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Can I replace HDDs with SSDs to support in-memory storage?

Replacing all your HDDs with SSDs won't solve the storage issues associated with in-memory databases. Look to hyper-convergence and NVDIMMs instead.

By Jim O'Reilly • Sept. 13, 2017

Back-end storage considerations for in-memory processing

Storing hot data in main memory removes the latency associated with hard disk and solid-state storage operations; it's the best option for need-it-now data.

By Jim O'Reilly • Sept. 8, 2017

How NVMe over Fabrics will change the storage environment

Expect NVMe to supplant SCSI and SAS protocols for SSD storage and NVMe over Fabrics to find a place in high-end networking deployments for transporting data.

By Chris Evans • Sept. 6, 2017

Cloudian CEO sees favorable trends in object storage market

Cloudian CEO Michael Tso notes favorable trends for object storage: Capacities are increasing to petabytes, and customers want to use different clouds for different workloads.

By Carol Sliwa • Sept. 6, 2017

Persistent data storage in containerized environments

The most significant challenge to the rise of containerized applications is quickly and easily providing enterprise-class persistent storage for containers.

By Mike Matchett • Sept. 6, 2017

Your enterprise data management strategy needs a superhero

Data management products are the Superman, not the Batman, of storage. They have built-in superpowers that provide the innate power needed to manage data.

By Jon Toigo • Sept. 6, 2017

The power and benefits of encouraging IT disruption

IT can't remain a reactive cost center and cheerful help desk, but must become a competitive, cutthroat service provider and powerful champion of emerging disruptive technology.

By Mike Matchett • Sept. 6, 2017

The copy data management market is starting to go mainstream

Products from copy data management vendors protect and manage production data to lower storage costs, speed data access and streamline self-service access to data copies.

By Steve Ricketts • Sept. 6, 2017

Coho Data falls victim to ‘cutthroat’ data storage market

After receiving $76 million to develop DataStream hybrid NAS arrays, Coho Data can't find more investors and falls into the storage startup graveyard.

By Garry Kranz • Sept. 6, 2017

How to determine the true cost of flash

If you want to add flash storage, it's important to consider the cost per IOPS and gigabyte compared to HDD volumes, as well as the difference between consumer and enterprise SSDs.

By Brien Posey • Sept. 1, 2017

Kaminario K2.N gives composable infrastructure an NVMe twist

Kaminario's K2.N all-flash infrastructure creates multiple virtual arrays from clustered resources. Compute nodes and NVMe shelves connect via RDMA over Converged Ethernet.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 30, 2017

Tegile becomes the latest Western Digital acquisition

Western Digital's acquisition spree continues with the pickup of flash vendor Tegile Systems. The drive-maker says Tegile storage complements its ActiveScale object storage.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 30, 2017

The leading object storage vendors offer broad range of options

Explore how the leading object storage systems can be accessed, how they integrate with the cloud, what data security they provide and the various deployment options they offer.

By Scott Lowe • Aug. 28, 2017

Hedvig storage upgrade adds flash tier, encryption options

Hedvig software-defined storage enables 'all-flash hybrids' by supporting tiering across different types of solid-state media inside of commodity hardware systems.

By Carol Sliwa • Aug. 24, 2017

Tegile IntelliFlash array family welcomes all-NVMe sibling

A rack of Tegile's IntelliFlash N Series NVMe arrays scales to 60 PB of effective capacity. Tegile promises 3 million IOPS in a single array with full data services at low latency.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 22, 2017

IoFabric extends Vicinity to multiple sites, clouds

IoFabric Vicinity combines quality of service, snapshots and replication in a software-defined storage application to manage storage across primary, backup and archive tiers.

By Dave Raffo • Aug. 22, 2017

XenData CX-10 supports hybrid cloud storage for large files

A new hybrid cloud storage appliance, due to ship in September, will store 10 TB locally and offload infrequently accessed files to Microsoft Azure Blob storage.

By Carol Sliwa • Aug. 21, 2017

Copy data management vendors expand breadth of offerings

This roundup of copy management systems from the leading vendors shows the distinct categories and implementation models this cost-saving technology can provide.

By Chris Evans • Aug. 18, 2017

Tintri Cloud Connector writes VM backups to AWS, IBM

Tintri Enterprise Cloud enhances VMstore snapshots to cloud and expands predictive analytics for compute and storage. Cloud Connector treats the cloud as a tertiary repository.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 17, 2017

Compare XtremIO vs. Unity all-flash storage system for VDI

Dell EMC offers two all-flash storage options geared toward VDI shops. One suits companies with fewer than 500 persistent machines, and the other is for larger deployments.

By Robert Sheldon • Aug. 15, 2017

What the leading copy data management vendors offer

Copy management systems from the leading vendors offer unique features that can help IT departments consolidate their secondary storage into a single product.

By Chris Evans • Aug. 15, 2017

Four tips for building a Swift object store

OpenStack Swift doesn't have to be scary. You can use the command line, zones and access control lists to make object storage management a little easier.

By Sander van Vugt • Aug. 15, 2017

Nimbus Data ExaDrive tunes into OEM channel

Nimbus Data claims ExaDrive can replace traditional disk in data centers. The 3.5-inch SSDs package flash and intelligent software, including data features in multiple ASICs.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 14, 2017

Should I be concerned about SSD lifespan?

HDD and RAID vendors have stirred up FUD around the lifespan of SSD drive cells, but companies considering solid-state don't have to worry about arrays wearing out.

By Jim O'Reilly • Aug. 11, 2017

Writable shared flash volumes highlight E8 Storage upgrade

E8 adds parallel file-system support for IBM Spectrum Scale and Oracle RAC deployments. Applications read and write to a shared flash volume on E8-D24 and new E8 X-24 arrays.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 9, 2017