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27 Jun 2025
ACIP votes to remove thimerosal from flu vaccines
The CDC's newly restructured Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) votes to recommend against flu vaccines containing thimerosal.
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26 Jun 2025
Vibe coding with AI sparks debate, reshapes developer jobs
The 'vibe coding' catchphrase shows that GenAI is transforming software developer jobs -- but just how much change is coming? It depends on who you ask.
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26 Jun 2025
Fair use rulings favor Meta and Anthropic but are limited
While the judges agreed with the fair use argument, it doesn't mean other lawsuits will have the same ruling. It's also likely that the Supreme Court will be the ultimate decider.
Storage News from the past 365 days
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26 Jun 2025
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
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25 Jun 2025
HPE Alletra modernizes IT at Australian cancer research firm
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute in Melbourne leans on HPE Alletra storage and servers to modernize infrastructure and look to a private cloud future.
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24 Jun 2025
Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware
We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training
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23 Jun 2025
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
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20 Jun 2025
UK data reforms become law
UK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy
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20 Jun 2025
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
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20 Jun 2025
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
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18 Jun 2025
Pure looks beyond storage to data management
The vendor's Enterprise Data Cloud architecture, unveiled at Pure//Accelerate, suggests just how much data management is converging in the enterprise.
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18 Jun 2025
Pure Storage hands channel fresh data management pitch
Vendor announces launch of a cloud data management option that it believes will offer an alternative to traditional storage approaches
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18 Jun 2025
Weka connects storage AI with new NeuralMesh architecture
Weka's Data Platform adapts to AI data center needs with new NeuralMesh architecture, which can deploy in hybrid-cloud setups, self-heal and prioritize storage paths to the GPUs.
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18 Jun 2025
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
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18 Jun 2025
Pure Storage supporting automation with cloudlike approach
Pure Storage's new Enterprise Data Cloud platform automates common storage workloads and refreshes server hardware at the vendor's annual conference.
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09 Jun 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Personnel movements this week at Exclusive Networks, Six Degrees, Tenable, Pure Storage and LogicMonitor
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09 Jun 2025
Object First cranking up UK channel growth
Boss of data backup and restore specialist Object First is keen to build on the momentum the business generated over the past year
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05 Jun 2025
Rubrik expands cloud databases and Oracle Cloud protection
Backup vendor Rubrik will protect numerous new workloads in the platform this year, but cybersecurity experts warn customers to continue prepping for threats.
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05 Jun 2025
UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’
People experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy
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04 Jun 2025
European Commission should rescind UK data adequacy
Civil society organisations have urged the European Commissioner to not renew the UK’s data adequacy, given the country’s growing divergence from European data protection standards
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30 May 2025
Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy
Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud
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28 May 2025
VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives
With so much Java code running enterprise IT, we consider the benefits of adapting existing systems to make them more cloud-native
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26 May 2025
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
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22 May 2025
Dell arms partners with resiliency and automation tools
Vendor has used Las Vegas event to make a number of announcements that are designed to improve its security, datacentre management and AI position
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22 May 2025
How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt
Gartner analysts explain how infrastructure and operations teams can address the accumulation of outdated systems and make a compelling business case for upgrades
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22 May 2025
Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands
As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI
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21 May 2025
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities
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21 May 2025
Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum
Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week
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20 May 2025
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
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20 May 2025
Hacking contest exposes VMware security
In what has been described as a historical first, hackers in Berlin have been able to demo successful attacks on the ESXi hypervisor
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19 May 2025
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
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16 May 2025
No workaround leads to more pain for VMware users
There are patches for the latest batch of security alerts from Broadcom, but VMware users on perpetual licences may not have access
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15 May 2025
Innovation team expanding ADP horizons
Managed service player keen to identify relationships where it can add value with its expertise in disaster recovery and data protection
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13 May 2025
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
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12 May 2025
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
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09 May 2025
Broadcom letters demonstrate push to VMware subscriptions
The owner of VMware is reminding customers on perpetual licences that they will longer be able to buy support for their VMware products
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08 May 2025
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
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07 May 2025
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
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07 May 2025
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
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06 May 2025
CIOs prepare for recession with greater cost control
Tariffs and the risk of economic slowdown have brought IT budgets into focus, with many IT leaders dropping projects and reducing tech investments
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02 May 2025
Veeam CEO discusses data resilience, VMware migrations, IPO
In this Q&A, Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran speaks to the customer pain point of VMware migrations, the potential for acquisitions and whether tariffs have affected Veeam's business.
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29 Apr 2025
NetApp security updates target future quantum threats
The latest data protection and recovery updates bring post-quantum cryptography to NetApp's block and file workloads alongside new BlueXP services.
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29 Apr 2025
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
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24 Apr 2025
IT pros share disaster preparedness, VMware migration plans
IT pros at VeeamON shared disaster preparedness strategies, including DR planning, using immutable storage and moving away from VMware.
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24 Apr 2025
VMware patches put spotlight on support
Recent security updates in VMware products have highlighted the challenge IT decision-makers face as they navigate Broadcom licensing changes
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24 Apr 2025
Cyber resilience now a top priority for backup platforms
The latest updates to backup platforms such as HYCU, Commvault, Cohesity, Rubrik and Keepit bolster cyber resilience in both technology and customer readiness.
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23 Apr 2025
Veeam data resilience strategy evolves beyond tech releases
Veeam's releases at its annual user conference included technology-specific backup products and a process-focused framework for increasing resilience.
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22 Apr 2025
Fujitsu targets private AI with Japanese LLM on Nutanix
Fujitsu’s Takane large language model, optimised for Japanese language and business use, is aimed at supporting private AI deployments
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17 Apr 2025
Google Cloud storage offerings bolstered for AI apps
Storage for Google Cloud now supports many features akin to AWS' catalog for AI app development, but could lead to cloud lock-in as best practices and strategies emerge.
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16 Apr 2025
Hammerspace vacuums $100 million in Series B to gear for IPO
The latest funding round doubles the prior Series A total with new and prior investors in Hammerspace to expand sales and marketing reach, but experts question IPO ambitions.
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15 Apr 2025
Hertz warns UK customers of Cleo-linked data breach
Car hire giant Hertz reveals UK customer data was affected in a cyber incident orchestrated via a series of vulnerabilities in Cleo managed file transfer products
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14 Apr 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
M&A activity of note in the past week was undertaken by Softcat, Exertis IT and Focus Group
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11 Apr 2025
Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon
The Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community input – will further contribute the over-policing of Black communities
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08 Apr 2025
Dell storage lines get refresh for AI workloads
Dell Technologies rolls out PowerEdge, ObjectScale and PowerScale hardware updates, alongside new capabilities for the PowerProtect and PowerStore software.
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02 Apr 2025
Nasuni taps Veracode's Sam King for storage CEO role
Sam King, the former CEO of security vendor Veracode, is tasked with leading Nasuni's move from cloud storage to agentic AI data lakes.
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31 Mar 2025
UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk
The UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy
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28 Mar 2025
Pure Storage responds to partner calls for increased profitability
Vendor Pure Storage demonstrates that it has recognised the needs of its channel and is prepared to invest in rewarding growth through its enhanced programme
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24 Mar 2025
Storage players ride the Nvidia bus at GTC 2025
As artificial intelligence’s big beast holds its annual shindig, storage firms line up to launch everything from new array products to validations, certifications and vague ideas around data ecosystems
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20 Mar 2025
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
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19 Mar 2025
How Telefónica avoided VMware price hike
While some some organisations look for alternatives to VMware, Telefónica Germany has taken a different approach based on third-party support
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18 Mar 2025
Storage metadata services for AI apps trending at Nvidia GTC
Nvidia's GTC show once again places AI applications at center stage, with storage vendors seeing their platforms' metadata capabilities as a key development component.
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18 Mar 2025
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
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14 Mar 2025
Amazon exec: New AWS S3 capabilities highly adopted by users
AWS Storage VP Andrew Warfield talks about how customers are using the latest feature launches from the Amazon S3 team as part of the vendor's Pi Day 2025 conference.
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13 Mar 2025
Supercars team BJR taps Extranet Systems for racing edge
As the demands of motorsports grow, Supercars team Brad Jones Racing turns to IT specialist Extranet Systems to manage crucial areas such as security, backup and disaster recovery
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12 Mar 2025
Druva founder and CEO talks Azure integration, IPO and AI
In this Q&A, Druva founder and CEO Jaspreet Singh talks about the SaaS platform's latest integration with Azure, if an IPO is in the future and the Dru AI copilots.
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11 Mar 2025
Druva debuts fully integrated support for Microsoft Azure
Druva's SaaS platform expands beyond AWS with new embedded support for Microsoft Azure storage workload backups after more than a decade of AWS exclusivity.
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11 Mar 2025
Pure aims at AI beyond the enterprise with FlashBlade//Exa
FlashBlade//Exa targets use cases between the enterprise and hyperscalers with a disaggregated architecture and its DFM flash modules to be available separately for the first time
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05 Mar 2025
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
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04 Mar 2025
Rubrik expands cloud, SaaS and database protection services
Backup and recovery for Microsoft Identity services, alongside new offerings for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat OpenShift, come to Rubrik's platform.
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04 Mar 2025
Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration
A recent event held by VMware rival Nutanix attracted many people new to the hyperconverged infrastructure provider
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04 Mar 2025
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%
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28 Feb 2025
Storage vendors adding data management tools to meet AI needs
Storage vendors are now developing their own tools and capabilities related to data management tasks within their platforms, as interest in enterprise AI development increases.
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25 Feb 2025
Backup vendor Veeam gets an equity stake from Microsoft
Veeam plans deeper AI integrations in Microsoft 365 and other Azure services through Microsoft equity investment and expanded partnership.
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24 Feb 2025
StorOne update automates storage tiering for data access
StorOne Data Storage Platform uses AI and ML to automate data between tiers of flash and HDD storage without the need for custom hardware or user intervention in latest release.
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21 Feb 2025
Block storage and Kafka events come to Vast Data Platform
A new Apache Kafka API-compatible service enables customers to move their data management services closer to storage using the Vast Data Platform, which now offers block storage.
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18 Feb 2025
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
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12 Feb 2025
Arctera CEO: Focus is on new capabilities for backup products
Data backup vendor Arctera, which consists of former Veritas businesses, will continue to sell these products separately as it looks to improve and expand its offerings.
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11 Feb 2025
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
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11 Feb 2025
NetApp adds cheaper options to all-flash block storage line
An early 2025 catalog refresh includes the expansion of the ASA A-Series, adding to its all-flash block storage with NetApp's OnTap storage OS.
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11 Feb 2025
Users looking to replace backup solutions
Kaseya research reveals a portion of users are not only struggling with backup and recovery, but are considering switching technologies
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11 Feb 2025
New StorPool KVM disaster recovery service aids adoption
New Disaster Recovery Engine service by StorPool Storage enables automated snapshot and metadata recovery of KVMs in open source cloud platforms.
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05 Feb 2025
Dell shares details of 2025 partner programme
Focus is on artificial intelligence, PC refresh, storage and collaborating more closely with the channel to support growth
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05 Feb 2025
Panzura CloudFS capabilities focus on business continuity
Panzura's CloudFS hybrid cloud storage platform expands file access speeds and offers a new workload recovery capability without the need for high availability tooling.
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29 Jan 2025
Komprise now blocks PII data from accidental AI ingestion
Enterprises feeding unstructured data into AI models can avoid security leaks with a new PII data detection and quarantining capability in the Komprise data management platform.
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28 Jan 2025
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?
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28 Jan 2025
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
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27 Jan 2025
Cohesity exec: Gaia will 'unlock' data for AI applications
In this Q&A, Cohesity's Greg Statton explains how the Gaia offering connects data and AI services, with more capabilities coming following the acquisition of Veritas last year.
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24 Jan 2025
Assured Data Protection sets sights on European growth
Data backup and resilience specialist is looking to expand its reach and work with more channel partners
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23 Jan 2025
Backblaze CEO sees open cloud key to AI innovation
In this Q&A, Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman discusses how the cloud storage vendor has evolved its object storage platform and how an open cloud benefits AI.
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23 Jan 2025
ICO launches major review of cookies on UK websites
ICO sets out 2025 goals, including a review of cookie compliance across the UK’s top 1,000 websites, as it seeks to achieve its ultimate goal of giving the public meaningful control over how their data is used
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22 Jan 2025
Synology launches enterprise push with a backup appliance
Synology attempts to court the enterprise IT market with the launch of ActiveProtect, a new backup appliance, and plans to expand storage offerings later this year.
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22 Jan 2025
Privacy professionals expect budget cuts, lack confidence
Over 50% of privacy professionals in Europe expect to see less money earmarked for data security initiatives in 2025, and many don’t have faith their organisations are taking the issue seriously, according to an ISACA report
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19 Jan 2025
ST Logistics teams up with Lenovo on smart warehouses
The Singapore logistics firm is partnering with Lenovo to integrate AI and automation into its warehouse operations
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16 Jan 2025
Lenovo to acquire Infinidat as part of growth strategy
Infinidat's high-end storage offerings fill a Lenovo portfolio gap, but its acquisition winnows the number of storage vendors in the market, according to analysts.
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16 Jan 2025
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
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15 Jan 2025
NetApp sells Spot business to Flexera for $100M
Flexera acquires NetApp's cloud management business and products as the storage vendor focuses on a hybrid cloud and AI future.
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15 Jan 2025
Cohesity CEO on Veritas integration and IPO plans
Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen shares his vision for integrating Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, uniting 12,000 customers, driving AI-powered innovation and building a public-ready company
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14 Jan 2025
Commvault automates Microsoft Active Directory reforestation
Commvault's latest offering enables the Microsoft AD forest to sprout back from disasters or ransomware through new automation and visualization tools.
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10 Jan 2025
Workforce planning lags behind rising climate disasters
Natural disasters are causing more damage and increasing costs, but they aren't playing a major role in how employers approach workforce planning, such as remote work.
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07 Jan 2025
Pure Storage, Micron expand QLC NAND partnership
Micron and Pure focus on hyperscalers and AI workloads by bringing the latest generation of QLC NAND to Pure's storage hardware and software.
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06 Jan 2025
AI creating storage opportunities
The introduction of the EU AI Act is one of the spurs for the channel to talk to customers about their data strategy
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23 Dec 2024
2024 review: Main themes in the channel
MicroScope takes a look back at some of the main themes that affected the channel over the past 12 months
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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