Storage Hardware

Five Technologies Improving Storage Performance

Recently, we’ve covered the facts that storage volumes are set to reach almost obscene levels over the next few years; how disk, flash and...

Why Hard Drives Are Here to Stay...

Storage needs are growing at an incredible rate. Technologies such as mobility, streaming video and the Internet of Things (IoT) are greatly accelerating the...

NAND, DRAM, SAS/SCSI and SATA/AHCI: Not Dead,...

Manufacturers are coming out with new non-volatile memory (NVM) media like 3D XPoint. Does that mean that DRAM and other NVM media such as...

NVMe: The Golden Ticket for Faster Flash...

It’s a little known fact that flash-based storage can be too much for most systems. Designed back in the days when slow hard disk...

Will NVMe Lead to Faster Flash?

It’s a little known fact that flash-based storage can be too much for most systems. Designed back in the days when slow hard disk...

EMC: Keeping Core Technologies Fresh, Active and...

Large IT vendors cut a large swath in the markets, products and services that they offer, but they also need to respond to emerging...

Top Ten Software Defined Storage Tips, Gotchas...

Software Defined Storage (SDS) is a somewhat clunky term that some of us hoped might disappear by now. But it has hung in there...

Flash is the New Flash

Five years ago I wrote an article about the coming wall for flash chip density. Increasing flash density is important because it allows manufacturers...

New Flash Technology

Five years ago I wrote an article about the coming wall for flash chip density. Increasing flash density is important because it allows manufacturers...

Elite Eight Flash Data Storage Tips

The NCAA basketball tournament takes hundreds of good college teams from around the country and boils them down to 64  qualifiers, a round of...

9 Tips for Getting the Most out...

Flash, flash, flash. If some vendors were to be believed, the obvious thing to do with any and all storage would be to throw...

Top Tips for Implementing Data Storage Tape

How things change. For years, even decades, people have been getting rid of tape. They bought into the idea that disk was the way...

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15 Software Defined Storage Best Practices

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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