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Storage fabric, switches and networks
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February 06, 2024
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Feb'24
Inside NetApp’s cloud and AI strategy
NetApp’s senior executives talk up the company’s efforts to support AI initiatives and deliver first-party storage services on public cloud platforms
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December 21, 2023
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Dec'23
Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023
In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing
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September 05, 2023
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Sep'23
VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment
VMware launches new iteration of vSAN Max with up to 8.6PB of independently scalable storage, NSX gets a “+” as it unifies networks and Ransomware Recovery ups efficiency
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March 05, 2023
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Mar'23
FlashBlade//E to open up new opportunities in Australia
Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//E will enable the storage supplier to target medical imaging and remote backup workloads and attract new customers in Australia
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February 28, 2023
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Feb'23
Pure Storage aims FlashBlade//E at unstructured data capacity
But not the ones that need super high performance. FlashBlade//E will target use cases that need large amounts of QLC flash without the most-demands for rapid access
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January 23, 2023
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Jan'23
NGX: Turkish arrays to challenge US mainstream storage vendors
Ankara-based NGX offers block, file and unified storage with use of cache and RAM to speed access. Software-defined storage, cloud and NVMe-over-fabrics are also coming
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October 28, 2022
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Oct'22
Singapore’s met service to get new supercomputer
The Meteorological Service Singapore is getting a new Cray supercomputer to improve weather forecasting and tropical climate research
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October 13, 2022
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Oct'22
Bowled out: NVMe flash pioneer Pavilion Data ceases business
Last of the pioneer NVMe flash storage array makers, Pavilion made multiprotocol highs-speed boxes – but it seems to have run out of sources of investment and gone out of business
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July 21, 2022
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Jul'22
Four key need-to-knows about CXL
Compute Express Link will pool multiple types of memory and so allow much higher memory capacities and the possibility of rapidly composable infrastructure to meet the needs of varied workloads
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June 13, 2022
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Jun'22
Dell server, storage, PC sales grow despite component supply chain woes
Dell executives cite the company’s use of “alternative” component supply chains as server, storage and PC sales grow despite difficulties for most of the market sourcing parts
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October 12, 2021
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Oct'21
NetApp adds CloudCheckr to Spot portfolio
CloudCheckr brings multi-cloud audit capabilities as well as visibility of security and governance in an acquisition that adds to its cloud price optimisation in the Spot portfolio
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February 09, 2021
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Feb'21
IBM refreshes entry-level FlashSystem arrays with a little NVMe
Big Blue refreshes three entry-level systems – the 5200, 5035 and 5015 – with the flagship of them gaining all-NVMe flash storage capability and cluster scaling to 10s of PB
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September 21, 2020
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Sep'20
India’s storage market takes hit but hasn’t lost its shine
The slower growth in storage spending in India amid the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to be mitigated by digitisation efforts by financial services and manufacturing firms
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September 10, 2020
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Sep'20
Broadcom launches Brocade gen7 Fibre Channel switches
New generation Fibre Channel doubles performance to 64Gbps with switches and HBAs now available. But what future for Fibre Channel with NVMe-over-fabrics hitting the datacentre?
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July 08, 2020
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Jul'20
Pavilion adds object storage to NVMe Hyperparallel Flash Array
Pavilion responds to customer demand for object storage to support AI/ML, big data analytics workloads with multi-controller NMVe flash storage architecture
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June 25, 2020
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Jun'20
Nebulon emerges with software-defined storage, but from the cloud
Startup to offer on-site storage with local I/O and some controller functionality in the cloud, combining software-defined and cloud to bring “fleet management at scale”
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June 23, 2020
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Jun'20
SoftIron aims at data too valuable for commodity storage
UK array maker hopes to be the storage provider of choice for those that really value their data, with highly optimised Ceph-powered hardware aimed at HPC users and enterprises
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February 25, 2020
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Feb'20
IT Priorities 2020: Cloud storage key but SAN/NAS alive and well
In the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey cloud dominates storage spending priorities for 2020, but on-premise technologies such as SAN and NAS are still key to IT
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February 12, 2020
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Feb'20
IBM unifies storage arrays under FlashSystem brand
IBM to bring together all non-mainframe storage arrays as FlashSystem product, with options from entry-level to petabyte-scale with NVMe flash and storage class memory
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January 20, 2020
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Jan'20
Inside NetApp’s transition into a data management firm
NetApp’s leaders in Asia-Pacific discuss the company’s pivot into data services and its traction in the region
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October 21, 2019
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Oct'19
Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers
Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too
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October 10, 2019
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Oct'19
UK and Middle East PR firm ditches NetApp for Nutanix and Talon Fast
Four Communications needed better connectivity for collaboration between the UK and its gulf sites, so dumped server/storage for hyper-converged and a distributed file system
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October 01, 2019
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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
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September 30, 2019
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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
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September 17, 2019
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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
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August 19, 2019
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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
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July 30, 2019
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Jul'19
Australia to upgrade supercomputer in HPC boost
The Gadi supercomputer at the Australian National University will run 10 times faster than its predecessor, giving researchers access to high performance computing resources to solve the toughest research problems
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February 19, 2019
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Feb'19
Pure launches ObjectEngine cloud dedupe, plus inter-rack NVMe
Flash storage pioneer offers flash-to-flash-to-cloud ObjectEngine on-premise and in the cloud while boosting connectivity between datacentre racks with NVMe-over-fabrics
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February 13, 2019
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Feb'19
Cloud and backup top storage priorities for 2019
Deploying the cloud for primary and secondary storage and backup and archiving project top project priorities in 2019. SAN, NAS and hyper-convergence also prominent
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February 05, 2019
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Feb'19
Payday lender cuts troubleshooting by 30% with Virtual Instruments
Curo Financial thought storage was slowing down its websites, but found virtual machine and network issues were to blame. To fix this, it’s going proactive on storage performance issues
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November 29, 2018
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Nov'18
Virtual Instruments aims to be “the brain of the datacentre”
Virtual Instruments hopes artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality that helps IT staff spot connections between application and storage performance could put an end to the “war room”
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August 28, 2018
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Aug'18
Taking stock of Dell EMC’s growth in Asia
Tech supplier Dell EMC is riding on growing demand for servers and hyper-converged infrastructure, and investing in more technical resources to support enterprises in digital transformation efforts
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May 09, 2018
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May'18
NetApp adds Google Cloud NAS and AFF A800 NVMe flash array
NetApp gets on the cloud NAS bandwagon with Google Cloud Platform file storage access, while adding its first NVMe flash-equipped storage array, the AFF A800
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May 02, 2018
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May'18
StorageOS makes hybrid cloud container storage platform generally available
StorageOS releases tool that allows management of persistent storage for containers that can operate on-premise, in public cloud and hybrid cloud to provide deployment, QoS and protection
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April 24, 2018
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Apr'18
Unitrends launches ‘Veeam killer’ VM Backup Essentials
Backup specialist Unitrends says Veeam has become “arrogant” and abandoned large elements of its customer base. VM Backup Essentials aims to fill gap for VMware users
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March 27, 2018
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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
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February 20, 2018
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Feb'18
Load Dynamix is now WorkloadWisdom and adds more NAS support
Virtual Instruments enhances NAS testing and monitoring capabilities with SMB and 25GbE support in WorkloadWisdom but hybrid cloud monitoring will remain off limits for now
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June 06, 2017
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Jun'17
British Airways IT glitch caused by human error, says IAG CEO
Airline’s datacentre power failure was caused by an engineer accidentally switching the power off and on again, says parent company
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April 12, 2017
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Apr'17
Pure Storage launches FlashArray//X with NVMe drives
FlashArray//X has NVMe drives but end-to-end storage-to-host NVMe connectivity will have to wait for an NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMf) version planned for release later this year
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March 20, 2017
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Mar'17
Kaminario looks forward to NVMf, but not this year
All-flash maker Kaminario plans to add NVMe drives, but only when it can replace existing fabric protocols with NVMf and a full stack of advanced storage features
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December 05, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016
Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016
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November 02, 2016
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Nov'16
Broadcom buys Brocade but will sell off IP network business
Chipmaker will acquire Brocade for $5.9bn to broaden its storage business, and plans to sell off most of its acquisition’s networking business
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September 22, 2016
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Sep'16
Hypergrid adds metered usage and networks to hyper-converged kit
Hyper-converged appliance maker will allow customers to pay for what they use in hardware that will now add networking
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August 18, 2016
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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
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May 12, 2016
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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
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February 09, 2016
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Feb'16
Cisco recalls Ethernet switches over fault risk
A potential fault on a number of IE-5000 switches could give users a nasty shock, says supplier
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November 02, 2015
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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
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January 28, 2015
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Jan'15
Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis
The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers
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November 05, 2014
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Nov'14
Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making
Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe
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October 22, 2014
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Oct'14
EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%
Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions