Microsoft announced the release of DirectStorage in early 2022. Promising faster loading times and better performance in games, Direct Storage is one of the mainreasons to upgrade to Windows 11. Close on the heels of an updated DirectStorage version in late 2022, it’s time to unpack what this...
DirectStorage is a Microsoft low-level storage API (Application programming interface) that helps to reduce game load times and texture pop-in by eliminating data streaming overhead. It allows for super-fast, almost-instant loading times. To simply put, with DirectStorage the GPU receives game dat...
while direct attached storage is typically designed for a single computer or server, certain das solutions come with features allowing you to switch connections between different systems. however, das lacks the ease of access and simultaneous multi-device connectivity offered by networked solutions like...
In 2000, Microsoft released Windows 2000 Server, which further simplified network management with the then-newActive Directoryuser directory feature. This OS also provided enhancements for storage management, web integration and application development. After Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft released nine more...
Direct Attached Storage (DAS), the name is pretty self-explanatory. A disk subsystem that is directly connected to a host rather than going through a switched network, thereby giving the host exclusive access to the disks. The category obviously includes disks internal to a physical server, but...
Direct-attached storage, or DAS, is a storage system that connects directly to a personal computer, workstation, or server, but is not attached to a network.
Incomputer storage, direct access is the process of reading and writing data on a storage device by going directly to where the data is physically located on the device rather than having to move sequentially from one physical location to the next to find the correct data. The term direct ac...
Direct area storage, also known as direct-attached storage (DAS), is as the name implies. This storage is often in the immediate area and directly connected to the computing machine accessing it. Often, it's the only machine connected to it. DAS can also provide decent local backup services...
Introduced last September, shared device mode is now generally available! With shared device mode, organizations can safely deploy the Power BI mobile app across their pool of shared devices. Check it out! November 2023 Semantic model: the new name for Power BI datasets Microsoft has renamed the...
Flash storage is a solid-state storage technology that uses flash memory chips for writing and storing data, known as input/output operations per second (IOPS). Flash storage solutions range from USB drives to enterprise-level arrays and are not to be confused with random access memory (RAM) ...