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The future of flash storage: Is NVMe right for your enterprise?
Cracks in the SAS and SATA protocols started to appear with the rise of SSDs and the exponential performance improvements they delivered over HDD technology. This led to the development of the nonvolatile memory express protocol to exploit flash's ... Continue Reading
The best enterprise storage systems and services of 2017
For 16 years, Storage magazine and SearchStorage have recognized the best enterprise storage systems with our annual Products of the Year awards. For this year's competition, vendors submitted new and upgraded products from the past year ... Continue Reading
SDS, HCI and CDP are key to dream enterprise storage system
Easy to implement and manage may be the buzzwords of the day for enterprise data storage systems, but too often daily experiences of IT professionals belie that rosy scenario. Continue Reading
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Explosion in unstructured data storage drives modernization
Increasing amounts of unstructured data are a key part of modern secondary storage environments with their distributed file systems and a scale-out object storage design. Continue Reading
The data storage industry will turn upside down in 2017, or will it?
Rich Castagna reviews the prognostications offered by data storage vendors on the future of data storage technology in 2017. Continue Reading
A look at the future of data storage careers
Thanks to virtualization, the cloud and solid-state technology, data storage professionals and those who want to pursue a career in it face an uncertain future.Continue Reading
When buying more primary data storage, applications matter
Faster storage -- and more of it -- is important, but that wouldn't matter if new SANs didn't boost application performance and efficiency in the process.Continue Reading
Performance bottleneck plagues flash storage
Replacing slow spinning disks with faster flash storage affords ample benefits, but it doesn't remove the bottleneck. It just moves it somewhere else.Continue Reading
Get the most from cloud-based storage services
Enterprise data storage managers are in position to help their companies get more from cloud storage services.Continue Reading
Virtual server bottlenecks among data storage problems
Though virtual server performance bottlenecks remain among data storage problems, there are fixes available, but beware, each fix has side effects.Continue Reading
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Hybrid cloud integration issues solved
When considering a migration to a hybrid cloud, watch out for obstacles such as cost and data latency. George Crump reviews common migration issues and explains how to overcome them.Continue Reading
VDI performance issues begin at storage infrastructure
VDI performance issues which can be traced back to storage infrastructure are limiting user adoption of virtual desktop implementation.Continue Reading
What's the relationship between VM-aware storage and VVOLs?
When traditional storage hardware can't handle virtualized workloads, VM-aware storage can be used as an alternative. But could VMware VVOLs solve the problem instead?Continue Reading
Video storage takes its turn in the spotlight
While organizations create high-definition video for a variety of uses, they turn to today's storage systems to house and protect it.Continue Reading
Deal with data capacity challenges
Data capacity challenges -- and the anxiety they bring -- result from the rapid explosion of data growth combined with barely increasing budgets.Continue Reading