The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...

The rise of the cloud, the emergence of hyper-convergence and the lightning-fast speeds of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash have perhaps masked some of the fundamentals of storage. But, at ...

Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. today announced the availability of File Services for FlashArray, a new storage service that provides access to native block and file services from a single, ...

This article looks into a recent announcement on integrated block and file access for its FlashArray as well as recent blogs and a white paper from Avalanche Technology on storage and memory for data ...

HPE has launched what it’s calling “future of storage” with Alletra Storage MP, a new file storage offering and an expanded block storage service for its HPE GreenLake pay-per-use platform. Hewlett ...

Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across ...

While the third-generation FlashArray//X will get a huge bump in performance thanks to the new Intel Xeon Scalable processors recently introduced, they will also become more versatile when its Purity ...

Pure Storage Inc. kicked off its virtual Accelerate event today by unveiling Purity 6.0, a new version of the operating system powering its flagship FlashArray line of all-flash arrays that introduces ...

Compared to Windows, a Linux-based NAS rig has fewer vulnerabilities, and you can get a somewhat safe storage server if you ...

An item-level backup backs up discrete collections of information that are addressed as individual items, and the most common type of item is a file. In fact, if this article were being written ...

Application-based, file-based, and block-based migration all have their own merits and use cases. Choosing the right solution starts with understanding their differences. Data migration is a critical ...

It's the day after Independence Day in the US, and much of our staff is just returning to their preferred work machines. If this was 1997 instead of 2018, that would mean booting up BeOS for some. The ...