Organizations can use AI for storage management and AIOps to learn where to make improvements in their storage infrastructure, but note the benefits and drawbacks.

Will inline or post-processing deduplication work better for your data protection strategy? Learn more about each method with this tip.

Buy or lease? Subscription or consumption pricing? Ask these storage-as-a-service questions -- and others -- to decide if the tech is right for your organization.

Gemma is a collection of lightweight open source generative AI models designed mainly for developers and researchers.

ChatGPT took the early lead among AI-generated chatbots before Google answered with Gemini. While ChatGPT and Gemini perform similar tasks, there are differences.

What is data protection as a service (DPaaS)? Data protection as a service (DPaaS) involves managed services that safeguard an organization's data. These services are often cloud-based and sold by subscription, and include service-level agreements…

What is Gemma? Gemma is a collection of lightweight open source generative AI (GenAI) models designed mainly for developers and researchers. Gemma was created by the Google DeepMind research lab that also developed closed source Gemini, Google's…

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in November 2022, sparking a tremendous amount of interest in generative AI. ChatGPT gained so much attention that GenAI became a dominant theme in the tech world in 2023. Microsoft backed OpenAI at the start of 2023 by…

What is a disk array? A disk array, also called a storage array, is a data storage system used for block-based storage, file-based storage or object storage. The term is used to describe dedicated storage hardware that contains spinning hard disk…

In the hot market of file storage in the public cloud, many options are available across some of the largest vendors, with performance a major consideration.

Users everywhere have embraced cloud-based services for a variety of activities, and perhaps the most popular is cloud backup. Considering how much data is created every hour, a reliable and secure backup option is an important strategy. Fueled by…

The rise of AI has advanced storage management from storage resource management software to AI for IT operations tools that automate much of the process. Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) enables monitoring, diagnostics, predictive…

NVMe is the dominant interface for enterprise SSDs, and both its uses and features are expanding. However, greater adoption of any enterprise technology shines a light on its gaps. As with all storage, security is more about protecting data on drives…

Storage as a service aims to simplify management by outsourcing administration to the vendor and making procurement similar to purchasing public cloud storage. This type of infrastructure is a hot trend but it's still an emerging market. So, it's…

It's no longer big news when a vendor claims its solid-state storage system has reached a performance of 1 million IOPS. Still, it can be tough for a user to understand what these numbers mean and how published SSD performance benchmarks relate to…

ISCSI is a transport layer protocol that describes how Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) packets should be transported over a TCP/IP network. ISCSI, which stands for Internet Small Computer System Interface, works on top of the Transport Control…

File storage is the fastest-growing data type, and cloud file storage is rapidly expanding to keep up. AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure all have multiple file storage managed services. Several of these file storage options in the cloud come…

Data storage is the collective methods and technologies that capture and retain digital information on electromagnetic, optical or silicon-based storage media.

A cloud archive is storage as a service for long-term data retention. The archive holds data that is infrequently accessed and may be optimized for security and compliance with data regulation policies. Archiving was among the first popular use cases…

Tiered storage is a method for assigning different categories of data to various types of storage media to reduce overall storage costs and improve the performance and availability of mission-critical applications. A tiered storage architecture…