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SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Qumulo upgrades hybrid-flash hybrid cloud C-series with C-72T

  Hybrid cloud-focused clustered NAS provider Qumulo’s C-72T takes advantage of cheaper and better components to start at 72TB and scale to petabytes from a 1U node

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  IBM sees NVMe gains in V5100F, but more to come with better apps

  As IBM launches first midrange NVMe box, execs say applications need to have the SCSI designed out of them to gain the full potential of NVMe flash-equipped arrays

• 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”

• 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

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  ArcServe 9000 backup appliance offers one-stop disaster recovery

  In its latest 9000Dr appliances ArcServe beefs up processing, RAM and disk to run virtual machines and saves SMEs spending on dedicated disaster recovery hardware

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  IT Priorities 2019: APAC keeping pace with digital transformation

  Digital transformation is well underway among APAC enterprises which are looking to spend more on refreshing their IT infrastructure and technologies that improve employee productivity

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Pure launches ObjectEngine cloud dedupe, plus inter-rack NVMe

  Flash storage pioneer offers flash-to-flash-to-cloud ObjectEngine on-premise and in the cloud while boosting connectivity between datacentre racks with NVMe-over-fabrics

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Cloud and backup top storage priorities for 2019

  Deploying the cloud for primary and secondary storage and backup and archiving project top project priorities in 2019. SAN, NAS and hyper-convergence also prominent

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Payday lender cuts troubleshooting by 30% with Virtual Instruments

  Curo Financial thought storage was slowing down its websites, but found virtual machine and network issues were to blame. To fix this, it’s going proactive on storage performance issues

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Swiss bank moves away from file with Cloudian object storage

  PostFinance opts for Cloudian object storage as it migrates 100 million files away from NetApp and builds S3-compatible archives for Hadoop and Apache Spark

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Nottingham Building Society boosts storage and saves power with Nexsan deployment

  Building society ditches geriatric IBM storage array to gain reliability, boost capacity by 20 times and make energy savings with Nexsan, but rejects flash storage for spinning disk SAN

• 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

• December 28, 2018 28 Dec'18

  Top 10 storage stories of 2018

  Key trends in storage in 2018 included hybrid and multicloud storage, container storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Meanwhile, flash storage has evolved with NVMe

• 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