Blocks&Files, Friday, May 12,2023
New Moves In AFA Driven By QLC Flash
A new chapter is opening in the all-flash storage array (AFA) world as QLC flash enables closer cost comparisons with hybrid flash/disk and disk drive arrays and filers.
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Search Storage, Tuesday, May 9,2023
Storage's Role In Generative AI
Generative AI continues to create industry buzz. Experts say storage plays a critical role in making the technology run.
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Search Storage, Tuesday, May 9,2023
7 Ways To Mitigate CISO Liability And Risk
Recent civil and criminal cases have brought CISO liability questions to the fore. Learn how to understand and manage personal risk exposure as a security executive.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Monday, May 8,2023
Ultimate Guide To Raid Levels: Definition, Types, And Uses
RAID technology helps businesses manage their hard drive storage in a variety of ways. By deploying multiple drives in a RAID configuration in a single array, storage teams can employ protective, performative or restorative technologies for hard disk drives (HDDs).
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Enterprise Storage Forum, Monday, May 8,2023
Opinion: NVMe Performance Will Force Applications to Process Data Where it is Stored
As Non Volatile Memory express (NVMe) storage performance increases, application design will have to change to take better advantage of the Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and bandwidth found in locally-connected NVMe devices.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, May 5,2023
How Long Do HDDs Last?
What if replacing a HDD was more scientific and less speculative? Given the lack of accessible data for HDD failures, the public often relies on abstract advice or conjecture to guide their actions.
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Blocks&Files, Wednesday, May 3,2023
The Bigger HDDs Come, The Harder They Fall. Well, Kind Of
Cloud and backup storage supplier Backblaze publishes quarterly hard disk drive failure rate statistics and has just started doing so for its SSD boot drives as well. Not much has changed in the annualized failure rates (AFR) with the latest HDD failure stats. As lifetime drive hours increase, the HDD population grows: there are 236,893 now, and an average AFR of 1.54 percent.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, May 2,2023
WW SDS Market to Hit $207.6 Billion by 2033
SDS is a storage architecture that completely separates the hardware of a device from its software manager. It simplifies storage management by abstracting it away from the physical infrastructure and implementing it in software, offering greater versatility, scalability, and cost-efficiency compared to traditional storage solutions.
more → ITProToday, Tuesday, April 25,2023
Comparing Object Storage Vs Block Storage vs File Storage
Learn about object storage, block storage, and file storage and the differences between each data storage method.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, April 24,2023
Storage Giants Develop Essentially Block Storage Products
The first element resides in the list of storage giants, who are they? Of course, we don't consider cloud providers but hardware vendors such as DDN, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Infinidat, Lenovo, NetApp and Pure Storage. The segment analyzed is the mid to high-end on-premises storage.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, April 20th, 2023
Top 14 Storage Companies In 2022
StorageNewsletter.com publishes the ranking of the top storage companies in revenue since many years. After 3 years as ≠1 storage company in the world (see below), Micron was replaced in 2020, 2021 and 2022 by SK hynix and became ≠2.
more → Blocks&Files, April 18th, 2023
Gartner Anoints File Systems And Object Storage 'Peer Insights' Winners
Analyst house Gartner says its customers have listed the companies they think are above average distributed file systems and/or object storage suppliers.
more → Techradar.pro, April 17th, 2023
HDD Sales Have Plummeted This Year - So What's Next?
Coming down from an artificial high, HDDs continue to battle SSDs for market supremacy
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DATAVERSITY, April 13th, 2023
Structured Vs. Unstructured Data: An Overview
Structured data and unstructured data are both forms of data, but the first uses a single standardized format for storage, and the second does not.
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ITProToday, April 13th, 2023
Block Storage vs. Object Storage In The Cloud
Is block storage better than object storage for storing data in the cloud? That depends on your needs. Here are the pros and cons of both types of storage.
more → InformationWeek, April 13th, 2023
5 Ways To Reduce The Amount Of Data You're Storing
Data hoarders beware. The cost and risks in stored data are higher than you think.
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Networkworld, April 12th, 2023
Failed Hard Drives Lasted Less Than Three Years, Analysis Finds
Secure Data Recovery examined failure rates and lifespans of 2,007 hard drives from six manufacturers.
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EnterpriseAppsToday, April 10th, 2023
Erasure Coding Market Globally Expected to Drive Growth Nearly USD 6.86 Bn By 2033
Erasure coding is a method of data protection designed to maintain data integrity and availability in the event of data loss or corruption.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, April 10th, 2023
10 Stories From 10 Years Of Drive Stats Data At Backblaze
On April 10, 2013, Backblaze saved its first daily HDD snapshot file. It had decided to start saving these daily snapshots to improve its understanding of the burgeoning collection of HDDs the firm was using to store customer data.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, April, 7th 2023
How To Prepare For A Storage Area Network (SAN) Security Audit
Conducting a storage area network security audit is a good starting point to reveal both the weaknesses and strengths of your enterprise storage network's cybersecurity posture. When done correctly, audits are comprehensive surveys of SAN security.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, April, 5th 2023
SSD Market To Reach $67 Billion In 2028
SSD revenues dropped by ~14% in 2022, according to analyst firm Yole Group. The outlook for 2023 is worrisome, but long-term perspectives to 2028 are attractive.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, April, 5th 2023
From ATTO Technology: Choosing Between SAS and NVMe for Data Center
Customers are still using SAS for capacity and NVMe for performance, working together, it's possible to develop cost-effective storage architecture.
more → The SSD Guy Blog, April 1st, 2023
Dealing With A Data Shortage
For the past several years presenters at data-oriented conferences have quoted forecasts for data growth that taxed their vocabularies. Exabytes gave way to Zettabytes, and then Yottabytes, and these were often charted out on standard linear charts like the one below, with the inevitable result that the curve always starts out slow, and takes off like a rocket as it rises to the right.
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Blocks&Files, March 30th, 2023
Samsung Forecasts Petabyte SSD In A Decade
Think a 128TB SSD is a big brother of a device? How about a petabyte SSD? Samsung sees it coming in the not-too-distant future.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, March 28th, 2023
How Long HDDs Last? 2,007 Units Tested
What if replacing a HDD was more scientific and less speculative? Given the lack of accessible data for HDD failures, the public often relies on abstract advice or conjecture to guide their actions.
more → Search Storage, March 23rd, 2023
Data Hoarding And The Role Of Storage
The promise of future insights drives companies to store data. But there are potential drawbacks when storing data and better management methods than keeping everything.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, March 22nd, 2023
Enterprise Storage And Backup Devices Average 14 Security Risks
The research showed that an average enterprise storage and backup device has 14 vulnerabilities, 3 of which are high or critical risk that could present a significant compromise if exploited.
more → The SSD Guy, March 21st, 2023
What Is Write Amplification?
For a long time, The SSD Guy has been talking about Write Amplification without explaining what It is. This post is intended to fix that.
more → ComputerWeekly, March 21st, 2023
HDD Specs: Assess MTTF, AFR and UER to Get The Drives You Need
In part one of a two-part series, we look at key hard disk drive specs, including mean time to failure, annual failure rate and unrecoverable error rate, and how they relate to each other
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Enterprise Storage Forum, March 20th, 2023
What Is iSCSI? Definition, Components, & Performance
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface or iSCSI is a storage area networking (SAN) protocol. It is an Internet Protocol-based networking standard for transferring data carrying SCSI commands over a TCP/IP network
more → EnterpriseAppsToday, March 20th, 2023
Software-Defined Storage Market Will Hit USD 207.62 Bn By 2033
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a storage architecture that completely separates the hardware of a device from its software manager.
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CXOtoday.com, March 20th, 2023
How Western Digital Is Constantly Innovating To Lower Power Draw And Increase Data Resiliency
CXOToday has engaged in an exclusive interview with Mr. Khalid Wani, Senior Director, Sales, India, Western Digital.
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Blocks & Files, March 17th, 2023
Gartner: So long HCI MQs, Hello Full-stack HCI Software
Gartner has kissed the HCI appliance market goodbye. Its analysts have taken a fresh look at the HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) market, and moved away from an appliance approach, looking instead at full stack software suppliers of server, storage and network infrastructure management.
more → ComputerWeekly, March 16th, 2023
QLC Edges Into Mainstream, But What Are Its Advantages?
QLC flash offers high density but has lifecycle limitations. But what does it really cost compared with TLC and MLC, and how are suppliers implementing it and getting around durability issues?
more → Blocks & Files, March 16th, 2023
Most Failed Disk Drives Fail Just Before They Hit 3 Years' Use, Says Data Recovery Biz
Secure Data Recovery found that average failed hard drive spun for 25,233 hours before failing. That's 1,051 days, or two years and ten months.
more → Dataversity, March 16th, 2023
Blockchain Technology Demystified
Prepare for blockchain technology to play a significant role in business, society, and almost everything. While 45% of CIOs said their organizations had yet to invest in blockchain between 2016 to 2021, that will change as information exchange becomes decentralized and demonstrated use cases show blockchain's success.
more → InfoWorld, March 13th, 2023
Can AI Solve It's Eternal Data Problem?
New data management and integration solutions featuring AI and machine learning signal that help is on the way to meet the ballooning enterprise data challenge.
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Blocks & Files, March 10th, 2023
Backblaze: SSDs Fail Slightly Less Than HDDs
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has found its SSD annual failure rate was 0.98 percent compared to 1.64 percent for disk drives, a difference of 0.66 percentage points. It also noted that SSD manufacturers' SMART stats were not so smart.
more → Solutions Review, March 10th, 2023
6 Essential Data Storage Security Best Practices To Know
Solutions Review editors assembled this resource containing essential enterprise data storage security best practices to know. For an even deeper breakdown of securing storage, we recommend reading the NIST Special Publication: Security Guidelines for Storage Infrastructure.
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SearchStorage, March 9th, 2023
How SSD Data Reduction Can Help Enterprises
Data reduction techniques have been difficult to achieve on SSDs, but vendors appear to be making progress. The more effective the data reduction, the more affordable SSDs become.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, March 9th, 2023
GigaOm Radar For Kubernetes Data Protection
Outperformers: Kasten by Veeam, CloudCasa by Catalogic, Commvault, NetApp
more → Data Center Knowledge, March 2nd, 2023
Data-At-Rest Encryption In The Cloud: Explore Your Options
Fear the NSA or other infiltration threats? We break down different approaches IT pros can take to encrypt data at rest in the public cloud, including service-managed keys, customer-managed keys, bring-your-own keys, and hold-your-own keys.
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ComputerWeekly, February 27th, 2023
Unstructured Data And The Storage IT Needs
We look at unstructured and semi-structured data and find increasing amounts of production workloads that have their own storage hardware - file and object - needs, including flash
more → StorageNewsletter.com, February 24th, 2023
Atto 64Gb Gen 7 FC PCIe 4 HBAs with Support of 6.4GB/s per Channel Data Throughput
In low-profile single and dual-port versions, and including 2nd Gen FC-NVMe standard
more → Search Enterprise Desktop, February 22nd, 2023
What Is Network File System (NFS)?
Network File System (NFS) is a networking protocol for distributed file sharing. A file system defines the way data in the form of files is stored and retrieved from storage devices, such as hard disk drives, solid-state drives and tape drives. NFS is a network file sharing protocol that defines the way files are stored and retrieved from storage devices across networks.
more → Search Windows Server, February 22nd, 2023
What Is SMB 3.0 (Server Message Block 3.0)?
SMB 3 (Server Message Block 3.0) is a protocol that provides a way for a computer's client applications to read and write to files from a server in a computer network. SMB 3.1.1 is the latest version.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, February 21st, 2023
Enterprise SSDs to Be Largest Application Segment of NAND Flash Market
Server DRAM Will Overtake Mobile DRAM in Supply in 2023 and Comprise 37.6% of Annual Total DRAM Bit Output
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, February 15th, 2023
Is DAS or NAS Storage More Secure? DAS vs NAS Security
Direct-attached storage (DAS) and network-attached storage (NAS) contain volumes of significant business data and need to be protected.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, February 13th, 2023
WW Hardware Storage Market Valued At $76 Billion In 2021, To Reach $171 Billion By 2028
Global Hardware Storage Market was valued at $76.32 billion in 2021, and it is expected to reach a value of $170.83 billion by 2028, at a CAGR of 12.2% over the forecast period (2022-2028).
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, February 13th, 2023
Top 20 Enterprise Data Storage Companies In 2023
Data is a critical asset for today's businesses. With companies dealing with an enormous volume of data daily, managing it all demands an effective storage system that can offer businesses improved access to data without compromising security and compliance.
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