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Storage management and analytics
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The best enterprise data storage products of 2023
Backup, cloud, disk and storage system vendors vied for top honors in the TechTarget Storage Products of the Year competition. Find out which won gold, silver and bronze. Continue Reading
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A primer on storage anomaly detection
Storage admins should continuously monitor systems to identify and act upon unusual behavior. Anomaly detection can proactively address issues before they become serious problems. Continue Reading
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Future of storage lies in collaboration, unified management
Storage vendors throughout 2023 bet big on unified management and collaboration tools as what the market will want and what will help them stand out among the enterprise C-suite. Continue Reading
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8 best practices for a zero-trust storage strategy
Explore how to apply the zero-trust security model to storage systems. Given today's threat landscape, additional data protection is key for enterprises. Continue Reading
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How CXL 3.0 technology will affect enterprise storage
Understand CXL 3.0 technology before its impacts on storage take serious effect. While the specification improves on previous generations, it could also demand more from storage. Continue Reading
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What lies beyond the yottabyte?
Once data is measured in yottabytes, the world will need new terms for data projections. That's where two new terms -- the ronnabyte and the quettabyte -- come in. Continue Reading
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Data hoarding and the role of storage
The promise of future insights drives companies to store data. But there are potential drawbacks when storing data and better management methods than keeping everything. Continue Reading
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6 best practices for metadata storage and management
Metadata is crucial to getting the most out of data, so organizations should store it properly. Best practices include protection and understanding the IT architecture. Continue Reading
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The best enterprise data storage products of 2022
Backup, cloud, disk and storage system vendors vied for top honors in the TechTarget Storage Products of the Year competition. Find out which won gold, silver and bronze. Continue Reading
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The storage administrator is dead; long live the storage admin
IT employers still see the value of keeping storage administrator jobs in house despite the allure of savings with managed services. Continue Reading
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Data storage interview questions for your next storage role
Data storage administrators must be able to adapt and optimize storage for evolving workloads and business needs. Here are some questions to prepare for in an interview. Continue Reading
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Considerations to plan AI storage architecture for big data
This chapter from 'The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop' examines how to plan for AI data storage. Plan for factors like volume and scale for long-term success. Continue Reading
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Storage certifications to bolster your skills
Storage admins looking to gain new skills or make better use of their vendor-supplied storage systems can look to certification and qualification courses. Continue Reading
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Hammerspace connects virtual studio of Jellyfish Pictures
The Hammerspace Global Data Environment enables collaboration and savings for Jellyfish Pictures, a U.K.-based animation studio with artists working across the world. Continue Reading
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The best enterprise storage systems and products of 2021
Thirty-nine finalists competed for top honors in the annual 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage Products of the Year awards. Find out which won gold, silver and bronze. Continue Reading
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Web3 use cases for storage flimsy for now
The marketing lingo of Web3 is slinking into the storage industry, but the use cases are few and the technology immature. Continue Reading
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Enterprise data storage 2021 Products of the Year finalists
The 20th anniversary of the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage Products of the Year contest showcases 39 finalists in backup, cloud, disk, hyper-converged and management. Continue Reading
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Top 5 data storage best practices include Teams, containers
From Teams storage limits and cloud security out to the edge and container-native storage, this roundup of best practices provides a review of recent advice articles. Continue Reading
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Holographic data storage: Next big thing or bust?
The latest work in holographic storage development approaches its uses in a different way. Take a deep dive into the possibilities and potential of this 3D storage. Continue Reading
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Explore the consumption-based IT and Opex storage landscape
The evolving consumption IT, pay-as-you-go infrastructure and storage model is a hot trend. Explore benefits, challenges and five top vendors in the field. Continue Reading
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The best enterprise storage systems and products of 2020
Nearly 100 products and services competed for top honors in the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage annual Products of the Year awards. Find out which won gold, silver and bronze. Continue Reading
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Track these 4 emerging storage technologies in 2021
As they seek to increase the efficiency and performance of data storage systems in 2021, administrators should keep these four emerging technologies in mind. Continue Reading
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Enterprise data storage 2020 Products of the Year finalists
The field of entrants in our 19th annual Products of the Year contest has been reduced to 47 contenders vying for gold, silver and bronze status in five data storage categories. Continue Reading
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7 ways data storage management in 2020 has changed
2020 has been a year of storage management change, from the rush to the cloud to VDIs for all to more automation. Learn about the trends and post-pandemic expectations. Continue Reading
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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
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Optimal architectures for intelligent storage systems
Explore the best, most optimal architectures for intelligent storage and how these systems improve storage performance/utilization to help get more bang out of your data set buck. Continue Reading
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6 basics of storage automation, predictive analytics and AI
AI and predictive analytics are included in many storage offerings. See how this functionality helps automate storage, which features are useful and which products have them. Continue Reading
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How key factors in storage performance and cost spur adoption
It may take years, but a storage product's performance, cost and the problems it solves can converge to make its sales take off. See how a storage technology's tipping point is reached. Continue Reading
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7 predictive storage analytics tools compared
Learn how storage management tools from Hitachi, Infinidat, Pure Storage and other vendors use AI to improve array operation and storage administration efficiency. Continue Reading
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The best enterprise storage systems and products of 2019
Get to know the top storage systems, products and services selected from a field of nearly 100 in the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage annual Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading
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Enterprise data storage 2019 Products of the Year finalists
The field of entrants in our 18th annual Products of the Year contest has been winnowed to 50 contenders vying for gold, silver and bronze glory in five data storage categories. Continue Reading
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Compliance analytics helps data storage meet PII standards
Organizations are using predictive analytics and AI to sift through large data sets to ensure that any data stored is compliant with all personally identifiable information rules. Continue Reading
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Navigate PII data protection and GDPR to meet privacy mandates
Know the commonalities surrounding personally identifiable information to better navigate and comply with the regulations and penalties IT managers must contend with today. Continue Reading
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The secret to reliable storage provisioning for DevOps
Cloud storage and intelligent storage can help provide DevOps teams with the reliable, fast and flexible storage they require at every phase of the application delivery process. Continue Reading
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Machine learning for data analytics can solve big data storage issues
Discover how AI and machine learning -- with support from major vendors and technologies like Lambda architecture, FPGAs and containers -- address big data analytics challenges. Continue Reading
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5 predictive storage analytics features you'll want to watch for
Predictive storage analytics tools are becoming standard equipment in the enterprise. Get to know the features you'll need, how they work and the benefits they provide. Continue Reading
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Hot data storage technology trends for 2019
Hot storage tech trends for 2019 include cheaper, denser flash and multi-cloud data management that can benefit the consumer and create better performance and data protection. Continue Reading
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The best enterprise storage products of 2018
Get to know the 15 top enterprise storage products selected from a field of more than 100 in the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage annual Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading
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Broadcom Brocade SAN automation
Broadcom automates SAN management using a command-line interface and open source tools connecting to Brocade fabric and switches in a storage area network. Continue Reading
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Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 5.6
With the latest version of VirtualWisdom, Virtual Instruments adds greater automation to both the discovery and resolution of storage system and network management issues. Continue Reading
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Data storage industry trends revealed in top 2018 news stories
AI, NVMe over fabrics and the cloud were must-read data storage stories in 2018, as were Tintri's struggles and Dell EMC's product moves. See the news that mattered as the year closes. Continue Reading
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Storage administrator skills and jobs in the age of convergence
Simpler data centers can complicate the lives of IT pros with specialized skills, such as storage admins. But they can still thrive by specializing further or becoming generalists. Continue Reading
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Improve infrastructure performance with these compute and data tips
Perpetual hunger for better and faster application performance often requires reducing latency by either moving the data to the compute or the compute to the data, but which one? Continue Reading
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Cloud-based predictive analytics seeing wider adoption
A predictive analytics tool can give your storage strategy a boost by addressing storage issues before they even occur. What should you look for in a predictive analytics product? Continue Reading
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Data governance best practices exploit big data
Emerging technologies, such as AI and IoT, in the age of big data mean there's more data than ever to benefit from and for data governance policies to manage and secure. Continue Reading
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5D data storage and the future of optical technology
Researchers say revolutionary 5D optical storage could protect hundreds of terabytes of data for billions of years, far beyond the capabilities of current storage media. Continue Reading
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Office 365 data protection, the enterprise and you
Gain a better understanding of Microsoft Office 365 security and storage management features and how the popular cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite really works. Continue Reading
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Managing storage for IoT data at the enterprise edge
Edge computing, the cloud and internet of things data are changing the way businesses store, analyze and manage all the information generated at the perimeter of the enterprise. Continue Reading
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IT spending priorities for 2018 include cloud and flash storage
More than half of respondents to our survey have larger IT budgets this year, and their storage spending is focused on ways to manage massive data growth. Continue Reading
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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
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Trends in data storage 2018: Five hot techs to watch
Our hot data storage technology trends for 2018 include predictive storage analytics, ransomware protection, converged secondary storage, multi-cloud and NVMe over Fabrics. Continue Reading
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Multicloud storage mitigates risk of public cloud lock-in
Multicloud storage strategy allows for the shifting of data across public clouds so you can avoid lock-in to a single provider, reduce cost and improve workload efficiency. Continue Reading
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Disaggregating network, compute and storage allocation demystified
Explore the ways disaggregation concepts and principles are being applied to create and allocate pools of compute and storage resources to serve applications on demand. Continue Reading
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Flash, cloud top data storage options for storage pros
Cloud is popular among data storage priorities for primary and backup storage, while most say they will use flash in primary data storage. Continue Reading
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A look at the future of data storage careers
Thanks to virtualization, the cloud and solid-state technology, data storage professionals and those who want to pursue a career in it face an uncertain future. Continue Reading
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Hadoop Distributed File System helps tackle big data
Hadoop Distributed File System storage systems are being enlisted to tackle big data thanks to vendors like EMC, Hitachi, IBM and NetApp, and Apache. Continue Reading
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Big data analytics applications impact storage systems
Analytics applications for big data have placed extensive demands on storage systems, which Mike Matchett says often requires new or modified storage structures. Continue Reading
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Performance counts when buying a solid-state storage device
More than half of our surveyed companies are using flash now, with plans to use it for more than just mission-critical apps. Continue Reading
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A closer look at cloud storage use cases, strategies
Find out how primary storage vendors are closely integrating with cloud storage providers in ways that enable new uses for cloud storage. Continue Reading
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Big data storage and analytics
There are two basic types of big data analytics—synchronous and asynchronous—but both have big data storage appetites and specialized needs. Continue Reading
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Big data storage architecture: Categories, strengths and use cases
We explore distributed nodes, scale-out NAS, all-SSD arrays and object storage as choices for a storage architecture for big data. Continue Reading
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Five data protection guidelines for business continuity
Storage expert Jon Toigo offers data protection guidelines to help storage admins achieve the best possible results when protecting data in their care. Continue Reading
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Enterprise storage trends: SSDs, capacity optimization, auto tiering
Several enterprise storage trends are emerging at big and small storage vendors. Find out why certain technologies are trending and what they can do for your storage environment. Continue Reading
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RAID level comparison chart: A free download
Download our free RAID level comparison chart, where the most important RAID levels are defined, along with information about the pros and cons of each RAID level. Continue Reading
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How RAID storage systems protect your application data
RAID storage systems improve application performance and data availability. Learn about RAID levels and choosing the right RAID technology. Continue Reading
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Implementing an electronic records retention system
Learn the components of an electronic records retention system and best practices for implementing an electronic data discovery policy. Don't risk e-discovery request errors. Continue Reading