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Data centre hardware

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  20TB hard drives expected in 2019 as Seagate HAMR is tested by NetApp

  Heat-assisted method of writing to disk looks likely to push HDD capacities to 20TB this year, with 40TB possible by 2023, for media suited to colder data

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Exxon joins IBM’s quantum committee as Q System One goes commercial

  The Q System One is said to be the world’s first commercial quantum computer. ExxonMobil and CERN hope to exploit IBM’s latest tech

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Growth of on-premise tech hit by enterprise cloud demand in 2018, Synergy Research shows

  Growth opportunities for on-premise technologies within the enterprise are starting to feel the pinch from cloud, claims Synergy Research's 2018 market review

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  Equinix to open fourth Singapore datacentre in 2019

  The latest investment by Equinix in Singapore comes as datacentre operators look to fill vacant real estate arising from intense market competition between 2017 and 2018

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  Huawei debuts Arm-based chip, eyes broader server market

  Huawei’s Kunpeng 920 processor is geared towards big data and infrastructure applications, marking its foray into Arm-based servers that are set to change the dynamics of the datacentre market

• December 31, 2018 31 Dec'18

  Top 10 network stories of 2018

  2018 was the year when software-defined networking, and more specifically software-defined WANs, took centre stage. We look back at a transformative year for the world of the network manager

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Virtual Instruments aims to be “the brain of the datacentre”

  Virtual Instruments hopes artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality that helps IT staff spot connections between application and storage performance could put an end to the “war room”

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  Data volumes set to hit 175ZB with a tectonic shift to the cloud

  There will be more data in the public cloud than enterprise datacentres or consumer devices by 2025 as data shifts location, according to a study by IDC and Seagate

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  NetApp and Pure show strong results on flash storage and cloud

  NetApp records healthy year-on-year revenue increase with flash showing out well, while Pure Storage sees incredible earnings for its flash products over 12 months

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Survey: Data very fragmented, and that’s a worry for most

  Cohesity-sponsored survey finds most organisations store multiple copies of secondary data and worry about the cost and the effect on their competitiveness

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Sixth form college rebuilds after fire with Scale hyper-converged

  Xaverian College suffered a server room fire but took the opportunity to build a hyper-converged infrastructure with Scale Computing that did away with costly VMware licence fees

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Pure Storage makes big hybrid push with Cloud Data Services

  Flash storage pioneer makes a big deal of its object storage architecture as it launches Pure capacity in the AWS cloud, plus replication to the cloud for on-premise hardware

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  Rubrik adds Oracle, NoSQL and SAP Hana data protection

  Scale-out backup appliance maker has already ticked most physical and virtual support boxes and is now filling out the details with enterprise application support

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  OpenStack Foundation will tackle infrastructure barriers to enterprise AI adoption

  OpenStack supporting community will help enterprises to overcome infrastructure barriers to adopting artificial intelligence technologies in 2019 as demand for GPU and FPGA-based set-ups grows

• November 13, 2018 13 Nov'18

  Panasas refreshes with ActiveStor Ultra in push to the enterprise

  Scale-out NAS maker Panasas wants to make its ActiveStor storage more attractive to enterprises by touting its ease of use and putting storage nodes on commodity hardware

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  AWS cloud network architecture could put users at heightened risk of disruption, study claims

  A comparison study of AWS, Google and Microsoft's network architectures reveals stark differences in how they process user traffic, ThousandEyes report shows

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Excelero adds NVMe flash via Ethernet and Fibre Channel

  NVMesh2 will allow NVMe flash connectivity, so customers can use existing network hardware between servers. Erasure coding for data protection is also added

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  IBM refreshes StorWize with NVMe flash and NVMe-over-fabrics

  Big Blue boosts midrange arrays with NVMe and NVMf capability and launches Spectrum Discover, a Data Lake metadata-focused data analysis tool, plus a new tape drive, the TS1160

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Igneous enhances unstructured data management product

  Specialist Igneous allows customers to backup and archive, search, manage, move and handle large sets of unstructured files that mainstream NAS can find difficult to handle

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Internet of things challenges in storage and data

  The internet of things (IoT) brings challenges, with a host of new edge devices and data. We look at edge and core processing, compliance and information lifecycle management in IoT

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Violin to add X-IO flash, hybrid and disk as mid-range options

  Reborn Violin Systems is to buy X-IO’s spinning disk, all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems in a bid to provide more mid-range options to its customers

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation

  Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Public Health England builds Ceph and Lustre cloud for analytics

  Healthcare analytics and modelling organisation Public Health England built an open source cloud from Red Hat Ceph object storage and Lustre scale-out file access storage to petabyte scale

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Ctera to enhance multi-cloud after $30m funding boost

  Ctera does “NAS replacement” on object storage in the cloud, but wants its customer on-premises hardware to be smarter to allow tiering of data to multiple private and public clouds

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Violin launches XVS8 flagship high-performance flash array

  Reborn Violin Systems launches flash boxes that can scale to petabytes and are aimed at transactional, analytics and virtualisation use cases, with NVMe upgrades expected

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  New cloud storage services for Microsoft Azure at Ignite 2018

  Microsoft launches Data Box hardware appliances for cloud ingestion, Avere vFXT cloud NAS, Ultra SSD storage based on NVMe flash and Azure Premium file storage

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Object storage: On-prem, in the cloud and hybrid

  We take a look at the object storage market and products and find offerings made to build public and private clouds that often provide a link between the two

• September 21, 2018 21 Sep'18

  Foreshadow mitigation obscures licensing impact

  Performance of virtual machines could be severely affected by the workaround for Intel’s latest processor flaw. To compensate, more processors will be needed

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  EU-backed bid to cap idle energy use by datacentre servers moves closer

  Move to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres by capping idle energy use by servers by 2020 comes one step closer, despite opposition from IBM, HPE and Dell-EMC

• September 18, 2018 18 Sep'18

  BFI deploys SpectraLogic tape in PB-scale digitisation project

  British Film Institute got SpectraLogic tape and Black Pearl when it wanted multi-petabyte capacity and the ability to write tape archive of 10,000 movies into its workflows

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  Lenovo cements deal with NetApp to strengthen datacentre foundation

  Lenovo wants to become more customer-centric. A tie-up with NetApp takes its datacentre strategy to the next phase. We investigate

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Enterprise investments in datacentre infrastructure rebound as component shortage price hikes hit

  Enterprises are spending more on datacentre infrastructure, as demand for private and hybrid cloud environments increase, and price hikes from component shortages drive up average cost of hardware

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Enterprise demand drives hike in storage sales, says IDC

  Healthy jump in all-flash and SAN/NAS sales is being driven by enterprise storage modernisation, but also by component price rises. Dell EMC and NetApp top the supplier sales charts

• September 04, 2018 04 Sep'18

  DDN to make enterprise push with Tintri’s VM-aware storage

  DDN set to add Tintri’s portfolio of all-flash and hybrid flash arrays to its product offering following the purchase of the VM-aware storage pioneer after it filed for bankruptcy in June

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Accountant dumps Dell SAN for StorMagic hyper-converged

  Accounting firm ditches traditional SAN hardware for software-defined hyper-converged storage from StorMagic and avoids tens of thousands of dollars in capex costs

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Cloudian’s $94m new funds to target 100PB-scale operations

  CEO Michael Tso says funding in engineering efforts aims to make sure Cloudian can meet the challenge of object storage deployments growing to hundreds of petabytes

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Arsenal puts Acronis in defence for analytics cloud backup

  Football club is increasingly driven by video and data analysis and opts for cloud backup software-as-a-service and quick restore to any location to replace ad-hoc staff solutions

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Taking stock of Dell EMC’s growth in Asia

  Tech supplier Dell EMC is riding on growing demand for servers and hyper-converged infrastructure, and investing in more technical resources to support enterprises in digital transformation efforts

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Newisys bare metal NVMe box targets performance market

  Former OEM supplier come out of stealth with dual-server box that can mount 56 NVMe drives for hyperscale datacentres or build-your-own NVMe shared storage hardware

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  Veritas aims to boost NetBackup with simplified UI and setup

  Two decades-old enterprise product upgraded with backups that can be set in three clicks, down from 30, plus instant VM workload recovery and capacity monitoring and planning

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  StorageCraft launches OneXafe scale-out backup appliances

  Product revamp sees firm launch OneXafe scale-out secondary and primary storage with ShadowXafe data protection software in backup appliance for physical and virtual environments

• August 16, 2018 16 Aug'18

  Virgin Atlantic signs five-year IT infrastructure delivery and management deal with Exponential-e

  Transatlantic airline claims teaming up with Exponential-e will provide its IT team with the "technology backbone" needed to roll out improvements to its customer-facing services

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  Quantum is revolutionary, but UK must fix funding

  Quantum sensing could replace GPS navigation, and cut the cost of major building projects. But industry needs to work with academia to prototype quantum technologies

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  JWT slashes server estate in move to Ctera cloud appliances

  Marketing agency deploys Ctera cloud-attached NAS for 10,000 employees to simplify IT infrastructure, cutting server count and slashing software and hardware costs

• 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

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Bolloré Group partners with Alibaba for cloud and co-development

  French transportation conglomerate will use Alibaba cloud, and Alibaba will look at using Bolloré's battery technology in its datacentres

• 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