Pedro Hernandez

Houston, Texas-based SoftNAS released the newest version of its Cloud NAS product, promising a performance boost for enterprises that may be sitting on the sidelines of the cloud storage revolution. There are good arguments for keeping data stored on-premises as well as on the public cloud. One of the main reasons organizations balk at migrating […]

Given the recent rash of ransomware attacks, businesses are finding that now is a good time as any to reevaluate their data backup strategies. Nearly a third (32 percent) of organizations have been hit by ransomware, found a study from Imperva. Costs accrued by downtime were described as the biggest business impact of a ransomware […]

Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are helping to push the consumer NAS (network-attached storage) market to new heights, according to Grand View Research. Large enterprises aren’t the only ones struggling with ever-increasing amounts of data. SMBs are also looking for places to stash critical files, prompting them to snatch up consumer NAS gear, asserts the […]

Samsung isn’t the only semiconductor company that’s upping its 3D flash game. Toshiba America Electronic Components this week announced the latest advance in BiCS Flash, the company’s 3D NAND flash technology, setting the stage for higher-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) and flash-based arrays for the data center. Claiming an industry first, Toshiba unveiled its new 4-bit-per-cell, […]

Cloud storage provider Wasabi and data protection specialist CloudBerry Lab have partnered to deliver high-performance cloud backup services to small and midsized businesses (SMBs) at a fraction of what it costs to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage. Going forward, customers of CloudBerry’s backup products can pick Wasabi as a storage target. Founded by David […]

Storage vendors and their customers may soon be entering an era of economical 3D NAND. As the term suggests, 3D NAND enables chipmakers to stack memory cells into vertical layers, allowing them to pack more capacity into smaller chips. Samsung’s take on it is called V-NAND, and soon the company’s fourth-generation version of the flash […]

Storage vendors sold $9.2 billion worth of equipment in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017, a slight 0.5-percent decline, reported IDC. In total, the storage industry pumped out 50.1 exabytes of capacity during the quarter, a year-on-year increase of 41 percent. Again, the traditional disk-based array segment continues to erode as organizations devote more of […]

All-flash arrays (AFA) are a few of the bright spots in the declining market for enterprise data storage hardware. An AFA can offer comparatively blistering storage performance versus traditional storage arrays stuffed with spinning hard drives. This often translates into more responsive business applications, faster transactions and less of a wait for data analytics and […]

DataCore recently released the findings of its latest survey, which point to some disappointment in the technologies that are purported to enable next-generation storage workloads and make life a little easier for overworked IT administrators. After quizzing 426 IT professionals, the software-defined storage (SDS) vendor found that nearly a third (31 percent) suffered false starts […]

Datos IO, a San Jose, Calif.-based cloud data protection and management firm, announced this week that both NetApp and Cisco had made strategic investments in the company. Financial terms were not disclosed. Offering a glimpse into NetApp’s motivation for investing in the startup, the storage systems maker’s CTO Mark Bregman praised Datos IO’s “unique architecture […]

IBM is officially working on NVMe storage systems, the company announced Sunday. NVMe, short for Non-Volatile Memory Express, is the latency-busting storage standard that promises to further erode the performance gap between flash storage and today’s server processors. On May 7, IBM formally announced that it is working on an NVMe-enabled storage portfolio that the […]

When it comes to migrating their workloads to the cloud, many businesses begin with data storage services, reveals a new study from Zetta. Disaster recovery (DR) is the number one application (36 percent) that businesses plan to move to cloud, according to a survey of 385 IT professionals conducted by the cloud backup company. File […]