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With Time on its hands, Meredith drives storage consolidation

Following an acquisition of Time Inc., Meredith Corp. dumped most of its traditional IT gear and added newer technology developed around virtualization, convergence and the cloud.

By Dave Raffo • Nov. 25, 2019

Pure Storage cloud sales surge, but earnings miss the target

Although its pedigree is all-flash storage hardware, Pure Storage cloud products and services are a strong growth engine. But the vendor said global demand is starting to slacken.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 25, 2019

Make container data mobile in today’s cloud world

Data mobility is essential with container and hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. A data plane framework and data abstraction can ensure both data and application mobility.

By Chris Evans • Nov. 22, 2019

AWS storage tackles more traditional enterprise capabilities

Amazon's latest wave of enterprise storage enhancements includes a replication SLA for S3, faster snapshot restores for EBS and data deduplication for FSx for Windows File Server.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 22, 2019

DDN storage, Nvidia Magnum IO aim to speed AI deployment

DataDirect adds reference architecture that packages NVMe all-flash storage in Nvidia DGX SuperPod, scalable to 64 GPUs and 10 DDN AI400 arrays with NVMe SSDs.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 22, 2019

New DataCore vFilO software pools NAS, object storage

The new vFilO software provides a scale-out file system and global namespace for unstructured data, facilitating unified access to data through NFS, SMB and S3 protocols.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 21, 2019

Effectively implement Azure Ultra Disk Storage

Ultra Disk Storage delivers consistent performance and low latency for I/O-intensive workloads. Learn why it's solving latency problems and where you can use Azure Ultra Disk.

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 20, 2019

HPE Container Platform combines AI pickups BlueData, MapR

Hewlett Packard Enterprise showcases Container Platform for bare metal Kubernetes deployments, helping data centers make on-premises legacy apps extensible to the cloud.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 19, 2019

NetApp storage systems growth hinges on cloud transition

NetApp's decision to aggressively market storage systems for building hybrid and multi-clouds is put to the test in the face of declining sales in 2019.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 15, 2019

Michael Dell on Dell cloud strategy: On-premises cloud rules

Dell's CEO lays out his company's cloud plan, which is to connect on-premises with public, edge and 5G clouds though integrated infrastructure and subscription pricing.

By Dave Raffo • Nov. 14, 2019

Is Zadara storage as a service right for your company?

Zadara Cloud Platform offers a storage-as-a-service approach that limits customers' upfront investment and risk, while providing flexible, NVMe-based storage.

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 14, 2019

Compliance analytics helps data storage meet PII standards

Organizations are using predictive analytics and AI to sift through large data sets to ensure that any data stored is compliant with all personally identifiable information rules.

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 14, 2019

Leading storage for AI tools address workload capacity, performance

Today's AI storage platforms provide organizations stand-alone and prepackaged products designed to address the data storage and capacity needs of their AI workloads.

By Chris Evans • Nov. 13, 2019

In your data archive strategy, how long is long enough?

Hoarding large amounts of data increases costs and management time. Here's how to painlessly separate the wheat from the chaff for your data archive strategy.

By John Edwards • Nov. 13, 2019

DreamWorks animates its cloud with NetApp Data Fabric

The 'virtual studio' DreamWorks cloud relies on various components of NetApp Data Fabric, including All Flash FAS storage, NetApp HCI and OnTap cloud-based data management.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 13, 2019

Nasuni update adds Analytics Connector, Cloud Migrator

Nasuni's new Analytics Connector does file-to-object translation, Cloud Migrator speeds data transfers, and multi-cloud support expands to Google and more on-premises options.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 12, 2019

8 factors that make AI storage more efficient

AI workloads need storage optimized for performance, capacity and availability. Discover everything you'll want to consider when planning storage for AI applications.

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 12, 2019

New API lets Azure Stack connect to Scality object storage

New Azure Blob API will enable Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Edge hybrid and private cloud customers to use scale-out Scality Ring object storage on premises.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 7, 2019

Infinidat storage plans NVMe-oF driver in 2020

Infinidat CTO Brian Carmody says NVMe protocol is a 'perfect match' for hybrid InfiniBox disk arrays. Customers are beta testing Infinidat NVMe drivers, starting with RoCE 4.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 7, 2019

Why application intelligence is the linchpin of modern data centers

AI-based application intelligence tools help IT cope with growing scale and complexity by automatically detecting workloads, analyzing requirements and making recommendations.

By Scott Sinclair • Nov. 6, 2019

Navigate PII data protection and GDPR to meet privacy mandates

Know the commonalities surrounding personally identifiable information to better navigate and comply with the regulations and penalties IT managers must contend with today.

By Marc Staimer • Nov. 6, 2019

Will replication help spur adoption of VMware vVols?

Virtual Volumes -- now known as vVols -- have gained Storage Resource Management support for array-based replication, plugging a gap that hindered adoption.

By Dave Raffo • Nov. 6, 2019

Qumulo storage refresh taps into newest HPE Apollo servers

New Qumulo scale-out file storage software can be consumed locally or run as a hybrid cloud available via a Hewlett Packard Enterprise GreenLake consumption license.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 5, 2019

HPE Cray ClusterStor E1000 arrays tackle converged workloads

Hewlett Packard Enterprise subsidiary Cray delivers new ClusterStor E1000 all-flash and disk storage arrays, with hardened Lustre file system and ClusterStor Data Services.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 1, 2019

SwiftStack 7 storage upgrade targets AI, machine learning use cases

SwiftStack's latest upgrade extends its ProxyFS file system to the edge and cloud namespace to file data namespace to cater to artificial intelligence, machine learning workloads.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 1, 2019