Virtualisation and storage

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

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

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 virtual memory?

Virtual memory is a memory management technique where secondary memory can be used as if it were a part of the main memory. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan
• Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor
• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing 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

Accused by algorithm

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we shine a light on the Ministry of Justice’s controversial use of crime prediction algorithms. The CIO of Boehringer Ingelheim sets out how his organisation has built a data platform that is paving the way for the pharmaceutical giant to embrace AI and quantum computing. And, with the fallout from the VMware-Broadcom merger showing no signs of letting up, we weigh up what the migration options are for VMware vSAN users. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

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

What is a disk image?

A disk image is a compressed file that contains a copy of the entire contents of a computer's hard drive or other storage media, such as optical discs or solid-state drives. Continue Reading

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• Nick Barney, Technology Writer
• Garry Kranz

What is a virtual hard disk (VHD)?

A virtual hard disk (VHD) is a disk image file format for storing the entire contents of a computer's hard drive. Continue Reading

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• Rahul Awati

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NetApp boosts AFF, StorageGrid and E-series hardware with 60TB drives

Bigger drives, new CPUs and controller hardware add to upgrades to NetApp arrays that started in September, while the supplier undergoes transition to data management as a key focus 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

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

Nutanix courts VMware customers in APAC amid Broadcom concerns

Nutanix is driving double-digit growth across the region by capitalising on the evolving cloud landscape with its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, as well as anxieties about the future direction of VMware under Broadcom’s ownership Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

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

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

Storage technology explained: Kubernetes, containers and persistent storage

In this guide, we look at the market-leading container platform Kubernetes, how it works, the challenges with persistent storage and backup, and how they have been overcome Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

What Veeam's backup support of Proxmox means for SMBs

Proxmox has officially entered the virtualization platform conversation. The addition of Veeam backup support provides smaller organizations an alternative to pricier VMware tools. Continue Reading

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• Stuart Burns

Podcast: Storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31

We talk to Sergey Pronin of Percona about new storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31, including volume attribute class and changes to persistent volumes, as well as other long-term fixes Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Kubernetes and storage in the enterprise: What the analysts say

We talk to analysts about Kubernetes adoption in the enterprise, how mature it is, deployment challenges and key obstacles to enterprises that want to go cloud-native with containers Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Kubernetes at 10: CRDs at core of extensible, modular storage in K8s

We talk to VMware engineer Xing Yang, who saw Kubernetes storage evolve from the early days where its modular, extensible origins translated to Operators for storage and backup Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Kubernetes at 10: The long road to mastery of persistent storage

Jan Safranek of Red Hat saw containers emerge as an exciting new way of deploying applications, but it took several additions to make it the mature enterprise platform it is today Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

What is ZFS?

ZFS is a local file system and logical volume manager created by Sun Microsystems to direct and control the placement, storage and retrieval of data in enterprise-class computing systems. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan
• Carol Sliwa

Kubernetes at 10: From stateless also-ran to ‘platform to build platforms’

Sergey Pronin of Percona was all for ‘Kubernetes for stateless’ at a time when it was hard to provision storage and day-two services – then Operators and Stateful Sets came along Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Kubernetes at 10: When K8s ‘won’ and life now as a ‘surly teenager’

We talk to Datastax’s Patrick McFadin about Kubernetes’ success against competitors and how StatefulSet and operators solved key challenges, but why there are still obstacles to clear Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Deep dive: How Pure Fusion plans to implement storage classes

We spoke to Pure Storage founder John ‘Coz’ Colgrove about how Pure Storage’s Fusion control plane will make its capacity available to applications via pre-defined storage classes Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Podcast: Storage for AI needs scale, hybrid cloud and multiple integrations

We talk to NetApp’s Grant Caley about AI and data storage, the need for scale, performance and hybrid cloud, and to move, copy and clone data for wrangling for inference runs Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Kubernetes at 10: Building stateful app storage and data protection

Google engineer Michelle Au was involved in Kubernetes storage early, as the container orchestration platform was developed to support data protection operations such as snapshots Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Pure CEO: AI needs write speed and storage in place

We spoke to Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo about why write speed is key for artificial intelligence workloads, accessible storage for AI data, and his prediction of the death of spinning disk Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Pure deepens Fusion as reorientation to storage for AI continues

Pure Storage launches Fusion ‘storage classes’ across its arrays as a pool of storage for AI-centric workloads, plus AI Copilot and Evergreen//One for AI storage-as-a-service Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Kubernetes at 10: Persistent storage matures, helped by Operators

Google engineer Saad Ali remembers the early days of Kubernetes, the storage challenges faced and overcome, and the revolution in application awareness that comes from Operators Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves

Large organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

Digital border problems are stacking up

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the government’s post-Brexit plans for digital borders as problems begin to emerge. We find out about AI PCs and ask whether they will make any difference for enterprise IT. And we talk to Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks about the open source opportunities from AI. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

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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• Stephen Withers

NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage

New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

How data keeps Britain’s trains on track

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how Network Rail is ensuring train safety in the face of extreme weather thanks to advanced data analytics. Our latest buyer’s guide examines the latest trends in storage technology. And we talk to the Ministry of Defence’s first ever chief data officer. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’

Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

Maybe Einstein Was Wrong with E and MC - Apparently SoftIron = VM Squared...

Let’s face it, the scenario facing VMware for resellers and customer alike, post-Broadcom acquisition is common knowledge – the future landscape is not as it was. On top of that, it has to be ... Continue Reading

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• Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing

Music agency halves space and energy costs with switch to Pure

SUISA handles billions of royalty payments, but had capacity and storage admin nightmares with its EMC hardware. It cued up Pure Storage for simple admin, space and cost savings Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

What will result from Cohesity’s Veritas acquisition?

The $7bn backup giant will leverage huge assets in enterprise customer base, compliance and governance intelligence, AI, R&D, and Kubernetes backup and storage Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Data on Kubernetes Community aims at K8S storage scaling solution

DoKC works on community solutions for Kubernetes. It aims to develop storage scaling automation for the containerised platform outside the orbit of the big vendors Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Top 10 storage stories of 2023

In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023

In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Pure Storage: Flash ‘startup’ that brings late entrant advantage

Storage profile: We look at Pure Storage, the youngest of the array makers, which comes to market with well-developed flash, hybrid cloud and consumption purchasing models Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Dell EMC: Storage giant shifts gear to cloud operating models

Storage profile: We look at Dell EMC, the result of the biggest tech acquisition ever, and find a company well set for ubiquitous cloud operating models and as-a-service Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Cubbit DS3 Composer brings DIY cloud to object storage pool

Cubbit customers can now build and configure S3-compatible clouds from unused capacity and offer MSP-grade services with high levels of resilience, security and data sovereignty Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona

VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Dell updates PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex storage

Dell storage upgrades include improved AIOps, lower energy usage, real-time HA failover, seamless hardware replacement, and enhancements to take advantage of DPU acceleration Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Scality gets a jump with VMware Cloud Director integration

S3-compliant object storage specialist will use new OSIS integration with VMware’s cloud management tool to target service providers that want to deliver regional cloud offers Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

IBM reorients to offset historic storage hardware decline

Storage profile: We look at IBM and the strategic shifts it has made towards the cloud, cloud-native and as-a-service offerings that aim to reverse a long-term decline in revenues Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO

SAN and NAS are finished in the age of the cloud when it comes to cloud-native Kubernetes storage, according to container-focused object storage maker MinIO Continue Reading

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• Pierre Berlemont
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

HPE storage comes with full IT stack, hybrid cloud and as a service

Storage profile: We look at HPE, its Alletra storage refresh, and Greenlake and the ways the company is re-branding as a full-stack provider across on-prem and hybrid cloud Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment

VMware launches new iteration of vSAN Max with up to 8.6PB of independently scalable storage, NSX gets a “+” as it unifies networks and Ransomware Recovery ups efficiency Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

HPE’s Alletra MP marries storage to cloud and software-defined choices

HPE’s Alletra was launched in April with an architecture that ties in with GreenLake consumption purchasing, SaaS configuration and addition of software-defined storage services Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Software-defined storage: What’s available from key players

What’s available in software-defined storage from the big storage players, software-defined storage specialists, and SDS options focused on cloud, virtualisation and containers Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Johnson Controls opts for container-based app delivery with Portworx

Buildings management giant built a suite of customer-facing products using containers and opted for Pure Storage Portworx for hybrid cloud container management and data protection Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Nakivo adds ransomware scanning and new restore options

Backup maker adds malware scanning with big names in security to immutable backup copy functionality. “Tape’s not dead” either, with restore from the venerable medium now possible Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Podcast: Containers, Kubernetes, data protection and compliance

Containers offer benefits to application deployment, but they proliferate, so tracking them for compliance purposes can be a challenge. We talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

ESA uses NetApp as-a-service for space data ‘hot’ archive

The European Space Agency collects data from millions of miles away. It must get storage right when there’s no chance of a u-turn to take more photos or re-record data Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Veritas shows off software SAN for Kubernetes at KubeCON 2023

Veritas InfoScale aims to provide high-performance block access storage despite limitations such as a maximum node count of 16 per cluster Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

IT Priorities 2023: Cloud and disaster recovery top storage and backup plans

Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

HPE launches GreenLake for File and Block, and unified arrays

HPE upgrades its storage-as-a-service offer with Greenlake for File and for Block, configurable via the cloud but deployable on-prem. Meanwhile it shows new Alletra MP arrays Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

IBM Storage launched with backup appliance plan

Prosaically named brand will replace Spectrum products, while IBM rationalises offer for AI/ML, hybrid cloud and malware, which it sees as the backdrop to contemporary IT Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Why Veeam thinks ransomware warranty payouts are unlikely

Veeam Data Platform v12 offers a financial guarantee to customers that can’t restore after ransomware attacks, but the backup supplier is convinced it won’t be making many payouts Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Podcast: Why DBaaS and what problems does it solve?

We talk to Tobias Ternström of Nutanix about how the enterprise landscape has seen thousands of databases from multiple vendors mushroom and how database as a service can help manage that complexity Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Velero wants to become the Kubernetes backup standard

Open source Velero offers modular data protection and disaster recovery functionality via API for Kubernetes container clusters in an effort to become the standard in the field Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

How Dell is future-proofing its business

Dell Technologies is building a more resilient supply chain, investing in growth areas like edge and multicloud, and responding to shifts in consumption models to position itself for long-term growth Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Veeam bundles backup products into Veeam Data Platform

Backup and data protection specialist Veeam upgrades and rebrands, with a focus on the challenges of ransomware and rapid recovery, and a claimed 500 new functions Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Rakuten targets big edge deployments with Symworld Cloud

Japanese giant Rakuten bought Kubernetes management platform Robin.io and put it in 50,000-plus telco antennas. Now it aims Symworld Cloud at enterprise edge deployments Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Container storage platforms: Big six approach starts to align

Container storage is a complex but vital task. We survey the big six storage makers and see methods are starting to align around management platforms Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

NetApp adds QLC C-series, new A-series and subscription upgrades

NetApp C-series QLC-based array family offers flash speed with capacity, while Advance adds subscription upgrades to owned hardware, as well as a new entry-level A-series array Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

IT’s shift to the cloud: Veeam’s data protection report in detail

With half of servers in the cloud, most backup and nearly all disaster recovery cloud-centric, the shift to the cloud is significant – but container backup is one area that is yet to settle down Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

DataCore software-defined storage helps car firm avoid breakdowns

Bontaz used to face regular IT outages that took too long to recover from. Then it got DataCore software-defined storage and the ability to rapidly recover from downtime Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation

Annual report shows secular trend to the cloud and increased use of containers, but prevalence of ransomware attacks means digital transformation is hindered Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Top 10 storage and backup customer stories of 2022

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage and backup customer stories of 2022 Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

CIO interview: Steve Capper, CIO, SNC-Lavalin

Engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin has consolidated its global datacentre estate and implemented private cloud to support the unique demands of its business Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Pure aims at near bare metal I/O with Portworx PX-Fast

PX-Fast is driven by customer need for scale and high performance in containerised environments and sees reworking of Portworx data architecture to slash storage access time Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Scality Ring 9 brings Storage Accelerator enhanced flash tiers

Scality upgrade to Ring 9 of its object (and file) storage software sees enhancements to tiering, the introduction of Prometheus-based monitoring and hooks into VMware vCloud Director Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

NetApp launches BlueXP as single console across on-prem and cloud

BlueXP gives customers monitoring and control over all NetApp storage on-site and in multiple clouds. Meanwhile, its Ontap OS has added S3 object storage access Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

SoftIron’s HyperCloud to ease private cloud deployments

SoftIron claims its technology stack fully automates the provisioning of storage, compute, networking and infrastructure services, providing a fully functioning, multi-tenant cloud Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

CW APAC: Trend Watch: Cloud networking

Organisations are waking up to the importance of utilising updated cloud services. In this handbook, focused on cloud networking in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at the technology’s advantages, how Cloudflare keeps its customers protected, Tata’s efforts to strengthen its offerings, and how networking and security might evolve in the future. Continue Reading

Tintri pushes for cloud and container storage with Tintri.io

Tintri aims to leverage core technology in its products to meet the needs of containers and microservices with cloud versions of its on-premise appliances Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor