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Storage management and strategy

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Cloud firm scales Cloudian object storage to 2.5PB for GDPR

  Calligo expands Cloudian Hyperstore from three nodes to 30 at worldwide datacentres, with object storage deployed for file-level and metadata capabilities suited to GDPR

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Top 10 storage and backup stories of 2017

  In Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories of 2017, we tracked key trends such as the continued rise of hyper-converged infrastructure, the emergence of NVMe flash and object storage

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Space organisation dumps NAS for object storage to gain space

  Satellite Applications Catapult upgrade to 2PB of Cloudian object storage pays for itself in power and cooling savings as numerous legacy NAS boxes are replaced

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  Cambridge University deploys Dropbox for file sync-and-share

  Dropbox replaces numerous consumer file share products and bespoke connections as Cambridge audits 6,500 academics to roll out invisible collaboration for hundreds of use cases

• November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17

  Transport researchers get 2PB of Scality object storage

  Transport Systems Catapult retires ageing NetApp filers with 2PB of Scality object storage in a £1.5m project that future proofs the organisation with built-in DR

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  Australian broadcaster hit by data breach

  The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the latest organisation to fall prey to misconfigured Amazon S3 storage buckets, exposing database backups and sensitive data such as login credentials

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  UK supercomputer is now world’s biggest Panasas scale-out NAS cluster

  Jasmin network supercomputer storage expands to 20PB of Panasas scale-out NAS, which has helped to cut analysis times for environmental data from days to hours

• October 25, 2017 25 Oct'17

  Containers will oust VMs and storage arrays, says Red Hat

  Red Hat launches storage delivered via containers and predicts a future in which costly and inflexible storage hardware and pricey hypervisors will be a thing of the past

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  Colliers dumps Flexpods for Nutanix and Cohesity hyper-converged

  Property firm Colliers replaces NetApp converged stacks with hyper-converged infrastructure. Secondary storage and backup from Cohesity replaces tape and supports Nutanix performance tier

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  Law firm speeds search and saves TB with Mimecast email archive

  Cloud email archiving turbo-charges search, while email security is locked down and terabytes of storage use on-premise avoided with email stub on local servers

• September 26, 2017 26 Sep'17

  Tegile says NVMe bottleneck is in the network

  Tegile's chief technology officer says the NVMe roadmap is all in place, but the key bottleneck is in the network and the applications, not its controllers. They’re ready to scale out into clusters for NVMe

• September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17

  Veritas to invest more in APAC

  Software company Veritas is upping its investments in India and Japan, and partnering with more local and specialised cloud providers in the region

• September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17

  Movie maker shuns cloud, gets Spectra Logic Black Pearl tape NAS

  Hat Trick ditches industry-specific hardware and deploys Black Pearl, which gives NAS-like file access from tape

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  University gets Nutanix for self-serve cloud to replace Red Hat

  The University of Reading replaces ageing and difficult-to-manage Red Hat storage with half a petabyte of Nutanix hyper-converged and dodges £1/2 million of VMware costs

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  The storage controller has to go, says Scale Computing CEO

  Hyper-converged appliance maker Scale Computing says it achieved near bare metal performance from NVMe by doing away with controller functionality. Is this the end of the SAN?