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Computer storage hardware

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Hedvig teams up with Veeam to support scale-out backup appliances

  Scale-out software-defined storage supplier reaches agreement with Veeam for backup software to build clusters of nodes with flash, cloud and block, file and object storage access

• July 11, 2018 11 Jul'18

  Cloudian adds Storage Made Easy file-sync-and-share compliance

  Object storage maker adds file-sync-and-share with compliance filters from Storage Made Easy to restrict movement of potentially sensitive data between endpoints and datacentres

• July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18

  Casino group bets on Pivot3 hyper-converged infrastructure for surveillance

  Caesars’ ageing digital video recording equipment risked running foul of court and police requirements, and cost tens of thousands annually, so it switched to Pivot3 hyper-converged infrastructure

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Dell/VMware and Nutanix dominate a growing hyper-converged market

  As hyper-converged system revenues get set to overtake those of converged systems, Dell/VMware and Nutanix are dominating the market for combined server and storage nodes

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  VM-aware storage pioneer Tintri on verge of bankruptcy

  Recent first-quarter results by the VM-aware storage pioneer throw light on a fragile financial situation that needs new funds or a buyer to avoid bankruptcy by the end of June

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  Vexata doubles capacity in NVMe flash storage VX family

  NVMe flash storage Vexata maker ups capacity to just under half a PB with 8TB drives, claims near-bare metal performance, and aims at analytics, trading and simulations workloads

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  San Francisco 49ers add pace to the team with NVMe flash from Datrium

  US NFL football team plans high-performance NVMe flash to power in-game statistics and video decision-making, plus access for scouts to player databases during draft

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  NHS trust dumps creaking EMC SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged

  Derbyshire-based NHS trust had reached end-of-life with Dell servers and EMC SAN, so it took the plunge with Nutanix hyper-converged to reap space, power and reliability gains

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Rubrik CDM 4.2 extends data protection to Amazon cloud storage

  Backup software and appliance specialist adds protection to apps in Amazon cloud to existing on-premise and cloud-to-cloud functionality, along with service provider features

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  StorageCraft to unveil unified storage, backup and cloud appliances

  StorageCraft arose as a backup software maker but now plans converged storage, backup and analytics play in a move to unify offering built on core and acquired products

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Case study: Mercedes F1 team makes gains with Pure Storage all-flash

  Two years ago, the Mercedes AMG Formula 1 team deployed Pure Storage all-flash arrays in its datacentre and in mobile racks out on the circuit. It’s a bet that has paid off for the racing team

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Medical firm puts vTax and SAN to sleep to save £30,000 with Scale

  Penlon replaces HPE servers and storage and VMware virtualisation to escape the high costs of licensing, and deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged appliances at two UK datacentres

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  GDPR and backup: A potential minefield easily avoided

  The right to be forgotten will be impossible in backups and snapshots, but systems can be built that automate for compliance, says Andy Barratt of security consultancy Coalfire

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Nexsan adds Assureon Cloud Transfer for hybrid cloud archiving

  Nexsan archiving appliances add hybrid cloud capability to AWS and Azure cloud for unstructured data, targeting users that want to retain files on-site with cloud access

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Scality boosts Ring with easy deployment and lower node count

  Object storage maker Scality upgrades software-defined storage to give unified deployment, provisioning and management while cutting minimum nodes required to three

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Pure debuts new FlashArray //X arrays with NVMe across the range

  Pure is set to replace //M series boxes with FlashArray //X arrays in which NVMe is standard with NVMe-over-fabrics connectivity to servers and expansion shelves

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Compliance in the cloud: Avoiding the cloud compliance trap

  When you hand over data to a cloud provider, you don’t hand over responsibility for legal and regulatory compliance. Beware of falling into a cloud compliance trap

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Technicolor speeds up movie production with Excelero NVMe flash

  Film giant Technicolor had to duplicate workstreams or schedule access to movies being worked on, but Excelero NVMe allows concurrent access to 10 or more workstations at a time

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Zerto previews 2019’s version 7 with Elastic Journal backup

  CDP-based data protection product will allow point-in-time copies from seconds to years ago with Elastic Journal, as part of a move to unify backup, disaster recovery and cloud data protection

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  Micron first to market with QLC flash drive 5210 QLC SSD

  Micron’s 5210 QLC SSD is aimed at analytics and content delivery in cloud and web-scale operations that currently use 7,200rpm spinning disk in huge Raid sets to gain IOPS

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  IBM adds deduplication to Spectrum Virtualize, and Storwize arrays

  IBM has added data deduplication to Spectrum Virtualize and array products that run it. It has also upgraded array analytics and the cloud version of Spectrum Virtualize

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  NetApp adds Google Cloud NAS and AFF A800 NVMe flash array

  NetApp gets on the cloud NAS bandwagon with Google Cloud Platform file storage access, while adding its first NVMe flash-equipped storage array, the AFF A800

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Nutanix builds hooks to SDN and cloud with Flow, Era and Beam

  Hyper-converged pioneer builds in functionality from acquisitions with Flow software-defined networking, Beam cloud monitoring and Era database provisioning and data protection

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Dell EMC freshens high-end SANs with VMAX makeover, PowerMax

  Dell EMC rebrands VMAX high-end SAN arrays as PowerMax, with CPUs upgraded, new inline data deduplication, controller code re-worked and NVMe and Optane hardware on the roadmap

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Dell EMC unveils Isilon scale-out NAS in the Google cloud

  The trend to cloud NAS continues as Dell EMC announces beta phase of Isilon Cloud for GCP that will see fully-featured scale-out NAS available to customers via the Google cloud

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  StorageOS makes hybrid cloud container storage platform generally available

  StorageOS releases tool that allows management of persistent storage for containers that can operate on-premise, in public cloud and hybrid cloud to provide deployment, QoS and protection

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Next generation of SCADA industrial controls will protect against cyber attack

  Oil, energy and chemical companies are rethinking how to control big manufacturing plants, replacing expensive control technology with cheaper, more secure systems, taking their cue from biology

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  IBM admits poor storage results but promises to do better

  IBM’s first-quarter 2018 results shows failings in its storage business, while cognitive computing via Watson remains its main growth engine

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Elastifile adds NAS file access storage to Google Cloud Launcher

  Israeli startup Elastifile launches NFS file access service in the Google cloud to provide hybrid cloud distributed file system functionality with the speed of flash

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  InfiniSync backup ‘bunker’ gives zero RPO for critical apps

  Infinidat launches InfiniSync “black box” as off-site storage on-site, plus new Infinibox PB-scale array, cloud storage service Neutrix Cloud and InfiniGuard backup appliance

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  Western Digital adds StorReduce deduplication to object storage

  US hardware giant Western Digital links up with StorReduce to provide data deduplication for object storage that combines WD ActiveScale scale-out appliances with the startup’s dedupe software

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Nodeum adds clouds to boost tape-to-hybrid-cloud platform

  Belgian startup’s Linux-based storage environment now stretches from on-premise disk, LTFS tape and NAS to hybrid cloud working via AWS and Azure public clouds, with more planned

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Boom expected in processor attacks

  Sonicwall's latest research shows worrying signs that the processor flaws revealed at the start of 2018 are set to dominate IT security

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Hybrid cloud mainstream, but seamless operations hard to achieve

  Survey by 451 Research finds most organisations use a mix of on-premise and cloud locations, but truly seamless hybrid cloud operations are very difficult to achieve

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  All-flash rules while Brexit slows UK storage spend, says IDC

  IDC quarterly storage shipments tracker shows all-flash storage on top of the pile while Brexit slows UK spending and Huawei knocks Hitachi Data Systems out of top five

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Druva maintains cloud course with AWS cloud-to-cloud backup plans

  Backup product supplier Druva plans cloud-to-cloud backup to Amazon Web Services and other public cloud services as demand arises, in a future firmly fixed on hybrid operations

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Scality Zenko 'multi-cloud controller' offers hybrid cloud boost

  S3-based software control layer will support Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds to bring hybrid cloud operations, with object storage across private and public clouds

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  It’s the year of the cloud, says backup giant Veeam

  Veeam roadmap adds cloud to virtual and physical backup with acquisitions that bring cloud and hybrid functionality. Object archives, CDP and NAS backup are also planned

• February 27, 2018 27 Feb'18

  King’s College dumps legacy SAN for Nimble hybrid flash

  Cambridge college triples storage capacity for VMware virtualised environment and adds Veeam backup. Nimble hybrid flash ensures rapid data access with Sata bulk storage behind

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  Ideal Standard standardises in Emea with Nakivo virtual backup

  Bathroom multinational strips out country-based systems to virtualise across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nakivo beats Veeam on cost to provide VMware disk-based backup and slashes restore times

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Rackspace upgrade to save $12m with Scality object storage

  Cloud services giant Rackspace brings in Scality object storage in a move that slashes 4,000 boxes from its server count as it separates compute and storage

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Cohesity adds file and object to hyper-converged hybrid cloud

  Cohesity broadens out from hyper-converged backup and restore to offer file and object storage on its physical and virtual hyper-converged appliances and in the cloud

• February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

  Siemens’ Datrium NVMe flash speeds customer software deployment

  Siemens utility metering group deploys Datrium DVX in place of cumbersome LUN-based block storage and cuts customer software roll-outs to a few minutes and data restores to seconds

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Dell EMC: Time for hyper-converged, but not for mission critical

  Hyper-converged vs converged infrastructure: Dell EMC says hyper-converged isn’t ready for mission-critical applications, but may be by the end of the year

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  Zerto boosts cloud-to-cloud and hybrid cloud replication

  Zerto Virtual Replication version 6 allows hybrid cloud data protection operations across on-premises datacentres and Amazon, Microsoft and IBM clouds, and 350-plus service providers

• February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Where senior IT managers plan to spend their budget

  It is the year when IT departments migrate to Windows 10, upgrade to Windows Server 2016, architect microservices and deploy cloud management

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  GDPR requests to take thousands of hours a month, says survey

  A recent survey predicts organisations will potentially face thousands of customer requests about their personal information every month, with many unprepared for GDPR compliance

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  ESG survey: Storage spending habits become ‘hybrid-cloud-defined’

  Analyst survey finds cloud is used as a way to make storage more efficient, but organisations are also bringing cloud apps back into the datacentre and spending on in-house capacity

• January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18

  Qumulo file access hybrid cloud QF2 file system launches in Europe

  QF2 brings Posix/Windows-compatible scale-out NAS file storage to hybrid cloud with access via on-premise hardware appliance or Amazon compute and storage in the cloud

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Cloudian upgrade brings hybrid cloud file and object storage

  Move to Cloudian Hyperstore 7 enables data storage operations across on-premise and Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud environments with object and file access