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Choose your storage network protocol
Compare characteristics of common storage network protocols, such as iSCSI, Fibre Channel, FCoE, NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP and NVMe-oF, to decide which one is best suited to your needs.
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Vast Data: All-flash acceleration with LightSpeed
Vast Data LightSpeed combines bulk QLC SSD storage with Intel Optane acceleration. The system supports Nvidia beta technology allowing writes from storage to GPU.
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Red Hat revs up OpenShift storage for AI, hybrid cloud
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) now part of IBM Spectrum Discover catalog and focuses on bringing containers into production infrastructure.
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Managed SAN services aim to ease storage chores
Offloading SAN management to an MSP partner could free IT admins from an infrastructure component that sometimes gets short shrift among other data center priorities.
Download Now: Flash Memory vs. RAM: What’s the Difference?
In this guide, explore the differences between flash memory and RAM. Plus, discover how quad-level cell (QLC) and triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash memory are coexisting in the data center.
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Ctera Networks CEO: enterprise subscriptions spiking
Ctera Networks claimed subscription revenue for its enterprise file services platform more than doubled in fiscal 2017, pushing the company to record results for the year. As a private company, ...
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How data centers deploy storage amid pandemic pressure
Read on to learn how data center and storage administrators use cloud services, remote management and automation to overcome today's COVID-19 challenges.
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Why the RTO and RPO are critical to continuity
The recovery point objective and recovery time objective enable an organization to know how much data it can lose and how long it can be down, key elements of a backup and DR plan.
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Storage vendors News
Need to cut costs triggers layoffs at Dell
Dell layoffs started this week and may extend to next year. It is the latest among IT infrastructure vendors to tighten budgets amid COVID-19.
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Fibre Channel (FC) SAN News
Brocade VP: Flash spurs coordinated Gen 6 Fibre Channel launch
Brocade, QLogic and Broadcom coordinated this week’s shipments of the first switches and adapters to support Gen 6 Fibre Channel storage networking technology. We caught up with Jack Rondoni, vice ...
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Clustered NAS News
NetApp Kubernetes Service launched to orchestrate containers
NetApp launched its Data Fabric architecture to adapt its storage to manage applications built for the cloud. Container orchestration had largely been a missing aspect in Data Fabric, but the ...
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Storage Products of the Year 2020 nomination form
Nominate your favorite or best storage products for the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage annual Products of the Year awards.
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Pros and cons of using a storage area network
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7 leading storage area network products and vendors
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How hybrid clouds are changing the job of managing SANs
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Managed SAN services aim to ease storage chores
Offloading SAN management to an MSP partner could free IT admins from an infrastructure component that sometimes gets short shrift among other data center priorities.
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Healthcare providers turn to the cloud for storage needs
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13 tips on managing cloud storage and SAN
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Troubleshooting SAN performance issues
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Key SAN management strategies
SANs consolidate resources and provide a high-speed network for storage traffic, but that doesn't mean you're off the hook when it comes to performance management.
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How to solve storage latency issues when deploying NVME-oF
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Tips from our judges
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Products of the Year judging criteria
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E-Handbook | August 2020
How to solve storage latency issues when deploying NVME-oF
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E-Zine | August 2020
Data center storage continues to evolve
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E-Zine | May 2020
Data storage and management tasks that maintain performance
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E-Handbook | March 2020
The advantages of SAN technology in an HCI world
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E-Zine | February 2020
The best enterprise storage products of 2019
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Storage Technology Basics
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FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is a storage protocol that enable Fibre Channel (FC) communications to run directly over Ethernet.
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Fibre Channel switch (FC switch)
A Fibre Channel switch is a networking device that is compatible with the Fibre Channel (FC) protocol and designed for use in a dedicated storage area network (SAN).
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SATA, SAS and NVMe SSD speeds: What you need to know
The non-volatile memory express protocol is tailor-made to make SSDs fast. Get up to speed on NVMe performance and how it compares to the SATA and SAS interfaces.
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- Managed Services: Administer & Monitor –Data Sheet
Blog: Storage Soup
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AI, predictive analytics featured in Storage Products of the Year
The 2019 Storage magazine and SearchStorage Products of the Year winners have been revealed. While the 16 gold, silver and bronze recipients and one judges' choice winner feature an assortment of ...Continue Reading
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Calling all data storage products for the 2019 Products of the Year
Do you have a great data storage product that first shipped or was significantly enhanced this year? If yes, we want to hear about it. There's just one week left to enter your outstanding product ...Continue Reading
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Vast Data: All-flash acceleration with LightSpeed
Vast Data LightSpeed combines bulk QLC SSD storage with Intel Optane acceleration. The system supports Nvidia beta technology allowing writes from storage to GPU.
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Storage for DevOps
Red Hat revs up OpenShift storage for AI, hybrid cloud
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) now part of IBM Spectrum Discover catalog and focuses on bringing containers into production infrastructure.
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Storage migration
WANdisco launches automated Hadoop data migrator for AWS
WANdisco LiveData Migrator moves Hadoop data while avoiding downtime. Although niche, it solves the hurdle of migrating Hadoop data while it's going through active changes.