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Red Hat updates Gluster Storage for OpenShift container apps

Red Hat beefs up its Container-Native Storage with block and object interfaces and a significant increase in persistent volume density for use with its OpenShift Container Platform.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 19, 2017

NVMe flash array startups Pavilion Data, Vexata jump in

The 4U Pavilion Memory NVMe flash array comes with 20 controllers and 40 Ethernet ports. Vexata markets VX-100 appliances running Active Data Fabric distributed storage.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 19, 2017

Actifio Sky adds intelligent search across clouds

Actifio's Sky goes beyond copy data management. It searches and manages data across clouds and on-premises storage with new analytics and a global catalog.

By Sonia Lelii • Oct. 17, 2017

Gen 6 Fibre Channel helps support flash, but lacks adoption

Sixth generation Fibre Channel has the potential to solve fabric-level bottlenecks, but companies tend to choose Ethernet because it has evolved more rapidly.

By Scott Lowe • Oct. 13, 2017

Secondary data storage: A massively scalable transformation

Capitalize on flash with interactive, online secondary data storage architectures that make a lot more data available for business while maximizing flash investment.

By Mike Matchett • Oct. 6, 2017

Buying NAS: Do you want performance and scalability?

Although SANs still rule the modern the data center, the NAS array maintains a position high up on tech buyers' shopping lists for new primary storage.

By James Alan Miller • Oct. 6, 2017

A year later: Pros and cons of the Dell and EMC merger

Our experts take measure of the Dell EMC acquisition, the storage and technology merger of the century, a little more than 12 months after the deal closed.

By Dave Raffo, Garry Kranz • Oct. 6, 2017

Komprise adds data lifecycle management, deeper analytics

Storage startup updates data management software with additional policy-based data migration options, more granular analytics and GDPR-focused confinement capabilities.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 6, 2017

A long hot summer for the enterprise storage market

Use of magnetic tape in enterprise storage is set to break out, even as the cloud market slows and software-defined storage and hyper-converged infrastructure stumble.

By Jon Toigo • Oct. 6, 2017

NetApp customers, partners press on after Las Vegas shooting

About 4,000 NetApp customers and partners attended the vendor's Insight user conference expecting storage news. Instead, they had to absorb the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 6, 2017

Open source technology promises to alter enterprise storage

Open source storage software could alter the face of the industry by cutting costs and delivering greater flexibility over existing storage infrastructure.

By Chris Evans • Oct. 6, 2017

Multicloud storage mitigates risk of public cloud lock-in

Multicloud storage strategy allows for the shifting of data across public clouds so you can avoid lock-in to a single provider, reduce cost and improve workload efficiency.

By Jeff Kato and Jeff Byrne • Oct. 6, 2017

Scality Connect ports S3 apps to Azure Blob storage

Scality's Connect software opens access to Microsoft Azure Blob services for S3 API-compatible applications, making it easier to port S3 API apps to Microsoft cloud storage.

By Sonia Lelii • Oct. 5, 2017

Data Dynamics StorageX 8.0 adds analysis, S3 support

Data Dynamics beefs up StorageX file management software with new single-view analysis portal and support for Amazon S3 API-compliant object storage.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 5, 2017

Microsoft Azure taps NetApp Ontap for native NFS storage

NetApp Ontap will become available in Microsoft public cloud as the Azure Enterprise NFS Service. Will we see NetApp do the same for Amazon Web Services?

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 5, 2017

SoftNAS Cloud architecture gets facelift, new features

SoftNAS Cloud architecture splits into distinct products for primary NAS, secondary storage and replication across clouds, and targets multicloud and hybrid cloud implementations.

By Sonia Lelii • Oct. 5, 2017

Toshiba memory business sale faces bumpy road

Toshiba signs a $17.7 billion deal to sell its memory business to a Bain-led consortium that includes Dell and Seagate, but Western Digital's SanDisk wants to stop it.

By Carol Sliwa • Oct. 2, 2017

Entry-level Dell EMC SC Series adds data features

Dell EMC's SCv3000 launch includes automated hybrid tiering, data compression and replication with federated clusters. Dell EMC announced a money-back efficiency guarantee.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 21, 2017

How can I guarantee the best Ceph performance?

Ceph object storage performance is largely based on network speed, but journal disks and the right file system for object storage devices also play a role.

By Sander van Vugt • Sept. 20, 2017

Accelerate predictive analytics software with flash technology

For organizations that must analyze large amounts of data quickly and efficiently, nothing beats solid-state storage. Predictive analytics applications perform better with flash.

By John Edwards • Sept. 19, 2017

Qumulo Core File Fabric knits cloud bursting, replication

New Qumulo storage fabric replicates data between local and public cloud storage on AWS. QF2 is the first version of Core that runs in a public cloud.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 19, 2017

Is there a Ceph client to connect Windows machines?

Integrating Ceph and Windows isn't as straightforward as connecting Ceph to Linux machines. You'll need a Ceph Gateway or SUSE Enterprise Storage to get the job done.

By Sander van Vugt • Sept. 19, 2017

How do I enable file sharing on Ceph object storage?

The open source Ceph project prioritizes efficient data storage over easy access, so companies that want to set up file sharing on their object stores must do a little extra work.

By Sander van Vugt • Sept. 18, 2017

New Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo faces scaling challenge

Former Cisco exec Charles Giancarlo takes over as CEO of Pure Storage from Scott Dietzen with the all-flash pioneer set to become a billion-dollar baby. Will profits follow?

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 18, 2017

Everspin Technologies nvNITRO ST-MRAM SSDs ready to ship

Everspin's new ST-MRAM-based nvNITRO Storage Accelerator pledges 'DRAM-like' performance, but analysts say the high price could limit the SSD's use cases.

By Carol Sliwa • Sept. 14, 2017