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• Best data storage products 2016: Products of the Year

  Find out the best data storage products for 2016 in backup and DR software, backup hardware, storage management tools, server-based storage, all-flash and disk/hybrid systems.  Continue Reading

• The data storage capacity growth survival guide

  You can keep your storage investments in place, allow for capacity increases, and solve performance and application problems, while gathering data to plan for new growth.  Continue Reading

• VMware vSAN 6.2

  VMware's vSAN 6.2 upgrade -- featuring dedupe/compression, QoS and erasure coding -- wins 2016 Storage Products of the Year gold in the server-based storage category.  Continue Reading

• Formation Data Systems FormationOne

  Formation Data Systems' FormationOne scores in value, innovation and functionality to take silver in server-based storage in the 2016 Products of the Year competition.  Continue Reading

• Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe

  The VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe stops companies from needing to send captured packet data back to vendors and wait for the analysis to identify performance problems.  Continue Reading

• Data Dynamics Inc. StorageX 7.8

  Data Dynamics upgrades StorageX with new data protection features and functions, and makes it so users can customize their own data mobility policies with a REST API and SDK.  Continue Reading

• Zadara Storage Cloud

  Zadara Storage Cloud provides block, file and object storage-as-a-service either on-premises hardware managed by Zadara, in the cloud, or both.  Continue Reading

• Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays (CS-Series)

  Nimble Storage jumped on the all-flash bandwagon in 2016, but didn't forget its disk fans by upgrading its CS-Series mixing flash and hard disk drives.  Continue Reading

• Avere Systems Cloud-Core NAS (C2N)

  Building on its NAS Edge filer technology, Avere rolled out Cloud-Core NAS (C2N) product, which puts file and object storage in one system that spans on-premises and the cloud.  Continue Reading

• Future of the Ethernet drive may hinge on NVMe over Ethernet

  Despite their debut two years ago, drives that connect via Ethernet have been mostly a curiosity. The Ethernet flavor of NVMe over Fabrics may change that.  Continue Reading

• Get the most value out of your SDS systems by making smart choices

  There are many choices you face when looking to implement an SDS infrastructure. Making the right ones will help you get the most value from software-defined storage.  Continue Reading

• Top enterprise storage vendors to watch in 2017

  Check out our comprehensive forecast of what challenges and opportunities the top enterprise storage vendors are expected to face in the coming year.  Continue Reading

• Hot data storage technology trends for 2017

  Learn what's hot and what's not-quite-so-hot on our list of data storage technology trends for the forthcoming year.  Continue Reading

• Hot info on cold cloud storage: Glacier vs. Cool Blob Storage

  Not all storage needs to be about super speedy SSDs and the lowest latency or retrieval times. Cold storage is an inexpensive way to handle data archiving.  Continue Reading

• A look at the future of data storage careers

  Thanks to virtualization, the cloud and solid-state technology, data storage professionals and those who want to pursue a career in it face an uncertain future.  Continue Reading