Virtualisation and storage
How Covid-19 is affecting the colocation market
This e-guide shares details of some of the latest trends and thinking in colocation, while also shining a light on how datacentre operators are rushing to meet the soaring demand for compute capacity they are seeing both from enterprises and hyperscale cloud firms.
News : Virtualisation and storage
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December 21, 2020
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Dec'20
Top 10 container storage stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 container storage stories for 2020, when providing persistent Kubernetes storage, backup and disaster recovery became a key challenge for many organisations
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November 10, 2020
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Nov'20
Canada ad firm subtracts 44U with HPE and Ctera hyper-converged
Glenn Davis Group slashed its hardware estate from 48U of rack space to 4U when it ditched its SAN and tape legacy kit for flash-based Ctera X Series and cloud backup
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October 05, 2020
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Oct'20
Veeam buys Kasten to get a boost in Kubernetes backup
Virtual machine backup pioneer sees $150m purchase of Kasten and the addition of Kubernetes backup to its portfolio as key to becoming a ‘$2bn company’
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September 29, 2020
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Sep'20
Red Hat rivals VMware and Nutanix with hyper-converged OCS 4.5
Red Hat’s OpenShift 4.5 extended container orchestration to virtual machines. The arrival of OCS 4.5 moves the solution into the realm of hyper-converged systems
In Depth : Virtualisation and storage
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Five hyper-converged infrastructure use cases to watch
We look at workloads ripe for hyper-converged infrastructure deployment. These include virtual servers and desktops, SMEs/remote offices, Kubernetes, and analytics and machine learning Continue Reading
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RAID, flash and erasure coding: What works best with solid state?
We look at RAID and flash to highlight key choices when it comes to drive data protection. What RAID levels work best with solid state and when is erasure coding a good choice? Continue Reading
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Intel Optane Persistent Memory aims to fill the gap DRAM can’t
We look at Optane and its PMem product that Intel believes will fill a big gap between memory and storage that DRAM technology just cannot deal with Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Virtualisation and storage
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Nutanix’s IPO launches hyper-converged but can it escape the rules of the storage universe?
We’ve been tracking the rise of hyper-converged infrastructure recently, and one key measure that seems to confirm this as a rising star of the tech world is Nutanix’s IPO last week. Its shares ... Continue Reading
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Hyper-converged and all-flash shine against backdrop of declining storage revenues
Writing about the rise of hyper-converged infrastructure yesterday, and its likely impact on entry-level storage arrays, I based my blog-ument entirely on anecdotal evidence. IE, simply what I see ... Continue Reading
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Primary Data and the latest incarnation of the “storage hypervisor”
At VMworld in Las Vegas this week Primary Data showcased its re-worked version of storage virtualisation. That is, in their case, a way of aggregating disparate storage resources from multiple ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Virtualisation and storage
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Security Think Tank: Container security starts with good DevOps practice
Adopting containers promises great organisational efficiency advantages, but the fast-evolving technology can be problematic for security teams. What do CISOs need to know to safeguard containers? Continue Reading
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Time to rethink IT for containerized workloads
Employing IT tools that span on- and off-premises hybrid environments is a first step toward optimizing infrastructure design and management for container-based environments. Continue Reading
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Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications
Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
Videos : Virtualisation and storage
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CW500: Gavin Cole, Oracle UK
Making sense of storage in a big data world
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CW500: Sean Sadler, Kings College London
One of the dilemmas of the modern CIO is the ever-expanding need for data storage.
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CW500: Robert White, Morgan Stanley
One of the dilemmas of the modern CIO is the ever-expanding need for data storage.