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Hyper-converged infrastructure

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  NHS trust dumps creaking EMC SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged

  Derbyshire-based NHS trust had reached end-of-life with Dell servers and EMC SAN, so it took the plunge with Nutanix hyper-converged to reap space, power and reliability gains

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Medical firm puts vTax and SAN to sleep to save £30,000 with Scale

  Penlon replaces HPE servers and storage and VMware virtualisation to escape the high costs of licensing, and deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged appliances at two UK datacentres

• 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

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Pivot3 Cloud Edition adds backup from hyper-converged to AWS

  Hyper-converged infrastructure node maker dips its toes into hybrid cloud operations with Pivot3 Cloud Edition on Amazon Web Services to add cloud backup to HCI

• February 20, 2018 20 Feb'18

  Load Dynamix is now WorkloadWisdom and adds more NAS support

  Virtual Instruments enhances NAS testing and monitoring capabilities with SMB and 25GbE support in WorkloadWisdom but hybrid cloud monitoring will remain off limits for now

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Cohesity adds file and object to hyper-converged hybrid cloud

  Cohesity broadens out from hyper-converged backup and restore to offer file and object storage on its physical and virtual hyper-converged appliances and in the cloud

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Dell EMC: Time for hyper-converged, but not for mission critical

  Hyper-converged vs converged infrastructure: Dell EMC says hyper-converged isn’t ready for mission-critical applications, but may be by the end of the year

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Hyper-convergence and containers key storage-related deployments in 2018

  Hyper-converged infrastructure and containers are key deployments planned by UK customers in 2018, with flash storage, virtual machine storage and disk backup also prominent

• December 21, 2017 21 Dec'17

  IT Priorities 2018: South Korea to spend more on big data and IoT

  South Korean companies are expected to spend more in emerging technologies as well as move more workloads to the cloud in the coming year

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Top 10 NVMe flash storage stories of 2017

  NVMe promises to unleash flash storage to previously unheard-of performance. In this top 10 Computer Weekly NVMe flash stories of 2017, we track this rapidly emerging technology

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Top 10 storage and backup stories of 2017

  In Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories of 2017, we tracked key trends such as the continued rise of hyper-converged infrastructure, the emergence of NVMe flash and object storage

• November 27, 2017 27 Nov'17

  NHS trust gets Commvault to cut backup times and get set for GDPR

  North Derbyshire hospital trust cuts 70 physical servers to 11 Nutanix hyper-converged nodes, with Commvault replacing multiple backup software products in three-year project

• October 26, 2017 26 Oct'17

  Datrium gets Flash End-to-End in its server/shared hybrid DVX NVMe

  Taking aim at hyper-converged, Datrium DVX adds flash as bulk storage, while NVMe at the server handles hot data with the scale needed by enterprise customers in mind

• October 25, 2017 25 Oct'17

  Containers will oust VMs and storage arrays, says Red Hat

  Red Hat launches storage delivered via containers and predicts a future in which costly and inflexible storage hardware and pricey hypervisors will be a thing of the past

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Commvault joins the hyper-converged backup wave with Hyperscale

  Hyperscale Software and Hyperscale Appliance bring Commvault backup software in a reference architecture/software product or as a pre-configured server/storage box