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Networkworld, Monday, October 2,2023
Data Storage Archive Options: Batch, Real-Time And Hierarchical Storage Management
When choosing the appropriate archive option, enterprise storage professionals need to consider data preservation, accessibility, and resource optimization.
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cmswire, Friday, September 29,2023
What Is A Customer Data Platform (CDP)?
Unlock the secrets of the customer data platform (CDP). Discover what a CDP is and how it changes marketing through customer data.
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Gestalt IT, Tuesday, September 26,2023
No One Understands Storage Anymore (32 Minutes)
Although modern-day storage products let us do more with less, and is more capable than ever before, they are also way more complex, and often unintelligible to the masses.
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techradar.pro, Tuesday, September 26,2023
Finally! Toshiba Launches Its First 22TB Hard Drive - While Seagate And WD Race Towards 30TB
Japanese company unveils 10-platter monster as rivals contemplate next step
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The Register, Tuesday, September 26,2023
Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze
Cloud-based storage and backup provider Backblaze has published the latest report on usage data gathered from its solid state drives (SSDs), asking if they show the same failure pattern as hard drives.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, September 22,2023
Determining Full Cost And Sustainability Impact Of Flash Vs. Spinning Disk
HDDs will effectively be dead by 2028 using much denser flash device technology, not COTS SSDs.
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Search Storage, Tuesday, September 12,2023
Ctera Vault Locks Up Critical Data With WORM Tech
File gateway vendors are looking to differentiate themselves in the market, with Ctera eyeing regulated industries by protecting data with a suite of cybersecurity features.
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Networkworld, Tuesday, September 12,2023
Are HDDs greener than SSDs?
Operationally, solid state drives (SSD) use less power. But research finds the manufacturing process is tilted in favor of hard disk drives (HDD).
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Friday, September 8,2023
What Is Data Archiving? Definition & Best Practices
Data archiving is the process of transitioning inactive or historical data to inexpensive offline storage where it can be retained for future reference or to meet regulatory compliance requirements.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, September 7,2023
What Every Executive Needs To Know About Unstructured Data?
In 2022, 90% of the data generated by organizations was unstructured, and only 10% was structured. That year, organizations globally generated 57,280EB of unstructured data - a volume that is expected to grow by 28% to over 73,000EB in 2023.
more → Blocks & Files, Thursday, September 7,2023
Gartner Unveils Hottest Storage Trends For 2023
Gartner reckons the top enterprise storage trends for 2023 include cloud operating models, new SSD technologies, cyber security against ransomware, and better use of unstructured data for analytical insights.
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Storage Demand, Thursday, August 31,2023
Optimizing Storage Infrastructure for DevOps Practices
DevOps combines collaborative, agile development approaches with rigorous testing, infrastructure provisioning, governance, and life-cycle integration automation, enabling Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
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Storage Demand, Tuesday, August 29,2023
Storage Class Memory: A Simplified And Enhanced Data Storage Solution
SCM is an emerging class of memory technology that combines the attributes of traditional memory (like Random Access Memory - RAM) and traditional storage (like SSDs or HDDs); SCM's architecture incorporates error correction mechanisms and wear-leveling techniques to enhance data integrity and extend the lifespan of the memory cells.
more → Search Storage, Monday, August 28,2023
The Future Of Storage Administration: 4 Key Questions Answered
What are the best moves a storage professional can make? Learn about the skills, technologies and strategies to focus on now for the most payback in the future.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Thursday, August 24,2023
6 Best Enterprise All-Flash Array Storage Solutions 2023
All-flash arrays are storage systems that use only flash-based storage like solid-state drives (SSDs) rather than mechanical hard drives. They play a critical role in storage infrastructures because they have sufficient data access speeds to support businesses' most critical applications.
more → Datamation, Tuesday, August 22,2023
4 Popular Master Data Management Implementation Styles
Master data management is a technology-enabled discipline to ensure that all shared master data assets are uniform, accurate, and consistent. Master data refers to the identifiers and extended attributes that describe the business's core entities, including customers, prospects, citizens, suppliers, sites, hierarchies, and accounts-in master data management, business and IT units work closely together to create a single master record for each person, place, or thing in the organization to achieve a single source of trust.
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Enterprise Storage Forum, Monday, August 21,2023
What Is Data Storage Security? What You Need To Know
Data storage security is a segment of the cybersecurity field specifically focused on protecting data and storage infrastructure against unauthorized disclosure, modification, or destruction, and assuring the data is only accessible to authorized users. This takes many forms, and a successful data storage security strategy includes hardware, software, risk assessments, administrative controls, and policy components.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, August 17,2023
Seven Disruptive Trends In Storage Industry
The constantly evolving storage industry shows no signs of abating, with stakeholders experimenting with new technologies and offering novel solutions to target markets.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, August 17,2023
High-Density HDDs Vs. QLC SSDs: Demystifying Power Efficiency Debate
In the first of our posts comparing high-density HDDs and QLC flash SSDs for petabyte-scale unstructured data, we looked at the dimensions of performance and cost. In this blog, I'll dive in deeper to compare high-density power consumption.
more → StorageReview.com, Tuesday, August 15,2023
Coughlin: SSDs Will Not Kill Disk Drives
Coughlin Associates' recent forecast on disk, SSD, and tape shipments extending to 2028 suggests that the rise in SSD sales will have minimal impact on disk drive shipments, contrary to some predictions of a complete phase-out of disk drives
more → StorageReview.com, Tuesday, August 15,2023
64G Fibre Channel Expands With Brocade X7 Director, 7850 Switch
The future of Fibre Channel continues to be strong, highlighted by Broadcom's announcement of a new secure, high-density Brocade Gen 7 64G Fibre Channel Directors and the Brocade 7850 Switch, the first 64G Fibre Channel switch that extends SANs over virtually any distance across the globe.
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ITProToday, Friday, August 11,2023
When Data Storage Technologies No Longer Fit Your Needs
As companies change, they may consider switching to new technologies. Here's advice on how to select your next storage system.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, August 11,2023
Top Trends In Enterprise Storage 2023
Cloud-inspired operating models, advanced flash technologies, cybersecurity and data insights
more → Blocks&Files, Friday, August 11,2023
Samsung Pulls Sheets Off 256TB SSD
Samsung made a splash at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2023 by highlighting advancements such as a 256TB SSD concept, a petabyte SSD architecture with Flexible Data Placement, SSD bandwidth management to address the 'noisy neighbor' challenge, and the introduction of their new PCIe gen 5 SSD.
more → Blocks&Files, Friday, August 11,2023
Do HDDs Use Less Electricity Than High-Density SSDs?
Scality analysts have said that, in some use cases, disk drives can use less power than SSDs - specifically when compared with high-density SSDs when the storage is in active use.
more → eWeek, Wednesday, August 9,2023
5 Mistakes To Avoid In A Data Storage Refresh
With the growing demand to harness data for analytical insight and AI, the need to get data storage right has never been more essential.
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ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, August 8,2023
HDDs Have A Long Life Ahead In Certain Workloads
Spinning disk hard drives are far from dead, and with data volumes set to explode, there are use cases that suit them well. That's the view of Rainer Kaese of Toshiba in this podcast
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techradar.pro, Friday, August 4,2023
HDDs Might Be Getting Less Reliable, But That Could Be OK
HDD failure rates are on the up, Backblaze survey finds
more → Blocks&Files, Thursday, August 3,2023
Backblaze Sees Uptick In 8 And 10TB Drive Failures
Cloud storage provider BackBlaze has reported an increase in annual failure rates for its 8TB and 10TB disk drives.
more → ITProToday, Wednesday, August 2,2023
Unstructured Data Growth And AI Give Rise To Data Services
Data services involve the management of data throughout its lifecycle. Here are the benefits of taking a data services approach.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, July 28,2023
Hype Cycle For Storage And Data Protection Technologies
By 2026, large enterprises to triple unstructured data capacity across their on-premises, edge and public cloud locations, compared to 2023
more → SearchStorage, Tuesday, July 25,2023
Evaluate Object Storage Advantages And Disadvantages
Object storage advantages include capacity and flexibility, while access time is one of the disadvantages. Compare key pros and cons of this trending type of storage.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Tuesday, July 25,2023
Data Governance Trends And Best Practices For Storage Environments
Data governance is all about setting and enforcing internal standards. These standards or data policies directly relate to the methods used by the organization to gather, store, process, and get rid of data when it reaches the end of its lifecycle.
more → Datamation, Friday, July 21,2023
Structured Data: Examples, Sources, And How It Works
Data falls into two categories: structured and unstructured. Structured data is a type of information that has been organized in a way that makes it easily searchable and readable by data analysis tools, while unstructured data includes content like videos, emails, and images-data with no internal identifier to help search functions recognize it. Your business likely deals with both types of data. This article looks closely at structured data, which is the backbone of data analysis.
more → Solidigm News, Friday, July 21,2023
Solidigm Introduces The World's Highest Capacity PCIe SSD: 61Tb
Solidigm is proud to announce another industry-first quad-level cell (QLC) solid-state storage drive (SSD) for the data center - the Solidigm D5-P5336. Offered in capacities from 7.68TB to 61.44TB, the Solidigm D5-P5336 makes it possible to store up to 6X more data in the same space compared to an all hard disk drive (HDD) array
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Blocks & Files, Friday, July 21,2023
Gartner Storage Hype Cycle Has Selective Memory
Research house Gartner has published its 2023 storage hype cycle, highlighting the evolving landscape of various technologies in the industry, and some have dropped completely out of sight.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Friday, July 21,2023
Enterprise Data Storage Compliance Guide
Compliance with regulatory laws about data storage, management, and protection can be difficult for businesses to keep up with, as they are ever-changing with new rules and requirements. By thinking about compliance as an opportunity rather than a roadblock to innovation, they can instead embrace it as a step toward a better customer experience of integrated data governance and trusted data use.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, July 21,2023
Dispelling 4 Common Misconceptions About HDDs
HDDs have now disappeared from most computer terminals, but it would still be wrong to regard this classic form of storage as obsolete.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, July 19,2023
Top 8 Storage Trends Revolutionizing Storage Industry
By 2023, the total volume of data stored in data centers worldwide will exceed 200ZB, more than 6x higher than the current level.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Tuesday, July 18,2023
Network Storage Comparison: DAS, NAS, And SAN
In basic terms, network storage is any means of storing data that makes it available to clients over a network. The changing ways we use data and the exponential increase in the volume we collect and process have driven new ways to store and manage that data more effectively, and in practice, network storage now encompasses a wide range of technologies.
more → SiliconANGLE , Monday, July 17,2023
Decoding The Future Of Data: A Look At Next-Gen Storage Solutions
Society is in the midst of exponential data growth. It's often been stated in recent months that 'every company is a data company.'
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SearchStorage, Friday, July 14,2023
Tebibyte (TiB)
A tebibyte (TiB) is a unit of measure used to describe computing capacity. The prefix tebi comes from the binary system for measuring data capacity. That system is based on powers of two.
more → Blocks & Files, Thursday, July 13,2023
Could NAND Capacity Replace HDDs By 2029?
One of the most important discussions in the storage industry has been opened up by Pure Storage saying no new hard disk drives (HDDs) will be sold after 2028
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, July 13,2023
8 Best Practices For A Zero-Trust Storage Strategy
Explore how to apply the zero-trust security model to storage systems. Given today's threat landscape, additional data protection is key for enterprises.
more → Blocks & Files, Tuesday, July 11,2023
Disk Drive Shipment Numbers Take A Dive
Preliminary hard disk drive shipment numbers for the second 2023 quarter are down, according to TrendFocus, with Toshiba losing market share to Seagate and Western Digital.
more → ComputerWeekly, Friday, July 7,2023
Software-Defined Storage: What's Available From Key Players
What's available in software-defined storage from the big storage players, software-defined storage specialists, and SDS options focused on cloud, virtualisation and containers
more → SearchStorage, Friday, July 7,2023
SAS vs. NVMe: The Future of 2 Key Storage Interfaces
In SAS vs. NVMe, both interfaces play significant roles in enterprise storage. See how they stack up in terms of performance, scalability, flexibility and manageability.
more → CXOtoday.com, Friday, July 7,2023
5 Ways All-Flash Data Centers Can Drive Sustainability Goals
Enterprises worldwide are recognising the importance of sustainability as climate change becomes more important during boardroom discussions -and new regulations loom. However, the focus on digital transformation is causing data centers to consume more energy than ever before.
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Enterprise Storage Forum, Thursday, July 6,2023
Is The Hard Disk Drive Obsolete? Flash Vs. HDDs
When IBM made the first hard disk drive (HDD) about 70 years ago, it weighed over a ton and provided just 3.75 MB of storage capacity. Despite huge gains in storage density and performance in the years since, flash memory has replaced HDDs in the consumer space in all but the lowest-end laptops and tablets.
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