Nutanix unveils all-flash hyper-converged platform

Nutanix has announced two industry-first additions to its Virtual Computing Platform, taking aim at the most demanding applications and critical infrastructure requirements in the datacentre. The new NX-9000 appliance is the industry’s first all-flash hyper-converged platform, delivering scale-out storage for applications that demand exceptionally fast performance. With Metro Availability, Nutanix becomes the only hyper-converged infrastructure vendor to deliver continuous data protection...

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Druva ‘transforms’ server backup and secondary storage

Druva has released a first-of-its-kind public cloud backup and long-term storage solution – Druva Phoenix – that eliminates tape, off-site storage, complexity and 70% of the costs of managing server backup, archiving, retention and recovery. Phoenix unifies hot, warm and cold backup and archiving processes and administration for the first time, offers unlimited retention unavailable from any other cloud backup provider, and performs backups and restores 20 times faster than other...

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Rackspace appoints Brian Kelly as Chief Security Officer

Rackspace® has announced the appointment of Brian Kelly as Chief Security Officer. Kelly will be responsible for overseeing physical and information security efforts for Rackspace and its customers globally and will report to Mark Roenigk, Chief Operating Officer.

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Interoute’s cloud expansion powers ahead

With five new Virtual Data Centre zones launched this year alone Interoute claims its place as the fastest-growing enterprise cloud services platform in Europe. Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform opens two new Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC) locations, one in London’s Canary Wharf and a second site in Slough, bringing its total number of Interoute VDC zones to ten globally. Together with its recent acquisition of one of the largest networks...

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Gartner survey of more than 2,800 CIOs reveals that CIOs must "flip" their leadership styles to grasp the digital opportunity

As the technologies and trends that power digitalization move to center stage, CIOs are being presented with a unique opportunity to become digital leaders according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc. The survey showed that CIOs are fully aware that they will need to change in order to succeed in digital business, with 75 percent of respondents saying that they need to adapt their leadership style in the next three years.

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Panasas storage expansion clears way for sequencing massive amounts of genomic data that could hold...
Veritas Technologies has launched Veritas NetBackup™ 9. NetBackup 9 delivers significant new...
BT has selected the InfiniBox™ enterprise data storage system to provide storage for...
Survey reveals urgent need for prioritization of network and security architecture transformation...
Cohesity has announced at ReConnect, Cohesity’s data security and management summit, that it is...
DataDirect Networks is to acquire Nexenta, a market leader in Software Defined Storage (SDS) for 5G...
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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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