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Is Caringo leading the next wave in object-level storage?

Caringo facilitates and simplifies cross-platform data movement by bridging its proprietary object storage system to Microsoft Azure object storage service.

By Jon Toigo • Dec. 5, 2017

Peering into the future of enterprise storage for 2018

Rich Castagna takes a crack at the annual rite of prognostication with a bold look -- unfettered by truth, reality and sanity -- at data storage trends in the coming year.

By Rich Castagna • Dec. 5, 2017

Qumulo File Fabric fuses on-prem, cloud storage for studio

Qumulo's File Fabric gives FuseFX ability to burst workloads into Amazon Web Services, giving it a virtual fourth location for file storage for its special effects rendering.

By Dave Raffo • Nov. 30, 2017

StorOne attacks bottlenecks with new TRU storage software

After six years of development, an Israeli startup launches new Total Resource Utilization storage software that aims to eliminate bottlenecks and improve storage efficiency.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 22, 2017

Do users need 3D NAND flash memory?

The population of users who need 3D NAND flash chips on their computers is limited to those who run extremely large workloads, such as big applications or multiple virtual machines.

By Brien Posey • Nov. 21, 2017

NAND flash memory basics: Comparing SLC, MLC and TLC NAND

NAND is the most popular type of flash, but there are many different types, and they each serve a different purpose. Do you know your NAND flash basics?

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 20, 2017

Infinidat embeds SAN, NAS replication in InfiniBox R4

Infinidat's software upgrade eschews SCSI in favor of custom IP-based replication protocol. The vendor claims InfiniBox R4 delivers target writes at sub-400-millisecond latency.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 20, 2017

Quobyte preps 2.0 Data Center File System software update

One startup's 'Google-style' software-defined storage upgrade features 'table stakes,' such as volume mirroring for disaster recovery and support for Mac and Windows clients.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 16, 2017

NOR vs. NAND flash memory: What companies need to know

NOR and NAND flash memory each suit different use cases, and companies looking at a flash memory product need to know the difference before they buy.

By John Edwards • Nov. 15, 2017

Panasas storage, director blades split into separate devices

Panasas hybrid storage offers 57 PB of raw capacity with 200 shelves. ActiveStor Director 100 sits atop a rack of Panasas arrays. Customers can scale types and capacities of media.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 14, 2017

Three reasons to consider a multi-cloud storage strategy

Storing data in multiple clouds is a fairly new strategy, but it's useful for companies that want to control cloud costs, protect privacy and ensure their data is always available.

By Brien Posey • Nov. 8, 2017

Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 adds file, iSCSI, container support

Red Hat updates Ceph storage software with support for CephFS file system, iSCSI block interface and Linux container-based storage implementations, plus usability improvements.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 8, 2017

Dell EMC all-flash SC Series prepped for launch

Dell EMC all-flash inclusive added to the mix for SC Series and Unity arrays. The vendor said each of the midrange storage products has a large customer base.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 8, 2017

CEO discusses changing Nasuni storage customer base

Nasuni's customer base has expanded to large enterprises, and most are right to be concerned about cloud storage performance, says CEO Andres Rodriguez.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 6, 2017

Explosion in unstructured data storage drives modernization

Increasing amounts of unstructured data are a key part of modern secondary storage environments with their distributed file systems and a scale-out object storage design.

By Steve Ricketts • Nov. 3, 2017

Are you ready for NVMe storage and the future of flash?

Three factors to consider beyond technical capabilities before designing and investing money and resources in a low-latency NVMe flash storage network.

By Scott Sinclair • Nov. 3, 2017

Demand for cold data storage heats up

The exponential rise in unstructured data is one of many reasons for the upsurge in demand for cost-effective cold storage products, services and media.

By Marc Staimer • Nov. 3, 2017

Cloud storage adoption decisions weigh capacity and cost

Acquiring storage capacity -- particularly for backup, archiving, DR and collaborative purposes -- dominates as the main reason for storage cloud adoption trends in the enterprise.

By James Alan Miller • Nov. 3, 2017

Navigating cloud-based data storage requires some caution

Cloud services are economical and easy to use -- if you know the ropes. Approach cloud computing issues with caution; you just might run into familiar on-premises storage problems.

By Rich Castagna • Nov. 3, 2017

3D TLC NAND gives capacity boost to IBM FlashSystem 900

FlashSystem 900 building blocks are the foundation of IBM FlashSystem A9000 and V9000 arrays. New NAND modules use 3D TLC in place of planar 2D enterprise MLC.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 2, 2017

Solid-state drive performance metrics go beyond latency, IOPS

In determining performance and lifespan of an SSD, companies must consider the drive's architecture, the storage controller and write amplification in addition to IOPS and latency.

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 1, 2017

Violin Systems CEO Abbasi says profits coming in 2018

All-flash pioneer Violin emerges from bankruptcy; 2018 plans call for profits, acquisition, NVMe deployments and software-defined scalability.

By Dave Raffo • Oct. 31, 2017

Cisco telemetry data gets streamed from MDS 9700 32G modules

Cisco SAN telemetry sensors capture insight on network fabrics to aid capacity and infrastructure management. The FC feature provides real-time instrumentation analytics.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 30, 2017

Hybrid storage arrays offer the best of all storage worlds

Hybrid flash arrays provide performance benefits over all-flash and all-hard disk storage systems and can address the varying workload demands of today's organizations.

By Logan Harbaugh • Oct. 30, 2017

Beat VDI deployment challenges; find the best VDI storage

Companies that want to stand up a VDI deployment can choose from a variety of storage options, from traditional storage technologies to more creative approaches, such as layering.

By Brien Posey • Oct. 25, 2017