SSD cache won’t transform a hard-drive array, but it can make the small, repetitive storage tasks that feel slow noticeably ...

The 180TB storage array, like many of our other hard drive-related stories, comes from our friends at Backblaze. Backblaze is a cloud-based backup company that provides unlimited storage for a fixed ...

Nimble Storage has expanded its storage line card with the introduction of its first-ever all-flash storage array, and is positioning its new solution against better-known all-flash arrays including ...

Flash storage, also known as solid-state disk (SSD) technology, reads and writes data extremely fast thanks to its use of memory cells instead of traditional spinning disk drives. A new entrant in the ...

HP's new SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) is aimed at helping IT administrators better manage their storage environments, said Tom Rollins, R&D manager for HP StorageWorks. The SVSP ...

Pure Storage is doubling down on NVMe, a specification designed to speed up storage throughput, and offering a enterprise all-flash array with NVMe. The array, dubbed FlashArray//X, includes Purity ...

While storage array snapshots offer quick, hardware-level data protection, they are not a standalone substitute for traditional backups due to limitations in protection, management and retention ...

Purchasing a hybrid storage array can be confusing, often requiring you to weigh the value of flash performance, the cost-effectiveness of hard disk drives and the ...

Nearly all enterprise and mid-range storage arrays come with snapshots. But that’s not the only place you can manage them from. Backup software also comes with snapshot functionality, and in fact some ...

XtremIO from EMC is a scale-out enterprise storage array created to work specifically with flash media. It is designed to improve application performance. Common use cases for XtremIO storage arrays ...