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Storage

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Internet of things challenges in storage and data

  The internet of things brings challenges, with a host of new edge devices and data. We look at edge and core processing, compliance and information lifecycle management in IoT

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Violin to add X-IO flash, hybrid and disk as mid-range options

  Reborn Violin Systems is to buy X-IO’s spinning disk, all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems in a bid to provide more mid-range options to its customers

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation

  Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Elastifile ClearTier allows cloud tiering for burst workloads

  Elastifile adds ClearTier to its CloudConnect to bring enterprise NAS access in the cloud with the ability to tier data between object storage and file system

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Public Health England builds Ceph and Lustre cloud for analytics

  Healthcare analytics and modelling organisation Public Health England built an open source cloud from Red Hat Ceph object storage and Lustre scale-out file access storage to petabyte scale

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Cost of WannaCry attack to NHS set at £92m

  Department for Health and Social Care estimates the immediate cost of the May 2017 WannaCry attack on the NHS was £92m, and says it will have spent about £275m on improvements to its cyber security infrastructure by the end of 2021

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Commvault tops and tails HyperScale backup appliance offer

  Data protection specialist adds clustered high-end HS3300 backup appliance and the standalone Remote Office Appliance, pushing the HS1300 launched last year to mid range

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Ctera to enhance multi-cloud after $30m funding boost

  Ctera does “NAS replacement” on object storage in the cloud, but wants its customer on-premises hardware to be smarter to allow tiering of data to multiple private and public clouds

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Violin launches XVS8 flagship high-performance flash array

  Reborn Violin Systems launches flash boxes that can scale to petabytes and are aimed at transactional, analytics and virtualisation use cases, with NVMe upgrades expected

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  New cloud storage services for Microsoft Azure at Ignite 2018

  Microsoft launches Data Box hardware appliances for cloud ingestion, Avere vFXT cloud NAS, Ultra SSD storage based on NVMe flash and Azure Premium file storage

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Keeping Commvault on its toes in ASEAN

  Backup and data protection software supplier is going after mid-sized companies and renewing its focus on partners to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Data analytics cuts queues and flight delays at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport

  Aeroporti di Roma’s CIO, Emiliano Sorrenti, describes how the city’s main airport is using data analytics technology to reduce delays and queue times, securing it an industry award for customer service

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Object storage: On-prem, in the cloud and hybrid

  We take a look at the object storage market and products and find offerings made to build public and private clouds that often provide a link between the two

• September 18, 2018 18 Sep'18

  BFI deploys SpectraLogic tape in PB-scale digitisation project

  British Film Institute got SpectraLogic tape and Black Pearl when it wanted multi-petabyte capacity and the ability to write tape archive of 10,000 movies into its workflows

• September 17, 2018 17 Sep'18

  Red Hat to throw its hat in with Container Storage Interface

  Software maker will add Container Storage Interface support to its existing OpenShift Container Platform and GlusterFS-based scale-out file system container storage