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Podcast: Container storage challenges and how to overcome them

7 minutes of reading / automation, business continuity, containers, Google, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage’s Venkat Ramakrishnan about customer challenges when dealing with containers and storage and data protection. Ramakrishnan, vice-president of products and engineering for Portworx, talked about customers who take on container deployments without thinking through the future scale, technical requirements and cost they are likely to accrue. Here, Ramakrishnan…

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VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives

5 minutes of reading / Broadcom, Cloud, cloud-native, Computer, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, open source, Oracle, Tech / By

Changes to Java and VMware software licensing that have been rolled out over the past few years have a material impact on the total cost of running existing Java-based enterprise systems. IT decision-makers are having to weigh up the extra costs with the additional cost and potential disruption arising from reengineering enterprise Java applications to…

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Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS

3 minutes of reading / Amazon, Broadcom, Cloud, containers, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, multicloud, Tech / By

In another move beyond the bounds of strictly hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), Nutanix has launched Cloud Native AOS. In other words, this is the operating system (OS) that underlies all its HCI products but available for deployment separately and without the need for a hypervisor. In this way, Nutanix hopes to enable its customers to extend…

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Podcast: Quantum lacks profitability but it will come, says CEO

9 minutes of reading / AI, cloud-native, containers, Dell, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Kubernetes, Tech / By

In this podcast, we talk to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s plans as it orients from a historical legacy in tape storage to flash and disk for artificial intelligence (AI), extreme capacity and very long retention periods, all in the context of a commercially challenging few years. You’d only just need two hands…

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Hitachi Vantara: VSP One leads revamped storage portfolio

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Azure, Cisco, cloud-native, containers, Flex, Hitachi, hybrid cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, Tech / By

In this storage supplier profile, we look at Hitachi Vantara, which is a small part of a very big organisation. Since we last looked at Hitachi Vantara, its storage portfolio has undergone something of a revamp, based around its VSP One family that offers block, file and object storage – with performance profiles that range…

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Dell still tops the pile as it deepens enterprise storage offer

7 minutes of reading / AI, automation, branding, Broadcom, Cloud, containers, Dell, disaster recovery, Flex, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, hybrid cloud, IBM, iCloud, Intel, Kubernetes, Lenovo, machine learning, multicloud, open source, Tech / By

In this storage supplier profile, we look at Dell storage, which is part of the infrastructure solutions group of the Texas-based giant Dell Technologies. Since the last profile we did on Dell, its acquisition of EMC, which formed such an important part of its storage portfolio, has been eclipsed as the tech world’s largest ever. But…

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Greek authorities subject refugees to invasive surveillance

7 minutes of reading / AI, branding, compliance, Computer, containers, GDPR, Tech / By

Asylum seekers residing in a Greek refugee camp funded by the European Union (EU) are subjected to invasive phone confiscations and legally dubious monitoring by artificial intelligence (AI)-driven surveillance systems, a report has revealed. Published by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) I Have Rights (IHR) and the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN), the findings detail privacy violations…

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Backup technology explained: The fundamentals of enterprise backup

10 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Broadcom, business continuity, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, disaster recovery, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Snap, Tech / By

Backup is a fundamental protection required by any IT system. That’s all the more so in a world where ransomware attacks can take out company data in a stroke. Effective backup has also become more complex as IT departments deal with a variety of systems – including virtual servers and desktops, and containerised applications –…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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Kubernetes at 10: Building stateful app storage and data protection

5 minutes of reading / AI, API, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, disaster recovery, Docker, Git, Google, Kubernetes, open source, Snap, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10 years’ old. Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. That decade started as containers emerged as a new way to virtualise applications, but storage and data protection functionality was practically non-existent. Now, Kubernetes offers a mature container platform for cloud-native applications, with all that’s required for the storage…

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