SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID
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News
26 May 2024
Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI
Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2024
How Vast Data is simplifying data infrastructure
Vast Data CEO Renen Hallak explains how the company’s unified data platform that combines storage, database and compute capabilities into a single technology stack can improve the efficiency of analytics and artificial intelligence workloads Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
09 Apr 2019
IBM sees NVMe gains in V5100F, but more to come with better apps
As IBM launches first midrange NVMe box, execs say applications need to have the SCSI designed out of them to gain the full potential of NVMe flash-equipped arrays Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
03 Apr 2019
Datrium makes European push as it targets storage ‘big guys’
NVMe pioneer turned hybrid cloud and “data platform” provider makes a push for the enterprise and wants to take scalps from those selling “1990s SAN technology” Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
03 Apr 2019
Cloud storage 101: Cloud gateways for hybrid cloud connectivity
Two of the big three public cloud providers – Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure – offer gateway on-ramps that can speed the deployment of hybrid cloud operations for SME and remote office locations Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
19 Mar 2019
Cohesity plans to put backup data to good use
Cohesity’s DataPlatform now makes use of previously dormant backup data with analytics to provide business value and to tackle threats such as ransomware Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
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News
19 Mar 2019
ArcServe 9000 backup appliance offers one-stop disaster recovery
In its latest 9000Dr appliances ArcServe beefs up processing, RAM and disk to run virtual machines and saves SMEs spending on dedicated disaster recovery hardware Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
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Feature
14 Mar 2019
Enterprise and midrange SAN survey 2019: Hitachi, IBM and NetApp
Part two of two: While all-flash is mainstream, NVMe is an option as disk replacement for most suppliers, while NetApp leads the way with NVMe end-to-end to hosts Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
08 Mar 2019
Enterprise and midrange SAN survey 2019: Dell and HPE
Part one of two: All-flash is mainstream, with NVMe also offered. Dell offers NVMe drives while HPE reserves it for use as storage-class memory as a cache layer Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
04 Mar 2019
IT Priorities 2019: APAC keeping pace with digital transformation
Digital transformation is well underway among APAC enterprises which are looking to spend more on refreshing their IT infrastructure and technologies that improve employee productivity Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Opinion
20 Feb 2019
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
By- Nick Powling, Exertis Hammer
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Feature
20 Feb 2019
Cloud-era backup appliances aim at hybrid content platform
While traditional backup apps evolve to meet the cloud via S3 and Azure, a new breed of backup appliances aims to build a single environment across cloud and on-premise Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
19 Feb 2019
Pure launches ObjectEngine cloud dedupe, plus inter-rack NVMe
Flash storage pioneer offers flash-to-flash-to-cloud ObjectEngine on-premise and in the cloud while boosting connectivity between datacentre racks with NVMe-over-fabrics Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
13 Feb 2019
NVMe startups’ different routes to flash performance gains
NVMe offers huge flash performance benefits, but no one is quite sure how to overcome the challenges that brings and startups are trying several different approaches Continue Reading
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News
13 Feb 2019
Cloud and backup top storage priorities for 2019
Deploying the cloud for primary and secondary storage and backup and archiving project top project priorities in 2019. SAN, NAS and hyper-convergence also prominent Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
05 Feb 2019
Payday lender cuts troubleshooting by 30% with Virtual Instruments
Curo Financial thought storage was slowing down its websites, but found virtual machine and network issues were to blame. To fix this, it’s going proactive on storage performance issues Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
04 Feb 2019
Swiss bank moves away from file with Cloudian object storage
PostFinance opts for Cloudian object storage as it migrates 100 million files away from NetApp and builds S3-compatible archives for Hadoop and Apache Spark Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
15 Jan 2019
Nottingham Building Society boosts storage and saves power with Nexsan deployment
Building society ditches geriatric IBM storage array to gain reliability, boost capacity by 20 times and make energy savings with Nexsan, but rejects flash storage for spinning disk SAN Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Answer
14 Jan 2019
How can an authentication bypass vulnerability be exploited?
A vulnerability was found in Western Digital's My Cloud NAS device that can be easily exploited by hackers. Discover what this vulnerability is and how users can be protected. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Jan 2019
Storage 101: Structured data and its storage needs
Structured data is declining as a proportion of all data but its importance to business applications and its organised nature make its storage requirements very specific Continue Reading
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News
10 Jan 2019
20TB hard drives expected in 2019 as Seagate HAMR is tested by NetApp
Heat-assisted method of writing to disk looks likely to push HDD capacities to 20TB this year, with 40TB possible by 2023, for media suited to colder data Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
31 Dec 2018
Top 10 cloud storage stories of 2018
Top trends in cloud storage in 2018 included key enablers of hybrid- and multi-cloud such as native cloud storage, array makers’ cloud appliances and distributed file systems Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
28 Dec 2018
Top 10 storage stories of 2018
Key trends in storage in 2018 included hybrid and multicloud storage, container storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Meanwhile, flash storage has evolved with NVMe Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
07 Dec 2018
NVMe is fast flash storage, but big five suppliers take it slowly
NVMe flash offers blistering performance gains but so far the big five storage array makers have tended to opt for gradual implementations rather than radical new architectures Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Dec 2018
What is storage-class memory and what is it used for?
HPE has announced the availability of storage-class memory in its products and other array makers are expect to follow. So what does SCM do for analytics-centred workloads? Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
29 Nov 2018
How to build SME storage using public cloud storage
Small companies can often take advantage of public cloud storage offerings to supplement or replace on-premise infrastructure. We look at key options in file, block and object storage Continue Reading
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News
29 Nov 2018
Virtual Instruments aims to be “the brain of the datacentre”
Virtual Instruments hopes artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality that helps IT staff spot connections between application and storage performance could put an end to the “war room” Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
27 Nov 2018
Data volumes set to hit 175ZB with a tectonic shift to the cloud
There will be more data in the public cloud than enterprise datacentres or consumer devices by 2025 as data shifts location, according to a study by IDC and Seagate Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
22 Nov 2018
Storage 101: Unstructured data and its storage needs
Unstructured data exists in huge volumes, but often it is semi-structured with metadata. We lift the lid on unstructured data and key approaches to its storage Continue Reading
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News
21 Nov 2018
NetApp and Pure show strong results on flash storage and cloud
NetApp records healthy year-on-year revenue increase with flash showing out well, while Pure Storage sees incredible earnings for its flash products over 12 months Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 Nov 2018
Survey: Data very fragmented, and that’s a worry for most
Cohesity-sponsored survey finds most organisations store multiple copies of secondary data and worry about the cost and the effect on their competitiveness Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 Nov 2018
Sixth form college rebuilds after fire with Scale hyper-converged
Xaverian College suffered a server room fire but took the opportunity to build a hyper-converged infrastructure with Scale Computing that did away with costly VMware licence fees Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
19 Nov 2018
Pure Storage makes big hybrid push with Cloud Data Services
Flash storage pioneer makes a big deal of its object storage architecture as it launches Pure capacity in the AWS cloud, plus replication to the cloud for on-premise hardware Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
13 Nov 2018
Panasas refreshes with ActiveStor Ultra in push to the enterprise
Scale-out NAS maker Panasas wants to make its ActiveStor storage more attractive to enterprises by touting its ease of use and putting storage nodes on commodity hardware Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
08 Nov 2018
Fortunes of storage vary in big five led by Dell EMC and NetApp
The big five take 50% of the enterprise storage market, with Dell EMC and HPE dominating. But some struggle with successive quarters of shrinkage while others see storage shine Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
30 Oct 2018
Hyper-converged backup appliances bring flexibility benefits
Backup appliances in scale-out format allow data protection to be scaled easily by simply adding extra nodes. But is it an idea that’s ready for the enterprise? Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2018
Excelero adds NVMe flash via Ethernet and Fibre Channel
NVMesh2 will allow NVMe flash connectivity, so customers can use existing network hardware between servers. Erasure coding for data protection is also added Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
29 Oct 2018
IBM refreshes StorWize with NVMe flash and NVMe-over-fabrics
Big Blue boosts midrange arrays with NVMe and NVMf capability and launches Spectrum Discover, a Data Lake metadata-focused data analysis tool, plus a new tape drive, the TS1160 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
23 Oct 2018
Igneous enhances unstructured data management product
Specialist Igneous allows customers to backup and archive, search, manage, move and handle large sets of unstructured files that mainstream NAS can find difficult to handle Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
17 Oct 2018
Violin to add X-IO flash, hybrid and disk as mid-range options
Reborn Violin Systems is to buy X-IO’s spinning disk, all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems in a bid to provide more mid-range options to its customers Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
16 Oct 2018
Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation
Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
16 Oct 2018
Public Health England builds Ceph and Lustre cloud for analytics
Healthcare analytics and modelling organisation Public Health England built an open source cloud from Red Hat Ceph object storage and Lustre scale-out file access storage to petabyte scale Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
10 Oct 2018
Commvault tops and tails HyperScale backup appliance offer
Data protection specialist adds clustered high-end HS3300 backup appliance and the standalone Remote Office Appliance, pushing the HS1300 launched last year to mid range Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
08 Oct 2018
Ctera to enhance multi-cloud after $30m funding boost
Ctera does “NAS replacement” on object storage in the cloud, but wants its customer on-premises hardware to be smarter to allow tiering of data to multiple private and public clouds Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
03 Oct 2018
Violin launches XVS8 flagship high-performance flash array
Reborn Violin Systems launches flash boxes that can scale to petabytes and are aimed at transactional, analytics and virtualisation use cases, with NVMe upgrades expected Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
01 Oct 2018
New cloud storage services for Microsoft Azure at Ignite 2018
Microsoft launches Data Box hardware appliances for cloud ingestion, Avere vFXT cloud NAS, Ultra SSD storage based on NVMe flash and Azure Premium file storage Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Sep 2018
OpenStack storage update 2018: After Rocky
Snapshots and container storage support are among recently added functionality in the open source private cloud platform, but vendor driver support for OpenStack is not universal Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Sep 2018
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
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Podcast
20 Sep 2018
GDPR compliance and storage in digital transformation projects
Key considerations when transforming physical data into digital, the impacts on compliance and how to ensure access, encryption to data and safe disposal of physical assets Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
20 Sep 2018
Flash storage in the cloud from the big cloud providers
We survey the big three cloud providers – AWS, Azure and Google – and find a range of mostly block storage flash storage options with performance choices available Continue Reading
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News
18 Sep 2018
BFI deploys SpectraLogic tape in PB-scale digitisation project
British Film Institute got SpectraLogic tape and Black Pearl when it wanted multi-petabyte capacity and the ability to write tape archive of 10,000 movies into its workflows Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
17 Sep 2018
Red Hat to throw its hat in with Container Storage Interface
Software maker will add Container Storage Interface support to its existing OpenShift Container Platform and GlusterFS-based scale-out file system container storage Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
14 Sep 2018
How the big five storage array makers tier data to the cloud
We look at the big five storage array makers' efforts to connect on-premise hardware with cloud storage and find automated tiering, on-ramps, and backup and archive capability Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 Sep 2018
Lenovo cements deal with NetApp to strengthen datacentre foundation
Lenovo wants to become more customer-centric. A tie-up with NetApp takes its datacentre strategy to the next phase. We investigate Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
10 Sep 2018
Enterprise demand drives hike in storage sales, says IDC
Healthy jump in all-flash and SAN/NAS sales is being driven by enterprise storage modernisation, but also by component price rises. Dell EMC and NetApp top the supplier sales charts Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Sep 2018
A guide to choosing and using all-flash array storage
We take a look at the considerations when devising an all-flash array storage strategy, and what enterprises can do to get the most out of the technology Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
06 Sep 2018
Match cache and storage tiers to app needs with new storage media
How to match cache and storage tier needs to the dizzying array of solid state media now available, including flash, QLC/TLC, NVMe, storage-class memory, NVMDimm and MRAM Continue Reading
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News
04 Sep 2018
DDN to make enterprise push with Tintri’s VM-aware storage
DDN set to add Tintri’s portfolio of all-flash and hybrid flash arrays to its product offering following the purchase of the VM-aware storage pioneer after it filed for bankruptcy in June Continue Reading
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News
30 Aug 2018
Accountant dumps Dell SAN for StorMagic hyper-converged
Accounting firm ditches traditional SAN hardware for software-defined hyper-converged storage from StorMagic and avoids tens of thousands of dollars in capex costs Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
22 Aug 2018
Newisys bare metal NVMe box targets performance market
Former OEM supplier come out of stealth with dual-server box that can mount 56 NVMe drives for hyperscale datacentres or build-your-own NVMe shared storage hardware Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 Aug 2018
StorageCraft launches OneXafe scale-out backup appliances
Product revamp sees firm launch OneXafe scale-out secondary and primary storage with ShadowXafe data protection software in backup appliance for physical and virtual environments Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
20 Aug 2018
Virtual storage appliances in the cloud from the big five
We survey the big five storage hardware makers’ cloud offerings. Virtual storage appliances available range from storage and backup/data protection to nothing at all Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
19 Jul 2018
Container storage: Docker in flash, HCI and software-defined
We look at what flash array, hyper-converged infrastructure and software-defined storage makers are doing to provide persistent storage for container-based deployments Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
17 Jul 2018
JWT slashes server estate in move to Ctera cloud appliances
Marketing agency deploys Ctera cloud-attached NAS for 10,000 employees to simplify IT infrastructure, cutting server count and slashing software and hardware costs Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
04 Jul 2018
Dell/VMware and Nutanix dominate a growing hyper-converged market
As hyper-converged system revenues get set to overtake those of converged systems, Dell/VMware and Nutanix are dominating the market for combined server and storage nodes Continue Reading
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E-Zine
03 Jul 2018
Future-proofing Gatwick Airport’s networks
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at London Gatwick Airport and talk to its CIO about a critical network upgrade to support passenger growth. Our latest buyer’s guide examines automation and intelligent systems management. And we assess and compare the latest technologies for boosting storage performance. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Jun 2018
Cloud storage: Amazon vs Azure vs Google vs IBM Softlayer
Computer Weekly looks at the biggest four cloud storage providers, how they stand in the market, the products they offer, and which offers the widest range of products and features Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
26 Jun 2018
How the internet of things and edge data impact data storage
Remote device data poses challenges for the datacentre, but edge processing, analytics and the cloud can help businesses profit from the promise of the internet of things Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2018
VM-aware storage pioneer Tintri on verge of bankruptcy
Recent first-quarter results by the VM-aware storage pioneer throw light on a fragile financial situation that needs new funds or a buyer to avoid bankruptcy by the end of June Continue Reading
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News
22 Jun 2018
Vexata doubles capacity in NVMe flash storage VX family
NVMe flash storage Vexata maker ups capacity to just under half a PB with 8TB drives, claims near-bare metal performance, and aims at analytics, trading and simulations workloads Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 Jun 2018
San Francisco 49ers add pace to the team with NVMe flash from Datrium
US NFL football team plans high-performance NVMe flash to power in-game statistics and video decision-making, plus access for scouts to player databases during draft Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
19 Jun 2018
NHS trust dumps creaking EMC SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged
Derbyshire-based NHS trust had reached end-of-life with Dell servers and EMC SAN, so it took the plunge with Nutanix hyper-converged to reap space, power and reliability gains Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
18 Jun 2018
NVMe over Fabrics brings benefits of NVMe to shared storage
NVMe over Fabrics – with NVMe carried over Fibre Channel, Ethernet, Infiniband and other protocols – could revolutionise shared storage. We look at how the market is shaping up Continue Reading
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14 Jun 2018
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 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 Jun 2018
Case study: Mercedes F1 team makes gains with Pure Storage all-flash
Two years ago, the Mercedes AMG Formula 1 team deployed Pure Storage all-flash arrays in its datacentre and in mobile racks out on the circuit. It’s a bet that has paid off for the racing team Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Jun 2018
Intel Optane DIMM aims at persistent storage on the motherboard
Intel to make 3D Xpoint flash available to applications in a tier below RAM and above storage, with in-memory databases, analytics and high performance computing set to benefit Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
08 Jun 2018
Medical firm puts vTax and SAN to sleep to save £30,000 with Scale
Penlon replaces HPE servers and storage and VMware virtualisation to escape the high costs of licensing, and deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged appliances at two UK datacentres Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
05 Jun 2018
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 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
04 Jun 2018
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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Feature
31 May 2018
Storage 101: The final flash generation? QLC vs MLC, TLC, SLC
QLC flash products have arrived in the market, but with a limited performance profile, has NAND flash come up against the realities of the physics that make it possible? Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
29 May 2018
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 Continue Reading
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News
23 May 2018
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 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
21 May 2018
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 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
21 May 2018
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
18 May 2018
Flash vs 3D Xpoint vs storage-class memory: Which ones go where?
New media provide a range of options to speed workloads, from “old-fashioned” flash to storage class- and persistent memory. We help you exploit the storage performance hierarchy Continue Reading
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Feature
10 May 2018
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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News
09 May 2018
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 Continue Reading
By- Christophe Bardy and Antony Adshead
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News
07 May 2018
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 Continue Reading
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News
04 May 2018
Dell EMC freshens high-end SANs with VMAX makeover, PowerMax
Dell EMC rebrands VMAX high-end SAN arrays as PowerMax, with CPUs upgraded, new inline data deduplication, controller code re-worked and NVMe and Optane hardware on the roadmap Continue Reading
By- Christophe Bardy
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
04 May 2018
Dell EMC unveils Isilon scale-out NAS in the Google cloud
The trend to cloud NAS continues as Dell EMC announces beta phase of Isilon Cloud for GCP that will see fully-featured scale-out NAS available to customers via the Google cloud Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
- Christophe Bardy
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News
02 May 2018
StorageOS makes hybrid cloud container storage platform generally available
StorageOS releases tool that allows management of persistent storage for containers that can operate on-premise, in public cloud and hybrid cloud to provide deployment, QoS and protection Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
26 Apr 2018
Cisco MDS FC Director switches expand with eye on NVMe
Networking giant Cisco adds two MDS FC Director switches for small and medium-sized businesses. The vendor said it wants to speed transition to 32 Gbps FC for NVMe flash. Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Apr 2018
Storage class memory set to upset hardware architectures
Storage class memory and persistent memory products are set to add a layer of superfast storage media between bulk drives and memory, pushing performance to five million IOPS Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Apr 2018
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
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
17 Apr 2018
Elastifile adds NAS file access storage to Google Cloud Launcher
Israeli startup Elastifile launches NFS file access service in the Google cloud to provide hybrid cloud distributed file system functionality with the speed of flash Continue Reading
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News
09 Apr 2018
NVMe scale-out NAS: Qumulo P-series targets Isilon and Pure
Scale-out NAS specialist Qumulo unveils P-series all-flash systems based on NVMe, and aims to be an alternative to high performance NAS hardware from Isilon and Pure Storage Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Apr 2018
SSD Raid 101: The essentials of flash storage and Raid
Flash storage is mainstream, but what do storage professionals need to know about Raid when used with SSDs? We look at Raid fundamentals, and supplier implementations Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
04 Apr 2018
InfiniSync backup ‘bunker’ gives zero RPO for critical apps
Infinidat launches InfiniSync “black box” as off-site storage on-site, plus new Infinibox PB-scale array, cloud storage service Neutrix Cloud and InfiniGuard backup appliance Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
28 Mar 2018
FileShadow shows hybrid cloud push evident at SME and prosumer level
There’s a drive towards hybrid cloud evident at the moment. From hyper-converged products that offer cloud capability to single namespace file and object systems that allow seamless working between ... Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
21 Mar 2018
Nodeum adds clouds to boost tape-to-hybrid-cloud platform
Belgian startup’s Linux-based storage environment now stretches from on-premise disk, LTFS tape and NAS to hybrid cloud working via AWS and Azure public clouds, with more planned Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
15 Mar 2018
File locking and workload limitations in Cloudian hybrid cloud storage
Hybrid cloud has had a boost recently with the emergence of file/object environments that allow customers to operate a single namespace between on-premise and public cloud locations. One of the ... Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 Mar 2018
All-flash rules while Brexit slows UK storage spend, says IDC
IDC quarterly storage shipments tracker shows all-flash storage on top of the pile while Brexit slows UK spending and Huawei knocks Hitachi Data Systems out of top five Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor