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2 days ago | blocksandfiles.com | Chris Williams

Partner Content In any VDI deployment, storage is crucial for success and user experience. It ensures performance and responsiveness while supporting scalability and reliability. Storage bottlenecks can undermine the best VDI strategies, especially during peak times like boot storms and login surges. Consequently, storage choices are central to VDI design discussions, with organizations typically selecting between a traditional virtual SAN (vSAN) or an external all-flash array (AFA).

1 week ago | blocksandfiles.com | Chris Mellor

Paul KunertEdit ProfileNetApp is sponsoring the US National Football League (NFL) becoming its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner. The NFL is a trade association and sports league consisting of 32 professional American football teams organized into four divisions each within the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC). NetApp has been raising its sports sponsorship game recently.

1 week ago | blocksandfiles.com | Chris Mellor

Analysis. The latest round of tariff confusion – including a last-minute US Customs exemption for computers, smartphones, and related components, followed by a social media post from President Trump declaring the move temporary – is likely to trigger a slowdown in customer purchases. The wild movements in tariffs on computer goods, including storage, make it impossible for businesses that rely on them to calculate stable costs.

1 week ago | blocksandfiles.com | Chris Mellor

Estonia-based Storadera’s pitch is simple: low-cost, single-tier S3 storage in the cloud using optimized disk drive storage with higher-capacity shingled drives and AI-improved storage operations on its roadmap. CEO, founder, and ex-software engineer Tommi Kannisto says he was inspired by US storage biz Backblaze and thought he could offer disk drive-based S3 object storage in Europe.

1 week ago | blocksandfiles.com | Chris Mellor

Redis has announced the Vector Sets data type and fully managed LangCache semantic caching service for faster and more effective GenAI model development and execution. Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is the developer and supplier of the eponymous real-time, in-memory key-value store structure, usable as a cache, database or message broker, which can also write persistent data to attached storage drives.