The new AWS’s EBS performance gets a boost from io2 volumes
AWS (Amazon Web Services) has announced the new storage service's release with more durability and IOP per GiB, dubbed io2. It is faster than io1 and will be available at the same price. Jeff Barr, the chief evangelist at AWS, said that io2 volumes designs are specifically tailored to deliver 99.99...
Enterprise SSDs prices are 10x higher than Hard disk drives
Hard Disk drives (HDDs) are the most preferred in the market. The reason for this is that SSDs cost about ten times more, and they are not going to come down anytime soon. It would seem that the gap people expected would close, hasn't, and many are left to wonder if it will.
SSDs are much cheape...
Box Shield gets a powerful new automated classification feature
Box recently rolled out a new feature that automatically classifies files and adds labels as you scan them into Box. The function is integrated with Box Shield, the popular content security product.
Through the machine learning-driven feature, organizations will be able to meet the required comp...
Enterprises using data collection will have challenges to leverage it
Seagate and IDC conducted a survey on the actions businesses and enterprises will have to take, to leverage their collected data. The survey was conducted between December 2019 and January 2020. A total of 1,500 respondents from all over the world were involved.
A glance at the report shows that...
Dell Technologies introduces storage for unstructured data
Dell Technologies recently presented its Dell EMC PowerScale storage systems. These systems are particularly suitable for managing unstructured data in different environments.
The newly presented Dell EMC PowerScale portfolio is a combination of the best hardware and software solutions and appli...
Pure Storage launches version 6.0 of Purity
Storage vendor Pure Storage launches version 6.0 of its Purity operating system for its FlashArray. The new update enables unified block and file storage, among other things.
Version 6.0 now also supports file-based workloads on FlashArray, which are as the name suggests all-flash arrays. Usuall...
Dell EMC PowerStore: new intelligent storage system for all data
Dell Technologies thought it was time to rethink and innovate the way we store data. A new all-embracing system that takes the work out of our hands by automation or running autonomously. The Dell EMC PowerStore is what they call a mid-market enterprise system, making it available to SMEs with larg...
Dell Technologies and Google Cloud join forces in hybrid cloud storage
Dell Technologies and Google Cloud introduce a joint hybrid cloud-based storage system to simplify the movement of data between the two environments. In addition, the infrastructure specialist has launched several additional solutions and applications for VMware environments.
The collaborat...
AWS releases Elemental Link; dedicated on-premise hardware
AWS recently launched the on-premise AWS Elemental Link app. Customers can install this application in their own on-premise data centers to move large amounts of video to the media encoding and distribution environment MediaLive. The public cloud provider will also launch a new storage tier related...
Scale Computing now offers cloud storage from Acronis
The specialist in hyperconversion, virtualization and edge solutions Scale Computing is expanding its collaboration with data protection specialist Acronis. With Acronis Cloud Storage, end users now have access to cloud-based backup storage for disaster recovery applications.
With the cloud-base...
AWS announces cheaper HDD storage for Windows File Servers
AWS now offers cheaper hard disk-based storage within its public cloud environment for the Amazon FSx for Windows File Services service. This allows customers to use this storage for a variety of performance requirements.
The new cheaper storage that the tech giant now offers for its Amazon FSx ...
NetApp focuses on simpler storage and data services for multi-cloud
NetApp originally specialises in storage, but the image of the IT vendor is changing. It offers more and more services focused on storage and business data. For this purpose, they can set up a complete architecture, which is also called Data Fabric. The idea is to provide a consistent experience be...