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 minutesWhen evaluating archiving services, you must determine what you need to archive, requirements around that data and how to make the most cost-effective selection. By Paul Kirvan Long-term data archiving can and should be an important piece of an organization’s data storage strategy and policy. If it’s too costly to manage a brick-and-mortar data archive, consider using one or more
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe vFlash features of iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller onDell PowerEdge servers. By Tekmart Enterprise Support vFLash is an SD card on the server’s front panel and it is connected to and controlled by the iDRAC. Itemulates USB flash storage to the operating system (OS), but its content can be updated remotelythrough the iDRAC network. Some of the applications of vFlash
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMicron unveiled NVMe SSDs with seven form factors this week, all with PCIe Gen 4 performance. The new family of SSDs could take Micron deeper into the data center. By Adam Armstrong First Published: 08 Oct 2021 Micron continues its focus on the data center, as evidenced by its release of the 7400 PCIe Gen 4 family of SSDs Wednesday.
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe hyper-converged infrastructure market has seen a good deal of movement lately. While some vendors strengthened their products, others went in the opposite direction. By Dave Raffo Hyper-converged market leaders have remained constant in recent years, but technology offerings among those giants and other players are evolving. Nutanix debuted with an early hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) product that combines storage, compute and
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesGain insight into Dell EMC’s hyper-converged portfolio, including VxRail and XC Series appliances, VxRack System Flex plus vSAN, VxFlex and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes. By James Alan Miller Hyper-convergence integrates compute, networking, storage and virtualization resources inside appliances called nodes that easily link up for scalability purposes. For the past 10 quarters in a row, Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure products
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMass notification systems are crucial to a business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. To choose the right system, cross-check its capabilities with your requirements. By Brien Posey and Paul Kirvan Mass notification systems send one-way messages via email, smartphones, office phones and home phones to inform staff and the public of an emergency. These systems contain a database of names,
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWestern Digital unveiled a new storage drive architecture for hard drives that improves capacity, performance and reliability via an embedded flash drive to store metadata. By Johnny Yu Western Digital’s new OptiNAND storage infrastructure puts a lot of capacity on one platter. Unveiled at today’s HDD Reimagine virtual event, OptiNAND combines Western Digital’s hard disk drive and flash technologies 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: 20 minutesBefore selecting a service from a cloud backup provider, identify your organization’s specific needs, including which features are important for security and data management. By Chris Evans As data becomes more valuable to enterprises, backup and data protection become increasingly critical in delivering IT services to internal business customers. Over the last 15 years, IT has gradually adopted public cloud
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