Drew Robb

Improving Data Storage may mean: speed, cost, capacity or simplicity. Explore our tips to help you improve your Data Storage. Click here now.

Talk to many data storage experts about high-performance storage and a good portion will bring up Lustre, which was the subject of a recent Lustre Buying Guide. Some of the tips here, therefore, concern Lustre, but not all. Use Parallel File Systems Parallel file systems enable more data transfer in shorter time period than their […]

Data storage benchmarking can be quite esoteric in that vast complexity awaits anyone attempting to get to the heart of a particular benchmark. Case in point: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has developed the Emerald benchmark to measure power consumption. This invaluable benchmark has a vast amount of supporting literature. That so much could […]

Lustre is a high-performance open source file system that is particularly popular on storage platforms used in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Supercomputing environments.  While it may not be on everyone’s lips across the storage universe in general, it generated a lot of buzz at this month’s SC14 Supercomputing conference in New Orleans. Based upon […]

Wow. What a difference a year makes. This time last year, the clamor around software defined storage (SDS) reached fever pitch, closely followed by what seemed like an unstoppable wave of flash deployments. Cloud computing was certainly mentioned, but it appeared to have subsided somewhat. This year, however, the cloud has reasserted its dominance and […]

It’s one thing to store massive amounts of data. But having a vast amount of data in a top-of-the-line storage network isn’t much use if you can’t serve that data rapidly to end user populations that are increasingly mobile and often global. That’s where Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization comes in. It provides the linkage […]

Data Archiving reduces storage while minimizing backup time and boosting productivity. Review these top Data Archiving Solutions. Click here now.

There are a lot of definitions floating around for software defined storage (SDS). IBM, for example, defines it as: “A set of software capabilities that automatically manage data locally and globally, providing breakthrough speed in data access, easier administration and the ability to scale technology infrastructures quickly and more cost-effectively as data volumes expand. In […]

Deduplication can now be regarded as a mature technology. It’s been around for a decade and in that time has become an integral part of backup and storage processes. But that doesn’t mean the technology has become static. Deduplication strategies have changed and the products have evolved – either to provide more flexibility, ease of […]

Gartner named EMC, HP, Quantum & Exagrid in their Deduplication Magic Quadrant. Explore these vendors in more detail. Click here to learn more.

Recently, we’ve published a couple of stories on Object Storage, including an Object Storage Buying Guide and Top Tips for Object Storage. While these articles explained what object storage was and gave users guidance for the selection process, there still remain questions about when object storage should be chosen  – and when it might be […]

Data protection is a vital business these days. Whether you look at it from the viewpoint of intellectual property, profitability, privacy or cybercrime, there is no shortage of reasons to pay close attention to how data is safeguarded. Here are some tips from the experts on how to do just that. 1) Remember the Basics […]