Software-defined storage promises enterprises greater flexibility and freedom of choice when it comes to their data storage deployments. By taking lower-level software operations and day-to-day ...

As part of CRN’s 2025 Storage 100, here are 50 vendors bringing software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. It used to be the value of storage technology depended on ...

A storage array is at its heart a commodity server integrated with an operating system dedicated specifically to providing storage services. Take away the server, and what's left? Software-defined ...

The term “software-defined” has been somewhat misused over the years, but was initially meant to represent storage systems that didn’t have a tight coupling between hardware and software. In effect, ...

Earlier this year we tested Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Now we’re reviewing software-based NAS that you can load onto your own equipment — whether it’s a PC, server, virtual machine, or ...

Young storage companies are innovating products that range from storage arrays to mainframe storage management to cloud storage and more. As the enterprise edge expands to include semi-permanent ...