Microsoft scoops up NAS vendor Avere

Storage Digest A roundup of storage content from TechTarget's network |Jan. 9, 2018 FEATURED STORY Microsoft acquires Avere for cloud NAS technology Sonia Lelii, Senior News Writer Microsoft announced its plans to buy cloud NAS vendor Avere Systems. Avere NAS acceleration appliances store data on premises or in public clouds. (SearchStorage) Advertisement NEWS   Data management issues slow down digital transformation Weak data management and access are hindering digital transformation planning, according to a recent Commvault survey of IT executives and personnel. (Storage Soup)   Quantum tries to muscle in on NAS players with Xcellis Quantum Xcellis Scale-out NAS based on the StorNext scalable file system competes with Dell EMC Isilon and NetApp storage. (SearchStorage)   Reduxio HX550 hybrid arrays pass the test at CPP Reduxio Systems' hybrid SAN replicates critical application between human resources software firm CPP's main data center in California to Reduxio HX550 arrays in the U.K. (SearchStorage)   Hyper-convergence outgrowing converged infrastructures According to recent IDC research, 2017 was a big year for hyper-converged platforms. Global revenue of converged systems saw a big increase, but much of that came from hyper-converged platforms. (Storage Soup) EXPERT ADVICE   Our top five data storage tips of 2017 SSD lifespan, Intel's Optane and the difference between SAN and NAS topped the list of the most-read solid-state, data and cloud storage tips of 2017. (SearchStorage)   Building a case for buying a hybrid flash array Hybrid storage arrays offer the speed and low latency of flash and the economy of HDDs, tape or cloud, making them worth investigating. (SearchStorage)   SDDC adoption to continue on slow pace The software-defined data center market has yet to explode. SDDC benefits are well-documented, but the architecture sometimes fails to deliver on expectations. (SearchStorage)   Let your HCI vendor make the hypervisor choice The virtual machine hypervisor that hyper-converged infrastructure customers choose should fit the mission of HCI, which is to simplify IT administration. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Storage Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Storage Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2017 TechTarget. All rights reserved.