What started as a whisper has now become a roar. All of a sudden every storage vendor you talk to has Unified Storage and all of a sudden you MUST have it. All of which begs the question, what is ...

A unified approach to data storage is long overdue in most organizations. In fact, you could argue that most storage used in IT is unmanaged. Sure, there are people that spend a lot of time allocating ...

Nasuni is adding iSCSI storage capability to its cloud storage technology, giving businesses with multiple remote and branch offices the ability to protect both block-based and file-based data to the ...

Hitachi Data Systems on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its unified storage technology that brings the management of file, block and object data onto a single platform designed for small and midsize ...

Unified storage has come to mean the delivery of block and file storage from within a single platform. The initial incarnation of these devices consisted of a block storage array with the addition of ...

Enterprise IT architects constantly have to balance conflicting demands for data storage: performance, cost, resilience and scalability. The result is a mixed ecosystem. We get object storage for ...

Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. today announced the availability of File Services for FlashArray, a new storage service that provides access to native block and file services from a single, ...

Most data-center storage systems being shipped today still use traditional block-based technology. But much of the current information explosion involves unstructured content such as digital media, ...

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Pure Storage Inc. today introduced the Enterprise Data Cloud, calling it a sweeping architectural upgrade to how organizations store, manage, and use data across hybrid environments. The company says ...

Vendors are hyping converged block with file access arrays, calling them "unified storage." How unified (or un-unified) are they? John, a senior partner at Evaluator Group, has 30 years of experience ...

The last few entries we have been covering aspects of unified storage. The bottom line is that unified storage has it's place and many organizations can benefit by having these systems, but where does ...