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Make remote SAN management work in the age of coronavirus

SANs usually aren't configured to allow remote management. Find out what storage admins can do during the COVID-19 crisis to ensure their organization's SAN can be managed remotely.

By Brien Posey • April 7, 2020

The future of flash memory promises unprecedented speed, capacity

NAND flash's future involves more layers and bits per cell. At the same time, NVMe-oF, storage class memory and other new technologies will fundamentally change memory and storage.

By Robert Sheldon • April 2, 2020

How to keep physical backup media storage safe

Data is your organization's most important digital asset. Here are some tips on how to ensure physical data backups are stored at a safe and secure location.

By John Edwards • March 31, 2020

Komprise stretches NAS migration tool for multi-cloud use

Komprise's Elastic Data Migration moves beyond NAS-to-NAS migration over LANs to enable customers to shift file and object data over WANs to one or more public or private clouds.

By Carol Sliwa • March 31, 2020

StorOne adds object, expands tiering

StorOne wants to go beyond software-defined storage by handling all types of data across any type of performance or capacity media; adds S3 support to block and file storage.

By Dave Raffo • March 31, 2020

Dell Tech World 2020 placed on hold until October

Dell Tech World 2020 rescheduled to October, as Dell and VMware withdraw FY2021 guidance. Dell joins a growing list of tech vendors to shuffle user events in the wake of the coronavirus.

By Garry Kranz • March 31, 2020

Containers, clouds, NVMe drive 2020 data storage innovation

Containers on bare-metal flash and souped-up processing highlight innovations in storage, aiming for seamless data movement between local and cloud arrays.

By Garry Kranz • March 31, 2020

Get to know NVMe protocol basics with these related terms

NVMe is a storage protocol that has made a difference in the enterprise. When looking into NVMe and its related technologies, it can help to have these basic terms on hand.

By Erin Sullivan • March 31, 2020

Storj decentralized cloud object storage takes on skeptics

Storj's new Tardigrade cloud object storage uses spare storage and bandwidth from tech-minded individuals, businesses and regional data centers in 85 countries.

By Carol Sliwa • March 30, 2020

What the breakup of data management and storage means to you

There are distinct advantages to abstracting data management from storage. Find out how this new approach makes these operations simpler and cheaper to run.

By Marc Staimer • March 30, 2020

Panzura CEO: IT will never be same after COVID-19 pandemic

Panzura's CEO predicts permanent changes to storage, IT and business continuity planning as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, as organizations encourage more remote working.

By Carol Sliwa • March 30, 2020

NOR flash memory proves a good fit for robotics, IoT devices

As mobility and IoT continue to expand, NOR memory provides fast random reads and long-term reliability, making it suitable for automotive, medical and portable consumer devices.

By Robert Sheldon • March 26, 2020

Flash memory standards and interfaces every IT admin should know

Flash memory standards can be confusing for even seasoned IT pros. TLC, QLC, MLC, SLC flash and so on. SAS vs. NVMe, NVMe-oF among others. Let's make sense of this acronym soup.

By George Crump • March 26, 2020

Storage class memory makes its way into the enterprise

The number of SCM products and use cases is growing. Find out which vendors have SSD and memory offerings and how they're being used in various products.

By Robert Sheldon • March 25, 2020

Computational storage terminology explained

Computational and edge storage are changing the way we manage data at the network edge. Understanding the terminology around this technology can help clarify how it works.

By Stacey Peterson • March 25, 2020

Nutanix Objects 2.0 lays groundwork for hybrid cloud

The latest Nutanix Objects update gives users higher capacity per namespace, but experts say the endgame is flexibility between the data center and the cloud.

By Johnny Yu • March 25, 2020

A history of flash memory and its rise in the enterprise

Flash memory plays a huge role in enterprise storage. However, 16 years ago, SSDs barely existed. Find out the story behind this technology and how it came to dominate storage.

By Jim Handy • March 25, 2020

New FalconStor StorSafe uses containers to archive backups

FalconStor's new StorSafe product combines container, erasure coding and data reduction to archive backups and make them portable across cloud sites.

By Carol Sliwa • March 24, 2020

How SSD endurance affects flash memory use

SSD durability is a key factor in the lifespan of storage devices. Learn how it's measured, how it's evolving, what the best endurance levels are for different workloads and more.

By Stacey Peterson • March 23, 2020

Commvault storage story expands with Hedvig for primary data

The pickup of Hedvig helps diversify Commvault beyond backup to address growing customer demand for scalable object storage that traverses across public and private clouds.

By Garry Kranz • March 19, 2020

Igneous brings SaaS data management to Dell EMC appliances

Igneous rocks on-premises backup, data management with ability to use Dell NAS appliances as targets for its SaaS platform that was designed for public clouds.

By Johnny Yu • March 17, 2020

Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 aims to address complexity concerns

Red Hat claims new Ceph installer and management dashboard mean administrators won't require a 'degree in distributed systems' to set up storage clusters anymore.

By Carol Sliwa • March 13, 2020

NetApp digs into Talon Storage for Cloud OnTap

Talon Storage cache-and-sync suite is tacked on to NetApp cloud fabric to give end-to-end migration as enterprise data centers shift data to public cloud.

By Garry Kranz • March 10, 2020

High-performance object storage challenges in the modern data center

Object storage works well for long-term backup and archiving. See how high-performance capabilities are expanding it to high-scale, high-capacity workloads.

By George Crump • March 9, 2020

SAN vs. HCI: 5 questions to ask

SAN or hyper-converged infrastructure? Which one will become your organization's on-premises technology choice? Discover which approach may ease complexity and control costs.

By Brien Posey • March 6, 2020