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 ...

Before block storage in the cloud, when businesses needed to provision large amounts of storage – for server data, for example – they’d need to requisition and pay for huge server instances, even if ...

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 ...

This article looks into a recent announcement on integrated block and file access for its FlashArray as well as recent blogs and a white paper from Avalanche Technology on storage and memory for data ...

A new block access quad-level cell (QLC) flash-based capacity array series, plus availability and capacity guarantees in NetApp’s Keystone as-a-service offerings, ransomware guarantees, plus cloud and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...