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 ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...

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 ...

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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 ...

HPE is rolling out the next generation of its Nimble Storage platform, overhauled to better meet the ever-increasing performance demands on data-center workloads, including real-time web analytics, ...

EMC on Thursday announced its largest high-end array yet, offering hardware with a scalability range that allows it to be used in mid-sized shops as well as the largest enterprises. The DMX-3 array ...

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 ...

Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...

In the wake of new government regulations requiring better corporate record-keeping, three top tape library vendors have confirmed that they are working to combine inexpensive disk arrays with their ...

Network storage lets you centrally store and access your documents and files from all PCs on the network. Windows already provides a simple way to share files (and printers) to the network, but the PC ...

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...