Gartner says beware of the data lake fallacy

The growing hype surrounding data lakes is causing substantial confusion in the information management space, according to Gartner, Inc. Several vendors are marketing data lakes as an essential component to capitalise on Big Data opportunities, but there is little alignment between vendors about what comprises a data lake, or how to get value from it.

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Rare raw materials could herald ‘new dawn’ of computer memory

Ground-breaking findings have come to light in the Southern Hemisphere where researchers from New Zealand’s Victoria University of Wellington are studying a rare form of material that could pave the way for memory storage that is faster and more reliable than ever before. Known as rare earth nitrides (RENs), the raw natural material consists of a thin magnetic and semiconducting film that grows in an ultra-high vacuum environment.

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HGST expands enterprise SAS SSD storage portfolio

HGST has announced its next-generation of Ultrastar® 12Gb/s SAS solid-state drives (SSDs) with capacities up to 1.6TB. Building upon its award-winning first generation 12Gb/s SAS SSDs, the new Ultrastar SSD800MH.B, Ultrastar SSD1600MM and Ultrastar SSD1600MR are the ideal building blocks for server and storage systems running today’s performance-sensitive enterprise applications.

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NHS Hospital deploys Spectra Logic and CommVault

Spectra Logic says that a major NHS Foundation, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (UHMBT), has successfully implemented a Spectra disk and tape solution across the hospital’s main infrastructure environment making data management easier, faster and more cost effective. Spectra joined forces with CommVault, the world's fastest growing data storage software company, to integrate with their industry-leading Simpana® software to substantially lower the cost of protecting, managing...

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FireEye and Quantum team

New partnership enables enterprises to easily conduct cybersecurity investigations and improve security against advanced attacks.

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Fujitsu makes storage ‘bullet-proof’

Fujitsu enables storage professionals to provide and maintain excellent service levels to lines of business even when facing exponential data growth. The latest enhancements of the ETERNUS DX S3 systems, in combination with the new version or ETERNUS SF V16.1 storage management software, improve business continuity and fault resiliency to maximise uptime and availability, while additional automation features provide a stepping stone to align storage resources with business priorities.

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Pure Storage has launched ObjectEngine, said to be the industry’s first data protection platform...
IBM has launched two new all-flash enterprise storage solutions that provide industry-leading...
Three award-winning authors and technologists have published a new book, Building a Modern Data...
NetApp MAX Data combined with Intel Optane DC persistent memory turbocharges enterprise...
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5.5 harnesses open source innovation without expensive proprietary hardware.
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Modernising Oracle with converged infrastructure

Customers who adopt Dell EMC VxBlock technology experienced 99% less planned and unplanned downtime according to a study by IDC.

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