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
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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.
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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
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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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SearchStorage, Thursday, June 29,2023
Flash Storage
Flash storage is any type of drive, repository or system that uses flash memory to write and store data for an extended period. Flash storage is common today in small computing devices, consumer devices and large business storage systems.
more → Data Backup, Wednesday, June 28,2023
Create A Data Archiving Process For Your Growing Data Sets
Among retention policies, regulatory compliance and limited storage budgets, knowing what data to keep is critical. Follow these seven best practices for a solid archiving strategy.
more → Solutions Review, Wednesday, June 28,2023
12 Common Storage Security Best Practices for Enterprises and SMBs
A common misconception about storage security is that only large enterprises have to worry about it. Storage security is vital to both enterprises and small businesses for several reasons- primarily because data is a valuable asset for organizations of all sizes.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, June 26,2023
To Clarify Few Things On File Systems
Following some recent vendors' messaging, marketing pitches and press articles promoting parallel and network file systems in a strange way, we wrote this piece to clarify a bit the file systems domain. In other words, it's important to understand from where people speak, what is their interest and value to say that based on what they offer and their associated limitations or properties.
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Blocks&Files, Friday, June 23, 2023
MinIO: Open Source Object Storage Will Rule The Cloud
MinIO doubled down on its open source, Kubernetes-native object storage at an IT Press Tour briefing.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Thursday, June 22, 2023
AIOps: How to Use AI for Storage Management
Enterprises are currently facing daunting challenges related to exploding data volumes-not just in properly managing and storing this data, but in extracting meaningful information from it even as it grows more complex.
more → DARKReading, Thursday, June 22, 2023
5 Steps For Minimizing Dark Data Risk
Dark data may be your most elusive asset, but it can also be your most costly if you don't protect it.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, June 19, 2023
Storage And Sustainability
Strategies and implementations with position of Dell, NetApp, Pure Storage and Vast Data and Weka on subject
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Friday, June 16,2023
What is NVME Over Fabrics (NVME-oF)?
NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) is an approach to storage networking that uses the non-volatile memory express standard to provide high-speed data transfers across entire local area networks.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 16,2023
WD: Preparing for 30TB and Beyond HDD
Every hard drive that Western Digital Corp. creates requires profound complexity. A single drive combines nearly 300 components from hundreds of international suppliers, requires more than one million lines of code to execute countless host communications, and operates with room for error that's less than 1nm. That's 1-billionth of a meter.
more → data, Friday, June 16,2023
Getting The Upper Hand On The Unstructured Data Problem
Unstructured data accounts for the vast majority of data stored in the world today, and it's growing at a geometric rate.
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Make Use Of, Thursday, June 15,2023
What Is SSD Wear Leveling and How Does It Work?
Solid state drives (SSDs) promise faster speeds, higher performance, and better reliability than traditional hard disk drives (HDDs). However, it's essential to understand certain aspects of SSDs to ensure their longevity. One such crucial aspect is SSD wear leveling.
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Solutions Review, Friday, June 9,2023
Data Protection Techniques
In today's digital landscape, data has become one of the most valuable assets for organizations. With the rise in cyber threats and data breaches, ensuring robust data protection has become a critical priority.
more → tom's HARDWARE, Thursday, June 8,2023
Seagate Reveals HAMR HDD Roadmap: 32TB First, 40TB Follows
Seagate expects its 24TB HDD to be its last PMR product.
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BBC, Thursday, June 8,2023
Why Millions Of Usable Hard Drives Are Being Destroyed
Millions of storage devices are being shredded each year, even though they could be reused. "You don't need an engineering degree to understand that's a bad thing," says Jonmichael Hands.
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ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, June 6,2023
Software-Defined Storage: What It Is And Variants Available
SDS is available in numerous variants. It is usually cheaper, flexible to deploy and brings storage efficiencies, but there are pitfalls in complexity, management and performance
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, May 30,2023
Balance Storage Performance, Resilience, And Efficiency
Modern storage infrastructure needs to provide performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency to maximize data value and minimize time to insights for organizations in the digital business era.
more → DCIG, Saturday, May 20,2023
Secure Sustainable Storage A Global Imperative
Data storage consumes an estimated 4% of the global electrical energy supply, and the demand for data storage will accelerate for the foreseeable future. We need innovations in storage software and hardware to enable economical, resilient, and environmentally sustainable data management.
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Blocks&Files, Monday, May 15,2023
Storage Races To Innovate In Face Of Data Explosion
The whole area of IT storage is buzzing with innovation, as startups and incumbents race to provide the capacity needed in a world exploding with unstructured data.
more → Cloud Native Now, Friday, May 12,2023
NVMe-over-Fabrics in Cloud-Native Environments
By delivering much better speed, reduced latency, and higher parallelism compared to conventional storage technologies like SATA and SAS, Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) has transformed the storage business
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Blocks&Files, Friday, May 12,2023
New Moves In AFA Driven By QLC Flash
A new chapter is opening in the all-flash storage array (AFA) world as QLC flash enables closer cost comparisons with hybrid flash/disk and disk drive arrays and filers.
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, May 9,2023
Storage's Role In Generative AI
Generative AI continues to create industry buzz. Experts say storage plays a critical role in making the technology run.
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, May 9,2023
7 Ways To Mitigate CISO Liability And Risk
Recent civil and criminal cases have brought CISO liability questions to the fore. Learn how to understand and manage personal risk exposure as a security executive.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Monday, May 8,2023
Ultimate Guide To Raid Levels: Definition, Types, And Uses
RAID technology helps businesses manage their hard drive storage in a variety of ways. By deploying multiple drives in a RAID configuration in a single array, storage teams can employ protective, performative or restorative technologies for hard disk drives (HDDs).
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Monday, May 8,2023
Opinion: NVMe Performance Will Force Applications to Process Data Where it is Stored
As Non Volatile Memory express (NVMe) storage performance increases, application design will have to change to take better advantage of the Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and bandwidth found in locally-connected NVMe devices.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, May 5,2023
How Long Do HDDs Last?
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 → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, May 3,2023
The Bigger HDDs Come, The Harder They Fall. Well, Kind Of
Cloud and backup storage supplier Backblaze publishes quarterly hard disk drive failure rate statistics and has just started doing so for its SSD boot drives as well. Not much has changed in the annualized failure rates (AFR) with the latest HDD failure stats. As lifetime drive hours increase, the HDD population grows: there are 236,893 now, and an average AFR of 1.54 percent.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, May 2,2023
WW SDS Market to Hit $207.6 Billion by 2033
SDS is a storage architecture that completely separates the hardware of a device from its software manager. It simplifies storage management by abstracting it away from the physical infrastructure and implementing it in software, offering greater versatility, scalability, and cost-efficiency compared to traditional storage solutions.
more → ITProToday, Tuesday, April 25,2023
Comparing Object Storage Vs Block Storage vs File Storage
Learn about object storage, block storage, and file storage and the differences between each data storage method.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, April 24,2023
Storage Giants Develop Essentially Block Storage Products
The first element resides in the list of storage giants, who are they? Of course, we don't consider cloud providers but hardware vendors such as DDN, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Infinidat, Lenovo, NetApp and Pure Storage. The segment analyzed is the mid to high-end on-premises storage.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, April 20th, 2023
Top 14 Storage Companies In 2022
StorageNewsletter.com publishes the ranking of the top storage companies in revenue since many years. After 3 years as ≠1 storage company in the world (see below), Micron was replaced in 2020, 2021 and 2022 by SK hynix and became ≠2.
more → Blocks&Files, April 18th, 2023
Gartner Anoints File Systems And Object Storage 'Peer Insights' Winners
Analyst house Gartner says its customers have listed the companies they think are above average distributed file systems and/or object storage suppliers.
more → Techradar.pro, April 17th, 2023
HDD Sales Have Plummeted This Year - So What's Next?
Coming down from an artificial high, HDDs continue to battle SSDs for market supremacy
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DATAVERSITY, April 13th, 2023
Structured Vs. Unstructured Data: An Overview
Structured data and unstructured data are both forms of data, but the first uses a single standardized format for storage, and the second does not.
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ITProToday, April 13th, 2023
Block Storage vs. Object Storage In The Cloud
Is block storage better than object storage for storing data in the cloud? That depends on your needs. Here are the pros and cons of both types of storage.
more → InformationWeek, April 13th, 2023
5 Ways To Reduce The Amount Of Data You're Storing
Data hoarders beware. The cost and risks in stored data are higher than you think.
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Networkworld, April 12th, 2023
Failed Hard Drives Lasted Less Than Three Years, Analysis Finds
Secure Data Recovery examined failure rates and lifespans of 2,007 hard drives from six manufacturers.
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EnterpriseAppsToday, April 10th, 2023
Erasure Coding Market Globally Expected to Drive Growth Nearly USD 6.86 Bn By 2033
Erasure coding is a method of data protection designed to maintain data integrity and availability in the event of data loss or corruption.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, April 10th, 2023
10 Stories From 10 Years Of Drive Stats Data At Backblaze
On April 10, 2013, Backblaze saved its first daily HDD snapshot file. It had decided to start saving these daily snapshots to improve its understanding of the burgeoning collection of HDDs the firm was using to store customer data.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, April, 7th 2023
How To Prepare For A Storage Area Network (SAN) Security Audit
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.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, April, 5th 2023
SSD Market To Reach $67 Billion In 2028
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.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, April, 5th 2023
From ATTO Technology: Choosing Between SAS and NVMe for Data Center
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
Dealing With A Data Shortage
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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