SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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News
18 Nov 2024
Infinidat gets in on the RAG act with workflow architecture offer
Storage array maker says customers can get data from any NFS storage to use in RAG for internal enterprise AI projects, and claims its OS metadata expertise enables this Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
17 Nov 2024
Storage technology explained: Flash vs HDD
In this guide, we examine the differences between flash storage and HDD, the rise of NVMe and much denser formats such as QLC, and whether or not flash will vanquish HDD in the all-flash datacentre Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
22 Jun 2016
Nutanix adds storage for containers, physical servers and all-flash
Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Nutanix adds container support with persistent storage, offers block iSCSI storage for physical servers and allows all-flash across the product range Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
06 Jun 2016
CW ANZ: June 2016
Read how scientists at a major Australian university are benefiting from the latest storage technology to help them get the most out of advanced IT already in place. More than 100 scientific teams share the sophisticated high-performance computer facilities at Monash University’s eResearch Centre in Melbourne, Australia. To help scientists get the best from the computing facilities, Monash built a state-of-the-art software-defined storage cluster using open source technologies and cost efficient hardware from Dell. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
06 Jun 2016
CW ASEAN: June 2016
In this issue we look at a software-defined approach to storage management that combines storage, compute, networking and virtualization technologies. We find out how popular these hyper-converged and converged storage systems are among organizations in Southeast Asia and consider why organizations would move production systems to these. Also read whether Asian CIOs are ready for Docker and container technology. Containers are all the rage among developers. They are well suited to DevOps best practices due to their portability, fast deployment times and standard units of operations. We look at whether Asian CIOs are ready to use this open source technology to build, test and run applications in their organizations. Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Jun 2016
It makes sense to go hyperscale/hyper-converged
Hyperscale computing and storage are the norm for web giants. Hyper-converged scenarios make it possible for small and medium-sized enterprises to gain the advantages of combined server/storage nodes Continue Reading
By- Bryan Betts, Freeform Dynamics
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Feature
23 May 2016
PCIe SSD: Cache vs storage tier
Adding PCIe flash is a popular way of speeding up application response times, with more rapid I/O guaranteed, but should PCIe SSD be added as cache or as a tier of storage? Continue Reading
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News
12 May 2016
Software-defined storage the power behind Monash University microscopes
Australian academic institute uses the technology to help it deal with huge – and still growing – storage demands Continue Reading
By- Bill Bennett
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News
27 Apr 2016
IBM all-flash family gets cloud and enterprise A9000 and A9000R
IBM announces two all-flash arrays – the modular A9000 and rack A9000R, aimed at service providers and enterprises – and the mainframe-connected DS8888 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
26 Apr 2016
HDS G series arrays get native NAS and cloud as a storage tier
VSP G series enterprise hybrid flash arrays see addition of native NAS functionality on a controller card plus cloud as a storage tier via Hitachi Content Platform Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
12 Apr 2016
How IT in a portacabin supports £1bn London Bridge station overhaul
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how a temporary IT set-up based in a portacabin is supporting the UK’s largest critical infrastructure project – the £1bn redevelopment of London Bridge train station. Our latest buyer’s guide looks at converged infrastructure products. And we analyse research showing data protection topping the list of UK security priorities. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Apr 2016
CW@50: Storage – From punched cards to flash and the cloud
Since the launch of Computer Weekly in 1966, we have moved from a world of punched cards and paper tape to one where flash and the cloud have revolutionised data storage Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
05 Apr 2016
SimpliVity adds Hyper-V support to hyper-converged products
Hyper-converged appliance maker adds Hyper-V support to VMware ESXi capabilities and upgrades OmniStack software to support workload optimisation on SimpliVity clusters Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
29 Mar 2016
OSNexus unlocks Ceph object storage in QuantaStor v4
Software-defined storage maker OSNexus adds Ceph-based object storage to its QuantaStor product, adding it to block and file storage from ZFS, Gluster and Ceph Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
20 Jan 2016
Unaligned I/O: A storage performance killer
As the stack piles higher – with virtual servers, their virtual disks and guest operating systems – the scope for unaligned or misaligned I/O to affect performance increases Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Jan 2016
NAS vs object: Which one for large volumes of unstructured data?
Both NAS and object storage offer highly scalable file storage for large volumes of unstructured data, but which is right for your environment? Continue Reading
By- Bryan Betts, Freeform Dynamics
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News
24 Dec 2015
Top 10 storage stories of 2015
The year 2015 in storage was dominated by the continued rise of flash and Dell’s purchase of EMC, but there were steady upticks in trends such as hyper-converged and software-defined storage Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
26 Nov 2015
Top five things to know about flash and storage tiering
Automated storage tiering boosts storage efficiency and saves money, but why is tiering different from caching, why is it suited to use with flash and how do suppliers differ? Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Nov 2015
Snapshots: Hypervisor vs Array
Snapshots are a valuable part of the data protection toolkit, but where is it best to run them from – the hypervisor or the storage array? We look at the pros and cons Continue Reading
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16 Nov 2015
DDN revamp adds SFA14K plus hyper-converged and all-flash options
DataDirect Networks upgrades core HPC storage arrays to create SFA14K, and adds hyper-converged SFA14KE plus all-flash IME14K front end to smooth I/O bottlenecks Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
02 Nov 2015
Object storage: Cloud vs in-house
Object storage is a rising star in data storage, especially for cloud and web use. But what are the pros and cons of cloud object storage or building in-house? Continue Reading
By- Bryan Betts, Freeform Dynamics
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News
02 Nov 2015
Hewlett Packard Enterprise: think of us as a startup
As Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc finally part ways, UK managing director Andy Isherwood shares some insight on what the future holds for the newly minted enterprise business Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Feature
24 Sep 2015
Flash in NAS file access storage: Does it need it – and, if so, how much?
While flash is rapidly going mainstream for primary storage with the all-flash datacentre, does NAS file access storage need flash – and, if so, how much? Continue Reading
By- Bryan Betts, Freeform Dynamics
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News
03 Sep 2015
SanDisk InfiniFlash flash arrays get Nexenta software-defined storage
SanDisk offers its all-flash array InfiniFlash IF100 with Nexenta's storage software on-board in another move in the trend towards choice in storage hardware and software deployments Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
17 Aug 2015
Will digital government remain on course?
In this week's Computer Weekly, the UK government's digital chief has announced his shock departure, but what will it mean for the future of digital public services? Dell went back to a private company two years ago – has it proved to be a successful move? And our latest buyer's guide looks at big data appliances. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Jul 2015
OpenStack Swift 101: the object store for OpenStack apps
We run the rule over the OpenStack Swift object storage architecture, its key components, how it achieves resiliency and the data protection methods in use and development Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Jul 2015
All-flash vs hybrid flash for virtual desktop storage
With massive random I/O and a huge bias towards writes, virtual desktop storage – especially for the more feature-rich VDI 2.0 – requires the speed of all-flash and hybrid flash storage Continue Reading
By- Bryan Betts, Freeform Dynamics
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News
22 Jul 2015
TLC flash storage: What it is and what it's good for
We run the rule over triple-level cell (TLC) flash: What it is, how it performs, what it's good for, why it's a competitor to disk, and how it's all been made possible Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
06 Jul 2015
Genomics England rejects open source to deploy EMC Isilon HPC storage
100,000 Genomes Project rejects building open-source parallel file system on x86 servers and opts for EMC Isilon clustered NAS deployed by Capita S3 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
24 Jun 2015
NetApp adds AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays
NetApp boosts its SSD array portfolio with the addition of AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays built on Data ONTAP, but still no sign of FlashRay general availability Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
15 Jun 2015
Council dodges £300,000 NetApp outlay with Atlantis flash caching
Somerset local authority avoids spending £300,000 on extra hard drives for its NetApp arrays and pays half that for Atlantis ILIO flash caching software that runs VDI from RAM Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Jun 2015
OpenStack Manila: File access storage for the open source cloud
OpenStack Manila is the file level access method in development by the open source cloud platform. What is it, how does it work and when will it be ready? Continue Reading
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News
01 Jun 2015
Pure Storage replaces FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m
Pure Storage upgrades FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m series devices Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Guide
27 May 2015
Guide to LUN configuration and virtualisation
LUN storage configuration has long been a cornerstone of storage management. The LUN – a chunk of storage created from RAID partitions on a SAN – presents a logical volume of capacity to an individual server. That’s still relevant today in the era of virtualisation. Many users retain physical servers that need a one-to-one connection between host and LUN. But, the role of the LUN is also changing with the rise of server and desktop virtualisation. It now forms a container for the logical objects used by VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V etc. In this guide you will find all you need to know about LUNs, LUN configuration and management, including their use in virtualised environments. Continue Reading
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Guide
15 May 2015
LTFS tape NAS: What it is and how to build it
In storage, cost is everything. So, imagine a storage medium with the frugal cost profile of tape and access times of NAS. Well, it already exists. Since 2010 the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) has allowed access to tapes as if they are spinning disk. Part of the LTO-5 tape format, LTFS partitions the tape, with one containing indexing information for all the data on the cartridge and the other contains the actual data. Marry this capability to a hardware NAS protocol front end with a disk cache and you have the potential for rapid access to massive amounts of data held on tape. Tiered storage is now mainstream. We have super-rapid flash for virtual machines and their data; Fibre Channel and 15k SAS for other fast access use cases. After that there is high-capacity SATA for bulk data, but here is where LTFS could start treading on the toes of disk vendors. That’s because, in some cases, where the use profile of data requires long retention and infrequent but relatively quick access, LTFS tape now rivals large capacity SATA as a nearline store. Maybe that’s why LTFS has failed to set the world on fire; there are just too many disk vendors who see it as a threat. Nevertheless, LTFS is worth looking at. And in this ComputerWeekly.com Guide you’ll find articles on why LTFS should be taken seriously and explanations of how tape NAS works and who sells products. Continue Reading
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Feature
14 May 2015
Erasure coding vs Raid for disk rebuilds
Erasure coding as a means of data protection has emerged with object storage and offers an alternative to Raid systems Continue Reading
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News
22 Apr 2015
Load DynamiX adds OpenStack protocols to storage testing product
Storage testing and validation provider adds OpenStack Swift and Cinder support to existing protocols in its Enterprise version 2.6 hardware Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
15 Apr 2015
Docker storage 101: How storage works in Docker
Docker nails some of the shortcomings of virtualisation, but what about Docker container storage? Continue Reading
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Photo Story
17 Mar 2015
VM backup down as a priority while disaster recovery still tops to-do lists
Our survey finds VM backup increasingly “job done”, while disaster recovery, cloud storage, flash storage and mobility remain high priorities; but where is mobile backup? Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
16 Mar 2015
Top five things you need to know about VMware Virtual Volumes
VMware’s Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) promise a revolution in storage for virtual machines, but what are the key things you need to know? Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Feb 2015
$/GB vs $/IOPS and how to compare enterprise storage pricing
While raw drive prices are pennies per GB, the actual cost of enterprise storage is much higher. Finding a baseline can save you money Continue Reading
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News
25 Feb 2015
Dell adds Nutanix-powered XC630 and XC730 hyperconverged systems
Dell targets range of use cases with XC630 and XC730 Nutanix-powered server/storage nodes Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
24 Feb 2015
PernixData FVP boosts RAM as host storage with up to 4x compression
Flash caching firm PernixData adds compression to FVP 2.5 for more scope to use RAM as host-based storage for high-performance datasets Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 Feb 2015
IBM moves to MLC in FlashSystem 900 and V9000 all-flash arrays
IBM boosts density with new Micron MLC flash drives in revamped all-flash arrays, the FlashSystem 900 and the V9000 that includes SAN Volume Controller storage virtualisation hardware Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
17 Feb 2015
Suse launches Ceph-based cloud software-defined storage
Suse launches commercially-supported object, block and file Ceph distribution Enterprise Storage, software-defined storage Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
03 Feb 2015
EMC launches VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliances
EMC announces VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance in general purpose and performance variants Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Photo Story
19 Jan 2015
UK's fastest supercomputer upgrades to 2Pflops and 5PB of tiered storage
The UK's fastest supercomputer upgrades to 4,920 nodes and 2 Petaflops performance with tiered storage including 5PB of direct-attached disk Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
15 Jan 2015
Amatis Networks waves goodbye to LUN woes and deploys Tintri hybrid flash
Managed service provider Amatis Networks deploys Tintri hybrid flash to slash latency and cut time-consuming LUN storage management overheads Continue Reading
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Feature
13 Jan 2015
Thin provisioning – hypervisor vs array
Thin provisioning can be done at the storage array or virtualisation hypervisor. We look at the pros and cons of each – or both Continue Reading
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News
10 Dec 2014
Hero Group uses vMotion to replace SAN and servers with Nutanix
Baby food, fruit and cereal bar company Hero Group has migrated its Holland operations over to a single virtual platform Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Feature
14 Nov 2014
Flash storage 101: How solid state storage works
Why flash writes are troublesome, why endurance is limited and what suppliers are doing to overcome these issues Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Nov 2014
Key challenges in storage and virtualisation, and how to beat them
Server virtualisation brings benefits but increases storage-capacity needs. Here we survey the key challenges and what to do about them Continue Reading
By- Chris Evans
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
05 Nov 2014
Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making
Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
22 Oct 2014
EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%
Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions Continue Reading
By- Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor
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News
02 Oct 2014
DDN launches scale-out NAS GS7K GPFS product bundle
DataDirect Networks launches the GS7K, a pre-configured GPFS scale-out NAS/parallel file system storage product Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Sep 2014
A guide to scale-out NAS: The specialists and startups
Specialist suppliers and startups in scale-out NAS, a technology that’s gone mainstream for its superior ability to scale capacity and performance Continue Reading
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18 Aug 2014
Scale-out NAS product survey: The big six
We survey the big six storage array makers’ scale-out NAS product ranges Continue Reading
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31 Jul 2014
Key storage performance metrics for virtual environments
We run the rule over storage performance metrics – latency, throughput and IOPS – that are key to optimising virtual machines Continue Reading
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News
08 Jul 2014
EMC XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon get new CPUs and data services
EMC boosts XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon with Ivy Bridge CPUs and advanced data services including flash array snapshots Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
04 Jul 2014
Big players target object storage at cloud and archive
All but one of the big six storage vendors have object storage products that target public and private cloud environments and/or archiving use cases Continue Reading
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10 Jun 2014
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters
Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Jun 2014
OpenStack storage: Cinder and Swift explained
is a rising star in private cloud infrastructures. But what about OpenStack storage? We run the rule over OpenStack Cinder and Swift Continue Reading
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Feature
28 May 2014
In-memory databases - what they do and the storage they need
In-memory databases offer high performance data processing, but how do you protect data in volatile DRAM and what kind of storage is needed for longer term retention? Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2014
Erasure coding vs Raid as a data protection method
Erasure coding is mooted as a potential successor to Raid and backup software Continue Reading
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News
23 Apr 2014
HDS upgrades its mainframe-friendly VSP G1000 enterprise storage array
Hitachi Data Systems launches the Virtual Storage Platform G1000 enterprise storage array, which boosts capacity, performance and lifespan for the storage virtualisation platform. Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
09 Apr 2014
Data set to grow 10-fold by 2020 as internet of things takes off
IDC’s Digital Universe study predicts the world's data will amount to 44 zettabytes by 2020, 10% of it from the internet of things Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
07 Apr 2014
VMware versus Hyper-V storage comparison
VMware versus Hyper-V storage: How do the two leading hypervisors compare when it comes to deploying storage and in terms of their key storage features and functionality? Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Apr 2014
Would the real flash storage successor please stand up?
Flash storage will hit a wall in development terms by around the end of the decade. But which successor is best placed to replace it: Memristor, MRAM or phase-change memory? Continue Reading
By- Tim Stammers and Simon Robinson
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Feature
06 Mar 2014
Converged stacks: What they are and the benefits they bring
We survey the converged stacks market: Servers, storage and networking in pre-configured product bundles for specific virtualisation and application use cases. Continue Reading
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News
19 Feb 2014
NetApp slims product family with launch of FAS8000 series
NetApp launches FAS8000 line that will replace FAS3000 and FAS6000 series filers Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
13 Feb 2014
Flash storage: What it is and where to deploy it
A guide to the key decisions in flash storage: MLC vs SLC, all-flash vs hybrid, whether to add flash to an existing SAN, flash as a tier vs cache, and more Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead and Chris Evans
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News
11 Feb 2014
Atlantis joins the software-defined storage fray with USX
Atlantis ILIO USX software-defined storage allows customers to virtualise commodity to create flash, hybrid and hyperscale storage Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
06 Feb 2014
B&Q owner Kingfisher dumps Raid rebuilds and saves 40% on disk with X-IO
Kingfisher puts X-IO drives behind IBM SVC storage virtualisation to save 40% disk costs and dispenses with Raid rebuilds in £120,000 project Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Photo Story
04 Feb 2014
Survey: Virtualisation the engine for key storage projects
Server virtualisation drives key storage projects for European and UK IT departments, with disaster recovery and virtual server backup high on to-do lists Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
30 Jan 2014
EMC brings Hadoop into ViPR upgrade and unifies SRM modules
EMC launches version 1.1 of its software-defined storage/big data platform ViPR by building in Hadoop analytics capability Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
07 Jan 2014
VDI storage basics and persistent versus non-persistent desktops
A look at the fundamentals of VDI storage and how to specify storage for likely workloads and persistent versus non-persistent desktops. Continue Reading
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03 Jan 2014
Flash storage alternative MRAM takes another step forward
MRAM, a likely successor to flash storage, takes a step toward easier manufacture and longer life with new structures theorised by scientists in Singapore Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
28 Dec 2013
Top 10 storage stories of 2013
Users tackle virtualisation and growth of data and suppliers battle over flash storage and software-defined storage, while big data and hyperscale emerge into the mainstream Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
28 Nov 2013
SMB 3.0 brings enterprise-class storage to Hyper-V deployments
SMB 3.0 is Microsoft’s replacement for the “chatty” CIFS file access storage protocol that offers enterprise-class storage to Hyper-V deployments Continue Reading
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06 Nov 2013
School gets Nimble hybrid flash and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup
Berkshire private college has revamped data protection with Nimble hybrid flash storage and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Photo Story
04 Nov 2013
Wellcome Trust maps big data genetics with DDN HPC storage
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has invested in DDN SFA10K HPC storage to support petabytes of big data generated by genetic mapping and research into diseases such as malaria Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
21 Oct 2013
Big data storage: Hadoop storage basics
Hadoop changes the game for enterprise storage. We look at how Hadoop crunches big data, its key storage requirements and survey the vendors Continue Reading
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12 Sep 2013
Quantum upgrades big data storage to StorNext 5
Quantum’s StorNext big data tiered architecture operating software gets a boost to five billion files and a claimed 10x performance jump via multi-threaded CPU ops Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Opinion
20 Aug 2013
When to use flash SSD instead of SAS or SATA?
When to use flash SSDs instead of SAS or SATA spinning disk is all down to application requirements, says David Boyle, senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK) Continue Reading
By- David Boyle, senior consultant, GlassHouse Technologies (UK)
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Feature
16 Jul 2013
LUN storage management for vSphere and Hyper-V
LUN storage partitioning has been transformed with the advent of virtualisation. Find out how it differs between VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V implementations Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
27 Jun 2013
What’s wrong with flash storage: And what will come after?
Flash storage has taken the enterprise by storm, but its days are numbered due to an unfavourable combination of technological obstacles and manufacturing economics Continue Reading
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19 Jun 2013
Virtualisation and the LUN: Storage configuration for VMs
Virtualisation and the LUN: Storage admins used to match LUNs to physical servers, but that’s all changed. Find out how in this guide to the basics of VM storage Continue Reading
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13 Jun 2013
Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics
Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study Continue Reading
By- Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor
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News
07 Jun 2013
Users’ top datacentre pain points
Storage, network bandwidth, cost and scalability are among the biggest datacentre concerns, say users at Dell Enterprise Forum US Continue Reading
By- Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor
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Feature
30 May 2013
VMware storage: SAN configuration basics
For VMware storage basics start here – the fundamentals of configuring SAN storage for VMware, such as VMFS, VMDKs, connectivity options and VMware storage features Continue Reading
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16 May 2013
SSD RAID essentials: What you need to know about flash and Raid
With the advent of flash and high-capacity HDDs, what do today’s storage professionals need to know about Raid and its new variants? Continue Reading
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News
24 Apr 2013
Storage Through the Looking Glass
This analyst report aims to help you take a much needed step away from the technical detail of storage to create some strategic perspective. Continue Reading
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News
18 Apr 2013
World’s fastest supercomputer gets 40PB of DDN storage
The US Oak Ridge lab builds home-grown HPC NAS for 40PB DataDirect Networks with 1TBps of throughput as a SAN to back-end Spider II file system on Titan supercomputer Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
12 Apr 2013
Real-life disaster recovery boost at video firm with HDS clustered NAS
Special effects video firm The Mill boosts HDS/BlueArc clustered NAS capacity to cope with HD movies and build disaster recovery site at London’s Docklands Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Podcast
08 Apr 2013
Big data storage: Defining big data and the type of storage it needs
Big data storage: What is big data, what compute/storage system configurations are used for big data analytics, and what type of storage infrastructure does it require? Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
26 Feb 2013
DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises
HPC and clustered NAS supplier Data Direct Networks aims at enterprise customers with Hadoop appliance comprising its SFA12K storage and commodity compute components Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
11 Jan 2013
Whiptail tops the class with flash array plus SAN two-tier strategy
School slashes virtual desktop login times with two-tier Whiptail flash array plus budget Huawei SAN Continue Reading
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News
03 Jan 2013
EMC seals deal with Chinese server giant Lenovo for desktop NAS
Storage giant EMC completes joint venture that will see it provide desktop NAS and SME rackmount storage hardware to Lenovo Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
28 Dec 2012
Top 10 storage stories of 2012
Top storage stories from 2012 reflect the rapid pace of virtualisation, big data, the proliferation of mobile devices and new twists on storage technologies such as tape and RAID Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
10 Dec 2012
Deduplication and single instance storage cut primary data storage costs
Data deduplication and single instance storage can cut costs in primary data environments, but implementations vary between suppliers. Continue Reading
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28 Nov 2012
Whiptail promises four million IOPS all-flash array performance
All-flash array maker Whiptail has upgraded its Racerunner operating system so Invicta arrays can scale to four million IOPS and 360TB of capacity Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
09 Nov 2012
DataDirect Networks takes aim at clustered NAS with SFA7700
DataDirect Networks (DDN) makes a play for clustered NAS customers with big data needs on its journey from HPC to scale-out supplier Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor