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Computer storage hardware
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May 21, 2020
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May'20
Infinidat sees containers and S3 as key to join storage big guns
But that’s not all. The array maker – that brings flash performance with massive amounts of HDD plus cache – plans for NVMe-over-fabric and use of 20TB hard drives too
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May 19, 2020
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May'20
Portworx to add application profiles to persistent container storage
Kubernetes persistent container storage that runs from inside the cluster will add application storage profiles for applications such as Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch and Postgres
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May 19, 2020
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May'20
Storj app builds QNAP NAS into its Uber-like cloud storage network
QNAP NAS users can use the Storj app to configure spare capacity as part of the Tardigrade S3 cloud, which offers storage at half the cost of the main providers
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May 11, 2020
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May'20
Dell EMC launches PowerStore NVMe container-based storage array
PowerStore controller software is based on container modules for SAN and NAS storage, while the mid-range array is all-NVMe and aimed at performance-hungry use cases such as Splunk
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May 06, 2020
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May'20
Pure Storage FlashBlade OS v3.0 brings protected snapshots
Pure also adds remote replication and aims at storage use cases for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads in its all-flash NAS and object nodes
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May 04, 2020
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May'20
StorageOS v2 puts ‘mini brains’ in Kubernetes storage volumes
StorageOS persistent software-defined storage for Kubernetes distributes control plane decisions to volumes in a cluster and takes away the impact on centralised scheduler
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April 23, 2020
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Apr'20
What comes after flash? Weebit Nano hopes its ReRAM will
Weebit Nano’s ReRAM stores bits by building resistive filaments and promises a 1,000x speed boost over flash in chips that can store data for years and is well-suited to edge uses
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April 21, 2020
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Apr'20
Data excess linked to climate change
IT departments are unwittingly contributing to climate change by storing too much data, much of which will never be used
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March 25, 2020
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Mar'20
Smartbox move to Nutanix HCI a catalyst for IT team revamp
Gift supplier reorganises IT team structures as Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure helps sweep away legacy architecture for hybrid cloud and containerised operations
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March 20, 2020
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Mar'20
Unpatched Zyxel storage devices co-opted into IoT botnet
Owners of Zyxel network-attached storage devices are in danger of being hijacked by Mukashi, a descendant of the infamous Mirai botnet, if they don’t patch a critical vulnerability
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March 06, 2020
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Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India
Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments
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February 25, 2020
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Feb'20
IT Priorities 2020: Cloud storage key but SAN/NAS alive and well
In the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey cloud dominates storage spending priorities for 2020, but on-premise technologies such as SAN and NAS are still key to IT
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February 18, 2020
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Feb'20
Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds NAS backup and cloud tiering
Availability Suite is mostly about consolidating the company’s data management platform idea, but it has added incremental forever NAS backup, cloud tiering and recovery to vSphere
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February 18, 2020
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Feb'20
China’s tech sector to shrink by 10% in Q1 amid virus outbreak
Hardware makers will be hit more badly than software houses, but the decline in China’s ICT market will be limited to the first quarter
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February 17, 2020
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Feb'20
Isilon’s multi-dot upgrade to OneFS 8.2.2 masks big changes
The latest quarterly update to OneFS sees maximum file size grow to 16TB, brings in data deduplication in real time for HDDs, better load balancing and a new Kubernetes CSI
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February 12, 2020
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Feb'20
IBM unifies storage arrays under FlashSystem brand
IBM to bring together all non-mainframe storage arrays as FlashSystem product, with options from entry-level to petabyte-scale with NVMe flash and storage class memory
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February 10, 2020
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Feb'20
US hotel group ditches datacentre for Nasuni cloud NAS
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts got rid of its datacentre and put everything in the cloud, with Nasuni cloud NAS providing storage from which any user can restore files
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February 05, 2020
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Feb'20
Veeam pushes subscription licensing in cloud-centric ‘Act II’
Backup specialist wants to “win the cloud” as it pushes towards a cloud-focused vision that includes pay-for-what-you-use and multicloud after its acquisition last month
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February 04, 2020
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Feb'20
Acronis CEO bullish as specialist goes beyond backup
Acronis is set to launch Cyber Protect as it rides a wave of confidence based on increasing revenues and investor funding. Will the backup-plus-cyber protection calculation pay off?
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January 29, 2020
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Jan'20
Formulus Black Forsa turns memory into block storage
Forsa allows customers to bring application data into memory, by provisioning DRAM or persistent memory as block access storage with latency several times better than NVMe flash
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January 24, 2020
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Jan'20
Disaster recovery failover choices: Synchronous mirrors, P2V and the cloud
We survey the key options in disaster recovery: whether to failover to an on-site location or off-site facility. We also look at the cloud as an option in disaster recovery
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January 13, 2020
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Jan'20
$5bn buy-out set to make backup giant Veeam a US company
Veeam’s founders are out as investment fund gets its hands on a pioneer of virtual machine backup. Now it will be a US company and eligible to target US government customers
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January 07, 2020
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Jan'20
Scale’s HE150 the first of a big push to small edge HCI hardware
Scale Computing aims to scale to micro-sized hyper-converged with a lightweight operating system it claims its competitors can’t match for edge and remote location deployments
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December 19, 2019
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Dec'19
Top 10 storage stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories for 2019, with the latest trends in enterprise storage arrays, hyper-converged, object storage, scale-out NAS, and more
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December 09, 2019
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Dec'19
Public sector still losing user devices in high numbers
The Ministry of Justice has lost 354 smartphones, PCs, laptops and tablets in the past 12 months, according to a Freedom of Information request, and other government departments are in the same boat
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December 09, 2019
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Dec'19
China bans foreign computing kit from government contracts
All government offices and public institutions must eliminate foreign hardware and software within three years, according to a leaked directive dubbed 3-5-2
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December 05, 2019
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Dec'19
NetApp’s Keystone hybrid cloud storage ‘try-before-you-buy’ for on-prem
Keystone on-premise and cloud subscription model will cost more than buying hardware so will be best suited to customers that want to try NetApp on-site before committing to purchase
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December 03, 2019
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Dec'19
Survey finds most firms don’t respond to GDPR requests in time
Most organisations do not respond to requests for GDPR data in the one month allowed, while many return incorrect data. The education sector does best, but the public sector lags behind
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November 25, 2019
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Nov'19
University of Leicester dumps SANs and LUNs for Cloudian object storage
One-to-one mapping between Dell SANs and media servers had passed their sell-by date and caused vulnerabilities for the University of Leicester, which fixed the problems by a move to “stateless” object storage on Cloudian
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November 20, 2019
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Nov'19
Swedish hospitals suffer IT crashes
Hospitals in Sweden’s West Götaland region have suffered computer problems because of as-yet unexplained hard drive crashes
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November 20, 2019
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Nov'19
Datrium boosts VMware protection but won’t add more hypervisors
NVMe flash pioneer turned DR-as-a-service-focused data platform provider Datrium says VMware and Kubernetes have “won the market” and it won’t extend support beyond those two
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November 19, 2019
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Nov'19
Businesses failing to wipe data from old endpoints
Organisations are not taking adequate precautions to sanitise data held on endpoints when refreshing their PC or mobile device estates
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November 18, 2019
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Nov'19
DataCore adds file and S3 object storage with vFilO
Software-defined storage specialist DataCore has added file storage and S3 object storage access with vFilO, which lets customers create virtual pools from on-site and remote datastores
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November 06, 2019
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Nov'19
Scality APIs connect Azure Stack to Ring object storage on-site
Object storage specialist continues its cloud integration journey by adding Microsoft Azure Blob API connectors to allow use of Ring as bulk storage for Azure edge data
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November 05, 2019
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Nov'19
Qumulo gets HPE upgrade as customers ‘come back from object’
Distributed file system maker Qumulo benefits from HPE Apollo hardware upgrade in a market where Qumulo exec says customers are coming back from object storage for unstructured data
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October 29, 2019
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Oct'19
NordVPN enlists ethical hackers, launches bug bounty programme
Breached consumer VPN supplier details steps it is taking to shore up its cyber security posture after an unknown actor gained access to one of its servers
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October 24, 2019
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Oct'19
Total saves £95,000 a year with Nutanix hyper-converged
Gas and electricity supplier struggled with ageing traditional infrastructure, but moved to hyper-converged for projects that include containers and DevOps deployments
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October 21, 2019
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Oct'19
Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers
Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too
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October 16, 2019
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Oct'19
Commvault adds Metallic SaaS backup and Hedvig features
Backup software maker adds software-as-a-service Metallic, which can protect on-premise, cloud and hybrid platforms. Meanwhile, Hedvig gets datacentre features and erasure coding
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October 07, 2019
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Oct'19
PLC flash: A solid state candidate for analytics and archives?
We thought flash would end at QLC, but storage media makers are working on penta-level cell, which could push capacity to double figures, but at a further performance cost
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October 01, 2019
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Oct'19
Intel previews Optane persistent memory, QLC SSD and even PLC
Intel sets out roadmap for second-generation Optane persistent memory – between SSD and DRAM – as well as QLC SSD, with talk of PLC (penta-level cell) after that
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September 30, 2019
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Sep'19
HPE refurbishes legacy IT assets to make money for users
HPE Financial Services is giving old IT assets a new lease of life at its tech renewal site in Erskine, near Glasgow, as part of a promotion of the circular economy
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September 25, 2019
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Sep'19
National Library of Scotland says aye to Scality object storage
National digitised archives move off Hitachi SANs and Qualstar tape, object storage is embraced and a “no backup” strategy put in place with petabyte-scale Scality S3/file deployment
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September 24, 2019
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Sep'19
Pure adds Optane and QLC flash to boost performance and capacity
Flash storage player adds Intel Optane modules performance, a capacity flash range based on QLC drives, plus rebranding and GA of its on-premise/cloud leasing service
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September 24, 2019
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Sep'19
Cloud provider sweeps away legacy storage for 1PB of Infinidat
Core DataCloud decommissions storage from several vendors to consolidate to 1PB on Infinidat Infinibox, with DRAM and flash to accelerate hot data in front of disk back end
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September 17, 2019
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Sep'19
Northwestern cuts storage costs in half with Komprise
Komprise’s Deep Analytics helps university classify and migrate research data to cheaper disk and cloud as it cuts storage costs from $1.1m to $680,000 per annum
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September 10, 2019
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Sep'19
Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software
Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore
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September 10, 2019
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Sep'19
Ctera launches hybrid cloud HC2400M at media use cases
Edge filer specialist hits up the media and entertainment market with its NAS-like hardware that caches data locally, syncs with other nodes and stages data to the cloud
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September 09, 2019
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Sep'19
Commvault buys Hedvig in push for global storage player status
Backup player Commvault aims to bring together datacentre and multi-cloud operations with software-defined storage that can unify access to almost any storage medium, anywhere
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September 04, 2019
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Sep'19
Virtual Instruments brings automated VM right-sizing in v6.2
Storage and app performance specialist can now change virtual machine compute and network resources according to workload, with increased shift to analytics and proactive monitoring