The rate of growth of organizational data and scale of expansion of the modern data center - mainly considering the distributed architecture of today's IT systems - necessitates a more centralized system of data storage management that breaks the barriers of siloed storage capacity and rigid depende... Read More...

For starters, we need to get back to basics. Let's call them the data storage facts of life. This list isn't comprehensive, but these are the big ones, and the faster you accept them, the faster you'll be able to embrace (and celebrate) storage diversity.... Read More...

Applications are one of the most mission-critical elements in today's digital economy, and poor performance results in bad user experiences leading to productivity and revenue losses for your business.... Read More...

Software-defined storage (SDS) has been a hot topic for almost a decade now. There are still numerous misconceptions and myths that surround SDS.... Read More...

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) continues to gain traction in the enterprise IT market, with rapid adoption amongst diverse customers looking to simplify IT operations, reduce complexity, and enable a modular building block approach to data center modernization.... Read More...

IT practitioners are taught since infancy the benefits of standardizing hardware. The “homogeneous doctrine” promises that sticking with one manufacturer and one model will make life so much easier.... Read More...

The IT industry is in the midst of a storage cost crisis. This is largely due to the pace of change and innovation in enterprise computing during the last decade, which has created enormous pressure on the underlying data storage infrastructure.... Read More...