State of Storage survey reveals biggest pain points

Tintri has released its 2015 State of Storage study that captures the pain points and priorities of over 1,000 data centre professionals. While the study highlights performance, capital expenses and management as three of the top storage pains, it also found that organisations are still making buying decisions based on the needs of physical workloads, despite the fact that the percentage of virtualised workloads has grown to 75 percent in the last decade.

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2TB SATA SSD optimised for Cloud Data Services

SanDisk Corporation has launched its CloudSpeed Eco™ Gen. II SATA SSD, a purpose-built storage device for cloud service providers with up to 2TB* capacity. This new SSD is now sampling with select hyperscale customers. Based on 15nm NAND flash, the new CloudSpeed Eco Gen. II SSD delivers greater storage density with 3x the streaming bandwidth vs. hard disk drives (HDDs). Designed as a drop-in replacement for HDDs, CloudSpeed Eco Gen. II provides datacenters with a lower...

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Softcat secures a fourth UK Government public sector framework agreement

IT infrastructure provider Softcat has secured a bid for all 11 Lots within the new Technology Services Framework (RM1058) allowing it to provide a wide range of specialist IT services, including network management, content security, desktop support and disaster recovery, for its growing public sector customer base over the next four years.

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6.7 million personal and entry-level storage devices shipped in EMEA in Q115

Research from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that 6.7 million personal and entry-level storage devices shipped in EMEA in the first quarter of 2015, a decline of 8.8% from a year ago. IDC's Worldwide Personal and Entry-Level Storage Tracker also shows that there was a decline in shipment values, by 14.7% to $512 million.

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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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