News
Storage
-
August 30, 2017
30
Aug'17
Tegile launches NVMe IntelliFlash N Series and gets bought by WD
Tegile adds all-NVMe drive products in a bid to help customers consolidate workloads from transactional processing to file services, but full NVMe performance has to wait
-
August 24, 2017
24
Aug'17
Most firms don’t test, but rely on supplier to spec storage, finds survey
Most customers simply trust storage suppliers and resellers to recommend the right product for their workloads, while a small minority test their needs and involve application owners
-
August 23, 2017
23
Aug'17
Bupa Dental saves £350k by insourcing and Veeam backup
Healthcare organisation sweeps away chaotic backup situation and standardises on Veeam Backup & Replication to save £350,000 a year in management and maintenance costs
-
August 22, 2017
22
Aug'17
Flash memory and OLED shortages will hit smartphone sales
Analysts at Gartner have warned that a components shortage will affect sales of high-end smartphones
-
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