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…

Introducing ZFS: Your Enterprise-Grade File System  Many people have heard of ZFS, but are unsure what it actually is. So, what is ZFS? The Zeta File System (ZOL on Linux) is an enterprise-grade transactional file system that uses the concept of storage pools to manage physical storage space. Sun Microsystems began work on the product in 2001 and released it in…

Businesses transitioning to the cloud have a big learning curve ahead. And for the IT pros responsible for data storage for startups, it’s a big responsibility to make the right decision on cloud systems, NAS storage, and much more.

Introduction If you are a storage expert, you may have heard about these two protocols. But buying new storage arrays may face barriers of selectivity, such as Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI, and determining which is better. Based on their reliability, performance, cost, scalability, and flexibility, we compare the two to help you make an informed decision. Fibre Channel Overview…

QoS has a control mechanism that provides different priorities for different users or different data streams or ensures that the performance of the data stream reaches a certain level according to the requirements of the application.