iSCSI-based storage arrays have not captured a substantial percentage of the storage market, but there are a number of compelling products out there. A healthy level of competition in this space, ...

All-flash storage array vendor Pure Storage Monday unveiled a new architecture called FlashBlade designed specifically for unstructured data. The Mountain View, Calif.-based storage vendor also ...

Nimbus Data Systems on Monday launched an enterprise data storage array based entirely on solid-state drive technology, promising gains in performance and energy efficiency. In addition, the S-class ...

Vendors are hyping converged block with file access arrays, calling them "unified storage." How unified (or un-unified) are they? John, a senior partner at Evaluator Group, has 30 years of experience ...

VMware last week introduced vSphere 4.1, it latest virtualization platform. vSphere 4.1 has a variety of storage offerings but primarily the vStorage API for Array integration (VAAI), which allows ...

Enterprise IT is in the throes of an information explosion. Every prediction over the past decade about the year-over-year exponential explosion of data has come true. The big side-effect of digital ...

3Par Monday unveiled a new line of midrange storage servers based on a quad-controller architecture. The company said the new arrays offer greater throughput, capacity and require less power than its ...

Persistent storage is an essential requirement of all computer systems. It provides the ability for data to be retained across server reboots where data in memory would normally be lost. For the past ...

Due to the unique characteristics of flash, performance validation testing is immensely challenging and critically important; follow these best practices All-flash storage arrays (AFAs) are receiving ...

Implementing a successful storage solution is always a balance between capacity, performance and cost. Given unlimited resources, all data would be deployed on the fastest media possible, which today ...

Huawei Symantec Technologies on Monday unveiled the company's first SSD storage appliance which the company said can be optimized in the field to meet customers' varying needs for SSD-based storage or ...