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Enterprise Storage: Strong Growth in Shipped Capacity but Overall Revenues Flat

By Dick Weisinger

While businesses continue to store ever increasing amounts of data and new technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) spew out massive amounts of data, revenues reported for enterprise storage declined. Enterprise storage is used to hold business information and

Storage Memory: IBM Advances PCM as Alternative to DRAM and Flash

By Dick Weisinger

Phase Change Memory (PCM) is another type of media used for computer memory that may challenge existing DRAM and Flash memory technologies.  Last month IBM announced a breakthrough for densely packing data in a PCM array. PCM has two states: amorphous and

Storage: Google Pushes for Redesign of Disks to Optimize for Data Center/Cloud Use

By Dick Weisinger

Google is calling on the storage industry to develop hard drives that are designed with cloud computing in mind.  Current drive designs are based on the requirement of very high reliability for desktop and laptop computer use.  To accommodate that requirement, next generation

Storage: Object Storage to Optimize Storage for File Sharing, Backups and Archiving

By Dick Weisinger

Object storage is a storage architecture that manages data as objects.  It is an alternative data storage method to standard block storage systems that store data across blocks, sectors and tracks.  Each object includes the data itself, metadata and a

Cloud Storage Gateways: Linking to Data in the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

When it comes to data storage, most companies would prefer to keep their data on-premise under lock and key.  A report by CTERA Networks, the 2015 Enterprise Cloud Storage Survey found that nearly three quarters of enterprises prefer to store their data with a