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20 Dec 2024
Trump's stance on E-Verify checks shifting over time
Employers remain cautious about how immigration policies will change under Trump, given his waffling over E-Verify checks and the potential for a DACA repeal.
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20 Dec 2024
Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans
Post Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on
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20 Dec 2024
HTI-3 final rule updates information blocking exceptions
The Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: Protecting Care Access (HTI-3) final rule adds a new information blocking exception to protect access to reproductive healthcare.
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19 Dec 2024
Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2024
Southeast Asia’s 2024 tech landscape saw major companies embracing AI, shifts in open source and the emergence of local large language models to address the needs of a diverse region
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18 Dec 2024
MirrorWeb plans channel expansion
Archiving specialist MirrorWeb is looking to increase the volume of business generated by partners in 2025
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18 Dec 2024
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
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17 Dec 2024
Kioxia IPO seeks $800 million
Kioxia is going public in an effort to better compete with major players in the flash market.
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17 Dec 2024
VMware customers seek alternatives amid licensing changes
Research reveals that while most VMware customers are satisfied with their current software, they are exploring alternatives due to concerns over rising costs
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16 Dec 2024
Ransomware threat shows no sign of slowing down
Those making predictions about what’s in store for the channel next year point to the persistent and growing problems caused by cyber criminals
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11 Dec 2024
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
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10 Dec 2024
Cohesity completes acquisition of Veritas
The combined Cohesity company boasts more than 12,000 customers and promises support for existing Veritas products. Arctera, a Veritas spinoff, launches in the wake of the merger.
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10 Dec 2024
UK police continue to hold millions of custody images unlawfully
Annual report from the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner of England and Wales highlights the ongoing and unlawful retention millions of custody images of innocent people never charged with a crime by police
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05 Dec 2024
Rubrik expands into AWS, GenAI management
Rubrik customers can now integrate their backup data into AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI with the new Annapurna API service. The vendor is also expanding its backup services for AWS.
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03 Dec 2024
Amazon S3 adds new capabilities for data lakes
The cloud object storage standard gains capabilities at re:Invent, including metadata generation and a managed table service.
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03 Dec 2024
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
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27 Nov 2024
45Drives adds to high-performance portfolio to embrace AI
High performance is just one characteristic needed for AI storage; another is bulk storage for data not currently in use. 45Drives is offering customized offerings for both.
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27 Nov 2024
Barings Law plans to sue Microsoft and Google over AI training data
Microsoft and Google are using people’s personal data without proper consent to train artificial intelligence models, alleges Barings Law, as it prepares to launch a legal challenge against the tech giants
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27 Nov 2024
Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance
Dutch political parties have warned about the Netherlands’ growing reliance on US tech giants
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26 Nov 2024
Commvault's Clumio Backtrack manages AWS versioning for S3
Clumio offers management tools for AWS S3 versioning backups with granular recovery for billions of objects in its first release under the Commvault banner.
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25 Nov 2024
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
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20 Nov 2024
ORG urges ICO to revise public sector enforcement approach
The Open Rights Group is urging the Information Commissioner’s Office to revise its light touch approach to public sector data protection issues, arguing that its experimental policy of limiting its enforcement actions to reprimands and notices, rather issuing fines, is allowing bad practices to continue largely unabated
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19 Nov 2024
Microsoft Ignite sparks third-party storage, backup offers
A flurry of storage and backup news has emerged around Microsoft Ignite, including from Dell, as it looks to support hybrid cloud customers and establish solid footing with Azure.
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18 Nov 2024
Storj CEO Winegar: Distributed storage uptake big in 2025
The new CEO looks to increase enterprise adoption of distributed storage with SOC 2 compliance and new capabilities.
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18 Nov 2024
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
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15 Nov 2024
MinIO ups object storage ante for AI
MinIO is making a case for object to be the storage protocol for AI. But one analyst says the market has yet to decide.
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15 Nov 2024
CBRE: Spare datacentre capacity levels to hit all-time low across Europe by end of 2024
Real estate consultancy CBRE has lifted the lid on how growing demand for datacentre capacity, coupled with shortages of land and power in Europe, are having a downbeat impact on vacancy rates
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14 Nov 2024
Latest version of Vdura Data Platform aimed at enterprise AI
Vdura Data Platform version 11 focuses on a microservices-based architecture and composable hardware for performance and capacity, which includes utilizing HDDs.
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14 Nov 2024
Arctera emerges as spinoff from Veritas-Cohesity merger
Three separate backup and storage offerings from Veritas will continue development under the name Arctera. One analyst believes the spinoff will be a boon for SMB customers.
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13 Nov 2024
Micron, Solidigm bring new high-capacity SSDs to market
Micron and Solidigm are launching new high-density SSDs that add to a growing market. AI workloads and hyperscalers are driving the demand.
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13 Nov 2024
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
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12 Nov 2024
More data stolen in 2023 MOVEit attacks comes to light
Over a year since the infamous MOVEit Transfer cyber attacks affected thousands of organisations, more new victims have come to light after an anonymous threat actor leaked their data on the dark web
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12 Nov 2024
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
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11 Nov 2024
Fresh concerns over NHS England registries procurement
Clinicians and technologists behind a number of medical devices registries being brought together by NHS England on a new common platform have accused the health service of flouting public sector procurement regulations
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11 Nov 2024
NetApp expands flash and hybrid arrays for edge and AI apps
NetApp aims new storage arrays at the mid-market and drops Astra data management into Trident.
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11 Nov 2024
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
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08 Nov 2024
Tintri VMstore adds CSI support for Kubernetes
Tintri has added a container storage interface to its VMstore offering, a move that provides customers with management and metrics for Kubernetes and has been years in the making.
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06 Nov 2024
Pure offers fully managed VMware migration to Azure
Pure Storage is looking for ways to differentiate its offerings in hybrid environments. A key use case: data migration, according to one analyst.
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05 Nov 2024
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
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01 Nov 2024
MinIO ups performance for Arm
Different processors and different storage vendors look for ways to optimize themselves for AI workloads. Here one builds off another, amplifying benefits for customers.
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01 Nov 2024
Panzura CloudFS expands cloud data tiering and VM migrations
Panzura leans further into data management with its latest CloudFS data management capabilities, but still has distance to close with the competition.
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30 Oct 2024
Scality aims to build speed for object storage with Ring XP
Scality's Ring XP utilizes all-flash storage hardware with a stripped-down software-defined storage platform. The service brings fast access times for object storage on-premises.
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30 Oct 2024
Scality Ring XP to offer object storage at scale with rapid access
Lightweight S3 API trades storage features for microsecond access. Scality pairs it with all-NVMe flash in Ring XP, aimed at AI use cases for small object data in PB-scale datasets
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28 Oct 2024
Western Digital boosts HDD capacity with 32TB shingled drives
An 11th platter gives extra capacity, while shingled (overlapped) writes – best suited to sequential recording use cases – allow for greater density and big gains in thoughput
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23 Oct 2024
Arcserve prioritizes cloud choice with UDP platform update
Data backup specialist Arcserve is expanding the data resilience capabilities of its flagship platform with Azure support, multi-replication and malware detection from Microsoft.
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22 Oct 2024
Dell PowerMax uses AI for storage performance, efficiency
Dell PowerMax 10.2 uses the company's AI to optimize dynamic cache, while also building out data protection and using Apex's multi-cloud features.
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22 Oct 2024
Cohesity's generative AI Gaia gets keyword search tool
A new search, questioning and data visibility feature arrives in Cohesity's generative AI Gaia with Data Explore. The update also expands Gaia's support for file storage systems.
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21 Oct 2024
AI agents a new focus for backup and storage vendors
The next big generative AI gambit for enterprise IT vendors lies in AI agents, which storage and data protection vendors see as an opportunity to offer new services.
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21 Oct 2024
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
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17 Oct 2024
Western Digital begins to ship 32 TB HDDs
WD has jumped up to higher densities in its HDD line, shipping 32 TB SMR and 26 TB CMR drives as drop-in replacements to bring higher capacities to clouds and OEMs.
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16 Oct 2024
SUSE sees growth in multi-Linux support and containers
SUSE CEO talks up the company’s double-digit growth, fuelled by demand for its multi-Linux support offering, Rancher container platform and focus on artificial intelligence
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15 Oct 2024
Google launches Parallelstore file storage at cloud AI training
Originally driven by Intel’s now-defunct Optane storage class memory, Parallelstore offers massive parallel file storage targeted at artificial intelligence training use cases on Google Cloud
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10 Oct 2024
Eon makes cloud backups available across major hyperscalers
Cloud backup vendor Eon, which emerged from stealth earlier this month, offers a platform for hyperscaler migrations with features like granular restores and automated tagging.
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08 Oct 2024
Commvault focusing partners on cyber resilience
Vendor announces number of ecosystem partnerships as its EMEA channel chief looks to encourage more involvement with key strategy
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08 Oct 2024
Commvault integrates recent acquisitions into portfolio
At its Shift conference this week, Commvault will highlight new functionality for Commvault Cloud that stems from its Appranix and Clumio buys and bolsters offerings beyond Azure.
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03 Oct 2024
Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly
The Ada Lovelace Institute says there is lack of adequate support on how councils can safely and responsibly procure artificial intelligence systems in the public interest
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03 Oct 2024
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
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02 Oct 2024
Vast Data unveils Cosmos in a push to advance enterprise AI
Vast Data held its Cosmos event, which helped solidify the direction the company is headed and highlighted its community to support AI in the enterprise.
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01 Oct 2024
Vast unveils InsightEngine, a move to support enterprise AI
Vast released InsightEngine to bring real-time retrieval-augmented generation into its data platform as it prepares for growing enterprise adoption of AI.
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27 Sep 2024
Veeam acquisition of Alcion supports push into as-a-service, AI
Veeam embarks on the acquisition path again with its purchase of Alcion. The deal brings several employees who specialize in AI and as-a-service knowledge.
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27 Sep 2024
How UEM Sunrise is driving transformation with Salesforce and AI
Malaysian property developer UEM Sunrise is leveraging Salesforce and AI to boost sales and enhance customer experience while prioritising data sovereignty and a diversified cloud strategy
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26 Sep 2024
Commvault acquisition of Clumio for S3 speaks volumes
Commvault's acquisition of Clumio doesn't wade into billion-dollar territory, but it does illustrate some trends happening in the cloud data protection and backup markets.
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26 Sep 2024
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
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25 Sep 2024
SIOS focuses on failovers in LifeKeeper for Linux update
SIOS updates LifeKeeper for Linux in a new version that adds to its high-availability features and simplifies management and security privileges through its console.
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25 Sep 2024
Pure Storage arms UK channel with greater insights
Vendor extends scheme that has been running in the US to cover EMEA and share more intelligence
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25 Sep 2024
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
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24 Sep 2024
NetApp sees data management as its future
A shared metadata namespace searchable through BlueXP and a disaggregated storage architecture for faster generative AI data ingestion will kickstart NetApp's shift into new markets.
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24 Sep 2024
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
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24 Sep 2024
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
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24 Sep 2024
NetApp integrates security, adds hardware for GenAI future
NetApp executives see a disaggregated future for its storage hardware and software into data management, but industry analysts question how storage admins will handle these duties.
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24 Sep 2024
Pure Storage's new file service looks to clean up legacy mess
Pure Storage's Real-Time Enterprise file service gives a simplified look into file data across the enterprise. It's also offering a VM assessment tool and universal credits program.
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18 Sep 2024
Europol provides detail on Ghost encrypted comms platform takedown
Law enforcement bodies from across the world have revealed how they collaborated to bring down encrypted network Ghost and the new ways of working that have been established with Europol at the centre
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17 Sep 2024
Panzura unveils first offering after Moonwalk acquisition
After acquiring data management vendor Moonwalk in July, Panzura is debuting its next verse with the release of Panzura Symphony, a data orchestration service.
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17 Sep 2024
Toshiba follows the pack with launch of 24TB and 28TB HDDs
Several months behind Seagate and Western Digital, Toshiba achieves the maximum possible in commercial HDDs and benefits from a speed boost over its rivals
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12 Sep 2024
Druva's Dru Investigate guards backup data from cyberattacks
The latest generative AI service from Druva, Dru Investigate, adds a new copilot option to its backup software that identifies anomalies and offers remediation suggestions.
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11 Sep 2024
Arcitecta Mediaflux goes multi-site, to the edge and bursts
Arcitecta has partnered with Dell to increase data transfer speeds across geographies, at the edge and during hours when compute resources are in demand.
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11 Sep 2024
Latin America move ‘a natural choice’ for Assured Data Protection
Following the announcement of a joint venture with Rubrik to cover the Latin America region, Assured Data Protection’s co-founder shares details of the motivation behind the decision
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10 Sep 2024
Google Cloud Backup service expands with vault offering
The latest updates to Google Cloud's backup and recovery offering adds immutable and invisible data vaults for VMs and databases, alongside other features.
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09 Sep 2024
Multiple Veeam vulns spark concern among defenders
Veeam users are urged to patch a series of vulnerabilities in the firm’s Backup & Replication product to get out ahead of potential exploitation by ransomware gangs
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06 Sep 2024
In $1.9B deal, Salesforce buys data backup company Own
In the lead-up to its annual user conference, Salesforce buys Own Company for $1.9 billion, its second acquisition of the week and its third for 2024.
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06 Sep 2024
Climb outlines plans for more European M&A activity
As the firm rebrands last year’s pick-up, the business has shared an update on some of its growth ambitions
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04 Sep 2024
VMware bundles vSAN, but keeps third-party storage support
The forthcoming VCF 9 update will expand vVols technology to Broadcom's VMware private cloud platform, enabling enterprises to integrate VCF into existing storage architecture.
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03 Sep 2024
Flash prices drop as drive production increases but demand lags
Flash prices were high in the early part of this year as a result of manufacturer production squeezes but have since dropped because demand has been slack, with flash now costing just under 10 cents per gigabyte
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29 Aug 2024
Hammerspace-Arrow appliances eye AI market
Hammerspace is prepacking its Global Data Platform software onto Arrow Electronics hardware, offering appliances to customers for easier deployment.
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28 Aug 2024
Cambridge Enterprise saves big with Keepit SaaS backup
University innovation body avoids hardware spend and saves management time as it switches from tape to cloud-to-cloud backup, instant recovery and decades-long retention from Keepit
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27 Aug 2024
AI innovation key to UK business, but obstacles threaten progress
AI is seen by IT leaders as essential, but it requires innovation, skills and infrastructure – all of which are under pressure from day-to-day firefighting, energy costs and cyber threats
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21 Aug 2024
QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration
US-based startup will develop storage software allied with FPGA chips to allow data storage to bypass spinning disk era block addressing to speed performance and cut energy use
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14 Aug 2024
Memory and storage experts share highlights from FMS 2024
Industry experts look back on the expanded FMS 2024, weighing in on the big takeaways and what discussions say about the future of the storage and memory markets.
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13 Aug 2024
Nutanix to enable software-defined storage on Dell PowerFlex
Nutanix and Dell are expanding their partnership with a new appliance out now and a new HCI model that melds Dell PowerFlex with the Nutanix Cloud Platform out in 2025.
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13 Aug 2024
AI explosion creating storage and data management opportunities
For those able to support customers and help to reduce complexity surrounding AI technology, the rest of this year should be a solid time
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13 Aug 2024
Oracle Exadata Exascale: Big architecture shift for small workloads
Exascale is multitenant architecture for Oracle Database that promises performance equal to dedicated infrastructure and savings compared with existing products, with AI workloads in mind
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12 Aug 2024
How JSR is using generative AI to drive insights
JSR Corporation has been using the Cohesity Gaia enterprise search assistant to surface insights from backups of employee mailboxes and OneDrive data
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09 Aug 2024
NetApp additions aim to ease migrations and hybrid cloud
The latest NetApp capabilities enable hybrid cloud functionality and expand migration options, important features as customer look to avoid lock-in.
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07 Aug 2024
Swedish investment firm takes majority stake in Acronis
EQT buys a majority stake in Acronis but will likely be hands off for the foreseeable future, according to Acronis CEO Ezequiel Steiner. The deal is expected to close next year.
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07 Aug 2024
Microsoft 365 Backup now GA with API for SaaS recovery
New offerings from Microsoft provide a cloud backup and recovery service for its popular Microsoft 365 with an API enabling other backup platforms to add the service.
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06 Aug 2024
Kioxia wins lifetime achievement for 3D NAND amid IPO plans
The flash storage industry wouldn't be where it is today without 3D NAND. To celebrate its invention, Kioxia is receiving a Future of Memory and Storage Lifetime Achievement Award.
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05 Aug 2024
GenAI lags traditional AI and ML for enterprise data backup
Enterprises are using AI and ML technologies with their backups for classification or security over recent generative AI tools like chatbots, industry analysts say.
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05 Aug 2024
What are the options when migrating from VMware?
Broadcom’s changes to VMware licensing means some people are facing big price increases – we look at how these can be avoided
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02 Aug 2024
Major changes could reshape the NAND flash market
The last few years have seen NAND prices crater before rebounding. The next few years may see the major players in the market go public, split or merge.
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01 Aug 2024
Clumio CEO Rick Underwood: Backup remains company focus
Rick Underwood, appointed CEO at Clumio in June, sees data management and machine learning technologies as key for the company's backup software outside GenAI hype in this Q&A.
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31 Jul 2024
Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency
Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short
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30 Jul 2024
ADP and Khipu Networks partner to offer data protection
The two managed service providers will work together to get data resilience options in front of more Khipu customers
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26 Jul 2024
AI surge spurs shift from cloud to local data control
The rise of AI is driving organisations to move data control locally to prevent external use of their data while maintaining cloud compatibility, says Cloudian CEO
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25 Jul 2024
Micron brings its first PCIe 5.0 SSD to market with 9550
A late entry to the PCIe 5.0 SSD market, the Micron 9550 intends to set itself apart from the veterans in the Gen 5 arena, including Kioxia and Samsung.