Software-defined storage

Software-defined storage allows customers to build shared storage with storage software that provides SAN and NAS capability, including in some cases with full enterprise features such as replication, snapshots, integration with virtualisation platforms, tiered storage and flash drives. Software-defined storage products allow customers to build shared pools of storage from commodity servers, existing storage array capacity or unused direct-attached storage.

August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22
VMware CEO defends Broadcom deal

Raghu Raghuram is confident that Broadcom will invest in growing VMware through a broad portfolio of assets that will serve its entire customer base, not just its biggest customers
July 18, 2022 18 Jul'22
Vast Data upgrade boosts usable capacity, adds SaaS console

With improved data reduction algorithms, Vast has boosted its unstructured data storage offer, with 25% more usable data possible
July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22
NHS trust cuts costs and refresh cycle with Wasabi cloud storage

Imperial College NHS Trust expects to saves 30% in storage costs and cut back on five-year refresh headaches in a move that has seen backup and archive data move to the Wasabi cloud
July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22
How Bank BPD Bali modernised its datacentre infrastructure

The Indonesian bank has deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform in a move to modernise its datacentre infrastructure and pave the way towards hybrid and multi-cloud

File, block and object: Storage fundamentals in the cloud era

We look at the three basic ways that storage accesses data – via file, block and object – as well as the ways in which the rise of the cloud and distributed systems have brought changes to them Continue Reading
Global file systems: Hybrid cloud and follow-the-sun access

We look at global distributed file systems that put enterprise data under a single file access namespace so that enterprises and branch offices can get to data from anywhere Continue Reading
Unified file and object storage: Three suppliers and their approaches

We look at unified file and object storage products from NetApp, Pure Storage and Scality, the differences, the workloads aimed at, and how unified they actually are Continue Reading

Vast Data goes massively larger

As every environmental naturalist and hard core rave fan knows, the jungle is massive and jungle [music] is massive. Data is also massive, so much so that it can easily be described as vast. ... Continue Reading
Computational storage series: Model9 - The cloud + computational storage sweet spot

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ... Continue Reading
Cloudian sees S3 interest and object storage going mainstream

Object storage, based on Amazon’s S3 – pretty much a de facto standard now – is set to go mainstream. That’s the view of Cloudian’s co-founder and CEO Michael Tso. He says it’ll be, “The next NFS”, ... Continue Reading

Need rapid networked storage? Take a look at NVMe-over-TCP

Lightbits helped develop NVMe-over-TCP to provide shared NVMe storage capacity over existing TCP-based networks Continue Reading
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