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CIO Trends #8: Middle East
Join us as we take a look at Bahrain and its efforts to make itself the go to fintech hub of the Middle East, the rapid progress being made in Dubai as the government strives to make the city smart and how the region is reacting to the implementation of 5G.
News : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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February 17, 2020
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Feb'20
Isilon’s multi-dot upgrade to OneFS 8.2.2 masks big changes
The latest quarterly update to OneFS sees maximum file size grow to 16TB, brings in data deduplication in real time for HDDs, better load balancing and a new Kubernetes CSI
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February 12, 2020
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Feb'20
IBM unifies storage arrays under FlashSystem brand
IBM to bring together all non-mainframe storage arrays as FlashSystem product, with options from entry-level to petabyte-scale with NVMe flash and storage class memory
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February 10, 2020
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Feb'20
US hotel group ditches datacentre for Nasuni cloud NAS
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts got rid of its datacentre and put everything in the cloud, with Nasuni cloud NAS providing storage from which any user can restore files
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January 30, 2020
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Jan'20
Dell EMC Isilon tackles high-performance cloud workloads
Dell EMC Isilon release clarifies the vendor's cloud direction. OneFS 8.2 supports files up to 16 TB and Kubernetes deployments for extracting data for real-time analytics.
In Depth : SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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Caribbean island hospital rebuilds after hurricane with DataCore
Hurricane Irma tore the roof off a server room and flooded IT hardware, but that was an opportunity to rebuild redundant IT using DataCore’s SANsymphony software-defined storage Continue Reading
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Do you use cloud storage for these use cases yet?
We look at the use cases most suited to a quick transition to the cloud: backup, archiving, disaster recovery, file storage and cloud bursting – cloud storage’s low-hanging fruit Continue Reading
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Big storage meets cloud in the datacentre 'as-a-service' revolution
Cloud is mainstream but the datacentre’s here to stay. This has resulted in a trend towards as-a-service in the datacentre where big storage array makers and the cloud giants meet 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.