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• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  University ditches NetApp for Zadara on-premise private cloud service

  Eindhoven University of Technology gains flexibility and pays only for the storage it uses by dumping in-house managed hardware and getting Zadara’s VPSA private-cloud-as-a-service

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week

  SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Cloud firm Backbone relegates X-IO SAN with Atlantis tiered storage

  London-based Backbone uses Atlantis USX as storage virtualisation layer on top of PCIe flash and X-IO and as a stepping stone to hyper-converged infrastructures

• August 23, 2016 23 Aug'16

  Simplivity debuts all-flash CN-5400-F hyper-converged product

  Simplivity all-flash hyper-converged infrastructure appliance aims at high-performance datacentre workloads, with MLC drives from Intel

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Rubrik backup appliance adds physical platforms to hybrid cloud

  Flash-powered backup appliances add MS SQL and Linux physical server to VMware backup and hybrid cloud archive in Firefly release, with more physical and endpoint support promised

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  HPE boosts MSA and StoreVirtual with sub-$10,000 flash storage options

  HPE launches new StoreVirtual 3200 entry-level array that can cost as little as $6,000, plus the SME-focused MSA 2042 array which has 800GB of flash embedded

• August 15, 2016 15 Aug'16

  Cloudian makes HyperStore object storage available from AWS

  System available with storage tiers on-site and in the Amazon cloud monitored and billed from the AWS interface

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  Nimble adds to all-flash arrays with entry-level AF1000

  Nimble made its debut in all-flash in February 2016, but now adds an entry-level array, the AF1000, plus upgrades to its hybrid flash array products that up performance and capacity

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  E8 launches D24 NVMe PCIe SSD-based all-flash arrays

  Startup E8 aims at high-end use cases with arrays built from commodity NVMe PCIe flash drives and performance figures that rival EMC’s high-end DSSD D5 rackscale flash

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  IBM DeepFlash 150 latest in all-flash aimed at file, object and analytics use cases

  IBM’s DeepFlash 150 adds to the emerging trend of all-flash storage aimed at file, object and analytics use cases with option for petabyte-scale storage using IBM Spectrum Scale

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  UK cloud firm majors on Tintri hybrid flash for virtualisation

  Wokingham-based We Are Cloud rejects EMC and hyper-converged options as it deploys Tintri VM-native hybrid flash storage to support rollout of cloud services

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Pure Storage drips out more of its all-flash analytics FlashBlade

  Pure lets more customers use its flash-based analytics platform FlashBlade, before the product aimed at high-throughput unstructured data is made generally available later in 2016

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Storpool upgrades software-defined storage but remains Linux-only

  Bulgarian software-defined storage maker Storpool adds Cloudstack support and boosted performance, but holds fire on adding enterprise-friendly VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments

• June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

  Pivot3 merges hyper-converged and all-flash in vSTAC SLX

  Pivot3 clusters its hyper-converged infrastructure boxes with NexGen all-flash to give vSTAC SLX products aimed at multiple workloads, but with key apps’ performance QoS-protected

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Bet365 bets on Simplivity hyper-converged for test and dev

  Bet365 follows up its move to object storage with efficiency gains that result from migration of test and dev work to Simplivity hyper-converged infrastructure from HDS SAN

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  Stockport council ditches HDS SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged

  Stockport council shifts to hyper-converged server storage boxes from Nutanix, with its previous SAN reaching end of life and experiencing operational issues and scalability problems

• June 22, 2016 22 Jun'16

  Nutanix adds storage for containers, physical servers and all-flash

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Nutanix adds container support with persistent storage, offers block iSCSI storage for physical servers and allows all-flash across the product range

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Scality upgrades for enterprise adoption of object storage and S3

  Object storage specialist Scality recognises de facto supremacy of Amazon S3 and includes directory features to allow enterprise production use of object-based private and public cloud storage

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Nearly all datacentres have flash storage, reveals 451 survey

  Nine out of 10 enterprises have flash somewhere in the datacentre, according to research

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Scale targets SMEs with hyper-converged hybrid flash HC1150

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Scale Computing targets SMEs with hybrid flash sub-$25,000 HC1150, just weeks after rival Nutanix launched entry-level Xpress

• June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16

  Russia's tech startups aim to defy economic gloom

  The annual Startup Village event near Moscow to showcase Russian innovators was the biggest yet

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Cloud firm adds Cloudian object storage to satisfy S3 demand

  Calligo puts Cloudian object storage on Lenovo hardware to add a tier of storage for customers that want Amazon S3-compatible cloud services, but not from Amazon

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  NetApp Solidfire adds high-end SF19210 all-flash array

  All-flash array maker tops out the SF family with the SF19210, upgrades OS to add VVOLs compatibility and launches licensing that separates software licences and hardware purchases

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  Financial trader bets on hyper-converged from Nutanix

  London Capital Group ditches server-plus-SAN architecture for Nutanix and slashes deployment times and datacentre footprint with hyper-converged server/storage boxes with VMware

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  Bet365 gets SwiftStack object storage as NAS pulls up short

  Online gaming firm Bet365 is set to replace NAS for data with 0.5PB of more scalable and elastic object storage, built on SwiftStack and commodity SuperMicro hardware

• May 24, 2016 24 May'16

  Nutanix aims Xpress hyper-converged appliances at SMEs

  Hyper-converged pioneer launches slimmed-down version of enterprise products with its own hypervisor, VMware or Hyper-V on board

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  Theme park company rides with Simplivity hyper-converged

  International theme park operator Merlin Entertainments dumps servers and storage and replaces them with Simplivity hyper-converged infrastructure at 124 sites worldwide

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  IBM PCM leap opens way to new layer of enterprise storage

  IBM shows off triple-level cell phase change memory and says PCM can be used as faster adjunct to flash storage and extension to DRAM memory

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Enterprise storage meets HPC with DDN SFA14KXi all flash array

  High performance computing specialist aims at analytics- and transaction-heavy workloads in the enterprise with its upgraded Intel Broadwell-powered SFA array, the 14KXi

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  Interest in converged platforms grows in Southeast Asia

  The adoption of converged and hyper-converged infrastructures in Southeast Asia is in its early stages, but growth is expected

• May 17, 2016 17 May'16

  Tintri upgrades all-flash arrays, adds scale-out functionality

  T-series arrays acquire 3D flash drives, with the T5060, T5080 and T5040 all set to benefit

• May 12, 2016 12 May'16

  Software-defined storage the power behind Monash University microscopes

  Australian academic institute uses the technology to help it deal with huge – and still growing – storage demands

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Legal SME goes for Simplivity hyper-converged infrastructure

  Lawlords snubs traditional SAN and server architecture and upgrades disaster recovery with Simplivity Omnicubes that combine server and storage hardware in one box

• May 02, 2016 02 May'16

  EMC launches Unity flash and hybrid arrays at SME customers

  EMC launches Unity, SME-targeted all-flash and hybrid flash arrays built on a Linux OS on commodity hardware with services run from containers

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  IBM all-flash family gets cloud and enterprise A9000 and A9000R

  IBM announces two all-flash arrays – the modular A9000 and rack A9000R, aimed at service providers and enterprises – and the mainframe-connected DS8888

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  HDS G series arrays get native NAS and cloud as a storage tier

  VSP G series enterprise hybrid flash arrays see addition of native NAS functionality on a controller card plus cloud as a storage tier via Hitachi Content Platform

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Nexsan adds file sync and share to NAS to create Unity

  Storage hardware maker Nexsan adds file sync and share to NST arrays from Connected Data acquisition to create Unity family of NAS with private cloud functionality

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  Spectra Logic claims biggest and fastest TFinity tape library

  Spectra Logic claims multi-petabyte capacities and speedier tape robot cycle times with TFinity Exascale Edition, a product aimed at tape’s new niche in archive and cold storage

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  Zadara adds object storage, bigger flash and 16Gbps Fibre Channel

  Latest version of Zadara Storage features object storage, Fibre Channel and bigger cache options to software-defined cloud storage product that can run on-premise, off-premise and as a hybrid

• April 18, 2016 18 Apr'16

  X-IO exploits NVMe to develop super-fast Axellio flash storage

  X-IO comes out of stealth with Intel-backed Axellio that will see up to 0.25PB and 12 million IOPS from a 2U box using NVMe as an internal interconnect to speak natively with CPUs

• April 18, 2016 18 Apr'16

  Los Alamos puts 30PB of Scality object storage into production

  Los Alamos National Laboratory uses Scality object storage for disk access to Trinity supercomputer and marries it with GPFS in MarFS homegrown posix/object hybrid file system

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  Falconstor adds cross-platform storage analytics

  Falconstor leverages IP from Cumulus Logic buy to provide Freestor Analytics, which gives customers visibility across heterogeneous hardware of key storage metrics

• April 05, 2016 05 Apr'16

  SimpliVity adds Hyper-V support to hyper-converged products

  Hyper-converged appliance maker adds Hyper-V support to VMware ESXi capabilities and upgrades OmniStack software to support workload optimisation on SimpliVity clusters

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  IBM plans ‘cognitive storage’ to cut costs for big data and enterprises

  Big Blue’s Zurich research labs announce project in which storage systems learn to put value to data so it can be assigned the most cost-effective media and lifecycle policies

• March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16

  OSNexus unlocks Ceph object storage in QuantaStor v4

  Software-defined storage maker OSNexus adds Ceph-based object storage to its QuantaStor product, adding it to block and file storage from ZFS, Gluster and Ceph

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  Cloud, compliance and data protection top storage priorities for 2016

  The results are in for Computer Weekly’s IT priorities survey 2016, with storage and backup for virtual servers a key task while flash storage has plateaued

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  Pure aims at unstructured data with Flashblade flash system

  Pure Storage charts new waters with all-flash storage array that aims at unstructured and big data analytics workloads with a scale-out modular architecture

• February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16

  EMC adds DSSD D5 and VMAX all-flash arrays to enterprise portfolio

  DSSD D5 brings array-based PCIe flash to market for EMC. VMAX hybrid arrays upgrade controller software to create two all-flash arrays, the 450F and 850F

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Nimble enters all-flash market with AF series arrays

  Nimble Storage – until now solely a provider of hybrid flash arrays – has added the AF series of all-flash arrays to its portfolio

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Hybrid flash array roundup 2016: The startups

  Startups are as active as ever in the hybrid flash market, with new entrants to the fray since last year, but all-flash is making inroads too

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Golf gear maker replaces EMC VMAX with all-flash XtremIO

  Callaway dumps hybrid legacy VMAX for 60TB of all-flash EMC XtremIO, and says massive performance gains means no more backup headaches

• February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

  X-IO upgrades to Iglu Blaze FX to boost capacity and performance

  X-IO Technologies upgrades enterprise storage-featured Iglu Blaze controllers with boosted CPUs to create FX controllers with increased flash and hard drive capacities

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Most IT departments fail to meet availability SLAs

  Veeam survey finds most organisations fail to recover from unplanned outages in the time demanded by SLAs, with average recovery time in the UK being five hours

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Law firm snubs big players for Gridstore hyper-convergence

  Scottish law firm MacRoberts replaces more than 80U of ageing, heterogeneous HPE infrastructure with 4U of hyper-converged servers and storage from Gridstore

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  SaaS provider rejects “costly” VMware for Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor

  Data services provider Pi rejects VMware as too costly and complex, opting for Nutanix’s computing and storage Acropolis hypervisor

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Service provider turns RAM into VDI storage with Atlantis

  OGL Computer rolls out virtual desktop service to customers using Atlantis software to provide RAM as VDI storage for non-persistent desktops with 200 IOPS of performance each

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  HDS launches Pentaho-based HSP 400 scale-out big data appliance

  Hitachi Data Systems launches big data appliance, the HSP 400, aimed at data lake use cases, with hardware nodes running the Pentaho Enterprise Platform acquired in 2015

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Gridstore plans KVM and container support in further tilt at VMware

  Hyper-converged appliance maker Gridstore gets $19m in funding to drive KVM and container support to provide an alternative to “costly” VMware

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Samsung upbeat despite profit slump

  Samsung says that it will continue to plug away at diversifying and reinforcing its business in a bid to return to profitable growth

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  University of Strathclyde upgrades IT to support students’ research

  Glasgow-based University of Strathclyde has overhauled its IT environment, introducing new infrastructure and cloud services

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Broadgroup: Colocation providers must act on competitive threat posed by AWS

  Datacentre analyst house uses annual finance forum to coach colocation sector on how to respond to AWS and its public cloud

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Finance firm gets Violin all-flash arrays for performance databases

  Finance sector services provider sidestepped existing NetApp storage to get all-flash arrays for high performance and 100% fault tolerance for Oracle-based apps

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Cloud host dumps hybrid for all-flash software-defined storage

  Cloud firm Togglebox tried Linux software-defined storage and Nimble hybrid flash, but customers hit it too hard so it opted for all-flash with storage software from StorPool

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Flash and virtual machine storage in Russia

  Virtualisation drives the need for flash storage in Russia, but with budgets tight and all-flash a costly option, organisations must look at hybrid flash and spinning disk solutions

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  HPC research cluster get Red Hat OpenStack private cloud

  Petabyte-scale eMedLab consortium opts for private cloud on Red Hat Linux OpenStack with hybrid Cinder and IBM Spectrum Scale storage, and rejects object and cloud storage

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  Hybrid flash not good enough, says Kaminario customer

  Cloud software provider Clarizen re-tools storage with all-flash arrays from Kaminario and forecasts the end for hybrid flash products that don't deliver on performance promises

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Hybrid flash favoured in Spain – but for how long?

  Flash memory is making its mark on Spanish enterprises, with hybrid flash storage that merges SSD and traditional spinning disk holding the upper hand

• January 07, 2016 07 Jan'16

  Disk system deployment set to decline as datacentres plan for flash

  Survey finds nearly one-fifth of IT departments plan to decommission disk, while hybrid leads the flash assault on the datacentre

• December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15

  Top 10 storage and virtualisation stories of 2015

  Storage and virtualisation are key items on the to-do list for datacentres. That means getting things right when deploying into well-known supplier environments, but also keeping an eye on new trends in the market

• December 24, 2015 24 Dec'15

  Top 10 storage stories of 2015

  The year 2015 in storage was dominated by the continued rise of flash and Dell’s purchase of EMC, but there were steady upticks in trends such as hyper-converged and software-defined storage

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Virtual Instruments to launch hardware NAS probe in 2016

  Maker of SAN testing product Virtual Wisdom is all set to announce a beta-tested hardware NAS probe in 2016, but currently NAS protocols supported will be limited to NFS and CIFS

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Violin doubles all-flash array range with FSP 7250 and FSP 7600

  Violin Memory doubles the size of its all-flash array product family with entry-level and high-performance additions to the enterprise-featured FSP hardware line

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Seagate launches HPC storage arrays with RAM HDDs and SMR

  Seagate marries Xyratex IP and hard-drive smarts in Lustre- and GPFS-based HPC arrays with RAM-equipped drives, plus hybrid, all-flash and shingled magnetic recording options

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  DDN revamp adds SFA14K plus hyper-converged and all-flash options

  DataDirect Networks upgrades core HPC storage arrays to create SFA14K, and adds hyper-converged SFA14KE plus all-flash IME14K front end to smooth I/O bottlenecks

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  Hybrid flash maker NexGen launches N5 tiered all-flash

  SanDisk-owned hybrid flash maker debuts in all-flash storage with N5-1500 and N5-3000 that mix RAM, PCIe flash and SAS-connected flash drives with QoS tiering between media

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  EMC adds remote Isilon SD Edge and hybrid Cloud Pools

  EMC adds software-defined Isilon SD Edge for remote offices, but for now it lacks true clustered NAS capability. Isilon Cloud Pools, however, do act as part of the Isilon namespace

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  HDS launches mid-market F Series all-flash arrays

  Hitachi Data Systems launches the F Series, all-flash arrays aimed at mid-market customers that slot in below HDS's high-end G Series, plus a new 6.4TB high-capacity flash drive

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Nutanix and Lenovo to sell hyper-converged appliances

  Nutanix deal to put storage software on Lenovo servers with products aimed at datacentre use cases plus a 200-strong dedicated sales team could put pressure on its partnership with Dell

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  French atomic agency tests Scality object storage

  CEA opts for Scality Ring object storage software as potential replacement for block and file storage with gains hoped for in hardware independence and disk drive efficiency

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise: think of us as a startup

  As Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc finally part ways, UK managing director Andy Isherwood shares some insight on what the future holds for the newly minted enterprise business

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  The post-merger world: What the future holds for EMC and its federation

  A look at the integration challenges Dell faces in trying to merge EMC’s various business units with its own

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  Flash alternatives graphene and memristor make progress

  Scientists announce tests using atom-thick graphene and 5nm-thick memristors to provide media with many times the storage density of Nand flash and possible fuzzy logic computing

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  Marketing firm shuns NetApp for VMware VSAN and HGST server flash

  Grass Roots was struggling with capacity and performance on its NetApp SAN so it deployed VMware VSAN on servers with HGST PCIe server flash and helium HDDs

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Sussex college dumps EMC for hyper-converged Scale Computing HC3

  St Richard’s Catholic College deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged HC3 clusters to get log-in times down from more than two minutes to 30 seconds, saving £200,000 in the process

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

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• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Avere launches CloudFusion NAS appliance in Amazon Web Services cloud

  NAS specialist Avere launches 1.5TB tiered storage cloud NAS appliance in the AWS cloud, with data held in RAM, flash and SATA media according to frequency of use

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  IBM buys Cleversafe to provide object storage capabilities

  IBM spends an undisclosed sum on object storage market leader Cleversafe in a move that gives it object storage hardware and distributed storage for Big Blue's cloud services

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Antarctic survey gets 1PB of hybrid flash DDN storage for big data

  Data growth sees British Antarctic Survey deploy nearly a petabyte of DDN hybrid flash with Lustre parallel file system and tiers of flash, SAS and nearline-SAS

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Australia's flash-storage hunger leading Asia-Pacific region

  Australian organisations are taking up RAM-based storage arrays at a fast rate as they begin to harness data analytics technologies

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Infinidat adds NAS to create Infinibox unified storage

  Infinidat adds NAS functionality to Infinibox arrays but clustered NAS capability will have to wait until parallel file system support arrives sometime in the future

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  Bradford Grammar School graduates to DataCore for software-defined storage

  Bradford Grammar School puts DataCore SANsymphony in front of DotHill storage arrays to create cost-efficient software-defined storage with synchronous replication

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Pernix Data launches storage performance tool, Architect, and upgrades FVP

  Flash caching specialist Pernix Data launches storage performance monitoring tool, Architect, that runs as a module in vSphere and helps identify I/O issues in storage traffic

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Spectra Verde DPE aims bulk NAS at archive use cases

  Spectra Logic's Verde DPE aims to provide low-cost file archive retention using Seagate 8TB SMR drives in bulk NAS storage in a space increasingly targeted by object storage

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  All-flash datacentre makes sense for 80TB+ of mixed workloads says IDC

  IDC white paper author says secondary economic benefits of flash storage – $/IOPS, density, power and cooling and server utilisation – mean all-flash makes sense above 80TB

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  SanDisk InfiniFlash flash arrays get Nexenta software-defined storage

  SanDisk offers its all-flash array InfiniFlash IF100 with Nexenta's storage software on-board in another move in the trend towards choice in storage hardware and software deployments

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Simplivity adds ROBO hyper-converged box and OS enhancements

  Hyper-converged box maker adds a remote office appliance plus OmniStack operating environment upgrades to help clustering across the WAN and file level restore in backup

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  DataCore teams up with Curvature to offer recycled storage hardware

  Partnership lashes supplier-driven rip-and-replace and promises seven-year lifespan on recycled storage hardware with DataCore software-defined storage deployed

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Barnsley College dumps IBM SANs for Tegile hybrid flash arrays

  IBM DS3200 SANs retired as South Yorkshire college standardises on Tegile hybrid flash arrays in a move that cuts spend on new disk by £30,000 a year

• August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15

  Tintri dives into all-flash storage with the T5000 series

  Tintri is the second hybrid flash storage startup of the summer to debut an all-flash array series, the T5000, with two capacity variants for transactional and VDI workloads

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  X-IO's Iglu Blaze adds replication to ISE HDD, flash and hybrid arrays

  X-IO Iglu Blaze adds a second controller hardware layer to ISE with advanced storage features including asynchronous replication, disaster recovery and high availabillity