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Reading Time: 2 minutesDistributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) is an Open Source software-defined high-performance scalable storage system that has redefined performance for a wide spectrum of AI and HPC workloads. DAOS is unique by its design and is the result of 12 years of R&D between 2012 and 2024. 

Reading Time: 2 minutesAuwau is an european company based in Copenhagen, Denmark foundend in 2016, on a concept which goes all the way back to 2006. Auwau was founded with the purpose of delivering easy-to-learn and easy-to-use self-service features for the IBM Storage Protect infrastructure (previously known as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager/TSM/Spectrum Protect, and now IBM Storage Protect).

Reading Time: 4 minutesStoradera provides a secure and affordable unlimited S3 compatible data storage for backups, archives, and more. Storadera headquarters are located in Tallinn, Estonia. They provide a hot S3 compatible public cloud storage service with a fixed cost of 6 EUR / TB / month with no minimum file size, no delete penalties time and no upper data limit.

Reading Time: 5 minutesVeeam has just released a new build for Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.1.1139. You can check the installed build number in the Veeam Backup & Replication Console’s Main Menu (≡) under Help > About. The first reason of this release if to fix the CVE-2025-23120 issue: a vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) by authenticated domain users. This issue is critical and has a CVSS v3.1 Score  of 9.9!

Reading Time: 5 minutesCybersecurity is a focal point of enterprises and governments globally. The longstanding approach of protecting critical data via firewalls or using segregated/dedicated networks is no longer sufficient! This also includes Fibre Channel (FC) SAN where security was historically considered intrinsic in the SAN, due to the usage of fiber cables and dedicated (and isolated) fabrics.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (VHRISO) is a Managed Hardened Repository delivered as bootable ISO with a Rocky Linux distribution preconfigured by Veeam. The idea is to dramatically simplify the provisioning experience while eliminating (or at least reducing) the need for any Linux expertise. But also have an OS pre-hardened out of the box with all advanced security settings already applied. This because immutability may be not enough if you configure your repository in a wrong way! Recommendations are based on Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) created and maintained by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for Rocky Linux. […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the last A3 Communications Technology Live! in London, I’ve got the opportunity to meet FADU and know more about their product and their business model. FADU is a fabless semiconductor company innovating flash storage technology and supply chain, that is supplying eSSDcontrollers to multiple NAND partner. Actually three generations of controllers are in mass production :

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