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Komprise launches NAS migration tool, user-driven archiving

Komprise says customers wanted NAS migration as a separate tool, so it now makes it available even if you don't buy its full Intelligent Data Management platform.

By Carol Sliwa • March 28, 2019

5 Ceph storage questions answered and explained

What do you need to know about Ceph open source storage to decide if it's right for your organization? See how it compares to object storage alternatives, and optimize its use.

By Stacey Peterson • March 27, 2019

Portworx adds security and DR options for container storage

Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp have invested in the container storage software startup. Now, the company aims to get those vendors' customers interested.

By Carol Sliwa • March 27, 2019

What’s new in Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?

Microsoft has increased the capacity, resiliency and other advantages of the software-defined storage that comes with Windows Server 2019. Find out about all the benefits.

By Robert Sheldon • March 22, 2019

7 storage questions ahead of Dell Technologies World

We'd like to know where Dell EMC stands on midrange storage, NVMe over fabrics, data protection, hyper-convergence, cloud and containers, among other things.

By Dave Raffo • March 22, 2019

SoftNAS Cloud users get security fix for vulnerability

SoftNAS says a web server and load balancer component it added to strengthen security for its Cloud NAS actually could enable unauthorized access to the web admin interface.

By Carol Sliwa • March 22, 2019

At Dell Technologies World, Dell will put its stamp on EMC

Dell EMC storage has taken on more of a 'Dell' feel over the past year, thanks in part to reliance on PowerEdge Servers and spinning out Pivotal Software into a public company.

By Garry Kranz • March 22, 2019

Pure Storage AIRI trains FlashBlade NAS at hyperscalers

Pure Storage teams with Nvidia and Cisco to bring out FlashBlade with Hyperscale AIRI, extending its AIRI partnership with Nvidia, while introducing Pure-Cisco FlashStack for AI.

By Garry Kranz • March 21, 2019

Data migration checklist: 6 steps to ease migration stress

Following a detailed data migration strategy with extensive upfront planning can simplify complicated and labor-intensive SAN data migration projects.

By Marc Staimer • March 21, 2019

Where is QLC NAND the most useful in the enterprise?

Quad-level NAND has its benefits, but is it right for enterprise-level companies? While it can be plagued by performance and durability issues, the technology still has its uses.

By Brien Posey • March 20, 2019

Aparavi update adds better data classification, more clouds

Aparavi updates Active Archive with customizable data classification and tagging capabilities for easier future retrieval and improved metadata search.

By Johnny Yu • March 20, 2019

Ctera Networks and HPE combine for hyper-converged gateway

Ctera and HPE partner on new Edge X Series cloud gateway appliance that integrates Ctera's global file system and HPE's SimpliVity hyper-converged software.

By Carol Sliwa • March 20, 2019

SwiftStack adds a disk object-based AI reference architecture

SwiftStack's reference architecture for AI and machine learning bundles Nvidia servers for compute and disk-based Cisco or Dell EMC servers to scale object storage.

By Carol Sliwa • March 20, 2019

NVMe for AI: A powerful pairing

NVMe storage capabilities provide the bandwidth and low latency that demanding AI and machine learning applications need to access and manage the massive amounts of data they use.

By John Edwards • March 19, 2019

How is tape backup doing in 2019?

Industry experts say tape isn't going away and the technology is actually improving. The problem, they say, is vendors aren't talking enough about this 'old-school' backup method.

By Johnny Yu • March 18, 2019

Is your SSD storage acumen up to snuff?

Take our quiz to find out if you're up to speed on solid-state technology in areas such as SSD form factors, management strategy, security and innovation.

By Stacey Peterson • March 15, 2019

Alluxio adds support for more than 1 billion files

An update to Alluxio's data management software boosts scalability to more than 1 billion files, adds a POSIX API and enables a job service for replication and data transfer.

By Carol Sliwa • March 14, 2019

Mellanox SmartNIC SNAPs into NVMe SSDs

As it waits to get acquired by Nvidia, Mellanox brings out an NVMe SNAP device that lets storage vendors place code directly on BlueField SmartNIC network cards.

By Garry Kranz • March 14, 2019

Dell EMC ECS update focuses on security, management, search

Dell EMC updates on-premises ECS 3.3 object storage, formerly known as Elastic Cloud Storage, with new and improved capabilities in the areas of security, management and search.

By Carol Sliwa • March 12, 2019

Lightbits Labs launches TCP-based NVMe-over-fabrics storage

The NVM Express consortium finalized the specs for NVMe-over-TCP fabrics in November. Lightbits Labs' launch features software-defined storage, an appliance and an accelerator card.

By Garry Kranz • March 12, 2019

7 NVMe storage gotchas to avoid

Avoiding common deployment errors when implementing NVMe technology will save you time, money and professional embarrassment. Here's what to look out for.

By John Edwards • March 11, 2019

Paradox: Violin Systems all-flash stays small to grow large

Violin engineers all-flash storage systems for data centers that require ultrafast performance. The vendor also added ISE G4 arrays from X-IO for secondary storage.

By Garry Kranz • March 11, 2019

Computational storage takes spotlight in new NGD Systems SSD

See how startup NGD Systems' 16 TB NVMe-based SSD can run applications inside the SSD controller to eliminate the need to move data between storage and host.

By Carol Sliwa • March 7, 2019

Infinidat InfiniBox preps SMB protocol nodes for Windows

All-flash arrays command most of the attention, but Infinidat claims its InfiniBox arrays deliver the performance of flash on commodity-priced spinning disk.

By Garry Kranz • March 6, 2019

Hammerspace adds Kubernetes CSI driver for containers

Startup Hammerspace updates product with Kubernetes Container Storage Interface driver and multisite global namespace to facilitate data access in container environments.

By Carol Sliwa • March 6, 2019