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Elastifile adds NFS file services to Google Cloud Launcher

Startup Elastifile makes available push-button option to deploy its NFS-based scale-out file system on hourly or long-term basis with fast solid-state drives on Google Cloud Platform.

By Carol Sliwa • April 3, 2018

Latest data storage technology takes application-centric approach

These data storage strategies support the use cases customers want without breaking the bank or forcing them to buy technology they don't really need.

By Scott Lowe • April 3, 2018

SAN purchase and deployment criteria by the numbers

Capacity and application needs drive businesses to deploy new storage area network systems, while criteria such as number of LUNs and multipathing are key to purchasing decisions.

By James Alan Miller • April 3, 2018

Learn storage techniques for managing unstructured data use

Rearchitect storage to maximize unstructured data use at the global scale for larger data sets coming from big data analytics and other applications.

By Mike Matchett • April 3, 2018

A multi-cloud strategy provides more options and headaches

The days of the cloud as a single, homogenous entity are long gone. Going forward, you'll likely have a multi-cloud storage strategy and work with multiple service providers.

By Dave Raffo • April 3, 2018

Wasabi Technologies eliminates cloud storage egress fees

Startup Wasabi seeks to shake up pricing by eliminating egress fees major cloud storage providers AWS, Google and Microsoft charge to transfer data.

By Carol Sliwa • April 2, 2018

Nvidia, Pure Storage FlashBlade lift ‘AIRI’ infrastructure

Pure Storage AIRI is AI-ready infrastructure that integrates Pure's all-flash FlashBlade NAND storage blades and four Nvidia DGX-1 artificial intelligence supercomputers.

By Garry Kranz • April 2, 2018

The end of Moore’s law for SSD performance

SSDs are seeing diminishing returns as Moore's law ends and quantum effects set in. Multilayers and more bits per cell are temporary fixes, but both have drawbacks.

By Logan Harbaugh • March 30, 2018

Upgraded Infinidat InfiniBox hoists sail on product launch

Infinidat disk arrays double capacity to 8 petabytes per rack. The new InfiniBox products include InfiniSync DR box, InfiniGuard backup appliance and the Infinidat-hosted Neutrix Cloud.

By Garry Kranz • March 28, 2018

NVMe compatibility is key when transitioning SAS and SATA SSDs

Getting ahead of the SSD interface performance curve requires foresight and careful planning. As NVMe technology evolves, new adopters are looking for ways to ease the changeover.

By John Edwards • March 26, 2018

Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo races toward NVMe-oF, ponders HCI

The new Pure Storage CEO sees NVMe as the immediate future for flash storage; he's also considering hyper-convergence and 'looking at some things' on the M&A front.

By Garry Kranz • March 26, 2018

Toshiba NVMe lineup adds new SSDs, software to pool drives

Toshiba bolsters NVMe support with new 2.5-inch U.2 and small-form-factor M.2 solid-state drives and KumoScale storage software to pool NVMe SSDs over a network fabric.

By Carol Sliwa • March 21, 2018

Nimbus Data due to ship 100 TB SSD this summer

Nimbus Data claims the new ExaDrive DC100 will draw less power, improve endurance and provide balanced read and write performance compared with other enterprise SSDs.

By Carol Sliwa • March 19, 2018

SolarWinds SRM keeps an eye on new all-flash arrays

SolarWinds updates Storage Resource Monitor to support more all-flash arrays and adds application-dependency functionality to Server & Application Monitor.

By Carol Sliwa • March 15, 2018

Hybrid storage array vendors offer simplicity, ease of use

Although hybrid arrays are similar in functionality from one system to another, subtle differences in features can make one array more appropriate for a given application.

By Logan Harbaugh • March 15, 2018

Panzura storage adds Private Secure Site Mode feature

The Panzura Freedom 7.1 cloud storage software release features Private Secure Site Mode to let security-focused IT organizations disable external communications.

By Carol Sliwa • March 14, 2018

How to mitigate SSD vulnerabilities

SSDs could pose a security risk for organizations that aren't careful when they decommission drives. Learn what you need to know about keeping data stored on SSDs safe.

By Robert Sheldon • March 13, 2018

Ten ways to protect intellectual property and trade secrets

Industrial espionage is on the rise, and more data means more risk. Find out how to control the growth of data stores and secure your organization's most valuable assets.

By Randolph Kahn • March 8, 2018

Primary storage optimization overcomes a range of challenges

Enterprises turn to different products, technologies and tools to optimize primary storage, overcome data storage challenges and make networked storage deployments more efficient.

By James Alan Miller • March 8, 2018

NVMe SSDs: Is there a need for all this speed?

Everything you should know to decide if nonvolatile memory express is right for your enterprise and, if it is, how to plan for the future of flash storage.

By Chris Evans • March 8, 2018

Nexsan arrays ‘ARM’ national lab with redundant disk storage

Nexsan Unity disk arrays are based on a dual-controller NST platform. Argonne National Lab uses the storage for continuous operations in inhospitable environments.

By Garry Kranz • March 8, 2018

The danger of ageism in the tech industry and ignoring the past

Monolithic storage rules the day in spite of the advent of software-defined storage, because vendors and enterprises ignore data storage history and discount experience.

By Jon Toigo • March 8, 2018

Is demand for data storage or supply driving increased storage?

Figuring out whether we're storing more data than ever because we're producing more data or because constantly evolving storage technology lets us store more of it isn't easy.

By Mike Matchett • March 8, 2018

Embrace IT digital transformation and the new tech landscape

The digital economy is increasingly defining business, and IT's relationship to business and the bottom line is becoming tied together more tightly.

By Scott Sinclair • March 8, 2018

Spectra tape library line grows with Stack, T950v

Spectra Logic tape library choices now include the scalable Stack and a cheaper version of its previous T950 line. Tape can be a key storage element, as data sets continue to grow.

By Paul Crocetti • March 7, 2018