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Red Hat took its time with OpenShift Container Storage
Red Hat delayed a major OpenShift Container Storage update to work on simplifying Ceph storage and management; 4.2 update also improves scalability and multi-cloud portability.
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Why it's essential to monitor an NVMe-oF network
Don't let your storage network infrastructure get in the way of delivering NVMe-oF's low-latency benefits. See how these best practices can fix problems before they occur.
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Quantum expands F-Series file storage
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.
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Portworx helps Esri with stateful container storage for IoT
GIS specialist Esri addresses stateful container storage problem with Portworx' Enterprise software-defined storage in upcoming ArcGIS Analytics for IoT service.
The Importance of Smarter Data Backup
Learn how to drive a successful data management strategy and ensure business-critical data is preserved and recoverable when needed, using the native capabilities of backups.
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Enterprise storage, planning and management News
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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Data center storage News
Infinidat prepares disk storage array for NVMe flash
Infinidat CTO Brian Carmody says NVMe protocol is a 'perfect match' for hybrid InfiniBox disk arrays. Customers are beta testing Infinidat NVMe drivers, starting with RoCE 4.
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Monitor disk quotas with the NetApp PowerShell module
NetApp's PowerShell module provides a fast and easy way to automate and monitor NetApp quotas for disks. Learn how with this step-by-step tutorial.
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See what 2019 news stories caught readers' attention
Find out what storage industry news resonated with readers this year, including signs of a slowdown, cloud and consumption-based products, new storage arrays and technologies.
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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 Technology Basics
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NVMe over Fabrics
NVMe over Fabrics, also known as NVMe-oF and non-volatile memory express over fabrics, is a protocol specification designed to connect hosts to storage across a network fabric using the NVMe protocol.
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logical unit number (LUN)
A logical unit number (LUN) is a unique identifier for designating an individual or collection of physical or virtual storage devices that execute input/output (I/O) commands with a host computer, as defined by the Small System Computer Interface (...
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CIFS (Common Internet File System)
CIFS (Common Internet File System) is a protocol that gained popularity around the year 2000, as vendors worked to establish an Internet Protocol-based file-sharing protocol.
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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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With unicorn status, Acronis funding to aid acquisitions, R&D
There's a new unicorn in town. Cyber protection provider Acronis today closed a $147 million funding round, led by Goldman Sachs, at a valuation of more than $1 billion. Founder and CEO Serguei ...Continue Reading
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Red Hat took its time with OpenShift Container Storage
Red Hat delayed a major OpenShift Container Storage update to work on simplifying Ceph storage and management; 4.2 update also improves scalability and multi-cloud portability.
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Unstructured data storage
Quantum expands F-Series file storage
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.
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IoT data storage
Portworx helps Esri with stateful container storage for IoT
GIS specialist Esri addresses stateful container storage problem with Portworx' Enterprise software-defined storage in upcoming ArcGIS Analytics for IoT service.
SearchStorage Definitions
- NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)
- logical unit number (LUN)
- CIFS (Common Internet File System)
- storage as a service (STaaS)
- QLC NAND
- iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface)
- DRAM (dynamic random access memory)
- RAID 10 (RAID 1+0)