Tiered storage no longer has the hype surrounding it that it did a few years ago. The concept was simple -- move data from expensive Fibre drives to inexpensive SATA drives. SATA drive technology was ...

The OpenStack platform is an open-source collaboration to develop a private cloud ecosystem, delivering IT services at web scale. OpenStack is divided into a number of discrete projects, each with a ...

We have an opportunity to buy some extremely fast block level storage for about 70% off from a major storage vendor. It's a demo unit they want to get rid of. We've had a desire for a few years to use ...

Converting systems with large amounts of storage has always been a tricky task. Frequently, there are limited amounts of quiet time to convert these systems. This can be made even more difficult when ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

PowerVault ME5 doubles the performance and capacity of Dell's ME4 storage platform and is optimized for SAN and DAS. Dell’s newest entry-level block-storage array is the PowerVault ME5 series, aimed ...

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 ...

5 Ways to Avoid Video Challenges with Specialty Storage One of the issues that most IT organizations have to contend with when trying to build a cloud is that most of the storage management associated ...

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 ...

Whether you are managing operations at a call-letter station with a half-dozen edit stations, or at a broadcast giant with hundreds of editors, architecting the storage supporting your facility’s file ...