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• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Nutanix puts software-defined networking in hyper-converged boxes

  Hyper-converged appliance pioneer Nutanix puts software-defined networking features in its combined server/storage products to give better networking manageability

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  Apple garners local support for Irish datacentre as legal challenge looms

  Residents of Athenry, County Galway, unite to back Apple’s Irish datacentre plans as consumer electronics giant awaits High Court decision on legal challenges

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  Dropbox and Google commit to improving terms of use for cloud storage customers

  Dropbox and Google join the government’s push to ensure cloud storage users are not caught out by sudden price hikes or contract changes

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Nand flash shortage to push up solid-state drive prices

  Flash storage chip supply is being squeezed by smartphone manufacturers’ demand, increased notebook and datacentre hardware demand, and difficulties switching to 3D Nand production

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Broadcom buys Brocade but will sell off IP network business

  Chipmaker will acquire Brocade for $5.9bn to broaden its storage business, and plans to sell off most of its acquisition’s networking business

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Nexsan adds mobile app access to Unity file sync and share

  Nexsan Unity can now be accessed by iPhone and Android mobile users, as well as from desktops and laptops, to provide Dropbox-like functionality within the firewall

• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  Tintri adds VMware and Flocker persistent container storage

  VM-native storage array maker Tintri will allow customers persistent storage for Docker containers via planned VMware vSphere 6.5 functionality or via bare metal/host OS

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  SAP steps up data privacy in Europe

  SAP guarantees technicians outside of Europe will not be able to access companies’ sensitive personnel and other records

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Scale drops three-node minimum for HC3 hyper-converged

  Scale Computing customers no longer need to deploy a minimum of three hyper-converged nodes and can now implement only one at SMEs and Robos

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud

  Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Google to open one new datacentre region a month in 2017 to boost multi-cloud appeal

  Google uses cloud user conference to outline how its commitment to innovation, low prices and new datacentre regions is helping it stake a claim in its competitors’ customer bases

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  VMworld 2016 vox pop: VMware users cool about VSAN

  As VMware announces upgrades to its VSAN hypervisor-based storage software, event attendees seem to think it is a costly product and possibly unsuited to high-end use cases

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  VMware VSAN 6.5 supports containers and physical servers via iSCSI

  VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  More want containers but storage is not up to the job

  Containers offer a rapid and flexible way to deploy apps, but many are put off by lack of storage management support and scalability in SAN and NAS systems, says Portworx survey