Capacity

Scaleout backup repository: How tiers cut costs

Learn how scaleout repositories separate performance from capacity tiers to handle growth without migrating data or disrupting active workflows.

Jul 28, 2026 Marcus Chen 16 min read

Object Storage Scale: Build AI Data Lakes Without Limits

Learn how object storage supports individual files up to five terabytes, enabling limitless scale for modern AI data foundations without capacity planning.

Jul 19, 2026 Marcus Chen 13 min read

Cloud Storage Costs: Why 90-Day Rules Matter

Analyze how 90-day retention policies impact hot storage budgets and why flat-rate models often fail transient data workflows.

Jul 19, 2026 Alex Kumar 13 min read

Amazon S3 object storage: handling 181 zettabytes

Global data creation has surged from two zettabytes to over one hundred and eighty-one zettabytes.

Jul 19, 2026 Marcus Chen 13 min read

S3 object limits: Why 50 TB changes data lakes

Discover how modern S3 architecture supports individual files up to 50 TB, eliminating sharding complexity for large-scale AI and seismic datasets.

Jul 14, 2026 Alex Kumar 14 min read

Amazon object storage: Why $0.09 egress hurts

Amazon S3 stores a vast number of objects as of 2025, a statistic that proves scale often masks the brutality of modern cloud pricing mechanics.

Jul 14, 2026 Alex Kumar 14 min read

Cloud storage benchmarks: EU upload speeds Q1 2026

Q1 2026 testing reveals Cloudflare R2 leads EU upload times for 256KiB files, proving file size dictates real-world storage performance.

Jul 5, 2026 Alex Kumar 15 min read

CoreWeave storage: Why HDDs now beat flash for AI

CoreWeave achieves 7 GB/s per GPU by pairing Backblaze HDD capacity with smart caching, proving flash isn't always needed for AI scale.

Jun 29, 2026 Alex Kumar 15 min read

Healthcare storage costs: Why 49% of budgets vanish

Nearly half of healthcare AI budgets disappear into opaque fees. Discover how separating dark data from active capacity stops the financial bleed.

Jun 25, 2026 Alex Kumar 14 min read

Flash storage costs: Reclaim 70% capacity now

NAND flash prices jumped 234% in 2026. I show how analytics reclaim 70% of your primary storage without costly vendor lock-in.

Mar 27, 2026 Marcus Chen 12 min read

Flash tiering math: Reclaiming 70% of wasted storage space

Stop overpaying for flash. Our analysis shows intelligent tiering delivers $350,000 savings per petabyte by moving inactive data efficiently.

Mar 26, 2026 Alex Kumar 13 min read

Storage sharding: Cut cloud bills by 70% fast

Stop guessing at capacity. Learn how lifecycle policies cut storage bills by 23x using Glacier Deep Archive vs Standard tiers.

Mar 11, 2026 Marcus Chen 12 min read

myQNAPcloud One Review: 1TB Pool, Zero Egress

With 82% of orgs running hybrid, myQNAPcloud One pools NAS and S3 into a single 1TB capacity to kill siloed billing.

Feb 7, 2026 Alex Kumar 14 min read