Category: Storage

January 13, 2014 2

Microsoft's Resilient File System (ReFS)

Microsoft has a new file system designed to increase data integrity, scalability and availability called the Resilient File System (ReFS).…

January 6, 2014 2

Microsoft Storage Spaces feature used to handle data redundancy, scalability and performance. Storage Spaces takes a set of Just a…

November 25, 2013 9

I was fortunate enough to get to spend an hour with Dmitriy Sandler from Nimble Storage to see what…

November 18, 2013 6

Hard drives are not the most fun thing to talk about, but it’s important to know some of the concepts…

October 28, 2013 0

Solid State drives are much faster than their spinning disk predecessors, but can also have performance degradation due to how…

September 24, 2013 5

If you’ve got a some hardware lying around for your lab, Windows Server 2012 may be a great solution for…

July 16, 2013 0

HP announced a new virtual storage appliance (VSA) recently at their annual HP Discover conference. This is a virtual appliance…

July 1, 2013 2

I recently purchased a Synology DS411slim NAS device for my home lab in order to quiet down my rack and…

March 26, 2013 4

I’m often asked about how to provision virtual machine disks. This almost always comes down to, “Should I use thick…

February 19, 2013 4

If you’re an engineer and you’re trying to get more experience with a variety of different storage devices, you might…