Virtualisation and storage
6 backup fundamentals for the cloud age
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News : Virtualisation and storage
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January 20, 2020
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Inside NetApp’s transition into a data management firm
NetApp’s leaders in Asia-Pacific discuss the company’s pivot into data services and its traction in the region
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January 15, 2020
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How container applications are shaping storage management
Persistent storage, backup and recovery were not on the minds of those behind container applications, but that is starting to change
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January 13, 2020
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$5bn buy-out set to make backup giant Veeam a US company
Veeam’s founders are out as investment fund gets its hands on a pioneer of virtual machine backup. Now it will be a US company and eligible to target US government customers
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January 07, 2020
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Scale’s HE150 the first of a big push to small edge HCI hardware
Scale Computing aims to scale to micro-sized hyper-converged with a lightweight operating system it claims its competitors can’t match for edge and remote location deployments
In Depth : Virtualisation and storage
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Five ways that backup has changed since the days of tape
Back in the day, all this was tape, but times have changed, with cloud-to-cloud backup, cloud storage, virtual and physical backup appliances and myriad endpoint hardware Continue Reading
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Top 10 storage deployment stories of 2019
Here are ComputerWeekly’s top 10 storage deployment stories for 2019, which see quite a move away from traditional SAN and NAS to hyper-converged, software-defined storage and object storage Continue Reading
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How to buy hyper-converged infrastructure
Simplicity, high availability, scalability and reduced cost are among the benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure. We survey the benefits, pitfalls and the key suppliers Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Virtualisation and storage
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Nutanix’s IPO launches hyper-converged but can it escape the rules of the storage universe?
We’ve been tracking the rise of hyper-converged infrastructure recently, and one key measure that seems to confirm this as a rising star of the tech world is Nutanix’s IPO last week. Its shares ... Continue Reading
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Hyper-converged and all-flash shine against backdrop of declining storage revenues
Writing about the rise of hyper-converged infrastructure yesterday, and its likely impact on entry-level storage arrays, I based my blog-ument entirely on anecdotal evidence. IE, simply what I see ... Continue Reading
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Primary Data and the latest incarnation of the “storage hypervisor”
At VMworld in Las Vegas this week Primary Data showcased its re-worked version of storage virtualisation. That is, in their case, a way of aggregating disparate storage resources from multiple ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Virtualisation and storage
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Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications
Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
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HPE's Simplivity purchase keeps hyper-convergence in the spotlight
Hyper-converged infrastructure is well and truly mainstream. 451 Research finds hyper-converged all set to become the number one platform for core datacentre workloads Continue Reading
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IT transformation brings storage transformation
IT departments’ moves away from specialised skills to generalist skillsets are fuelling the rise of easy-to-use hyper-converged infrastructure and all-flash storage systems Continue Reading
Videos : Virtualisation and storage
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CW500: Gavin Cole, Oracle UK
Making sense of storage in a big data world
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CW500: Sean Sadler, Kings College London
One of the dilemmas of the modern CIO is the ever-expanding need for data storage.
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CW500: Robert White, Morgan Stanley
One of the dilemmas of the modern CIO is the ever-expanding need for data storage.