Storage Hardware

Storage Appliances Are the Future

I have been saying this for a long time, and the trend is clear: whatever your application, be it cloud, Hadoop or file system,...

Deduplication Appliances Buying Guide

Deduplication burst onto the scene about a decade back. Its popularity is such that so a multitude of products and services now include some...

Top Ten Takeaways from EMC World

EMC World just ended in Las Vegas this week. Now that it’s over, here are some reflections from myself and others on the high...

EMC Goes ‘Wild’ with Cloud and Big...

EMC gone wild?It seemed so at this week’s EMC World in Las Vegas. As well as releasing a ton of new products which will...

SSDs, Flash and Why Disks Will Not...

Almost three years ago, I made the seemingly bold statement that SSDs would not replace spinning disks, and the flash vendors of that time...

Hybrid Disk Drives, Caching SSDs and What...

The concept of putting a cache in front of storage to improve performance is back again. The last time I remember this happening was...

Kaminario Launches 4th-Gen K2 All-Flash Arrays

Newton, Mass.-based enterprise flash storage systems vendor Kaminario took the wraps off its fourth generation K2, the company's line of solid-state flash arrays, today. Last...

Cancer, Big Data and Storage

A few weeks ago, I was traveling and for some reason The Wall Street Journal was delivered to my hotel room door. When thumbing...

Nimbus Data Floats HALO 2013 Software for...

South San Francisco, Calif.-based Nimbus Data, an enterprise flash storage specialist, announced the latest version of its storage operating system, HALO 2013.New to the...

Parallel Storage Clouds

The world is enamored with cloud computing, particularly cloud storage. Cloud storage is used for a variety of data tasks: performing IO for applications...

Two Viable Open Source NAS Solutions

It's hard for many IT managers to even consider using open source software to handle anything remotely critical to running the business. That especially...

Software Defined Storage Startup SwiftStack Raises $6.1M

SwiftStack, a San Francisco-based data storage software company, announced today that it had attracted $6.1 million in Series A funding, bringing its total haul...

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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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