Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. today announced the availability of File Services for FlashArray, a new storage service that provides access to native block and file services from a single, ...
A storage area network (SAN) is a pool of centrally managed storage resources, but how is a SAN different from NAS, and how are SANs being impacted by flash storage, AI and hyperconvergence? A storage ...
The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...
February 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan Store Comments Off on Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you ...
The rise of the cloud, the emergence of hyper-convergence and the lightning-fast speeds of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash have perhaps masked some of the fundamentals of storage. But, at ...
UPDATE: Since this article was published in our May 2012 issue, Microsoft has renamed SMB 2.2 to SMB 3.0. The story has been changed to reflect this. -- The Eds. Considering buying a SAN? Stop what ...
Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Cloud block storage is a new way of thinking about how you store ...
Some of these features were supported by other storage media, but the hard disk was the first medium to support all of these features. Consequently, the hard disk helped make many advances possible in ...
A 20,000-foot view of data storage, from networked desktop hard disks to monster SANs, reveals that the same issues emerge again and again As our data continues to grow at a nearly exponential clip, ...