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Enterprise Storage Forum, April, 7th 2023
Conducting a storage area network security audit is a good starting point to reveal both the weaknesses and strengths of your enterprise storage network's cybersecurity posture. When done correctly, audits are comprehensive surveys of SAN security.
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StorageNewsletter.com, April, 5th 2023
SSD revenues dropped by ~14% in 2022, according to analyst firm Yole Group. The outlook for 2023 is worrisome, but long-term perspectives to 2028 are attractive.
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StorageNewsletter.com, April, 5th 2023
Customers are still using SAS for capacity and NVMe for performance, working together, it's possible to develop cost-effective storage architecture.
more → The SSD Guy Blog, April 1st, 2023
For the past several years presenters at data-oriented conferences have quoted forecasts for data growth that taxed their vocabularies. Exabytes gave way to Zettabytes, and then Yottabytes, and these were often charted out on standard linear charts like the one below, with the inevitable result that the curve always starts out slow, and takes off like a rocket as it rises to the right.
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Blocks&Files, March 30th, 2023
Think a 128TB SSD is a big brother of a device? How about a petabyte SSD? Samsung sees it coming in the not-too-distant future.
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StorageNewsletter.com, March 28th, 2023
What if replacing a HDD was more scientific and less speculative? Given the lack of accessible data for HDD failures, the public often relies on abstract advice or conjecture to guide their actions.
more → Search Storage, March 23rd, 2023
The promise of future insights drives companies to store data. But there are potential drawbacks when storing data and better management methods than keeping everything.
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StorageNewsletter.com, March 22nd, 2023
The research showed that an average enterprise storage and backup device has 14 vulnerabilities, 3 of which are high or critical risk that could present a significant compromise if exploited.
more → The SSD Guy, March 21st, 2023
For a long time, The SSD Guy has been talking about Write Amplification without explaining what It is. This post is intended to fix that.
more → ComputerWeekly, March 21st, 2023
In part one of a two-part series, we look at key hard disk drive specs, including mean time to failure, annual failure rate and unrecoverable error rate, and how they relate to each other
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Enterprise Storage Forum, March 20th, 2023
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface or iSCSI is a storage area networking (SAN) protocol. It is an Internet Protocol-based networking standard for transferring data carrying SCSI commands over a TCP/IP network
more → EnterpriseAppsToday, March 20th, 2023
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a storage architecture that completely separates the hardware of a device from its software manager.
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CXOtoday.com, March 20th, 2023
CXOToday has engaged in an exclusive interview with Mr. Khalid Wani, Senior Director, Sales, India, Western Digital.
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Blocks & Files, March 17th, 2023
Gartner has kissed the HCI appliance market goodbye. Its analysts have taken a fresh look at the HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) market, and moved away from an appliance approach, looking instead at full stack software suppliers of server, storage and network infrastructure management.
more → ComputerWeekly, March 16th, 2023
QLC flash offers high density but has lifecycle limitations. But what does it really cost compared with TLC and MLC, and how are suppliers implementing it and getting around durability issues?
more → Blocks & Files, March 16th, 2023
Secure Data Recovery found that average failed hard drive spun for 25,233 hours before failing. That's 1,051 days, or two years and ten months.
more → Dataversity, March 16th, 2023
Prepare for blockchain technology to play a significant role in business, society, and almost everything. While 45% of CIOs said their organizations had yet to invest in blockchain between 2016 to 2021, that will change as information exchange becomes decentralized and demonstrated use cases show blockchain's success.
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InfoWorld, March 13th, 2023
New data management and integration solutions featuring AI and machine learning signal that help is on the way to meet the ballooning enterprise data challenge.
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Blocks & Files, March 10th, 2023
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has found its SSD annual failure rate was 0.98 percent compared to 1.64 percent for disk drives, a difference of 0.66 percentage points. It also noted that SSD manufacturers' SMART stats were not so smart.
more → Solutions Review, March 10th, 2023
Solutions Review editors assembled this resource containing essential enterprise data storage security best practices to know. For an even deeper breakdown of securing storage, we recommend reading the NIST Special Publication: Security Guidelines for Storage Infrastructure.
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SearchStorage, March 9th, 2023
Data reduction techniques have been difficult to achieve on SSDs, but vendors appear to be making progress. The more effective the data reduction, the more affordable SSDs become.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, March 9th, 2023
Outperformers: Kasten by Veeam, CloudCasa by Catalogic, Commvault, NetApp
more → Data Center Knowledge, March 2nd, 2023
Fear the NSA or other infiltration threats? We break down different approaches IT pros can take to encrypt data at rest in the public cloud, including service-managed keys, customer-managed keys, bring-your-own keys, and hold-your-own keys.
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ComputerWeekly, February 27th, 2023
We look at unstructured and semi-structured data and find increasing amounts of production workloads that have their own storage hardware - file and object - needs, including flash
more → StorageNewsletter.com, February 24th, 2023
In low-profile single and dual-port versions, and including 2nd Gen FC-NVMe standard
more → Search Enterprise Desktop, February 22nd, 2023
Network File System (NFS) is a networking protocol for distributed file sharing. A file system defines the way data in the form of files is stored and retrieved from storage devices, such as hard disk drives, solid-state drives and tape drives. NFS is a network file sharing protocol that defines the way files are stored and retrieved from storage devices across networks.
more → Search Windows Server, February 22nd, 2023
SMB 3 (Server Message Block 3.0) is a protocol that provides a way for a computer's client applications to read and write to files from a server in a computer network. SMB 3.1.1 is the latest version.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, February 21st, 2023
Server DRAM Will Overtake Mobile DRAM in Supply in 2023 and Comprise 37.6% of Annual Total DRAM Bit Output
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, February 15th, 2023
Direct-attached storage (DAS) and network-attached storage (NAS) contain volumes of significant business data and need to be protected.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, February 13th, 2023
Global Hardware Storage Market was valued at $76.32 billion in 2021, and it is expected to reach a value of $170.83 billion by 2028, at a CAGR of 12.2% over the forecast period (2022-2028).
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, February 13th, 2023
Data is a critical asset for today's businesses. With companies dealing with an enormous volume of data daily, managing it all demands an effective storage system that can offer businesses improved access to data without compromising security and compliance.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, February 9th, 2023
This is SDAS: HDD Information Service; CQ4 '22 Quarterly Update - Executive Summary, published by Trendfocus, Inc. on February 2, 2023
more → TechRepublic, February 9th, 2023
Analysts from IDC to PBT Group have predicted the volume of stored data worldwide could reach 180 zettabytes by 2025, packing the cloud and data centers. Is Zero-Copy Integration a solution?
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StorageNewsletter.com, February 8th, 2023
With the ever-changing landscape of the storage industry, it's time to start thinking about what trends will dominate in 2023
more → Networkworld, February 7th, 2023
Hardware durability metrics are drawn from the cloud storage provider's portfolio of more than 230,000 hard drives under management.
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The Register, January 31st, 2023
Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more - who knew?
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StorageNewsletter.com, January 27th, 2023
The HDD market is reaching a valuation of $ 38,489.9 million in 2022 to $ 80,873.0 million by 2029 and is expected to exhibit an 11.2% CAGR over the forecast period, 2022-2029. With multiplying data volumes encouraging enterprises to procure upgraded storage technologies, the HDD market is set for steady growth during the next decade,
more → GCIG, January 26th, 2023
DCIG recently refreshed its high-end storage array research and will publish the 2023-24 DCIG TOP 5 High-End Storage Arrays report in February.
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Enterprise Storage Forum, January 26th, 2023
Solid-state drives (SSDs) have become a popular storage choice for enterprises because of their high speeds compared to hard disk drives (HDDs).
more → SearchStorage, January 25th, 2023
Energy costs are rising, and sustainability is all the rage. But storage vendors may struggle convincing customers to combat climate change during an economic downturn.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, January 25th, 2023
84% of enterprises expect to increase public cloud storage budget and amount of data stored in the public cloud in next 12 months.
more → Techspot, January 24th, 2023
Have you ever noticed when you go into Windows to optimize your storage drives, it says retrim for SSDs? Just what exactly is getting trimmed and why is it needed? Is it the same as defragmenting or something entirely different? (it is different).
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StorageNewsletter.com, January 20th, 2023
Since the introduction of flash memory, the end of HDD has been predicted again and again - but the classic storage device persists and remains the standard in many application areas.
more → Search Storage, January 19th, 2023
Discover how Fibre Channel and iSCSI compare when it comes to meeting SAN performance, ease of use, manageability, total package and TCO requirements.
more → Blocks&Files, January 18th, 2023
A Toshiba exec has argued that hard disk drives are essential to store data in several market areas because SSDs are ill-suited to the job, costing more and with limited manufacturing capacity.
more → jmetz.com, January 13th, 2023
Ah, the first Storage Short Take of the year. You'd think that the holidays may force people to stop, take a breath, reflect, and ramp up to tackle the challenges of the new dawn.
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StorageNewsletter.com, January 12th, 2023
Enterprises today want real-time, consistent, connected, and trusted data to support their critical business operations and insights
more → Storage Gaga, January 11th, 2023
Fibre Channel SANs (storage area networks) are touted as more secure than IP-based storage networks. In a way, that is true because Fibre Channel is a distinct network separated from the mainstream client-based applications
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StorageNewsletter.com, January 10th, 2023
There are multiple approaches to storage to choose from, including SANs, NAS, DAS, and cloud storage.
more → SearchStorage, January 10th, 2023
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 Gbps.
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