SiliconANGLE

Pure Storage debuts next-generation unified block and file storage service

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, ...
The Next Platform

Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams

February 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan Store Comments Off on Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you ...
Business Wire

HPE Transforms Data Lifecycle Management With Expanded HPE Alletra Portfolio With New File, Block and Data Protection Services

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new file, block, disaster and backup recovery data services designed to help customers eliminate data silos, reduce ...
EDN

Brush up on storage networking protocol fundamentals–Part I

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 ...
dbta

VAST DataStore Becomes Universal, Multiprotocol Storage Platform with Block Storage and Event-Processing

The first of these announcements, support for Block storage, is a significant milestone for VAST, according to the company. With the inclusion of Block storage, the VAST DataStore “unifies all major ...
CRN

NetApp Launches Its First Block-Only SAN Array, Enhances Ransomware Protection

‘With the NetApp all-flash SAN array, when we looked at introducing it, we recognized that over 20,000 customers already trust NetApp for their SAN workloads. And out of those, 5,000 customers are ...
SiliconANGLE

Time to take aim at storage and edge by expanding block capabilities to network protocols

It’s high time to re-engineer the storage stack to enable storage area network or SAN performance in the cloud, a growing trend reflecting what information technology departments could expect ...
Geeky Gadgets

NFS vs iSCSI : Which Storage Protocol is Best for Your Virtualized Environment?

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...
Computer Weekly

SAN vs NAS: For AI, virtual machines and containers

SAN and NAS are distinct ways of deploying storage. They differ at fundamental levels of storage architecture, according to their relation to file system and block and physical addressing, but also ...
Computer Weekly

Storage technology explained: File, block and object storage

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...
CRN

The 50 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors: The 2022 Storage 100

The 50 coolest software-defined storage vendors of the 2022 Storage 100 bring software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. Software is at the heart of storage.