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Storage management and strategy

• October 29, 2012 29 Oct'12

  Fujitsu teams with Violin to drive ‘Ferrari’ SSDs

  Fujitsu has announced a partnership with Violin Memory to incorporate the Silicon Valley firm’s solid state drives (SSDs) into its storage arrays

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  Nationwide Insurance builds IT ledger for chargeback

  Nationwide Insurance controls IT expenditure using VMware ITBM to provide a service catalogue and pricing for internal departments

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  VMware tools up for software-defined datacentres

  At VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware addressed how it would tackle greater IT complexity through management and automation

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  Academic supercomputer gets 27 PB of HPC storage

  Storage roundup: The University of Edinburgh's HECToR supercomputer has been given an HPC storage upgrade with 8 PB on an array and 19.5 PB on tape; Aptare storage analytics upgrade; and more news.

• May 10, 2012 10 May'12

  Government lab installs 8.5 PB of Panasas HPC storage

  Storage roundup: Government lab installs 8.5 PB of Panasas HPC storage; college cuts files by 75% with Balesio; StorMagic E.ON storage virtualisation win; and more news.

• April 16, 2012 16 Apr'12

  Charity cuts costs with Xsigo network virtualisation

  Storage roundup: Charity cuts costs with Xsigo network virtualisation; prison group gets cloud backup; Danish city deploys Fusion-io software; Amplidata software upgrade; and more news.

• January 24, 2012 24 Jan'12

  Virtual machine backup and disaster recovery top European storage priorities

  Virtual machine backup and disaster recovery top the storage priorities of European IT departments as recession bites and legal and industry compliance requirements must be met.

• December 02, 2011 02 Dec'11

  Agile design process takes business to the doghouse and the cloud

  When faced with the challenge of designing and deploying a new system, 99designs turned to their won rapid development methodology and the cloud

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  NetApp announces Big Data solutions as market grows

  In the quest to manage Big Data, NetApp has announced new solutions to manage the growth in unstructured data in a dynamic market

• November 15, 2011 15 Nov'11

  Storage supplies constrained by Thai floods

  Storage prices are on the way up with the recent floods in Thailand resulting in supply chain constraints.

• November 02, 2011 02 Nov'11

  SNW Europe 2011: Conference coverage

  Find out what took place at SNW Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, this year. See pictures and read tips and blogs from sessions.

• October 30, 2011 30 Oct'11

  I spy web servers which don’t lie

  The storage blogosphere is reporting an interesting incident involving Symantec and Permabit, plus a stoush between Oracle and NetApp.

• September 26, 2011 26 Sep'11

  Australian Bureau of Statistics counts on no storage team, HP, for census

  Australia’s recent agricultural and population censuses will be stored on and tabulated using HP SANs, but a dedicated storage team won’t help the count.

• September 25, 2011 25 Sep'11

  Bad Sectors: the latest storage news

  Our regular roundup of storage news sees EMC notch a Canberra win, a couple of agencies announce their plans to buy SANs, Ninefold's sneakernet, a nasty rumour about HP and a new entrant to the local SAN market.

• September 19, 2011 19 Sep'11

  Richard Gere loves EMC, so it probably isn’t worried about NetApp haters

  Our monthly wade through the slime of the storage blogosphere has found an EMC Symmetrix making Richard Gere look animated, and some rather odd Spam in NetApp’s back yard