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• November 13, 2018 13 Nov'18

  Panasas refreshes with ActiveStor Ultra in push to the enterprise

  Scale-out NAS maker Panasas wants to make its ActiveStor storage more attractive to enterprises by touting its ease of use and putting storage nodes on commodity hardware

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Facebook to appeal EU-US data transfer ruling in Irish Supreme Court

  Facebook will appeal a decision by the Irish High Court to refer questions over the legality of EU-US data transfers to the European Court of Justice in January, as the Dublin court rejects attempt by a UK IT expert to join the case

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Nutanix extends its Beam to private cloud deployments

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Nutanix pushes its Beam cloud monitoring and management platform into customers’ datacentres, but only for Nutanix deployments, for now

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Excelero adds NVMe flash via Ethernet and Fibre Channel

  NVMesh2 will allow NVMe flash connectivity, so customers can use existing network hardware between servers. Erasure coding for data protection is also added

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  IBM refreshes StorWize with NVMe flash and NVMe-over-fabrics

  Big Blue boosts midrange arrays with NVMe and NVMf capability and launches Spectrum Discover, a Data Lake metadata-focused data analysis tool, plus a new tape drive, the TS1160

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Government can’t guarantee no-deal Brexit data-sharing agreement

  Digital minister Margot James says there is no clear timetable on when the UK will secure a data adequacy decision from the EU, and cannot guarantee an agreement will be in place in the event of a no-deal Brexit

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Igneous enhances unstructured data management product

  Specialist Igneous allows customers to backup and archive, search, manage, move and handle large sets of unstructured files that mainstream NAS can find difficult to handle

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Internet of things challenges in storage and data

  The internet of things (IoT) brings challenges, with a host of new edge devices and data. We look at edge and core processing, compliance and information lifecycle management in IoT

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Violin to add X-IO flash, hybrid and disk as mid-range options

  Reborn Violin Systems is to buy X-IO’s spinning disk, all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems in a bid to provide more mid-range options to its customers

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation

  Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Elastifile ClearTier allows cloud tiering for burst workloads

  Elastifile adds ClearTier to its CloudConnect to bring enterprise NAS access in the cloud with the ability to tier data between object storage and file system

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Public Health England builds Ceph and Lustre cloud for analytics

  Healthcare analytics and modelling organisation Public Health England built an open source cloud from Red Hat Ceph object storage and Lustre scale-out file access storage to petabyte scale

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Cost of WannaCry attack to NHS set at £92m

  Department for Health and Social Care estimates the immediate cost of the May 2017 WannaCry attack on the NHS was £92m, and says it will have spent about £275m on improvements to its cyber security infrastructure by the end of 2021

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Commvault tops and tails HyperScale backup appliance offer

  Data protection specialist adds clustered high-end HS3300 backup appliance and the standalone Remote Office Appliance, pushing the HS1300 launched last year to mid range

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Ctera to enhance multi-cloud after $30m funding boost

  Ctera does “NAS replacement” on object storage in the cloud, but wants its customer on-premises hardware to be smarter to allow tiering of data to multiple private and public clouds

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Violin launches XVS8 flagship high-performance flash array

  Reborn Violin Systems launches flash boxes that can scale to petabytes and are aimed at transactional, analytics and virtualisation use cases, with NVMe upgrades expected

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  New cloud storage services for Microsoft Azure at Ignite 2018

  Microsoft launches Data Box hardware appliances for cloud ingestion, Avere vFXT cloud NAS, Ultra SSD storage based on NVMe flash and Azure Premium file storage

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Keeping Commvault on its toes in ASEAN

  Backup and data protection software supplier is going after mid-sized companies and renewing its focus on partners to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Data analytics cuts queues and flight delays at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport

  Aeroporti di Roma’s CIO, Emiliano Sorrenti, describes how the city’s main airport is using data analytics technology to reduce delays and queue times, securing it an industry award for customer service

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Object storage: On-prem, in the cloud and hybrid

  We take a look at the object storage market and products and find offerings made to build public and private clouds that often provide a link between the two

• September 18, 2018 18 Sep'18

  BFI deploys SpectraLogic tape in PB-scale digitisation project

  British Film Institute got SpectraLogic tape and Black Pearl when it wanted multi-petabyte capacity and the ability to write tape archive of 10,000 movies into its workflows

• September 17, 2018 17 Sep'18

  Red Hat to throw its hat in with Container Storage Interface

  Software maker will add Container Storage Interface support to its existing OpenShift Container Platform and GlusterFS-based scale-out file system container storage

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  CIO interview: Amir Nooriala, chief operating officer, OakNorth

  The challenger bank’s COO on wanting to be fully cloud hosted, going through a huge cloud migration and being able to rebuild its core banking platform in five hours

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  Lenovo cements deal with NetApp to strengthen datacentre foundation

  Lenovo wants to become more customer-centric. A tie-up with NetApp takes its datacentre strategy to the next phase. We investigate

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Gartner claims pure-play IaaS providers could be sidelined as enterprise attitudes to cloud mature

  Gartner's latest public cloud services market tracker shows demand for IaaS is booming among enterprises, but providers whose cloud proposition does not feature a PaaS component may lose out in future

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Enterprise demand drives hike in storage sales, says IDC

  Healthy jump in all-flash and SAN/NAS sales is being driven by enterprise storage modernisation, but also by component price rises. Dell EMC and NetApp top the supplier sales charts

• September 09, 2018 09 Sep'18

  Taming the data beast with software-defined storage

  Australian enterprises are turning to software-defined storage to improve data management and speed up testing and development

• September 04, 2018 04 Sep'18

  DDN to make enterprise push with Tintri’s VM-aware storage

  DDN set to add Tintri’s portfolio of all-flash and hybrid flash arrays to its product offering following the purchase of the VM-aware storage pioneer after it filed for bankruptcy in June

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Accountant dumps Dell SAN for StorMagic hyper-converged

  Accounting firm ditches traditional SAN hardware for software-defined hyper-converged storage from StorMagic and avoids tens of thousands of dollars in capex costs

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Cloudian’s $94m new funds to target 100PB-scale operations

  CEO Michael Tso says funding in engineering efforts aims to make sure Cloudian can meet the challenge of object storage deployments growing to hundreds of petabytes

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Toshiba drives add Marvell cards to give native NVMe-over-fabrics

  Piggy-backed cards allow drive shelves that can connect to remote servers as if directly attached and at NVMe speeds, with box maker Aupera getting in on the JBOF act

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  HPE pins hopes on intelligent edge as hybrid strategy flattens

  HPE sees hybrid as the future of enterprise IT, but revenue has been affected by currency fluctuations and its intelligent edge business is growing quickly

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Arsenal puts Acronis in defence for analytics cloud backup

  Football club is increasingly driven by video and data analysis and opts for cloud backup software-as-a-service and quick restore to any location to replace ad-hoc staff solutions

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Taking stock of Dell EMC’s growth in Asia

  Tech supplier Dell EMC is riding on growing demand for servers and hyper-converged infrastructure, and investing in more technical resources to support enterprises in digital transformation efforts

• August 26, 2018 26 Aug'18

  VMware debuts VMware Cloud on AWS in Australia, cuts entry price

  Virtualisation juggernaut VMware rolls out its hybrid cloud service in Australia and has halved the entry price to sweeten the deal for enterprises

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Newisys bare metal NVMe box targets performance market

  Former OEM supplier come out of stealth with dual-server box that can mount 56 NVMe drives for hyperscale datacentres or build-your-own NVMe shared storage hardware

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  Veritas aims to boost NetBackup with simplified UI and setup

  Two decades-old enterprise product upgraded with backups that can be set in three clicks, down from 30, plus instant VM workload recovery and capacity monitoring and planning

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  StorageCraft launches OneXafe scale-out backup appliances

  Product revamp sees firm launch OneXafe scale-out secondary and primary storage with ShadowXafe data protection software in backup appliance for physical and virtual environments

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  Quest goes software-only with QoreStor. Next stop, the cloud

  Quest makes backup product software-defined with QoreStor, with dedupe functionality that can be added to other backup products, and plans cloud backup with native storage next

• August 10, 2018 10 Aug'18

  Atos sets out vision for a digital Scotland

  Scotland has the potential to create a competitive advantage in the global economy through digital technologies, and could even become a cloud datacentre hub, according to Atos

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Cities key to making data a new form of infrastructure, says Nesta

  City governments need to take charge of data use and leverage responsible innovation, as data should not be seen as a saleable commodity, but a common good, according to the innovation foundation

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  Interview: Dan Phelps, chief architect, Travelex

  Travelex is changing the way it works by combining people, processes and technology to transform the company and by setting up a digital platform

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  JWT slashes server estate in move to Ctera cloud appliances

  Marketing agency deploys Ctera cloud-attached NAS for 10,000 employees to simplify IT infrastructure, cutting server count and slashing software and hardware costs

• July 15, 2018 15 Jul'18

  New industry network to bolster data protection in ASEAN

  The Data Protection Excellence network will assist organisations and individuals new to data protection laws by providing hands-on training and professional certification courses

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Hedvig teams up with Veeam to support scale-out backup appliances

  Scale-out software-defined storage supplier reaches agreement with Veeam for backup software to build clusters of nodes with flash, cloud and block, file and object storage access

• July 11, 2018 11 Jul'18

  Cloudian adds Storage Made Easy file-sync-and-share compliance

  Object storage maker adds file-sync-and-share with compliance filters from Storage Made Easy to restrict movement of potentially sensitive data between endpoints and datacentres

• July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18

  Casino group bets on Pivot3 hyper-converged infrastructure for surveillance

  Caesars’ ageing digital video recording equipment risked running foul of court and police requirements, and cost tens of thousands annually, so it switched to Pivot3 hyper-converged infrastructure

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Dell/VMware and Nutanix dominate a growing hyper-converged market

  As hyper-converged system revenues get set to overtake those of converged systems, Dell/VMware and Nutanix are dominating the market for combined server and storage nodes

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Bolloré Group partners with Alibaba for cloud and co-development

  French transportation conglomerate will use Alibaba cloud, and Alibaba will look at using Bolloré's battery technology in its datacentres

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  VM-aware storage pioneer Tintri on verge of bankruptcy

  Recent first-quarter results by the VM-aware storage pioneer throw light on a fragile financial situation that needs new funds or a buyer to avoid bankruptcy by the end of June