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AI Transform - Interview with NetApp

Kirsty Biddiscombe, AI, ML and Data Analytics lead for NetApp EMEA, discusses the challenges and opportunities of enterprise AI - with the focus very much on the current skills shortage.

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Always-on resilience marks a shift in cybersecurity thinking

Ian Wood, Senior Director Sales Engineering, Northern Europe Commvault, talks through the highlights of the recent Commvault SHIFT event, which included the launch of Cloud Rewind, which gives cloud-first organisations a secret weapon to transform their cyber resilience capabilities, the availability of the Commvault Cloud cyber resilience platform on AWS and an expanded relationship with Google Cloud. Ian also discusses the findings of Commvault’s recent Cyber Recovery Readiness Report, contrasting the approaches of the most cyber-resilient organisations with those which are less well-prepared to deal with a security breach.

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Infinidat raises the bar for cyber resilient storage services

Eric Herzog, Infinidat CMO, outlines the company’s recent technology launch – the InfiniBox G4 family of cyber secure storage arrays, which incorporates InfiniSafe, InfiniVerse and Storage as a Service innovations. As ever, Eric’s technology and business insights, with a particular focus on the need for end users to understand how storage and security come together as the foundation for an effective and optimised cyber resilience strategy, are invaluable.

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Redefining energy-efficient processing

Brandon Lucia, a Carnegie Mellon professor who recently founded Efficient Computer, a company that is producing a general purpose chip said to be up to 100 times more energy-efficient than leading general-purpose CPUs, talks through the company’s reconfigurable dataflow processor architecture, explaining just how much of an impact he believes this innovation will have where AI and ML are used in IoT devices at the edge and, maybe overtime, in the data centre itself.

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Dealing with downtime costs

James Hodge, GVP & Chief Strategy Advisor at Splunk, discusses the findings of the company’s recent ‘Hidden Costs of Downtime’ report – which identifies not just the financial cost of downtime - $400 billion annually – but also the damage done to shareholder value, brand reputation, innovation velocity and customer trust. The report also identifies a group of resilience leaders, and James shares the strategies which these organisations deploy to minimise downtime occurrences and their impact.

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Unified storage for the AI era

Grant Caley, UK&I Solutions Engineering Director, NetApp, discusses the launch of the company’s new AFF A-Series systems that can power all the most demanding IT workloads customers face, including GenAI, VMware, and enterprise databases. Grant also details the additional capabilities NetApp has released to provide customers with the advanced data management, ransomware protection, and cloud integration that modern workloads demand, confirming the company’s intelligent data infrastructure focus, designed to help customers operate more efficiently as they leverage their data to drive innovation.

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The path to power-efficient processing

Alexander Troshin, EMEA Product and Marketing Manager, Enterprise and HPC Server at AMD, outlines the energy efficiency challenges facing the data centre industry, with particular reference to power-efficient processing. He covers the key architectural innovations, packaging advances and algorithmic improvements to compute that will deliver more energy-efficient solutions for data centres and AI workloads.

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Modular data centre to host Europe’s first exascale supercomputer

Dr Crispin Keable, Senior Solutions Architect for HPC, AI, and Quantum, Eviden, explains how a set of some 50 pre-built modules (20 IT containers, 15 power feed containers, 10 logistics containers) will provide a 2,300m2 turnkey data centre for the Julich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. Benefits to the client include flexibility and agility when it comes to required upgrade configurations, delivery time reduced by 50%, costs cut by a factor of three and a much faster installation process when compared to a traditional data centre build.

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Data protection disjoints disrupt digital transformation

Dan Middleton, Vice President UK & Ireland at Veeam, discusses the findings of the recently published Veeam Data Protection Trends Report, which reveals that cyberattacks continue to have a significant impact on businesses through outages and digital transformation disruption - with containers, hybrid architectures and the need for fast recovery plans putting significant stress on backup and recovery strategies.

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Data repatriation adds to hybrid momentum

Mark Noland, Technology Manager at Kingston Technology, discusses the growing trend for organisations to move back certain IT assets on premises, and data repatriation in particular. He explores the many factors to consider when it comes to developing a hybrid model – with a mixture of cloud and on-prem delivering an optimised IT environment.

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A new inflection point for the storage industry

BS Teh, Seagate’s Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, discusses the new Mozaic 3+ hard drive platform, which incorporates HAMR technology, and heralds areal densities of 3TB+ per platter, with a roadmap to 4 and 5TB+ per platter. He outlines the importance of key platform components such as the Plasmonic Writer, the Gen 7 Spintronic Reader and the 12nm Integrated Controller.

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Digital transformation is about much more than infrastructure change

Erik Nicolai, CEO of Workspace365, explains why a successful digital transformation journey is about much more than migrating to the cloud. Workspace365 provides a range of technology solutions which enable truly digital businesses, working with its Channel partners to educate and work alongside end users.

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DS3 Composer plays sweet storage music!

Enrico Signoretti, VP Product & Partnerships, Cubbit, has launched the first phase of DS3 Composer, a next-generation cloud solution that places data control back into the hands of MSPs, system integrators, and enterprises, by enabling them to build their own sovereign, hyper-resilient, 100% S3-compatible cloud storage in minutes.

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Scale Anywhere platform promises storage revolution

Ryan Farris, Vice President of Products at Qumulo, discusses the company’s recently launched Qumulo Scale Anywhere platform – the challenges it is designed to address, the benefits it brings for end users, as well as how it uses the Azure Native Qumulo application and includes Global Namespace.

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The cyber resilient storage imperative

Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat, explains why cyber resilience is so important for both enterprise cybersecurity and storage, recommends an action plan for CTOs to both secure their data infrastructure and boost their cyber resilience, and outlines the Infinidat technology solutions developed to support these strategies.

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