Evaluate

Evaluate

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

• IT resilience vs. disaster recovery: What's better for your business?

  DR may be dying. The term DR, that is, not the actual process of disaster recovery. There is a move in the industry to replace the phrase with "IT resilience." At last week's ZertoCON business ... Continue Reading

• Why all-flash array vendors must offer advanced enterprise features

  As all-flash arrays become increasingly common in enterprises, IT professionals need to look not just for efficiency, but for important features, such as analytics and data protection. Continue Reading

• EMC Unity dashboard demo reveals management features

  Stefan Voss, a member of EMC's technical marketing team, offers a preview of the storage provisioning and data protection features available in the Unity dashboard. Continue Reading

• EMC Unity, Dell-EMC merger top news for EMC World attendees

  The most interesting news items for EMC World 2016 attendees were Michael Dell's update on the pending EMC acquisition and the new Unity mid-range array. Continue Reading

• EMC Unity all-flash midrange array highlights Day 1 EMC World news

  We spotlight the opening day news at EMC World 2016, including a new Unity midrange array, the Virtustream Storage Cloud, copy data management and a ViPR Controller update. 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

• Object storage vendors push NAS out of the enterprise

  The object storage market features products from both startups and established vendors that are being offered as true NAS alternatives.Continue Reading

• Object storage market vendors give NAS a nudge

  In this issue of Storage magazine, we examine object storage's scalability, resiliency, accessibility, security and manageability. Object storage is the foundation of cloud storage due to its greater scalability and resiliency over traditional ...Continue Reading

• Benefits of software-defined storage architecture: Time for consensus

  Disagreement over the meaning of software-defined storage architecture continues, but it generally refers to the beneficial trend of separating software and hardware.Continue Reading

• Potential pitfalls with Hadoop data analytics

  Before deciding on Hadoop to tackle your organizations' big data analysis needs, review these points of concern, including data sources and sustainability.Continue Reading

• Solid-state drive costs: What factors do I need to consider?

  SSD costs are on the downswing, but users need to explore the price per IOPS and price per gigabyte before purchasing. Some workloads aren't a match with the technology.Continue Reading

• What are the major benefits of containerization?

  The advantages of containerization become very evident in test and development environments. Explore how container technology is being used to verify application performance.Continue Reading

• How do RDMA storage systems improve latency reduction?

  RDMA technology can help speed up I/O in storage environments by bypassing copy processes in the software stack when data is called up from a system's memory.Continue Reading

• Can I use Microsoft containers with the Docker platform?

  Docker is a mainstay for containerizing applications, but it has been limited to Linux systems. New support for Microsoft Windows Server containers is switching things up.Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud benefits driving future of cloud storage

  It's tough to see the future of cloud storage services without acknowledging hybrid cloud benefits.Continue Reading