Tens of thousands of users are deploying open-source storage software in an effort to avoid pricey proprietary products such as array clustering and disk eraser applications and to get some long-term ...

It’s a cliché by now to say that business runs on data and invariably that data is housed, managed and accessed in the Cloud. Moreover, most businesses now use a multi-cloud approach so as not to lock ...

Big Blue is releasing an open-source version of the software needed to let servers tap into its forthcoming "Storage Tank" technology. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

In 2016, a group of companies banded together to address a key storage management challenge that they and their customers were facing – managing a heterogenous storage footprint that was hampering the ...

Nexenta's new NexentaStor 3.0 is the first commercial storage appliance software to incorporate in-line data dedupe with open-source ZFS, said Evan Powell, CEO of the Portland, Ore.-based storage ...

The other smart way to save money is to make a budget and stick with it. Unfortunately, a lot of budgeting software costs ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...