Tag: storage

September 16, 2021

Google Cloud on Thursday introduced two new storage products, as well as an expansion of its Cloud Storage offering, to offer more resiliency and protection for customer data. The new services are Filestore Enterprise and Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine […]

March 15, 2021

Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud storage platform S3 or Simple Storage Service today stores over 100 trillion objects. AWS’s Jeff Barr revealed the figure to mark S3’s fifteen year anniversary. AWS launched S3 publicly on March 14, 2006, four years […]

November 11, 2020

For a major chip announcement, Apple’s M1 launch gave us very little on the chip architecture – page size, memory addressing, internal bandwidth, or clock speeds. At one level that makes sense, given that there is nothing to compare the […]

July 9, 2020

IBM on Thursday unveiled new and updated storage products designed to help enterprises build AI-optimized infrastructure. The expanded product lineup includes the new IBM Elastic Storage System 5000, which is scalable to yottabyte configurations. In May, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna […]

December 30, 2019

I’ve been watching storage for some 40 years. And each decade has seen accelerating change, and none more so than the the past 10 years. That trend will continue. Here’s the biggest trends I expect to affect all who use […]

December 28, 2018

There are many trends and currents in the storage market, so it’s not easy to choose two. But these stood out in the past year. FLASH AND DRAM PRICE DROP Given the dominance of flash storage for phones, notebooks, and, […]

November 3, 2018

Apart from the constant need to improve their security policies, companies now face a new hurdle: GDPR compliant storage devices. As the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) established that USB sticks with sensitive data are a business risk, new […]

September 6, 2018

CIOs are increasingly confident using a cloud-first strategy. Analyst Gartner says global spending on public cloud services will grow 21.4 percent through 2018 to total $186.4 billion, up from $153.5 billion in 2017. So, why are digital leaders choosing to […]

August 27, 2018

VMware on Monday is rolling out a series of new cloud services designed to facilitate the management of costs, operations, security and compliance — across multiple clouds. The new services were announced at the VMworld conference, a day after VMware […]

March 1, 2018

It’s been an eventful week for Dropbox coming off its announcement last Friday that it was finally going public, but that doesn’t mean the business stops. The company announced plans to partner with Google today to bring native G Suite […]

February 28, 2018

With the advent of disk mirroring over 35 years ago, data redundancy has been the basic strategy against data loss. That redundancy was extended in the replicated state machine (RSM) clusters popularized by cloud vendors in early aughts, and widely […]

January 5, 2018

The year 2018 for the storage industry is shaping up to be a year that looks more like an extension of 2017 than a sea change. Many trends – increased cloud adoption, the shift from disk to flash storage, the […]

December 26, 2017

Industry experts agree that the size of the digital universe will double every two years at least, a 50-fold growth from 2010 to 2020. Data is being generated by both humans and machines at rates that require a radical rethinking […]

December 15, 2017

One of the fundamental concepts underpinning cloud computing is that the location of the servers and other physical infrastructure running the software and storing the data is entirely irrelevant. That’s why it borrowed the metaphor of the cloud from old […]

July 20, 2017

In the wake of several high-profile data leaks, Amazon Web Services warned customers Wednesday to re-examine S3 storage drives with policies allowing their contents to be shared with the world. AWS sent emails to an undisclosed number of customers, pointing […]

May 26, 2017

When it comes to video production, two key points stand out: Video files are huge, and video creation and streaming require a lot of bandwidth. It’s no surprise that storage vendors have a big stake in video production, collaboration, and […]

May 25, 2017

NetApp on Wednesday unveiled two acquisitions it expects to help grow its already-growing converged infrastructure and cloud storage business. The first was that of Immersive Partner Solutions, a Littleton, Colo.-based developer of software to validate multiple converged infrastructures through their […]

May 15, 2017

NetApp and Cisco Systems have invested in Datos IO, a developer of application-centric data management. The startup’s CEO also reveals that his company is pursuing an OEM relationship with NetApp. Datos IO, founded in 2014, came to market in 2016 […]

May 3, 2017

The Federal Communications Commission’s tech policy moves may be sparking controversy, but the agency’s own IT operations continue to draw praise from both the public and private sectors. The FCC was selected on May 1 as one of the 2017 […]

March 20, 2017

Intel’s first Optane storage modules came out in early January, but were only 32GB. Larger Optane drives with up to 1.5TB of storage capacity are on their way, and we now have a better understanding of how they’re going to […]