With the maturity of flash technology and huge real-time data demand, the high-level all-flash array has been popularized among enterprises and even SMB (Small and Medium Business). With the upgrade "cost", SMB is opting for low cost entry-level all-flash array. Therefore, more and more storage array vendors have launched the entry-level all-flash array, which strategically aims to develop different…

Why data integrity take place nowadays? In the digital era, small files I/O and requests have taken place for nowadays technologies, such as financial blockchains, artificial intelligence, internet of things and e-commerce. These happened everywhere in our daily lives, for example, paying grocery shopping via mobile payments, withdraw cash in ATM, activity sensors in offices, factories, and public transportation stations,…

One of the most dynamic areas for growth in the use of network-attached storage is the media and entertainment industry. Always evolving, always rapidly changing, the media and entertainment industry is often first to try out new technology advances. Thunderbolt 3 NAS becomes the best rich media solution for nowadays challenges.  TV Technology highlighted some of these new technological…

ZFS may be the best-known enterprise-grade transactional file system to use storage pools to manage physical storage space. It is not the only one on the market, however. ZFS competes with ext4 for market share in the data management system world.  While both ZFS and ext4 can retain massive amounts of data in a secure, non-cloud storage pool system, the two…

ZFS’ most significant feature may be its scalability. Since ZFS can manage 1 billion terabytes of data, nearly any size business or IT department can use the system.