SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
Computer Weekly's buyers guide to optimising storage
In this 12-page buyer’s guide, we look at cost implications of effective storage optimisation, the hyper-converged infrastructure minefield and the alternatives to shared storage.
News : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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December 05, 2019
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Dec'19
NetApp’s Keystone hybrid cloud storage ‘try-before-you-buy’ for on-prem
Keystone on-premise and cloud subscription model will cost more than buying hardware so will be best suited to customers that want to try NetApp on-site before committing to purchase
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November 25, 2019
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Nov'19
University of Leicester dumps SANs and LUNs for Cloudian object storage
One-to-one mapping between Dell SANs and media servers had passed their sell-by date and caused vulnerabilities for the University of Leicester, which fixed the problems by a move to “stateless” object storage on Cloudian
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November 20, 2019
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Nov'19
Datrium boosts VMware protection but won’t add more hypervisors
NVMe flash pioneer turned DR-as-a-service-focused data platform provider Datrium says VMware and Kubernetes have “won the market” and it won’t extend support beyond those two
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November 18, 2019
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Nov'19
DataCore adds file and S3 object storage with vFilO
Software-defined storage specialist DataCore has added file storage and S3 object storage access with vFilO, which lets customers create virtual pools from on-site and remote datastores
In Depth : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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Figeac Aero manages growth with DataCore software-defined storage
Global roll-out sees DataCore software-defined storage deployed on Huawei hardware to HQ and 14 worldwide sites as aero parts maker copes with acquisition and expansion Continue Reading
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NVMe-over-TCP brings super-fast flash over standard IP networks
TCP is the latest transport protocol that can be used to connect NVMe flash storage. We explain how NVMe-over-TCP works and the key advantages for datacentre customers Continue Reading
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What is QLC flash and what workloads it is good for?
QLC flash offers low per-gigabyte costs and lots of capacity, but can be limited by endurance and I/O performance. It can be a good disk replacement for several workloads, however Continue Reading
Blog Posts : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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Scale-out NAS bounces back to fight for unstructured data against object storage
There’s a scrap breaking out between object storage and scale-out NAS. The battleground is the market for customers that need to deal with very large amounts of unstructured data. In October, ... Continue Reading
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Tape’s got a future but are use cases narrowing in the age of analytics?
The headline grabbers in storage are usually the quick – flash, NVMe etc – or the harbingers of the next generation, such as the cloud. But in some ways these are the extremes, the outliers. In ... Continue Reading
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Microsoft revives MAID with Pelican, but tape can still sleep easy
A decade ago storage journalists were quite keen on a new technology around at the time. That was MAID – Massive Array of Idle Disks – which were basically disk-based backup target devices with ... Continue Reading
Opinion : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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Security Think Tank: In-depth protection is a matter of basic hygiene
The belief that effective perimeter security is the best way to protect data is a fallacy that is being repeatedly exposed. We must recognise the need for a data-centric security model to protect data from both internal and external threats, but what does this mean for security professionals? Continue Reading
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Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications
Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
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Nand, flash, SSDs and HDDs – what’s happening?
It is estimated that the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. How will storage technology cope? Continue Reading
Videos : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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VMworld Europe 2013 User Awards: Best of show winner
Midverk IT manager Jon Helgason speaks to Computer Weekly's Cliff Saran about recovering from a party that brought down the company's datacentre
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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.