Storage Technology Section Index

Henry Newman revisits his 2011 predictions for the storage industry and prognosticates about 2012 and beyond.

From hybrid hard disk drives and HPC to tape and midrange neglect, storage analysts weigh in on what they love and hate in the industry today.

Paragon Software is taking a targeted approach to fill in the gaps left by device and equipment makers. The storage and backup firm is focused on migration and compatibility.

Thanks to many years of government investment, most of the major storage developments have occurred in the United States. With few ground-breaking changes on the horizon, will the United States hold the lead or will another nation take the reins?

Big data, business intelligence, cloud and big boxes were featured prominently at Oracle's big conference this year.

With an eye toward the post-disk era, this startup offers an enterprise-grade, all-flash storage solution.

Why does the storage industry continue to make the same mistakes over again and continue to take bold statements as fact?  

The only constant about storage technology is the fact that it is constantly changing. But where is it headed? Storage devices and tiering software are two areas ripe for speculation.

Fresh out of stealth mode, Nutanix is on a mission to help enterprises tear down the wall between storage and computing in their virtual data centers and in the process reduce costs and complexity.

When you benchmark FCoE and iSCSI, the former is clearly the superior technology, so what hasn't Fibre Channel over Ethernet taken the industry by storm?

Taneja Group analyst Jeff Boles explains why performance, long neglected by storage innovation, is now at a mismatch with today's applications. But a solution may be on the way.

SandForce controllers are found in a wide range of SSDs. The most interesting and unique feature of SandForce SSD controllers is that they use real-time data compression to improve performance and SSD longevity. The impact, however, depends on the compressibility of the data.

My challenge to the community is to develop a standard for parallel I/O that supports all of the features and functions of MPI-IO and more.

Large preservation archives could benefit from techniques used in high performance computing.

Do you have data that you haven't touched in a long time? Some fairly recent studies have shown that data is getting colder.

Open source startup is gearing up to build a high-availability Lustre file system distribution, but it's not a fork from Oracle.

The JEDEC Solid State Association has published two sets of standards for endurance and reliability.

In part two of his look at solid state disk performance degradation, Jeff Layton puts an enterprise SSD through its paces to understand its performance characteristics before, during and after heavy use.

Amid speculation about the fate of the open-source file system, Oracle has vowed that it has an "unwavering commitment to Lustre."

The new IBM General Parallel File System-Shared Nothing Cluster (GPFS-SNC) is said to offer double the analytics processing speed of competing solutions for "big data."

With the SSD market on the grow, vendors continue to vie for their share of the segment with new products.

Henry Newman revisits the limitations of storage I/O and explains why the movement of data is at the mercy of the physical constraints within computers and storage hardware.

The aim of the newly formed vendor group is top develop standards for PCIe-based solid state disks (SSDs).

In part one of this two-part look at SSDs, Jeff Layton examines why SSD performance degrades over time and offers some potential solutions to the problem.

The latency of the Internet is greater than the latency of disk, so what's the point of Flash cache for Web devices?