processing performance. Continue Reading
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News
07 Dec 2020
EBS Block Express helps AWS reinvent cloud SAN
Most of AWS' storage updates at AWS re:Invent 2020 make enterprise features more accessible to non-enterprise customers, but its Block Express high-IOPS volumes are unique. Continue Reading
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News
04 Dec 2020
Lenovo storage expands NVMe with midrange DM ThinkSystem
Server vendor Lenovo wants to grow its ThinkSystem storage business. The DM5100F NVMe Lenovo storage array integrates S3 protocol for unified data management. Continue Reading
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News
02 Dec 2020
All-flash array adoption rises for NetApp, HPE
NetApp credits AFA flash array sales as key to its gaining market share, while HPE reports significant flash increase despite overall decline in storage revenue. Continue Reading
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News
01 Dec 2020
Intel's 3D XPoint dominance will face challenge from Micron
Intel's Optane memory and storage products have no competition now, but that will change as Micron and potentially other vendors ramp up production in the future. Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Dec 2020
7 cloud storage and file-sharing services to consider
Cloud-based file-sharing services enable teams that are working remotely to share files and collaborate with colleagues and clients all over the world. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Nov 2020
Managing unstructured data to boost performance, lower costs
Is unmanaged, unstructured data clogging up your primary storage? Get control of this costly, performance-sapping situation and start managing unstructured data cost-effectively. Continue Reading
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Quiz
30 Nov 2020
Test your knowledge of object storage usage in the enterprise
Do you know when and where to use object storage? Take our quiz to see which workloads it's best for and insight into how object storage fits into the overall storage picture. Continue Reading
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News
30 Nov 2020
Next Pathway gives data warehouses a route to the cloud
Next Pathway has introduced Crawler360, a tool for helping customers size and cost their migration from legacy data warehouses such as Netezza and Teradata to cloud platforms. Continue Reading
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News
25 Nov 2020
Dell still waiting for PowerStore to power up
Dell EMC's flashy new PowerStore array has done little to remediate the leading storage vendor's shrinking midrange market share, allowing competitors to gain ground. Continue Reading
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News
25 Nov 2020
Pure Storage cloud licensing buoys vendor's fortunes
Pure Storage cloud revenue grew by double digits last quarter. A new service catalog guides customers to categorize workloads for predictable performance and pricing. Continue Reading
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News
24 Nov 2020
Dense processing fuels Pavilion Data storage performance
Pavilion Hyperparallel Flash Array clusters multiple controllers in unified namespace that spans racks and chassis. Pavilion storage scales 2.2 PB of raw NVMe flash. Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Nov 2020
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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Feature
20 Nov 2020
Comparing RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and 50 explained
RAID protects data and improves storage performance and availability, but it can be confusing. Read about the different types of RAID, the pros and cons, and where they work best. Continue Reading
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News
19 Nov 2020
Qumulo storage adds NVMe cache to NAS stash
The Qumulo storage software code was written to operate in containers in microservices environments. The vendor swapped SATA SSDs for NVMe to cache data in front of capacity disk. Continue Reading
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News
19 Nov 2020
Flash storage debate heats up over QLC SSDs vs. HDDs
QLC flash storage is exerting pressure on spinning disk for mass storage and archiving use cases -- but HDDs will stick around for years if not decades, industry experts predict. Continue Reading
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News
18 Nov 2020
COVID-19 research generates big data, invaluable info
When supporting COVID-19 research that could uncover treatment for the pandemic, IT and storage pros want to make sure they're 'not the bottleneck' in the process. Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Nov 2020
All-flash object storage makes its way into the enterprise
Object storage isn't just for backups and archives anymore. All-flash offerings are being used for AI, machine learning and analytics. See what types of products are available. Continue Reading
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News
18 Nov 2020
Kioxia flash storage sews NVMe fabric onto Kubernetes
Kioxia's KumoScale virtualizes NVMe block volumes for consumption by file and object storage. The Kioxia flash invokes native TCP/IP drivers to install an NVMe-oF layer. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Nov 2020
Immutable storage: What it is, why it's used and how it works
When data files must absolutely, positively remain forever unalterable, immutable storage technology is one affordable approach to consider. Continue Reading
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News
13 Nov 2020
NVMe, Optane, GPUs exert big impact on enterprise storage
Enterprises in need of high-performance storage for AI, analytics and virtualization may find help in new NVMe, Optane and processor technologies, a Flash Memory Summit panel says. Continue Reading
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News
11 Nov 2020
Flash storage grows up with new EDSFF SSDs, denser 3D NAND
Expansive new directions for flash memory technology shine brightly in the launch of 176-layer 3D NAND chips, EDSFF E1.S and Zoned Namespace SSDs, and computational storage drives. Continue Reading
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News
11 Nov 2020
Quantum NAS options expand with All-Terrain File System
Quantum adds to its NAS lineup with All-Terrain File System aimed at general-purpose use cases while enhancing its StorNext parallel file system and ActiveScale object storage. Continue Reading
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Opinion
09 Nov 2020
Lines blur between structured and unstructured data storage
Open source tools like Presto persist low-cost unstructured object data stores while still making information accessible through structured data access tools such as SQL. Continue Reading
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Opinion
09 Nov 2020
With release of vSphere 7, VMware takes NVMe-oF mainstream
VMware's support of NVMe-oF means organizations might be able to significantly improve the performance of their application environments without changing any data center hardware. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Nov 2020
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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Tip
06 Nov 2020
3 ways to ease the green data storage transition
Energy-efficient storage promises several benefits. Finding the right approach requires carefully assessing available technology, where you keep your data and costs. Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2020
Adoption of Intel Optane persistent memory picks up in 2020
Intel provides an update on adoption trends for its Optane persistent memory modules, showing that SAP HANA, virtualization and high-performance computing are top use cases. Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2020
StorCentric buys flash storage pioneer Violin to fill gap
StorCentric's storage portfolio added an NVMe-based midrange option to its Nexsan and Vexata lines with the acquisition of beleaguered all-flash array pioneer Violin Systems. Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2020
IBM Spectrum protects OpenShift container data
IBM seeks to outdo Tanzu; Spectrum Protect for Red Hat OpenShift launches as new containers are spun into operation, and protects OpenShift Container Storage with snapshots. Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2020
Video game hosting company uses Optane memory to cut costs
Intel's Optane persistent memory modules enable a global online game hosting provider to expand memory and lower costs over DRAM with negligible performance difference. Continue Reading
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News
27 Oct 2020
NetApp Spot tools abstract compute, storage for containers
NetApp Spot optimizes containers for OnTap storage. The objective is to boost data management and protection as containers migrate between Kubernetes clusters. Continue Reading
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News
27 Oct 2020
StorCentric enters data management with Data Mobility Suite
StorCentric's Data Mobility Suite helps customers manage and move data across heterogeneous storage environments. It is entering a market space with stiff competition. Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2020
NetApp cloud overshadows everything else at Insight 2020
NetApp stitches cloud services with its Data Fabric technology. NetApp Insight 2020 will showcase new cloud consumption options and storage for microservices-based applications. Continue Reading
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Opinion
21 Oct 2020
Project Apex brings Dell into battle to control IT services
If you were looking for new products at Dell Tech World 2020, you went to the wrong place. It's all about Dell's Project Apex initiative for selling infrastructure as a service. Continue Reading
