Jeffrey Layton

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Object Storage vs. POSIX Storage

Object-oriented storage is becoming very popular. It's being used for websites, medical records, databases, Hadoop, general data media storage,...

New Flash Technology

Five years ago I wrote an article about the coming wall for flash chip density. Increasing flash density is...

Flash is the New Flash

Five years ago I wrote an article about the coming wall for flash chip density. Increasing flash density is...

Shingled Drives for Re-Roofing Your Storage?

In the last several years, there have been an increasing number of storage options. Initially we had just magnetic...

Preparing for Disaster… Recovery

Lately I've been hearing people state that they need their file system or storage solution to have disaster recovery...

Is Key-Value Data Storage in your Future?

Key-value is a fundamental data representation that is invading the storage world beyond just archive or other cold storage....

SAS vs SATA: What Is the Difference...

SAS and SATA are important when considering storage infrastructure. Explore differences in drives, cost and data integrity channels. Click here now.

Shared Storage in the Cloud

Technical computing and HPC workloads are moving to the cloud at an ever-increasing pace. The ability to spin up...

Data Storage: How to Save Space Frugally

In general, people tend to keep all data. If you have been a system administrator you know the constant...