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Portworx focuses on protecting container apps

The Portworx PX-Enterprise 2.2 storage software update adds single-command backup of container-based data and Kubernetes resources to S3-based object storage.

By Carol Sliwa • May 22, 2019

Tintri by DDN storage customers unsure of roadmap

After buying Tintri in 2018, DataDirect Networks moved to rebuild the VM storage vendor's engineering. But customers claim DDN hasn't communicated product roadmap plans.

By Garry Kranz • May 22, 2019

Red Hat storage shifts focus to OpenShift, hybrid cloud, HCI

Red Hat changes focus from selling stand-alone Ceph and Gluster products to promoting storage technologies designed for OpenShift, hybrid cloud and hyper-convergence deployments.

By Carol Sliwa • May 20, 2019

7 must-have features for multi-cloud storage optimization

When evaluating cloud platforms for a multi-cloud storage strategy, look for what they offer in terms of integration, networking and systems management, among other features.

By Robert Sheldon • May 17, 2019

How to make the most of secondary data storage workloads

You get more out of your data when you use secondary storage effectively. Taking advantage of disk-based and hyper-converged backups -- and copy data management -- will help.

By Brien Posey • May 16, 2019

IBM-Red Hat deal raises no storage red flags yet

Storage practitioners say they expect Red Hat's 'new overlords' at IBM to tread lightly on Red Hat storage, despite potential product overlaps after the $34 billion deal closes.

By Carol Sliwa • May 15, 2019

What is Kubernetes CSI and how is it being used?

A recently released CSI-compliant plugin from Kubernetes could help simplify the process of connecting containerized workloads with storage systems.

By Robert Sheldon • May 15, 2019

5 predictive storage analytics features you’ll want to watch for

Predictive storage analytics tools are becoming standard equipment in the enterprise. Get to know the features you'll need, how they work and the benefits they provide.

By Kurt Marko • May 14, 2019

Managing NetApp CIFS shares with PowerShell

NetApp provides a feature-rich PowerShell module to manage CIFS shares. Find out how it works, as well as how to set up a new share and establish permissions.

By Dan Franciscus • May 10, 2019

Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage to move from Gluster to Ceph

Red Hat's plans to change the core technology in its OpenShift Container Storage from Gluster to Ceph with an upcoming major product release leaves customers with lots of questions.

By Carol Sliwa • May 9, 2019

Midrange NetApp flash looks to steal Dell EMC’s thunder

NetApp expands All-Flash FAS flagship array with NVMe-connected A320 building block. The vendor claims a 24-node cluster scales to 35 PB of usable storage.

By Garry Kranz • May 9, 2019

Infinidat storage fabric sews disk arrays to hybrid cloud

Infinidat hasn't followed the storage array crowd into all-flash storage, but it is following the trends of adding flexible consumption pricing and storage analytics.

By Garry Kranz • May 8, 2019

Understanding the NVMe performance problem

Storage software is a primary performance concern when using NVMe. Discover three workarounds vendors use to fix the problem that exists between NVMe flash and storage software.

By George Crump • May 8, 2019

Cloud trends of 2019 include repatriation, hybrid and multi-cloud

The rise of the hybrid cloud and the repatriation of public cloud workloads on site to private clouds are driving the broader cloud trends of 2019 toward multi-cloud.

By Jon Toigo • May 8, 2019

What QLC NAND products are available?

QLC NAND flash drives started appearing on the market in the last nine months. If your business is ready to try them out, you'll want to know about these options.

By Brien Posey and Stacey Peterson • May 8, 2019

Transition to NVMe protocol depends on performance, workload

NVMe flash storage connects directly to the PCIe bus to enable exponentially greater storage-infrastructure performance. Get the lowdown on NVMe products and use cases.

By George Crump • May 8, 2019

Test yourself on Fibre Channel basics and the latest updates

Are you up to speed on Fibre Channel? Take our quiz to find out if you know how the storage networking technology works and the latest updates.

By Stacey Peterson • May 2, 2019

Updated hybrid cloud backup available from Pure Storage

In an effort to provide users with unified backup across multiple environments, Pure Storage has expanded its Evergreen Storage Service to provide a hybrid cloud backup system.

By Tanner Harding • May 2, 2019

Dell EMC cloud storage hardware shines light on cloud

VMware plays a larger role in the Dell EMC storage ecosystem as the vendor rolls out new cloud services to challenge archrival NetApp's cloud storage portfolio.

By Garry Kranz • May 1, 2019

Technicolor taps Excelero NVMe storage for blockbuster films

Excelero's low-latency NVMe flash storage helps Technicolor project teams work on blockbuster films with greater efficiency through concurrent access to data.

By Carol Sliwa • April 30, 2019

Dell EMC Unity XT expands midrange storage overlap

Even as it plans to winnow away overlapping midrange SANs, Dell EMC adds four capacity models to its Unity XT series designed to broaden support for VMware Cloud.

By Garry Kranz • April 30, 2019

New hybrid Dell EMC cloud aimed at rising flood of data

As enterprise data centers cope with newly generated data, the new Dell EMC cloud platform sharpens VMware tool sets to build, implement and manage storage in hybrid environments.

By Garry Kranz • April 29, 2019

Hitachi Vantara storage and data protection at your service

Customers that opt for service-based consumption have Hitachi Vantara's storage hardware installed in their data center, and the vendor handles management and backup.

By Garry Kranz • April 26, 2019

Google’s Anthos drives new storage and data management API

Google's hybrid and multi-cloud vision for running stateful container-based applications sparks work on a new API for data and storage management.

By Carol Sliwa • April 25, 2019

Lightbits Labs soups up NVMe fabric with all-flash SuperSSD

Startup Lightbits Labs prepares for an NVMe-over-TCP push, with a storage array designed for AI and cloud applications that uses its LightOS software and proprietary accelerator cards.

By Garry Kranz • April 25, 2019