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Containers

• April 14, 2025 14 Apr'25

  SUSE CEO champions open source choice

  Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen warns against suppliers diluting open source to lock in customers, and touts SUSE’s commitment to providing choice and support across multiple Linux and Kubernetes distributions

• April 07, 2025 07 Apr'25

  KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up

  Developer overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration

  A recent event held by VMware rival Nutanix attracted many people new to the hyperconverged infrastructure provider

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs

  AWS Elastic Block Storage is often over-provisioned. Datafy virtualises EBS volumes to allow customers to scale capacity up and down, and says it will not charge customers if it doesn’t cut their costs

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Top 10 Kubernetes and storage stories of 2024

  In this 2024 review, Computer Weekly looks at Kubernetes’ evolution from stateless application runtime to enterprise-ready environment for cloud-native with persistent storage and data protection

• December 16, 2024 16 Dec'24

  Top 10 software development stories of 2024

  This year has seen large language models get significantly better at code generation

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp

  NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure

• December 01, 2024 01 Dec'24

  How SkyLab is democratising hybrid cloud management

  SkyLab is challenging the cloud status quo with its orchestration platform, which allows telcos and enterprises to seamlessly manage workloads across multiple cloud providers

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance

  Dutch political parties have warned about the Netherlands’ growing reliance on US tech giants

• November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

  Gartner Symposium: Time to get rid of the dead wood

  IT architecture complexity is set to increase in a way that means IT departments are juggling multicloud and legacy environments

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  SUSE sees growth in multi-Linux support and containers

  SUSE CEO talks up the company’s double-digit growth, fuelled by demand for its multi-Linux support offering, Rancher container platform and focus on artificial intelligence

• August 22, 2024 22 Aug'24

  The rise and rise of open source in China

  China’s embrace of open source software has evolved into a powerful force in the global technology landscape, driving innovations in cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other areas

• August 05, 2024 05 Aug'24

  What are the options when migrating from VMware?

  Broadcom’s changes to VMware licensing means some people are facing big price increases – we look at how these can be avoided

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency

  Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Macquarie Cloud debuts Australia-first hybrid offering

  Macquarie Flex brings Azure services to a broader set of workloads that are not suited to run natively on public cloud

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  VMware/Broadcom: Prepare for legacy support

  VMware is not going away anytime soon. While some IT leaders may be feeling the pain of Broadcom’s changes, they still need to seek a long-term plan

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves

  Large organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy

• May 26, 2024 26 May'24

  Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI

  Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves

  Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves

  Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  IBM boss discusses long-term VM migration opportunity

  IBM sees a big opportunity to migrate customers to containers and OpenShift, with its $6.4bn acquisition of HashiCorp part of the plan

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  AI firm saves a million in shift to Pure FlashBlade shared storage

  AI consultancy Crater Labs spent vast amounts of time managing server-attached drives to ensure GPUs were saturated. A shift to all-flash Pure Storage slashed that to almost zero

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Nib shutters last datacentre, moves most workloads to AWS

  The Australian health and travel insurance provider has closed the last of its seven datacentres, marking the end of its nine-year cloud migration programme

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  Goldman Sachs discusses virtues of Kubernetes for virtual machine management

  Kubernetes is not only a platform for orchestrating containers – Goldman Sachs has found it offers the same benefits when used to manage virtual machines

• March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  Cohesity: We won’t abandon NetBackup customers or force migration

  CEO promises no forced migration to Cohesity and not to abandon any NetBackup product while building new leadership in artificial intelligence and security around Cohesity Gaia

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud

  The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience

  The TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay

• January 17, 2024 17 Jan'24

  Data on Kubernetes Community aims at K8S storage scaling solution

  DoKC works on community solutions for Kubernetes. It aims to develop storage scaling automation for the containerised platform outside the orbit of the big vendors

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage stories of 2023

  In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023

  In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Nebulon upgrades SPU to Medusa2 with Nvidia DPU hardware

  Nebulon aims to replace HCI with its OS on an offload card that it claims reduces server resource use by 25%. Medusa2 uses Nvidia DPU hardware and its own cloud control plane

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona

  VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes

• October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23

  NetApp ‘unified storage’ adds new ASA block storage at Insight

  Las Vegas event sees NetApp continue its evolution to hybrid cloud and data management player announce ASA C-series and Keystone and Kubernetes storage enhancements

• September 26, 2023 26 Sep'23

  Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO

  SAN and NAS are finished in the age of the cloud when it comes to cloud-native Kubernetes storage, according to container-focused object storage maker MinIO

• September 05, 2023 05 Sep'23

  VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment

  VMware launches new iteration of vSAN Max with up to 8.6PB of independently scalable storage, NSX gets a “+” as it unifies networks and Ransomware Recovery ups efficiency

• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe

  German startup Simplyblock aims to deliver low-cost high-performance flash and NVMe-over-TCP storage for service provider customers, and has Ceph deployments in its sights

• August 04, 2023 04 Aug'23

  VMware Cloud on AWS expands to Melbourne cloud region

  MLC Life Insurance is tapping the VMware Cloud on AWS service in the AWS Melbourne cloud region to exit its datacentre and reduce technology costs

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play

  SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

• July 13, 2023 13 Jul'23

  Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon

  Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Johnson Controls opts for container-based app delivery with Portworx

  Buildings management giant built a suite of customer-facing products using containers and opted for Pure Storage Portworx for hybrid cloud container management and data protection

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

  The Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout

  NetApp will recover data hit by ransomware or pay a warranty, and has added entry-level SAN arrays and full access to all NetApp software across its hardware families

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Veritas shows off software SAN for Kubernetes at KubeCON 2023

  Veritas InfoScale aims to provide high-performance block access storage despite limitations such as a maximum node count of 16 per cluster

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Cloud and disaster recovery top storage and backup plans

  Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  IBM Storage launched with backup appliance plan

  Prosaically named brand will replace Spectrum products, while IBM rationalises offer for AI/ML, hybrid cloud and malware, which it sees as the backdrop to contemporary IT

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• March 09, 2023 09 Mar'23

  Velero wants to become the Kubernetes backup standard

  Open source Velero offers modular data protection and disaster recovery functionality via API for Kubernetes container clusters in an effort to become the standard in the field

• February 20, 2023 20 Feb'23

  Veeam bundles backup products into Veeam Data Platform

  Backup and data protection specialist Veeam upgrades and rebrands, with a focus on the challenges of ransomware and rapid recovery, and a claimed 500 new functions

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Akamai eyes cloud market with Connected Cloud

  Akamai marks foray into cloud computing with a distributed cloud computing platform that is touted to make it easier for enterprises to get applications and data closer to their customers