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How the leading all-flash array vendors meet storage demands

This in-depth overview of the features and capabilities of the leading AFA storage products can help you determine which configurations may best meet your needs.

By Logan Harbaugh • Aug. 8, 2017

New enterprise SSDs launch from Intel, Micron, Toshiba

SSD manufacturers showing off new 3D NAND products at this year's Flash Memory Summit include Intel, Micron and Toshiba; Intel adds new SSD form factor and Optane options.

By Carol Sliwa • Aug. 8, 2017

Attala Systems shows off ‘CPU-less’ FPGA storage gear

Startup Attala Systems plans a joint demonstration with Intel at Flash Memory Summit next week. The FPGAs serve as NVMe storage targets and handle processing and network commands.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 7, 2017

Wasabi Technologies takes on Amazon S3 pricing, performance

Wasabi secures more cash for data center expansion after cloud storage launch entices trial users on claims of significantly lower prices, higher performance than Amazon S3.

By Carol Sliwa • Aug. 7, 2017

Red Hat acquires Permabit for inline deduplication

Permabit's inline compression, data deduplication and thin provisioning software will be integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help boost performance and lower costs.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 2, 2017

Forget all-flash arrays, aim for flash-optimized storage first

Look for simple, cost-effective products that are optimized for flash and meet your needs rather than focusing on the all-flash array storage that vendors are pushing.

By Jeff Kato • Aug. 2, 2017

Hybrid cloud technology gets the most out of primary storage workloads

Learn what to look for in a hybrid cloud platform so you can take advantage of the scalability, agility and cost benefits it has to offer primary storage.

By Jeff Kato and Jeff Byrne • Aug. 2, 2017

Disaggregating network, compute and storage allocation demystified

Explore the ways disaggregation concepts and principles are being applied to create and allocate pools of compute and storage resources to serve applications on demand.

By Arun Taneja • Aug. 2, 2017

Software-defined storage products don’t negate hardware’s importance

Software-defined storage, positioned as the cure-all for vendor lock-in, suggests that hardware may not be as important to IT infrastructure as it once was.

By Rich Castagna • Aug. 2, 2017

Startup Morro Data launches CloudNAS services for SMBs

Startup Morro Data makes available hybrid cloud storage services for SMBs, blending an on-premises cache appliance for frequently accessed data and Amazon S3 or Backblaze.

By Carol Sliwa • Aug. 1, 2017

Moonwalk software streams data to cloud archives

The free Starter Edition of Moonwalk's archiving software migrates up to 25 TB of data to repository or clouds as files or objects, as well as supporting AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google clouds.

By Dave Raffo • Aug. 1, 2017

How a backup data retention policy combats growing storage needs

While a thorough backup system can protect your data, it can also lead to a rapid increase in the amount of data you have stored. A policy-based storage system may be able to help.

By Jim O'Reilly • July 27, 2017

Ctera Networks’ enterprise file-sharing services gain intelligent cache

The latest version of Ctera's file-sharing software takes the sync out of sync-and-share with intelligent caching built into Enterprise File Services Platform 6.

By Sonia Lelii • July 26, 2017

Red Hat Ceph, Gluster roadmaps focus on HCI, containers

Red Hat's Ceph and Gluster storage roadmaps reflect increased focus on hyper-converged infrastructure, containers and big data, in addition to performance improvements.

By Carol Sliwa • July 24, 2017

Everything you need to know about OpenStack modules

OpenStack continues to evolve in an effort to compete with AWS. The modules that are available now make OpenStack a viable enterprise option.

By Jim O'Reilly • July 21, 2017

Making the case for an all-flash data center

Companies should ditch hard disk drives and outfit their data centers entirely with flash storage; vendors have solved old solid-state problems, such as wear time and cost.

By Jim O'Reilly • July 17, 2017

TrueNAS X10: iXsystems’ open source storage contender

The TrueNAS X10 entry-level hybrid array from iXsystems provides a low-cost alternative to legacy arrays. The unified array scales to 360 TB in 6U for $55,000.

By Garry Kranz • July 17, 2017

Scality launches Zenko for multi-cloud management

Scality's new open source initiative is a multi-cloud management vision to help customers match specific workloads to the best cloud service. Zenko is based on Scality S3 Server.

By Sonia Lelii • July 13, 2017

New WekaIO file system incorporates flash, object store

WekaIO launched its scale-out file system, which is optimized for server-based flash storage and designed to tier data to cheaper object storage on premises and in public clouds.

By Carol Sliwa • July 13, 2017

Is enterprise object storage ready to lead?

As object storage benefits become more enticing to enterprises for internal storage uses and not just for cloud, vendors are overcoming its drawbacks.

By Rodney Brown • July 12, 2017

Actifio copy data management sales help turn a profit

Actifio's copy data management platform finds favor with financial, government, healthcare and retail organizations. More than 2,200 customers use Virtual Data Pipeline.

By Garry Kranz • July 12, 2017

Analyzing products from the leading object storage vendors

When evaluating the leading object-based storage systems, it is important to consider which product can best support your uses cases and unique site requirements.

By Scott Lowe • July 12, 2017

Should you use a private cloud chargeback model?

The idea of chargebacks is to help organizations use private cloud resources efficiently by making departments pay for what they use, but the practice can backfire.

By Brien Posey • July 7, 2017

CEO Harr predicts Panzura storage shift to software deployments

Panzura CEO Patrick Harr predicts more customers will shift from using the company's physical appliances to VM-based software deployments in the cloud by year's end.

By Carol Sliwa • July 6, 2017

Object storage use cases coming to a data service near you

Object storage, unlike traditional file and block storage, is well-suited to manage vast amounts of unstructured data.

By Steve Ricketts • July 6, 2017