Unstructured data storage

New Seagate Exos storage uses self-healing drive technology

Seagate's Exos Corvault petabyte-scale storage array introduces self-healing HDD capabilities to ease maintenance and adds erasure coding to protect data at lower overhead. Continue Reading

Dell EMC PowerScale adds all-NVMe, Nvidia GPUDirect options

A Dell EMC PowerScale update adds a high-end all-NVMe F900 model with Nvidia GPUDirect support for AI and analytics workloads plus a OneFS 9.2 upgrade to improve performance. Continue Reading

Quantum updates StorNext architecture and appliance lineup

Quantum distilled its StorNext file system down to a single 2U appliance. The new H4000 promises easier deployment without losing StorNext's speed or data management capabilities. Continue Reading

Iridia CEO sees data storage future written in DNA

As investors show interest in Iridia's DNA chip technology, its CEO believes using synthetic DNA for data storage will be the way to tackle a yottabyte future. Continue Reading

Cloud file vendors try to woo enterprise storage buyers

Some enterprises want cloud file storage to complement or replace legacy NAS. Several product enhancements last week target issues of cost, data security and remote shared storage. Continue Reading

COVID-19 research spurs IHME to 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo storage

Seattle's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation opts for 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo hybrid storage appliances to handle massive data sets generated through COVID-19 research. Continue Reading

Hyperscale shift to 18 TB, SMR HDDs top '21 hard disk trends

New 20 TB energy-assisted and SMR hard disk options are starting to ship, but experts predict the top 2021 trend in data center hard drives will be the transition to 18 TB HDDs. Continue Reading

Object storage systems: Benefits, alternatives and use cases

Along with proving itself a reliable option, object storage has stood the test of time. It can tackle unstructured data and the cloud, and it's overcoming performance challenges. Continue Reading

Managing unstructured data to boost performance, lower costs

Is unmanaged, unstructured data clogging up your primary storage? Get control of this costly, performance-sapping situation and start managing unstructured data cost-effectively. Continue Reading

Lines blur between structured and unstructured data storage

Open source tools like Presto persist low-cost unstructured object data stores while still making information accessible through structured data access tools such as SQL. Continue Reading

File system software startup Quobyte chases IT, developers

Quobyte tempts developers and app owners with a free version of its distributed parallel file system software, hoping they will convince their IT admins to buy fully supported editions. Continue Reading

NVMe key-value storage vs. block and object storage

See how this modern approach simplifies the data storage process compared with block and object storage, and learn about the various potential advantages of key-value storage. Continue Reading

Use cases for object storage ramp up to meet emerging demands

Computational and storage advances are expanding the role of object storage beyond traditional HPC and cloud to emerging data analytics, machine learning and deep learning use cases. Continue Reading

Data center storage continues to evolve

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Igneous Systems' new CEO talks about cloud and COVID-19

Igneous CEO Dean Darwin said COVID-19 and increased cloud adoption have increased the demand for unstructured data management. He sees a chance for Igneous to fill that demand. Continue Reading

Hitachi Content Platform integrates WekaIO file storage

Hitachi Content Platform G-11 object storage nodes get refreshed with startup WekaIO's parallel file system. The WekaFS is optimized for Hitachi VSP all-flash arrays. Continue Reading

Enterprise HDDs hit 20 TB, boost throughput in 2020

While waiting for HAMR to drop, we have more immediate spinning disk developments to watch out for in 2020, such as dual-actuator and shingled drives. Continue Reading

Quantum F-Series line expands with entry-level NVMe flash

New Quantum F-Series model is aimed at media customers who need NVMe in a smaller footprint. F-1000 server scales to 77 TB of useable capacity with Quantum StorNext file system. Continue Reading

Quobyte storage brings satellite imagery down to Earth

Quobyte storage customer 3vGeomatics produces analytical data on ground deformities that are potential environmental hazards. The distributed file storage replaces NFS. Continue Reading

What works best for IoT storage?

Storage for IoT devices and applications requires new strategies and approaches. Find out how three approaches are being used to facilitate storage for consumers and enterprises. Continue Reading

Test your unstructured data storage knowhow

Do you know how to manage and store unstructured data? Take our quiz to see what's required for enterprise-scale data storage, how machine learning and metadata can help and more. Continue Reading

How can predictive analytics for unstructured data improve storage?

AI-based analytics capabilities are becoming pervasive in storage arrays. Find out how they're helping get the unstructured data deluge under control. Continue Reading

Worried about storing unstructured data? You're not alone

Most data being created today is unstructured, and storage pros often find themselves struggling to keep up. Luckily, efficient unstructured data storage is still possible. Continue Reading

What's the role of metadata in unstructured data management?

Discover how to expand your organization's use of metadata to improve the management and storage of unstructured data to make it more organized and accessible. Continue Reading

3 key unstructured data storage challenges and how to resolve them

Volume, variety and value make storing unstructured data difficult. We look at how some vendors are helping enterprises get control of their burgeoning data stores. Continue Reading

Effective data management to combat the coming data apocalypse

Data management and storage are evolving to deal with the coming datasphere explosion. Learn what's happening with unstructured, IoT and cloud data, as well as storage tiering. Continue Reading

Hitachi Pentaho integration aims to subdue unstructured data

Hitachi Pentaho data integration presents Hitachi Content Platform as an object-based data lake to send cleansed data to multiple cloud targets. Continue Reading

5 tips for making flash-based SSDs work with unstructured data

Using flash storage effectively for unstructured data requires upfront analysis of cost, capacity and performance, as well as continued tracking of a rapidly changing flash market. Continue Reading

Are flash workloads suited to handling unstructured data?

The storage of unstructured data is a hurdle for many organizations. Object storage keeps it organized but lacks speed thanks to hard disks. Luckily, a better way is on the rise. Continue Reading

Dell EMC Isilon, ECS gain ClarityNow for unstructured data

Dell EMC on Thursday picked up file software to help project teams access, control and manage unstructured data on heterogeneous storage. The deal for Agoura Hills, Calif.-based DataFrameworks is ... Continue Reading

Block, file and object storage interfaces enable integration

Explore the capabilities, as well as the strengths and weaknesses, of some storage vendors' products that support and integrate block, file and object interfaces. Continue Reading

Learn storage techniques for managing unstructured data use

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Seven ways to unlock the power of all types of unstructured data

New storage services have emerged to help IT pros maintain and deliver access to ever-larger and more valuable data sets, particularly all types of unstructured data. These include data sets for big data analysis, DevOps, storage self-service and cost-control purposes, among other things. This data explosion is the result of several trends, including growth of files and file systems, machine-generated data streams, web-scale application exhaust, endless file versioning, finer-grained backups and rollback snapshots. If you're architecting a new approach to storage and dealing with various types of unstructured data storage at a global enterprise scale, we have seven advanced storage capabilities you should consider.

The on-demand nature of the cloud has not only changed the way enterprises consume and pay for IT resources, it has profoundly altered our understanding and expectations of IT services and infrastructure in general. More enterprises expect to obtain the features they want when they want them and to pay for those features only when and if they need them. This has been acutely felt by vendors and consumers alike in the fragmented and dynamic storage market. It has altered how storage providers deliver expected core features, such as deduplication, replication, compression and encryption, and has led to the development of niche products that meet application-specific needs and use cases. This issue clarifies the new and evolving data storage landscape to help you buy and deploy the right storage products with the features you require and more easily acquire the products you may need in the future.

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SAN purchase and deployment criteria by the numbers

Capacity and application needs drive businesses to deploy new storage area network systems, while criteria such as number of LUNs and multipathing are key to purchasing decisions. Continue Reading

Learn storage techniques for managing unstructured data use

Rearchitect storage to maximize unstructured data use at the global scale for larger data sets coming from big data analytics and other applications. Continue Reading

Pure FlashBlade

Pure Storage FlashBlade is optimized for unstructured data analytics. Its system-on-a-chip architecture uses custom NAND flash blades to accelerate data and its metadata. Continue Reading

Why the standalone EFSS market isn't going away just yet

Enterprise file sync-and-share allows for simpler file access and sharing on the consumer and business level. Success stories like Box may indicate that EFSS is sticking around. Continue Reading

Panzura Global File System gets management upgrade

Panzura builds a new console that centralizes maintenance for its controllers and Global File System. The Google Maps-based monitoring and reporting tool manages cloud storage. Continue Reading

Companies use caution with cloud file sync and share

Though nearly half of companies are using cloud file sync-and-share services, those who aren't using it have taken a wait-and-see approach. Continue Reading

Enterprise file sharing, shadow IT require swift action

File sync-and-share has vexed enterprises, but it's time to fight back and get those files out of the clouds and off employees' personal devices. Continue Reading

What are some of the best practices for managing the growth of unstructured data?

It starts with corporate policies around data management ... Continue Reading

What is unstructured data and how is it different from structured data in the enterprise?

Expert Pierre Dorion talks about unstructured data and its impact on the data enterprise. Continue Reading