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Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities. Where, for years, the storage area network (SAN) seemed to prevail for high-end, performance-tailored storage, ...

Tom Leyden, Director of Product Marketing with DataDirectNetworks, began his presentation for the Open Compute Summit with an arresting statement: “I am here to explain to you how a proprietary ...

Fueled by the computational power of Linux clusters, data-intensive applications are pushing the limits of traditional storage architectures. Whether mapping the human genome, imaging the earth’s ...

Object storage is not a new technology, but it is something that many enterprises are just starting to adopt as they follow the hyperscalers and HPC centers away from the overhead and scalability ...

The growth of the Cloud Object Storage Market is driven by the exponential rise in unstructured data, increasing adoption of cloud-based services, and the need for scalable, cost-effective storage ...

Todd Persen is the CEO/Co-Founder of Era Software. He was previously CTO/Co-Founder at InfluxData, creators of the InfluxDB database. The dream of object storage has long been to have a low-cost, ...

We look at how BlackPearl V3 enables storage administrators to meet the needs of a broad range of data management applications, from big data to video storage. Although BlackPearl V3 is an ...

Gary Ogasawara is Cloudian’s first CTO, responsible for setting the company’s long-term technology vision and direction. Before assuming this role, he was Cloudian’s founding engineering leader. Prior ...