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Storage
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July 03, 2017
03
Jul'17
Dutch bank cuts compliance data retrieval from weeks to hours
Rabobank has moved from tape libraries and robotic arms to a platform-based storage and retrieval system to help it comply with regulations
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June 29, 2017
29
Jun'17
How Donald Trump has nudged French CIOs still further from US cloud storage
French CIOs are looking at alternatives to storing data with US-based suppliers
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June 29, 2017
29
Jun'17
The big four cloud firms are set for price war over serverless computing, suggests 451 Research
Cloud industry price wars could enter new phase, as demand for serverless computing services grows, suggests 451 Research
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June 28, 2017
28
Jun'17
Nutanix makes hybrid cloud push with Calm and Xi Cloud
Hyper-converged pioneer to extend on-premise OS to the cloud with plans to span the datacentre and public cloud using Calm, plus forthcoming hybrid cloud services via Xi Cloud
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June 28, 2017
28
Jun'17
Finnish government scraps paper and digitises archives
The government in Finland is digitising 94 shelf kilometres of documents to save millions of euros and make the information easier to access
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June 26, 2017
26
Jun'17
News UK dumps tape for backup with Zadara cloud storage
News publishing corporation saves up to 40% on hardware and software costs by switching in-house hardware for a cloud-first policy, using Zadara cloud storage as a backup target
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June 22, 2017
22
Jun'17
Cloud firm gets Infinidat hybrid flash to save £250,000 on storage
Brightsolid replaced EMC and NetApp storage with 1.2PB of Infinidat hybrid flash to help win council contract that saw local authority save £250,000 in yearly storage costs
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June 22, 2017
22
Jun'17
Red Hat launches open source hyper-converged infrastructure
Infrastructure bundles OS, hypervisor and storage software components from the open source distributor and is aimed at SMEs and remote office use cases
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June 15, 2017
15
Jun'17
Google spins up Google Cloud Platform in Singapore
The search giant’s Singapore cloud region is its third one in Asia-Pacific, underscoring its ambition to challenge Amazon and Microsoft in a fast-growing public cloud market
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June 14, 2017
14
Jun'17
Storage performance testing vital, says ex-Morrisons IT chief
Former Morrisons head of technology says testing and monitoring storage performance is key to avoiding outages and getting the benefits from infrastructure upgrades
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June 13, 2017
13
Jun'17
Irish cloud provider opts for Tegile hybrid flash storage
Savenet gets 70TB of Tegile hybrid flash in a move that sees Huawei spinning disk arrays replaced as main storage and replaced with hybrid flash for cloud-based services
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June 13, 2017
13
Jun'17
Rubrik Alta adds Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV to backup appliance
Rubrik backup appliance now support all major physical and virtual server platforms in flash-equipped boxes that range from a few tens of TB to the hundreds
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June 06, 2017
06
Jun'17
Object storage will be 'huge' in stateless world of web and mobile
SNIA Europe director says traditional SAN and NAS are not built for the stateless world of web-based apps and workloads, with object storage set to become dominant
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June 06, 2017
06
Jun'17
British Airways IT glitch caused by human error, says IAG CEO
Airline’s datacentre power failure was caused by an engineer accidentally switching the power off and on again, says parent company
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June 05, 2017
05
Jun'17
NetApp to launch SolidFire-based HCI hyper-converged appliances
NetApp HCI will comprise hyper-converged infrastructure appliances based on SolidFire flash storage with QoS and compute from an unnamed supplier later in 2017