SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
Container technologies and trends: What enterprises need to know
In this e-guide, we take a look at how and why enterprises are tapping into containers to bolster the business agility of their IT infrastructure and application estates, and some of the latest thinking about how best to utilise container technologies.
News : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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May 13, 2021
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May'21
Portworx gets container-native array management for Pure hardware
Container storage player Portworx builds in container-native functionality to allow discovery, provisioning and management from inside Kubernetes cluster, but only on Pure arrays so far
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May 04, 2021
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May'21
Nebulon helps DCI offer high-performance edge hyper-converged
Cambridge-based cloud and colo provider DCI will offer DataQube servers with Nebulon, which marries a cloud control plane with local PCIe-connected flash storage
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April 27, 2021
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Apr'21
Scality launches Artesca container-native object storage
Object storage specialist gets on a burgeoning container object storage market with Artesca, which runs from Kubernetes to provide persistent storage for containerised applications
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April 21, 2021
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Apr'21
Winemaker racks Pure all-NVMe all-flash for rapid SAP response
Concha Y Toro also pocketed a 35% saving in storage costs following a move from as-a-service storage provision to Pure Storage FlashArray//X all-flash hardware
In Depth : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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Computational storage: What is it? Why now, what for, who from?
Computational storage is an emerging architecture category, in which compute is put near storage to address I/O bottlenecks resulting from large volumes of data Continue Reading
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Backup failure: Four key areas where backups go wrong
We look at the key ways that backups can fail – via software issues, hardware problems, trouble in the infrastructure and good old human error – and suggest ways to mitigate them Continue Reading
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Five reasons to look at hyper-converged infrastructure
HCI promises easy setup, purchasing flexibility, low procurement and operation costs, reliability and all in one box – but there are challenges too Continue Reading
Blog Posts : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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Scale-out NAS bounces back to fight for unstructured data against object storage
There’s a scrap breaking out between object storage and scale-out NAS. The battleground is the market for customers that need to deal with very large amounts of unstructured data. In October, ... Continue Reading
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Tape’s got a future but are use cases narrowing in the age of analytics?
The headline grabbers in storage are usually the quick – flash, NVMe etc – or the harbingers of the next generation, such as the cloud. But in some ways these are the extremes, the outliers. In ... Continue Reading
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Microsoft revives MAID with Pelican, but tape can still sleep easy
A decade ago storage journalists were quite keen on a new technology around at the time. That was MAID – Massive Array of Idle Disks – which were basically disk-based backup target devices with ... Continue Reading
Opinion : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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Security Think Tank: In-depth protection is a matter of basic hygiene
The belief that effective perimeter security is the best way to protect data is a fallacy that is being repeatedly exposed. We must recognise the need for a data-centric security model to protect data from both internal and external threats, but what does this mean for security professionals? Continue Reading
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Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications
Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
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Nand, flash, SSDs and HDDs – what’s happening?
It is estimated that the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. How will storage technology cope? Continue Reading
Videos : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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CW500: Sean Sadler, Kings College London
One of the dilemmas of the modern CIO is the ever-expanding need for data storage.