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Storage
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June 22, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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