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Pure Enterprise Data Cloud bundles its IP for business outcomes

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Pure Storage has launched Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC), which knits together several existing elements in its offering to provide enhanced visibility of data storage and simpler policy-based management-oriented outcomes for the business. It has also announced new high-performance flash arrays and the availability this year of a 300TB (terabyte) Direct FlashModule, including a solid-state drive…

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Restaurant fills DR gap with all-flash Pure and dodges higher cloud cost

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US restaurant chain Red Lobster opted to standardise on Pure Storage flash storage arrays as it tried to fill a gap in disaster recovery (DR) provision that would have left it severely exposed in case of an unplanned outage at its primary datacentre. The move to fully on-premise mirrored datacentres also meant it dodged cloud…

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University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery

4 minutes of reading / Azure, Cloud, Computer, Dell, disaster recovery, DNS, hybrid cloud, Tech / By

The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery (DR) readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke to Computer Weekly at Nutanix’s .Next 2025 event in the US last week. The University of…

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Roundtable: Why did customers sail away from VMware?

8 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Broadcom, Cisco, Cloud, Dell, disaster recovery, MSI, Tech / By

Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix is among a number of suppliers that smell blood in the water when it comes to VMware and its customers following the virtualisation giant’s acquisition by Broadcom. At Nutanix’s annual .Next bash in Washington DC last week, migration away from VMware and to – it hopes – its own Acropolis hypervisor (AHV)…

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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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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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Where IT comes from: Behind the scenes at Pure Storage’s European R&D centre

4 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, disaster recovery, Git, Tech / By

You’re a $2.8bn storage supplier with flash arrays at the core of your business. How do you do research and development (R&D), test new products, test customer workload issues, and test array products over years-long timescales for issues that only arise as software, network and application changes concatenate and interact? Meanwhile, you are a global…

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Where IT comes from: Pure Storage’s lean Czech assembly

4 minutes of reading / business continuity, disaster recovery, Foxconn, Tech, Tesla / By

As with Pure Storage’s research and development (R&D) efforts, its final product assembly also rests on a three-site system. Flash arrays put together at regional sites – two in Texas and one in Czechia – cater for regional demand. We visited its European assembly location in Pardubice, Czechia, to see how it works. Pure occupies…

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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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NetApp boosts AFF, StorageGrid and E-series hardware with 60TB drives

4 minutes of reading / Cisco, disaster recovery, Flex, HP, Kubernetes, Tech / By

NetApp has upgraded its AFF A- and C-series flash storage arrays while also boosting capacity and performance in StorageGrid object storage and E-series storage area networks (SANs), mostly as a result of new 60TB arrays plus central processing unit (CPU) and backplane enhancements. AFF A- and C-series – performance and capacity-oriented respectively – get new-generation…

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