For all the talk of enterprise flash and the all-flash datacentre, there are several areas where hard disks are still chugging along nicely. One of those is NAS. You ...

Sometimes, a startup takes such a new and profound approach to a problem that it is hard to know where to begin to describe how radical of a change that company has made in developing its product. So ...

Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving ...

As more enterprises harness emerging technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) and big data to keep pace with their business, they are often held back by a key component in their datacentres – ...

Pure Storage Inc. is looking to change the dynamics of data lake storage with the launch of its latest product FlashBlade//E, a scalable, all-flash unstructured data repository that more or less ...

I wager that most of you have ever-growing unstructured data stores distributed across the data center and beyond. Most unstructured data is stored on disk, mainly because all other options have been ...

From enterprise flash to experimental archival media, these are ten technologies looking to replace traditional hard drives..

Due to the unique characteristics of flash, performance validation testing is immensely challenging and critically important; follow these best practices All-flash storage arrays (AFAs) are receiving ...

NVMe drives have paved the way for computing at stellar speeds, but the technology didn't suddenly appear overnight. It was through an evolutionary process that we now rely on the very performant SSD ...

With over a dozen form factors, knowing what the best flash memory card and SSD technology is available can be daunting. https://assets.techrepublic.com/uploads/2019 ...

Anyone who has suffered data loss — be it via a crashed hard drive, a failed network array or an external cloud service outage — knows the importance of reliable access to critical data, and the value ...

Will the hard disk be made useless after it's forced to help flash memory destroy optical media? As flash encroaches on more of optical media's territory, I see it teaming up with hard disk drives to ...