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Computer storage hardware

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Solidfire slots in all-flash SF9605 and debuts storage software Element X

  Solidfire adds the SF9605, a higher-capacity iteration of its 05-suffixed arrays, and announces availability of Element X operating system

• February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15

  NTS gets DotHill hybrid flash with tiering in datacentre revamp

  The National Trust for Scotland has deployed a DotHill hybrid flash SAN with automated storage tiering to support a revamp of its IT systems

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Dell adds Nutanix-powered XC630 and XC730 hyperconverged systems

  Dell targets range of use cases with XC630 and XC730 Nutanix-powered server/storage nodes

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  PernixData FVP boosts RAM as host storage with up to 4x compression

  Flash caching firm PernixData adds compression to FVP 2.5 for more scope to use RAM as host-based storage for high-performance datasets

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Organisations address virtual server backup but disaster recovery top priority in 2015

  Computer Weekly survey shows fewer UK IT departments prioritise virtual server backup in 2015, but disaster recovery remains a key task

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  IBM moves to MLC in FlashSystem 900 and V9000 all-flash arrays

  IBM boosts density with new Micron MLC flash drives in revamped all-flash arrays, the FlashSystem 900 and the V9000 that includes SAN Volume Controller storage virtualisation hardware

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Suse launches Ceph-based cloud software-defined storage

  Suse launches commercially-supported object, block and file Ceph distribution Enterprise Storage, software-defined storage

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Violin Memory launches full-featured 7300 and 7700 series flash arrays

  Violin Memory launches 7300 and 7700 series all-flash arrays with replication, failover, WAN optimisation and data deduplication

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Catalogic hopes to bury backup with ECX copy data management

  Software maker believes backup can be a thing of the past if users leverage snapshots for data protection using copy data management products

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Actifio One adds hybrid cloud storage tier to appliances

  Actifio One adds hybrid cloud functionality to existing software and hardware appliances that slim multiple file iterations to fewest needed across the organisation

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Veeam posts 40% growth in virtual machine backup product revenues

  Virtual machine backup software maker Veeam records 40% year-on-year increase in booked licence revenues in 2014

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  EMC launches VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliances

  EMC announces VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance in general purpose and performance variants

• January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

  NetApp adds EF560 and E5600 all-flash and hybrid flash arrays

  NetApp adds boosted IOPS in all-flash EF560 plus hybrid flash and HDD products in E5600 series, expanding capacity in the midrange

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Quantum adds hybrid cloud storage options to StorNext Q-Series and DXi

  Quantum adds Q-Series Archive, Q-Series Vault and Q-Cloud Protect for AWS to its StorNext environment

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Will the mainframe survive IBM job cuts?

  The mainframe survived minicomputers, the client server, the web and Y2K, but its future is under scrutiny as IBM prepares a rethink