EMC Corp. last week confirmed that it has enabled the processing engine used in its Celerra network-attached file server to work on its Clariion midrange disk arrays, offering users a lower-cost ...

Where should I store this file? How do I know if my file contains protected data? What happens if this information gets into the wrong hands? There's a lot to consider about proper file storage and ...

Cut Costs: Tiering cold data to cheaper storage can reduce expenses by over 70% annually. Boost Security: Moving unstructured data off primary storage limits ransomware exposure. Stay Seamless: ...

File-level backup is essential for taking a backup of your device and restoring it at a later stage. File-level backup can backup single or multiple files. In this case, you take a backup of ...

In the previous story in this series, we looked at innovations occurring in storage hardware. Now it’s time to turn our attention to what’s going on in storage software, where innovation continues to ...

The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...

Panzura LLC, maker of a global cloud file system, is adding native Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 application programming interface compatibility and file-level geofencing to its CloudFS platform in ...

Pure Storage is adding features to its storage-as-a-service (STaaS) platform, including Real-time Enterprise File, Universal Credits, and a virtual machine assessment to help admins optimize their VMs ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Some of these features were supported by other storage media, but the hard disk was the first medium to support all of these features. Consequently, the hard disk helped make many advances possible in ...

Two types of backup – item level and image level – have different strengths, and it’s possible to tap the best of both. There are two very different ways to backup a computer: Item-level backup and ...