
Storage admins should stock up on aspirin as the continued enterprise AI adoption throughout 2026 will continue to create new challenges in trust, technology and legal liability. Continue Reading

AI initiatives have created a surge of data, making traditional storage management insufficient. How much can AI help solve the issue it is creating? Continue Reading
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AI initiatives have created a surge of data, making traditional storage management insufficient. How much can AI help solve the issue it is creating? Continue Reading
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IBM FlashSystem refresh includes a high-capacity flash module amid a memory supply crunch and automated data placement at block storage speed. Continue Reading

Despite initial hype and investment, many IT orgs are not seeing returns on AI initiatives -- but a shift is coming. Will this be the year that AI changes business as we know it? Continue Reading
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2026 will likely see a number of trends regarding storage and infrastructure. Much of these trends come from already developing spaces like AI, security and digital sovereignty. Continue Reading

Going into 2026, organizations are likely to face increased cybersecurity threats to storage systems, especially concerning DDoS and ransomware attacks. Learn how to properly defend against these threats. 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

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

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

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

The combination of new product capabilities, strategic vision for AI readiness and leadership additions suggests Nasuni is entering a new era -- focused on actionable intelligence. Continue Reading
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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

Data in use is data that is currently being updated, processed, erased, accessed or read by a system, application, user or device. Continue Reading

Explore uses and functions of Linux storage quotas plus a step-by-step example of quota configuration. Admins can roll out quotas with minimal disruption to users. 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

The du and df commands detailed here enable sys admins to review and understand the storage capabilities of their on-premises or cloud-based servers, whether physical or virtual. Continue Reading

Learning these essential tools simplifies your life as an admin and enables you to manage Linux servers more effectively. Use these examples to start working with storage space. Continue Reading

Dell partners compare the excitement around AI to that of the cloud rush, but insist there is substance behind the hype. Continue Reading

A zettabyte (ZB) is a unit of measurement used by technology professionals and the general public to describe a computer's or other device's storage capacity. Continue Reading

Dell has revealed a host of new ecosystem partners — an approach it says is now central to its AI strategy. Continue Reading

Dell AI Factory with Nvidia 2.0, featuring new infrastructure, enterprise AI solutions and managed services, debuts at Dell Technologies World. Continue Reading

Monitor, manage and secure storage capacity across your Linux servers, devices and dev workstations. These commands aid management of file sizes, partitions and file systems. 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

Backup deduplication can reduce active storage space consumption, decrease backup job times and increase the overall efficiency of a storage infrastructure. Continue Reading

To see how flexible your storage space can be, consider Logical Volume Manager on Linux. Flexibility is critical on servers housing huge numbers of files or other resources. 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

A disk image is a compressed file that contains a copy of the entire contents of a computer's hard drive or other storage media, such as optical discs or solid-state drives. Continue Reading

Direct-attached storage (DAS) is a type of data storage that is attached directly to a computer without going through a network. 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

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

Budgeting for data storage can be part of an organization's larger budget -- but make sure every line item is included. The downloadable template here can help. Continue Reading

A new Apache Kafka API-compatible service enables customers to move their data management services closer to storage using the Vast Data Platform, which now offers block storage. Continue Reading

Storage devices require a file system to organize data. Make the best choice -- XFS or ext4 -- for your Linux server's anticipated data storage workload. Continue Reading

Panzura's CloudFS hybrid cloud storage platform expands file access speeds and offers a new workload recovery capability without the need for high availability tooling. 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

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

While employees still work from home, some may not have taken the security and training precautions that remote work requires. Storage security is paramount amid cyberthreats. Continue Reading

Data storage administrators must be able to adapt and optimize storage for evolving workloads and business needs. Here are some questions to prepare for an interview. Continue Reading

Emerging technology, such as AI and software-based storage management systems, have simplified how IT manages its infrastructure. Explore the many components of modern management. Continue Reading

Memory management is the process of controlling and coordinating a computer's main memory. Continue Reading

Don't overlook or ignore these 10 data storage issues -- including those related to staff, security and cost -- as they could disrupt operations without the proper planning. Continue Reading

The downloadable data retention and destruction policy template here will help with compliance. Use this structure to develop other IT data management policies. Continue Reading

NetApp aims new storage arrays at the mid-market and drops Astra data management into Trident. Continue Reading

Tintri has added a container storage interface to its VMstore offering, a move that provides customers with management and metrics for Kubernetes and has been years in the making. Continue Reading

Panzura leans further into data management with its latest CloudFS data management capabilities, but still has distance to close with the competition. 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 released InsightEngine to bring real-time retrieval-augmented generation into its data platform as it prepares for growing enterprise adoption of AI. 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

Pure Storage's Real-Time Enterprise file service gives a simplified look into file data across the enterprise. It's also offering a VM assessment tool and universal credits program. Continue Reading

After acquiring data management vendor Moonwalk in July, Panzura is debuting its next verse with the release of Panzura Symphony, a data orchestration service. Continue Reading

Arcitecta has partnered with Dell to increase data transfer speeds across geographies, at the edge and during hours when compute resources are in demand. Continue Reading

Continuous data protection (CDP), also known as 'continuous backup,' is a backup and recovery storage system in which all the data in an enterprise is backed up whenever any change is made. Continue Reading

An NVDIMM (non-volatile dual in-line memory module) is hybrid computer memory that retains data during a service outage. Continue Reading

Electronic data processing (EDP) refers to the gathering of data using electronic devices, such as computers, servers and internet of things (IoT) technologies. Continue Reading

Panzura acquires Moonwalk Universal, adding data management tools to its software-defined storage, but analysts see data management products struggling as standalone offerings. Continue Reading

Non-volatile memory (NVM) is a type of computer storage medium that retains data even in the absence of a power supply. Continue Reading

A mirror site is a website or set of files on a computer server that has been copied to another computer server so that the site or files are available from more than one place. Continue Reading

Is unmanaged, unstructured data clogging up your primary storage? Get control of this costly, performance-sapping situation and start managing unstructured data cost-effectively. Continue Reading

SSD caching, also known as 'flash caching' or 'flash memory caching,' is the temporary storage of frequently-accessed data on NAND flash memory chips in a solid-state drive (SSD) to improve the drive's input/output (I/O) performance and allow data requests to be met with improved speed. Continue Reading

SSD TRIM is a command for the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) interface that enables an operating system (OS) to inform a NAND flash solid-state drive (SSD) which data blocks it can erase because they are no longer in use. Continue Reading

Organizations can use AI for storage management and AIOps to learn where to make improvements in their storage infrastructure, but note the benefits and drawbacks. Continue Reading

Customers can now see where their critical data is, make a better representation of it and move it to where it is most effectively utilized. Continue Reading

Disaster recovery (DR) is an organization's ability to respond to and recover from an event that negatively affects business operations. Continue Reading

A business impact analysis (BIA) is a systematic process to determine and evaluate the potential effects of an interruption to critical business operations as a result of a disaster, accident or emergency. Continue Reading

Enterprises are beginning to use cold data they still need to store as a way to train AI models and gain more value from data they thought had served its purpose. Continue Reading
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Storage as a service (STaaS) is a managed service in which the provider supplies the customer with access to a data storage platform. Continue Reading

Storage migrations are common but can be challenging. But enterprises don't have to go it alone. Tools can aid the many different kinds of migrations and their circumstances. Continue Reading

Wasabi will soon launch a new service that uses AI and machine learning to search and tag video data. The capability stems from an acquisition the vendor made earlier this year. Continue Reading

Containers and Kubernetes have entirely different storage and backup needs compared with traditional IT, industry experts say, requiring stakeholder input and new vendor offerings. Continue Reading

Enterprise storage is a centralized repository for business information that provides common data management, protection and sharing functions through connections to computer systems. Continue Reading

NetApp OnTap now enables data stored in the cloud and on premises to connect with LLMs via Nvidia's NeMo RAG -- a feature that will likely become table stakes for storage vendors. Continue Reading

Asynchronous replication is a store-and-forward approach to data backup and protection. Continue Reading

Pure Storage continues to transition into an as-a-service model by building out more automation and data resiliency in its Pure1 data management service and Evergreen portfolio. Continue Reading

New Azure storage offerings from Microsoft or from vendor partners such as Qumulo aim to increase parity with hyperscaler rivals and draw more enterprise buyers into its cloud. Continue Reading

Hadoop as a service (HaaS), also known as Hadoop in the cloud, is a big data analytics framework that stores and analyzes data in the cloud using Hadoop. Continue Reading

The latest update to Hammerspace's software-defined storage system removes metadata from data path, enabling HPC to use data from any storage source without specialized hardware. Continue Reading

Random access memory (RAM) is the hardware in a computing device that provides temporary storage for the operating system (OS), software programs and any other data in current use so they're quickly available to the device's processor. Continue Reading

Disk mirroring, also known as RAID 1, is the replication of data across two or more disks. Continue Reading

Dan Waldschmidt replaces Jill Stelfox at the SaaS storage vendor. Stelfox led the company since 2020 and says she's 'actively choosing to be silent right now.' Continue Reading

In-memory analytics is an approach to querying data residing in a computer's random access memory (RAM) as opposed to querying data stored on physical drives. Continue Reading

Wasabi Technologies adds metadata technology by Curio AI in a new acquisition from Gray Meta Inc., the first addition to Wasabi's object storage since opening its doors. Continue Reading

Persistent storage is any data storage device that retains data after power to that device is shut off. 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

In this Q&A, the CEO of UltiHash talks about the continuous compression and deduplication it aims to provide primary storage while reducing storage needs. Continue Reading

Solix Technologies' latest Common Data Platform update focuses on archiving, sorting and storing customer data for data lake creation and, ultimately, AI. Continue Reading

In this Q&A, Peak:AIO founder and CEO Mark Klarzynski explains why AI storage needs should be designed around GPU efficiency, not massive data lakes. Continue Reading

Storage admins should continuously monitor systems to identify and act upon unusual behavior. Anomaly detection can proactively address issues before they become serious problems. Continue Reading

To reduce complexity, Hitachi Vantara released a storage platform aimed at unifying data management, but it will need to find ways to differentiate its offering, says one analyst. Continue Reading

Storage vendors throughout 2023 bet big on unified management and collaboration tools as what the market will want and what will help them stand out among the enterprise C-suite. Continue Reading

Cold storage is a computer system or mode of operation designed for the retention of inactive data. Continue Reading

Storage Insights for the Komprise Data Management platform enables users to define metrics for storage consumption across clouds and vendors for cost management and migration. Continue Reading

Electronically stored information (ESI) is data that is created, altered, communicated and stored in digital form. Continue Reading

An IT error for Toyota Motor Corporation knocked out production for a day, but the auto giant was quick to note the issue was not due to a cyberattack. Continue Reading

When you enable the shadow copies service on your shared folders, you give your end users the flexibility to restore deleted files or revert a file to an earlier version. Continue Reading

NAS storage analytics can be viewed in a single place with Peer Software's PeerIQ, bringing different vendors and on-premises and cloud storage analytics together. Continue Reading

Vast Data, a storage software vendor, introduces a new data management platform that unites its software capabilities into a platform. Continue Reading

A pebibyte (PiB) is a unit of measure that describes data capacity. Continue Reading

A new integration between Microsoft Sentinel and Nasuni enables visibility into data compromises or other issues logged by the storage vendor through the SIEM console. Continue Reading
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