Drew Robb

For some years now, data storage vendors have been incorporating big data and analytics tools such as Hadoop into their products. However, the performance requirements of these applications have sometimes proven hard to align with a prodigious need for raw capacity. The typical approach has been to provide an architecture that spans several storage products in […]

The David Bowie song “Five Years” saw nothing but death and despair five years down the line. Fortunately, the pronouncements of various storage experts about where all-flash storage will be in five years are far less gloomy. In many cases, the predictions are downright giddy. 1. Booming Market There is no doubt that all-flash is […]

Data storage vendors are pairing up with cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure as a way to broaden their offerings and lower storage costs for their customers. After all, the economies of scale offered by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Amazon make it hard for others to compete on raw cloud storage. But these […]

These days, everyone who is anyone in data storage appears to be partnering with one or more of the big three of the cloud – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. Of late, Azure seems to be in the ascendancy. The likes of DataCore, Panzura, Nasuni, Zadara, Veritas, Caringo, Datapipe […]

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has gained serious momentum in recent months. Data storage companies such as NetApp, Veritas, Cohesity, MapR, Cloudian and Nutanix are partnering with Google in an effort to broaden the appeal of their offerings. But the Google Cloud itself is a vast universe of services, storage tiers, speeds, feeds and price […]

To the uninformed, the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) seem like a third wheel to that hot couple, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. But anyone believing that had better think again. GCP has been steadily gaining in functionality and popularity. The company has been working diligently on the development front to increase the breadth […]

So many things change, so many things stay the same. Some vendors come, others go. New exciting technologies are continually emerging. Yet Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO for ClearSky Data, feels that little has changed in storage over the past decade or two. “The biggest surprise has been the extent to which growth and innovation in the […]

Many technologies are billed as hot, exciting and revolutionary. But which ones are really deserving of that moniker? Which ones are destined to change — or are changing — the storage universe? Enterprise Storage Forum asked the experts. 1. Object Storage Several of our sources cited object storage as an enabler of major change. “Object […]

Let’s take a trip down memory lane. Around 10 years ago, EMC ruled the roost in data storage. It held a 21.6 percent revenue share in Q3 2007 according to IDC. IBM and HP were next with a combined 25 percent. Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide External Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, Third Quarter of 2008 […]

With so many files in existence and so many more being created every moment, it’s no wonder so many breaches and data loss incidents occur. We asked the experts for some of the top tips on keeping storage data protected. 1. Limit and Monitor Access Many of the big data breaches we read about in […]

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Software-defined storage (SDS) was supposed to be the next great thing. But it hasn’t yet gained the traction that many expected. That said, the term isn’t going away. Most vendors still stress it in their press releases. Many experts believe that it is the trend of the future. “The world is moving to software-defined,” said […]