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07 May 2024
Red Hat OpenShift AI links LLMs into hybrid cloud
By Beth PariseauAn extensively updated OpenShift AI will underpin RHEL AI and, if Red Hat has its way, enterprises' AI infrastructure from the edge to the public cloud.
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07 May 2024
SentinelOne: Ransomware actors are adapting to EDR
By Arielle WaldmanAt RSA Conference 2024, SentinelOne's Alex Samos discussed ongoing global threats such as ransomware and how threat actors are changing their techniques.
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07 May 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman weighs in on content authentication
By Makenzie HollandOpenAI says it's working on new tools to identify content created by its generative AI tools, as Congress weighs legislation to protect individuals against AI-generated replicas.
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19 Jan 2024
Seagate ships HAMR tech in new HDDs
By Adam ArmstrongSeagate's Mozaic 3+ brings HAMR-based HDDs to market with 3 TB platters, potentially helping to breathe new life into the legacy storage technology.
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18 Jan 2024
Hammerspace's global file system now includes tape
By Adam ArmstrongWith the inclusion of magnetic tape storage, Hammerspace now allows customers to access archives quickly, assuming the tapes are S3 compatible.
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17 Jan 2024
Victims of 2023 Capita data breaches head to High Court
By Alex ScroxtonMore than 5,000 people impacted by data breaches arising from two cyber incidents affecting outsourcer Capita have joined a group action lawsuit
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17 Jan 2024
Data on Kubernetes Community aims at K8S storage scaling solution
By Antony AdsheadDoKC works on community solutions for Kubernetes. It aims to develop storage scaling automation for the containerised platform outside the orbit of the big vendors
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11 Jan 2024
QLC made gains but storage innovation focus was on software in 2023
By Yann SerraStorage hardware innovation has taken a back seat – QLC flash excepted – as the big storage suppliers build around software-based variants and optimisation on modular product sets
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10 Jan 2024
Ransomware prevention a focus for storage stewards in 2024
By Tim McCarthyIn 2024, generative AI and machine learning, along with employee education, are important tools to prevent the spread of ransomware throughout the enterprise.
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10 Jan 2024
Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ to mass surveillance with DPDI Bill
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe independent checks and balances over biometrics and biometric-enabled surveillance must be strengthened to prevent Scotland from sliding into a surveillance state along with the rest of the UK
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 storage stories of 2023
By Antony AdsheadIn 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
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023
By Antony AdsheadIn 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
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20 Dec 2023
UltiHash compresses, deduplicates data on a binary level
By Adam ArmstrongIn this Q&A, the CEO of UltiHash talks about the continuous compression and deduplication it aims to provide primary storage while reducing storage needs.
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18 Dec 2023
Veeam exec illustrates how AI fits into backup, recovery
By Paul CrocettiVeeam CTO Danny Allan details the impact of AI on backup and how his company uses the tech. He also discusses what he's heard from users about Broadcom's VMware acquisition.
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15 Dec 2023
Solix eyes data lakes as it builds out archive platform
By Tim McCarthySolix Technologies' latest Common Data Platform update focuses on archiving, sorting and storing customer data for data lake creation and, ultimately, AI.
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13 Dec 2023
Vast Data channel boss ramping up support for partners
By Simon QuickePlans for a fresh partner programme, more services options and increased support for those keen to get involved with AI all on the cards for early next year
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12 Dec 2023
Peak:AIO CEO: Less is more to get the most out of AI storage
By Tim McCarthyIn this Q&A, Peak:AIO founder and CEO Mark Klarzynski explains why AI storage needs should be designed around GPU efficiency, not massive data lakes.
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12 Dec 2023
Broadcom drops VMware perpetual licences and support
By Cliff SaranCustomers are being offered a big discount to migrate onto a VMware subscription service
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11 Dec 2023
Panasas set for Mach.2 throughput with multi-actuator HDDs
By Antony AdsheadScale-out NAS maker claims to be the first enterprise array maker to use multi-actuator HDDs designed for hyperscaler architectures and which double throughput
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07 Dec 2023
Generative AI fuels demand for hybrid cloud storage in 2024
By Tim McCarthyObject storage remains an important component of generative AI creation and training, driving enterprise IT teams to consider hybrid cloud storage for lower costs and more options.
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07 Dec 2023
Scality channel boss looking to grow via distribution
By Simon QuickeStorage infrastructure player looks to replicate a decent 2023 by extending its channel reach
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07 Dec 2023
Dell PowerScale updates, new partnerships point to AI stack
By Adam ArmstrongDell eyes AI with updates to PowerScale, an expanded partnership with AMD and a new partnership with AI lab Imbue. Its strategy is to bring a full AI stack on premises.
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07 Dec 2023
CIO interview: Keith Woolley, chief digital information officer, University of Bristol
By Mark SamuelsWith Bristol set to host the UK’s biggest supercomputer, its technology chief is looking to make the most of internal and international collaboration to drive digital improvements
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06 Dec 2023
How a Node4 virtual datacentre proved better than MS cloud for mental health charity
By Cliff SaranCharity Together For Mental Wellbeing managed to migrate legacy servers into a new virtual environment and fix a major disaster recovery issue
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04 Dec 2023
Rhysida ransomware gang hits hospital holding royal family’s data
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware gang boasts of having stolen data on the royal family in an attack on a private London hospital
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01 Dec 2023
S3 Express One Zone set to power generative AI workloads
By Tim McCarthyAndy Warfield of AWS Storage breaks down the new AWS S3 tier of fast object storage and discusses future S3 development in a session at the vendor's re:Invent 2023 conference.
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29 Nov 2023
Amazon S3 storage picks up speed at re:Invent 2023
By Tim McCarthyThe release of Amazon S3 Express One Zone kicked off AWS re:Invent 2023, which featured new storage products that added capabilities to the public cloud's file and object storage.
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28 Nov 2023
Generative AI tools for backup and DR still in early days
By Tim McCarthyBackup software vendors have pitched generative AI tools for automation and as virtual assistants, but how these additions enhance enterprise workflows remains to be seen.
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24 Nov 2023
Nebulon continuing to focus on OEM channel-building
By Simon QuickeSmart infrastructure specialist keen to exploit growing enterprise market opportunity via partners
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23 Nov 2023
MOVEit incident spurred UK decision makers to spend big on cyber
By Alex ScroxtonThe MOVEit cyber attacks that unfolded in the spring and summer of 2023 seem to have driven an increase in both ransomware awareness and spend, according to a report
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22 Nov 2023
Palantir awarded NHS FDP data contract
By Alex ScroxtonNHS England has awarded a £330m, seven-year contract to US data specialist Palantir, prompting concerns from data privacy practitioners
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22 Nov 2023
Nebulon upgrades SPU to Medusa2 with Nvidia DPU hardware
By Antony AdsheadNebulon aims to replace HCI with its OS on an offload card that it claims reduces server resource use by 25%. Medusa2 uses Nvidia DPU hardware and its own cloud control plane
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21 Nov 2023
DNA storage to tackle massive archives
By Adam ArmstrongDNA storage could provide dense, flexible, more sustainable form factors for archival use cases. One company plans on commercializing its offering by 2026.
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20 Nov 2023
Cubbit DS3 Composer brings DIY cloud to object storage pool
By Antony AdsheadCubbit 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
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20 Nov 2023
IT not ready for AI, Pure Storage survey finds
By Antony AdsheadStorage, compute and networking hardware won’t cope without upgrades, and that often means total IT infrastructure overhaul
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17 Nov 2023
Nashville Electric selects Pure Storage to provide power
By Adam ArmstrongA Nashville-based power company decided to migrate off an outdated, ill-fitting Dell storage system to something more modern and more reasonable.
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16 Nov 2023
Outgoing police tech watchdog warns of declining oversight
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe outgoing biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales discusses police deployment of powerful new surveillance technologies, and the declining state of oversight in this area
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16 Nov 2023
New HYCU SaaS AWS backup provides deeper data protection
By Tim McCarthyR-Cloud, the flagship data protection product for HYCU, now supports more than 50 SaaS applications for backup with new support for AWS services including databases and storage.
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15 Nov 2023
IXsystems flagship array goes all-NVMe flash
By Adam ArmstrongThe F-Series storage array family is now all-NVMe, bringing new levels of performance and density to IXsystems flagship array as it adds a new option in the NAS storage market.
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14 Nov 2023
Engineers slash RPO/RTO as they swap tape for Rubrik backup
By Antony AdsheadFrankham Group ditches archaic tape backup and deploys Rubrik backup appliances and remote disaster recovery facility. Meanwhile, the engineering group assesses a move to the cloud
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09 Nov 2023
Qumulo expands Scale Anywhere to Azure
By Adam ArmstrongQumulo is introducing ANQ, a scale-out file service for Azure. It's the centerpiece of a new version of the vendor's Scale Anywhere data platform.
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08 Nov 2023
DDN Infinia expands storage around HPC, AI
By Adam ArmstrongDDN has created a new software-defined object storage product, Infinia, for AI and HPC secondary storage. The tech can also be applied to some enterprise storage use cases.
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08 Nov 2023
Data-sharing management gap highlights cyber risk, says report
By Alex ScroxtonOrganisations are struggling to secure their use of communications tools to share data with third-party partners and suppliers, and in the process are exposing themselves to heightened levels of risk, according to a report
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07 Nov 2023
VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona
By Antony AdsheadVMware’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
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02 Nov 2023
New IBM Storage Scale focuses on AI, HPC
By Adam ArmstrongAdding to the growing list of storage for AI, IBM Storage Scale System 6000 brings the vendor's parallel file system as well as nearly a ronnabyte of capacity to a single cluster.
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31 Oct 2023
CloudCasa now offers self-hosted Kubernetes backup service
By Tim McCarthyA self-hosted version of CloudCasa's Kubernetes backup service provides industries with air-gapped needs recovery tools and automation.
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30 Oct 2023
Western Digital to split flash, HDD business units in two
By Adam ArmstrongWestern Digital will spin off its flash storage business into a separate company by the second half of 2024, leaving hard drives under the WD banner.
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27 Oct 2023
‘Egregious’ to link passport data with facial recognition systems
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Scottish biometrics watchdog has spoken out against the UK policing minister’s plans to integrate passport data with police facial recognition systems
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24 Oct 2023
Nyriad aims to simplify storage-as-a-service pricing
By Adam ArmstrongNyriad's UltraIO-as-a-Service enters the market, seeking to simplify purchasing and on-premises deployment. However, it's not a fit for every industry.
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24 Oct 2023
Veeam chronicles backups with journal-like features
By Tim McCarthyVeeam highlights new capabilities for the Veeam Data Platform during the VeeamON Resiliency Summit, including proactive recovery and a Sophos partnership.
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24 Oct 2023
NetApp ‘unified storage’ adds new ASA block storage at Insight
By Antony AdsheadLas Vegas event sees NetApp continue its evolution to hybrid cloud and data management player announce ASA C-series and Keystone and Kubernetes storage enhancements
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24 Oct 2023
NetApp adds new flash hardware, debuts VMware DR service
By Tim McCarthyThe enterprise storage vendor continues its hybrid cloud portfolio push with capacity flash for the ASA hardware family and bolts a VMware DR service to its BlueXP console.
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23 Oct 2023
Dell updates PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex storage
By Yann SerraDell storage upgrades include improved AIOps, lower energy usage, real-time HA failover, seamless hardware replacement, and enhancements to take advantage of DPU acceleration
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19 Oct 2023
Druva adds gen AI assistant to cloud backup tools
By Tim McCarthyGenerative AI arrives for SaaS backup vendor Druva with new tools to automate reports, detect anomalous activity and provide security guidance.
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19 Oct 2023
Scality gets a jump with VMware Cloud Director integration
By Antony AdsheadS3-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
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18 Oct 2023
Dell PowerMaxOS 10.1 targets operational, energy efficiency
By Adam ArmstrongThe latest Dell PowerMaxOS update brings greater data reduction and power usage monitoring to its top-of-the-line storage array. The update also keyed in on cyber-resilience.
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17 Oct 2023
StorPool adds fast erasure coding to block storage
By Tim McCarthyLatest release of StorPool Storage enables high-performance data protection for block storage using erasure coding on standard SSDs for fast recovery of demanding applications.
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17 Oct 2023
Micron first to bring 232 layers to mainstream SSDs
By Adam ArmstrongThe 7500, Micron's latest SSD, uses the company's 232-layer NAND technology to support a broad set of use cases at a lower price point than its high-end counterparts.
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16 Oct 2023
Flash prices drop towards spinning disk levels in 2023
By Antony AdsheadNumber-crunching data on 17,000-plus drive prices shows cost of flash drives per gigabyte fell by around 10% in past six months while hard disk drive per-gigabyte prices stood still
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12 Oct 2023
Pure Storage bolsters channel pitch with power and rack payments
By Simon QuickeStorage player hands partners a chance to stand out from the competition with sustainability supporting option
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11 Oct 2023
Hitachi Vantara gives single view of storage
By Adam ArmstrongTo reduce complexity, Hitachi Vantara released a storage platform aimed at unifying data management, but it will need to find ways to differentiate its offering, says one analyst.
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11 Oct 2023
Pure offers Evergreen energy and rackspace cost guarantees
By Antony AdsheadPure Storage will take upfront payments for power and rackspace and guarantee those for product lifecycles in its Evergreen One, Flex and Forever consumption purchasing models
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10 Oct 2023
Pure Storage adds cloud disaster recovery SaaS for VMs
By Tim McCarthyVSphere VMs can recover from AWS EC2 instances with a new disaster recovery service from Pure Storage. The vendor is also debuting new energy efficiency guarantees.
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06 Oct 2023
Dell PowerFlex hits 4.5, Apex Block Storage hits Azure
By Adam ArmstrongDell's software-defined storage offering, PowerFlex, gets an update that provides better infrastructure monitoring, more file services and a new Apex Block Storage option.
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04 Oct 2023
Nutanix adds ransomware alerts, recovery tools to HCI SaaS
By Tim McCarthyHyperconverged infrastructure specialist Nutanix preps for further hybrid cloud adoption by adding ransomware recovery tools to SaaS products.
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03 Oct 2023
How Pure Storage is supporting AI workloads
By Aaron TanPure Storage’s cloud-compatible and energy-efficient modular flash storage architecture is well-poised to address the data storage demands of artificial intelligence workloads
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02 Oct 2023
What a Western Digital-Kioxia merger might mean for NAND
By Adam ArmstrongSpeculation that Kioxia and Western Digital could combine their NAND businesses is making rounds again. Analysts consider what it may mean for the flash memory market.
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02 Oct 2023
Versity targets Exabyte volumes in data archiving
By Pierre BerlemontVersity builds archiving for Exabyte data volumes on tape and in object storage. It has built its own S3 and transitioned to a GPL licence for supercomputing archives
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29 Sep 2023
Scottish watchdog urges wider biometric oversight
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonScotland’s biometrics watchdog urges Scottish Parliament to extend oversight of biometric information to include the entire criminal justice system, not just police
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28 Sep 2023
Everbridge 360 emphasizes communication, preparedness
By Paul CrocettiEverbridge envisions its new 360 critical event management platform as a multiyear release. Features are heavy on the ability to communicate in a disaster.
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26 Sep 2023
MSP shares details of Kaseya VSA ransomware attack, recovery
By Nicole LaskowskiProgressive Computing was one of 60 victims of the Kaseya VSA ransomware attack in 2021. Now, a co-founder tells the story of discovery and recovery.
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26 Sep 2023
Dell Apex brings cloud Azure HCI to ground
By Adam ArmstrongDell Apex Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure combines Dell hardware with Microsoft Azure software, a move that adds to Dell's hybrid cloud offerings.
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26 Sep 2023
Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO
By Pierre BerlemontSAN 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
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25 Sep 2023
How Liverpool FC is tapping cloud and data analytics
By Aaron TanLiverpool Football Club is leveraging data analytics and cloud technology to improve fan engagement and enable its media production team to work more efficiently
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21 Sep 2023
OpenZFS interest grows alongside rise of unstructured data
By Adam ArmstrongWith the explosion of unstructured data, lower-cost file systems such as OpenZFS are gaining more attention as they continue to gain support from vendors.
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21 Sep 2023
Komprise offers insight into storage costs across clouds
By Tim McCarthyStorage Insights for the Komprise Data Management platform enables users to define metrics for storage consumption across clouds and vendors for cost management and migration.
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19 Sep 2023
38TB Microsoft data leak highlights risks of oversharing
By Alex ScroxtonAn accidentally disclosed SAS token with excessive privileges enabled researchers to access nearly 40TB of Microsoft’s data, highlighting the risks of privilege mismanagement and oversharing
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19 Sep 2023
Infinidat offers all-flash within a hybrid array
By Adam ArmstrongInfinidat places a virtual all-flash array in its hybrid storage system while doubling the capacity of InfiniBox SSA and carving it up for easier consumption.
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19 Sep 2023
Veeam leads funding round for SaaS backup provider Alcion
By Paul CrocettiAnalysts say that while both Alcion and Veeam offer Microsoft 365 backup, there is enough difference in the products and enough need in the data protection market.
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18 Sep 2023
Scality CEO on ESG and storage as a solved problem
By Adam ArmstrongScality's CEO discusses the company's ESG efforts, ESG in IT, object storage's role in primary storage and AI while seeing the problems of storage have mostly been solved.
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14 Sep 2023
Toyota outage shows not all backup failures are ransomware
By Tim McCarthyAn IT error for Toyota Motor Corporation knocked out production for a day, but the auto giant was quick to note the issue was not due to a cyberattack.
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12 Sep 2023
Ctera Vault locks up critical data with WORM tech
By Tim McCarthyFile gateway vendors are looking to differentiate themselves in the market, with Ctera eyeing regulated industries by protecting data with a suite of cybersecurity features.
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11 Sep 2023
Huawei launches OceanStor Pacific 9920 entry-level NAS
By Yann SerraHuawei adds to its OceanStor Pacific NAS family, offering entry-level 9920 with up to 92TB per node which can be combined into clusters and also used as a SAN device
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11 Sep 2023
Polish election questioned after Pegasus spyware used to smear opposition, investigation finds
By Bill GoodwinSenate committee alerts prosecutors over potential crimes by public officials involved in purchasing Pegasus spyware used to monitor and smear political opponents
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08 Sep 2023
A year on, Logicalis looks back on Q Associates buy
By Simon QuickeThe move to add data management to its existing connectivity and security options has yielded results over the past 12 months
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08 Sep 2023
150 TB IBM tapes hit the market
By Adam ArmstrongIBM's new enterprise tape drive brings 50 TB of native capacity and 150 TB compressed for archiving large amounts of data and is a sign of investment in an old storage medium.
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07 Sep 2023
Cohesity adds AI to its support portal for backups
By Tim McCarthyA new support chatbot provides an AI use case for data backups on which Cohesity hopes to expand. But training AI and ML requires more than backup data, experts say.
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06 Sep 2023
Panasas taps Seagate's Ken Claffey as new CEO
By Adam ArmstrongIn this Q&A, the new Panasas CEO talks about the company's direction, how it is branching out and how generative AI will drive adoption of parallel file systems.
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05 Sep 2023
VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment
By Yann SerraVMware 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
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31 Aug 2023
Microsoft 365 Backup sign of SaaS dependence, complexity
By Tim McCarthyMicrosoft 365 Backup marks a first for a major SaaS provider as the SaaS market continues to explode and the backup market rethinks how to design its offerings.
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30 Aug 2023
StorCentric winds down, Nexsan stands out
By Adam ArmstrongStorCentric's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing pushed the storage conglomerate and the companies it acquired into limbo. Now one of those companies might find new footing.
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30 Aug 2023
NetApp cloud storage evolving for stateful K8s, AI
By Tim McCarthyStateful Kubernetes storage, faster storage for AI data ingestion and more are all important features NetApp seeks to support for first-party cloud storage among the hyperscalers.
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29 Aug 2023
Bulk of IT spending going through the channel
By Simon QuickeThe amount of money spent on technology might have been hit by macroeconomic conditions, but the majority of what is being transacted is going through partners
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28 Aug 2023
India gets ready for new data protection regime
By Pratima HarigunaniThe Digital Personal Data Protection Act will shape the way businesses collect, secure and use personal data as India looks to protect data privacy while driving innovation and economic growth
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24 Aug 2023
Google Cloud adds storage capabilities to support AI, ML
By Tim McCarthyThe latest additions to Google Cloud's storage portfolio will focus on bringing object storage into the file-centric workloads of AI and ML alongside a Google-run NetApp service.
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22 Aug 2023
SSD, flash memory advances to see slow walk to market
By Adam ArmstrongNew SSDs and CXL memory modules were on display at the 2023 Flash Memory Summit, but it might take market adjustments, new infrastructure and time to reap the benefits.
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22 Aug 2023
VMware vSAN Max disaggregates storage for hybrid cloud
By Tim McCarthyEarly HCI vendor VMware separates storage from compute in its new vSAN offering, targeting enterprise hybrid clouds and seeking to avoid the compute sticker shock.
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21 Aug 2023
UK competition watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware deal green light to go ahead
By Caroline DonnellyAfter several months of deliberation, the UK Competition and Markets Authority has concluded its investigation into Broadcom's $61bn bid to acquire VMware
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21 Aug 2023
Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe
By Yann SerraGerman startup Simplyblock aims to deliver low-cost high-performance flash and NVMe-over-TCP storage for service provider customers, and has Ceph deployments in its sights
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16 Aug 2023
ITAM influence on cyber risk becoming a factor in credit ratings
By Alex ScroxtonCredit agency S&P Global Ratings warns that organisations that pay inadequate attention to IT asset management as a factor in their cyber risk management processes may find their creditworthiness takes a dive
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15 Aug 2023
Wasabi Technologies, IBM modernize historic Fenway Park
By Tim McCarthyWhen Fenway Sports Group migrated to the Google Cloud Platform in 2020, it turned to Wasabi and IBM to help usher in a hybrid cloud model.
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15 Aug 2023
PeerIQ peers into NAS software across vendors, clouds
By Adam ArmstrongNAS storage analytics can be viewed in a single place with Peer Software's PeerIQ, bringing different vendors and on-premises and cloud storage analytics together.
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15 Aug 2023
Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner resigns
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDual biometrics and surveillance camera watchdog will step down at the end of October 2023, noting that while he agreed to stay on until the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill received royal assent, continuing delays to its passage means he will not be able to effectively discharge his functions