Tiered storage no longer has the hype surrounding it that it did a few years ago. The concept was simple -- move data from expensive Fibre drives to inexpensive SATA drives. SATA drive technology was ...

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 ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

A recent Amazon outage resulted in a small number of customers losing production data stored in their accounts. This, of course, led to typical anti-cloud comments that follows such events. The ...

Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

The rise of the cloud, the emergence of hyper-convergence and the lightning-fast speeds of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash have perhaps masked some of the fundamentals of storage. But, at ...

February 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan Store Comments Off on Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you ...