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Hammerspace targets data silos with new software service

Silicon Valley startup debuts software service that harnesses data virtualization technology from Primary Data and adds hybrid cloud data management and metadata as a service.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 22, 2018

DNA data storage developments demonstrate serious potential

As futuristic as it may sound, writing to DNA-based data storage is well on its way to becoming a possibility. Mainstream use may be a ways away, but development has been steady.

By Robert Sheldon • Oct. 19, 2018

NVMe fabric options include Fibre Channel, RDMA

Planning NVMe over fabrics? Then get to know all about the Fibre Channel and RDMA fabric options to decide which of the two approaches fits your network best.

By Howard Marks • Oct. 17, 2018

Elastifile adds automated tiering to cloud object storage

Cloud file system startup Elastifile is making it easier to shift data to object storage in Amazon and Google using ClearTier policy-based automated tiering.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 17, 2018

Violin buys ISE, X-IO splits off Axellio

Two storage companies on the comeback trail make moves -- Violin Systems buys X-IO's ISE platform, and X-IO rebrands as Axellio. Both have been in transition over the past few years.

By Dave Raffo • Oct. 16, 2018

Hitachi storage technologies underpin AI and cloud plans

Hitachi Vantara is making several pivots from the storage vendor previously known as Hitachi Data Systems. But has it gone too far from its core storage technology?

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 15, 2018

NVMe-oF fends off scale-out storage challenges

NVMe over Fabrics has proven to be a useful fix for the problems faced by scale-out storage architectures, and vendors and users alike are taking notice.

By Chris Evans • Oct. 15, 2018

Commvault appliance lineup expands by two

Commvault moves its HyperScale appliance platform into the enterprise with the HS3300 and into remote and branch offices with the Remote Office Appliance.

By Johnny Yu • Oct. 11, 2018

Customers get new dual-region Google Cloud Storage option

Google updated its cloud storage with higher availability SLAs and a new dual-region option designed to give customers greater control over their data.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 11, 2018

Caringo Swarm adds single server option, multi-cloud support

Caringo aims its Swarm Single Server object storage appliance at companies that want object storage but don't need petabytes of it in a multinode cluster.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 11, 2018

City buses use Cloudian storage for video data

Cloudian object storage hops a ride on Montebello Bus Lines, helping the California city improve its storage system for surveillance camera footage that had proved challenging.

By Johnny Yu • Oct. 8, 2018

Maximize cloud storage benefits with cloud-native data

A cloud storage strategy must acknowledge that storage is but one part of cloud use and involves storage and compute, as well as data that's accessible to all cloud resources.

By George Crump • Oct. 3, 2018

StorOne storage is set to disrupt the software-defined market

StorOne's TRU Storage technology raises the bar for software-defined storage by gathering together universal pools of storage across disparate hardware that any workload can use.

By Jon Toigo • Oct. 3, 2018

New memory technologies challenge NAND flash dominance

Cost and scaling limits mean planar NAND flash as we know it will slowly cede its pre-eminent place in the memory hierarchy to emerging technologies such as 3D XPoint.

By Jim Handy • Oct. 3, 2018

IT migration success hinges on minimizing downtime

Data, software and hardware migration projects should, but don't always, fully exploit the features and settings of the new environment and minimize application downtime.

By James Alan Miller • Oct. 3, 2018

Improve infrastructure performance with these compute and data tips

Perpetual hunger for better and faster application performance often requires reducing latency by either moving the data to the compute or the compute to the data, but which one?

By Marc Staimer • Oct. 3, 2018

Yes, a true private cloud can now be built

Forget everything you've heard about private cloud storage and start over with a true set of building blocks designed to let you create a public cloud-like infrastructure.

By Dave Raffo • Oct. 3, 2018

Violin Systems AFA lineup adds XVS8 power hitter

Violin, an 'emerging company that's been around a while,' adds new all-flash system that will support NVMe over Fabrics next year and promises extreme performance.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 3, 2018

4 different file systems and how they’re evolving

As computing and data centers change, so must the next-generation file system evolve. Here's what you should know about the file systems in use today and where they're headed.

By Sander van Vugt • Sept. 28, 2018

Hitachi analytics sharpens heterogeneous storage management

Upgraded Hitachi Vantara analytics for storage improves visual mapping of application storage and integrates dynamic-cooling IoT technologies from Vigilent.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 27, 2018

Storage admin roles and responsibilities follow convergence and cloud

With their jobs under constant assault, what must storage administrators do to stay relevant as data center technologies and the data storage world converge and change?

By Scott Lowe • Sept. 27, 2018

OwnBackup Salesforce tools include archive and blockchain

OwnBackup's fall release includes a new data archiving product, a blockchain-powered compliance component and improved capabilities for its Salesforce protection app.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 26, 2018

Cloud-based predictive analytics seeing wider adoption

A predictive analytics tool can give your storage strategy a boost by addressing storage issues before they even occur. What should you look for in a predictive analytics product?

By Robert Sheldon • Sept. 26, 2018

Nasuni storage adds lower-cost cloud archive service option

Newly packaged Nasuni Cloud File Services offers a low-cost archive option as part of an effort to expand beyond high-end NAS and collaboration into traditional file and archive workloads.

By Carol Sliwa • Sept. 26, 2018

5 tips for making flash-based SSDs work with unstructured data

Using flash storage effectively for unstructured data requires upfront analysis of cost, capacity and performance, as well as continued tracking of a rapidly changing flash market.

By Cynthia Harvey • Sept. 24, 2018