Storage Hardware

A 10-Year Review of Data Storage

Let’s take a trip down memory lane. Around 10 years ago, EMC ruled the roost in data storage. It held a 21.6 percent revenue...

Samsung Ramps Up Production on 64-Layer V-NAND...

Storage vendors and their customers may soon be entering an era of economical 3D NAND. As the term suggests, 3D NAND enables chipmakers to...

Enterprise Storage Market Flattens in Flashy Q1

Storage vendors sold $9.2 billion worth of equipment in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017, a slight 0.5-percent decline, reported IDC. In total, the...

All-Flash Array Market Grows 48% in Q1

All-flash arrays (AFA) are a few of the bright spots in the declining market for enterprise data storage hardware.An AFA can offer comparatively blistering...

Top Storage Technology Letdowns

DataCore recently released the findings of its latest survey, which point to some disappointment in the technologies that are purported to enable next-generation storage...

8 Hot Solid State Storage Products

So many new solid state drive (SSD) and flash storage products are hitting the market that it can be hard to keep up. This...

What to Do with Legacy Assets in...

“Legacy” is an interesting word. Aided by Gartner, Microsoft managed to convince the world in the mid-nineties that anything that wasn’t a Windows-based server...

Where All-Flash Storage Makes No Sense

“Go all-flash, young man,” appears to be the current mantra of the storage industry. Vendor after vendor is urging enterprises to ditch hard disk...

All-Flash Array Economics

Flash used to be expensive. Five years ago, my all-flash laptop cost a pretty penny. These days solid state drives (SSD) are regarded as...

Buying Guide: All-Flash Storage

All-flash storage is clearly on the up-and-up. Gartner analyst Valdis Filks predicts that by 2020, 50 percent of data centers will use only all-flash...

IBM Storage Banks on NVMe

IBM is officially working on NVMe storage systems, the company announced Sunday.NVMe, short for Non-Volatile Memory Express, is the latency-busting storage standard that promises...

Elastifile Harnesses the Flash Storage and the...

Santa Clara, Calif. technology startup Elastifile launched a data storage platform today that combines the high-performance characteristics of flash with the scalability and flexibility...

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Software Defined Storage (SDS) enables the use of commodity storage hardware. Learn 15 best practices for SDS implementation.

What is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)?

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) is the encapsulation and transmission of Fibre Channel (FC) frames over enhanced Ethernet networks, combining the advantages of Ethernet...

9 Types of Computer Memory Defined (With Use Cases)

Computer memory is a term for all of the types of data storage technology that a computer may use. Learn more about the X types of computer memory.
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