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Hitachi Content Platform integrates WekaIO file storage

Hitachi Content Platform G-11 object storage nodes get refreshed with startup WekaIO's parallel file system. The WekaFS is optimized for Hitachi VSP all-flash arrays.

By Garry Kranz • July 15, 2020

Nasuni aims cloud NAS at remote work, battles NetApp, Isilon

Unlike cloud NAS rival Panzura, Nasuni execs say they have their sights set on going public rather than getting acquired; count on remote work improvements, funding for growth.

By Dave Raffo • July 14, 2020

SUSE goes ranching and lassos a container storage startup

SUSE Storage Enterprise is based on commercially supported Ceph. The Linux distribution vendor reportedly will shell out $600-$700 million for Rancher Labs' Kubernetes technology.

By Garry Kranz • July 10, 2020

Pay-as-you-go storage consumption and its challenges

Consumption-based storage has benefits, but it also has challenges, including what it is, unknowns about its future, and control and cost issues. Here's what you need to know.

By Robert Sheldon • July 9, 2020

Data migration specialist Datadobi adds S3-to-S3 support

Datadobi's DobiMigrate software could help customers shift data between Amazon S3 and on-premises S3-based object stores, helping eliminate egress fees charged by public clouds.

By Carol Sliwa • July 9, 2020

IBM stretches its Elastic Storage line to speed AI, big data

New IBM storage will help to optimize AI software used to analyze data and inference results. The disk-based Elastic Storage System 5000 scales to yottabyte capacities.

By Garry Kranz, Ed Scannell • July 8, 2020

The advantages of containers over virtual machines for storage

Understanding the key advantages of containers vs. VMs is critical to knowing what storage features are needed for container-based application success.

By Scott Sinclair • July 7, 2020

How to choose a long-term data archiving services vendor

When evaluating archiving services, you must determine what you need to archive, requirements around that data and how to make the most cost-effective selection.

By Paul Kirvan • July 7, 2020

Pure Storage CEO back after COVID-19 battle

Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo said it took him a month to recover from an extended bout with coronavirus. Meanwhile, Pure's revenue grew by 12% last quarter despite the pandemic.

By Garry Kranz • July 2, 2020

Quantum tape, NAS recovery stalled by COVID-19, sports break

Quantum says, 'Let the games begin' after sports and entertainment pauses interrupt sales of tape and scale-out NAS storage; vendor also faces possible PPP problems.

By Johnny Yu • July 1, 2020

New PCIe 4.0 SSDs, 24 Gbps SAS SSDs supply bandwidth boost

A new wave of bandwidth-doubling enterprise SSDs are on the way from major drive manufacturers to support PCIe Gen 4 and 24 Gbps SAS in enterprise storage arrays and servers.

By Carol Sliwa • June 30, 2020

6 basics of storage automation, predictive analytics and AI

AI and predictive analytics are included in many storage offerings. See how this functionality helps automate storage, which features are useful and which products have them.

By Stacey Peterson • June 30, 2020

6 storage resource management tools offer insights, optimization

Software for managing storage resources provides in-depth information on capacity and performance to help enterprises proactively manage their storage infrastructure.

By Robert Sheldon • June 30, 2020

Western Digital will package new NVMe SSD into NVMe-oF JBOF

Western Digital is prepping a new NVMe over Fabrics-based JBOF storage device that will bundle its highest-performance Ultrastar SN840 NVMe SSDs and RapidFlex network adapters.

By Carol Sliwa • June 29, 2020

StrongBox Data adds native LTFS to its StrongLink platform

With native support for any tape library, StrongLink is capable of cross-platform data management whether the underlying storage is flash, disk, tape or cloud.

By Johnny Yu • June 29, 2020

Qumulo cloud upgrade transforms files to Amazon object format

Qumulo Shift for Amazon Web Services S3 copies data directly to Amazon Simple Storage Service, without mount points or application rewrites, to enable file sharing directly in AWS.

By Garry Kranz • June 26, 2020

Startup StorOne incorporates Intel Optane

StorOne claims it will show the storage giants how to get the most out of Intel Optane drives, incorporating them alongside cheaper QLC SSDs in an all-flash array.

By Dave Raffo • June 25, 2020

Gen 2 Intel Optane memory modules claim bandwidth boost

Designed for use with Intel's new Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, the next version of Optane memory modules is expected to ship in servers in late 2020.

By Carol Sliwa • June 24, 2020

Pros and cons of composable architecture vs. traditional storage

If traditional storage isn't meeting your organization's needs, composable infrastructure may be the answer. Get to know the pros and cons of both approaches.

By Robert Sheldon • June 24, 2020

Computational storage fundamentals explained

Computational storage is an emerging technology, but it isn't too soon to develop an understanding of how it can be used to address storage latency and performance issues.

By Stacey Peterson • June 23, 2020

HPE 3PAR vets launch cloud-defined storage startup Nebulon

Nebulon Cloud-Defined Storage is on-premises-based, using controllers on PCI cards inside servers and AI-driven cloud management for application owners.

By Dave Raffo • June 23, 2020

SNIA’s NVM Programming Model and how it works

The Storage Networking Industry Association spec provides a standardized approach to building a non-volatile memory-based storage system architecture. We take an in-depth look.

By Robert Sheldon • June 23, 2020

Google Filestore adds Elastifile tech for high-scale tier

Google's new Elastifile-based Filestore High Scale gives customers a higher-performing file storage option over the cloud provider's original basic options.

By Carol Sliwa • June 18, 2020

Dell EMC turns Isilon NAS into PowerScale, adds objects

Dell EMC PowerScale combines a modified version of the Isilon OneFS software tuned for Dell PowerEdge servers. The systems provide unified access to files and unstructured data.

By Garry Kranz • June 17, 2020

What is the difference between memory and storage?

Storage and memory, while connected, fulfill separate roles in a computer. Memory meets temporary data access needs and storage retains data and other files over the long term.

By Stacey Peterson, Rodney Brown, Brett Cooper • June 16, 2020