Data protection, backup and archiving

UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years

A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

RAID 6 vs. RAID 10

There are numerous RAID configurations to choose from, and navigating the nuances of each can take a lot of work. In the case of RAID 6 and 10, both have distinct pros and cons. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group

We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

UK data reforms become law

UK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

IBM reorients storage to cloud, containers and as-a-service

Storage profile: We look at Big Blue’s storage offer, which spans file, block and object, on-premise, in the cloud, and mainframes, while also embracing containers and the cloud Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’

People experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

European Commission should rescind UK data adequacy

Civil society organisations have urged the European Commissioner to not renew the UK’s data adequacy, given the country’s growing divergence from European data protection standards Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

AI compliance: Dealing with data change and proliferation

Podcast: We talk with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge about staying on top of compliance and artificial intelligence, where the danger is data that changes during AI processing and can also proliferate Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Clear, Purge, Destroy: NIST media sanitization 101

NIST SP 800-88 outlines how to responsibly destroy data and keep confidential information out of the wrong hands. Learn more about the NIST guidelines for media sanitization here. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

Podcast: RSA 2025 – AI’s risk surface and the role of the CISO

We review RSA 2025 with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge who looks at the impacts on compliance of AI’s expanding risk surface, the role of the CISO, and a changed supplier approach Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy

Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation

Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Roundtable: Why did customers sail away from VMware?

At Nutanix’s recent .Next event in the US, customers talked about why they migrated away from VMware and the pain points that accelerated their decision to switch hypervisor Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

The importance of a data destruction policy

Data destruction policies increase backup efficiency, ease data management and help organizations meet compliance requirements for data storage. Continue Reading

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• Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction

NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty

Essex NHS wants to move some capacity to the Nutanix cloud, but can’t be certain prices will hold between product selection and when procurement plans gain approval Continue Reading

University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery

University of Reading set to save circa £500,000 and deploy Nutanix NC2 hybrid cloud that will allow failover from main datacentre Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Nutanix opens up to all external storage

CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says Nutanix will open its platform to all external storage, allowing it to profit from customers wanting to move away from VMware, as well as the hyper-converged curious Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS

Hyper-converged infrastructure provider offers its operating system independently of a hypervisor to allow containerised apps to run at the edge or on Kubernetes runtimes in the Amazon cloud Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Accused by algorithm

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we shine a light on the Ministry of Justice’s controversial use of crime prediction algorithms. The CIO of Boehringer Ingelheim sets out how his organisation has built a data platform that is paving the way for the pharmaceutical giant to embrace AI and quantum computing. And, with the fallout from the VMware-Broadcom merger showing no signs of letting up, we weigh up what the migration options are for VMware vSAN users. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features

Veeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

7 ways to improve your ransomware backup strategy

It's time to review your strategy for ransomware backup and recovery. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

The road to carbon neutrality is paved with efficient backups

Backups are an unavoidable aspect of IT that can contribute to a larger carbon footprint. Learn how your business can transition to a more carbon-neutral backup strategy here. Continue Reading

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• Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction

Podcast: RSA 2025 to grapple with AI compliance, US and EU regulation

We preview RSA 2025 with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge who looks forward to learning lots around compliance and regulation as CIOs wrestle with artificial intelligence and geopolitical upheavals Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Hitachi Vantara: VSP One leads revamped storage portfolio

Storage supplier profile: Block, file and object as part of full-stack IT offer for hybrid cloud and containerised applications comes via VSP One arrays and EverFlex as-a-service options Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Podcast: Quantum lacks profitability but it will come, says CEO

Computer Weekly talks to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s expertise in massive volumes of data and a roadmap that includes Myriad, a new file system for forever flash in the AI era Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

The ultimate guide to backup deduplication

Backup deduplication can reduce active storage space consumption, decrease backup job times and increase the overall efficiency of a storage infrastructure. Continue Reading

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• Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction

Huawei rises in the storage ranks despite sanctions and tariffs

Supplier profile: Huawei has leapfrogged HPE in revenue and market share and broadened its storage offer towards AI, the cloud and as-a-service despite sanctions and tariffs Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Hertz warns UK customers of Cleo-linked data breach

Car hire giant Hertz reveals UK customer data was affected in a cyber incident orchestrated via a series of vulnerabilities in Cleo managed file transfer products Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon

The Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community input – will further contribute the over-policing of Black communities Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Backup retention policy best practices: A guide with template

It's critical for an organization to know what data it needs to retain and where to store it. Create a backup retention policy with this free template. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey
• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor
• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk

The UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

NAS storage: TrueNAS aims to make it big in Europe

Aimed at the SME market, but with NAS systems that go to tens of petabytes, iXsystems brings dual controllers, NVMe and hybrid flash, AI-capable storage, and container support Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

HPE storage battles hard and smart in challenging market

Storage profile: We look at HPE, which has slipped in the storage supplier rankings, but brings a full range of AI-era storage over a mature cloud and consumption model offer Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it

The rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Compare SaaS data retention policies from 5 major providers

How long is your SaaS platform keeping your data? Learn how these five popular vendors handle data retention. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Supercars team BJR taps Extranet Systems for racing edge

As the demands of motorsports grow, Supercars team Brad Jones Racing turns to IT specialist Extranet Systems to manage crucial areas such as security, backup and disaster recovery Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

What is data preprocessing? Key steps and techniques

Data preprocessing, a component of data preparation, describes any type of processing performed on raw data to prepare it for another data processing procedure. Continue Reading

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• Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
• George Lawton

French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software

Oceanogaphic research institute keeps Atempo backup software for near a quarter century with no plans to replace it for protection of critical data helping map the world’s oceans Continue Reading

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• Stéphane Larcher, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Dell still tops the pile as it deepens enterprise storage offer

The US giant is top dog in revenue and market share as its storage array range – still largely EMC-derived – deepens its cloud, containers and as-a-service options Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

VMware vSAN Max: What you need to know

We look at VMware vSAN Max storage – its best use cases, how to deploy it and on what hardware, the alternatives, and considerations in light of VMware’s Broadcom takeover Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Podcast: How to ensure data quality for AI

We talk to Cody David of Syniti about how to ensure data quality in datasets for AI, why a ‘data-first’ attitude is key, and the quick wins an organisation can gain in data quality Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage

Autodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

RAID 5 vs. RAID 6: Capacity, performance, durability

RAID 5 and RAID 6 both have their pros and cons. Find out which RAID configuration is right for your organization. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

8 ways to use AI for data backup

Evaluate eight ways your organization can implement AI to improve data backups and simplify data protection processes. Continue Reading

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• Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction

Where IT comes from: Behind the scenes at Pure Storage’s European R&D centre

We look inside Pure Storage’s Prague research and development centre, where multi-year projects parallel real lifecycles of deployed hardware and the complexities that arise over time Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Where IT comes from: Pure Storage’s lean Czech assembly

We look behind the scenes at Pure Storage’s Czechia assembly plant, where change is baked into processes to ensure products are built right and always improving Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

VMware backup: Key decision points if you migrate away from VMware

VMware’s pricing changes have spurred some organisations to move to new virtualisation environments, but they’ll need backing up. We look at the key points to consider Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

How to prevent data loss: 4 strategies for better data protection

Reliable, redundant and tested backups are critical to preventing data loss. Implement these four best practices to better protect your data and ensure backups are secure. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

ICO launches major review of cookies on UK websites

ICO sets out 2025 goals, including a review of cookie compliance across the UK’s top 1,000 websites, as it seeks to achieve its ultimate goal of giving the public meaningful control over how their data is used Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Privacy professionals expect budget cuts, lack confidence

Over 50% of privacy professionals in Europe expect to see less money earmarked for data security initiatives in 2025, and many don’t have faith their organisations are taking the issue seriously, according to an ISACA report Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

9 enterprise cloud backup services to consider in 2025

Cloud backup services play a major role in modern data protection. With so many providers to choose from, businesses must prioritize the features they need. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Backup technology explained: The fundamentals of enterprise backup

We look at backup and its role in enterprise data protection, including what to backup and how often, RPO and RTO, full and incremental, and if backups can be replaced by snapshots Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Cohesity CEO on Veritas integration and IPO plans

Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen shares his vision for integrating Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, uniting 12,000 customers, driving AI-powered innovation and building a public-ready company Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Top 10 AI and storage stories of 2024

In this 2024 review, we look at the impact of AI on data storage, what’s needed to support AI during training and inference, and storage suppliers’ responses to the rise of AI Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Top 10 Kubernetes and storage stories of 2024

In this 2024 review, Computer Weekly looks at Kubernetes’ evolution from stateless application runtime to enterprise-ready environment for cloud-native with persistent storage and data protection Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

How to build and maintain a reliable backup infrastructure

A backup infrastructure is critical to long-term data protection and rapid recoveries. As environments become more complex, maintaining a strong infrastructure can be difficult. Continue Reading

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• Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction

Google Cloud Platform: Key storage options in the Google Cloud

We survey the key cloud storage offers available from GCP, which include Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk and Filestore, with a range of service levels and app-specific options Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

UK police continue to hold millions of custody images unlawfully

Annual report from the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner of England and Wales highlights the ongoing and unlawful retention millions of custody images of innocent people never charged with a crime by police Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

How to use Time Machine to back up your Mac

Mac Time Machine backup is a useful tool for small businesses. It does not support cloud targets, but has a user-friendly interface and simple scheduling options for basic backups. Continue Reading

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• Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction

Why data backup is important

Not every organization has a backup infrastructure in place. There are several reasons why that is a mistake, including recovery costs and rising threats to critical data. Continue Reading

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• Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction

AIOps and storage management: What it is and who provides it

We look at AI-powered tools to manage storage and data protection that can help to detect infrastructure issues and help to optimise performance and even cloud costs Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp

NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Barings Law plans to sue Microsoft and Google over AI training data

Microsoft and Google are using people’s personal data without proper consent to train artificial intelligence models, alleges Barings Law, as it prepares to launch a legal challenge against the tech giants Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

3-2-1 backup strategy explained: Is it effective?

The 3-2-1 backup strategy is a time-tested data protection and recovery methodology for ensuring that data is protected adequately and up-to-date backup copies of the data are available when needed. Continue Reading

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• Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor
• Rich Castagna

ORG urges ICO to revise public sector enforcement approach

The Open Rights Group is urging the Information Commissioner’s Office to revise its light touch approach to public sector data protection issues, arguing that its experimental policy of limiting its enforcement actions to reprimands and notices, rather issuing fines, is allowing bad practices to continue largely unabated Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Storage technology explained: Ransomware and storage and backup

We look at ransomware attacks, and the importance of good backup practice as well as immutable snapshots, air-gapping, network segmentation, AI anomaly detection and supplier warranties Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Storage technology explained: What is S3 and what is it good for?

We look at S3, AWS’s object storage protocol that originated in its cloud services and has now spread as near enough a standard and to third-party on-premise deployments Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

European eArchiving project aims at eternal archive with smart metadata

The European Commission’s eArchiving project has got to version 2.0 and aims at open formats and sector-specific metadata to allow organisations to exploit data for decades to come Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

More data stolen in 2023 MOVEit attacks comes to light

Over a year since the infamous MOVEit Transfer cyber attacks affected thousands of organisations, more new victims have come to light after an anonymous threat actor leaked their data on the dark web Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Fresh concerns over NHS England registries procurement

Clinicians and technologists behind a number of medical devices registries being brought together by NHS England on a new common platform have accused the health service of flouting public sector procurement regulations Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

NetApp boosts AFF, StorageGrid and E-series hardware with 60TB drives

Bigger drives, new CPUs and controller hardware add to upgrades to NetApp arrays that started in September, while the supplier undergoes transition to data management as a key focus Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Nakivo aims at VMware refugees tempted by Proxmox

Version 11 of Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backups, support for Proxmox virtualisation backups – following Veeam – and NAS file data backups to cloud targets Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Data classification: What, why and who provides it

You need to know where your data is, what it is, its governance requirements and relationship to the rest of your data. We look at data classification and how AI can help Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

How to use the duplicity backup tool

Open source tool duplicity can help sys admins manage many file servers, as well as back up and restore large amounts of data. Learn how to install, run and troubleshoot duplicity. Continue Reading

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• Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction

Detect ransomware in storage to act before it spreads

Anomaly detection and immutable copies can be frontline tools against ransomware – we look at the role storage can play against the latest techniques employed by ransomware gangs Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Synology takes aim at enterprise customers and flash storage

Best known as an SME and consumer brand, Synology claims multiple enterprise customers especially in backup and storage of infrequently accessed data, but has plans for flash, too Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

RAID 5 vs. RAID 10

RAID is a staple for backup and storage administrators who want to create redundancy and protect data. RAID 5 and RAID 10 offer similar benefits, but is one better than the other? Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

RAID 1 vs. RAID 5

Neither RAID 1 nor RAID 5 is clearly better than the other, but there are several areas to compare the two to find the right option for your organization. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly

The Ada Lovelace Institute says there is lack of adequate support on how councils can safely and responsibly procure artificial intelligence systems in the public interest Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

How to improve backup performance

Achieving and maintaining optimal backup performance is a continuous process that requires a proactive approach to monitoring, analysis and optimization. Continue Reading

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• Stuart Burns

How UEM Sunrise is driving transformation with Salesforce and AI

Malaysian property developer UEM Sunrise is leveraging Salesforce and AI to boost sales and enhance customer experience while prioritising data sovereignty and a diversified cloud strategy Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Auckland museum enhances digitisation efforts with storage upgrade

A major storage upgrade is enabling the Auckland War Memorial Museum to safeguard its vast collection, ensure digital sovereignty and enhance visitor experiences using AI Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

Kubernetes disaster recovery: Five key questions

We look at disaster recovery for Kubernetes environments, the key challenges to deployment of K8s DR, the risks we aim to mitigate, how to build a plan and the key infrastructure requirements Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Multiple Veeam vulns spark concern among defenders

Veeam users are urged to patch a series of vulnerabilities in the firm’s Backup & Replication product to get out ahead of potential exploitation by ransomware gangs Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Storage technology explained: Kubernetes, containers and persistent storage

In this guide, we look at the market-leading container platform Kubernetes, how it works, the challenges with persistent storage and backup, and how they have been overcome Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Backup strategy for small businesses 101

Small businesses must review data protection needs and choose a backup strategy accordingly. This ensures that they meet requirements without going over budget. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Cambridge Enterprise saves big with Keepit SaaS backup

University innovation body avoids hardware spend and saves management time as it switches from tape to cloud-to-cloud backup, instant recovery and decades-long retention from Keepit Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Get to know the archive bit and its role in data backup

Good data management is key to protecting critical files. A tool like the archive bit can help ensure backup administrators know what data needs to be backed up at a glance. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Podcast: Ransomware and what data storage can do about it

We talk to NetApp’s Chris McKean about ransomware attacks and the role of data storage in protecting against them Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

What is continuous data protection (CDP)?

Continuous data protection (CDP), also known as 'continuous backup,' is a backup and recovery storage system in which all the data in an enterprise is backed up whenever any change is made. Continue Reading

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• Nick Barney, Technology Writer
• Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor

Podcast: Storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31

We talk to Sergey Pronin of Percona about new storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31, including volume attribute class and changes to persistent volumes, as well as other long-term fixes Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

How JSR is using generative AI to drive insights

JSR Corporation has been using the Cohesity Gaia enterprise search assistant to surface insights from backups of employee mailboxes and OneDrive data Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Kubernetes and storage in the enterprise: What the analysts say

We talk to analysts about Kubernetes adoption in the enterprise, how mature it is, deployment challenges and key obstacles to enterprises that want to go cloud-native with containers Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Kubernetes at 10: CRDs at core of extensible, modular storage in K8s

We talk to VMware engineer Xing Yang, who saw Kubernetes storage evolve from the early days where its modular, extensible origins translated to Operators for storage and backup Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Kubernetes at 10: The long road to mastery of persistent storage

Jan Safranek of Red Hat saw containers emerge as an exciting new way of deploying applications, but it took several additions to make it the mature enterprise platform it is today Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

How to craft a cost-effective backup strategy

A cost-effective data backup plan requires IT teams to examine their data protection requirements and choose the right strategy that fits into what the business can spend. Continue Reading

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• Stuart Burns

Hybrid multicloud storage: Pros, cons and key workloads

We look at hybrid multicloud storage, making the best of on-premise and multiple cloud application locations, its key benefits, some pitfalls and the technologies to build it with Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

6 slow backup causes to watch out for

Backup performance is affected by several factors. Ensure that backups are running in a timely manner to protect data and prevent bottlenecks. Continue Reading

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• Stuart Burns

Kubernetes at 10: From stateless also-ran to ‘platform to build platforms’

Sergey Pronin of Percona was all for ‘Kubernetes for stateless’ at a time when it was hard to provision storage and day-two services – then Operators and Stateful Sets came along Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

12 common virtual machine backup mistakes

Despite an administrator's best efforts, virtual machine backups can fail. Determine the cause of the failure and modify the VM backup strategy to prevent future mistakes. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey