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Cohesity Expands Data Protection to Physical Servers and Doubles Performance of Powerful Distributed, Scale-Out Data Platform We are very excited to announce Cohesity Release 3.0 that will increase the overall performance of Cohesity DataPlaform. In this new release, we are bringing the following features to market: data protection for physical Win...

Considering how much I like the sound of my own voice, it may surprise readers to know that this is my first technology blog. It didn’t take long for me to decide that some thoughts on Software Defined Data Centre and the changing infrastructure landscape would be the subject of the first entry; after all, it’s Ethos Technology’s raison d'être (four lines in and already I’m sounding pretentious?!). I’m continually surprised by how often tech vendors and analysts get caught up in debating what does or does not constitute ‘true’ software defined, whether it be networking, storage or something else; in my opinion this misses the point of what we’re trying to achieve with the next stage of data centre evolution. At the heart of the matter is a desire to move away from the stitching together of discrete, monolithic systems to distributed architectures; from imperative to declarative models of policy definition. There will always be a combined hardware and software element, where the line between them is drawn is largely arbitrary; the key is that a solution abstracts policy and requirement from the complexities of the underlying technology.

When people hear “object storage,” there is a tendency to dismiss it for some reason, in some form of “I don’t need that [yet]” or “I don’t understand it, so I’m going to walk away and dismiss it.” Unfortunately, this sort of action can stymie adoption of newer technology. Those of us that were implementing ESX in the 2.5 and 3.0 timeframe, circa 2...

Ethos Technology aims to close the two-year gap UK resellers have to wait to get their hands on emerging technology A new distributor is aiming to bring the UK channel up to speed with the US by bringing emerging products from Silicon Valley start-ups to the local channel at the same time they launch across the pond. Ethos Technology claims the UK ...

Cohesity Launches the Industry’s First Secondary Storage Solution to Unify Fragmented Data Landscape New Cohesity Data Platform Empowers Companies to Consolidate All Secondary Storage Workloads for Radically Simple and Cost-Effective Data Management Santa Clara, Calif. – Oct. 14, 2015 – Cohesity, the pioneer of converged secondary...