Reading Time: 3 minutes Spectra Logic introduced a new product: StorCycle™ is a new storage management software solution designed for data-driven organisations that need a modern storage lifecycle management workflow. StorCycle allows organisations to create a new Perpetual Tier of storage, reducing the overall cost of storing data by up to 70 percent, while giving users full access to their data.
Reading Time: 3 minutes On my Windows 10 machine, recently I’ve got a strange issue with VMware Workstation (version 15.1, but I think could affect also other versions): sometimes was not possible power-on the virtual machines with strange error messages. The first error message was: “Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to”.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Dell Compellent storage is an interesting solution and, before the EMC acquisition, was the main storage product in Dell portfolio. Veeam Backup and Replication offers different type of primary storage integration to improve and offload the backup process using storage snapshots (and limiting VMware snapshots only for the time needed to take a storage snapshot).
Reading Time: 2 minutes Commvault has signed an agreement to acquire Hedvig, for total consideration of $225 million, which includes the purchase price and ongoing employee retention. Commvault was formed in 1988 as a development group within Bell Labs, and later designated as a strategic business unit of AT&T Network Systems. In 1996, it was incorporated as an independent company. Their main product is focused on backup and data protection (and not only).
Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting European IT events in this month: IFA 2019 – Berlin (Sep, 6-11) Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2019 – London (Sep, 9-11) Secure Computing Forum – Dublin (Sep, 12) CloudSec 2019 – London (Sep, 13) Managed Services & Hosting Summit 2019 – London (Sep, 18) VMUG Professional Development – Online (Sep, 19) Open Networking Summit Europe 2019 – Antwerp (Sep, 23-25) SDWAN Summit 2019 – Paris (Sep, 24-26)
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