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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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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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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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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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 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 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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Information security is essentially an information risk management discipline. By rendering many information systems inoperable, the global outage precipitated by Crowdstrike prevented several companies from accessing critical business information due to unplanned and extended downtime. The unavailability was not only to information systems, but also to related information processing. It was not only an information…
On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not thousands – of organisations. The disruption began in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia, before spreading quickly across Asia, Europe and the Americas, with the travel industry among…
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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…
