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Will we lose our treasured memories to cloud policies?
Managing Editor 12 Nov 2020People who use the free Google Drive service for personal use to store, share and collaborate on documents, will be aware that the company has been slowly shifting consumers to pay for cloud ...
Had another interesting cloudy discussion last week with SIOS – one of ITs better kept secrets, certainly in the UK. Much of that is down to the sensitivity of what it does and who it does it for. ...
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StorOne's $799 per month storage array leasing offer: How does it stack up?
Storage Editor 09 Jul 2019Looking at the promise from StorOne to offer its software-defined storage for $799 a month – that’s about £640 – for 15TB of file, block or object storage capacity, I thought I’d compare it with ...
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Mea culpa: Trendy isn’t the same as important
Freeform Dynamics 21 Jun 2019I hate it when you realise that your point of reference has been unduly influenced by what’s currently trending rather than what’s really important. A recent briefing with Jim Liddle of Storage ...
On the face of it, cloud storage should be an ideal candidate for an “excess capacity”, “sharing economy” business model. Otherwise termed “Uberization”, we’ve seen the rise of apps and services ...
Last week's IP Expo at EXCEL wasn't all bad news; we escaped the first night into proper London, to a brewery disguised as a pig restaurant and then, naturally, to a (posh) curry house. Well, it is ...
But what do people mean when they talk about cloud storage – and do they really know what it can do these days? Not so long ago, once you got beyond Dropbox, for most professional users cloud ...
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Scality gets $60m but keeps quiet about what it’ll spend it on
Storage Editor 25 Apr 2018French object storage specialist Scality recently raised $60m of funding, but what will that money go towards? The company – most well-known for its RING object storage product – is in the middle ...
It’s a truism that IT essentially reinvents itself every decade or so. In some ways this can be rightly seen as a cynical way to repackage the same old tosh and sell it again to confused.com IT ...
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Is HTTP doomed? Could blockchain help replace the Internet as we know it?
Storage Editor 11 Apr 2018Tim Berners-Lee is rightly famous as the originator of HTTP, a fundamental of the World Wide Web as we know it. But according to some, HTTP is old hat. It has helped create a web full of dead ...
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FileShadow shows hybrid cloud push evident at SME and prosumer level
Storage Editor 28 Mar 2018There’s a drive towards hybrid cloud evident at the moment. From hyper-converged products that offer cloud capability to single namespace file and object systems that allow seamless working between ...
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File locking and workload limitations in Cloudian hybrid cloud storage
Storage Editor 15 Mar 2018Hybrid cloud has had a boost recently with the emergence of file/object environments that allow customers to operate a single namespace between on-premise and public cloud locations. One of the ...
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Cloud on the rise as hybrid cloud storage shows real maturity
Storage Editor 05 Feb 2018This year’s storage news so far has provided a firm impression of the increasing prominence of the cloud, and in particular of attempts to harness the public cloud and private datacentre in hybrid ...
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Microsoft purchase of Avere marks a hybrid cloud-y start to 2018
Storage Editor 22 Jan 2018Microsoft’s acquisition of Avere for an undisclosed sum, announced at the beginning of the year, marks the swallowing of an always-interesting storage player and a significant move for Microsoft ...
Data storage has many fundamentals, but a key one is the idea that what we store should be or form part of a single, reliable copy. This is what is being strived for in concepts such as the file ...
There was a dodgy* old joke about a glass of beer that re-filled itself when you had drunk it. The unwritten premise was that that’s what everyone (well, men in the 1970s, I presume) would want if ...
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VMware’s Cross Cloud moves aim to replicate datacentre dominance in the cloud
Storage Editor 20 Oct 2016As an attendee at VMworld events for about half a decade, this one provided the clearest message I’ve yet heard from VMware. That’s because, in its explanation of its Cross Cloud strategy and ...
The tipping point at which public cloud operations attain a 50% share of IT workloads will come in 2030. Until then, and beyond, we face “decades of a hybrid [cloud] world”. That’s the view ...