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Cloud storage

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Businesses fail to grasp the true cost of public cloud

  Public cloud infrastructure as a service sounds good on paper, but a survey has found that many IT professionals are seriously overspending

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Cloud and backup top storage priorities for 2019

  Deploying the cloud for primary and secondary storage and backup and archiving project top project priorities in 2019. SAN, NAS and hyper-convergence also prominent

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  What is CIO best practice when it comes to cloud security?

  As businesses increasingly adopt cloud-first strategies, how can they ensure their security is up to scratch? Computer Weekly asks the experts

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Swiss bank moves away from file with Cloudian object storage

  PostFinance opts for Cloudian object storage as it migrates 100 million files away from NetApp and builds S3-compatible archives for Hadoop and Apache Spark

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Veeam Cloud Tier adds tiered storage for backups in S3 clouds

  Virtualisation backup specialist adds tiering of Veeam Availability Suite data to AWS, Azure and S3-compatible clouds, which can now also be used as a repository for its N2WS cloud-native backup

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Veritas launches Docker container backup in NetBackup

  Docker is becoming an industry standard form of application virtualisation, and with that comes the need to back up Docker environments and data. Veritas joins CommVault and Asigra in doing so

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Alibaba Cloud opens second datacentre in Indonesia

  The new and existing datacentres will let Indonesian enterprises deploy mission-critical workloads in multiple availability zones and switch over within seconds

• December 28, 2018 28 Dec'18

  Top 10 storage stories of 2018

  Key trends in storage in 2018 included hybrid and multicloud storage, container storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Meanwhile, flash storage has evolved with NVMe

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  Microsoft raises cloud prices for Australian enterprise customers

  Despite the price hike, Microsoft claims its Azure service remains competitively priced, with opportunities for additional savings

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Virtual Instruments aims to be “the brain of the datacentre”

  Virtual Instruments hopes artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality that helps IT staff spot connections between application and storage performance could put an end to the “war room”

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  Data volumes set to hit 175ZB with a tectonic shift to the cloud

  There will be more data in the public cloud than enterprise datacentres or consumer devices by 2025 as data shifts location, according to a study by IDC and Seagate

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  NetApp and Pure show strong results on flash storage and cloud

  NetApp records healthy year-on-year revenue increase with flash showing out well, while Pure Storage sees incredible earnings for its flash products over 12 months

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Survey: Data very fragmented, and that’s a worry for most

  Cohesity-sponsored survey finds most organisations store multiple copies of secondary data and worry about the cost and the effect on their competitiveness

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Pure Storage makes big hybrid push with Cloud Data Services

  Flash storage pioneer makes a big deal of its object storage architecture as it launches Pure capacity in the AWS cloud, plus replication to the cloud for on-premise hardware

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  Rubrik adds Oracle, NoSQL and SAP Hana data protection

  Scale-out backup appliance maker has already ticked most physical and virtual support boxes and is now filling out the details with enterprise application support