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Software-defined storage

• 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

• October 01, 2019 01 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.

• September 30, 2019 30 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

• 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

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Northwestern cuts storage costs in half with Komprise

  Komprise’s Deep Analytics helps university classify and migrate research data to cheaper disk and cloud as it cuts storage costs from $1.1m to $680,000 per annum

• 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

• 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

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  Virtual Instruments to add cloud monitoring with Metricly

  Storage monitoring specialist Virtual Instruments buys Metricly to add monitoring of AWS compute CPU, memory and resource utilisation to save customer costs

• 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

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Veritas bundles NetBackup into Enterprise Data Services Platform

  Backup giant wraps key product into data management wrapper that adds search, index and data classification Information Studio plus InfoScale software-defined storage

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Azure Stack HCI: Hyper-converged, but not as Azure as you’d think

  Microsoft has re-branded Windows Server Software Defined to put hyper-converged to the fore, but Azure Stack HCI isn’t totally in sync with the Azure Stack on-premise cloud platform