Network attached storage (NAS) is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the data storage market.For enterprises and other large organisations, NAS provides an efficient way to store ever-larger volumes of unstructured data, from media content and documents to AI training materials. For smaller outfits, NAS offers a step up from internal storage in servers, providing familiar files and folders arrangement and largely similar management tools. They also run over the same standard Ethernet networks as existing PCs and servers.At the micro-business end of the market, a NAS box might even take the place of a server altogether, due to their simplicity and low cost.

As promised in June, the Lightbits Cloud Data Platform has been made available in the Azure Marketplace as a managed application.

Backblaze, which uses SSDs as boot drives for its disk-based storage servers, has produced its latest SSD annualized failure rate (AFR) report. Restricting its stats to drives with more than 10,000 days of use and to statistics with a confidence interval of 1.0 percent or less gets it a table with three entries: Its overall HDD AFR is 1.64 percent, measured across 226,309 drives and 20,201,091 drive days considerably more reliable statistics

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Jason McKinney, worldwide sales executive with extensive experience in data, cloud, virtualization software and infrastructure sales, has joined Volumezas the chief revenue officer