Storage management and strategy

Podcast: AIOps in storage management, security and sustainability

Dell’s Stewart Hunwick explains why AIOps – artificial intelligence for IT operations – is key to gaining efficiencies in storage management and sustainability, and discusses reactive and proactive data security Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years

A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Digital ID: cool or contentious?

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we dig into the discourse surrounding the proposal to roll out a national digital identity scheme across the UK, and hear from HPE’s CIO on what he’s learned from his time previously working as an IT chief in the retail sector. We round out the buyer’s guide to cloud repatriation with a look at what’s driving the trend, before concluding the issue with a look at the controversy surrounding quantum computing. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group

We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Restaurant fills DR gap with all-flash Pure and dodges higher cloud cost

Seafood chain Red Lobster opted for Pure Storage as-a-service for rapid failover between datacentres. A fully cloud-based option was on the table, but would have been six times the cost Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Pure CEO Charlie Giancarlo on data management, all-flash and tariffs

We spoke to the Pure CEO about Enterprise Data Cloud and how it can offer insight and management across all its storage, plus a catch-up on the death of the HDD and tariff uncertainty Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Pure Enterprise Data Cloud bundles its IP for business outcomes

All-flash evangelist bundles storage management and as-a-service under Enterprise Data Cloud banner while boosting hardware offerings with performance arrays and a 300TB flash module Continue Reading

Podcast: Data management and storage strategy in the AI era

We talk to Pure Storage EMEA field chief technology officer Patrick Smith about the challenges of data management in an era of AI and data proliferation, and how storage functionality can help Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the public sector

In the first of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil in public sector IT procurement, the particular challenges faced by public sector procurement, and how the cloud and pay-as-you-go can help Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

IBM reorients storage to cloud, containers and as-a-service

Storage profile: We look at Big Blue’s storage offer, which spans file, block and object, on-premise, in the cloud, and mainframes, while also embracing containers and the cloud Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

AI and compliance: Staying on the right side of law and regulation

Without careful planning, AI projects risk blundering into a legal and regulatory minefield. We look at the risks from hallucinations, basic errors and coming regulation Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

AI compliance: Dealing with data change and proliferation

Podcast: We talk with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge about staying on top of compliance and artificial intelligence, where the danger is data that changes during AI processing and can also proliferate Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future

With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

AI storage: NAS vs SAN vs object for training and inference

Artificial intelligence operations can place different demands on storage during training, inference, and so on. We look at NAS, SAN and object storage for AI and how to balance them for AI projects Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Podcast: RSA 2025 – AI’s risk surface and the role of the CISO

We review RSA 2025 with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge who looks at the impacts on compliance of AI’s expanding risk surface, the role of the CISO, and a changed supplier approach Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

What is hyperconverged storage?

Hyperconverged storage is a software-defined approach to storage management that combines storage, compute, virtualization and networking technologies in one physical unit that's managed as a single virtualized system. Continue Reading

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• Rahul Awati
• Brien Posey
• Rodney Brown, TechTarget

Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy

Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation

Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Data compression vs. deduplication

Compression and deduplication both have a role to play when it comes to improving the backup process and cutting storage costs. Continue Reading

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• Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction

Roundtable: Why did customers sail away from VMware?

At Nutanix’s recent .Next event in the US, customers talked about why they migrated away from VMware and the pain points that accelerated their decision to switch hypervisor Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

What is a distributed file system (DFS)?

A distributed file system (DFS) enables clients to access file storage from multiple hosts through a computer network as if they were accessing local storage. Continue Reading

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• Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
• Ryan Arel, Former Associate Site Editor

NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty

Essex NHS wants to move some capacity to the Nutanix cloud, but can’t be certain prices will hold between product selection and when procurement plans gain approval Continue Reading

University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery

University of Reading set to save circa £500,000 and deploy Nutanix NC2 hybrid cloud that will allow failover from main datacentre Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Nutanix opens up to all external storage

CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says Nutanix will open its platform to all external storage, allowing it to profit from customers wanting to move away from VMware, as well as the hyper-converged curious Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Nutanix breaks the bounds of HCI again with Pure Storage linkup

Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer adds external Pure Storage arrays in a move that it touts as a way for customers to get off VMware, but which also helps them scale for AI Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS

Hyper-converged infrastructure provider offers its operating system independently of a hypervisor to allow containerised apps to run at the edge or on Kubernetes runtimes in the Amazon cloud Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Cloud storage for AI: Options, pros and cons

We look at cloud vs on-premise for AI workloads, why cloud is sometimes best, and the technologies speeding AI in the cloud such as parallelism and GPUDirect Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Driven by data: The RAF’s revamped maritime patrol capabilities

Computer Weekly visited RAF Lossiemouth to see how its fleet of Boeing P-8A surveillance aircraft, supported by NetApp storage, keep watch over the North Atlantic gap Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features

Veeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

Podcast: RSA 2025 to grapple with AI compliance, US and EU regulation

We preview RSA 2025 with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge who looks forward to learning lots around compliance and regulation as CIOs wrestle with artificial intelligence and geopolitical upheavals Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Hitachi Vantara: VSP One leads revamped storage portfolio

Storage supplier profile: Block, file and object as part of full-stack IT offer for hybrid cloud and containerised applications comes via VSP One arrays and EverFlex as-a-service options Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Podcast: Quantum lacks profitability but it will come, says CEO

Computer Weekly talks to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s expertise in massive volumes of data and a roadmap that includes Myriad, a new file system for forever flash in the AI era Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Huawei rises in the storage ranks despite sanctions and tariffs

Supplier profile: Huawei has leapfrogged HPE in revenue and market share and broadened its storage offer towards AI, the cloud and as-a-service despite sanctions and tariffs Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Dell VxRail vs. Nutanix NX: HCI heavyweights square off

Compare Dell VxRail and Nutanix NX, leading hyperconverged infrastructure platforms, to understand their strengths and ideal applications to best fit your organization's needs. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Podcast: HDD safe from flash for a decade or more

We talk to Toshiba’s Rainer Kaese, who argues flash cannot replace spinning disk because it’s too costly to consider for anything but limited, performance-hungry applications Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Podcast: AI data needs scalable flash, but also needs to be FAIR

We talk to Tim Sherbak of Quantum about the demands artificial intelligence puts on storage and the need for data management that can cope with large volumes of data that must be kept for long periods Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Explore 9 software-defined storage companies

Software-defined storage offerings are all over the map in uses, features and types of platform. These nine software-defined storage companies include several IT giants. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

NAS storage: TrueNAS aims to make it big in Europe

Aimed at the SME market, but with NAS systems that go to tens of petabytes, iXsystems brings dual controllers, NVMe and hybrid flash, AI-capable storage, and container support Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

VMware vSAN: What are the VM storage alternatives?

Licensing changes mean VMware vSAN customers are considering whether to move to an alternative to vSAN for VMware storage or away from VMware altogether. We look at the options Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

HPE storage battles hard and smart in challenging market

Storage profile: We look at HPE, which has slipped in the storage supplier rankings, but brings a full range of AI-era storage over a mature cloud and consumption model offer Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it

The rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

What is RAID (redundant array of independent disks)?

RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a way of storing the same data in different places on multiple hard disks or solid-state drives (SSDs) to protect data in the case of a drive failure. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan
• Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor
• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor

French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software

Oceanogaphic research institute keeps Atempo backup software for near a quarter century with no plans to replace it for protection of critical data helping map the world’s oceans Continue Reading

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• Stéphane Larcher, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Dell still tops the pile as it deepens enterprise storage offer

The US giant is top dog in revenue and market share as its storage array range – still largely EMC-derived – deepens its cloud, containers and as-a-service options Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce

Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18% Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Podcast: S4Capital’s Martin Sorrell on AI and the enterprise

We talk to Sir Martin Sorrell of S4Capital about the use of artificial intelligence in advertising and marketing and how enterprises can take advantage of the productivity it offers Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

VMware vSAN Max: What you need to know

We look at VMware vSAN Max storage – its best use cases, how to deploy it and on what hardware, the alternatives, and considerations in light of VMware’s Broadcom takeover Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Podcast: How to ensure data quality for AI

We talk to Cody David of Syniti about how to ensure data quality in datasets for AI, why a ‘data-first’ attitude is key, and the quick wins an organisation can gain in data quality Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

What is RAID 0 (disk striping)?

RAID 0 (disk striping) is the process of dividing a body of data into blocks and spreading the data blocks across multiple storage devices, such as hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs), in a redundant array of independent disks group. Continue Reading

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• Rahul Awati
• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor
• Kim Hefner, Executive Managing Editor

Rethinking the route to net zero

In this week’s Computer Weekly, our latest buyer’s guide looks at the need to apply innovative and long-term thinking to reducing carbon emissions in IT. We find out how retailer Dunelm is benefiting from a programme to attract, retain and support women in tech. And Volvo Cars explains why the future for its vehicles is software-defined. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

What is RAID 5?

RAID 5 is a redundant array of independent disks configuration that uses disk striping with parity. Continue Reading

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• Rahul Awati
• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor
• Kim Hefner, Executive Managing Editor

MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage

Autodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

RAG AI: ‘Do it yourself,’ says NYC data scientist

New York City council data scientist says organisations should get their hands dirty with open source AI as his teams build AI apps to check for duplicates in legislative documents Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage

One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Podcast: AI to boost drive innovation in 2025

We talk to Jason Feist of Seagate about artificial intelligence and how it is driving drive innovation, the growth of data and how sustainability and energy efficiency is vital to meeting capacity needs Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Where IT comes from: Behind the scenes at Pure Storage’s European R&D centre

We look inside Pure Storage’s Prague research and development centre, where multi-year projects parallel real lifecycles of deployed hardware and the complexities that arise over time Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Where IT comes from: Pure Storage’s lean Czech assembly

We look behind the scenes at Pure Storage’s Czechia assembly plant, where change is baked into processes to ensure products are built right and always improving Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?

Pure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an unnamed hyperscaler, be the first nails in the coffin for HDD? Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs

AWS Elastic Block Storage is often over-provisioned. Datafy virtualises EBS volumes to allow customers to scale capacity up and down, and says it will not charge customers if it doesn’t cut their costs Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

VMware backup: Key decision points if you migrate away from VMware

VMware’s pricing changes have spurred some organisations to move to new virtualisation environments, but they’ll need backing up. We look at the key points to consider Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

DDN seeks AI leadership as it bags $300m investment

DDN aims to take high-performance computing expertise and become a leader in storage for artificial intelligence. It builds on years in the HPC space, and now has £300m from Blackstone, a fund with an AI focus Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

4 top data storage trends for 2025

This year's trends include some technologies, such as artificial intelligence, that make platforms more secure and easier to manage, plus a convergence of two storage types. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Backup technology explained: The fundamentals of enterprise backup

We look at backup and its role in enterprise data protection, including what to backup and how often, RPO and RTO, full and incremental, and if backups can be replaced by snapshots Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Third-party storage: Key storage supplier offers in big three clouds

We look at storage supplier offerings available in the big three public clouds, their pros and cons, and key use cases Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Understand your storage infrastructure management

Emerging technology, such as AI and software-based storage management systems, have simplified how IT manages its infrastructure. Explore the many components of modern management. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

Top 10 AI and storage stories of 2024

In this 2024 review, we look at the impact of AI on data storage, what’s needed to support AI during training and inference, and storage suppliers’ responses to the rise of AI Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Top 10 Kubernetes and storage stories of 2024

In this 2024 review, Computer Weekly looks at Kubernetes’ evolution from stateless application runtime to enterprise-ready environment for cloud-native with persistent storage and data protection Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Technology on the beat

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the future of technology in policing as the Home Office announces plans for a new IT organisation. We look at the security risks from employees using publicly available generative AI tools in the workplace. And we hear how Hyatt Hotels is creating a data culture across the organisation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Google Cloud Platform: Key storage options in the Google Cloud

We survey the key cloud storage offers available from GCP, which include Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk and Filestore, with a range of service levels and app-specific options Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

IaaS firm uses Pure Storage as a service for ‘virtual datacentres’

Espresso Gridpoint moved from largely NetApp to Pure Storage FlashBlade file and object for its ‘virtual datacentres’ business model that offers VMware, Hyper-V and ProxMox VMs Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

What is memory management in a computer environment?

Memory management is the process of controlling and coordinating a computer's main memory. Continue Reading

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• Rahul Awati
• Robert Sheldon

Podcast: Storage and AI training, inference, and agentic AI

We talk to Hitachi Vantara CTO for AI Jason Hardy about training, inference and agentic AI, and how competing workloads bring context switching that storage for AI has to handle Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

10 data storage issues and how to overcome them

Don't overlook or ignore these 10 data storage issues -- including those related to staff, security and cost -- as they could disrupt operations without the proper planning. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

Block vs. file vs. object storage: Differences explained

Object storage has surged in popularity, but block and file still have clearly defined uses. Access, metadata and performance are among admins' key considerations. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey
• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

AIOps and storage management: What it is and who provides it

We look at AI-powered tools to manage storage and data protection that can help to detect infrastructure issues and help to optimise performance and even cloud costs Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp

NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Cloud data lakes: Where do they fit and what are their benefits?

We look at cloud data lakes, what they are, where they fit in the data management lifecycle, their benefits and the key providers in the hyperscaler clouds Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware

Continent 8 consolidates infrastructure for cloud services and backs Nutanix as it gains influence over product roadmap and cools on VMware amid customer dissatisfaction over licence changes Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Storage technology explained: Ransomware and storage and backup

We look at ransomware attacks, and the importance of good backup practice as well as immutable snapshots, air-gapping, network segmentation, AI anomaly detection and supplier warranties Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Infinidat gets in on the RAG act with workflow architecture offer

Storage array maker says customers can get data from any NFS storage to use in RAG for internal enterprise AI projects, and claims its OS metadata expertise enables this Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Storage technology explained: Flash vs HDD

In this guide, we examine the differences between flash storage and HDD, the rise of NVMe and much denser formats such as QLC, and whether or not flash will vanquish HDD in the all-flash datacentre Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Storage technology explained: What is S3 and what is it good for?

We look at S3, AWS’s object storage protocol that originated in its cloud services and has now spread as near enough a standard and to third-party on-premise deployments Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

European eArchiving project aims at eternal archive with smart metadata

The European Commission’s eArchiving project has got to version 2.0 and aims at open formats and sector-specific metadata to allow organisations to exploit data for decades to come Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

AWS storage: Key storage options in the Amazon cloud

We survey the key cloud storage options available from AWS, which include S3 object storage and its options, block storage in EBS and a range of file storage choices Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Pure Storage CTO: How AI is changing storage demands

Pure Storage’s CTO stresses the need for adaptable IT systems to support AI workloads, advocating for open architectures and flexible storage platforms to avoid supplier lock-in Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Storage explained: Consumption models of storage procurement

We look at consumption models of storage purchasing and how cloud operating models have made them mainstream and supplanted the traditional three-year lift-and-shift datacentre refresh Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Nakivo aims at VMware refugees tempted by Proxmox

Version 11 of Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backups, support for Proxmox virtualisation backups – following Veeam – and NAS file data backups to cloud targets Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Data bill aims to boost police and NHS productivity

In this week’s Computer Weekly, the government’s new data bill promises to improve productivity and efficiency for the NHS and police, but will it ensure privacy as well? We talk to Dell’s global CTO about how the IT giant sees the AI boom playing out. And we examine which industries stand to benefit most from the collaboration opportunities of virtual reality. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Data classification: What, why and who provides it

You need to know where your data is, what it is, its governance requirements and relationship to the rest of your data. We look at data classification and how AI can help Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Detect ransomware in storage to act before it spreads

Anomaly detection and immutable copies can be frontline tools against ransomware – we look at the role storage can play against the latest techniques employed by ransomware gangs Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Synology takes aim at enterprise customers and flash storage

Best known as an SME and consumer brand, Synology claims multiple enterprise customers especially in backup and storage of infrequently accessed data, but has plans for flash, too Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

What are tensor processing units and what is their role in AI?

We look at Google’s TPUs – tensor processing units – and ask what makes them different to CPUs, GPUs and DPUs, as well as how you can take advantage of them in AI processing Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Global file systems: A single view of on-premise and cloud data

Global file systems aggregate data into a single hybrid cloud from multiple locations using object storage with access that satisfies traditional application needs, like file locking Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Azure storage: Key options in Microsoft cloud storage

We survey the key cloud storage options available from Microsoft Azure, which include Files, Blob, Elastic SAN, Managed Disk and NetApp files, for a range of use cases Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

AI advances in cancer care

In this week’s Computer Weekly, medtech startups are showing how AI can offer dramatic advances in cancer care – we talk to one such firm to find out more. Every CIO is used to delivering rapid response times for users, but not many target latency of eight nanoseconds – we find out how it’s done. And we examine the latest trends on datacentre cooling in the light of advances in energy efficiency. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Auckland museum enhances digitisation efforts with storage upgrade

A major storage upgrade is enabling the Auckland War Memorial Museum to safeguard its vast collection, ensure digital sovereignty and enhance visitor experiences using AI Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

NetApp E-series: Not part of the big message, but here to stay, says CEO

We asked NetApp about its high-performance computing-focused E-series block storage arrays and found inconsistent messaging but ultimately a commitment from CEO George Kurian to retain it Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Pure punts raft of unifying features in FlashBlade file and object

Features are aimed at Pure’s file and object architecture with functionality based on software that aids management at system level Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

NetApp maintains push to data management for AI

From data storage to intelligent data infrastructure – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Kubernetes disaster recovery: Five key questions

We look at disaster recovery for Kubernetes environments, the key challenges to deployment of K8s DR, the risks we aim to mitigate, how to build a plan and the key infrastructure requirements Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard