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NAND flash shortage has SSD supply, pricing impact

Flash shortage could slow price declines and constrain SSD supplies through the end of 2017 as manufacturers make difficult transition from 2D/Planar to 3D NAND technology.

By Carol Sliwa • Feb. 23, 2017

AFA storage has total cost of ownership advantages over HDDs

All-flash array storage TCO advantages, including reduced power and cooling and increased performance, can help an organization justify its use to store their active workloads.

By Logan Harbaugh • Feb. 22, 2017

AFA storage advances may mean the end of the hybrid market

Flash price drops and speed boosts make the all-flash array the smart choice over hybrid storage arrays for most enterprise users, not just those with high-performance computing needs.

By Jim O'Reilly • Feb. 22, 2017

Caringo FileFly cleans data off Windows Storage Servers

Caringo FileFly powers Secondary Storage Platform that works with Microsoft DFSR and ReFS to offload passive, unstructured data from a Windows storage server.

By Sonia Lelii • Feb. 13, 2017

The data storage industry will turn upside down in 2017, or will it?

Rich Castagna reviews the prognostications offered by data storage vendors on the future of data storage technology in 2017.

By Rich Castagna • Feb. 10, 2017

Hyper-convergence: It’s for more than primary data storage

The lines between primary and secondary storage and applications such as hyper-convergence remain blurry. But they are a starting point for further discussion.

By Arun Taneja • Feb. 10, 2017

The data storage capacity growth survival guide

You can keep your storage investments in place, allow for capacity increases, and solve performance and application problems, while gathering data to plan for new growth.

By Logan Harbaugh • Feb. 10, 2017

Businesses use enterprise file sync-and-share market to collaborate

Enterprise file sync and share solves numerous business problems by offering organizations a way to provide more secure document sharing and collaboration.

By James Alan Miller • Feb. 10, 2017

‘Holistic’ data protection tools, a marketing meme on the rise

Though vendors are calling their data protection products 'holistic,' they should blend security and disaster recovery services to improve their functionality.

By Jon Toigo • Feb. 10, 2017

Tegile Systems IntelliFlash HD

Tegile Systems IntelliFlash HD intended to appeal to medium and large enterprises looking to consolidate multiple workloads on a single all-flash array.

By Garry Kranz • Feb. 9, 2017

Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays (AF-Series)

Nimble's first all-flash array family scales from 20 TB to petabyte and 8.2 PB of usable storage and 1.2 million IOPS per four-node cluster.

By Garry Kranz • Feb. 9, 2017

Hitachi Data Systems Virtual Storage Platform VSP F800

Modular rack-mounted Hitachi Data Systems VSP F800 runs the vendor's SVOS operating system software and is equipped with custom-designed flash storage modules.

By Garry Kranz • Feb. 9, 2017

Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe

The VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe stops companies from needing to send captured packet data back to vendors and wait for the analysis to identify performance problems.

By Rodney Brown • Feb. 9, 2017

Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX 7.8

Data Dynamics upgrades StorageX with new data protection features and functions, and makes it so users can customize their own data mobility policies with a REST API and SDK.

By Rodney Brown • Feb. 9, 2017

Zadara Storage Cloud

Zadara Storage Cloud provides block, file and object storage-as-a-service either on-premises hardware managed by Zadara, in the cloud, or both.

By Dave Raffo • Feb. 9, 2017

Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays (CS-Series)

Nimble Storage jumped on the all-flash bandwagon in 2016, but didn't forget its disk fans by upgrading its CS-Series mixing flash and hard disk drives.

By Dave Raffo • Feb. 9, 2017

Avere Systems Cloud-Core NAS (C2N)

Building on its NAS Edge filer technology, Avere rolled out Cloud-Core NAS (C2N) product, which puts file and object storage in one system that spans on-premises and the cloud.

By Dave Raffo • Feb. 9, 2017

Qumulo QC update adds flexible file quotas, PB array

Qumulo NAS upgrade allows data to move between quota domains without rewriting the file system. QC360 hardware is a petabyte-scale addition to its QC-Series hybrid disk lineup.

By Garry Kranz • Feb. 8, 2017

Kaminario K2 array boosts performance, capacity

New Kaminario all-flash array features higher performance and capacity, improves data reduction guarantee to 4:1 and offers faster storage networking options.

By Carol Sliwa • Feb. 8, 2017

Open source object storage startup OpenIO adds hardware

Up to 96 nano nodes fit in OpenIO's SLS-4U96 chassis. Each ARM CPU manages a single high-capacity disk and a small amount of flash storage for fast metadata access.

By Garry Kranz • Feb. 6, 2017

Minio object storage offers ‘go big’ container storage

Minio's object storage software is written in the robust Go programming language and supports Amazon S3 storage APIs for developers working in container environments.

By Sonia Lelii • Feb. 2, 2017

Future of the Ethernet drive may hinge on NVMe over Ethernet

Despite their debut two years ago, drives that connect via Ethernet have been mostly a curiosity. The Ethernet flavor of NVMe over Fabrics may change that.

By Jim O'Reilly • Feb. 1, 2017

NetApp AFF A700s flash array slims down A700 footprint

NetApp launches small-footprint A700s version of its high-end All Flash FAS A700 with built-in SSDs, updates all-flash capacity guarantee for A-Series flash storage line.

By Carol Sliwa • Feb. 1, 2017

Panzura controller, OS updates extend cloud options

The new Panzura controller has a bigger cache and an improved operating system with enterprise features. Hybrid Cloud Controller model also offers new enterprise support options.

By Carol Sliwa • Jan. 30, 2017

Dense Pure Storage FlashBlade storage zeroes in on web-scale analytics

FlashBlade system-on-a-chip from Pure Storage converges compute, flash storage and software-defined networking. The arrays use custom flash modules instead of solid-state drives.

By Garry Kranz • Jan. 26, 2017