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• Hot info on cold cloud storage: Glacier vs. Cool Blob Storage

  Not all storage needs to be about super speedy SSDs and the lowest latency or retrieval times. Cold storage is an inexpensive way to handle data archiving. Continue Reading

• Everything you need to know about storage snapshots

  The role of storage snapshots in data protection is growing. Essentially, groups of disk blocks -- physical in an array or virtualized within a software-defined storage or virtual appliance -- storage snapshots embody what a file system or volume ... Continue Reading

• Making a storage capacity plan that doesn't bust your budget

  Storage capacity is growing at a rapid rate and by using the latest innovations in storage technologies it is possible to meet demands without growing your storage budget apace. Continue Reading

• Hypervisor virtualization manages, supports data storage

  Chris Evans looks at the latest efforts by storage virtualization vendors to handle hypervisor storage and data management functionality. Continue Reading

• 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

• 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

• Unstructured data storage showdown: Object storage vs scale-out NAS

  Object storage and scale-out NAS are both highly scalable and built to handle large amounts of unstructured data. Which one is best suited for your environment?Continue Reading

• Flash storage caching, tiering or both? Consider the workload

  If you're using a flash-based storage system, you're familiar with caching and tiering to accelerate data. Storage tiering is used in hybrid flash storage systems to separate active and inactive data. Active data is kept on the flash tier, while ...Continue Reading

• How can image cloning help manage data in your NAS?

  Managing image copies in a virtual environment can put stress on your network-attached storage, but cloning can help get things under control -- if your NAS supports it.Continue Reading

• Rethink the use of an object storage gateway for data migration

  Software options that allow data to be written natively to object storage may be better for your organization than gateways that migrate data to object stores.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

• Best bets for modernizing legacy storage systems

  Traditionally, storage arrays were purchased on three- to five-year contracts, but modern budgets often require companies to keep their arrays for seven years. With the pace at which data storage technology changes today, 7-year-old legacy storage ...Continue Reading

• Nine reasons object-level storage adoption has increased

  Scalability, performance and low cost are some of the motivations behind implementing object storage, but there are many more that have organizations looking at the technology.Continue Reading

• Disaggregation marks an evolution in hyper-convergence

  Hyper-convergence vendors are pushing forward with products that will offer disaggregation, the latest entry into the data center paradigm.Continue Reading