Cloud storage
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News : Cloud storage
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June 14, 2018
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Jun'18
StorageCraft to unveil unified storage, backup and cloud appliances
StorageCraft arose as a backup software maker but now plans converged storage, backup and analytics play in a move to unify offering built on core and acquired products
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June 05, 2018
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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
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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
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May 24, 2018
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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
In Depth : Cloud storage
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Cloud NAS offers file access across on-site and in-cloud
We run the rule over cloud NAS products that allow customers to build single-namespace file systems, including between in-house datacentres and public cloud storage Continue Reading
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Software-defined storage: Startups bring innovation to SDS
We survey the startup suppliers pioneering new approaches to software-defined storage, including block, file and object, and VM and container-oriented approaches Continue Reading
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Object storage is inching into Australian enterprises
Even as Aussie firms such as Bauer Media and Redbubble are lapping up object storage, others are facing visibility and analytics issues with the technology Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Cloud storage
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Cloud storage is hot - again!
But what do people mean when they talk about cloud storage – and do they really know what it can do these days? Not so long ago, once you got beyond Dropbox, for most professional users cloud ... Continue Reading
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Scality gets $60m but keeps quiet about what it’ll spend it on
French object storage specialist Scality recently raised $60m of funding, but what will that money go towards? The company – most well-known for its RING object storage product – is in the middle ... Continue Reading
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Positive Reinvention
It’s a truism that IT essentially reinvents itself every decade or so. In some ways this can be rightly seen as a cynical way to repackage the same old tosh and sell it again to confused.com IT ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Cloud storage
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Multi-cloud management: Making it work for the enterprise
As the hype surrounding multi-cloud infrastructure continues to grow, what do enterprises need to do to make the model work for them? Continue Reading
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IT transformation brings storage transformation
IT departments’ moves away from specialised skills to generalist skillsets are fuelling the rise of easy-to-use hyper-converged infrastructure and all-flash storage systems Continue Reading
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Enterprise NAS performance challenges and how to resolve them
NAS storage can be used for mission critical workloads but NFS-based storage comes with performance challenges. Jim Bahn of Virtual Instruments outlines the main ones Continue Reading
Videos : Cloud storage
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CW500: Gavin Cole, Oracle UK
Making sense of storage in a big data world
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CW500: Sean Sadler, Kings College London
One of the dilemmas of the modern CIO is the ever-expanding need for data storage.
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CW500: Robert White, Morgan Stanley
One of the dilemmas of the modern CIO is the ever-expanding need for data storage.