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• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  GDPR and backup: A potential minefield easily avoided

  The right to be forgotten will be impossible in backups and snapshots, but systems can be built that automate for compliance, says Andy Barratt of security consultancy Coalfire

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Singapore government to form AI advisory council

  New council will develop standards and guidelines to address ethical issues arising from the growing use of artificial intelligence

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Nexsan adds Assureon Cloud Transfer for hybrid cloud archiving

  Nexsan archiving appliances add hybrid cloud capability to AWS and Azure cloud for unstructured data, targeting users that want to retain files on-site with cloud access

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Scality boosts Ring with easy deployment and lower node count

  Object storage maker Scality upgrades software-defined storage to give unified deployment, provisioning and management while cutting minimum nodes required to three

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Pure debuts new FlashArray //X arrays with NVMe across the range

  Pure is set to replace //M series boxes with FlashArray //X arrays in which NVMe is standard with NVMe-over-fabrics connectivity to servers and expansion shelves

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  England and Wales Cricket Board to improve players’ medical data

  Cricketers’ medical images will be stored securely in an independent clinical archive, enabling clinicians to access medical data and make treatment decisions more quickly

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  How AWS keeps its rivals at bay

  A relentless focus on building for customers and inking partnerships with enterprise software bigwigs while lowering prices has given AWS a leg-up over rivals in the ANZ market

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Compliance in the cloud: Avoiding the cloud compliance trap

  When you hand over data to a cloud provider, you don’t hand over responsibility for legal and regulatory compliance. Beware of falling into a cloud compliance trap

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Technicolor speeds up movie production with Excelero NVMe flash

  Film giant Technicolor had to duplicate workstreams or schedule access to movies being worked on, but Excelero NVMe allows concurrent access to 10 or more workstations at a time

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Zerto previews 2019’s version 7 with Elastic Journal backup

  CDP-based data protection product will allow point-in-time copies from seconds to years ago with Elastic Journal, as part of a move to unify backup, disaster recovery and cloud data protection

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  Micron first to market with QLC flash drive 5210 QLC SSD

  Micron’s 5210 QLC SSD is aimed at analytics and content delivery in cloud and web-scale operations that currently use 7,200rpm spinning disk in huge Raid sets to gain IOPS

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  IBM adds deduplication to Spectrum Virtualize, and Storwize arrays

  IBM has added data deduplication to Spectrum Virtualize and array products that run it. It has also upgraded array analytics and the cloud version of Spectrum Virtualize

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  NetApp adds Google Cloud NAS and AFF A800 NVMe flash array

  NetApp gets on the cloud NAS bandwagon with Google Cloud Platform file storage access, while adding its first NVMe flash-equipped storage array, the AFF A800

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Nutanix builds hooks to SDN and cloud with Flow, Era and Beam

  Hyper-converged pioneer builds in functionality from acquisitions with Flow software-defined networking, Beam cloud monitoring and Era database provisioning and data protection

• May 07, 2018 07 May'18

  ASEAN seeks to tame data deluge with object storage

  Led by Singapore and Thailand, the object storage market in Southeast Asia is expected to grow at a double-digit rate in the next few years