In the never-ending world of tiered storage, it really breaks down into two types of storage; transactional (active) and passive storage. For obvious reasons these two worlds overlap, but it is ...

Tiered storage no longer has the hype surrounding it that it did a few years ago. The concept was simple -- move data from expensive Fibre drives to inexpensive SATA drives. SATA drive technology was ...

Automated tiered storage has become a nearly ubiquitous feature in the industry thanks to its perceived benefit of being able to move a company's data to different types of storage media based on the ...

Storage administrators understand that most corporate data is only accessed infrequently. Yet storage volumes are escalating each year as corporations generate more electronic content and struggle to ...

As popular as tiered storage is today as both a set of technologies and an architecture methodology, most deployments produce new storage islands because of the lack of viable data classification and ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Ed Fiore, vice president of engineering for Dell's storage business, inspects a new Dell Compellent SC280 super dense data storage enclosure at the company's Eden Prairie, Minn., design center. Dell ...

It is sometimes difficult to determine if new technologies drive new applications or if the need for these applications drives technology development. In truth, major changes in the way we do business ...

Enterprises are challenged to keep pace with mounting unstructured file data. While NAS represents the optimal choice for storing such data, the strain to scale NAS economically while preserving ...