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Storage

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  E8 dodges NVMe/controller bottleneck with server processing

  Startup E8 announces v2 of its NVMe-based products with LUNs, Raid and thin provisioning as it sidesteps the NVMe-controller bottleneck by offloading processing to app servers

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  Cisco buys hyperconvergence software supplier

  Cisco’s transformation into a software-led networking business continues with the purchase of Springpath, a developer of hyperconvergence software

• August 16, 2017 16 Aug'17

  GDPR drives cloud firm’s Cloudian S3 object storage deployment

  Interoute deployed Cloudian Hyperstore because it believes customers want object storage to help gain compliance with the forthcoming European GDPR regulations

• August 14, 2017 14 Aug'17

  Middle East insurance broker migrates backup to the cloud

  Middle East finance firm is increasingly moving to the cloud as the business grows

• August 14, 2017 14 Aug'17

  Film maker shuns cloud storage for Spectra Logic tape

  Smoke & Mirrors replaces Quantum tape library with 7PB of Spectra Logic tape and decides the cloud lacks security and would be too costly for the 16TB it archives every day

• August 11, 2017 11 Aug'17

  Cloud firm gets Tintri hybrid flash storage to save £80,000

  Brightcloud replaces complexities of LUN management on HDS SAN and replaces it with Tintri hybrid cloud storage that saves nearly £80,000 on rack space and resource costs

• August 07, 2017 07 Aug'17

  Lenovo wants to move away from shipping boxes

  After admitting to being addicted to market share, server supplier Lenovo is changing tack by focusing on customer experience and new areas such as software-defined infrastructure

• July 28, 2017 28 Jul'17

  Singapore to review personal data protection rules

  If given the green light, the proposed changes to the Personal Data Protection Act will require organisations to notify the authorities of data breaches

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  Charity swaps SAN for Hypergrid hyper-converged to save £1m

  Tearfund saves £950,000 by deploying Hypergrid hyper-converged in place of HP servers and SAN, cutting costs on space, power, staff and hardware, and avoiding VMware

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Scale hyper-converged adds all-flash 1150F and “workhorse” 5150D

  Hyper-converged pioneer Scale Computing targets 1/2PB 5150D at remote sites and big on-site deployments, while 1150F allows customers an all-flash tier to add to existing clusters

• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  WekaIO brings hybrid cloud NAS software-defined storage

  Startup offers virtual NAS, storage software deployed on commodity servers or in the cloud to give single storage pool of file access the can scale to trillions

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  NVMe flash blocked by array architecture, says Kaminario CTO

  Flash pioneer CTO says array controllers are built for a different era and must scale-out as clusters to provide the CPU power needed to allow NVMe to realise its potential

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  Home Office confirmed as early adopter of Oracle’s UK cloud region

  The Home Office is to be one of the first public sector organisations to access cloud services from Oracle’s UK cloud region

• July 11, 2017 11 Jul'17

  Scality Zenko.io brings hybrid cloud storage virtualisation

  Zenko.io is a control layer that allows customers to manage data in on-site Scality ring object storage and multiple public clouds but falls short of full data portability for now

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Medical college retires HP for Scale Computing hyper-converged

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine replaces ageing HP servers and MSA SAN with Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure, and saves £80,000 in replacement costs