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• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  Backup 101: Incremental vs differential backup

  In this Backup 101 article, we look at incremental versus differential backup and walk through the advantages and disadvantages of these two key backup strategies

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Elastifile adds NAS file access storage to Google Cloud Launcher

  Israeli startup Elastifile launches NFS file access service in the Google cloud to provide hybrid cloud distributed file system functionality with the speed of flash

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  Security Center of Iceland dumps EMC big iron for StorMagic SvSAN

  Icelandic security company threw EMC VNXe “in the bin” and deployed StorMagic software-defined storage SvSAN to gain 4x boost in IOPS and slashed admin overhead

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  NHS trust dumps SANs for Tintri VM-aware storage

  Move to Tintri hybrid flash VM-aware storage allows Imperial College trust to redeploy HPE 3PAR SAN storage and cut storage admin and trouble-shooting to almost zero

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  NVMe scale-out NAS: Qumulo P-series targets Isilon and Pure

  Scale-out NAS specialist Qumulo unveils P-series all-flash systems based on NVMe, and aims to be an alternative to high performance NAS hardware from Isilon and Pure Storage

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  InfiniSync backup ‘bunker’ gives zero RPO for critical apps

  Infinidat launches InfiniSync “black box” as off-site storage on-site, plus new Infinibox PB-scale array, cloud storage service Neutrix Cloud and InfiniGuard backup appliance

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  AWS expands edge computing service to Singapore

  Amazon’s Snowball Edge strengthens its support for hybrid use cases in a fast-growing market for the internet of things and hybrid IT

• April 02, 2018 02 Apr'18

  Lawyers more influential than IT staff in cloud deployments

  Traditionally considered risk-adverse, lawyers are twice as more influential than in-house technology staff about cloud, research finds

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  Western Digital adds StorReduce deduplication to object storage

  US hardware giant Western Digital links up with StorReduce to provide data deduplication for object storage that combines WD ActiveScale scale-out appliances with the startup’s dedupe software

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Pivot3 Cloud Edition adds backup from hyper-converged to AWS

  Hyper-converged infrastructure node maker dips its toes into hybrid cloud operations with Pivot3 Cloud Edition on Amazon Web Services to add cloud backup to HCI

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Nodeum adds clouds to boost tape-to-hybrid-cloud platform

  Belgian startup’s Linux-based storage environment now stretches from on-premise disk, LTFS tape and NAS to hybrid cloud working via AWS and Azure public clouds, with more planned

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Hybrid cloud mainstream, but seamless operations hard to achieve

  Survey by 451 Research finds most organisations use a mix of on-premise and cloud locations, but truly seamless hybrid cloud operations are very difficult to achieve

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  All-flash rules while Brexit slows UK storage spend, says IDC

  IDC quarterly storage shipments tracker shows all-flash storage on top of the pile while Brexit slows UK spending and Huawei knocks Hitachi Data Systems out of top five

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Druva maintains cloud course with AWS cloud-to-cloud backup plans

  Backup product supplier Druva plans cloud-to-cloud backup to Amazon Web Services and other public cloud services as demand arises, in a future firmly fixed on hybrid operations

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Scality Zenko 'multi-cloud controller' offers hybrid cloud boost

  S3-based software control layer will support Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds to bring hybrid cloud operations, with object storage across private and public clouds