Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesStorage upgrades can bring energy savings. New hardware, the cloud and as-a-service procurement models all cut costs, but can need careful tweaking to get right. By Antony Adshead With the rapidly rising cost of energy, the idea of green storage has regained some traction. While going green and reducing the carbon footprint has been a background theme of recent years, it’s clear datacentre
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe Advanced Host Controller Interface and RAID are fundamental concepts for running an efficient data management and storage infrastructure. Learn the AHCI and RAID basics. By Scott D. Lowe, and Brien Posey Even in this age of SSDs, IT still works with technologies developed in the last century. These techs include the Advanced Host Controller Interface and redundant arrays of independent
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWe look at RAID and flash to highlight key choices when it comes to drive data protection. What RAID levels work best with solid state and when is erasure coding a good choice? By Stephen Pritchard RAID systems have been the building blocks of enterprise storage since the 1990s. But RAID – redundant array of inexpensive disks – originated the decade before that in
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesUtility storage is a service model in which a provider makes storage capacity available to an individual, organization or business unit on a pay-per-use basis. By Robert Sheldon The customer purchases only the services, not the equipment itself, even if the equipment is housed on premises. The utility model is sometimes called metered services or storage on demand. The term “utility” is used because the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesStorage as a service offers cloud procurement and remote management of on-premises storage. Benefits include scalability, utilitylike consumption pricing and storage optimization. By Garry Kranz Enterprises have realized the potential benefits of storage as a service. The idea is to let organizations buy storage in the same way they buy other cloud services. Using service-based consumption, enterprises lease on-premises storage from a
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCost savings is one of the main reasons that companies decide to migrate to a cloud environment. Cloud computing can offer organizations potential financial advantages in a few ways; however, it’s important to understand the full implications of cloud pricing, and how it can affect companies. By Linda Rosencrance How Do Providers Determine Cloud Costs? The main factors cloud service providers
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesMicrosoft’s Project Silica stores data in silica glass, similar to the crystals in ‘Superman’ films. In fact, ‘Superman’ already played a major role in the forward-looking project. By Robert Sheldon The 1978 Superman movie has found a home in a piece of quartz glass that’s 2 mm thick and 75 mm square in area — about the size of a drink coaster.
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is an electronic interface standard that defines the connection between a bus on a computer’s motherboard and the computer’s disk storage devices. By Robert Sheldon and Sonia Lelii The IDE interface was originally based on the IBM PC Industry Standard Architecture 16-bit bus standard, but it has since been implemented in computers that use other bus standards. In November 1990, the American National Standards
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBlockchain storage is a way of saving data in a decentralized network, which utilizes the unused hard disk space of users across the world to store files. The decentralized infrastructure is an alternative to centralized cloud storage and can solve many problems found in a centralized system. By TechTarget Contributor How blockchain storage works Blockchain relies on distributed ledger technology (DLT). The DLT acts as a
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA ransomware attack on cloud storage can have catastrophic effects. Cloud storage is still online, which means it is susceptible to some cyberattacks, so users must be careful. By Brien Posey Ransomware has been a persistent threat to organizations of all sizes. As companies increasingly transition to cloud-based platforms, they must consider how ransomware can attack cloud storage. There are
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