In this application note, the block access media driver for Application Programming Interface (API) is being discussed. It presents the organization and design of the media driver, the API, its API ...

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 ...

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 ...

Organizations are of two minds when it comes to storage. One side of the brain — represented by engineers, software developers and scientists — desires the ease and flexibility of network-attached ...

While playing around with the ideas I have for our upgraded storage solution (link to another thread in the Server Room with some background info) for our graphics/video shop, I began to wonder if we ...

The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...

Amazon’s Web Services operation Thursday launched a persistent storage service for its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud computing service. The new Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) allows users to ...

Businesses are dealing with more data than ever – and they also have to deal with diverse storage demands, as traditional applications, cloud services and AI workloads each require particular ...