Features

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• Storage managers seek storage answers with a storage purchase

  Capacity and bandwidth are key reasons for new storage purchases, with SAN arrays that offer flash storage, data reduction and storage virtualization popular among buyers.  Continue Reading

• Smart storage systems smart for business

  Mike Matchett explains how data-aware storage combined with application awareness is leading to a new wave of intelligent data storage.  Continue Reading

• 3D XPoint memory stumbles in race to ditch DRAM; RRAM may step up

  Due to mediocre performance, Intel and Micron have put off the release of the 3D XPoint technology until 2017. This could open the door for RRAM products from companies like SanDisk.  Continue Reading

• Flash storage caching boosts application performance, requires balance

  Chris Evans discusses the benefits to caching flash storage, the trade-offs involved and flash cache models, as well as a handy cheat sheet.  Continue Reading

• Cloud-based storage services use cases vary, customers skeptical

  A lot of companies use cloud-based storage services, but many approach this relatively new storage resource with caution.  Continue Reading

• Rumors of the hybrid storage array dying may not just be hype

  Innovations in flash memory have led to changes in the cost and performance of flash SSDs, prompting some to speculate if we'll see hybrid storage wither away.  Continue Reading

• Flash cloud storage needed if performance is paramount

  Most providers today can offer you cloud flash storage if your organization has a need for that kind of increase in speed of access to data -- and can afford the increased cost.  Continue Reading

• Understand enterprise file sync-and-share deployment models

  Terri McClure looks at how "shadow EFSS" has made it easy for sensitive data to fall into the wrong hands and hard for companies to protect it.  Continue Reading

• Seven tips to improve data storage efficiency

  Storage networks, server-side flash, network cache, software-defined storage and all-flash or hybrid arrays help storage performance and efficiency.  Continue Reading

• Buying cloud-based storage services starts with budget, backup needs

  Some of the gotchas that dogged cloud storage services -- security, data protection, latency -- now less important to buyers.  Continue Reading

• Conquer unstructured data: Scale-out NAS vs. object storage

  Learn how scale-out NAS and object storage systems work, their pros and cons, manageability and how they integrate with your storage infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Almost time for SSD flash storage to be used with object storage

  As the price of flash SSD storage continues to fall, it becomes more attractive for object storage, which otherwise counts on big, slow and cheap HDDs.  Continue Reading

• Understand the differences between all-flash storage array vendors

  Learn the nuances of solid-state storage and how to vet all-flash array vendors in a time of innovations like triple-level cell NAND and nonvolatile memory express.  Continue Reading

• HDFS alternatives can avoid the file system's downfalls

  Increasingly, IT administrators are integrating data center-grade storage systems with Hadoop -- ones that come with the required data protection, security and governance built-in.  Continue Reading

• Storage networking technology steps up to performance challenge

  A rapidly growing number of storage protocols and interfaces are helping storage networking technology avoid data center bottlenecks.  Continue Reading