French nuclear waste body cuts energy use by 20% as Pure replaces HPE. Andra has cut storage energy use by 20% and strengthened its disaster recovery capabilities by deploying Pure Storage and 10-year controller upgrades ComputerWeekly LeMagIT computerweekly.com/news/366588694…

Interview: NVIDIA AI's Charlie Boyle on AI workloads and their impacts on data storage, data challenges in AI, key practical tips for AI projects, and demands on storage of training, inferencing, RAG and checkpointing computerweekly.com/news/366592373…

We're barking mad (in the best way!) about our Trustee Annie's creative fundraising campaign! Annie's Pet Sitting BIG Adventure 🙌🙌 Her goal is to complete 24 pet sits in 2024 to raise £2,000 for MIN, and she is nearly halfway there! Sponsor Annie! ➡️ givey.com/anniespetsitti…

Tony’s Chocolonely gains Salesforce comfort with Own Company (formerly OwnBackup) SaaSp. Tony’s sometimes lost Salesforce data and often hit storage limits, but cloud-to-cloud SaaS backup from Own allows it to easily recover customer data and archive old data ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/366592644…

Kubernetes at 10: When K8s ‘won’ and life now as a ‘surly teenager’. We talk to DataStax's Patrick McFadin about Kubernetes’ success against competitors and how StatefulSet and operators solved key challenges, but why there are still obstacles to clear computerweekly.com/feature/Kubern…

Cloud repatriation: What it is and when you can benefit. The growing trend of cloud repatriation, why organisations repatriate data, the pros and cons, who can most benefit, and how to decide which data to move ComputerWeekly Stephen Pritchard computerweekly.com/feature/Cloud-…

Cloud spend bigger than AI but data, security and cost a common headache. Nasuni survey finds cloud projects higher on the to-do list than AI, but data management, security and cost reduction are common themes in all areas of investment ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/366593819…

Interview: NVIDIA on AI workload demands and storage performance. We talk to Charlie Boyle of Nvidia about AI impacts on storage I/O, key performance metrics for storage for AI, and storage attributes required across differing AI workloads ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/feature/Interv…

Hybrid multicloud storage: Pros, cons and key workloads. Hybrid multicloud storage, making the best of on-premise and multiple cloud application locations, its key benefits, some pitfalls and the technologies to build it with ComputerWeekly Stephen Pritchard computerweekly.com/feature/Hybrid…

Podcast: Sustainable data storage and how to achieve it We talk to NetApp UK's Grant Caley about data storage energy needs and how they can be reduced by use of QLC flash, efficient datacentre hardware and putting data on the right media ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/podcast/Podcas…

Podcast: Kubernetes 1.31. We talk to Sergey Pronin of Percona about new storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31, including volume attribute class and changes to persistent volumes, as well as other long-term fixes ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/podcast/Podcas…

QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration. US startup will develop storage software allied with FPGA chips to allow data storage to bypass spinning disk era block addressing to speed performance and cut energy use ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/366606092…

All 6 'Kubernetes at 10' interviews in a linked series. ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/feature/Kubern…

AI innovation key to UK business, but obstacles threaten progress. AI is seen as essential, but requires innovation, skills and infrastructure – all are under pressure from firefighting, energy costs and cyber threats ComputerWeekly Pure Storage computerweekly.com/news/366608797…

Cambridge Enterprise saves big with Keepit A/S SaaS backup. University innovation body avoids hardware spend and saves management time as it switches from tape to cloud SaaS backup, instant recovery and decades-long retention from Keepit ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/366609272…

Flash prices drop as production increases but demand lags. Prices were high in early 2024 as manufacturers squeezed production but have since dropped because demand has been slack, with flash now costing just under 10 cents per gigabyte ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/366609248…

Storage technology explained: Kubernetes, containers and persistent storage. We look at the market-leading container platform Kubernetes, how it works, the challenges with persistent storage and backup, and how they have been overcome ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/feature/Storag…

Key-value flash targets more efficient data storage, promises much greater I/O efficiency and longer flash drive lifespans, but may be constrained by limited use cases and lukewarm productisation efforts ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/feature/Key-va…

Cloud repatriation: How to do it successfully. The keys to reverse migration success include workload selection, how to prepare your on-premise infrastructure and future-proofing the decision to come back in-house Stephen Pritchard ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/feature/Cloud-…

NetApp maintains push from data storage to intelligent data infrastructure for AI – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/366611617…