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Storage Products of the Year 2018
Nominate your favorite or best storage products for the Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com annual Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading
The AFA market faces unprecedented and rapid commoditization
Prices of all-flash arrays have nosedived. Massive discounts due to fierce competition are contributing to rapid and unprecedented commoditization of all-flash arrays and changes in the AFA market. Meantime, the demand for AFAs is shrinking because ... Continue Reading
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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Buying NAS: Do you want performance and scalability?
Although SANs still rule the modern the data center, the NAS array maintains a position high up on tech buyers' shopping lists for new primary storage. Continue Reading
What new storage capabilities are coming in OpenStack Pike?
OpenStack Swift, Cinder and Manila storage project leaders discuss the tools' most requested features, and offer insight into capabilities coming in the next Pike release and beyond. Continue Reading
2017 IT spending trends for data storage
For the 15th year, Storage magazine has surveyed storage pros to learn about their IT spending trends for the coming months. As you'd expect, the cloud continues to pick up steam for both primary and secondary projects, while ...Continue Reading
A dozen data storage vendors to watch in 2017
Hyper-convergence, solid-state, software-defined storage and the cloud have revolutionized the way we deploy, manage and secure storage. How the dozen leading data storage vendors presented here navigate the challenges and opportunities created by ...Continue Reading
What's in and what's out in data storage tech
Cloud data backup, copy data management, DIMM, hyper-convergence, DRaaS and object storage are data storage technology given a closer inspection in Gartner's Hype Cycle.Continue Reading
Intelligent storage puts brainpower into data storage systems
Vendors are offering storage systems that "know" more about the data within them than ever before. Powered by multiple CPU/cores, fast flash/memory, nimble software-defined storage and lessons learned from big data, these intelligent storage systems...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
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Copy management system saves storage space, cash
Having a multitude of copies of primary data is a waste of precious storage space, resources and money. It also presents security and compliance risks. A copy management system reduces storage requirements, costs and dangers by enabling rapid and ...Continue Reading
Simplifying data storage technologies is hard
All-flash arrays and hyper-converged storage are two technologies that make it tough to simplify data storage technology.Continue Reading
Scale-out storage vs. object storage
The unfettered growth of unstructured data, both human and (more and more) machine generated, has enterprises increasingly turning to scale-out NAS and object storage. While both scale-out storage and object storage are designed for massive ...Continue Reading
Server-side flash technology lifts solid-state adoption
Server-side solid-state storage is more ubiquitous than ever due to growing capacities and rapidly dropping flash technology prices. There are a many ways to install flash technology in a server, though there are decisions to make before you buy. We...Continue Reading
Buyers of NAS boxes think capacity -- and more capacity
While hyper-converged systems and software-defined storage get most of the headlines, users who need capacity are still shopping for NAS systems.Continue Reading