Features

Features

• Software-defined storage: Answering frequently asked questions

  Russ Fellows, a senior analyst at Evaluator Group, breaks down the concept of software-defined storage, its benefits and the vendors who offer it.  Continue Reading

• Data archiving best practices: Policies, planning and products

  Primary storage can be expensive and has a finite capacity. These data archiving best practices will help you decide what data to move to an archive.  Continue Reading

• Nirvanix Inc. Cloud Storage Network, CloudNAS focus on enterprise users

  Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network and public, private, hybrid and CloudNAS offerings focus on enterprise use for backup, archive and content delivery.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft cloud storage mounts challenge with Windows Azure

  Microsoft's cloud storage strategy relies on the Windows Azure service, while the Microsoft StorSimple gateway appliance helps with cloud integration.  Continue Reading

• IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud plans expansion

  IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud service plans to expand and offer customers 99.999% availability with three or more copies of data.  Continue Reading

• Google Cloud Storage service expands with features, price options

  Developer-oriented Google Cloud Storage offers reduced pricing options; adds experimental Durable Reduced Availability feature for backup, batch jobs.  Continue Reading

• AT&T cloud storage offers EMC Atmos, VPN, compression

  AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service uses EMC Atmos storage; AT&T cloud service includes data compression and a choice of public Internet or VPN.  Continue Reading

• Amazon cloud storage services give enterprises a choice

  Amazon cloud storage services include Simple Storage Service (S3), Glacier archival storage and Storage Gateway for enterprises.  Continue Reading

• Rackspace cloud storage features open source software, simple pricing

  Rackspace cloud storage features open source OpenStack Object Storage, Akamai Content Delivery Network and a relatively simple pricing model.  Continue Reading

• New storage capacity management tools can make efficiency a reality

  Poor provisioning and a lack of effective capacity management tools leads to underused storage systems. New tools and improved processes can make storage efficiency a reality.  Continue Reading

• Emerging storage architectures may make storage arrays obsolete

  Cloud storage, virtualization and the relentless growth of unstructured data have all contributed to a rethinking of the way storage architectures are packaged and presented.  Continue Reading

• Users claim the upper hand in disk storage capacity struggle

  A majority of storage managers use efficiency tools to control disk storage capacity before it gets out of hand; get the results from our latest user survey.  Continue Reading

• Hitachi's enterprise storage arrays back on top

  Eclipsing a strong field of enterprise storage array contenders, Hitachi made an impressive run by sweeping all five Quality Awards ratings categories.  Continue Reading

• Pumped up performance: PCIe SSDs

  PCIe SSDs offer the best flash performance available; and now it can be shared among multiple servers, too.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft Corp. Windows Server 2012

  Microsoft Corp. Windows Server 2012 features SMB 3.0, the Resilient File System, Storage Spaces and Hyper-V Replica disaster recovery.  Continue Reading