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Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Western Digital split could benefit HDD, flash storage users
Though the storage market won't be massively changed by the split of Western Digital, it could benefit customers of each new company.
By Adam Armstrong • Aug. 26, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Expert Advice
How to create Azure Blob Storage accounts
Follow these steps and best practices for how to create Azure Blob Storage. Keep security in mind as you move through the important, detailed process.
By Brien Posey • Aug. 23, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Expert Advice
Get to know the archive bit and its role in data backup
Good data management is key to protecting critical files. A tool like the archive bit can help ensure backup administrators know what data needs to be backed up at a glance.
By Brien Posey • Aug. 22, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is continuous data protection (CDP)?
Continuous data protection (CDP), also known as 'continuous backup,' is a backup and recovery storage system in which all the data in an enterprise is backed up whenever any change is made.
By Nick Barney, Stephen Bigelow • Aug. 20, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Expert Advice // Using Microsoft Azure storage
A guide to Microsoft Azure storage pricing
Take a deep dive into the costs of Microsoft Azure cloud storage across several different types, including Blob Storage and Files. Compare pricing with AWS and Google Cloud.
By Brien Posey • Aug. 15, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Memory and storage experts share highlights from FMS 2024
Industry experts look back on the expanded FMS 2024, weighing in on the big takeaways and what discussions say about the future of the storage and memory markets.
By Adam Armstrong • Aug. 14, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
TechTarget Storage Products of the Year judging criteria
This article discusses how products are judged for the TechTarget Storage Products of the Year awards.
By TechTarget Storage Editorial Staff • Aug. 12, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
NetApp additions aim to ease migrations and hybrid cloud
The latest NetApp capabilities enable hybrid cloud functionality and expand migration options, important features as customer look to avoid lock-in.
By Tim McCarthy • Aug. 9, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Expert Advice
What’s the best way to protect against HDD failure?
Whatever the reason for failure, HDDs are hard to repair. Admins need to get out in front of potential issues, like the four described here, to prevent prolonged downtime.
By Robert Sheldon • Aug. 7, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Kioxia wins lifetime achievement for 3D NAND amid IPO plans
The flash storage industry wouldn't be where it is today without 3D NAND. To celebrate its invention, Kioxia is receiving a Future of Memory and Storage Lifetime Achievement Award.
By Adam Armstrong • Aug. 6, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Major changes could reshape the NAND flash market
The last few years have seen NAND prices crater before rebounding. The next few years may see the major players in the market go public, split or merge.
By Adam Armstrong • Aug. 2, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Where and how to manage SSDs
How the key-value SSD promises to outperform block storage
Key-value SSDs show potential in performance and storage management, but how would they be implemented? What other advantages do they offer over block storage?
By Jim Handy • Aug. 2, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is a partition in computers?
A partition is a logical division of a hard disk drive (HDD) that's treated as a separate unit by operating systems (OSes) and file systems.
By Paul Kirvan, Sonia Lelii • Aug. 1, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is an embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC)?
An embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC) is a small storage device made up of NAND flash memory and a storage controller.
By Paul Kirvan, Rodney Brown • July 31, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is an NVDIMM (non-volatile dual in-line memory module)?
An NVDIMM (non-volatile dual in-line memory module) is hybrid computer memory that retains data during a service outage.
By Paul Kirvan, Garry Kranz • July 31, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Opinion
Hitachi Vantara expands in hybrid and multi-cloud storage
As enterprises increasingly need cross-cloud consistency, hybrid capabilities and on-premises technology, storage vendors like Hitachi Vantara are trying to rise to the occasion.
By Scott Sinclair • July 29, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe over FC)? Definition and Guide
Non-volatile memory express over Fibre Channel (NVMe over FC) is a technology specification designed to enable NVMe-based message commands to transfer data and status information between a host computer and a target storage subsystem over a Fibre Channel network fabric.
By Paul Kirvan, Carol Sliwa • July 26, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Micron brings its first PCIe 5.0 SSD to market with 9550
A late entry to the PCIe 5.0 SSD market, the Micron 9550 intends to set itself apart from the veterans in the Gen 5 arena, including Kioxia and Samsung.
By Adam Armstrong • July 25, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is U.2 SSD (formerly SFF-8639)?
A U.2 SSD is a high-performance data storage device designed to support the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface using a small form factor (SFF) connector that is also compatible with standard SAS and SATA-based spinning disks and solid-state drives (SSDs).
By Rahul Awati, Carol Sliwa • July 25, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is bit rot?
Bit rot is the slow deterioration in the performance and integrity of data stored on storage media.
By Rahul Awati, Kim Hefner • July 25, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is parity in computing?
In computers, parity (from the Latin paritas, meaning "equal or equivalent") is a technique that checks whether data has been lost or written over when it is moved from one place in storage to another or when it is transmitted between computers.
By Rahul Awati, Ed Hannan • July 25, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is Ceph?
Ceph is an open source software solution that provides a unified system for enterprise-level object, block- and file-based storage.
By Carol Sliwa • July 25, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Opinion
NetApp expands multi-cloud capabilities to empower AI
Capacity, performance, agility and consistency are some of the key areas of focus for vendors as they approach multi-cloud storage and AI requirements.
By Scott Sinclair • July 24, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Expert Advice // Using Box storage
Analyze enterprise Box cloud storage pricing options
Box Enterprise and Enterprise Plus offer more features at similar prices to other platforms and may be a better option if you're mainly looking for storage.
By Julia Borgini • July 22, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is SSD RAID (solid-state drive RAID)?
SSD RAID (solid-state drive RAID) is a methodology commonly used to protect data by distributing redundant data blocks across multiple SSDs.
By Paul Kirvan, Carol Sliwa • July 19, 2024
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