The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...

Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. today announced the availability of File Services for FlashArray, a new storage service that provides access to native block and file services from a single, ...

A storage area network (SAN) is a pool of centrally managed storage resources, but how is a SAN different from NAS, and how are SANs being impacted by flash storage, AI and hyperconvergence? A storage ...

PowerVault ME5 doubles the performance and capacity of Dell's ME4 storage platform and is optimized for SAN and DAS. Dell’s newest entry-level block-storage array is the PowerVault ME5 series, aimed ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Cloud block storage is a new way of thinking about how you store ...

‘With the NetApp all-flash SAN array, when we looked at introducing it, we recognized that over 20,000 customers already trust NetApp for their SAN workloads. And out of those, 5,000 customers are ...

UPDATE: Since this article was published in our May 2012 issue, Microsoft has renamed SMB 2.2 to SMB 3.0. The story has been changed to reflect this. -- The Eds. Considering buying a SAN? Stop what ...

Some of these features were supported by other storage media, but the hard disk was the first medium to support all of these features. Consequently, the hard disk helped make many advances possible in ...

A 20,000-foot view of data storage, from networked desktop hard disks to monster SANs, reveals that the same issues emerge again and again As our data continues to grow at a nearly exponential clip, ...