Data protection of digital data is a fundamental and mandatory responsibility for all organizations. Therefore, organizations need to understand the basic principles and concepts of data protection, especially in our current era of massive data breaches. To satisfy that need, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has developed a technical whitepaper to provide the industry with a vendor-neutral overview of the relevant best current practices for data protection at the storage level.

The continued rapid rise of data creation will provide immeasurable opportunities for companies to gain advantage in the market, but they must take proactive actions in order to be a step ahead of others.  Business leaders need to increase their focus on the computing trends driving data growth over the next several years and revisit policies to assess the value of data throughout its lifecycle from creation, collection, utilization to its long-term management.

How do you know if you are achieving your data storage energy efficiency targets? The continued rapid rise of data creation will provide immeasurable opportunities for companies to gain advantage in the market, but they must take proactive actions in order to be a step ahead of others. Business leaders need to increase their focus on the computing trends driving data growth over the next several years and revisit policies to assess the value of data throughout its lifecycle from creation, collection, utilization to its long-term management.

When storage networks first became popular starting around 1997, the term generally meant block storage on a Fibre Channel (FC) network. The reason was twofold: first, Fibre Channel was seen as the only dedicated storage networking technology and second, anyone building a storage network generally wanted it for highperformance block storage.

How the Cloud changes storage.

Widespread use and support mean iSCSI will still be widely deployed for at least the next few years, but its growth prospects beyond that are very unclear.

“Kubernetes is one of the fastest growing open source software projects in history,” according to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Kubernetes Project Journey Report notes. Maybe you’ve heard it has something to do with containers and distributed systems. Or, maybe you heard Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, recently proclaim, “Kubernetes is becoming the Linux of the cloud.”

A SNIA Industry advisory to SNIA members and other interested parties on a forthcoming IEEE standard for media sanitization.

The NVMe management ecosystem has a lot of moving parts and confusing acronyms. In this overview, SNIA experts discuss various specifications and how they work together.