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Data protection, backup and archiving

• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  Steel firm adds steel to resilience with Scale hyper-converged

  Carrs Tool Steels had to move on from legacy servers and found hyper-converged infrastructure from Scale Computing the ideal fit for a small business that couldn’t afford downtime

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  University graduates to Rubrik backup appliance with Azure cloud

  University of Reading could only back up 20% of its data on an ageing tape library, so it modernised with a Rubrik appliance and Azure cloud storage in a cost-neutral project

• June 05, 2019 05 Jun'19

  Komprise to add Deep Analytics to unstructured data management

  New functionality will allow customers to create and interrogate virtual data set from potentially petabytes of unstructured data across multiple shares and physical storage

• June 04, 2019 04 Jun'19

  Is ‘Brexit effect’ to blame for drop in UK data management investments?

  Research from data backup software supplier Veeam suggests UK C-suite is set to invest much less in data management over the course of the next 12 months than the rest of the world, prompting concerns that Brexit might be to blame

• May 22, 2019 22 May'19

  V.Pharma swaps Data Domain for Quantum and cuts backup costs

  Belgian pharmacy’s Data Domains had reached end-of-life and it wanted to remain in-budget. Quantum DXi worked out a lot cheaper and easy to manage, with good support

• May 20, 2019 20 May'19

  Reduxio’s Magellan charts course to storage in containers

  Reduxio makes its storage product functionality available via microservices in containers aimed at container-native deployments, in an initial closed customer beta

• May 16, 2019 16 May'19

  Datrium rebrands hybrid cloud data platform as Automatrix

  NVMe pioneer Datrium announces ControlShift disaster recovery automation as a service, while bundling its data platform offerings as Automatrix, and lauds the benefits compared to siloed IT

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Gorilla bets on Object Matrix for £1m-plus-per-episode TV shows

  Customers such as Netflix, Amazon and the BBC need to be sure their content is stored safely. Gorilla Post Production chose object storage from Wales-based Object Matrix

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  HPE to launch Cloud Volumes in UK and Ireland

  HPE Cloud Volumes will offer enterprise-class block storage for use with AWS and Azure compute plus a replication store for backup and disaster recovery from the end of May

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  Pure Storage buys Compuverde to put object storage on steroids

  Fast flash storage specialist Pure Storage adds object storage to FlashArray and aims to compete with NetApp on NAS while bringing flash performance to web applications

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  JetStream DR cloud replication aims to make backup redundant

  JetStream’s IO Filter allows for continuous replication to the cloud of VMware virtual machines and virtual disks instead of scheduled snapshots or backups, and with a near-zero RPO

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Datrium makes European push as it targets storage ‘big guys’

  NVMe pioneer turned hybrid cloud and “data platform” provider makes a push for the enterprise and wants to take scalps from those selling “1990s SAN technology”

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Cranfield gets Rubrik backup plus Nutanix in drive to the cloud

  Research-led university goes hyper-converged across the board with Rubrik backup appliances and Nutanix in a move to rationalise on-site physical needs and drive to the cloud

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Commvault adds “tape killer” AWS Glacier Deep Archive cold storage

  Backup provider to offer 1-cent-a-gigabyte AWS Glacier Deep Archive as a target in a move that mirrors a trend towards the cloud and away from tape among Commvault customers

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Cohesity plans to put backup data to good use

  Cohesity’s DataPlatform now makes use of previously dormant backup data with analytics to provide business value and to tackle threats such as ransomware