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 ...

One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

The very first disk drive in the world was a vertical rotating drum coated with magnetic material called the IBM 305 RAMAC, which still used vacuum tubes as its compute elements and weighed about a ...

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 ...

As more enterprises harness emerging technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) and big data to keep pace with their business, they are often held back by a key component in their datacentres – ...

Recently, I had a hard disk failure in one of my production servers. That particular server uses Windows Storage Spaces to combine four physical disks into a single parity virtual disk. The process of ...

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has relaxed its pricing on external storage software licenses for the newest high-end array the USP-V, along with its rebranded version from Hewlett-Packard (HP), the ...