As part of CRN’s 2024 Storage 100, here are 50 vendors bringing software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. The base of nearly any storage system is hardware. But ...

Specifically, the Ohio-based financial services company was looking for the right program to ensure data stored on mainframes was being effectively duplicated, so it would be backed up in case of ...

Hetzner Storage Boxes will appeal if you need a simple cloud locker for particular access via something like an FTP program or a NAS box, but bear in mind that you're really only getting the cloud ...

Software-defined storage is quickly catching on as a top technology trend in the storage industry, but the exact meaning of the term, and indeed whether it represents a new paradigm or just another ...

Software-defined storage promises enterprises greater flexibility and freedom of choice when it comes to their data storage deployments. By taking lower-level software operations and day-to-day ...

Companies are abandoning traditional hardware-defined storage designs for software-defined storage models. “The legacy systems have improved their software to make them easier to use, borrowing some ...

The term “software-defined” has been somewhat misused over the years, but was initially meant to represent storage systems that didn’t have a tight coupling between hardware and software. In effect, ...

Earlier this year we tested Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Now we’re reviewing software-based NAS that you can load onto your own equipment — whether it’s a PC, server, virtual machine, or ...