A storage array is at its heart a commodity server integrated with an operating system dedicated specifically to providing storage services. Take away the server, and what's left? Software-defined ...

Software-defined storage promises enterprises greater flexibility and freedom of choice when it comes to their data storage deployments. By taking lower-level software operations and day-to-day ...

Enterprises want to consolidate data storage, extend its useful life and control costs. But what we often see are silos of storage tied to specific applications, workflows and suppliers. These systems ...

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Technologies are now emerging that will enable automated data and storage management that is linked directly to the needs of the application environment. John, a senior partner at Evaluator Group, has ...

Software-defined storage is quickly catching on as a top technology trend in the storage industry, but the exact meaning of the term, and indeed whether it represents a new paradigm or just another ...

Pure Storage, the all-flash storage-array vendor, has expanded its Purity software base and is also expanding its line of storage products. Pure has three storage lines, the FlashArray//X, the ...

While the traditional storage industry has been largely experiencing anemic growth, at a 2.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2021, there are pockets of the market that are seeing ...

Leading-edge technologies, including NVMe, storage class memory, and intent-based storage management, promise to change the way IT organizations store, manage and use data. For decades, storage ...

When KeyBank went shopping a couple years ago for a massive data center, it was impressed with IBM's terabytes and transfer rates. But what really sold them was a frequently overlooked component: ...