Opinion

Opinion

Storage performance

• Enterprise NAS performance challenges and how to resolve them

  NAS storage can be used for mission critical workloads but NFS-based storage comes with performance challenges. Jim Bahn of Virtual Instruments outlines the main ones  Continue Reading

• Software-defined storage: The reality beneath the hype

  The rise of storage software and APIs on commodity hardware means there is something in the idea of software-defined storage.  Continue Reading

• Storage arrays face two-pronged flash/cloud attack

  The storage array as we know it could soon be a thing of the past, as hot data heads to flash and cold data goes to the cloud, leaving a slimmer array for bulk data on HDDs.  Continue Reading