Tag: storage

December 12, 2023

CIOs know that the right technology can unlock innovation, and continuous innovation is the pathway for organizations to become standout leaders. To keep up with evolving customer needs and the emerging technologies required to meet them, organizations must constantly adapt […]

November 30, 2023

At its annual HPE Discover event in Barcelona Thursday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) unveiled a range of new and enhanced hybrid cloud products — including storage, development tools, and rack-scale hardware co-engineered with Nvidia — aimed at easing the development […]

September 5, 2023

In this storage supplier profile, we look at HPE. But perhaps the key thing about HPE is that it’s not just a storage company – it can offer customers all key elements in the IT stack from storage, through servers […]

August 7, 2023

Replace the ordeal of hardware admin with the insight of the cloud – that’s the benefit promised to customers that deploy HPE’s Alletra MP storage arrays with HPE GreenLake. Alletra MP, launched in April, is based on a scale-out architecture […]

August 2, 2023

Cloud object storage at up to 20% of the cost quoted by the big public cloud providers. That’s the promise of Italy-based Cubbit with its distributed DS3 storage, which allows for cost-effective cloud-based object storage at a fraction of the […]

July 24, 2023

Generative AI – including services such as ChatGPT and Google Bard – looks like being the next wave of business automation. In IT, a growing number of suppliers now have some artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) capabilities built […]

May 2, 2023

This article tells me what I already understand: Use of cloud services, including compute and storage, is about to inflect upwards, perhaps more than we’ve seen since cloud computing became a thing.Reporter after reporter has been calling me over the […]

January 6, 2023

The term artificial intelligence was first used in a 1955 proposal for a study submitted by John McCarthy of Dartmouth College, Marvin Minsky of Harvard University, Nathaniel Rochester at IBM, and Claude Shannon at Bell Telephone Laboratories. This happened before […]

October 13, 2022

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty obvious because databases, especially […]

October 12, 2022

Cloud bursting is a way to deal with one of IT’s constant challenges. Namely, balancing demand with the compute and storage capacity needed to fulfil it. Cloud bursting allows an organisation to rapidly migrate datacentre workloads to the cloud’s theoretically […]

September 22, 2022

The digital transformation of the education sector is accelerating at pace. You don’t need to look far to find powerful examples of how data is helping to enrich both student and educator outcomes. Gardens, Libraries and Museums of The University […]

August 30, 2022

NetApp has announced the general availability of its Ontap storage for VMware Cloud on AWS. According to NetApp, that will help customers make savings of 20-50% in TCO by being able to scale cloud storage independently of compute. The offering […]

July 29, 2022

When businesses decide to move to the cloud, it means reworking applications, planning and deciding which workloads go where. About a decade ago, Target started its cloud journey thanks to the holiday season. Hari Govind, SVP of infrastructure at Target, […]

July 11, 2022

NetApp is set to benefit from an exclusive partnership with VMware, in which its Ontap-based cloud storage services will be the only ones officially supported by vSphere instances in the cloud. For enterprise customers that means Ontap storage services will […]

May 12, 2022

Private clouds make efficient use of storage, compute, and memory resources, can provide faster response times for enterprise applications, and help comply with regulations about where data is stored. What is a private cloud? The concept of a private cloud […]

March 18, 2022

Remember when performance was everything? I used to spend days in computer labs testing performance and reporting for tech magazines about what I found. The tech that provided the best performance, meaning CPU processing, data, storage, and other components at […]

March 17, 2022

If there is one technology that typifies the shift we are currently experiencing in IT, it is application containerisation. The shift we refer to here is digital transformation, and encompasses almost everything about the way organisations build, deliver and support […]

March 15, 2022

Oracle on Tuesday rolled out a series of new cloud tools spanning compute, networking and storage. While they serve different purposes, they’re all designed to be flexible and easy to use — and to break the typical myths that have […]

March 16, 2021

State retention has been debated in the world of development for years. Moreover, we are always looking for ways to do it better with fewer resources. The use of public clouds basically changes the consumption model for storage, compute, databases, […]

November 25, 2020

When you launch an application in the public cloud, you usually put everything on one provider, but what if you could choose the components based on cost and technology and have your database one place and your storage another? That’s […]