Podcasts
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Storage Spaces Direct a key option in Windows Server 2016 features
Windows Server 2016 includes new and updated capabilities with Storage Spaces, Storage Replica, Storage Quality of Service, data deduplication and Resilient File System.
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NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics protocols merit consideration
NVMe protocols are growing in importance as enterprises switch to flash storage. Demartek founder Dennis Martin explains the technologies and why IT needs to keep an eye on them.
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Analyst: 3D NAND technology could stick around for 20 years
3D NAND flash will probably stick around for 20 years, despite continued higher cost-per-GB of NAND flash vs. hard disk drives, says semiconductor analyst Jim Handy.
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Make sense of all-flash array vendors' wild flash performance claims
Dennis Martin reveals how to interpret the often inscrutable flash performance claims of all-flash array vendors, from IOPS to throughput and latency.
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VMware hypervisor swap-out means loss of data storage features
Switching from VMware's hypervisor to a commercial or open source alternative might necessitate third-party tools to replace storage features.
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A tiered storage model is different from caching
In this podcast, Evaluator Group strategist Randy Kerns looks in-depth at today's tiered storage model, including how it differs from flash caching.
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Server SAN infrastructure model of Google, Facebook poised to spread
Wikibon senior analyst predicts that the server SAN infrastructure model of Google, Facebook, Amazon could spread to enterprise IT, service providers.
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How NAND flash degrades and what vendors do to increase SSD endurance
Storage Switzerland senior analyst Eric Slack digs into the technical aspects of SSD cell degradation and how vendors are increasing SSD endurance.
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Target audience to determine big data storage solutions in M&E area
Wikibon CTO predicts object-based systems will be popular as big data storage solutions; advises tape for long-form video files, disk for short clips.
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Big data storage challenges eased by metadata, caching and compression
Systems that provide fast access to metadata, caching and heavy compression help ease media-rich big data storage challenges, Wikibon CTO says.
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Erasure coding tradeoffs include additional storage, disk update needs
Erasure coding tradeoffs include requirement for additional data storage, need to update extra disks for redundancy purposes, UC professor cautions.
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Erasure coding brings trade-off of resilience vs. performance
IT's decision on using erasure coding in storage rests on data importance, durability more than amount of data, says storage consultant Marc Staimer.
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Erasure coding definition: RAID 5, RAID 6 are most common forms
Erasure coding definition: RAID 5, RAID 6 are most common forms; UC professor explains different types, appropriate workloads, product differentiators.
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Wikibon CTO: Erasure coding can help reduce data backup costs
Erasure coding can help reduce the data needed for backups and lower the cost of backup and recovery over the traditional approach, Wikibon CTO says.
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Storage considerations for a big data infrastructure
Jon Toigo discusses what big data is, the popularity of object storage and how to determine the best storage for a big data infrastructure.
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Data durability guarantees shouldn't be big concern with cloud storage
Data durability guarantees of cloud storage providers shouldn't be a big point of concern for customers; they're too tough to measure and enforce.
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SAN and NAS storage trends include software-defined storage, flash
Forrester Research analyst Henry Baltazar predicts the top SAN and NAS storage trends over the next five years.
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Expert offers top tips on Amazon S3 vs. Azure storage
Consultant Marc Staimer offers practical advice on comparing Amazon S3 and Windows Azure Storage with use cases for enterprise IT shops in mind.
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Understanding stripped-down hyperscale storage for big data use cases
Stripped-down hyperscale storage provides rapid, efficient expansion to handle big data use cases such as Web serving and database applications.
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How to access cloud storage: Transfer, retrieval not so simple
Public cloud data access is straightforward, but data transfer to another provider or in-house could leave users on their own, analyst warns.
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RHEV 3.1 storage: Functionality and considerations
Virtualization expert Sander van Vugt explains how RHEV storage works and discusses some of the new storage features in version 3.1.
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What you need to know about improving iSCSI performance
Storage expert Dennis Martin discusses how technologies like Data Center Bridging, CHAP, IPsec and iSCSI offload adapters affect iSCSI performance.
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Managing storage in a Citrix environment
In this podcast, find out how Citrix XenServer storage management functionality compares with that of VMware and Hyper-V environments.
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What you need to know about SMB SANs
Marc Staimer discusses what to look for in an SMB SANs this Q&A and recent developments in SMB SAN technology.
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Using iSCSI for virtual server environments
In this podcast interview, Mike Laverick discusses the pros and cons of using iSCSI for virtual server environments. Learn how to implement and configure iSCSI and more.
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EDRM: Best practices when preparing for an e-discovery request
We list the nine stages of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), and tell you why the preservation and collection stage is so important to data storage pros.
Photo Stories
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Speeds of storage networking technologies rise as flash use spikes
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Keep tabs on the following data storage startup vendors in 2017
Videos
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What new storage capabilities are coming in OpenStack Pike?
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Majority of object storage use cases point back to the cloud
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EMC Unity dashboard demo reveals management features
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'Astonishing how open' EMC and Dell are about merger
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Experts offer closing perspectives on EMC World Las Vegas 2016
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EMC Unity, Dell-EMC merger top news for EMC World attendees