The logical unit number (LUN) has been a bedrock concept in storage for decades. It’s the fundamental “soft” way in which physical media is partitioned in block access storage. But recent times have ...

A storage drive that allows direct access to any sector within the storage area. Hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs) are the two common random access storage devices. Contrast with random access ...

At the recently held Computex 2022 event, AMD introduced its SmartAccess Storage (SAS) technology. The company said that it was marrying its already available Smart Access Memory (SAM) tech with ...

The digital world is ever-expanding, and with it, the need for efficient, secure, and accessible storage solutions. One such solution that has emerged in recent times is Clouservo, a local private ...

Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, ...

A storage technology that is read and written in a serial (one after the other) fashion. Magnetic tape is the common sequential access storage device. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All ...

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 ...