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Storage

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Is it NAS? Is it object storage? It’s both. It’s Avere’s C2N

  Avere launches C2N hybrid NAS/object storage box that uses touted efficiencies of erasure coding to take aim at claimed drawbacks of clustered NAS rivals like Isilon

• September 27, 2016 27 Sep'16

  NetApp revamps FAS filers with 15TB flash and NVMe

  NetApp brings its Ontap 9 operating system and hardware changes to its FAS and all-flash FAS multi-protocol arrays with a range that scales up to tens of petabytes

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Dropbox gives UK enterprises option to host cloud data in Europe

  Cloud storage firm makes good on an earlier pledge to give enterprises the opportunity to host data in Europe, as its efforts to court the business community continue

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Hypergrid adds metered usage and networks to hyper-converged kit

  Hyper-converged appliance maker will allow customers to pay for what they use in hardware that will now add networking

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Many don’t test disaster recovery plans properly, survey finds

  Nearly 40% of UK organisations do not test disaster recovery plans properly, mainly because of concerns about disruption to production operations

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Skills gaps and ill-defined strategies hold back cloud adoption, suggests IDC research

  Cisco-backed research into cloud adoption trends suggests few enterprises have perfected their off-premise IT strategies

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Virtual Instruments extends VirtualWisdom to NAS testing

  Storage performance monitoring and analysis provider extends capability to NAS testing for the first time as customer use of file access for virtualisation brings storage issues

• September 20, 2016 20 Sep'16

  Essex hospital trust upgrades IT infrastructure

  Mid Essex NHS Trust upgrades its storage infrastructure to keep up with increasing volumes of data

• September 19, 2016 19 Sep'16

  Italian bottle maker deploys 88TB of Syneto hyper-converged storage

  Serioplast gets reliable disaster recovery as it replaces NetApp plus remote physical servers with Syneto hyper-converged infrastructure at factories across Europe, Africa and Asia

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Furniture maker scraps legacy backup for Arcserve appliances

  Lancashire-based JJO dumps separate backup apps for servers and PCs to deploy Arcserve UDP backup appliances, and gains 100% protection of 68TB non-virtualised estate

• September 14, 2016 14 Sep'16

  Violin pins hopes on FSP 7650 and 7450 all-flash arrays

  Troubled all-flash pioneer Violin Memory launches two new all-flash arrays, the FSP 7650 for extreme high performance and 7450 for general workloads at 60c per gigabyte

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers fear regulatory action over SSP Worldwide cloud outage

  Insurance brokers hit out at disaster recovery arrangements, fearing two-week outage could put them at risk of action by Financial Conduct Authority

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  Australian council removes costly bottleneck with traditional storage architecture

  Redland City Council chose to return to a traditional storage architecture when it was struggling to get rates notices out in good time

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  The way of all flash in Asean

  Are all-flash arrays the hottest storage technology in Asean and is it only a matter of time before flash will replace hard drives for all hot and warm data?

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  University ditches NetApp for Zadara on-premise private cloud service

  Eindhoven University of Technology gains flexibility and pays only for the storage it uses by dumping in-house managed hardware and getting Zadara’s VPSA private-cloud-as-a-service