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Hybrid cloud ecosystem enables digital transformation

The digital economy has led to a dramatic increase in not just cloud adoption but on-premises data and workloads. Hybrid clouds seamlessly move applications and data between them.

By Scott Sinclair • May 7, 2020

Add tape backup in 2020 to boost a data protection strategy

Tape has never really gone away. But it can be useful beyond long-term archiving. Learn why IT professionals may want to consider reintroducing tape backup into their data centers.

By George Crump • May 7, 2020

Beat the software bottleneck by improving storage performance

Find out what vendors are doing to address the storage software bottleneck problem to enable users to extract the full performance potential of the media in their data centers.

By George Crump • May 7, 2020

SMR, HAMR and other HDD technologies you can build on

Hard disk drives could make a comeback in 2020, as new technologies such as SMR, HAMR, MAMR and dual actuators provide more capacity and speed for secondary storage.

By Dave Raffo • May 7, 2020

Storage and database innovation evolve in tandem

Faster storage means faster database operations. Discover how developments and innovation in storage improves the performance and flexibility of database technology.

By John Edwards • May 7, 2020

Long-delayed Dell EMC PowerStore midrange array makes debut

All-NVMe PowerStore array supports any workloads across any environment. It is the vendor's first jointly engineered product since the Dell and EMC merger.

By Garry Kranz • May 5, 2020

Caringo ships cheaper, denser Swarm object storage servers

Caringo's dense new Swarm Server Appliances on Supermicro hardware offer a starting raw capacity of 168 TB in a single rack unit and lower prices over its prior Dell-based models.

By Carol Sliwa • April 30, 2020

Red Hat lays out OpenShift Container Storage, Ceph roadmaps

Red Hat's newly unveiled storage roadmaps for OpenShift and Ceph add data deduplication to reduce data footprint and snapshot-based mirroring for disaster recovery.

By Carol Sliwa • April 30, 2020

Igneous Systems enhances DataDiscover with global search

Igneous Systems' upgrades to DataDiscover and DataFlow address unstructured data growth by allowing customers with massive data sets to see everything they have and move it anywhere.

By Johnny Yu • April 30, 2020

Vast Data flash storage zeroes in on enterprises

Vast Data engineers improve storage services for cloud backup and encryption as the all-flash startup moves to target mainstream Windows and MacOS shops.

By Garry Kranz • April 30, 2020

Get to know edge storage and the technology around it

Edge computing changes how data is managed between the network endpoints and data centers or the cloud. Learn about the various components that make up an edge system.

By Stacey Peterson • April 30, 2020

5 areas to assess when rethinking storage at the edge

Does your organization have the right edge storage resources? Here's what you need to focus on to ensure your organization keeps pace with changes at the edge.

By Robert Sheldon • April 28, 2020

Pandemic changes enterprise storage buying plans

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing some IT organizations to delay or push up their 2020 enterprise data storage purchases, while others continue with business as usual.

By Carol Sliwa • April 27, 2020

Test your QLC storage knowledge

Do you know when and where to use QLC flash? Check out our quiz to see what workloads it's best for and other insight into the latest generation of NAND technology.

By Stacey Peterson • April 24, 2020

Maximizing containerized storage performance and flexibility

Are you taking full advantage of container storage? When properly deployed, containers can bring significant benefits, including better flexibility and performance.

By John Edwards • April 23, 2020

Hitachi Vantara rekindles romance with enterprise storage

After retreating in recent years, Hitachi Vantara steps back into enterprise data center market NVMe storage aimed at the low range of the high-end systems market.

By Garry Kranz • April 22, 2020

Commvault lawsuit says Rubrik, Cohesity infringed on patents

Commvault accused startups Rubrik and Cohesity of copying its inventions. Its lawsuit seeks judgment to stop the sales of products such as Cohesity DataPlatform and Rubrik CDM.

By Johnny Yu • April 21, 2020

Vast Data wows investors with ‘flash everywhere’ design

In the throes of economic uncertainty caused by a global pandemic, investors pour $100 million into startup that sells a million-dollar storage system, Vast Data Universal Storage.

By Garry Kranz • April 17, 2020

Boost cloud storage performance for your work-from-home workforce

Optimizing cloud storage security and performance are key to transitioning to a 100% remote workforce. Learn best practices to follow as your organization responds to COVID-19.

By Kurt Marko • April 17, 2020

Scality launches NAS Archiver to migrate cold file data

Scality's new NAS Archiver product assesses tier-1 NAS systems for inactive data and lets customers set policies to move the data to its Ring object and file storage.

By Carol Sliwa • April 16, 2020

SaaS-based Unitrends Helix automates tedious backup tasks

Unitrends Helix automates the tasks of monitoring, remediating and maintaining backup servers. While tedious, they are necessary to prevent failed backups.

By Johnny Yu • April 16, 2020

6 key AI data storage questions answered

Want to know what to watch for when planning storage for AI workloads? Find out the key considerations and challenges for dealing with the complexities of AI.

By Stacey Peterson • April 14, 2020

Object storage vendors turn to analytics, AI, machine learning

The view of object stores as nothing more than cheap and deep storage is changing, as the technology finds its way into AI, machine learning and analytics use cases.

By Carol Sliwa • April 13, 2020

Container data storage’s emerging role now and in the future

See how application workload and cloud portability requirements are driving container storage preferences in the latest research from the Taneja Group.

By Jeff Byrne, Jeff Kato • April 13, 2020

Coronavirus decks storage and server enterprise spending

Revised IDC market forecast predicts a rise in cloud and infrastructure as a service, as organizations reallocate budgets from physical servers and storage hardware.

By Garry Kranz • April 9, 2020