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Storage management and strategy

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation

  Annual report shows secular trend to the cloud and increased use of containers, but prevalence of ransomware attacks means digital transformation is hindered

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Atempo plots course to containerised backup with S3 storage

  Containerised modularised backup services will allow integration with third-party systems and backup storage unified onto S3 object storage for cost and analytics purposes

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022

  There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted

• December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

  Cloud-based fingerprint system for UK police nears completion

  Police Digital Service announces that a new cloud-based fingerprint system developed under its Transforming Forensics programme is nearly complete, but data protection concerns around the use of US-based cloud providers remain

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Survey: Most want green IT but many won’t get it soon

  IT – and storage in particular – consume huge amounts of energy but sustainability targets are proving to be elusive, according to a survey commissioned by Pure Storage

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  Cohesity doubles down on cyber-defence failings via backup

  Datahawk service and Data Security Alliance bring clean data restores, ransomware artefact detection, data vaulting and data audit for a clearer understanding of attack impact

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  Panzura partners with AWS on ransomware counter-measures

  Panzura might have slipped beneath the waves, but it’s come back reinvigorated, and now boasts integration with AWS with ransomware protection and Outposts hardware

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Pure aims at near bare metal I/O with Portworx PX-Fast

  PX-Fast is driven by customer need for scale and high performance in containerised environments and sees reworking of Portworx data architecture to slash storage access time

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Genome lab puts Vast Data’s rapid I/O to work on patient data

  French government-backed SeqOIA ditched its Lustre-based storage after it reached performance limits and files got corrupted. That got fixed by a Vast Data QLC flash-based array

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  NetApp launches BlueXP as single console across on-prem and cloud

  BlueXP gives customers monitoring and control over all NetApp storage on-site and in multiple clouds. Meanwhile, its Ontap OS has added S3 object storage access

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  GRAID puts RAID on a GPU for cut-price disk protection and rebuilds

  US startup puts its software on Nvidia graphics cards to offload RAID processing and throughput of 110GBps throughput across up to 32 NVMe solid-state drives

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  PoINT to offer on-site S3 object storage archive on disk and tape

  Archival Gateway can cluster up to 256 tape readers to provide S3 object storage clusters capable of storing 50 billion objects per bucket, and giving throughput of 230GBps

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Tintri pushes for cloud and container storage with Tintri.io

  Tintri aims to leverage core technology in its products to meet the needs of containers and microservices with cloud versions of its on-premise appliances

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Panasas’s double NAS offer aims at multiple analytics workloads

  ActiveStor Flash and ActiveStor Ultra XL target I/O profiles from rapid AI/ML to processing-heavy modelling but remain firmly on-prem, with object and cloud declared ‘interesting’

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  VMware’s vSAN 8 gets a rebuild for the solid-state storage era

  At VMware Explore 2022, we interview VMware’s John Gilmartin about the new, faster vSAN, plans to use DPUs, the vSAN+ cloud offering, and VMware Ransomware Recovery

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  NetApp storage goes GA for VMware Cloud on AWS

  Move will bring up to 50% decrease in TCO for customers running VMware apps in the Amazon cloud, says NetApp. No date yet for extension of the service across other public clouds

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al

  Lightbits builds NVMe-overTCP SAN clusters for Linux servers with Intel cards that accelerate network processing to give millions of IOPS with storage for public and private clouds

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Hibs push for the backup premier league with Acronis

  Hibernian FC signs Acronis to get top division data protection and make the most of ticketing information and match footage as it tries to gain more value from the data it holds

• July 21, 2022 21 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

• July 18, 2022 18 Jul'22

  Vast Data upgrade boosts usable capacity, adds SaaS console

  With improved data reduction algorithms, Vast has boosted its unstructured data storage offer, with 25% more usable data possible

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  NHS trust cuts costs and refresh cycle with Wasabi cloud storage

  Imperial College NHS Trust expects to saves 30% in storage costs and cut back on five-year refresh headaches in a move that has seen backup and archive data move to the Wasabi cloud

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  NetApp Ontap to be sole vSAN storage alternative in the cloud

  NetApp Ontap storage will provide file access capacity to extend VMware data stores in AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google clouds as a cheaper alternative to VMware vSAN

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Veritas aims at autonomous backup discovery and provisioning

  Veritas bets on a backup platform that can discover all enterprise data – on-premise and in the cloud – and make its own decisions about the optimal place to store copies

• June 24, 2022 24 Jun'22

  Weka scale-out NAS v4 goes beyond just AWS to go multicloud

  Weka v4’s multicloud capability means the scale-out NAS file system can work across customer datacentres and public clouds that include AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle

• June 13, 2022 13 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

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Pure FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex boost as-a-service push

  FlashBlade//S brings two new arrays in which customers can upgrade controllers and capacity, while //Flex allows capacity to be bought and moved across any QLC or TLC Pure array

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Hammerspace the ‘missing link’ for a cloud still lacking

  The cloud can’t enable true multi-region working so Hammerspace helps make data visible globally and aggregate it as needed between locations with workflows set via customer policy

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Pure to offer on-prem object storage as Snowflake data source

  Pure Storage partnership with Snowflake will see the cloud data warehousing platform make use of on-prem FlashBlade fast file and object storage as a source for analytics data

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’

  NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Ctera opens up its storage to third-party analytics via APIs

  File system software builds pools of NAS-like storage accessible from anywhere, with APIs to third-party tools to interrogate data for business processes, anomaly detection and more

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  PeerGFS to add AI/ML anomaly detection to distributed file system product

  Peer will add AI/ML-based anomaly detection as it ramps up security protection in its PeerGFS distributed file management software, with Linux server support also to come in 2022

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  How Veeam helped grocery chain Franprix escape its backup hell

  French supermarket chain had backup windows that ran well into the next working day and restoring deleted files could take days. It chose Veeam in a contest with Cohesity

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Hammers sign Acronis as backup and security in one

  West Ham United set to replace separate backup from Veeam and a variety of security products with Acronis Cyber Protect to have backup, data protection and file share on a single platform

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Backup: N-able emerges from white box to aim at enterprise customers

  It spent years integrated with Solarwinds and as a re-sold product, but now it plans to target enterprise customers with a backup product that aims at granular file protection and restore

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Ad agency slashes NetApp costs with Datadobi data migration

  US-based branding agency needed to migrate 20TB of large files to new NetApp hardware, but unwilling to stomach the vendor’s migration costs it chose Datadobi instead

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection

  Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Quantum launches ‘scale-out’ i6H rackmount tape library

  Aimed at hyperscalers and enterprises, the LTO-9 system comes in a rackmount form factor that can be deployed anywhere in the datacentre as part of a common pool of storage

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Micron 7450 aims its 176 TLC layers at QLC flash use cases

  New 176-layer tech brings densely packed flash cells in drives that come in 2.5”, M.2 and EDSFF form factors, aimed at datacentre workloads from archive to database storage

• February 21, 2022 21 Feb'22

  Backup heads to cloud as ransomware hits 76% and RTOs/RPOs fail

  Veeam survey finds most can’t recover the data they want or do it in time, ransomware is now a ‘disaster’, use of the cloud is increasing, but the datacentre is still very important

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  Nebulon gets Ansible collection for datacentre deployment

  Provider of cloud-managed and hardware-accelerated – formerly ‘cloud-defined’ – storage makes further moves towards its smartInfrastructure vision, with Terraform support coming

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  Tiger offers lightweight file access for hybrid cloud

  Roar data, anyone? Tiger offers local access to cloud data, with only parts of the file being worked on downloaded and file locking in cloud buckets to ensure integrity

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  TV provider MediaHub boots SAN and NAS for Scality object storage

  Sydney-based TV content provider MediaHub got tired of performance issues and scaling difficulties with SAN and NAS, so powered its as-a-service offer with Scality object storage

• January 31, 2022 31 Jan'22

  Nebulon SmartInfrastructure brings cloud-defined storage to datacentre

  Cloud-defined storage allows customers to build private clouds on-site, with pools of storage built from commodity hardware, Nebulon PCIe cards and its browser-based console

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Storage tech brief: Look out for PCIe gen 5 drives in 2022

  PCIe 5.0 will offer bandwidth up to 128GBps per drive. We look at what’s available and when, including in the new EDSFF form factor, as well as looking forward to PCIe gen 6

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  OVHCloud hit with customer class action over March 2021 datacentre fire

  OVHCloud said it cannot comment at this time on the legal action, which is being embarked upon to compensate customers who claim to have lost data as a result of the public cloud firm’s datacentre fire in March 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 cloud storage, DR and datacentre storage stories of 2021

  Key articles from 2021 that demonstrate the growing importance of cloud storage and disaster recovery, but also the snags that lead to cloud repatriation and difficulties restoring from the cloud

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 ransomware and backup stories of 2021

  Key articles from 2021 that highlight the link between ransomware and snapshots and backup and their role in repelling attacks, plus effects of the pandemic on backup and recovery

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  IT priorities 2022: Ransomware and cloud drive storage and backup

  The pandemic and the move to the cloud has driven cloud storage as a key priority

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  UK MSP set to use Nebulon cloud-defined storage IaaS

  UK service provider Inca to use “cloud-defined storage” to support managed service provider offer in move which shunned hyper-converged infrastructure because of cited costly overheads

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Video firm gets Qumulo scale-out NAS and super-fine metrics

  Cognacq-Jay Image shunned Scality and Isilon to get Qumulo scale-out NAS for extremely elastic video workloads and built fine-grained metrics to troubleshoot complex processes