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Computer storage hardware

• 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