Everyone in the storage market is excited about flash. As well they should be. Flash can deliver much better performance than spinning disks. In addition, the cost of flash media is starting to come ...

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Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nodes surpasses traditional storage architecture by offering data-storage and protection systems that are more distributed, shareable and scalable. Most corporations use ...

In 1993, when Intel ushered in the modern computing age by releasing its Pentium chips, devices roared along at then-astounding speeds of around 60 MHz. Today's mainstream CPUs reach speeds of around ...

IBM reports that nearly 15 petabytes of data are created every day; eight times greater than the amount of information stored in all of the libraries in the U.S. The explosion of big data and cloud ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as ...

The SD6300 is a 4U JBOD with SAS-4 uplink, 108 dual-port LFF SAS drive bays, and high-availability architecture for greater system-level redundancy. With its compact footprint of only 1125 mm ...

Big data is a big deal because it offers answers to questions that were previously unobtainable and insights into behavior that can provide the foundation for better products and services. By ...

There was a time when the hierarchy of persistent storage products consisted of just disk and NAND flash storage. But today a new layer has become possible, between disk/SSD and memory. It is often ...

Imagine that you are looking at your enterprise storage infrastructure, and all of a sudden, you come across the proverbial “genie in a bottle,” and you are granted three wishes for enterprise storage ...