Before block storage in the cloud, when businesses needed to provision large amounts of storage – for server data, for example – they’d need to requisition and pay for huge server instances, even if ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Cloud block storage allows organisations to run applications that depend on high throughput and low latency in the cloud. The latest block storage offerings make use of the cloud’s advantages, without ...

The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...

There are three steps towards the next-generation data center. First is consolidation of the storage, computing and network resources into “pools” that can be allocated for any application. The second ...

‘With the NetApp all-flash SAN array, when we looked at introducing it, we recognized that over 20,000 customers already trust NetApp for their SAN workloads. And out of those, 5,000 customers are ...