Our 2017 Products of the Year finalists

Storage Digest A roundup of storage content from TechTarget's network |Jan. 16, 2018 FEATURED STORY 2017 Products of the Year finalists announced SearchStorage Staff We narrowed down the field to 47 finalists in five data storage categories as part of our much-anticipated 16th annual Products of the Year competition. (SearchStorage) Advertisement NEWS   Flash storage users warm to future enterprise NVMe use Enterprise users have grown so used to conventional flash storage that they're starting to look ahead to potential NVMe benefits in the future. (SearchStorage)   Security flaws bring My Cloud NAS under scrutiny After a security expert found major flaws with Western Digital’s NAS security, My Cloud NAS customers are urged to do a firmware update. (Storage Soup)   Liqid composable storage gear prepped for debut Composable infrastructure vendor Liqid offers a PCIe switch and software that lets admins provision storage and bare-metal servers based on application demands. (SearchStorage)   Dell EMC patches Avamar security holes Data protection software fixes are available for Avamar software from Dell EMC after three vulnerabilities were discovered around the Avamar Installation Manager. (Storage Soup) EXPERT ADVICE   Eight startups to watch in the data storage market Data storage startup vendors face opportunities amid skyrocketing data growth, but several failures serve as a reminder of the challenges ahead in 2018. (SearchStorage)   The path to persistent memory The advent of persistent memory, also known as storage-class memory, will bring enormous benefits to the data center of tomorrow's cost/performance ratio. (SearchStorage)   Why is software-defined storage on the rise? The SDS market is catching on, but complexity issues are keeping pure software-defined storage from being as prevalent as it could be. (SearchStorage)   Building the perfect data storage system Software-defined and hyper-converged notwithstanding, enterprise storage system ease of use and management promised by the industry are far from reality. (SearchStorage) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Storage Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Storage Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2017 TechTarget. All rights reserved.