Due to the unique characteristics of flash, performance validation testing is immensely challenging and critically important; follow these best practices All-flash storage arrays (AFAs) are receiving ...

Solution providers and their clients looking for ways to improve the performance of their storage infrastructures are increasingly turning to flash storage. The market for flash storage is booming, ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

All flash storage arrays can be sprinkled around the datacenter to provide zippy block storage for database virtual server applications. And while the current crop of all flash arrays are useful and ...

EMC Corp. last week announced a bridging technology that lets its newest midrange storage arrays use lower-cost disk drives. The move is aimed at allowing IT managers to switch from tape-based data ...

New high-end arrays include full disk encryption and solid-state disks, and offer up to 2.5 times the performance and 50 percent more energy efficiency For the first time in three years, IBM has ...

Am I missing something here... ? It was my understanding that with a RAID setup, it was possible to increase performance (not taking into account reliability) above that of a single disk. Let's say I ...

HP has announced a new set of feature enhancements for its all-flash HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 array along with the claim that this marks the end of spinning disk. The new features include ...

I'm putting together a storage array. I've got 3x250GB SATA disks, and can get my hands on a 4th one. I need to put in adapter card(s) to connect the drives since the mobo in question does not have ...

Sandisk's Ultra Plus SSD is their current mainstream-class SSD. The Ultra Plus is designed to be a low cost, power efficient, lightweight, solid state solution for mainstream consumers. Although the ...