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Expert Advice // Using AWS storage
What are the top 5 Amazon S3 storage security best practices?
Public bucket access is a prevalent and discussed S3 security issue. However, there are several other important security measures to take, including monitoring and MFA.
By Brien Posey • Aug. 5, 2022 -
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.
By Adam Armstrong • Aug. 4, 2022 -
Intel pulls the plug on Optane
Intel will wind down its storage class memory business as it plans to shift focus elsewhere, while still supporting current customers using the technology.
By Adam Armstrong • July 29, 2022 -
What to know about SMART SSD use
This overview of SMART attributes in SSDs explains how organizations can put them to good use. SMART SSDs provide peace of mind about device life span.
By Jim Handy • July 29, 2022 -
Expert Advice // Using AWS storage
Explore top AWS storage types for file, block, object
There are several AWS storage types, but these four offerings cover file, block and object storage needs. Explore how the cloud storage choices compare with each other.
By Brien Posey • July 29, 2022 -
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.
By Ryan Arel • July 28, 2022 -
Micron breaks the 200-layer barrier in NAND
Micron is shipping a 232-layer NAND that brings higher density and performance with potentially lower costs, starting on the client side before moving to the data center.
By Adam Armstrong • July 27, 2022 -
Scale storage to deal with increasing data volumes
How to plan for a potential data storage shortage
Try saying 'data storage shortage' five times fast. Hopefully you won't need to say it often in the near future, but with escalating data volumes, planning is key.
By Jim Handy • July 27, 2022 -
StorOne scales storage for free
StorOne's new Scale-for-Free pricing model, with its license fees per drive instead of per capacity, targets storage consumers that wish to use larger media for a set price.
By Adam Armstrong • July 26, 2022 -
Expert Advice // Composable infrastructure and its storage connections
A primer on disaggregated storage
Disaggregated storage enables organizations to scale compute and storage separately for high-performance, low-latency workloads. Some benefits are cost savings and flexibility.
By Garry Kranz • July 26, 2022 -
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.
By Tim McCarthy • July 25, 2022 -
Expert Advice
Best practices for legal hold storage
Storing data for legal holds could be a mission-critical task. Storage admins should understand how to prepare for legal holds and deal with them when they occur.
By Robert Sheldon • July 18, 2022 -
Considerations to plan AI storage architecture for big data
This chapter from 'The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop' examines how to plan for AI data storage. Plan for factors like volume and scale for long-term success.
By Packt Publishing, Ryan Arel • July 18, 2022 -
Fujifilm to raise some LTO tape prices 5% this fall
Fujifilm will hike the price of some of its older and most popular LTO tapes Oct. 1. It's hoping the monthslong lead up time will help companies better plan.
By Paul Crocetti • July 15, 2022 -
StorCentric files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Rapid acquisitions followed by supply chain issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic led StorCentric to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an effort to restructure.
By Adam Armstrong • July 13, 2022 -
HPE exec: GreenLake is to HPE as AWS is to Amazon
In this Q&A, HPE's Omer Asad discusses the vendor's transformation from an on-premises hardware provider to a platform company with its GreenLake portfolio.
By Adam Armstrong • July 11, 2022 -
Expert Advice // Scale storage to deal with increasing data volumes
What’s driving the resurgence in tape storage use?
Tape storage use has had a recent revival as a result of its air-gapped protection from ransomware. But that's not the only reason why businesses use the legacy technology.
By Brien Posey • June 30, 2022 -
Storage certifications to bolster your skills
Storage admins looking to gain new skills or make better use of their vendor-supplied storage systems can look to certification and qualification courses.
By Ryan Arel • June 28, 2022 -
data lifecycle management (DLM)
Data lifecycle management (DLM) is a policy-based approach to managing the flow of an information system's data throughout its lifecycle: from creation and initial storage to when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.
By Robert Sheldon • June 28, 2022 -
Micron releases first 176-layer NAND SATA SSD
Micron brings high endurance, lower costs and continued support for the SATA interface with the release of its new 5400 SATA SSD for the data center.
By Adam Armstrong • June 28, 2022 -
MinIO extends Snowflake analysis to any data location
MinIO scored a partnership with Snowflake to bring the cloud data warehouse analytics nearly everywhere a user's data resides.
By Adam Armstrong • June 23, 2022 -
Weka adds multi-cloud support for AI, ML apps
With Weka 4.0, the parallel file system provider will support four major public cloud vendors while consolidating high performance workloads and adding a data reduction feature.
By Adam Armstrong • June 21, 2022 -
converged network adapter (CNA)
A converged network adapter (CNA) is a single network interface device that provides the functionality of both a Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapter (HBA) and a TCP/IP Ethernet network interface card (NIC).
By Todd Erickson, Robert Sheldon • June 16, 2022 -
StorOne connects HDDs with NVMe-oF
StorOne extended NVMe-oF to SAS HDDs, bringing some of the NVMe benefits to the older technology before NVMe hard drives hit the market while reducing costs of NVMe-oF.
By Adam Armstrong • June 14, 2022 -
Opinion
Pure Storage’s focus shines at Pure Accelerate 2022
At Pure Accelerate 2022, Pure Storage displayed its continued investment in R&D, coupled with new product releases. The vendor should continue to make a splash in flash.
By Scott Sinclair • June 14, 2022