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Data centre hardware

• October 23, 2023 23 Oct'23

  Dell updates PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex storage

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

• October 20, 2023 20 Oct'23

  Belgian researchers raise speed limit in European datacentres

  Researchers have developed a prototype of an optical receiver that will help datacentres process data at a much higher rate

• October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

  How AWS is building a tech stack for generative AI

  Olivier Klein, chief technologist for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services, dives deeper into the technology stack the company has built to ease GenAI adoption

• October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

  Scality gets a jump with VMware Cloud Director integration

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

• October 16, 2023 16 Oct'23

  Flash prices drop towards spinning disk levels in 2023

  Number-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

• October 02, 2023 02 Oct'23

  Versity targets Exabyte volumes in data archiving

  Versity 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

• September 26, 2023 26 Sep'23

  Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO

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

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  How Google is priming its infrastructure for the AI wave

  The technology giant is integrating purpose-built hardware with an optimised software stack to meet the heightened computational demands of next-generation AI workloads

• September 11, 2023 11 Sep'23

  Huawei launches OceanStor Pacific 9920 entry-level NAS

  Huawei 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

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Mainframe remains a positive force among IT leaders

  BMC’s annual survey of mainframe users finds there is continued demand, but some are concerned over DevOps tooling

• September 05, 2023 05 Sep'23

  Ryder Cup testbed to feature tech firsts in Rome

  This year’s Ryder Cup will test out technology to improve how fans digitally consume the event while reducing the workload on IT teams

• September 05, 2023 05 Sep'23

  VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment

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

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  Accelerated datacentre computing propels record Nvidia revenue

  GPU company Nvidia has seen record growth, driven by demand for AI acceleration in datacentres

• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe

  German 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

• August 16, 2023 16 Aug'23

  ITAM influence on cyber risk becoming a factor in credit ratings

  Credit 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

• August 15, 2023 15 Aug'23

  Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box aims hyper-converged at AI/ML use cases

  Nutanix targets a pre-configured bundle of AI/ML and GPT software with hyper-converged infrastructure and GPT to help organisations safely take advantage of learning networks

• August 07, 2023 07 Aug'23

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

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

• August 02, 2023 02 Aug'23

  Cubbit offers cut-price cloud with DS3 distributed storage

  Cubbit’s DS3 offers cloud at up to 20% the cost of the main providers via on-premise software that builds a cloud with other users and targets unstructured data use cases such as backup

• August 01, 2023 01 Aug'23

  Vast Data Platform aims at storage everywhere for AI/ML workloads

  Vast Data to offer storage with data lake and warehouse functionality built in natively, in anticipation of a huge surge in AI/ML workloads and a need for ever-larger data stores

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity

  Developed out of data compression tools for genomics, PetaGene gateways allow application servers Posix-based file access to the deep data stores of S3 object capacity

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up

  The $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Cloud service providers, OEMs, chip firms form Ultra Ethernet Consortium

  Consortium formed to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance, full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing at scale

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue

  The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts inflation at 6.5%. Some areas of IT spending have experienced double-digit growth

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Johnson Controls opts for container-based app delivery with Portworx

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

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Nakivo adds ransomware scanning and new restore options

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

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments

  Lenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Pure adds FlashArray//E for QLC capacity option in performance arrays

  Flash storage specialist allows customers lower entry point to less costly quad-level cell flash in file and block access FlashArray//E as part of move towards all-flash in the datacentre

• June 06, 2023 06 Jun'23

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

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

• May 31, 2023 31 May'23

  Panasas to add S3 support to edge storage and cloud moves

  Scale-out NAS maker – which specialises in large capacity for AI/ML and HPC – has come out of its on-prem shell and now plans further moves towards cloud-friendly object storage

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  BASF ramps up petaflops with new Quriosity HPE-build hardware

  The AMD-powered 3 petaflops supercomputer will offer BASF the ability to run more complex simulations of chemical processes

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Almost all ransomware attacks target backups, says Veeam

  Some 93% of ransomware attacks go for backups and most succeed, with 60% of those attacked paying the ransom, according to a Veeam survey

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Cohesity Turing aims AI tools at backup and ransomware

  Backup supplier continues to enrich its ecosystem with more artificial intelligence for backup and ransomware, with chat-like reporting functions and new security partners in its alliance

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

  AMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  CTO interview: Europe benefits from energy gains in AMD chips

  AMD’s chief technology officer explains how the latest chip technology can help European organisations solve the energy puzzle facing IT departments

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout

  NetApp will recover data hit by ransomware or pay a warranty, and has added entry-level SAN arrays and full access to all NetApp software across its hardware families

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Scality pushes anti-ransomware features in Artesca object storage

  Object storage specialist announces v2.0 of Artesca, with a heavy focus on functionality that can protect against ransomware such as object locking, sharding, backup to object etc

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Nebulon aims Tripline at ransomware detection in storage

  Tripline claims ransomware detection from samples every 30 seconds and works in conjunction with snapshots to deliver recovery from an attack in four minutes

• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe

  OVHcloud makes Cold Archive GA with deep archive storage cheaper than AWS’s offer and all based on IBM 3592 tape hardware spread across four sites with Atempo backup

• May 08, 2023 08 May'23

  How lab grown neurons could power the future of AI

  Melbourne-based Cortical Labs’ lab grown neurons could speed up AI training in a more energy efficient way and its work has caught the eye of hyperscalers and Amazon’s CTO

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  Seagate launches 22TB IronWolf straight into QNAP NAS partnership

  Seagate’s 22TB IronWolf Pro HDD equals Western Digital for capacity. Of the big drive makers, only Toshiba now lags behind. QNAP NAS to offer petabyte capacities with new Seagate drive

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Veritas shows off software SAN for Kubernetes at KubeCON 2023

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

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

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

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

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  HPE launches GreenLake for File and Block, and unified arrays

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

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  IBM Storage launched with backup appliance plan

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

• March 22, 2023 22 Mar'23

  Why Veeam thinks ransomware warranty payouts are unlikely

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

• March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

  Liverpool Football Club signs Wasabi in on-premise-to-cloud storage transition

  Liverpool Football Club has transitioned from lead-footed on-premise infrastructure to Wasabi cloud storage that’s well-suited to its video production and distribution requirements

• March 09, 2023 09 Mar'23

  Velero wants to become the Kubernetes backup standard

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

• March 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

  How to get mainframe modernisation right

  Around a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that doesn’t need to be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software

• March 05, 2023 05 Mar'23

  FlashBlade//E to open up new opportunities in Australia

  Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//E will enable the storage supplier to target medical imaging and remote backup workloads and attract new customers in Australia

• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  Pure Storage aims FlashBlade//E at unstructured data capacity

  But not the ones that need super high performance. FlashBlade//E will target use cases that need large amounts of QLC flash without the most-demands for rapid access