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By Paul Butler, Sales Director UK & Ireland, AOC. When I was at BETT in January, I met with Lynn, and she asked me what topics we could write about in PCR.  One topic that has been very much on my mind recently is the state of mental health in …

For more than three decades, PoINT Software & Systems has been working on a problem that has only grown more urgent: how to store, protect and preserve the world’s expanding volumes of inactive data. The company’s Managing Director, Thomas Thalmann, describes the challenge: “We have technical teams with challenges of …

When StorPool co‑founder and CEO Boyan Ivanov talks about Bulgaria’s technology heritage, he does so with a mixture of pride and pragmatism. The country, he says, has long produced deep technical talent, even if it has rarely been recognised as a global centre for commercial software. “People don’t know this, …

NGX Storage’s CEO and founder, Beyhan Çalışkan, outlines how a Turkish‑born storage vendor has grown into a multi‑continent player with unified systems, exascale ambitions, and a firm belief that storage should be simple, even when the workloads aren’t. When Beyhan Çalışkan left Türkiye’s National Research Institute in 2015, he took …

Storware’s CEO, Paweł Mączka, explains how a small Polish backup specialist built a global footprint by betting early on open‑source virtualisation, and why the Broadcom/VMware saga has pushed the company into the spotlight. When Paweł Mączka founded Storware in 2013, he and two colleagues were told they didn’t stand a …

Caeves is a young company, but its founders are anything but new to the world of enterprise storage. They have a history that stretches back more than two decades, through earlier ventures such as Talon Storage, later acquired by NetApp. The Caeves team has spent years working on distributed storage, …

Martin Kent, Territory Manager at HANNspree, argues that paper‑like panels are set to shift the display market away from its long‑standing focus on brightness and resolution. With energy use and screen fatigue becoming harder to ignore, new panel technologies promising up to 80% lower power consumption signal a meaningful step …

For years, the storage industry has relied on familiar assumptions with falling prices, rising density, and steady gains under Moore’s Law. But Dr Steffen Klewitz, Founder and CEO of Ewigbyte, has warned that these foundations are eroding, and urged the channel to prepare for a fundamental shift in how data …

When Vinay Joosery cofounded Several9s in 2011, the cloud market was already tilting heavily toward the United States – at least that was the way European enterprises perceived it. The Sweden-headquartered company, which operates remotely across Europe, set out to automate and simplify database operations, but the team was also …

Backing up has always been seen as a necessary but unloved operational chore, but Plakar is positioning itself as a fundamental rethink of how organisations protect, move and recover data. The project, which began as a personal experiment in content-defined deduplication, has evolved into a fully-fledged open‑source platform now backed …