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NVMe performance leap depends on all-flash array architecture used

All-flash NVMe-based storage arrays could bring a big improvement in performance depending on the array architecture you use. We look at what you can expect.

By Jerome Wendt • Nov. 30, 2018

Hedvig storage gives university more replication, redundancy

Located in the center of Tornado Alley, Pittsburg State University in Kansas gave heavy weight to redundancy and replication before acquiring Hedvig software-defined storage.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 29, 2018

When traditional data center technology trumps hyper-converged

Committing to a conventional data center rather than a hyper-converged approach is sometimes the smarter move. We take a look at some reasons to steer clear of HCI.

By John Edwards • Nov. 28, 2018

Quobyte wins Points for Kubernetes storage

Points International's storage revamp for Kubernetes includes Dell EMC servers running solid-state drives and a distributed file system from startup Quobyte.

By Dave Raffo • Nov. 21, 2018

In-vehicle mobile data storage is Quantum’s next target

Quantum Mobile Storage is designed to capture vehicle data from self-driving cars and easily offload it to a Quantum StorNext appliance. It's built to handle harsh, mobile environments.

By Johnny Yu • Nov. 19, 2018

8 steps to effective multi-cloud cost management

Strategic thinking and careful planning can help you squeeze the maximum value out of your multi-cloud environment. Here are eight tips to help you get started.

By John Edwards • Nov. 16, 2018

Panasas ActiveStor chases Lustre users with portable PanFS

With ActiveStor Ultra, Panasas ports its PanFS parallel file systems to Linux. The vendor's plans include OEM server deals to sell PanFS on commodity gear for HPC customers.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 14, 2018

Western Digital Ultrastar DC ME200 optimizes memory storage

Western Digital extends its Ultrastar SSD line, adding a software-defined layer for fast in-memory computing. An onboard hypervisor mounts the storage capacity as usable memory.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 13, 2018

Micron’s SATA-based QLC SSDs take aim at 10K HDDs

Micron targets 10,000 rpm HDDs in read-intensive enterprise workloads with new 5210 ION quad-level cell SSD that stores 33% more bits per cell than triple-level cell NAND flash.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 12, 2018

4 NVMe storage array options to consider

Here's what you need to know to pick the NVMe array that provides your organization with the performance improvement it needs and also fits its budget.

By George Crump • Nov. 9, 2018

Public cloud workload success requires IT leadership

IT must change with the times and adapt to the reality that others within the organization can now procure and provision cloud resources without their input.

By Scott Sinclair • Nov. 5, 2018

Automated data management is a crucial part of IT’s future

Automating data management will play an important role in helping us cope with the coming zettabyte apocalypse, a time when the amount of data generated will overwhelm storage resources.

By Jon Toigo • Nov. 5, 2018

Storage administrator skills and jobs in the age of convergence

Simpler data centers can complicate the lives of IT pros with specialized skills, such as storage admins. But they can still thrive by specializing further or becoming generalists.

By Scott Lowe • Nov. 5, 2018

Information storage on the cloud is often the way to go nowadays

Base your decision on where to park your business's critical data and apps on where they can be most effectively accessed and used. For enterprises today, that's frequently the cloud.

By Jeff Byrne • Nov. 5, 2018

Predictive storage analytics can watch your storage for you

Don't ask if your next storage array or software will have predictive analytics. Ask what those analytics can do for your specific systems and applications.

By Dave Raffo • Nov. 5, 2018

Virtual Instruments makes VirtualWisdom proactive

A major update to Virtual Instruments' infrastructure management product adds proactive analytics, predictive capacity capabilities, interactive topology maps and iSCSI support.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 1, 2018

NetApp Cloud Volumes gives new wrinkle to OnTap file storage

NetApp appends services to Data Fabric that aim to help enterprises flexibly manage their data between local storage and public clouds, including AWS, Azure and Google.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 31, 2018

Excelero NVMesh 2 supports TCP/IP, Fibre Channel

Excelero's software-defined storage extends NVMe over fabrics support to TCP/IP and Fibre Channel, but the startup isn't abandoning NVMe over RDMA with its NVMesh 2.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 31, 2018

Test your predictive storage analytics know-how

As one of the major data storage trends of 2018, predictive analytics isn't a subject to overlook. See how well you understand predictive analytics and what it can do for you.

By Erin Sullivan • Oct. 29, 2018

NetApp all-flash storage fuels hybrid cloud stance, CEO says

NetApp CEO George Kurian says data center customers are adopting more all-flash file and block storage to manage data across multiple public and private clouds.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 29, 2018

How blockchain data storage may revolutionize the enterprise

Blockchain for data storage promises to bring added trust, reliability and security to storage, but is it ready to become a mainstream technology? Experts offer their views.

By John Edwards • Oct. 25, 2018

IBM storage products get another NVMe booster shot

IBM bolstered support for NVMe technologies across its storage portfolio with its latest round of product updates, which also adds new Spectrum Discover data management software.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 25, 2018

NetApp flash offerings push into cloud, edge and IoT

At the NetApp Insight user show, the vendor advocates for flash to replace disk for backup, cloud and object storage. NetApp HCI expands, and StorageGrid gets flash.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 24, 2018

Which NVMe fabric will win out?

Are you wondering how NVMe over fabrics will shake out? Expect RDMA to take the early lead, but storage pros will continue their love affair with Fibre Channel.

By Howard Marks • Oct. 24, 2018

NetApp MAX Data adds persistent memory tier to OnTap storage

MAX Data is a software-defined product that runs on commodity servers and can use non-NetApp storage. The codebase came from NetApp's acquisition of startup Plexistor.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 24, 2018