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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.

By Carol Sliwa • Jan. 25, 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.

By Garry Kranz • Jan. 25, 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.

By Robert Sheldon • Jan. 21, 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.

By Garry Kranz • Jan. 21, 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.

By Garry Kranz • Jan. 19, 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.

By Robert Sheldon • Jan. 12, 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.

By Paul Crocetti, Nick Martin, James Miller, Stacey Peterson and Erin Sullivan • Jan. 12, 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.

By Dave Raffo • Jan. 6, 2021

Tape storage protects research on Antarctic science ship

British Antarctic Survey outfitted the RRS Sir David Attenborough with Quantum QXS hybrid disk and Scalar i3 tape libraries to store and protect research data mid-voyage.

By Johnny Yu • Jan. 6, 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.

By Garry Kranz • Jan. 6, 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.

By Erin Sullivan • Jan. 4, 2021

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.

By Carol Sliwa • Dec. 31, 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.

By Dave Raffo • Dec. 29, 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.

By Dave Raffo • Dec. 28, 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.

By Dave Raffo • Dec. 21, 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.

By Marc Staimer • Dec. 18, 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.

By Robert Sheldon • Dec. 17, 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.

By Dave Raffo • Dec. 17, 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.

By Garry Kranz • Dec. 17, 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.

By Robert Sheldon • Dec. 16, 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.

By Carol Sliwa • Dec. 16, 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.

By Kurt Marko • Dec. 11, 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.

By Marc Staimer • Dec. 10, 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.

By Carol Sliwa • Dec. 10, 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.

By Garry Kranz • Dec. 9, 2020