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Storage

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  Law firm merger ditches tape for Veeam/Exagrid disk-based backup

  London-based Charles Russell Speechlys used Veeam as a migration tool after merger between two law firms, then paired it with Exagrid data deduplication to revamp backup regime

• October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16

  Pivot3 adds Edge Office SME/ROBO hyper-converged appliances

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker adds all-flash SME and remote office server-storage hardware with VMware hypervisor to vSTAC SLX products based on NexGen buy

• October 10, 2016 10 Oct'16

  Quantum refreshes Scalar tape library family with i3, i6 and AEL6

  Quantum’s StorNext universe boosted by new tape libraries – the i3, i6 and AEL6 – with increased data density on the back of denser storage and improved robotics

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  The Alan Turing Institute secures $5m of Microsoft cloud investment

  UK data science research institute secures Microsoft funding to accelerate its machine learning and analytics work

• October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16

  PXP reduces costs and raises efficiency with hyperconverged IT

  Payment provider PXP simplifies its datacentre setup and gains a 30% boost in performance

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Demand rises for low-cost flash storage across Australia

  Flash storage gains popularity in Australia, as smaller organisations are attracted by lower prices and higher capacity

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  More organisations than ever have DR plans, but don’t keep them up to date

  The prevalence of disaster recovery plans increases year on year, but many fail to keep their plans up to date or test them, according to a survey sponsored by Databarracks

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Microsoft calls for cross-industry collaboration to create ‘responsible and inclusive’ clouds

  Software giant launches A Cloud For Global Good campaign in a bid to get the industry focused on creating off-premise environments that are accessible to all

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism

  Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety

• 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