Monthly Archives: March 2017

If you’re an iPhone user, you’re in for a treat the next time you update your phone. As if by magic, your device — iPads, Macs and the rest of the gang included — will suddenly have a lot more storage space. That’s because the soon-to-be-released iOS 10.3 makes storage more efficient. People who have already got their hands on the beta of the brand new update are already enjoying the new storage space. Twitter According to 9To5Mac , the…

Putting all your eggs into one basket is never a good idea, and the same could be said about companies using cloud providers to store data. A case in point was the outage at Microsoft’s Azure cloud management system on February 29, 2012, affecting users in parts of the US and Europe for several hours. On February 28 this year, an outage at the Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage service panicked IT departments, with websites and services – such…

Credit: Thinkstock There is reality in the hype that moving to a converged storage environment can produce major cost savings while paving the path to advanced virtualization technologies. Part of the appeal comes from the ability to use commodity servers and storage to build a shared storage pool vs. relying on a dedicated appliance that typically comes at a pretty substantial premium. Increased flexibility is another reason for moving in this direction. IT teams gain greater options in how they…

The storage market has been called a “chess match” of consolidation, and with good reason. Mergers, acquisitions and IPOs are dramatically reshaping the storage landscape – and have for the past two years. HPE’s acquisition of Nimble Storage is the latest move, further delineating the market between the tech giants and their patchwork of acquisitions and a startup scene that must punch above its weight. The real question becomes, who will be able to drive innovation that businesses and consumers…

IBM is all-in on artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company provides a broad range of cognitive products for businesses of all sizes. However, it is also using its other product lines, such as its storage business, to assist customers in developing products around Internet of Things and machine learning. “We provide the storage platform with our flash technology to SparkCognition, a professional software company. They are a hot startup [with] a number of different use cases, including cybersecurity, real-time…

Currently, the most widely-used storage device is the Hard Disk Drive (HDD), but its popularity is rapidly declining. In an earlier column — Digital Data Storage is Undergoing Mind-Boggling Growth — we considered the mind-boggling growth of electronic data, which exceeded 10,000 exabytes or 10 zettabytes in 2016. By 2020, the volume of data is estimated to surpass 50 zettabytes. It’s worth mentioning that there is only one prefix left, the “yotta,” which was established at the 19th General Conference…

Though we all love our Androids, there’s this message which keeps tormenting us from time to time — low internal storage. Yea, I know, you have to let go of apps, send the pictures and videos to cloud storage , delete old files, etc. This problem is especially rampant in the budget phones, where the internal storage is mostly on the lower side. And to top it all you have the OS eating up a quarter of the internal memory….

Do you need software-defined storage (SDS) for your enterprise virtualization, analyticsm and enterprise sync and share workloads? If so, then Red Hat has the program for you: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 . Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 looks to be one hard-working storage ant. Red Hat likes to say its open-source Gluster SDS Scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) is for the modern enterprise workload. It’s not wrong. Read More You can deploy Gluster quickly and use it to flexibly manage…

Intel hopes the new technology can expand its memory business. Intel Corp. is starting to ship the first products based on new technology it hopes will reshape the market for computer memory and help it profit more from the tech world’s data explosion. The new storage drives, which Intel is making widely available on Sunday, are based on technology called 3D XPoint. The company bills the technology, which it says it spent more than a decade developing, as a new…

Powered by enhanced ReadyNAS OS 6.7, new ReadyNAS 4U 60-bay offers lowest TCO for ultra-high capacity of over 1 petabyte for multi-tenant data center service providers, disaster recovery, and IP surveillance storage SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTGR ), a leading provider of networking equipment for homes and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), is launching the NETGEAR ReadyNAS® 4U 60-bay 10GbE Rackmount Network Storage (RR4360X) , the highest density rackmount network storage system for SMBs…

Credit: Peter Sayer Huawei Technologies is going all flash with its latest enterprise storage system, the OceanStor Dorado V3. It’s part of the new storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering the company unveiled at Cebit on Monday, with which it aims to deliver the same experience on-premises and in the cloud. The Chinese equipment vendor is not the first to propose storage-as-a-service, but thinks now is the right time to make its move, as the convergence of big data, analytics and the internet…

IBM’s decided to play the “our cloud storage is even cheaper than your cloud storage” game, but by a different set of rules. Big Blue’s decided that tiered cloud storage assumes users make decisions based on unusually-potent-and-accurate insights into their long-term data use patterns, and therefore commit themselves to a tier of storage in the hope it’s the cheapest place to store that data. But IBM reckons modern analytics and cognitive tools mean you’ll probably start to consider archival or…