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Storage
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May 25, 2017
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May'17
IT firm gets Scality object storage to boost S3-based offerings
Blue Chip deploys Scality Ring object storage on commodity hardware with S3 connectivity to enable new cloud, backup and archiving product offerings at “a few pence a gigabyte”
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May 24, 2017
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May'17
Iceland IT firm gets Cohesity hyper-converged backup boxes
Thekking scraps ageing IBM and HPE iron for Cohesity hyper-converged nodes with hybrid flash capacity to power deduplication for Veeam backups
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May 23, 2017
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May'17
Racetrack Memory products in five years, says IBM fellow
Millennium Prize winner Stuart Parkin says flash and 2D methods of storage are fatally limited – Racetrack Memory offers 100x the capacity without flash’s wear issues
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May 18, 2017
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May'17
Cloud provider snubs SAN for StorPool hyper-converged infrastructure
Coreix found costly SAN capex outlays too onerous so opted to build its own hyper-converged infrastructure from StorPool storage software and SuperMicro x86 servers
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May 17, 2017
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May'17
Dell EMC all-flash XtremIO X2 gains I/O boost via software upgrade
Dell EMC’s XtremIO X2 all-flash arrays got a performance jump from ungraded hardware, but the real performance boost comes from changes to the way I/O is dealt with
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May 16, 2017
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May'17
Ransomware: Protect yourself with good backup and cloud policies
More ransomware attacks are likely. The best way to protect against them is to have up-to-date in-house backups and to ensure cloud backups are adequately protected and available
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May 11, 2017
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May'17
New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience
The New York Philharmonic is digitally archiving millions of documents and making them available online
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May 11, 2017
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May'17
Australian government bolsters IT security in budget boost
The country’s Digital Transformation Agency has been given a shot in the arm to guard public sector IT systems against cyber attacks
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May 11, 2017
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May'17
CIO interview: Bernie Burdett, head of IT, Dogs Trust
The animal charity is revamping its IT to provide better customer service, protect itself from cyber attacks and ensure GDPR compliance
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May 10, 2017
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May'17
Dell EMC World brings “bigger, faster, stronger” storage upgrades
All-flash additions plus hardware and software upgrades see platform refreshes across all Dell EMC storage offerings, as well as design changes in Isilon and Xtremio
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May 09, 2017
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May'17
General election: ODI hopes to see data, skills and innovation pledges in party manifestos
The Open Data Institute wants the UK’s political parties to make room for data policy in their manifestos ahead of the general election
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May 09, 2017
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May'17
Nexsan Unity goes all-flash but leaves NVMe on the back-burner
Nexsan Unity arrays already have SAN, NAS and file sync and share, and now add all-flash and policy-based archiving, but there’s no NVMe on the roadmap for now
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May 03, 2017
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May'17
3D XPoint et al to force architecture and software changes
New solid state technologies such as 3D XPoint will be a second tier of memory, bringing change to hardware architectures and software to be rewritten, says SNIA solid state group chair
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May 02, 2017
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May'17
Most think cloud services are as good as or better than IT department
Veeam survey shows levels of penetration for as-a-service cloud options and reveals that most IT managers think cloud providers meet service levels better than in-house IT
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April 26, 2017
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Apr'17
SLAs being met but most fall short of ‘always on’ backup and restore needs
Veeam Availability Report finds most IT professionals think there is a gap between how fast they can restore data and their requirements to be an “always on” organisation