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• 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

  Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

  Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals

• 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

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  TLC flash storage: What it is and what it's good for

  We run the rule over triple-level cell (TLC) flash: What it is, how it performs, what it's good for, why it's a competitor to disk, and how it's all been made possible

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Dell first to market with TLC drives for enterprise flash arrays

  Dell SC series storage customers will be able to use TLC flash drives, which are suited to read-intensive workloads, from August in arrays with MLC, SLC and/or spinning disk

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  All-flash array maker Kaminario plans TLC flash in arrays

  All-flash array pioneer Kaminario says software smarts can overcome limits of TLC flash storage to allow it to offer all-TLC and mixed MLC/TLC arrays

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Nimble OS upgrade gives all-flash tier in CS hybrid flash storage

  Nimble Storage operating system upgrade gives ability to pin data to flash for constant high performance needs in addition to hybrid operations and disk-only

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Panasas boosts scale-out NAS offerings with flash and disk AS18

  Scale-out NAS specialist Panasas has replaced its AS16 appliance with two AS18s that combine flash tier and helium-filled hard drives in 4U units that scale up to 20PB

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Genomics England rejects open source to deploy EMC Isilon HPC storage

  100,000 Genomes Project rejects building open-source parallel file system on x86 servers and opts for EMC Isilon clustered NAS deployed by Capita S3

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Swedish cloud provider gets Solidfire all-flash storage for OpenStack

  Stockholm-based Elastx uses Solidfire all-flash arrays to support as-a-service provision on OpenStack with easy API connections to Cinder

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Fujitsu launches petabyte-scale DS8700 and 8900 S3 enterprise flash arrays

  Fujitsu replaces DS8700 S2 array with two enterprise class arrays, the DS8700 and DS8900 S3, with all-flash and hybrid flash capability and scalability into multiple petabytes

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Housing provider in spat with EMC gets Tintri hybrid flash

  Social housing provider Housing & Care 21 lost patience with EMC and signed Tintri hybrid flash with three years’ support for two-thirds of the price

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  NetApp adds AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays

  NetApp boosts its SSD array portfolio with the addition of AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays built on Data ONTAP, but still no sign of FlashRay general availability

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Cambridge replaces enterprise storage with direct attach Dell-Lustre setup

  Cambridge University uses Dell's MD direct attached storage with Intel’s Lustre to support its data-intensive research programmes

• June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15

  Council dodges £300,000 NetApp outlay with Atlantis flash caching

  Somerset local authority avoids spending £300,000 on extra hard drives for its NetApp arrays and pays half that for Atlantis ILIO flash caching software that runs VDI from RAM

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  SolidFire adds data protection and Cisco/OpenStack to all-flash arrays

  All-flash array maker goes for enterprise market with added data protection features and adds Cisco UCS-based reference architecture for OpenStack cloud environments

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Nutanix’s Acropolis free hypervisor takes aim at VMware

  Hyper-converged server/storage pioneer launches free-of-charge hypervisor in an explicit move to tempt customers from existing VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V deployments

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Enterprise storage performance a mystery to most IT chiefs

  Survey finds more than two-thirds of storage leaders at large enterprises don’t know the impact of I/O from core applications on their storage infrastructure

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  HP launches 3PAR StoreServ 20000 flash and hybrid flash enterprise storage arrays

  HP replaces 3PAR StoreServ 10000 series arrays with 20000 series featuring upgraded CPUs, controller ASICs and on-drive firmware, plus doubled flash drive capacities

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Pure Storage replaces FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m

  Pure Storage upgrades FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m series devices

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  HGST plans all-flash and hybrid flash storage for cloud customers

  Western Digital subsidiary best known as a drive maker plans to make scale-out, high-capacity all-flash and hybrid flash arrays

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  College boosts student access with DataCore software-defined storage

  Kirklees College uses DataCore SAN symphony software-defined storage and NexSan arrays for online student access

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  HP launches HDD-equipped Apollo 4000 at object storage and big data

  HP upgrades Proliant SL family scale-out storage-dense servers to Apollo 4000 series with Intel Xeon chips to offer low-cost, high-volume DAS

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  Atlantis launches mid-market Hyperscale software-defined storage

  Atlantis Computing follows up its USX software-defined storage product with Hyperscale preconfigured software aimed at mid-market customers

• April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15

  SanDisk waves its Nand over SX350 PCIe SSD cards

  SanDisk uses its own flash chips to create SX350 line of PCIe SSD, with claims of a drop in price per gigabyte by as much as 61%

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  EMC results: Storage arrays falter as VMware marches on

  EMC results show hardware revenues’ relative decline as storage rivals and alternative approaches emerge

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Load DynamiX adds OpenStack protocols to storage testing product

  Storage testing and validation provider adds OpenStack Swift and Cinder support to existing protocols in its Enterprise version 2.6 hardware

• April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15

  Dell boosts scale-out NAS FS8600 and Fluid File System to v4

  Dell beefs up hardware on its scale-out NAS FS8600, which can scale to four nodes in a cluster and a 4PB namespace with an upgrade

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Tintri upgrades virtual machine QoS and takes a shot at VVOLs

  Hybrid flash array maker Tintri adds IOPS performance guarantee per VM to its operating system and takes a swipe at VMware’s VVOLs

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  HGST marries helium HDDs and Himalaya in object storage Active Archive

  Drive maker HGST punts on storage hardware with Amplidata object storage software in a multi-petabyte box filled with HelioSeal HDDs

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Hedvig promises raft of advanced software-defined storage features

  Startup comes out of stealth with software-defined storage with Docker deployment and policy assignment to virtual drives on commodity hardware

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Connected Data targets business with Transporter cloud file sharing family

  Connected Data’s Transporter for Business appliances enable cloud file sharing services for employees from a preconfigured box

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  X-IO debuts in all-flash array market with ISE 800 series

  X-IO – known for self-healing, long-life spinning disk hard drives – makes debut in the all-flash array market with the ISE 800 series

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Law firm cuts SQL query times and future-proofs with Tegile hybrid flash

  Reading-based Boyes and Turner opts not to replace Dell EqualLogic SAN and brings in hybrid flash array from startup Tegile

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Product survey: Hybrid flash arrays from the startups

  Hybrid flash arrays from innovative startups have developed products that exploit the best of flash and HDD

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Solidfire slots in all-flash SF9605 and debuts storage software Element X

  Solidfire adds the SF9605, a higher-capacity iteration of its 05-suffixed arrays, and announces availability of Element X operating system

• February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15

  NTS gets DotHill hybrid flash with tiering in datacentre revamp

  The National Trust for Scotland has deployed a DotHill hybrid flash SAN with automated storage tiering to support a revamp of its IT systems

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Dell adds Nutanix-powered XC630 and XC730 hyperconverged systems

  Dell targets range of use cases with XC630 and XC730 Nutanix-powered server/storage nodes

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  PernixData FVP boosts RAM as host storage with up to 4x compression

  Flash caching firm PernixData adds compression to FVP 2.5 for more scope to use RAM as host-based storage for high-performance datasets

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Organisations address virtual server backup but disaster recovery top priority in 2015

  Computer Weekly survey shows fewer UK IT departments prioritise virtual server backup in 2015, but disaster recovery remains a key task

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  IBM moves to MLC in FlashSystem 900 and V9000 all-flash arrays

  IBM boosts density with new Micron MLC flash drives in revamped all-flash arrays, the FlashSystem 900 and the V9000 that includes SAN Volume Controller storage virtualisation hardware

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Santander data storage: Gimmick or real challenge to IT giants?

  Is Spanish bank Santander's offer of data storage just a sideshow to inject confidence in an industry facing increasing competitive tensions?

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Suse launches Ceph-based cloud software-defined storage

  Suse launches commercially-supported object, block and file Ceph distribution Enterprise Storage, software-defined storage

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Violin Memory launches full-featured 7300 and 7700 series flash arrays

  Violin Memory launches 7300 and 7700 series all-flash arrays with replication, failover, WAN optimisation and data deduplication

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  EMC launches VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliances

  EMC announces VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance in general purpose and performance variants

• January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

  NetApp adds EF560 and E5600 all-flash and hybrid flash arrays

  NetApp adds boosted IOPS in all-flash EF560 plus hybrid flash and HDD products in E5600 series, expanding capacity in the midrange

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Quantum adds hybrid cloud storage options to StorNext Q-Series and DXi

  Quantum adds Q-Series Archive, Q-Series Vault and Q-Cloud Protect for AWS to its StorNext environment