The traditional model of tiered storage is broken. “Fast and expensive vs. slow and cheap” doesn’t match how people actually use storage. But there is a better way: service classifications. A number ...

Tiered storage often means the development of a storage strategy that moves data from fast, expensive storage to slower SATA based storage. Tiered storage can also refer to the quality of the storage.

A new tier in the storage hierarchy has firmly taken root. It’s called secondary storage and is defined as disk storage that is less expensive and lower performing than primary disk storage. Many ...

Last week, storage gorilla EMC launched an automatic storage tiering system that it reckons will move data to the most appropriate storage medium based on criteria including cost and performance, a ...

Enterprises are challenged to keep pace with mounting unstructured file data. While NAS represents the optimal choice for storing such data, the strain to scale NAS economically while preserving ...

The concepts of tiering and caching data are as old as computing itself. Both form an effective strategy in achieving the best price/performance ratio for storage in the enterprise. But, with a huge ...

Apple snuck in a significant change to iCloud data storage near the end of its “Wonderlust” iPhone 15 event. The company added two new iCloud+ storage tiers: 6TB ($30 / month) and 12TB ($60 / month).

Enterprises have long struggled with the storage conundrum of high capacity vs. high performance. Hard disk and solid state drives (SSDs) each offer advantages the other cannot match. Hard drives are ...

Apple didn't expand the default and awful iCloud storage tier, but iCloud+ is getting significant boosts on the high-end. iCloud+ got a last-second mention during the Wonderlust keynote, but very ...

AI-native vector database startup Weaviate B.V. is expanding into artificial intelligence development with the launch of a new “workbench” that consists of various cloud-based applications and tools ...

A woman took Apple to court for giving her 200 GB of iCloud storage instead of the 205 GB she expected — and lost. A Ninth Circuit panel has rejected an appeal claiming Apple misled iCloud users. The ...