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SSD and NAND flash prices will decline through start of 2021

NAND flash and enterprise SSD prices that spiked in early 2020 will continue to fall through the end of the year and into 2021 as demand weakens, industry analysts predict.

By Carol Sliwa • Aug. 20, 2020

TrueNAS Enterprise, TrueNAS Core merge as single storage OS

Established as a systems integrator, iXsystems sells open source NAS appliances. A single software code now unifies the TrueNAS Enterprise and TrueNAS Core versions.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 18, 2020

Data storage vendors face ‘uncertain’ future during pandemic

COVID-19 has thrown IT and storage spending into pandemic mode, making it hard for vendors and IT teams to get a handle on when they'll rebound.

By Dave Raffo • Aug. 13, 2020

NetApp Data Fabric aids manufacturer’s gene-sequencing gear

Pacific Biosciences makes equipment and systems for gene sequencing and life sciences. The company uses NetApp Data Fabric to scale capacity and performance for shared storage.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 13, 2020

Data center storage adoption reacts to pandemic pressures

Read on to learn how data center and storage administrators use cloud services, remote management and automation to overcome today's COVID-19 challenges.

By John Edwards • Aug. 13, 2020

IBM storage GM Walsh leaves Big Blue for startup ChaosSearch

IBM recruited Ed Walsh in 2016 to revive its flagging storage division. Analysts credit Walsh for prioritizing all-flash and cloud data services. Now he’s heading to ChaosSearch.

By Dave Raffo, Garry Kranz • Aug. 11, 2020

Storage optimization strategies for time-series data stores

Storing time-series data should depend on how the data is used and its age. Discover tips for saving data for comparative analysis, machine learning and other purposes.

By Dan Sullivan • Aug. 10, 2020

Use cases for object storage ramp up to meet emerging demands

Computational and storage advances are expanding the role of object storage beyond traditional HPC and cloud to emerging data analytics, machine learning and deep learning use cases.

By Kurt Marko • Aug. 10, 2020

IT staffing trends evolve during a trying 2020

Surveys indicate few IT pros should be concerned about layoffs due to COVID-19. But other factors, such as reskilling, training and the new WFH reality, are having a profound effect.

By James Alan Miller • Aug. 10, 2020

On-premises STaaS shifts storage buying to Opex model

Storage as a service enables organizations to access on-premises storage in various ways, such as pay as you go, subscription buying and metered payments. Learn the pros and cons.

By Robert Sheldon • Aug. 10, 2020

5 critical capabilities for multi-cloud data management

Organizations face increasing challenges managing data across multiple clouds. Find out the features to look for in your multi-cloud data management products and services.

By Kurt Marko • Aug. 7, 2020

Panasas storage revs up parallelization for HPC workloads

Panasas storage software focuses on novel method to boost capacity and efficiency. Dynamic Data Acceleration in PanFS shuttles data to disk or flash based on file size.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 6, 2020

IMT Software cracks open SoDA data management

Integrated Media Technologies, an MSP targeting media and entertainment, expanded into software development with SoDA, an unstructured data management tool.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 6, 2020

Fujifilm offers subscriptions for tape-based object storage

AWS established Glacier as a cloud alternative to on-premises tape storage. Now Fujifilm positions its Object Archive to tape as an on-premises alternative to Glacier.

By Carol Sliwa • Aug. 3, 2020

Qumulo cloud approach gang-tackles file-to-object conversion

Qumulo grabs $125 million in funding as the file storage world shifts to the cloud; CEO Bill Richter says unstructured data growth presents an opportunity that could lead to IPO.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 3, 2020

Modern HDD technologies that are bringing hard disks back

Don't write off HDDs just yet. Energy-assisted technologies such as MAMR and HAMR may keep hard disk drives competitive in an evolving secondary storage market.

By Erin Sullivan • July 31, 2020

HAMR vs. MAMR, and the future of high-capacity hard drives

Energy-assisted hard drive technology is here, and heat-assisted and microwave-assisted magnetic recording technologies are about to bring even more changes to the HDD market.

By Stacey Peterson • July 30, 2020

COVID-19 dominates enterprise storage news so far this year

The year hasn't gone as expected in enterprise storage, with the pandemic affecting conferences, sales results, use cases, funding and even CEO health.

By Dave Raffo • July 29, 2020

What’s in a name? Dell EMC PowerFlex brand replaces VxFlex

Vendor claims hundreds of Dell EMC PowerFlex customers in education, finance and healthcare. It marks the second name change for ScaleIO platform that EMC bought in 2013.

By Garry Kranz • July 28, 2020

5 consumption models help simplify storage buying options

Consumption-based pricing offers organizations flexible options to purchase storage and other infrastructure on-premises, just like they would cloud services.

By Chris Evans • July 27, 2020

NVMe Zoned Namespace lowers costs and improves performance

The new zoned storage interface capitalizes on NAND flash capabilities to let host software communicate with NAND storage to better align workloads with SSD storage.

By Robert Sheldon • July 27, 2020

Container use and the implications for storage

Knowing which type of storage to deploy when using containers is important. We look at the storage architectures enterprises are using, the features preferred and more.

By Stacey Peterson • July 27, 2020

NVMe over Fabrics startup Lightbits Labs adds clustering

Lightbits Labs' LightOS now enables application servers to access NVMe flash SSDs in a cluster of servers -- not just a single box -- over standard Ethernet via NVMe over TCP.

By Carol Sliwa • July 22, 2020

Get the most out of cloud caching appliances and gateways

Cloud storage caching can reduce performance-sapping latency. See how these appliances work, alternative approaches, in-demand features and the various products available.

By Kurt Marko • July 21, 2020

Azure partner Aparavi takes on unstructured data management

Aparavi retired its Active Archive and File Protect & Insight products and brought their features to its new cloud-based data management and automation platform launched on Azure.

By Johnny Yu • July 15, 2020