Microsoft's first attempt at creating a software-defined storage platform wasn't a big hit. Its updated version just might be. One of the most difficult things in designing IT infrastructure is to get ...

IT executives face a constant barrage of "new and improved" product claims. But data storage has changed more in the last 10 years than in the prior 25, and the rate of change is accelerating: We'll ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

These 10 data storage startups are tackling disaster recovery and archiving, data protection, and high-speed and secure file sharing -- and even cutting the cost and upping the performance of ...

It’s only two years late, but the fourth generation of Xeon Scalable processors, aka Sapphire Rapids, is hitting the ground running, with every major OEM offering new servers featuring the chips. The ...

Seagate’s Business Storage Windows Server is a fast file server, and it delivers better default security than Linux-based devices. But it’s write speed renders it less appealing for client backups.