Jenna Phipps

The current job market for hardware and storage engineers is growing but that growth is slow.  As global device users create exponentially more stored data over the next three years, demand for hardware also increases. Enterprises need hardware experts with a range of experience and skills with storage mediums. Demand for hardware and storage employees, […]

The server market is the backbone of countless mission-critical and client-side corporate computing processes, as it powers data centers and supports cloud environments.  The demand for higher-performing servers continues to ramp up, as enterprises seek to power big data and advanced workload requirements.  See below to learn all about the server market, from the hardware […]

This is the era of the solid state drive (SSD) in data storage: SSDs run many data center storage arrays, and further improvements to them promise greater speed and storage capacity.  Although bandwidth, workload balancing, and cooling limit the efficiency of SSDs, companies in the SSD market are working to decrease those roadblocks.  See below […]

Bottom Line  Tresorit offers highly secure, end-to-end encryption for individuals’ and businesses’ cloud file storage. For companies that want zero-knowledge-based storage and strong access management for their files, Tresorit is a good choice. Service Description Tresorit provides a cloud-based file platform for data storage, sharing, and access management. It’s not only simple file storage, though: […]

Bottom Line  Boxcryptor is an encryption tool that encrypts user data for multiple cloud storage providers, as well as NAS and file server data. Its main advantage, aside from its high security, is its support for over 30 cloud providers. This includes major players Dropbox and Google Drive but smaller cloud providers, too. Users are […]

Information technology service management, or ITSM, centralizes and automates common IT processes for personnel. It also simplifies IT tasks for ordinary users and non-IT employees. IT service management helps businesses that don’t have dedicated IT teams as they manage hardware and software, handle technical incidents, and create reports of their IT data. It provides better […]

Bottom Line Swiss file storage vendor pCloud’s standout feature is its focus on security. All files are encrypted, but users can choose extra encryption for sensitive files that need it most. For smaller businesses that need to protect important documents or videos, pCloud’s secure file storage is a good investment. Also Read: 19 Best Encryption […]

Tape storage certainly isn’t dead, though few vendors work to improve it and few major enterprises talk about it. However, in the wake of numerous, crippling ransomware attacks, tape has become  a possible alternative for storing sensitive data. An ideal offline archival solution, it’s not the only valid choice for enterprises wanting offline backups, but […]

Container-native storage is a software-defined data storage solution that runs in containers on Kubernetes environments. Everything needed within an enterprise storage environment is isolated in the container without dependencies. Containers that store long-term data for applications are also called persistent volumes, and container-native storage is also known as persistent storage for containers.  Also Read: Best […]

Data governance tools and software are essential for big data analytics: they help enterprises cultivate the right data sets for extracting useful details and insights. Data governance software makes high quality, accurate data available and reduces useless information in enterprise storage systems and applications. Jump to: What is Data Governance? What are Data Governance Tools? […]

Pure Storage has announced two new services: Pure Fusion and Portworx Data Services. Pure Fusion is an infrastructure automation platform that simplifies the cloud operating model, making all Pure assets available through a hybrid-cloud-like infrastructure.  “Customers want a new agile storage experience that is fully automated, self-service, and pay-as-you-go,” says Ajay Singh, Chief Product Officer […]

The data storage industry spends a lot of time talking about hybrid cloud storage, solid-state drives, NVMe, and arrays. High-speed data access and cloud infrastructures run the storage world, at least to a casual observer. What doesn’t get nearly as much attention? Tape. There are valid reasons for the current lack of hype about tape […]