Dave Raffo

Storage as a service got teed up in 2020 with pushes from Dell Technologies, NetApp, HPE, Pure Storage and others. Now, those companies are looking for it to kick off with mass adoption.

In a year when cloud storage use accelerated because of a pandemic, cloud NAS vendor LucidLink led the list of best cloud storage in 2020 in the ‘Storage’ magazine and SearchStorage Products of the Year competition, followed by cloud service provider RStor and Kubernetes storage specialist Portworx.

Explore five major data storage IT buzzwords for 2021 that you’ll need to keep at the top of your technology checklist and the role each one will play in how remote work is conducted.

Think of container-native storage as HCI for containers but consider these features and vendors before implementation.

Still nascent, the hyper-converged market has evolved in recent years. Explore products by leaders Dell, Nutanix and VMware, as well as other vendors.

AWS recently launched a new managed file service based on NetApp OnTap. Compare several file storage options in the cloud, from AWS to Azure and Google.

AWS recently launched a new managed file service based on NetApp OnTap. Compare several file storage options in the cloud, from AWS to Azure and Google.

The iSCSI protocol allows the SCSI command to be sent over LANs, WANs and the internet. Learn about its role in modern data storage environments and iSCSI SANs.

Here’s what you need to know about SSD response time and how to approach ‘million IOPS’ SSD performance benchmarks touted by solid-state storage vendors.

Ask the right storage-as-a-service questions to determine important cost, service level and equipment considerations.