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Log4Shell: How friendly hackers rose to the challenge

HackerOne CISO Chris Evans looks back at how the security community successfully rose to the challenge of Log4Shell, and saved end-user organisations millions → Read More

Amazon S3 storage 101: Object storage in the cloud

Amazon S3 has emerged as a de facto standard for accessing data in the cloud. We run the rule over S3, its key attributes and what you need to know to use it with your applications → Read More

NVMe startups’ different routes to flash performance gains

NVMe offers huge flash performance benefits, but no one is quite sure how to overcome the challenges that brings and startups are trying several different approaches. → Read More

Cloud bursting: What it is and how to do it

Cloud bursting offers the ability to rapidly scale compute and/or storage from on-premise to public cloud capacity. But what are the key pitfalls and how are they avoided? → Read More

NVMe is fast flash storage, but big five suppliers take it slowly

NVMe flash offers blistering performance gains but so far the big five storage array makers have tended to opt for gradual implementations rather than radical new architectures → Read More

Data protection, backup and replication in the age of the cloud

A data protection and backup strategy has to take account of the expansion of the sphere of IT, from the datacentre to the public cloud to devices and locations at the edge. → Read More

How to build SME storage using public cloud storage

Small companies can often take advantage of public cloud storage offerings to supplement or replace on-premise infrastructure. We look at key options in file, block and object storage. → Read More

Hyper-converged backup appliances bring flexibility benefits

Backup appliances in scale-out format allow data protection to be scaled easily by simply adding extra nodes. But is it an idea that’s ready for the enterprise? → Read More

Internet of things challenges in storage and data

IoT brings challenges, with a host of new edge devices and data. We look at edge and core processing, compliance and information lifecycle management in IoT → Read More

How to implement a multi-cloud storage strategy

We look at how to build a multi-cloud storage strategy and benefits such as performance, availability and features, as well as potential limitations such as data mobility. → Read More

OpenStack storage update 2018: After Rocky

Snapshots and container storage support are among recently added functionality in the open source private cloud platform, but vendor driver support for OpenStack is not universal. → Read More

Flash storage in the cloud from the big cloud providers

We survey the big three cloud providers – AWS, Azure and Google – and find a range of mostly block storage flash storage options with performance choices available. → Read More

Data protection for containers: Why, and how to do Docker backup

Containers such as those from Docker are agile, lightweight, and can be shortlived, but they and their data often needs to be protected. We look at the key options available. → Read More

Cloud HCI survey: Cloud functionality in hyper-converged infrastructure

We look at how you can use hyper-converged infrastructure to build private clouds and link up with public cloud services to develop hybrid and multi-cloud working. → Read More

Software-defined storage: Startups bring innovation to SDS

We survey the startup suppliers pioneering new approaches to software-defined storage, including block, file and object, and VM and container-oriented approaches. → Read More

Storage class memory set to upset hardware architectures

Storage class memory and persistent memory products are set to add a layer of superfast storage media between bulk drives and memory, pushing performance to five million IOPS → Read More

Hybrid cloud file and object pushes the frontiers of storage

A single environment across on-premise and cloud environments is possible with a new class of product that builds file systems and object stores with hybrid cloud. → Read More

Disaggregated systems try to unlock the NVMe conundrum

NVMe can unlock the true potential of flash. But storage controllers put a bottleneck right back in the I/O path. We look at how vendors are trying to get round that problem → Read More

Hyper-converged infrastructure 2018 technology and market survey

We look at the latest in hyper-converged infrastructure – server and storage hardware nodes that can be built into scale-out clusters – and the players in the market. → Read More

Private cloud storage 101: Key components and hardware options

Private cloud makes consumption of storage easier for the user and simplifies delivery for the IT department. We walk through the key components and the platform choices. → Read More