As one of South Africa’s leading retailers, the TFG Group needed a robust storage infrastructure to guarantee high-performance and 24/7 availability of applications for forecasting and customer management. By partnering with Pure Storage, TFG now has a modern storage infrastructure that is reliable and offers sub-millisecond latencies. In addition, with the Pure Evergreen Storage business […]

StorCentric, the parent company of Drobo, Nexsan and Retrospect, has announced the acquisition of Vexata, its fourth acquisition in less than a year. Vexata’s scalable NVMe high performance flash storage systems power today’s advanced cognitive era applications, such as those driving predictive analytics and autonomous decisions, and pairs it with award-winning StorCentric customer support now available to all […]

Growing use of the Internet and high-speed connectivity is driving the demand for effective storage and backup solutions. According to the latest figures from IDC, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region recorded a growth of 7.5% YoY in 2018 Q4. The external storage market is strongly supported by refresh cycles and large-scale […]

Spectra Logic has announced the publication of Digital Data Storage Outlook 2019, the company’s fourth annual report on the data storage industry. The report examines the future of data management, usage and storage, and details the current state of the industry and the opportunities that organisations have to preserve their digital assets indefinitely. Storage and media […]

Industry experts explore the biggest data storage challenges facing modern businesses and organisations. Daniel Jacobs, Senior Product Manager – Cloud Computing at Vox Companies are traditionally used to planning three or five years in advance for storage growth. Big Data has changed the way companies plan their future storage demand and often they don’t realise […]

Synology Inc has released the latest update of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.2.2, featuring a series of new functionalities that not only optimise user navigation but also enhance system performance. “DSM 6.2 has demonstrated field-proven reliability with over 3.4 million Synology NAS running it. Tailor-made for your IT infrastructure and ready to fit into any environment, […]

Ricky Pereira, Dell Enterprise Business Unit Manager at Pinnacle ICT, looks at the benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and what VxRail brings to the market. Aligning IT with business objectives has been top of the CIO’s agenda for many years, and in an era of disruption, HCI has become more crucial than ever. In today’s […]

Cloudian has announced that Systemec, a Managed Services Provider (MSP) specialising in healthcare and logistics in the Netherlands and Germany, has deployed Cloudian’s HyperStore object storage platform to address the backup challenges of growing data volumes. Cloudian enables Systemec to protect data from multiple applications, prevent the scheduling problems it previously faced and achieve increased […]

Pure delivers NVMe-oF RoCE with DirectFlash Fabric to help enterprises unify cloud.  Pure Storage has announced it has added powerful new DirectFlash Fabric capability for end-to-end NVMe and NVMe-oF support in Purity 5.2, the software-defined engine of its FlashArray//X products. The new capability further extends Pure’s moves to empower customers to approach hybrid cloud with […]

Enterprises are making headway when it comes to modernising their IT infrastructure to keep up with the ever-changing trends of the current technology market. The Nottingham Building Society is one such example and has significantly improved its storage capability with a Nexsan solution. To plan for future growth, The Nottingham Building Society has modernised its […]