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Storage management and strategy

• March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17

  Red Hat adds Gluster metadata cache and container deployment

  Scale out NAS parallel file system speeds operations with client-side caching, and allows container deployment and faster self-healing volumes

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Storage fails the business as data balloons, survey finds

  Lack of agility and failure of storage to keep pace with the business and data growth are major concerns to UK businesses that see data volumes increase by 27% a year

• March 20, 2017 20 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

• March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17

  Biggest pain in backup is lack of storage capacity, survey finds

  Ever-growing need for more storage is the biggest problem for backup, followed by administration overheads, poor performance, scalability and multi-supplier complexity

• March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17

  Excelero NVMe over fabrics NVMesh brings SAN to hyperscale

  Excelero aims at transactional and analytics use cases for webscale users that want to create SAN-like pools of storage with its NVMesh software-defined product

• March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17

  Veritas expands partnership with Google

  Enterprises can now deploy NetBackup and Backup Exec on the Google Cloud Platform, among other capabilities

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  Nodeum to add S3 connectivity to LTFS-powered tape archive

  Belgium-based Linux-plus-LTFS startup adds S3 capability to allow customers to add cloud as a tier and data portability between on and off-premises archiving

• March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17

  Australian crowdsourcing platform turns to cloud storage to fuel growth

  Airtasker is using Amazon Web Services to ramp up its storage capabilities to meet the needs of an expanding user base

• February 28, 2017 28 Feb'17

  IWM digitises vast collection in SpectraLogic tape archive

  Imperial War Museum deploys SpectraLogic tape archive systems with LTFS Black Pearl in digitisation project for 21,000 hours of film and millions of images and voice recordings

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Nimble offers Nimble Cloud Volumes all-flash cloud storage

  Hybrid and all-flash array maker extends offer to the cloud with Nimble Cloud Volumes cloud storage that can be provisioned for compute on Amazon or Microsoft clouds or on-premise

• February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

  Apeiron brings NVMe shared direct-attached storage in its ADS1000

  Startup removes storage controller and its CPU from the data path to leverage NVMe’s blistering performance with direct-attached flash storage aimed at the likes of Hadoop and Splunk

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  Virtual Instruments to add cloud storage monitoring by end of 2017

  Storage performance and monitoring provider Virtual Instruments leverages Xangati functionality to add cloud storage monitoring to existing SAN and NAS capabilities in Virtual Wisdom

• January 25, 2017 25 Jan'17

  NetApp: Solidfire to get some Snap functionality but not NVMe

  NetApp Solidfire execs talk of roadmap SnapMirror and SnapVault functionality in Solidfire, but NVMe will have to wait until customers are ready to pay for it

• January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17

  Plastics maker dumps tape for Arcserve backup appliance and cloud

  PW Hall faced backup windows of 13 hours but reduced this to about 90 minutes a day spread across a number of incrementals with jobs copied to cloud backup

• January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17

  Cloud provider moves to QoS flash performance on NetApp Solidfire

  Carrenza guarantees specified I/O to customers on all-flash arrays from NetApp Solidfire in a move that allows it to offer storage performance as a product