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Storage
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October 16, 2017
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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
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October 12, 2017
12
Oct'17
Syneto aims Hyperseries 2100 at hyper-converged for SMEs
European startup targets customers with two-node hyper-converged appliance, with built-in disaster recovery and capacity for up to 15 VMware virtual machines
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October 11, 2017
11
Oct'17
Samsung: NVMe benefits are available now, within limits
Customers can benefit and make big savings from deploying NVMe flash drives – but there are limits
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October 03, 2017
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Oct'17
Intel leak reveals plans for more Optane 3D Xpoint products
Leaked Intel slides show 900P products to be launched at end of October with half a million IOPS per card. We run the rule over 3D Xpoint and what it offers enterprise customers
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September 28, 2017
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Sep'17
Maxta adds Red Hat in plan to help customers dodge ‘VMware tax’
Maxta allows migration from VMware to Red Hat Virtualization on its hyper-converged infrastructure nodes and looks forward to PCIe upgrades to help unleash NVMe
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September 26, 2017
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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
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September 25, 2017
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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
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September 22, 2017
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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
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September 20, 2017
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Sep'17
Vexata launches VX NVMe physical and virtual appliances
Startup claims near-bare metal NVMe performance by offloading controller functionality to multiple CPUs on back-end storage with an optimised Linux-based operating system
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September 14, 2017
14
Sep'17
Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics
Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV
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September 12, 2017
12
Sep'17
Government wants to remain in EU cyber security club after Brexit
The UK government wants to maintain deep links with the European Union’s cyber security working groups following Britain’s exit from the bloc in 2019
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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
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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?
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September 07, 2017
07
Sep'17
Legal services firm gets 54TB of NEC Hydrastor NAS as backup target
Quislex has cut backup windows by a third and will roll out 700TB of NEC Hydrastor to Hyderabad datacentre to provide a grid of deduplicated storage for backup and archive
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September 05, 2017
05
Sep'17
Tegile set to compete with big six with cheaper arrays, says CEO
Tegile’s takeover by Western Digital will propel it to competition with the big six storage array makers, as well as bring economies of scale and see NVMf and 3D Xpoint products