Enterprises want to consolidate data storage, extend its useful life and control costs. But what we often see are silos of storage tied to specific applications, workflows and suppliers. These systems ...

The term “software-defined” has been somewhat misused over the years, but was initially meant to represent storage systems that didn’t have a tight coupling between hardware and software. In effect, ...

Storage and memory are the two major holding areas for programs and data in a computer, tablet or smartphone, and their interplay is the fundamental architecture of computer processing. Unfortunately, ...

Hardware that stores data without power until intentionally erased. Since the 1960s, the hard drive has been the computer's internal and external storage units; however, solid state drives (SSDs) are ...

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