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• What lies beneath: A new approach to big data for Australian businesses

  Jump back a few years, and database management would have been top of the list in the ‘best leave that one to the techies’ category.

• Nutanix bets big on real-time machine vision analysis at the edge

  Nutanix has announced the general availability of a cloud portfolio called Xi Cloud Services, including a real-time edge offering to boost market differentiation.

• Make way for the algorithm economy

  As the data storage market in Australia surpasses $2 billion, the term Big Data is becoming increasingly irrelevant. It’s all big data now.

• St. Francis Xavier’s search for storage simplicity

  St. Francis Xavier College in Canberra has scrapped its SAN setup in favour of hyperconverged infrastructure.

• Massey University goes hyperconverged

  After initially experimenting with hyperconverged infrastructure for a small project New Zealand’s Massey University is now deploying Nutanix equipment to handle its mission-critical student management system. The university says it is planning further deployment of the technology.

• Nutanix appoints new local MD

  Hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix has appointed a new managing director to head up its local operations.

• CBRE eyes expanded VDI footprint in APAC

  NYSE-listed real estate services CBRE is continuing to expand its virtual desktop infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The Fortune 500 company has some 1500 end points in Asia and Australia and it is expecting this to increase to 6000 within 12 months.

• University of Canberra slashes data centre footprint

  The University of Canberra last year cut by 36 per cent its physical infrastructure footprint as it continues to progressively replace a conventional server and SAN setup with hyperconverged infrastructure.

• Local Lenovo boss sees big potential in hyperconverged

  Lenovo ANZ managing director Matt Codrington says the company is well placed to take advantage of growth in the hyperconverged infrastructure market, as it puts increasing emphasis on the data centre and scaling the server business it bought from IBM.

• HPE will take on Nutanix and Cisco with hyperconverged system

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise will enter the fast-growing market for hyperconverged systems with a new product that it plans to unveil this month, according to CEO Meg Whitman..

• Converged infrastructure to underpin desktop virtualization at Mater Health

  Ease of deployment and management makes it likely that an increasing proportion of Mater Health Services' virtual desktops will be delivered courtesy of converged infrastructure.

• Google-infused storage startup Cohesity reveals itself

  Mohit Aron has a tough act to follow: His previous startup, Nutanix, may be on the cusp of filing for an IPO that values the hyperconverged infrastructure company at $2.5 billion. But Aron is off to a good start with his new venture, Cohesity, which this week emerges from stealth mode with $70 million in venture funding, reference-able customers such as Tribune Media, and a focus on a potentially big market in converging the secondary storage that houses so much DevOps, data protection, analytics and other unstructured data.

• Cisco, Chambers looking for one last shot at VMware?

  Reports surfaced last week that Cisco may be close to buying hyperconvergence start-up Nutanix.

• Hellmann Australia dumps SAN

  Logistics company, Hellmann Australia, has moved from a conventional blade server and SAN setup to converged infrastructure in order to switch from big bang upgrades to incremental storage and compute capacity increases.

• Cisco, EMC consortium debuts new Cloud gear

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2163943/lan-wan/cisco--emc-data-center-coalition-feels-on-solid-ground.html">VCE</a>, the converged infrastructure consortium of Cisco and EMC, this week unveiled new and enhanced data center IT systems, including an all-flash memory platform for mixed workloads.