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  • Qumulo Welcomes Robyn Singh as Vice President of People
        11/03/2018   News U can Use

    Former Human Resources Executive at Amazon, Microsoft Joins High Growth Modern Storage Leader SEATTLE, Oct. 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Qumulo, the pioneer and leader in file storage for the cloud era, today announced Robyn Singh as vice president of people. Singh brings experience at two of the world’s largest companies to Qumulo, where she will focus on people and culture, to include recruiting world-class talent, oversight of learning and development programs, and enriching a strong, award-winning culture as the…

  • The Most Interesting Thing in IBM’s Big Storage Announcement
        11/02/2018   News U can Use

    This week IBM made a massive storage announcement covering a variety of impressive offerings. This announcement included huge upgrades to its flash solution (including a noteworthy entry-level offering), Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) updates, a very interesting storage gridlock tool, a bunch of tape updates and a series of new and updated SAP HANA solutions. But the most interesting to me was IBM Spectrum Discover. It is the first use of AI at scale that I’ve seen (I don’t…

  • A quarter of data in the cloud can be classed as sensitive | Telecom Asia
        11/02/2018   News U can Use

    McAfee’s new Cloud Adoption and Risk Report has found that nearly a quarter of the data in the cloud can be categorised as sensitive, putting an organization at risk if stolen or leaked. The report, which analyzed billions of events in anonymized customers production cloud use to assess the current state of cloud deployments and to uncover risks, found that sharing sensitive data in the cloud has increased 53% YoY. According to the report, this means that those who do…

  • Best SSD Buying Guide
        11/01/2018   News U can Use

      Solid state drives (SSDs) play a central role in the enterprise. They are now available in multiple form factors, capacities, speeds, functions and price ranges. The early versions simply slotted into existing hard drive slots in storage arrays, servers and PCs. While this form factor remains popular for SAS and SATA drives, there are also smaller PCIe and M.2. form factors that can move the power of flash closer to the CPU. More recently, NVMe SSDs have been developed…

  • The Data Silo Narrative Is Outdated
        10/31/2018   News U can Use

    The Data Silo Narrative Is Outdated   by AdExchanger // Wednesday, October 31st, 2018 – 12:39 pm “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jordie van Rijn, an independent email and eCRM marketing consultant. We’ve all heard the story about data silos, which are unconnected monsters filled with unused zombie data. This scary tale is a marketing conference favorite. But it’s wrong….

  • Understanding the economic advantages of a hybrid cloud environment
        10/31/2018   News U can Use

    One hears a lot of talk regarding private clouds as the first step on a company’s cloud adoption journey. That may be a good start, but without adding the public cloud’s inherent multiplexing efficiency for a hybrid solution, the cost advantages of shared infrastructure will not be fully achieved. By most definitions, a private cloud does not share infrastructure among consumers. Al servers, storage, and network assets are owned, controlled, and paid for, by the company owning the private cloud….

  • Scality Names Jason Donahue Chairman of the Board as it Strengthens Leadership and Expands Customer Base
        10/30/2018   News U can Use

    SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Scality, leader in software for distributed file and object storage and multi-cloud data control, today announced that it has named veteran executive and experienced corporate board leader Jason Donahue to its board of directors as Chairman. Donahue comes to Scality’s board of directors with extensive experience in technology and a track record of success as a CEO and board member, including with Cloudmark, Acronis and Apptix. In his various roles, he has been…

  • Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) faces a big data challenge
        10/30/2018   News U can Use

    Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) faces a big data challenge Emerging ‘BaaS’ industry can’t become a soaraway success without solving the data capacity problem Good BaaS providers take care of keeping the blockchain infrastructure and its associated artefacts up and running, providing support activities like bandwidth management, allocation of resources, and hosting requirements. Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) is starting to gain real traction as an offering. This is no surprise. The technical complexities and operational overheads involved in creating, configuring, and operating blockchain solutions can…

  • HyperX’s Savage Exo 480-GB external SSD reviewed
        10/24/2018   News U can Use

      Storage is likely one of the last stops for gamers looking to convert dollars into fun. One might expect that games would at least load faster on more expensive drives, but our testing over the years has repeatedly disproved that theory. But that doesn’t stop manufacturers from trying to seduce the gamer market with outlandishly named and styled SSDs. Even with that in mind, would any company be crazy enough to attempt to sell gamers on external solid-state storage?…

  • DNA for data storage
        10/23/2018   People

    DNA for data storage PUBLISHED: 14:36 19 October 2018 | UPDATED: 14:36 19 October 2018 Author Start Mike Scialom Author End Cambridge technology set to replace servers Article Start Richard Hammond is head of synthetic biology at Cambridge Consultants Cambridge Consultants has been busy innovating in exciting new fields. The Science Park-based specialist technology firm this week revealed a partnership with Boston-based CATALOG Technologies to encode data in DNA. CATALOG has created the technology – it means the contents of…

  • Researchers May Have Found the Key to Engineering Electronic Brains
        10/22/2018   News U can Use

    The inner workings of the human brain represent some of the biggest mysteries for scientists across many disciplines. This is understandable when we consider that the organ houses an unfathomable amount of knowledge whose precise function we still don’t completely understand. Due to this enormous data storage and processing capability, no doubt, researchers over the years have put energy into developing electronic brains which can mimic at least some of the remarkable tasks of the human brain, among which include…

  • IBM officially launches POWER9 in SA
        10/19/2018   News U can Use

        Petra Buehrer, offering manager of Power Systems Software.   IBM officially unveiled its POWER9 enterprise servers at a South African customer and partner roadshow presented in partnership with ITWeb in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. IBM’s Power Systems, catering for the “most demanding, data-intensive computing on earth”, are designed to take enterprises into a multi-cloud artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled future. The new ‘scale-up’ POWER9 servers are designed with choice and flexibility in mind, says IBM, to support multi-cloud environments,…

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