Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...