Jeffrey Layton

In the last several years, there have been an increasing number of storage options. Initially we had just magnetic hard drives with a single rotational

Lately I've been hearing people state that they need their file system or storage solution to have disaster recovery capability. I've just been listening

Key-value is a fundamental data representation that is invading the storage world beyond just archive or other cold storage. With new technology based on

SAS and SATA are important when considering storage infrastructure. Explore differences in drives, cost and data integrity channels. Click here now.

Technical computing and HPC workloads are moving to the cloud at an ever-increasing pace. The ability to spin up a compute instance quickly and pay only

In general, people tend to keep all data. If you have been a system administrator you know the constant stream of user requests for more space that result

You may have heard that metadata is data about data (if that makes any sense). But how about metadata about metadata (data about data about data)?

Like two fencers in a dark room separated by 50 feet, both users and vendors will insist that they are stabbing in the right direction. Are you asking for

Like two fencers in a dark room separated by 50 feet, both users and vendors will insist that they are stabbing in the right direction. Are you asking for

The amount of data we want to collect, archive, and search, is amazing. The use of metadata allows us to quickly find data files in which we are

Everyone has seen the eye-popping charts that show the rate of data creation growing almost exponentially. As an example, last year I heard a talk at the

The world is enamored with cloud computing, particularly cloud storage. Cloud storage is used for a variety of data tasks: performing IO for applications