Dell Technologies has announced the expansion of its as-a-Service capabilities with Project APEX.

Cloudian aims to bolster its local team and partner network in the region and has already signed distribution agreements with Exclusive Networks and NEXTGEN.

The University of Auckland has partnered with disaster recovery firm Datrium to modernise its infrastructure by leveraging the cloud and unifying compute, storage, backup and disaster recovery.

The solution, called HyperIQ, features storage and user analytics and enables managers to conduct health checks and optimise resources – from a single interface.

The partnership will allow users to leverage backup storage management, disaster recovery and archival of data through RStor’s capabilities as a provider of cloud services across multicloud environments.

Heficed is offering its cloud hosting, data storage and processing, and internet connections free of charge to organizations committed to fighting the virus.

"Lack of senior buy-in, coupled with budget constraints, will create ongoing challenges when securing, organising and gleaning insights from data effectively."

Companies that want to make the most of data storage should be on top of these developments.

Driven by growing demand for easy and secure ways for storage of critical data and increasing need for transparent and efficient data sharing options.

Although nearly half of corporate data is stored in the cloud, a quarter of Australian organisations admit they have not employed a security-first approach to cloud storage.

QNAP 2020 TechDay will demonstrate its latest technologies to help businesses succeed in digital transformation, and to help them realise the near-limitless potential of future IT trends.

Zadara upgraded its fully managed enterprise storage-as-a-service (STaaS) platform to include critical enhancements such as NVMe.

QoreStor 6.0 introduces a new Performance Tier accelerating backup, providing up to 2x recovery point objectives (RPO).

This week the company announced that its mainstream storage solutions now support the 25 GbE networking standard, which means they are able to serve data centres and M&E.

The companies’ new solution claims to offer private cloud at up to 70% lower total cost of ownership than Storage-as-a-Service options.

The movement to hybrid storage, proliferated use of smart phones, laptops, and tablets has increased penetration of storage data management. 

"It's an honour to award partners who have excelled in developing their partnerships with HPE and grown mutual business opportunities with collaborative solutions for our joint customers."

The new solution enables VMware cloud providers to offer new value-add services based on fully native S3-compatible storage.

"TDWI sees a wide range of data-driven IT systems moving to the cloud aggressively, and this includes the data warehouse."

It has integrated StorReduce technologies for a cloud-native back up platform, and expanded its data fabric solution for cloud-based applications.

"The Global StorageSphere is large and diverse, encompassing many different storage technologies, and growing rapidly."

The recognition certifies that Nasuni Cloud File Services meet AWS's strict technical proficiency requirements for primary storage.

"Our strategy includes a very heavy emphasis on private cloud technologies, allowing customers to build in their own environment."

Data storage is already a major pain for organisations and by 2025, data volumes will be close to 1,000% higher than they are today.