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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.
By Adam Armstrong • Oct. 15, 2021 -
Faster block storage, Actifio’s fate outlined at Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Next announcements expand Google Cloud's enterprise storage portfolio with future native Actifio data protection and new extreme persistent disk for block storage.
By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 13, 2021 -
Qumulo, Levi’s Stadium kick off into clouds for storage savings
Levi's Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, moves data into the cloud and reduces data center redundancy with Qumulo by archiving security footage and media files.
By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 12, 2021 -
Hitachi Vantara’s new VSP 5600 hits 33 million IOPS
Hitachi Vantara launched new VSP 5000 models and added storage options to its E Series. The products may help enable storage consolidation for customers.
By Adam Armstrong • Oct. 12, 2021 -
New tools from Komprise focus on multi-cloud data movement
Komprise's new update expands data management features with Deep Analytics Actions to catalog, search and make use of siloed data across on-prem and cloud storage.
By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 12, 2021 -
Micron launches 7400 PCIe Gen 4 SSDs for data centers
Micron unveiled NVMe SSDs with seven form factors this week, all with PCIe Gen 4 performance. The new family of SSDs could take Micron deeper into the data center.
By Adam Armstrong • Oct. 8, 2021 -
Expert Advice
What is SAN zoning and what are the different types of zoning?
Zoning can be set up according to server, storage and SAN switch. Discover what type of zoning to use, how zone sets extend SAN segmentation and the various zoning schemas.
By Simon Gordon, Robert Sheldon, Garry Kranz • Oct. 8, 2021 -
Egnyte kindles SaaS with enterprise ransomware protection
Egnyte introduces new ransomware protection for all SaaS subscribers. Features include protection at all tiers and new recovery services for the top-tier service.
By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 6, 2021 -
Quantum unveils ActiveScale on-prem archiving service
Quantum's new product combines ActiveScale object storage and Quantum tape to deploy a petabyte-scale cold storage environment within customers' on-prem data centers.
By Johnny Yu • Oct. 5, 2021 -
Opinion
Why QLC flash adoption now benefits the enterprise
While enterprises must overcome some obstacles with QLC, there is a solid case for its use. 3D NAND has played a big part in enabling QLC use within the enterprise.
By Jim Handy • Oct. 5, 2021 -
cache
A cache -- pronounced CASH -- is hardware or software that is used to store something, usually data, temporarily in a computing environment.
By Ben Lutkevich , Stacey Peterson , Brien Posey • Oct. 4, 2021 -
Architecture firm shares ransomware recovery success story
The architecture firm Leo A Daly executed a successful ransomware recovery using the Nasuni cloud file system. It also used Nasuni to move storage off premises and into the cloud.
By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 1, 2021 -
Expert Advice // Data storage planning and policy development
Implement data storage policy with guidelines, free template
Data storage policies are an important piece of data management. The free template on this page will help organizations lay out requirements for secure storage.
By Paul Kirvan • Sept. 30, 2021 -
Opinion
Computational storage: Go beyond computation offloading
Computational storage proponents include academia and the Storage Networking Industry Association. While there's behind-the-scenes work still to do, the tech could bring benefits.
By Tong Zhang • Sept. 30, 2021 -
IT pros talk benefits of cloud file storage at CloudBound21
Three IT professionals from across the globe discuss the benefits of using cloud file storage over their previous on-prem setups during Nasuni's CloudBound21 conference.
By Tim McCarthy • Sept. 29, 2021 -
yottabyte (YB)
A yottabyte (YB) is a measure of theoretical storage capacity and data volumes equal to 2 to the 80th power bytes, or approximately a million trillion megabytes (MB).
By Alexander Gillis • Sept. 29, 2021 -
Pure Storage adds automated storage API, databases on demand
All-flash array vendor Pure Storage expands its cloud services with Fusion, enabling storage on demand for developers, and Portworx Data Services, a database-as-a-service.
By Tim McCarthy • Sept. 28, 2021 -
tiered storage
Tiered storage is a method for assigning different categories of data to various types of storage media to reduce overall storage costs and improve the performance and availability of mission-critical applications.
By Dave Raffo, Robert Sheldon, Garry Kranz • Sept. 27, 2021 -
optical storage
Optical storage is any storage type in which data is written and read with a laser.
By Rodney Brown, Robert Sheldon • Sept. 24, 2021 -
Next Pathway execs offer cloud migration tips, savings
Saving money in the cloud is possible, according to Next Pathway execs, but it requires rigorous planning and foresight before making a move.
By Tim McCarthy • Sept. 21, 2021 -
JBOD (just a bunch of disks)
JBOD, which stands for 'just a bunch of disks,' is a type of multilevel configuration for disks.
By Brien Posey, Alexander Gillis • Sept. 20, 2021 -
LTO tape capacity shipments dip, but expected to rise
The return of businesses to the office plus tape's protection against cyber attacks should help increase LTO shipments. In addition, LTO-9 recently launched with higher capacity.
By Paul Crocetti • Sept. 20, 2021 -
Google Cloud pushes Filestore for enterprise, adds new features
Google Cloud adds a new enterprise tier for Filestore, its public cloud file storage service, with new features including Kubernetes backup and custom dual-region selection.
By Tim McCarthy • Sept. 16, 2021 -
Expert Advice // Manage storage limits in Microsoft 365
How businesses can manage Microsoft 365 storage space
While Microsoft 365 users face storage limits across the platform, there are ways to increase capacity. It's also important to understand the limits in the first place.
By Brien Posey • Sept. 15, 2021 -
Nasuni expands caching speed, availability for premium users
Faster file caching and synchronization, as well as more frequent versioning, is now available through a new feature called Global File Acceleration for premium Nasuni subscribers.
By Tim McCarthy • Sept. 14, 2021