1. Storage

    097  – Why ‘Boring’ Is Good at the Edge

    “The computing edge” is a sexy buzzword right now. But is that really what you want as an IT admin? No—what you want, what you need, is infrastructure that just works, whether it’s on-premises or at the edge. That means your edge infrastructure needs to be reliable, especially in areas wh… Read More

    By Keith Ward
  2. Storage

    Lightbits Offers NVMe Performance with All-Flash Features

    There’s no doubt that NVMe is lightning-fast storage. The problem is that it’s confined to servers. But what if you could break it free from those constraints, and pool it? It could open up new worlds of speed as well as scalability. Lightbits Labs has done just that, as VP of Product Marketi… Read More

    By Keith Ward
  3. Storage

    Focus on Your Business, Rather Than Managing Storage, with StorPool

    Unless you’re in the data storage management business, why would you want to spend time managing your storage? It’s a question StorPool asked from the beginning, and why they built a platform to remove the storage management burden from your shoulders. StorPool CEO and Co-Founder Boyan Ivanov… Read More

    By Keith Ward
  4. Storage

    Offload Inactive Data to the Cloud and Drive Down Storage Costs

    Most files have a similar lifecycle: They’re created, revised several times, and then seldom used again. Unfortunately, files can rarely just be deleted. They may need to be kept for legal reasons, or an application may require them to exist in order to function. So even though they’re rarely us… Read More

    By Trevor Pott
  5. Storage

    Balancing Load, Capacity, and Throughput Across Your File Storage Environment

    IT departments often have multiple file storage systems, but storage isn’t distributed equally across them. If one filer is full while others sit nearly empty, it’s not an issue of negligence on the part of IT administrators: Capacity-balancing a fleet of filers has traditionally been difficult… Read More

    By Trevor Pott
  6. Storage

    Streamlining Placement of Scattered Data on File and Object Storage

    Many organizations have data stored in a wide range of locations on a distributed infrastructure. There can be good reasons for this, but it can also cause chaos. Everyone wants high-throughput, low-latency access to the files they need. They want those files to be easy to find, and they want all of… Read More

    By Trevor Pott
  7. Storage

    How COVID-19 Has Changed Data Storage Management

    Data storage management has matured to the point of being an almost automatic element of overall IT operational strategies in large-scale enterprises. The arrival of COVID, however,  forced many of these businesses to send the majority of their employees home, revealing some very noticeable perform… Read More

    By Cary Kostka