Nearline storage

Nearline storage technology used to include only hardware appliances and devices that stored data that did not need to be immediately available, but could be accessed without manual intervention. Now it also includes cloud storage, such as Google Nearline Storage. Find the latest news about nearline storage and its underlying technologies on this topics page.

January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21
Hyperscale shift to 18 TB, SMR HDDs top '21 hard disk trends

New 20 TB energy-assisted and SMR hard disk options are starting to ship, but experts predict the top 2021 trend in data center hard drives will be the transition to 18 TB HDDs.
August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20
Data storage vendors face 'uncertain' future during pandemic

COVID-19 has thrown IT and storage spending into pandemic mode, making it hard for vendors and IT teams to get a handle on when they'll rebound.
July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19
Oscar-winning studio tames file data with Oracle, Igneous

Making movies is a file-intensive business, and Hollywood studios must give their artists the right storage technologies to store, manage and protect business-critical data.

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