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By Greg Wyman, Vice President Asia Pacific, ioFABRIC

The traditional methodology of simply adding more physical storage to resolve storage issues no longer works. It's too expensive, inefficient, unmanageable and slow.

Launched earlier this year in partnership with DJI, a leading UAV maker, Seagate’s new hard drive for DJI drones has flown into Australian availability at last.

IT organisations are doing more at the same time than they used to, Pure Storage ANZ country manager Mike Sakalas observes.

AFL club Collingwood is using a Pure Storage system for its player analytics.

Samsung’s SSD Number T5 is alive with faster USB-C, a faster transfer speed, a new colour scheme, two types of USB cable for greater flexibility and the superfast operation, lightweight construction and stylish design that makes Samsung SSDs stunningly superior drives.

Netgear’s ReadyNAS RR2304 promises “full data protection, disaster recovery, and seamless file sharing with 1.5 times the processing power of existing 4-bay rackmount storage” with 50% performance increase over the previous generation.

WD has launched its new range of 2.5-inch hard drives in stylish new designer metallic-look casings in sizes of 1TB, 2TB and 4TB, and they are in stores now.

Building on its X4 expertise in 2D NAND, WD’s X-Force has attacked its next major milestone: four-bits-per-cell (X4) on 3D NAND, BiCS3, technology.

Although WD’s RED range launched in the US in May, official Australian availability for the NAS-optimised, 5400 RPM WD Red and 7200 RPM WD Red Pro has finally arrived.

Google has simplified its back-up software to keep your important files, photos and videos backed up and synced, with a single new tool replacing two old Google tools.

With 2017 set “to be the year of all-flash storage”, the all-flash revolution is finally going strong in data centres, but I wish I could say the same for consumer PCs!

Memory and storage maker Crucial is proffering profitable advice on lowering software licence costs by making better use of your hardware, upgraded if needed, for long-term savings.

Masterful memory maker Lexar, has put together an “essential drone photography checklist” which promises to divulge what you need to know before take-off.

It’s not just Samsung that can boast of 3D NAND, but now the storage powerhouse that is WD and SanDisk, who’ll launch 64-layer 3D NAND SSDs in Q3 2017.

Veeam Availability Suite v10 extends the platform with the addition of support for physical servers, network attached storage and native object storage, along with continuous data protection.

Data management vendor Veritas Technologies has released a new software-defined storage solution known as Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack.

NTT Communications ICT Solutions has launched new storage services based on Nimble Storage’s All Flash Systems for its utility, cloud and managed services customers.

By Greg Wyman, Vice President Asia Pacific, ioFabric

Optus has released an All-Flash storage platform from Pure Storage that it says allows Australian organisations to rapidly scale storage tailored to all types of workloads and accelerate application performance by up to 1000-times to optimise network performance.

Nimble Storage is offering cloud storage for AWS and Azure workloads.