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Gartner says beware of the data lake fallacy

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

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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.