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Storage
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December 06, 2017
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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
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December 05, 2017
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Dec'17
US utility provider PG&E on ditching the datacentre and going cloud-first
US-based utility provider Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) discusses how getting out of the datacentre business and into the cloud is helping meet its regulatory, affordability and innovation targets
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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
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November 30, 2017
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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
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November 29, 2017
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Nov'17
Datrium’s hybrid Cloud DVX brings off-site mirror of NVMe storage
Cloud DVX operates in Amazon cloud to provide backup and recovery instance off-site, for use as a mirror site for customers of the NVMe-focused storage maker
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November 29, 2017
29
Nov'17
Cracking genomic codes with the cloud
Australian researchers are using Amazon’s Lambda serverless computing service to solve pressing health problems
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November 27, 2017
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Nov'17
NHS trust gets Commvault to cut backup times and get set for GDPR
North Derbyshire hospital trust cuts 70 physical servers to 11 Nutanix hyper-converged nodes, with Commvault replacing multiple backup software products in three-year project
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November 22, 2017
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Nov'17
Meg Whitman steps down as HPE CEO
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman is to step down after six years in charge
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November 20, 2017
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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
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November 16, 2017
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Nov'17
MPs warn of ‘deeply worrying’ risks if new customs IT systems are not ready for Brexit
Home Affairs committee calls on government to improve contingency planning in case new systems miss Brexit deadline at end of March 2019
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November 13, 2017
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Nov'17
Violin rises from ashes with new products planned for 2018
Bankrupted all-flash pioneer’s CEO says company has learned the lessons of its demise and is planning file, object, software-defined storage and a careful entry into the NVMe market
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November 08, 2017
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Nov'17
Panasas upgrades scale-out NAS to ASD-100 and ASH-100 nodes
New Panasas appliances upgrade CPU and RAM to double throughput while changing hardware architecture. Clustered NAS specialist says all-flash and tiers of flash are on the roadmap
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November 08, 2017
08
Nov'17
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 brings file, iSCSI and container storage
Latest version of open source OpenStack-targeted software-defined storage adds CephFS, ISCSI and storage that can be deployed in containers to save hardware
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November 07, 2017
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Nov'17
Dell EMC claims launch of first designed-for-all-flash SC arrays
All-flash arrays SC5020F and SC7020F boost performance by several times over existing former Compellent products in Dell EMC range that could be configured as all-flash
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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