How Bloomberg Storage Engineering team confronts storage challenges

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Storage Digest A roundup of storage content from TechTarget's network | September 08, 2020 FEATURED STORY Bloomberg storage engineering team leans on open source, SDS by Dave Raffo, Executive News Director The Bloomberg Storage Engineering team built an internal storage cloud that has withstood great trading volatility during the pandemic and keeps 'infrastructure out of the way.' Advertisement NEWS   Tape data storage industry tackles challenges, archival uses The tape data storage market has confronted a major legal issue and a pandemic. Buoyed by strong archival use and offline protection, capacity shipments rose last year.   Datadobi locks critical data in an air-gapped vault Datadobi's DobiProtect replication product lets customers store business-critical unstructured data in its native format in an air-gapped, limited-access vault.   Dell EMC storage revenue slides as IT spending contracts The Dell storage subsidiary reported a revenue decline last quarter. PowerMax and VxRail were the bright spots in Dell EMC storage. New PowerStore expected to ramp sales in 2022.   Law firm makes compelling case for Pure Storage all-flash CSK Legal first used Pure Storage all-flash arrays to move VMs to VMware vSphere. Primary Pure FlashArray replicates VMs to second target used exclusively for backups.   BackupAssist ER offers a cheaper, slower path to DRaaS BackupAssist ER offers disk-to-disk-to-cloud replication as a low-cost alternative to DRaaS, but lacks the recovery speed of DRaaS. It is suited for small enterprises willing to make that tradeoff.   Chip startup debuts with Fungible data processing unit Fungible, backed with $300-plus in funding, launches data processing unit chips it will use to build high-performance composable infrastructure storage systems. EXPERT ADVICE   Nominate your top Storage Products of the Year The deadline to nominate Storage Products of the Year is September 21. Don't forget to nominate your favorites!   SAS vs. NVMe: The future of the two key storage interfaces SAS and NVMe both play significant roles in enterprise storage. See how the two interfaces stack up in terms of performance, scalability, flexibility, manageability and the future.   Explore the best free cloud backup services on the market There are free cloud backup options for businesses, not just consumers. Discover some of the top choices, plus the limitations of free vs. paid versions.   Post-pandemic data backup and recovery planning guidelines Following the coronavirus pandemic, you might have to modify your backup and recovery strategy. Overcome the data protection challenges presented by the changes in daily life.   How to solve storage latency issues when deploying NVME-oF NVMe-oF is bringing NVMe's latency-lowering capabilities to shared storage. It's an optimal time for this to happen as AI, machine learning and big data analytics applications demand better performance from storage networks.   VMware vs. Nutanix on HPE GreenLake: Comparing approaches See how Synergy composable infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation and ProLiant DX on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud take different approaches to HPE GreenLake pay-per-use IT.   Actual sales tactics vendors use during server refresh lifecycle See specific examples of the strategies server vendors use in order to better prepare for sales pitches throughout the five stages of the server renewal and refresh lifecycle.   Terms to aid your pandemic recovery planning process When updating your organization's pandemic plan, it can help to have these terms handy. These tools, processes and standards are key to a solid recovery plan. About This E-Newsletter The Storage Digest is published by TechTarget, Inc., 275 Grove Street, Newton, Massachusetts, 02466 US. Click to: Unsubscribe. You are receiving this email because you are a member of TechTarget. When you access content from this email, your information may be shared with the sponsors or future sponsors of that content and with our Partners, see up-to-date Partners List, as described in our Privacy Policy. For additional information, please contact: webmaster@techtarget.com. © 2020 TechTarget, Inc. all rights reserved. Designated trademarks, brands, logos, and service marks are the property of their respective owners. Privacy Policy | Partners List