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• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Hibs push for the backup premier league with Acronis

  Hibernian FC signs Acronis to get top division data protection and make the most of ticketing information and match footage as it tries to gain more value from the data it holds

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  The verdict is Pure as Scottish prosecutor upgrades high-end storage

  Scotland’s prosecution service saw disk drives in the dock every week with EMC legacy storage. Now it’s got Pure all-flash and has turned over an (Evergreen) new leaf

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  NHS trust cuts costs and refresh cycle with Wasabi cloud storage

  Imperial College NHS Trust expects to saves 30% in storage costs and cut back on five-year refresh headaches in a move that has seen backup and archive data move to the Wasabi cloud

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  NetApp Ontap to be sole vSAN storage alternative in the cloud

  NetApp Ontap storage will provide file access capacity to extend VMware data stores in AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google clouds as a cheaper alternative to VMware vSAN

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Veritas aims at autonomous backup discovery and provisioning

  Veritas bets on a backup platform that can discover all enterprise data – on-premise and in the cloud – and make its own decisions about the optimal place to store copies

• June 24, 2022 24 Jun'22

  Weka scale-out NAS v4 goes beyond just AWS to go multicloud

  Weka v4’s multicloud capability means the scale-out NAS file system can work across customer datacentres and public clouds that include AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle

• June 13, 2022 13 Jun'22

  Dell server, storage, PC sales grow despite component supply chain woes

  Dell executives cite the company’s use of “alternative” component supply chains as server, storage and PC sales grow despite difficulties for most of the market sourcing parts

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  China using top consumer routers to hack Western comms networks

  An advisory from US cyber authorities shares details of multiple vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese state actors to hack into Western telecoms networks

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Pure FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex boost as-a-service push

  FlashBlade//S brings two new arrays in which customers can upgrade controllers and capacity, while //Flex allows capacity to be bought and moved across any QLC or TLC Pure array

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  SoftIron readies Sydney manufacturing facility

  Software-defined storage supplier SoftIron is making hardware appliances in Australia to improve supply chain resilience and address security concerns of government customers

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Portworx adds anti-ransomware to PX-Backup for Kubernetes

  Pure’s Kubernetes storage and data protection platform adds object locking to combat ransomware

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Video effects firm cuts costs by 20% and goes hybrid with Hammerspace

  Jellyfish Pictures saves on rising power and office space costs, as well as Brexit difficulties, by using Hammerspace to allow access to large files from any geographic location

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Hammerspace the ‘missing link’ for a cloud still lacking

  The cloud can’t enable true multi-region working so Hammerspace helps make data visible globally and aggregate it as needed between locations with workflows set via customer policy

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Pure to offer on-prem object storage as Snowflake data source

  Pure Storage partnership with Snowflake will see the cloud data warehousing platform make use of on-prem FlashBlade fast file and object storage as a source for analytics data

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’

  NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Ctera opens up its storage to third-party analytics via APIs

  File system software builds pools of NAS-like storage accessible from anywhere, with APIs to third-party tools to interrogate data for business processes, anomaly detection and more

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  IT infrastructure used to launch DDoS attack on Russian targets

  Organisations could unwittingly be participating in hostile activity against the Russian government as compromised IT infrastructure is used without their knowledge to launch denial of service attacks

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  PeerGFS to add AI/ML anomaly detection to distributed file system product

  Peer will add AI/ML-based anomaly detection as it ramps up security protection in its PeerGFS distributed file management software, with Linux server support also to come in 2022

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  How Veeam helped grocery chain Franprix escape its backup hell

  French supermarket chain had backup windows that ran well into the next working day and restoring deleted files could take days. It chose Veeam in a contest with Cohesity

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Hammers sign Acronis as backup and security in one

  West Ham United set to replace separate backup from Veeam and a variety of security products with Acronis Cyber Protect to have backup, data protection and file share on a single platform

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Backup: N-able emerges from white box to aim at enterprise customers

  It spent years integrated with Solarwinds and as a re-sold product, but now it plans to target enterprise customers with a backup product that aims at granular file protection and restore

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Ad agency slashes NetApp costs with Datadobi data migration

  US-based branding agency needed to migrate 20TB of large files to new NetApp hardware, but unwilling to stomach the vendor’s migration costs it chose Datadobi instead

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection

  Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Quantum launches ‘scale-out’ i6H rackmount tape library

  Aimed at hyperscalers and enterprises, the LTO-9 system comes in a rackmount form factor that can be deployed anywhere in the datacentre as part of a common pool of storage

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Police EncroChat cryptophone hacking implant did not work properly and frequently failed

  Surveillance operation against EncroChat encrypted phone network had repeated technical failures

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Limelight gains large CDN scale with Edgecast acquisition

  Leading CDN provider gains extra scale with strategic purchase, claiming to have created global leader in edge-enabled software services with diversified revenue across products, clients, geographies and channels

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Micron 7450 aims its 176 TLC layers at QLC flash use cases

  New 176-layer tech brings densely packed flash cells in drives that come in 2.5”, M.2 and EDSFF form factors, aimed at datacentre workloads from archive to database storage

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Hammerspace offers follow-the-sun access to on-prem and cloud storage

  Startup aims to succeed where others have failed and present file, block and object storage data from any and multiple locations as if it were local to the user

• February 21, 2022 21 Feb'22

  Backup heads to cloud as ransomware hits 76% and RTOs/RPOs fail

  Veeam survey finds most can’t recover the data they want or do it in time, ransomware is now a ‘disaster’, use of the cloud is increasing, but the datacentre is still very important

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Retrospect Backup refines anomaly detection in ransomware battle

  StorCentric backup software brand allows customer fine-tuning of anomaly detection in struggle against ransomware, and adds immutable copies via object locking in Azure

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  Nebulon gets Ansible collection for datacentre deployment

  Provider of cloud-managed and hardware-accelerated – formerly ‘cloud-defined’ – storage makes further moves towards its smartInfrastructure vision, with Terraform support coming

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  NetApp provides data infrastructure for EMBL

  European Molecular Biology Laboratory uses NetApp to enable researchers to share and process high-end electron microscopy data

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  Tiger offers lightweight file access for hybrid cloud

  Roar data, anyone? Tiger offers local access to cloud data, with only parts of the file being worked on downloaded and file locking in cloud buckets to ensure integrity

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  TV provider MediaHub boots SAN and NAS for Scality object storage

  Sydney-based TV content provider MediaHub got tired of performance issues and scaling difficulties with SAN and NAS, so powered its as-a-service offer with Scality object storage

• January 31, 2022 31 Jan'22

  Nebulon SmartInfrastructure brings cloud-defined storage to datacentre

  Cloud-defined storage allows customers to build private clouds on-site, with pools of storage built from commodity hardware, Nebulon PCIe cards and its browser-based console

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Storage tech brief: Look out for PCIe gen 5 drives in 2022

  PCIe 5.0 will offer bandwidth up to 128GBps per drive. We look at what’s available and when, including in the new EDSFF form factor, as well as looking forward to PCIe gen 6

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  MoonBounce firmware bootkit shows advances in malicious implants

  MoonBounce firmware bootkit shows evident technical improvements over others, making it a more dangerous threat to organisations. It is being used by Chinese state-backed actors

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 cloud storage, DR and datacentre storage stories of 2021

  Key articles from 2021 that demonstrate the growing importance of cloud storage and disaster recovery, but also the snags that lead to cloud repatriation and difficulties restoring from the cloud

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 ransomware and backup stories of 2021

  Key articles from 2021 that highlight the link between ransomware and snapshots and backup and their role in repelling attacks, plus effects of the pandemic on backup and recovery

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  IT priorities 2022: Ransomware and cloud drive storage and backup

  The pandemic and the move to the cloud has driven cloud storage as a key priority

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  UAE joins the race to produce a usable quantum computer

  As part of its ongoing effort to keep up with the latest technology, the United Arab Emirates has begun work on the region’s first quantum computer

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  Pure adds flagship FlashArray//XL with doubled throughput

  High-end enterprise-targeted FlashArray//XL leverages latest Intel Ice Lake CPU, PCIe 4.0 and distributes SLC flash across drive modules to double throughput over existing arrays

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  UK MSP set to use Nebulon cloud-defined storage IaaS

  UK service provider Inca to use “cloud-defined storage” to support managed service provider offer in move which shunned hyper-converged infrastructure because of cited costly overheads

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Video firm gets Qumulo scale-out NAS and super-fine metrics

  Cognacq-Jay Image shunned Scality and Isilon to get Qumulo scale-out NAS for extremely elastic video workloads and built fine-grained metrics to troubleshoot complex processes

• November 10, 2021 10 Nov'21

  Vast Data: Big shifts promised for an AI future

  Purveyor of Universal Storage says AI and GPU-based compute will dominate, and is set to benefit with its (relatively) cheap, deep and quick QLC-plus-Optane offer

• November 07, 2021 07 Nov'21

  Belfast City Airport: Most apps in the cloud by 2031

  George Best Belfast City Airport has already achieved 50/50 cloud and on-premise working, with 80% of workloads expected to be cloud-based in the next decade. We look at what hybrid cloud means in practice

• November 02, 2021 02 Nov'21

  iXsystems entry-level NAS goes hyper-converged with TrueNAS Scale

  iXsystems TrueNAS can be a fraction of the cost of competitors and with a revamped operating system it can be built into clusters that can run virtual machines and containers

• November 01, 2021 01 Nov'21

  No cloud storage for Belfast City Airport in Nutanix hyper-converged switch

  George Best Belfast City Airport ditches ageing Dell iSCSI SAN for Nutanix HCI for half the price of nearest contender, and gets DR site into the bargain. Cloud storage was a no-go for cost reasons

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  Cohesity beefs up ransomware and disaster recovery offer

  Disaster Recovery as-a-service, Data Govern and project Fort Knox available or in development as data protection supplier augments its portfolio with ransomware firmly in mind

• October 21, 2021 21 Oct'21

  NetApp Insight frames moves to public cloud and cloud native

  Storage player highlights partnerships with cloud hyperscalers and development of Spot portfolio aimed at cloud-native applications, DevOps, FinOps and SecOps