Enterprise Storage
One of our seven practice areas — every brief we’ve published in this coverage area, newest first.
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NAS vs SAN vs DAS: Protocols, Workloads and How to Choose
A vendor-neutral explainer on NAS, SAN and DAS: what each protocol standard defines, multipathing, shared access and locking, snapshots and immutability, scale-out and unified storage, how vSphere, Hyper-V and Proxmox VE consume each, and an evaluation checklist.
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RAID 5 vs RAID 6: Parity, Rebuilds and How to Choose
A vendor-neutral explainer on RAID 5 vs RAID 6: how single and dual parity work, usable capacity, the write penalty, degraded mode and rebuild exposure on large drives, RAID 10 and RAID 60 compared, modern alternatives such as RAID-Z and dRAID, and how to choose by workload and drive size.
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Object Storage vs Block Storage vs File: How to Choose
A vendor-neutral explainer on block, file and object storage: how each works, documented consistency and limits, enterprise features such as Object Lock and lifecycle tiering, cost drivers, and which to use for databases, file shares, backups, data lakes and AI training data.
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Can Your Storage Array Detect Ransomware? NetApp vs Everpure
NetApp’s ARP/AI detects ransomware at the array; SafeMode from Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) makes snapshots indelible. Neither is enough alone. Here is how the layers fit together.
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On-Prem S3 Object Storage After MinIO: A Buyer’s Guide
MinIO’s community repository is archived and no longer maintained. Here is the post-MinIO decision guide for on-prem S3: Scality ARTESCA, Cloudian, Object First, AIStor, and the community options.
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Pure Storage Is Now Everpure: What the Rebrand Means for Buyers
Pure Storage rebranded as Everpure in February 2026, announced the 1touch acquisition, and posted its first billion-dollar quarter. Here is what buyers should actually watch.
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Backup Storage Cost per TB in 2026: The Real Numbers
Verified mid-2026 backup storage pricing for Backblaze B2, Wasabi, AWS S3, and Veeam Data Cloud Vault — and why the restore bill, not the at-rest rate, should drive the decision.
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vSAN Alternatives in 2026: Storage Decisions Beyond VCF
VCF includes 1 TiB of vSAN capacity per licensed core, which ties the storage decision to the hypervisor decision. This brief maps the realistic vSAN alternatives (Nutanix, Everpure, NetApp and Dell) and when each one fits.
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All-Flash Backup Targets: Does QLC End the Disk Repository?
Capacity flash has weakened the price objection to all-flash backup targets. When restore throughput is the ransomware SLA, here is the math on Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), NetApp, and Veeam, and where dedupe disk still wins.
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Immutable Backup Storage: Ootbi vs ARTESCA vs Cloud Object Lock
Veeam’s acquisition of Object First made immutable target appliances first-party strategy. We compare Ootbi, Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam HA, and cloud object lock via Wasabi and Veeam Vault.