Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesExplore the best, most optimal architectures for intelligent storage and how these systems improve storage performance/utilization to help get more bang out of your data set buck. By Dan Sullivan Brute force has been the critical lever to achieving advances in storage technology for much of its history. Making storage devices bigger, faster and denser has worked well and will
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesBy Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Hard drives that come with the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface are designed to handle high-performance enterprise requirements. These drives offer the benefits of backward compatibility with SCSI interfaces. They also offer interoperability with SATA drives. This allows them to bring a perfect mix of flexibility and cost-effectiveness to enterprises. SAS 6Gbps hard drives are suitable
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesNVMe (non-volatile memory express) is a host controller interface and storage protocol created to accelerate the transfer speed of data between enterprise and client systems and solid-state drives (SSDs) over a computer’s high-speed Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) bus. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Rich Castagna; Carol Sliwa As solid-state technology became the preferred medium in the storage market, it quickly became clear that existing interfaces
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesCloud infrastructure refers to the hardware and software components — such as servers, storage, a network, virtualization software, services and management tools — that support the computing requirements of a cloud computing model. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): James Montgomery; Kurt Marko; Nicholas Rando; Beth Pariseau; Alex Barrett Cloud infrastructure also includes an abstraction layer that virtualizes and logically presents resources and services to
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesBefore selecting a SAN product, learn which features seven market-leading storage vendors provide organizations of all sizes and how they distinguish their products. By Robert Sheldon Choosing a storage area network can be a daunting task when comparing products and trying to understand their differences. IT decision-makers must consider a range of factors, including scalability, performance, availability, management and data
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe nature of the cloud market demands innovation, and custom hardware might be the next move for the major vendors in this space. Experts weigh in on the key drivers of this shift. By George Lawton Initially, public clouds were built on generic hardware to cut costs and operate at massive scale — but that’s changing. A shift toward highly scalable
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesNOR flash memory is one of two types of non-volatile storage technologies. NAND is the other. Non-volatile memory doesn’t require power to retain data. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Ben Lutkevich; Brien Posey; Rodney Brown NOR and NAND use different logic gates — the fundamental building block of digital circuits — in each memory cell to map data. Both types of flash memory were invented by Toshiba,
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHot sites are a viable disaster recovery strategy, but high costs and changing DR risks have made alternatives like disaster recovery as a service a more appealing option. By Alan R. Earls Not too long ago, the gold standard for IT preparedness was having a dedicated facility for hot site disaster recovery. Now, at a time when bullet-proof, interruption-free IT
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesPredictably, some 2019 forecasts of what disaster recovery might look like in 2020 didn’t quite hit the mark. However, funding and cybersecurity were evergreen concerns. By Alan R. Earls Disaster recovery strategies have had to change drastically from expectations in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic presented many disaster recovery challenges for teams in 2020, as remote work became the norm. At
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs a replacement for the SCSI storage protocol, NVMe can provide more responsive storage and lower latency. But transitioning to NVMe in the data center requires thorough planning. By George Crump Nonvolatile memory express is a storage protocol designed specifically for memory-based storage, enabling technologies like flash to reach their full potential. Since NVMe technology is a change to infrastructure,
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