The new paradigms for acquiring storage have enabled flexible financial models which allow a company to use its financial assets, both CapEx and OpEx, to dynamically manage infrastructure to fit within the company’s current budget.

Moving data from one system to another can be challenging. Ensuring the data arrives intact and usable is paramount.

Let’s face it: cloud storage is here to stay. When the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) formed its Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) back in 2009, the working group helped usher in the acceptance of the then-new technology.

The answer is global energy efficiency standards

SNIA Emerald Specification is an established building block for regulatory agencies to define data center storage energy policies.

Today, SNIA is the recognized global authority for storage leadership, standards and technology expertise. As such, our mission is to develop and promote vendor-neutral architectures, standards, best practices and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement and security of information.

A new storage media offers a blend of volatile memory speed and non-volatile persistence. Welcome to the world of Persistent Memory.

Today we live in a world of data — so much so that there’s often too much information available to make clear decisions in a timely fashion.

A quiet revolutation is taking place in networking speeds for servers and storage, one that is converting 1Gb and 10 Gb connections to 25Gb, 50Gb and 100 Gb connections in order to support faster servers, faster storage, and more data. The switch to these new speeds is changing not just networking equipment but also network deployment models.

The headlines these days are full of reports of data breaches, privacy scandals and cybercrime around the world. In the face of all these issues, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Organizations need to find ways to appropriately plan, design, document, and implement systems to keep their (and their customers’) data secure while it’s stored as well as when it’s transferred to other systems.