Storage Hardware
Disk Array Buying Guide: Challengers and Visionaries
In an earlier disk array buying guide, we covered those companies named as the leaders by Gartner in its Magic Quadrant (MQ) for General...
Disk Array Implementation Tips
We have recently been posting buying guides concerned with the latest disk arrays. Let’s follow those up with a story on disk array implementation....
General Purpose Disk Array Buying Guide
The disk array remains the core element of any storage infrastructure. So it’s appropriate that we delve into it in a lot more detail.Gartner...
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 hard drives with a single...
Tape Data Storage Buying Guide
It’s a foolish data storage professional who considers that tape isn’t worth paying attention to. The fact of the matter is that tape continues...
Backblaze: Is the Earth Flat?
Exactly one year ago today I published an article titled Selecting a Disk Drive: How Not to Do Research. This article took Backblaze to...
Top Ten Data Storage Trends that Emerged...
Wow. What a difference a year makes. This time last year, the clamor around software defined storage (SDS) reached fever pitch, closely followed by...
Follow the Money: Picking Technology Winners and...
After 12 years of writing a monthly column for Enterprise Storage Forum, it’s time to move on.A monthly column may not seem like a...
Software Defined Storage Deployments: Top Ten Tips
There are a lot of definitions floating around for software defined storage (SDS). IBM, for example, defines it as:“A set of software capabilities that...
Tips for Better Deduplication
Deduplication can now be regarded as a mature technology. It’s been around for a decade and in that time has become an integral part...
Software Defined Storage Challenges
Vendors are self-defining SDS (software-defined storage) seven ways from Sunday. Let’s go with a definition that is broad enough to fit most implementations and...
4 Leading Deduplication Vendors:
Gartner named EMC, HP, Quantum & Exagrid in their Deduplication Magic Quadrant. Explore these vendors in more detail. Click here to learn more.
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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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