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SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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February 24, 2021
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Feb'21
Arcserve and StorageCraft merger aims for ‘single pane of glass’
Arcserve and StorageCraft bring a lot of similarities but enough differences for their backers to bet on with their merger, with unifying management between product sets the only priority currently stated
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February 17, 2021
17
Feb'21
IXsystems: TrueNAS gets hyper-convergence
TrueNAS has added hyper-converged functionality to NAS and aims at the edge use cases left behind in the rush to the cloud
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February 17, 2021
17
Feb'21
Executive interview: Tapping APAC’s storage potential
Lenovo’s head of storage in Asia-Pacific singles out the region’s market opportunities and predicts that the healthcare sector will go full-fledged with flash storage in the next year
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February 16, 2021
16
Feb'21
C40, C60 R3, go! Pure adds to FlashArray//C QLC flash range
Hybrid storage killers: Pure Storage adds entry-level FlashArray//C40 R3 QLC array plus re-CPUed C60 R3 that will scale to 5PB or more
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February 09, 2021
09
Feb'21
IBM refreshes entry-level FlashSystem arrays with a little NVMe
Big Blue refreshes three entry-level systems – the 5200, 5035 and 5015 – with the flagship of them gaining all-NVMe flash storage capability and cluster scaling to 10s of PB
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January 22, 2021
22
Jan'21
MinIO stakes leadership claims in cloud object container storage
2016 startup MinIO reckons it has first mover advantage as a container-native platform that provides private/cloud object storage in and orchestrated by Kubernetes
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January 20, 2021
20
Jan'21
Architect slashes 20% off storage costs with Nasuni NAS gateway
LA-based Jerde Partnership replaced on-premise storage and backup with Nasuni hybrid cloud NAS gateways to provide seamless access across timezones to project files
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January 14, 2021
14
Jan'21
VVOLs and Pure win VM storage beauty parade for French chain
VMware Virtual Volumes and a move from NetApp to Pure Storage saw cosmetics retailer Beauty Success make performance gains and eliminate bottlenecks in ordering and logistics
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January 11, 2021
11
Jan'21
Malaysia’s storage market dips amid uncertainty
Malaysia’s enterprise storage market declined 9.2% in 2020, but recovery is on the cards this year as business confidence improves
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December 23, 2020
23
Dec'20
Top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020
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November 24, 2020
24
Nov'20
Pure adds block, Azure and convergence to as-a-service offerings
Pure customers can get its storage on-premise, in colocation or the cloud, and now it has added FlashArray C// block capacity and Flash Stack converged infrastructure to the catalogue
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November 10, 2020
10
Nov'20
IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 consolidates storage push to cloud
The emphasis on home and remote working has been felt in storage and backup as in all areas of IT, with continued evolution towards the cloud and as-a-service storage and backup
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November 10, 2020
10
Nov'20
Canada ad firm subtracts 44U with HPE and Ctera hyper-converged
Glenn Davis Group slashed its hardware estate from 48U of rack space to 4U when it ditched its SAN and tape legacy kit for flash-based Ctera X Series and cloud backup
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November 09, 2020
09
Nov'20
Quantum’s ATFS aims to classify and manage unstructured data
Quantum triumvirate now comprises ATFS for file system classification and management, StorNext for high performance with large files and ActiveScale object storage as a bulk store
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November 05, 2020
05
Nov'20
Slot of the Antarctic: Tape the best option for polar survey backup
Tape deemed the best medium for backup on board the Antarctic research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough, with Quantum’s Scalar i3 chosen in a fully redundant deployment
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October 28, 2020
28
Oct'20
NetApp boosts NVMe, QLC and container hybrid cloud offer
Storage giant NetApp unveils new AFF, FAS and E-series arrays with NVMe and QLC flash capability, plus object storage in Ontap and Spot cloud container resource management in Cloud Manager
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October 07, 2020
07
Oct'20
Carhartt shifts old data to the cloud with Komprise
US-based workwear manufacturer cuts storage costs from $1 to $0.25 per gigabyte as it deploys data management software and shifts old files to Microsoft Azure Blob and Cold storage
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September 28, 2020
28
Sep'20
Swiss ISP opts for Scality object storage for backup service
Move to object storage allows Lake Solutions to cut customer backup costs by 66% while providing new S3-based bucket storage for customers based on Scality on HPE
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September 21, 2020
21
Sep'20
Nutanix boosts storage performance by 50% with BlockStore
Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix boosts access to NVMe and potentially Optane storage with BlockStore, which avoids the need to access the deepest layers of the OS
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September 21, 2020
21
Sep'20
India’s storage market takes hit but hasn’t lost its shine
The slower growth in storage spending in India amid the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to be mitigated by digitisation efforts by financial services and manufacturing firms
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September 16, 2020
16
Sep'20
Pure flashes the cash, paying $370m for Portworx
Flash storage pioneer believes container storage is the next frontier and pays big money for container persistent storage software provider Portworx in deal set to close this month
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September 15, 2020
15
Sep'20
Scality aims at high-performance object with Ring 8 all-flash
Object storage specialist – with file storage capability – aims at tier-1 use cases such as AI/ML, content delivery and some backup tasks with all-flash upgrade to Scality Ring 8
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September 10, 2020
10
Sep'20
Broadcom launches Brocade gen7 Fibre Channel switches
New generation Fibre Channel doubles performance to 64Gbps with switches and HBAs now available. But what future for Fibre Channel with NVMe-over-fabrics hitting the datacentre?
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September 07, 2020
07
Sep'20
Dutch bank set to save €5m via Veeam backup upgrade
Rabobank ditched legacy backup where patching took months and restores took hours. Those times are now cut down massively and the bank has a readily available test environment
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September 02, 2020
02
Sep'20
Nimbus Data launches 64TB of QLC flash in one drive for £8,000
Flash pioneer aims QLC-equipped ExaDrive NL at AI/ML, analytics, media streaming and archiving use cases. Nimbus eschews NVMe for well-established SAS and SATA connectivity
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September 01, 2020
01
Sep'20
Pure aims at unified file and object and launches new QLC storage
Flash storage maker says unified storage in file and object is what is needed for contemporary analytics and AI workloads, while it launches a new all-QLC version of FlashArray//C
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August 25, 2020
25
Aug'20
Intel’s DAOS tops the IO500 speed challenge for HPC storage
Following on from Lustre, Intel’s DAOS is an object storage-based system with that is designed specifically for use with Optane for metadata and SSD for bulk storage in HPC environments
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August 19, 2020
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Aug'20
Veeam to add CDP, plus Google cloud as a target
Backup giant set to add continuous data protection for the most critical workloads, plus Google cloud as a target – all on the back of a storming quarter during the pandemic
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August 18, 2020
18
Aug'20
Panasas launches storage tiering by size instead of usage
Dynamic Data Acceleration moves data to media dependent on file size and claims performance advantage over rival as it gets the best out of flash and spinning disk hard drives
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August 12, 2020
12
Aug'20
Pure and Cohesity launch FlashRecover for flash-speed restores
Flash market pioneer links up with scale-out backup product maker to provide bundled backup plus super-fast recovery based around Pure FlashBlade storage arrays
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August 11, 2020
11
Aug'20
Nutanix launches Clusters in AWS for hybrid cloud hyper-converged infrastructure
HCI pioneers launches Nutanix Clusters, which will provide hyper-converged deployments across customer datacentres and the Amazon cloud, but only in Acropolis and on AWS for now
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July 23, 2020
23
Jul'20
Commvault refreshes HyperScale backup appliances with Hedvig
Backup player set to replace Fujitsu/Red Hat-based backup appliances with new hardware and storage software from Hedvig, which it bought late last year
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July 15, 2020
15
Jul'20
University graduates to Nutanix Files hyper-converged NAS
The University of Reading had already deployed Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure so it made sense to add Nutanix Files when its ageing NAS boxes bit the dust
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July 08, 2020
08
Jul'20
Pavilion adds object storage to NVMe Hyperparallel Flash Array
Pavilion responds to customer demand for object storage to support AI/ML, big data analytics workloads with multi-controller NMVe flash storage architecture
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July 07, 2020
07
Jul'20
Fujifilm software allows S3 access to LTO tape libraries
Fujifilm Software Defined Tape allows tape libraries to act as an S3-based object storage archive accessible as a tier of storage on-premise or in the cloud
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July 01, 2020
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Jul'20
Qumulo hybrid cloud NAS provides special effects for Cinesite
Hybrid cloud scale-out NAS from Qumulo used to offload Active Directory lookups and other workloads to the AWS cloud that had suffered in peak times when on Isilon
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June 29, 2020
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Jun'20
Qumulo Shift opens up scale-out NAS to AWS S3 in the cloud
Qumulo Shift will automatically convert file data on its NAS arrays to S3 object storage format in the AWS cloud. The functionality will be free to customers from July
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June 25, 2020
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Jun'20
Nebulon emerges with software-defined storage, but from the cloud
Startup to offer on-site storage with local I/O and some controller functionality in the cloud, combining software-defined and cloud to bring “fleet management at scale”
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June 23, 2020
23
Jun'20
SoftIron aims at data too valuable for commodity storage
UK array maker hopes to be the storage provider of choice for those that really value their data, with highly optimised Ceph-powered hardware aimed at HPC users and enterprises
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June 18, 2020
18
Jun'20
US buildings firm saves big on HDDs with Nasuni cloud NAS
APi Group dumps first-generation file sharing for Nasuni, which allowed it to save ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ with standard hardware deployments and cutting local storage
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June 16, 2020
16
Jun'20
QLC + 3D Xpoint = Vast Data’s universal storage
Vast marries cheap-and-deep QLC flash with super-fast 3D Xpoint to bring flash for all data, with a particular eye on analytics and with NAS and S3 object access for now
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June 09, 2020
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Jun'20
Churchill gets Ctera hybrid cloud NAS and dodges 3PAR disk spend
Potteries-based ceramics maker faced the choice between expanding its HPE SAN at great cost or deploying Ctera hybrid cloud NAS. It saved thousands by heading for hybrid cloud
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June 02, 2020
02
Jun'20
OneFS for Cloud is a heavyweight entrant in cloud file storage
Dell EMC’s porting of its Isilon OneFS scale-out file system to cloud and hybrid use cases brings a big player to a market that has had some innovative incumbents for some time
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May 29, 2020
29
May'20
Kaminario offers cut-price virtual SAN in the cloud
Flash pioneer Kaminario builds its VisionOS out to the cloud and says its cloud block storage is much cheaper than what is available from the native cloud services of the big three providers
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May 21, 2020
21
May'20
Infinidat sees containers and S3 as key to join storage big guns
But that’s not all. The array maker – that brings flash performance with massive amounts of HDD plus cache – plans for NVMe-over-fabric and use of 20TB hard drives too
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May 19, 2020
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May'20
Portworx to add application profiles to persistent container storage
Kubernetes persistent container storage that runs from inside the cluster will add application storage profiles for applications such as Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch and Postgres
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May 19, 2020
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May'20
Storj app builds QNAP NAS into its Uber-like cloud storage network
QNAP NAS users can use the Storj app to configure spare capacity as part of the Tardigrade S3 cloud, which offers storage at half the cost of the main providers
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May 11, 2020
11
May'20
Dell EMC launches PowerStore NVMe container-based storage array
PowerStore controller software is based on container modules for SAN and NAS storage, while the mid-range array is all-NVMe and aimed at performance-hungry use cases such as Splunk
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May 06, 2020
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May'20
Pure Storage FlashBlade OS v3.0 brings protected snapshots
Pure also adds remote replication and aims at storage use cases for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads in its all-flash NAS and object nodes
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April 23, 2020
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Apr'20
What comes after flash? Weebit Nano hopes its ReRAM will
Weebit Nano’s ReRAM stores bits by building resistive filaments and promises a 1,000x speed boost over flash in chips that can store data for years and is well-suited to edge uses
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March 25, 2020
25
Mar'20
Smartbox move to Nutanix HCI a catalyst for IT team revamp
Gift supplier reorganises IT team structures as Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure helps sweep away legacy architecture for hybrid cloud and containerised operations
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March 20, 2020
20
Mar'20
Unpatched Zyxel storage devices co-opted into IoT botnet
Owners of Zyxel network-attached storage devices are in danger of being hijacked by Mukashi, a descendant of the infamous Mirai botnet, if they don’t patch a critical vulnerability
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February 25, 2020
25
Feb'20
IT Priorities 2020: Cloud storage key but SAN/NAS alive and well
In the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey cloud dominates storage spending priorities for 2020, but on-premise technologies such as SAN and NAS are still key to IT
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February 17, 2020
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Feb'20
Isilon’s multi-dot upgrade to OneFS 8.2.2 masks big changes
The latest quarterly update to OneFS sees maximum file size grow to 16TB, brings in data deduplication in real time for HDDs, better load balancing and a new Kubernetes CSI
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February 12, 2020
12
Feb'20
IBM unifies storage arrays under FlashSystem brand
IBM to bring together all non-mainframe storage arrays as FlashSystem product, with options from entry-level to petabyte-scale with NVMe flash and storage class memory
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February 10, 2020
10
Feb'20
US hotel group ditches datacentre for Nasuni cloud NAS
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts got rid of its datacentre and put everything in the cloud, with Nasuni cloud NAS providing storage from which any user can restore files
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January 29, 2020
29
Jan'20
Formulus Black Forsa turns memory into block storage
Forsa allows customers to bring application data into memory, by provisioning DRAM or persistent memory as block access storage with latency several times better than NVMe flash
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January 24, 2020
24
Jan'20
Cyber gangsters publish staff passwords following ‘Sodinokibi’ attack on car parts group Gedia
Sodinokibi hacking group steps up pressure on German automotive manufacturer by publishing information, including the CEO’s computer password and sensitive details of its IT systems, on the internet
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January 20, 2020
20
Jan'20
Inside NetApp’s transition into a data management firm
NetApp’s leaders in Asia-Pacific discuss the company’s pivot into data services and its traction in the region
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January 07, 2020
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Jan'20
Scale’s HE150 the first of a big push to small edge HCI hardware
Scale Computing aims to scale to micro-sized hyper-converged with a lightweight operating system it claims its competitors can’t match for edge and remote location deployments
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December 19, 2019
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Dec'19
Top 10 storage stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories for 2019, with the latest trends in enterprise storage arrays, hyper-converged, object storage, scale-out NAS, and more
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December 05, 2019
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Dec'19
NetApp’s Keystone hybrid cloud storage ‘try-before-you-buy’ for on-prem
Keystone on-premise and cloud subscription model will cost more than buying hardware so will be best suited to customers that want to try NetApp on-site before committing to purchase
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November 25, 2019
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Nov'19
University of Leicester dumps SANs and LUNs for Cloudian object storage
One-to-one mapping between Dell SANs and media servers had passed their sell-by date and caused vulnerabilities for the University of Leicester, which fixed the problems by a move to “stateless” object storage on Cloudian
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November 20, 2019
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Nov'19
Datrium boosts VMware protection but won’t add more hypervisors
NVMe flash pioneer turned DR-as-a-service-focused data platform provider Datrium says VMware and Kubernetes have “won the market” and it won’t extend support beyond those two
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November 18, 2019
18
Nov'19
DataCore adds file and S3 object storage with vFilO
Software-defined storage specialist DataCore has added file storage and S3 object storage access with vFilO, which lets customers create virtual pools from on-site and remote datastores
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November 06, 2019
06
Nov'19
Scality APIs connect Azure Stack to Ring object storage on-site
Object storage specialist continues its cloud integration journey by adding Microsoft Azure Blob API connectors to allow use of Ring as bulk storage for Azure edge data
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November 05, 2019
05
Nov'19
Qumulo gets HPE upgrade as customers ‘come back from object’
Distributed file system maker Qumulo benefits from HPE Apollo hardware upgrade in a market where Qumulo exec says customers are coming back from object storage for unstructured data
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October 24, 2019
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Oct'19
Total saves £95,000 a year with Nutanix hyper-converged
Gas and electricity supplier struggled with ageing traditional infrastructure, but moved to hyper-converged for projects that include containers and DevOps deployments
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October 21, 2019
21
Oct'19
Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers
Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too
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October 16, 2019
16
Oct'19
Commvault adds Metallic SaaS backup and Hedvig features
Backup software maker adds software-as-a-service Metallic, which can protect on-premise, cloud and hybrid platforms. Meanwhile, Hedvig gets datacentre features and erasure coding
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October 10, 2019
10
Oct'19
UK and Middle East PR firm ditches NetApp for Nutanix and Talon Fast
Four Communications needed better connectivity for collaboration between the UK and its gulf sites, so dumped server/storage for hyper-converged and a distributed file system
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October 07, 2019
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Oct'19
PLC flash: A solid state candidate for analytics and archives?
We thought flash would end at QLC, but storage media makers are working on penta-level cell, which could push capacity to double figures, but at a further performance cost
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October 01, 2019
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Oct'19
Dutch group works on digitising collaborator archives created in aftermath of World War 2
Experiments have been carried out to ascertain the best technology to open up the analogue archives of the Central Archive of Special Justice in the Netherlands
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October 01, 2019
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Oct'19
Intel previews Optane persistent memory, QLC SSD and even PLC
Intel sets out roadmap for second-generation Optane persistent memory – between SSD and DRAM – as well as QLC SSD, with talk of PLC (penta-level cell) after that
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September 30, 2019
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Sep'19
Pure Storage APAC CTO talks up storage trends
Flash-based storage will be around for at least two decades more, while crystal- and DNA-based storage needs a lot more work before becoming mainstream, according to Pure Storage’s CTO for the Asia-Pacific region
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September 25, 2019
25
Sep'19
National Library of Scotland says aye to Scality object storage
National digitised archives move off Hitachi SANs and Qualstar tape, object storage is embraced and a “no backup” strategy put in place with petabyte-scale Scality S3/file deployment
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September 24, 2019
24
Sep'19
Pure adds Optane and QLC flash to boost performance and capacity
Flash storage player adds Intel Optane modules performance, a capacity flash range based on QLC drives, plus rebranding and GA of its on-premise/cloud leasing service
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September 24, 2019
24
Sep'19
Cloud provider sweeps away legacy storage for 1PB of Infinidat
Core DataCloud decommissions storage from several vendors to consolidate to 1PB on Infinidat Infinibox, with DRAM and flash to accelerate hot data in front of disk back end
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September 17, 2019
17
Sep'19
Pure Storage sees stellar growth in APAC
Pure Storage is expanding its footprint in key markets such as Australia, Japan and South Korea, even as it proceeds with caution in China
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September 17, 2019
17
Sep'19
Pure Storage outlines growth momentum, bolsters cloud play
Pure Storage CEO talks up the storage supplier’s competitive edge in a largely stagnant market dominated by larger rivals
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September 10, 2019
10
Sep'19
Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software
Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore
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September 10, 2019
10
Sep'19
Ctera launches hybrid cloud HC2400M at media use cases
Edge filer specialist hits up the media and entertainment market with its NAS-like hardware that caches data locally, syncs with other nodes and stages data to the cloud
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September 09, 2019
09
Sep'19
Commvault buys Hedvig in push for global storage player status
Backup player Commvault aims to bring together datacentre and multi-cloud operations with software-defined storage that can unify access to almost any storage medium, anywhere
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September 04, 2019
04
Sep'19
Virtual Instruments brings automated VM right-sizing in v6.2
Storage and app performance specialist can now change virtual machine compute and network resources according to workload, with increased shift to analytics and proactive monitoring
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July 11, 2019
11
Jul'19
University of Bristol upgrades to Nimble as it takes IT off-site
Higher education institution gets trouble-free hybrid flash performance from Nimble and stores 600TB of data at two colocation sites to which it is transitioning from on-campus
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July 09, 2019
09
Jul'19
StorOne brings leasing for high-performance multiprotocol flash storage
To make a name for itself in the SME storage market, startup StorOne intends to innovate in technology and its economic approach, with a subscription model for storage
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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
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June 19, 2019
19
Jun'19
NetApp ports services to NetApp HCI for multi-cloud storage
NetApp will debut multi-cloud services on its NetApp HCI hyper-converged platform, with the first being its Kubernetes orchestrator service and Cloud Volumes
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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
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June 17, 2019
17
Jun'19
WekaIO adds enterprise features to scale-out NAS file system
WekaIO has Dell EMC’s Isilon, NetApp, GPFS and Lustre in its sights with its massively scalable hybrid-cloud NAS file system that also runs in the Amazon cloud
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June 11, 2019
11
Jun'19
Scale targets edge workloads with HE500 hyper-converged nodes
Scale Computing adds hyper-converged infrastructure nodes to provide edge compute and storage that is fully compatible with its datacentre-scale HCI appliances
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June 10, 2019
10
Jun'19
Western Digital aims to help rethink unstructured data storage
Zonedstorage.io is Western Digital-backed idea to re-architect unstructured data storage with sequential writes to high-capacity media such as SMR HDDs and ZNS NVMe flash
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May 28, 2019
28
May'19
Excelero and BeeGFS offer next-gen HPC based on NVMe flash
Super-fast solid-state storage in commodity servers ties up with recently-developed parallel file system BeeGFS to target high-performance computing use cases
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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
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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
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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
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May 08, 2019
08
May'19
Nasuni aims at analytics and fast migration to the cloud
Cloud NAS and object storage specialist says customers want “Lego blocks” that allow them to build for cloud workloads, and plans cloud migration tools for massive datasets
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May 01, 2019
01
May'19
Scality object storage scales to 400k mailboxes for NZ provider
New Zealand-based email hosting provider SMX needed to scale up its infrastructure to be able to handle 400,000 mailboxes, and found object storage from Scality fitted the bill
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April 30, 2019
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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
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April 29, 2019
29
Apr'19
LightBits Super SSD brings NVMe on vanilla Ethernet
Israeli startup LightBits offers super-fast NVMe flash storage over plain Ethernet networks in a move that some think will bring “iSCSI for the NVMe generation”