New high-end arrays include full disk encryption and solid-state disks, and offer up to 2.5 times the performance and 50 percent more energy efficiency For the first time in three years, IBM has ...

While storage array snapshots offer quick, hardware-level data protection, they are not a standalone substitute for traditional backups due to limitations in protection, management and retention ...

Relatively inexpensive secondary disk storage is gaining a significant foothold in corporate data centers, according to a survey of more than 1,000 IT managers that’s due to be released next month.

EMC Corp. last week announced a bridging technology that lets its newest midrange storage arrays use lower-cost disk drives. The move is aimed at allowing IT managers to switch from tape-based data ...

Pure Storage Inc. is expanding its product portfolio with three new flash arrays and a set of software features designed to mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks. The company announced the ...

Flash storage, also known as solid-state disk (SSD) technology, reads and writes data extremely fast thanks to its use of memory cells instead of traditional spinning disk drives. A new entrant in the ...

‘It allows you to consolidate workloads, which allows you get rid of small all-flash arrays so you can reduce floor space, rack space demands, and cost. If you can put it in our hybrid array, you have ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

The emergence of serial ATA (SATA) offers the promise of very large storage arrays with a price/performance ideal for near-line storage of business information, such as archived emails, corporate ...

Any s torage consolidation effort must involve a serious consideration of disk subsystems and the specific disk types that those systems will contain. As an example, there may be hundreds (even ...

I'm about to add some much needed storage to the office NAS box. The machine is used by 4 users, and it's primary use is storing video projects created using Premier Pro CS4. Not heavy use by any ...