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Why object storage is becoming an alternative to RAID

RAID is a well-established storage technology, known for being reliable and secure. But as data volumes grow, more flexible, effective RAID alternatives are gaining a following.

By Robert Sheldon • July 26, 2018

How do I know if cloud-based archiving is the right choice?

If you don't need to access old data much, cloud archiving could work out well. That's just one consideration, though, for deciding which archival platform to employ.

By Brien Posey • July 24, 2018

Dell EMC midrange storage systems nudge a little closer

Dell EMC keeps its Unity and SC midrange storage arrays on separate tracks, but shows early signs of eventually merging the platforms. Both get OS upgrades.

By Garry Kranz • July 24, 2018

HPE InfoSight automates customer support on 3PAR

HPE increases the ability of its InfoSight cloud-based predictive analytics to help manage 3PAR storage arrays; HPE picked up InfoSight in its 2017 acquisition of Nimble.

By Garry Kranz • July 24, 2018

Tintri acquisition proposal leaves customers in limbo

DataDirect Networks sees Tintri's analytics and flash capabilities as an entry point to the enterprise, but Tintri customers remain in the dark about their storage vendor's fate.

By Garry Kranz • July 19, 2018

Commvault architecture overhaul reduces product count

By consolidating more than 20 offerings into four repackaged product sets, Commvault moves to simplify the purchasing process and eliminate its architecture's 'features sprawl.'

By Johnny Yu • July 19, 2018

Intel, Micron end 3D XPoint memory joint development

Micron and Intel plan to end their joint development of nonvolatile 3D XPoint memory next year, after finishing work on the second generation of the nonvolatile memory technology.

By Carol Sliwa • July 18, 2018

New Elastifile CEO intensifies startup’s cloud focus

Elastifile's new CEO plans to increase the company's focus on filling a 'huge missing piece' of enterprise file storage for public clouds and sees more customers shifting away from on-site deployments.

By Carol Sliwa • July 16, 2018

How have disk backups changed in recent years?

Disk-based backup provides newer features that can speed and ease recovery. IT should take advantage of instant recovery and virtual lab capabilities.

By Brien Posey • July 16, 2018

Tape storage capacity plays important role as data increases

There's a long runway for tape, with hundreds of terabytes of storage capacity soon available on a single cartridge. Flash, disk, the cloud and tape will all be key for storage.

By Paul Crocetti • July 12, 2018

Adoption of 32 Gbps Fibre Channel being driven by flash

Flash, along with more and bigger workloads and more demanding applications, is driving businesses to switch from 8 Gbps and 16 Gbps FC to 32 Gbps FC storage environments.

By Scott Lowe • July 12, 2018

IBM all-flash diversifies with NVMe-based FlashSystem 9100

IBM FlashSystem 9100 scales to 32 PB of all-flash storage in a standard rack. IBM guarantees consistent latency of 350 microseconds and 100 million IOPS per four-way cluster.

By Garry Kranz • July 10, 2018

Ctera Networks adds Dell and HPE gateway appliance options

Ctera cloud storage gateway appliance portfolio expands with new all-SSD and all-HDD models that enable customers to run multiple applications on the same box.

By Carol Sliwa • July 9, 2018

Clarifying what cloud and virtualized data storage really mean

Cloud storage doesn't always mean the public cloud. Virtualization and virtualized data storage aren't always about virtual servers and desktops. Find out what's really going on.

By Logan Harbaugh • July 5, 2018

Cohesity backup replaces legacy EMC at Piedmont HealthCare

A healthcare firm doesn't take full advantage of Cohesity secondary storage capabilities, but finds its backup and recovery features simpler and faster.

By Dave Raffo • July 5, 2018

MapR Data Platform gets object tiering and S3 support

MapR Technologies adds policy-based tiering to its Data Platform to automatically move data across performance, capacity and archive storage on premises and in cloud.

By Carol Sliwa • July 5, 2018

New Quantum CEO Lerner sees a future in rich media

The former Cisco exec hopes to use Quantum's high-ingest technology and tape storage to serve a growing need in the surveillance, medical and entertainment markets.

By Johnny Yu • July 5, 2018

Lustre-based DDN ExaScaler arrays receive NVMe flash

High-performance computing specialist DataDirect Networks spruced up its ExaScaler SFA-based flagship with nonvolatile memory express flash, and it bought Lustre from Intel.

By Garry Kranz • June 29, 2018

A deep dive into guest clustering for shared virtual storage

When using shared VHDX files to host a guest cluster shared volume, there are some considerations to take into account, such as physical connectivity and potential limitations.

By Brien Posey • June 27, 2018

Is there an alternative to error correction and detection codes?

Errors in NAND flash memory can be corrected, but that becomes more difficult as NAND reaches the end of its life. Are you utilizing every available error correction tool?

By Brien Posey • June 27, 2018

Qumulo storage parts the clouds with its K-Series active archive

Qumulo introduces the K-144T archive appliance to complement its scale-out NAS systems. The K-Series starts with six nodes, and customers can scale storage in 144 TB increments.

By Garry Kranz • June 27, 2018

Vexata fires up NVMe flash storage to tackle analytics

Vexata claims about two dozen customers are using its all-flash NVMe VX storage arrays. Vendor says the product upgrade targets growing need for fast storage in cognitive computing.

By Garry Kranz • June 25, 2018

New 12 Gbps single-port Toshiba SAS SSD takes aim at SATA

Toshiba designed a new single-ported 12 Gbps RM5 SAS SSD to replace slower 6 Gbps SATA SSDs in servers until faster NVMe-based PCIe SSDs are ready for wider market adoption.

By Carol Sliwa • June 21, 2018

Archive360 mixes and matches cloud data archiving elements

Archive360's Archive2Azure previously supported file and message archiving. Now, users can archive Salesforce and healthcare data, among other elements, to the Azure cloud.

By Paul Crocetti • June 20, 2018

SwiftStack 1space facilitates multi-cloud capabilities

SwiftStack launches single namespace for its object and file storage to ease data access, migration, management and search across private and public clouds.

By Carol Sliwa • June 20, 2018