Solid-state storage startup Pure Storage goes GA with its FlashArrays, upgrades software and reveals customers in its limited access program.
Fusion-io Inc., announced this week that the company would work with the SCSI Trade Association on SCSI Express standard for PCIe-based storage.
How do you define SSD? Check out this list of important SSD terms. The list includes terms you should know and some that may seem obscure.
Expert Mike Laverick explains the concept of VMware Ready so listeners can gain a better understanding of what VMware-certified hardware means.
Seeing its technology as a good fit for solving VDI storage woes, Virsto Software extends its support to Citrix Systems’ XenDesktop VDI environments.
In this interview, find out more about new vSphere 5 storage features and how they compare to vSphere 4’s, how the new vSphere Storage Appliance works, and the latest on vStorage APIs.
Creating a private cloud can bring cost savings, scalability and self-service, but the transformation may involve moving to object storage.
MercadoLibre’s "Swift" OpenStack Object Storage makes use of clusters of commodity servers to store typically static data; MD5 hash algorithm assigns unique identifiers to files.
MercadoLibre blazes open source cloud storage trail using OpenStack components for object storage, block storage and computing to set up a private cloud infrastructure.
Financial services firm overhauls data protection to meet recover time objectives and recovery point objectives.
This tip examines several examples of DR research from independent sources and DR vendors.
This tip examines some key government cybersecurity initiatives and their relevance to the private sector.
Storage Radio: Listen to the week’s storage headlines, including news about Pure Storage’s upgrade of its all-flash storage array, CloudSigma’s launch of SLA-backed cloud service SigStore, and more.
Hadoop storage systems traditionally call for the strict use of embedded DAS for hardware-based storage within the Hadoop MapReduce framework. But alternatives exist.
Be on the lookout for issues with NameNode and HDFS when using Hadoop architecture for big data storage.
Iomega’s px12-450r SMB storage array uses the Intel Ivy Bridge processor, has native antivirus support, and is built for 4 TB SATA drives.
Server virtualisation has made an impact on the state of data backup, leading to advancements in the enterprise and midrange backup markets, changes in the way VMware APIs work with backup, and more.
An SSD RAID array offers the performance and data protection advantages RAID does with spinning disk, but what levels should you use and can you mix flash and HDDs in the same RAID group?
Headlines: EMC confirms that it acquired flash array startup XtremIO, and Israeli publication Globes pegs the deal at $430 million.
In this interview, see the pros and cons of cloud backup compared with tape backup, as well as how storage VARs can take advantage of that to guide their customers in the move to the cloud.
To provide HIPAA-compliant cloud storage services, storage VARs and MSPs face many, grave regulatory requirements. Learn about the risks and get advice for performing due diligence.