Tag: cloud storage

April 23, 2019

Micron raises the enterprise and cloud storage bar once again with the new 9300 Series NVMe SSDs, aimed at offering near real-time access to data by offering the industry’s lowest average write latency. The Micron 9300 SSD, built around the […]

February 26, 2019

Western Digital on Tuesday announced it’s expanding its data center portfolio with two new NVMe drives that can meet the needs of public or private cloud deployments, hyperscale cloud environments and workloads at the edge. The new drives serve as […]

February 20, 2019

This change has been brought about by the huge rise in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud storage solutions. In its latest quarterly earnings call, Microsoft® announced the number of Office 365® subscribers had jumped to 31.4 million. This number has steadily […]

October 29, 2018

In a move that IBM says will make it the world’s leader in hybrid cloud, the company says it’s going to buy open-source giant Red Hat for $34 billion, banking on what it sees as Red Hat’s potential to become […]

September 18, 2018

The selection process for our 10 hot hybrid-cloud startups to watch roundup began with 42 recommendations and nominations that came to me via HARO, LinkedIn, Twitter and subscribers to my Startup50 email newsletter. For this roundup, we focused on hybrid-cloud […]

August 31, 2018

We’ve finally passed the inflection point. Funds budgeted for cloud storage edged out hard disk drive expenditures for the first time, according to the Storage Trends 2018 survey by Enterprise Storage Forum. This isn’t an accident. As this summary of […]

July 12, 2018

AEC companies (architecture, engineering, construction) often deal with large design files that need to be shared across multiple offices or job sites. During collaboration among remote teams, files may need to be locked for exclusive write permission to prevent inadvertent […]

June 11, 2018

Public cloud providers charge every time you move data from their cloud storage to your on-premises storage. These cloud data egress fees can add up. If you’re just starting out with cloud storage, you won’t feel the sting of egress […]

May 29, 2018

Anyone that has kept up with this column knows I tend to focus on one storage architecture more than any other – the hybrid-cloud storage architecture. That’s because I truly believe in its ability to meet the challenges of today’s […]

April 4, 2018

Data storage, like other commodities such as bandwidth, electricity, or simple computer power, underpins nearly everything we do in information technology. Whether it’s a computer game, an international banking system, or a TV show, I can’t think of a single […]

February 1, 2018

The cloud storage market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30 percent through 2022 to reach a total market size of $92.5 billion, up from $25.2 billion in 2017, according to research firm Research […]

August 29, 2017

Call it cloud hydration, cloud migration or whatever – the dirty secret of cloud deployments today is that the actual “lift and shift” process of data storage to a target cloud can be a lengthy, complicated and risky process. That’s […]

June 23, 2017

An increasing number of global enterprises are adopting a cloud-first strategy in search of a better way to store, protect, share and manage their growing volumes of unstructured file data. A recent Gartner report outlines the trend, detailing key factors […]

June 9, 2017

Amazon on Thursday ended its policy of providing free unlimited cloud storage via Amazon Drive, opting instead to give its consumer and business users a smaller amount of free capacity in the Amazon cloud and charging for capacity beyond that. […]

June 2, 2017

Storage is a fast-evolving industry. Groundbreaking hardware technologies quickly become commoditized, which is a challenge for vendors, but a great benefit to customers. Today’s shiny new array soon becomes matched by a similarly capable JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disk) […]

June 1, 2017

Imagine a remake of the original Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Eerie music is playing during that iconic final scene. The camera closely follows a clerk pushing a crate containing the Ark of the Covenant. It pans […]

May 19, 2017

Many healthcare providers face the decision on if they should store protected health information (PHI) in the cloud. There are benefits and concerns to storing PHI in the cloud, and the decision to do so should be analyzed. PHI is any […]

May 18, 2017

Blame it on poor copy data management, compliance requirements or the internet of things (IoT), but data storage volumes are growing exponentially, and that growth shows no signs of abating. Managing skyrocketing storage demands on limited resources is a top […]

May 18, 2017

If you are considering investing in cloud storage for your business, you are not alone. Cloud storage has recently gone mainstream and businesses of all shapes and sizes are adopting this technology. Experts predict that this trend will continue to […]

May 1, 2017

To most people, Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is known as the company reshaping the way people buy everything from books to shoes to groceries. But the part of Amazon that is driving Bezos within shouting distance of becoming the world’s richest […]