Enterprises are more distributed than ever—and really, a better term now might be dispersed. Large enterprises have operations in multiple sites, regions,…
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Research
Object Storage Is Heating Up
If you’ve followed my work in the last few years, you know I’m a fan of object storage. I always thought the…
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The Hard Disk is Dead! (But Only in Your Datacenter)
During Storage Field Day, one of the most interesting sessions was with Western Digital. It was a 4-hour long session, so I…
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Tiers, Tiers, and More Storage Tiers
Last week I attended Storage Field Day 19. As it always happens at these events there are trends that you can easily…
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NetApp Fabric Orchestrator, One More Step in the Right Direction
NetApp has made a huge strategy shift a few years ago and has been transitioning from being a traditional storage company to…
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Two Different Approaches to Data Storage Analytics
In one of my latest reports, “Key Criteria for Evaluating Enterprise Block Storage,” I wrote that analytics is one of those features…
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An Update on Pure Storage From Pure Accelerate
I’m at Pure Accelerate 2019 trying to collect my thoughts and report on what I saw in the last couple of days.…
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Hardware as a Service – Resellers Becoming Managed Service Providers
In an effort to mimic the cloud, vendors, as well as resellers, are switching to subscription-based sales models for hardware and, according…
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
HCI is very popular with organizations of all sizes now, but it’s not perfect! A compromise must be found between performance, flexibility,…
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From Storage to Data Virtualization
Do you remember Primary Data? Well, I loved the idea and the team but it didn’t go very well for them. It’s…
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About scale-out storage ARM-ification and $/GB
I came across two interesting news items this week – OpenIO introducing a 96-HDD appliance for its object storage platform and Western…
Read MoreRussia reportedly hits brakes on plan to bring forward local data storage mandate
Remember that crazy Russian law forcing any web service that handles Russians’ personal data to store it in Russian data centers? The…
Read MoreSingapore researchers claim breakthrough MRAM tech can store data for 20 years
Researchers from the National University of Singapore and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia have developed a new…
Read MoreWhy digital storage is the next hockey stick market in tech
By 2020, annual demand for new storage technology will hit 9.8 zettabytes; substantially less than the 40 zettabytes of data expected to be generated that year. How do we produce enough storage devices to hold all of this data?…
Read MoreIs your big data worth the effort?
You've just invested in a massive infrastructure to store your data and mine it for information. But is that information valuable enough to justify the expense?…
Read MoreMoby Dick on a DNA strand: Harvard encodes data in life’s language
Wyss Institute researchers have broken all previous records for DNA storage, encoding 700 terabytes of data into a gram of DNA. Why DNA storage? It's incredibly dense and resilient, but it's not fast (at least not yet), which would make it most useful for archival storage.…
Read MoreBYOD-friendly or BYOD-adverse? Critical criteria for picking a cloud vendor
In our increasingly BYOD world, employees expect to have open and mobile access to their work and apps. Meanwhile, IT still needs to keep sensitive business data secure. What's a stressed out CIO to do? Find a BYOD-friendly cloud vendor, says Symantec’s Anthony Kennada.…
Read MoreNot sold on life in the cloud? Polkast may be just the thing
Cloud data storage can be awesome. But the fact is, most of us still use personal computers to store the bulk of our data. Polkast, an app for Android and Apple iOS, lets you access all the files on your PC from your mobile device.…
Read MoreMetadata: a game changer for big data storage?
Market intelligence firm IDC recently released its fifth annual Digital Universe study which, using text and video, combines hard data and projections with…
Read MoreA peek inside the new Apple Thunderbolt cable
The new Apple Thunderbolt cable costs $49, which is a bit pricey. iFixit took a peek inside one of the new cables and came up with a good reason why Thunderbolt isn't cheap. Even if costs don't drop, though, this tech has legs.…
Read MoreMichael Dell Is Keeping His Head in the Clouds
While Michael Dell is bummed he didn’t see the tablet revolution coming, he’s also not sweating it much, apparently. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the CEO of Dell Inc. says the company’s main focus remains the enterprise market.…
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In solid-state storage, SLC (single-level cell) is generally reserved for high performance, long-lived enterprise drives. MLC (multi-level cell) is its cheaper, consumer-grade…
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Nimbus wants to reset the expectations of enterprises that think SSD-based networked storage is too spendy for their IT budgets. The firm…
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What took you so long, Seagate? The hard drive stalwart is finally getting into the SSD game, but with a bit of…
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