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Take the sting out of switching cloud data storage providers

Switching your cloud storage provider is a complicated, sometimes painful, process, but here's what you need to know before making the decision to migrate your data.

By Jeff Byrne • Nov. 4, 2016

Making a storage capacity plan that doesn’t bust your budget

Storage capacity is growing at a rapid rate and by using the latest innovations in storage technologies it is possible to meet demands without growing your storage budget apace.

By Jim O'Reilly • Oct. 10, 2016

Smart storage systems smart for business

Mike Matchett explains how data-aware storage combined with application awareness is leading to a new wave of intelligent data storage.

By Mike Matchett • Oct. 3, 2016

Hedvig storage update offers multicloud capabilities

Hedvig outlined its vision for a Universal Data Plane spanning public and private clouds, as it announced an updated version of its software-defined storage.

By Carol Sliwa • Sept. 22, 2016

With on-premises storage, storage administrators must adapt or perish

Storage admins show increased interest in and adoption of on-premises storage technologies such as software-defined storage and hybrid clouds.

By Scott Sinclair • Sept. 6, 2016

Flash storage caching boosts application performance, requires balance

Chris Evans discusses the benefits to caching flash storage, the trade-offs involved and flash cache models, as well as a handy cheat sheet.

By Chris Evans • Sept. 6, 2016

IBM flash storage expands with midrange all-flash products

IBM's all-flash portfolio grows, with a new midrange and entry-level option, and the vendor adds a migration program aimed at EMC-Dell customers.

By Dave Raffo • Aug. 23, 2016

Simplifying data storage technologies is hard

All-flash arrays and hyper-converged storage are two technologies that make it tough to simplify data storage technology.

By Rich Castagna • Aug. 3, 2016

Almost time for SSD flash storage to be used with object storage

As the price of flash SSD storage continues to fall, it becomes more attractive for object storage, which otherwise counts on big, slow and cheap HDDs.

By Marc Staimer • July 27, 2016

NAND flash technology is just the beginning

NAND flash adoption has been as fast as the speed it offers, but faster storage techs such as 3D XPoint and phase-change memory are on their way.

By Rich Castagna • July 6, 2016

Tape archiving tips for a better storage strategy

Studies show that tape archives are a comparatively cheaper method of long-term data retention. Explore how to use active archive and other storage technologies with a tape system.

By Jon Toigo • June 29, 2016

Storage Spaces Direct builds on Windows Storage Spaces

With the new Direct feature, Windows Storage Spaces can use local storage for failover clusters. It also supports JBOD storage.

By Brien Posey • June 17, 2016

Servers and storage become inextricably linked

The rise of flash storage and convergence technologies makes it tougher to see storage and servers as separate entities in a software-defined world.

By Rich Castagna • June 6, 2016

Tape archive remains the recording medium of choice

Tape archiving offers low-cost, long-term data protection in a variety of industries, keeping it atop the list of data center backup technologies.

By Eric Slack • June 6, 2016

Why the standalone EFSS market isn’t going away just yet

Enterprise file sync-and-share allows for simpler file access and sharing on the consumer and business level. Success stories like Box may indicate that EFSS is sticking around.

By Terri McClure • June 3, 2016

Data storage technology trends debated in inaugural Tweet Chat

Data storage industry professionals discussed the appeal of technologies such as all-flash arrays, hyper-convergence and cloud storage during the first SearchStorage Tweet Chat.

By Sarah Wilson • May 27, 2016

New Dell SC Series operating system adds dedupe, QoS

Dell launches an operating system update for its SC Series storage arrays, featuring dedupe, QoS, Live Migrate, VVOLs support and new management capabilities.

By Carol Sliwa • May 19, 2016

Get the most from cloud-based storage services

Enterprise data storage managers are in position to help their companies get more from cloud storage services.

By Mike Matchett • May 2, 2016

Hadoop Distributed File System helps tackle big data

Hadoop Distributed File System storage systems are being enlisted to tackle big data thanks to vendors like EMC, Hitachi, IBM and NetApp, and Apache.

By John Webster • May 2, 2016

Hadoop data analysis: Common concerns with the HDFS platform

Using HDFS technology as a data analysis platform may be insufficient for your storage needs. Explore the challenges storage administrators may encounter and find out how to address them.

By John Webster • April 29, 2016

Nexsan storage software brings Unity to its hardware

Unity software supports Nexsan with NST block devices, Assureon object storage and Transporter cloud sync functionality that it picked up from Connected Data.

By Garry Kranz • April 25, 2016

How do RDMA storage systems improve latency reduction?

RDMA technology can help speed up I/O in storage environments by bypassing copy processes in the software stack when data is called up from a system's memory.

By Dennis Martin • April 12, 2016

How can you increase SSD lifespan and keep performance?

Solid-state drives offer high performance, but their cost remains prohibitive. Here are some ways to prolong your SSD lifecycle while maintaining performance.

By Brien Posey • April 12, 2016

Propane provider gives SAN the gas with Violin flash array

Ferrellgas' switch from a hybrid array to a Violin flash storage array brought a boost in performance as well as surprising reductions in cost and management.

By Dave Raffo • April 4, 2016

Pure FlashBlade tackles scale-out unstructured data

Pure Storage launches a blade-based, scale-out unstructured data all-flash system that handles NAS and object storage. The vendor also brings out an entry-level version of its SAN flash array.

By Dave Raffo • March 14, 2016