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 ...

There are almost too many ways to skin the storage cat in the enterprise datacenter these days. HPC centers have it easy. They pick a single parallel file system and now maybe put a burst buffer in ...

Hitachi Data Systems on Tuesday unveiled its first all-flash storage array family as part of the storage vendor's new "flash first" strategy for developing solutions. While HDS has sold all-flash ...

Why do people think RAID means performance? George Ou, Technical Director at ZDNet and a fellow ZDnet blogger, has a great post about real life RAID performance - hardware vs software - plus some ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...

I'm putting together a storage array. I've got 3x250GB SATA disks, and can get my hands on a 4th one. I need to put in adapter card(s) to connect the drives since the mobo in question does not have ...

New high-end arrays include full disk encryption and solid-state disks, and offer up to 2.5 times the performance and 50 percent more energy efficiency For the first time in three years, IBM has ...

Nimbus Data Systems on Monday unveiled a new line of storage appliances that feature up to 100 TB of NAND-based, solid-state storage blades in place of traditional spinning hard drives. The new ...

Any s torage consolidation effort must involve a serious consideration of disk subsystems and the specific disk types that those systems will contain. As an example, there may be hundreds (even ...

Since 1998 when it delivered the 1st Direct IDE-IDE RAID 1 disk array subsystem in the world, Accordance Systems has continued providing different disk array products for over 16 years. Its disk array ...