
Outdated storage risks missed business opportunities and high costs. These five warning signs reveal when it's time to upgrade your organization's NAS or SAN systems. Continue Reading

As hybrid cloud adoption accelerates, SAN management is evolving. Examine seven ways modernization, security and cost priorities are shifting for enterprise leaders. Continue Reading

Use this guide to stay up to date on the latest from HPE. Read news updates from the HPE Discover 2025 conference that took place in Las Vegas from June 23 to 26. Continue Reading

Scaling up and scaling out are both approaches to increase storage capacity. To decide which approach to take, consider short- and long-term requirements. Continue Reading

NetApp is redefining its role beyond storage with new AI-focused data infrastructure unveiled at its Insight conference. Continue Reading

Windows Storage Spaces is an alternative approach to traditional storage management that provides increased flexibility and scalability in a straightforward configuration process. Continue Reading

Solid-state hybrid drives combine SSD speed with HDD capacity, but do they fit your storage strategy? Compare SSHDs vs. SSDs vs. HDDs to find the best drive type for your needs. Continue Reading

NetApp's new Ransomware Resilience service and expanded partnerships with public cloud providers further highlight its widening focus beyond data storage. Continue Reading

NetApp forays into AI data management with a data engine that ties in with Nvidia microservices and a disaggregated storage system for AI data. Continue Reading

More AI means more data, and organizations need a way to accommodate it all. For that, flash vendors are looking to high-capacity SSDs as a critical layer in the storage hierarchy. Continue Reading

Follow this comprehensive step-by-step guide to effectively plan and implement an automated log centralization process using rsyslog's flexible features. Continue Reading

Unified storage, sometimes called network unified storage (NUS) or multiprotocol storage, is a storage system that combines block and file storage and enables users to run and manage files and applications from a single device. Continue Reading

Update on-premises infrastructure, refine DLM strategies, employ data reduction techniques and continuously monitor storage systems to improve storage efficiency. Continue Reading

This collection of data storage terms covers newer technologies, such as blockchain storage, and legacy tech, including network-attached storage and tape drives. Continue Reading

While AI is no doubt vital to IT strategy, Enterprise Strategy Group research shows that implementation challenges persist when it comes to data and storage infrastructure. Continue Reading
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A virtual storage area network (VSAN) is a logical partition in a physical storage area network, or SAN. Continue Reading

A SAN switch (storage area network switch) is a device that connects servers and shared pools of storage devices and is dedicated to moving storage traffic. Continue Reading

A Fibre Channel (FC) switch is a networking device that's compatible with the FC protocol and designed for use in a dedicated storage area network (SAN). Continue Reading

Fibre Channel is a high-speed networking technology primarily used for transmitting data among data centers, computer servers, switches and storage at data rates of up to 128 gigabits per second (Gbps). Continue Reading

Data migration is the process of transferring data between data storage systems, data formats or computer systems. Continue Reading

Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (SDRAM) is a generic name for various kinds of DRAM that are synchronized with the clock speed that the microprocessor is optimized for. Continue Reading

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a storage protocol that enables Fibre Channel (FC) communications to run directly over Ethernet. Continue Reading

Data center land acquisition is increasing due to the growing demand for capacity and AI workloads. By 2030, facility areas are expected to triple, raising concerns about land use. Continue Reading

Defragmentation, also known as 'defragging' or 'defrag,' is the process of rearranging the data on a storage medium, such as a hard disk drive (HDD), to ensure efficient storage and access. Continue Reading

GPU as a service provides benefits that help streamline operations for IT teams. Consider storage for GPUaaS, though, and its best practices, challenges and associated tools. Continue Reading

Hardware RAID generally costs more than software RAID but may offer better performance. Consider factors like cost, performance needs and OSes to find the best fit. Continue Reading

As key elements of a backup and DR plan, the recovery point objective and recovery time objective help an organization decide how much data it can lose and how long it can be down. Continue Reading

Several top storage vendors continue to explore ways to address AI-related challenges. Keep an eye on the evolving market of AI inferencing capabilities. Continue Reading
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Storage admins should stock up on aspirin as the continued enterprise AI adoption throughout 2025 will create new challenges in trust, technology and legal liability. Continue Reading

Evaluate your storage on Windows Server to see if it can benefit from RAID's fault tolerance or performance options. These three RAID levels have different uses and setups. Continue Reading

The Common Information Model (CIM) is a computer industry standard that defines device and application characteristics so system administrators and management programs can control devices and applications from different manufacturers. Continue Reading

The vVols capability, a VMware storage feature for the past decade, is being sunset in VCF 9 and discontinued in VCF 9.1 as Broadcom continues to winnow the VMware catalog. Continue Reading

Check out our guide to the annual conference, with key pre-conference material to get you ready and on-the-spot reports from this year's show. Continue Reading

Panzura tunes its Symphony software to automatically add and remove users from protected data and connect with third-party storage vendors like IBM and NetApp. Continue Reading

Significant innovations in storage infrastructure from Pure and other major vendors have emerged recently, giving IT pros ways to lower costs and simplify systems. Continue Reading
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The latest HPE ProLiant servers deliver twice the memory as the previous generation. Continue Reading

HPE is focused on the era of agentic AI-powered cloud operations. Continue Reading

Buy or lease? Subscription or consumption pricing? Ask these storage-as-a-service questions -- and others -- to decide if the tech is right for your organization. Continue Reading

The vendor's Enterprise Data Cloud architecture, unveiled at Pure//Accelerate, suggests just how much data management is converging in the enterprise. Continue Reading

Weka's Data Platform adapts to AI data center needs with new NeuralMesh architecture, which can deploy in hybrid-cloud setups, self-heal and prioritize storage paths to the GPUs. Continue Reading

Pure Storage's new Enterprise Data Cloud platform automates common storage workloads and refreshes server hardware at the vendor's annual conference. Continue Reading

Binary describes a numbering scheme in which there are only two possible values for each digit -- 0 or 1 -- and is the basis for all binary code used in computing systems. Continue Reading

A storage filer is a type of file server designed and programmed for high-volume data storage, backup or archiving. Continue Reading

This guide to Dell Technologies World 2025 is your window to vendor announcements and news from the conference floor. Check it out to see the highlights from this year's event. Continue Reading

While AI tops the agenda, partners see the new disaggregated infrastructure as something they can act on immediately, says Dell’s EMEA channel leader. Continue Reading

Hyperconverged storage is a software-defined approach to storage management that combines storage, compute, virtualization and networking technologies in one physical unit that's managed as a single virtualized system. Continue Reading

The 2025 storage conference calendar features shows where vendors will likely release product updates and experts will discuss top trends, such as AI, AI and AI. Continue Reading

A distributed file system (DFS) enables clients to access file storage from multiple hosts through a computer network as if they were accessing local storage. Continue Reading

Virtual memory is a memory management technique where secondary memory can be used as if it were a part of the main memory. Continue Reading

Discover the powerful advantages of edge computing over cloud computing, delivering faster performance and significantly lowering data transfer costs. Dive into the essential services provided by leading industry players. Continue Reading

The latest data protection and recovery updates bring post-quantum cryptography to NetApp's block and file workloads alongside new BlueXP services. Continue Reading

Decentralized storage offers organizations an alternative to centralized cloud storage. While cost can be a benefit, support levels vary among some of the top vendors. Continue Reading

Storage for Google Cloud now supports many features akin to AWS' catalog for AI app development, but could lead to cloud lock-in as best practices and strategies emerge. Continue Reading

Quantum storage and memory differ significantly from the technologies in today's computers. The implications for compute power and storage capacity could someday be extraordinary. Continue Reading

The latest funding round doubles the prior Series A total with new and prior investors in Hammerspace to expand sales and marketing reach, but experts question IPO ambitions. Continue Reading

Sam King, the former CEO of security vendor Veracode, is tasked with leading Nasuni's move from cloud storage to agentic AI data lakes. Continue Reading

Nvidia's GTC show once again places AI applications at center stage, with storage vendors seeing their platforms' metadata capabilities as a key development component. Continue Reading

The Server Message Block (SMB) protocol is a client-server communication protocol used for sharing access to files, printers, serial ports and other resources on a network. Continue Reading

AWS Storage VP Andrew Warfield talks about how customers are using the latest feature launches from the Amazon S3 team as part of the vendor's Pi Day 2025 conference. Continue Reading

Software-defined storage gives organizations more flexibility and often lower costs, but be prepared to self-troubleshoot. Get to know the pros and cons of SDS. Continue Reading

The benefits of HCI can be profound, but so can the drawbacks. Disaggregated storage might offer more flexibility and efficiency for enterprise AI workloads. Continue Reading
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SDS and storage virtualization are two approaches that help storage teams efficiently and cost-effectively manage resources. Examine the differences between the two. Continue Reading

Storage vendors are now developing their own tools and capabilities related to data management tasks within their platforms, as interest in enterprise AI development increases. Continue Reading

RAID 0 (disk striping) is the process of dividing a body of data into blocks and spreading the data blocks across multiple storage devices, such as hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs), in a redundant array of independent disks group. Continue Reading

RAID 5 is a redundant array of independent disks configuration that uses disk striping with parity. Continue Reading

Storage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device or pool of available storage capacity. Continue Reading

StorOne Data Storage Platform uses AI and ML to automate data between tiers of flash and HDD storage without the need for custom hardware or user intervention in latest release. Continue Reading

A computer hard disk drive (HDD) is a non-volatile data storage device. Continue Reading

Enterprises feeding unstructured data into AI models can avoid security leaks with a new PII data detection and quarantining capability in the Komprise data management platform. Continue Reading

In this Q&A, Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman discusses how the cloud storage vendor has evolved its object storage platform and how an open cloud benefits AI. Continue Reading

This year's trends include some technologies, such as artificial intelligence, that make platforms more secure and easier to manage, plus a convergence of two storage types. Continue Reading

Backup, cloud, disk and storage system vendors vied for top honors in the TechTarget Storage Products of the Year competition. Find out which won gold, silver and bronze. Continue Reading

Flexera acquires NetApp's cloud management business and products as the storage vendor focuses on a hybrid cloud and AI future. Continue Reading

Effective data storage management is more important than ever, as security and regulatory compliance have become even more challenging and complex over time. Continue Reading

The question of DIMM vs. SO-DIMM yields some clear answers, especially as it relates to size. A proper comparison also considers the effect that CAMM will have on the market. Continue Reading

2025 looks to pick up where 2024 left off in the storage and infrastructure departments, with potential advancements in AI, object storage and hybrid cloud. Continue Reading
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The cloud object storage standard gains capabilities at re:Invent, including metadata generation and a managed table service. Continue Reading

Object storage has surged in popularity, but block and file still have clearly defined uses. Access, metadata and performance are among admins' key considerations. Continue Reading

Cloud testing is the process of using the cloud computing resources of a third-party service provider to test software applications. Continue Reading

Data storage technology can harm the environment. Choose efficient strategies and green-friendly cloud providers to help reduce the environmental impact of data storage. Continue Reading

A flurry of storage and backup news has emerged around Microsoft Ignite, including from Dell, as it looks to support hybrid cloud customers and establish solid footing with Azure. Continue Reading

The new CEO looks to increase enterprise adoption of distributed storage with SOC 2 compliance and new capabilities. Continue Reading

MinIO is making a case for object to be the storage protocol for AI. But one analyst says the market has yet to decide. Continue Reading

Vdura Data Platform version 11 focuses on a microservices-based architecture and composable hardware for performance and capacity, which includes utilizing HDDs. Continue Reading

Object storage is a popular method for storing data, so security is critical. Access is a big piece, extending across several of the eight security best practices here. Continue Reading

Different processors and different storage vendors look for ways to optimize themselves for AI workloads. Here one builds off another, amplifying benefits for customers. Continue Reading

Physical memory wasn't enough for storage systems. Computer architects created virtual memory to ease the performance burden and work alongside the physical form. Continue Reading

The next big generative AI gambit for enterprise IT vendors lies in AI agents, which storage and data protection vendors see as an opportunity to offer new services. Continue Reading

Vast Data held its Cosmos event, which helped solidify the direction the company is headed and highlighted its community to support AI in the enterprise. Continue Reading

With the latest updates delivered at Insight 2024, NetApp aims to deliver data storage simplification that enterprises will require to succeed in the AI era. Continue Reading
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Wear leveling is a process that is designed to extend the life of solid-state storage devices. Continue Reading

A shared metadata namespace searchable through BlueXP and a disaggregated storage architecture for faster generative AI data ingestion will kickstart NetApp's shift into new markets. Continue Reading

NetApp executives see a disaggregated future for its storage hardware and software into data management, but industry analysts question how storage admins will handle these duties. Continue Reading

This list of Ceph alternatives can provide a good starting point for better understanding what's available and the issues to look for during the storage decision-making process. Continue Reading

The forthcoming VCF 9 update will expand vVols technology to Broadcom's VMware private cloud platform, enabling enterprises to integrate VCF into existing storage architecture. Continue Reading

Nutanix and Dell are expanding their partnership with a new appliance out now and a new HCI model that melds Dell PowerFlex with the Nutanix Cloud Platform out in 2025. Continue Reading

This article discusses how products are judged for the TechTarget Storage Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading

This article offers 10 tips on how to submit a product for consideration in the TechTarget Storage Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading

The latest NetApp capabilities enable hybrid cloud functionality and expand migration options, important features as customer look to avoid lock-in. Continue Reading

Whatever the reason for failure, HDDs are hard to repair. Admins need to get out in front of potential issues, like the four described here, to prevent prolonged downtime. Continue Reading

Non-volatile memory express over Fibre Channel (NVMe over FC) is a technology specification designed to enable NVMe-based message commands to transfer data and status information between a host computer and a target storage subsystem over a Fibre Channel network fabric. Continue Reading

Bit rot is the slow deterioration in the performance and integrity of data stored on storage media. Continue Reading
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