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StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, August 15th, 2024
This report on enterprise SSDs reveals that a surge in demand for AI has led AI server customers to significantly increase their orders for enterprise SSDs over the past 2 quarters.
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SearchStorage, Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
Industry experts look back on the expanded FMS 2024, weighing in on the big takeaways and what discussions say about the future of the storage and memory markets.
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Search Storage, Monday, August 12th, 2024
Enterprise data centers will soon need HDDs that can exceed today's capacities. Multiactuators, which are on the rise in HDDs, may help solve the problem.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, August 8th, 2024
As of the end of 2Q24, Backblaze was monitoring 288,665 HDDs and SSDs in its cloud storage servers located in its data centers around the world. It removed from this analysis 3,789 boot drives, consisting of 2,923 SSDs and 866 HDDs.
more → Search Storage, Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
Whatever the reason for failure, HDDs are hard to repair. Admins need to get out in front of potential issues, like the four described here, to prevent prolonged downtime.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
Key storage features include live migration, computational storage, and new host directed data placement technology.
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
Cloud storage provider Backblaze is developing drive type profiling models to optimize its drive replacement and migration strategies.
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The Register, Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime
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Blocks & Files, Monday, August 5th, 2024
An IEEE report sees no mass takeover of the disk drive market by SSDs because HDD cost/bit is decreasing fast enough to prevent SSDs catching up.
more → Search Storage, Friday, August 2nd, 2024
Key-value SSDs show potential in performance and storage management, but how would they be implemented? What other advantages do they offer over block storage?
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Enhancements increase reliability, stability and continued backward-compatibility
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Bit rot is the slow deterioration in the performance and integrity of data stored on storage media. It is also known by the names bit decay, data rot, data decay and silent corruption. When bit rot occurs, it causes the corruption of data, which can adversely affect its accessibility or usefulness.
more → SearchStorage, Monday, July 15th, 2024
Object storage is a popular method for storing data, so security is critical. Access is a big piece, extending across several of the eight security best practices here.
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, July 11th, 2024
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.
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
The next-generation global data storage market is projected to grow from $65.1 billion in 2024 to $90 billion by 2029, according to analyst house MarketsandMarkets.
more → CIO, Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
Many enterprises focus on computing power and networking when rolling out AI projects. But they may be overlooking the bigger picture of their needs for massive storage.
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Storage Switzerland, Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
Implementing hyperconverged systems involves integrating two primary components: hardware and software.
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Gestalt IT, Monday, July 8th, 2024
Many of the largest-scale data storage environments use Ceph, an open source storage system, and are now connecting this to AI. This episode of Utilizing Tech, sponsored by Solidigm, features Dan van der Ster, CTO of Clyso, discussing Ceph for AI Data with Jeniece Wnorowski and Stephen Foskett.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, July 5th, 2024
As the volume and variety of data continue to grow exponentially, organizations are facing unprecedented challenges in managing and storing their data efficiently. Amid this influx, object storage has emerged as a critical solution for unstructured data, which can include images, videos, and files
more → Search Storage, Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Open-Channel SSDs can be beneficial but only in the right uses. There are several key differences to analyze with their management as compared to self-managed SSDs.
more → Search Storage, Monday, July 1st, 2024
Storage migration doesn't have to be such a daunting task. With the proper plan, an organization can get out in front of issues and be ready for the important process.
more → Blocks&Files, Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
Toshiba has developed a low-end nearline disk drive suitable only for SATA and SAS connectivity with a lower total cost of ownership than the drive it replaces.
more → SearchStorage, Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
Ceph is a scalable distributed storage platform that can evolve as needed. Take a deep dive into its popularity, assorted offerings and how to get around challenges.
more → SearchStorage, Monday, June 24th, 2024
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.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 21st, 2024
This market report from Trendfocus, Inc. is an abstract of its NAND/SSD Information Service CQ1 '24 Quarterly Update - Executive Summary, May 30, 2024.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 21st, 2024
As the supply-constraint-driven enterprise server and storage inventory levels have started to normalize, the demand for FC HBAs - which provide the mission-critical networking for these devices - has rebounded strongly.
more → techradar.com, Friday, June 14th, 2024
It will be part of the expanded Ultrastar DC SN655 range
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SearchStorage, Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
Erasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces, and stored across a set of different locations or storage media.
more → TechRepublic, Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
Phison also shows other "world's first" products at Computex 2024
more → insideBIGDATA, Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
In an era where cloud and the emergence of AI use cases have driven up the value of massive data sets, hard drives are more critical for data center operators than ever before.
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StorageReview.com, Monday, June 10th, 2024
Fueling the next wave of AI innovation, Western Digital introduced a six-stage AI Data Cycle framework that defines the optimal storage mix for AI workloads at scale.
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techradar.com, Monday, June 10th, 2024
Data deluge drives edge innovation
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 7th, 2024
Object storage had ups and downs since its early days, we all have in mind projects, initiatives or companies at the end of the 90's and beginning of 2000's with HTTP-based access that targeted archiving with a disk-based model.
more → ComputerWeekly, Thursday, June 6th, 2024
We look at the benefits of tape storage - low cost, inherent security, excellent energy efficiency - the workloads it is best for, and how tape fits a wider storage strategy
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StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, May 31st, 2024
ncreasing storage density is a fancy way of saying we are replacing one drive with another drive of a larger capacity; for example replacing a 4TB drive with a 16TB drive - same space, 4x the storage.
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, May 30th, 2024
Common Internet File System (CIFS) is a protocol that gained popularity around Year 2000 as vendors worked to establish an Internet Protocol-based file-sharing protocol.
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
A SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive) is a NAND flash memory-based storage or caching device designed to fit in the same slot as a hard disk drive (HDD) and use the SAS interface to connect to the host computer.
more → ArchitectingIT, Monday, May 27th, 2024
It is over 30 years since EMC introduced the first Integrated Cache Disk Array to the enterprise data centre market, signalling the transition to centralised or SAN storage. Despite the best efforts of hyper-convergence, the demand for centralised storage remains strong. Even as the public cloud gains significant traction, SAN storage refuses to go away.
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SearchStorage, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
TLC flash (triple-level cell flash) is a type of NAND flash memory that stores three bits of data per cell. TLC is also known as multi-level cell-3 (MLC-3), 3-bit MLC and X3.
more → SNIA, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
An examination of the claim that flash will replace hard drives in the data center 'Hard drives will soon be a thing of the past.' 'The data center of the future is all-flash.'
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SearchStorage, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
A parallel file system is a software component designed to store data across multiple networked servers. It facilitates high-performance access through simultaneous, coordinated input/output (I/O) operations between clients and storage nodes.
more → ComputerWeekly, Monday, May 20th, 2024
Drive maker demonstrates 32TB and 31TB capacity hard drives that boost write density by use of heat and microwave assistance plus shingled - overlapped - drive tracks
more → AITHORITY, Monday, May 20th, 2024
Watching Netflix, searching Google, booking an Uber, shutting off the lights with Alexa, unlocking your phone, and even finding the appropriate shade of cosmetics - these are just a few instances of how we engage with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) every single day.
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Search Storage, Friday, May 17th, 2024
The constantly increasing data volumes and locations -- plus the number of security threats -- should push enterprise storage strategies to include strong encryption.
more → Search Storage, Monday, May 13th, 2024
Unified storage, sometimes called network unified storage or multiprotocol storage, is a storage system that enables users to run and manage files and applications from a single device.
more → Blocks & Files, Monday, May 13th, 2024
Analyst Coughlin Associates' latest Digital Storage Technology Newsletter sees no signs that SSDs are going to stop new hard disk drive (HDD) sales after 2028.
more → techradar.com, Monday, May 6th, 2024
AI demand is driving the need for larger SSDs, Western Digital says
more → SNIA Cloud, Monday, May 6th, 2024
In a little over a month, more than 1,500 people have viewed the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) live webinar, 'Ceph: The Linux of Storage Today,' with SNIA experts Vincent Hsu and Tushar Gohad.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, May 6th, 2024
Most reliable units from Seagate, then HGST, Toshiba and WD
more → Blocks&Files, Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
Cloud storage and data backup firm Backblaze has published the latest annual failure rates (AFRs) of the disk drives it uses to supply services to customers in its datacenters.
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