Storage

A data lake refers to a central location where large amounts of data are stored in a raw, unstructured format with information about the data and unique identifiers. They store data that can be processed later to extract valuable business insights and drive your business forward.  This type of flexible organization allows for the storage of both structured and semi-structured data without any concern about...

A data lakehouse is the data management paradigm combining data warehouse and data lake capabilities into a unified platform for optimizing structured and unstructured data storage. While data warehouses have long been the answer to storing structured data, the explosion of data in recent decades led to data lakes storing vast amounts of unique and unstructured data types. Only recently have the leading database software and...

To handle the performance needs of the workloads of today, a storage architecture needs to offer flexibility, agility, and efficiency. As such, scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) is a cost-effective architecture that handles these workloads and can keep up with the growth of structured and unstructured data to meet the data storage requirements of today. Read more: Best Enterprise-Grade NAS Solutions Scale-Out NAS vs Traditional NAS Traditional NAS,...

Network-attached storage (NAS) solutions have long been a valuable way for networks to store, organize, and migrate data securely. Luckily, there are plenty of free and open source solutions to consider. While enterprise-grade NAS solutions often provide clients with the hardware and software needed to deploy network-attached storage, open source offerings allow anyone with the appropriate hardware to download, install, and configure NAS software. Long after...

Network-attached storage (NAS) hardware and software solutions can ease and enhance the task of managing data for individuals up to enterprise data centers. NAS appliances offer organizations secure storage and file access to groups of users at a lower cost relative to the latest file servers. Both file servers and NAS perform similar functions, but most organizations don’t need the extent of features included in...

Scalability is a system's ability to swiftly enlarge or reduce the power or size of computing, storage, or networking infrastructure. With the evolution of the requirements and resource demands of applications, scaling storage infrastructure provides a means of adapting to resource demands, optimizing costs, and improving the operations team efficiency. Read more: Best ETL Tools: Extract Transform & Load Software Scale Up vs Scale Out Scaling up...

Amazon S3 is an object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is designed to store and protect large amounts of data for individuals and industries. In this article, we discuss Amazon S3, how it works, the standout features, and its costs. What Is Amazon S3? Amazon Simple Storage Service, or simply Amazon S3, is designed to provide industry-leading performance, speed, security, scalability, and...

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) software is the tool or tools needed to transfer data from multiple sources to a unified repository, such as a data warehouse or data lake. ETL tools have been in use for almost five decades, allowing organizations to analyze, develop, and act on data continually. Several tenured enterprise vendors for database management, analytics, and business intelligence continue to lead the...