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Archive as a service: What you need to know

Archive-as-a-service offerings could help simplify what can be a complicated process. Make sure you do the proper research and vetting before undertaking the cloud-based platform.

By Paul Kirvan • Sept. 24, 2020

All-flash Vast Data storage trains AI data at LightSpeed

Vast Data LightSpeed combines bulk QLC SSD storage with Intel Optane acceleration. The system supports Nvidia beta technology allowing writes from storage to GPU.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 24, 2020

Red Hat OpenShift Storage rides wave of container momentum

Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) now part of IBM Spectrum Discover catalog and focuses on bringing containers into production infrastructure.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 23, 2020

Managed SAN services aim to ease storage chores

Offloading SAN management to an MSP partner could free IT admins from an infrastructure component that sometimes gets short shrift among other data center priorities.

By John Moore • Sept. 23, 2020

COVID-19 stresses healthcare data storage resources

Healthcare organizations face new obstacles to effectively manage and store their data resources. See how they're using cloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises storage models.

By John Edwards • Sept. 23, 2020

WANdisco launches automated Hadoop data migrator for AWS

WANdisco LiveData Migrator moves Hadoop data while avoiding downtime. Although niche, it solves the hurdle of migrating Hadoop data while it's going through active changes.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 18, 2020

How to deal with the challenges of cloud storage vs. SAN

Whether you're managing cloud storage or a local SAN, both have issues. Compare 13 areas where SAN and cloud storage challenges can arise and find out how to deal with them.

By Stephen Engelhardt • Sept. 18, 2020

MinIO brings high-performance object storage to VMware Tanzu

MinIO brings software-defined, cloud-native object storage to VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu through the newly launched vSAN Data Persistence platform.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 17, 2020

Rivals Cloudian, Scality embrace all-flash object storage

Primarily used as a disk repository, object storage use cases are evolving to support workloads that need fast flash. Rivals Cloudian and Scality provide the latest evidence.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 17, 2020

Pure Storage acquires Portworx for container management

Pure Storage container support includes the Pure Service Orchestrator. Portworx will operate as a new Pure Cloud Native business unit focused on storage for cloud apps.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 16, 2020

SAN management best practices for optimizing performance

SANs consolidate resources and provide a high-speed network for storage traffic, but that doesn't mean you're off the hook when it comes to performance management.

By Brien Posey • Sept. 15, 2020

Dell layoffs mark the latest distress signal from tech companies

Dell layoffs started this week and may extend to next year. It is the latest among IT infrastructure vendors to tighten budgets amid COVID-19.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 15, 2020

Kaminario storage dons Silk, vows smooth cloud migrations

Here is the story behind why Kaminario changed its name to Silk and launched the Silk Cloud Data Platform that builds on Kaminario storage stack and runs in Google cloud.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 11, 2020

Troubleshoot SAN issues to improve performance

Common SAN problems include compatibility issues, hardware failures and sluggish storage response times, but a few proven strategies can easily resolve these issues.

By Brian Peterson, Rich Castagna • Sept. 3, 2020

Tape data storage industry tackles challenges, archival uses

The tape data storage market has confronted a major legal issue and a pandemic. Buoyed by strong archival use and offline protection, capacity shipments rose last year.

By Paul Crocetti • Sept. 3, 2020

Law firm makes compelling case for Pure Storage all-flash

CSK Legal first used Pure Storage all-flash arrays to move VMs to VMware vSphere. Primary Pure FlashArray replicates VMs to second target used exclusively for backups.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 3, 2020

Bloomberg storage engineering team leans on open source, SDS

The Bloomberg Storage Engineering team built an internal storage cloud that has withstood great trading volatility during the pandemic and keeps 'infrastructure out of the way.'

By Dave Raffo • Sept. 2, 2020

Datadobi locks critical data in an air-gapped vault

Datadobi's DobiProtect replication product lets customers store business-critical unstructured data in its native format in an air-gapped, limited-access vault.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 1, 2020

High-performance interconnects and storage performance

Should you use InfiniBand or RDMA over Converged Ethernet as an interconnect? We discuss each technology's effect on performance features such as latency, IOPS and throughput.

By Marc Staimer • Aug. 31, 2020

Dell EMC storage revenue slides as IT spending contracts

The Dell storage subsidiary reported a revenue decline last quarter. PowerMax and VxRail were the bright spots in Dell EMC storage. New PowerStore is expected to ramp sales in 2022.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 28, 2020

Layoffs put damper on positive NetApp storage earnings

NetApp storage growth was modest last quarter, despite the pandemic, but not sufficient to forestall layoffs. The cuts include engineers and sales professionals at SolidFire.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 27, 2020

Nimbus adds cheaper 64 TB QLC SSDs to complement 100 TB SSD

New 3.5-inch 64 TB SSDs from Nimbus Data with QLC flash offer a higher-performance alternative to HDDs for enterprises trying to reduce power, cooling and rack space costs.

By Carol Sliwa • Aug. 26, 2020

Pure Storage FlashArray//C set sights on hybrid flash market

Pure Storage FlashArray//C incorporates QLC NAND-based SSDs in the vendor's DirectFlash modules. The arrays are positioned as an alternative to hybrid flash for backup and DR.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 26, 2020

Cloud VDI storage: Nasuni vs. Panzura and other competitors

Data storage for distributed VDIs can be a challenge. Find out how Nasuni, Panzura and other vendors are overcoming obstacles with new approaches to cloud virtual desktop systems.

By Robert Sheldon • Aug. 25, 2020

Portworx storage update offers backup, provisioning modules

The Portworx storage platform enables data persistence in large Kubernetes clusters. Data backup, automated capacity planning modules are generally available.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 24, 2020