IT and storage trends for 2017
Mark Bregman, senior vice-president and chief technology officer of NetApp, outlines where he sees the industry going in 2017. The explosion of data in today's digital economy has resulted in a fundamental shift from using data to run the business to recognising that...
Commvault simplifies cloud data management
Commvault, a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, today launched new reference architectures for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable customers to simplify data protection and management with a pre-optimised, easy to deploy, and...
Realise the benefits of cloud backup
The past year has seen South African businesses migrate a substantial amount of their data to the cloud. Phillip de Bruyn, customer experience manager at Redstor, believes this will bring a renewed focus to the benefits of extending such a rollout into the development...
Infinidat array gets no-footprint iSCSI
Big iron array vendor Infinidat has made its third major software release, adding compression, baked-in iSCSI support and enhanced array analytics. The company's architecture has three controller nodes, which each can see all the drives, and eschews an all-flash...
Is flash poised to kill disk for primary storage?
Flash is now the only realistic choice for primary storage with the performance and bottom line benefits it brings. The historic concerns over cost and stability are now a thing of the past, meaning all-flash arrays are well on their way to becoming the dominant force...
Why flash storage is changing the business world
The world is continually being moulded by small, unseen technologies. We rarely appreciate the massive impact of a new technology, until we can't consider life without its influence. Imagine the world before screws, string, ink and countless other dark horse game...
Commvault adds mobile access, control and automation
Commvault has launched its Automated Proactive Solution System (APSS) framework, bringing new innovations in mobile access, control and automation to customers. The new innovations coincide with the company receiving over a 98% customer satisfaction rating in its...
Filmmaker Gareth Pon punts WD’s My Cloud EX4100
An independent South African filmmaker, photographer and creative consultant, Gareth Pon is best known as Africa's Top Instagrammer. Having spent the last few years investigating the potential of mobile photography while growing his worldwide network of friends and...
HDS delivers object storage portfolio with content intelligence
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced Hitachi Content Intelligence, an addition to its trusted Hitachi Content Portfolio (HCP), making it the industry '' s only object storage portfolio with search and analytics capabilities. The new intelligence solution rounds...
Redstor keeps Pikitup backups running smoothly
Waste management service provider Pikitup has been relying on the Redstor backup solution for several years to keep its data safe in the event of a disaster. Pikitup, an integrated waste management service provider to Johannesburg, has been using the Redstor backup...
Most scalable availability suite from Veeam
Veeam Software has announced that New Veeam Availability Suite 9.5, engineered to support enterprises seeking the ability to run their businesses uninterrupted as they adopt more virtualized, cloud-first technologies, is now generally available for customers across...
Fujitsu in cold data storage trial
Osaka University, Scality and Fujitsu are jointly executing a cold data storage-focused field trial of intercontinental data centre coordination, together with partners in Japan and Europe. Based on a consortium for collaboration between academia and industry...