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Storage
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July 22, 2015
22
Jul'15
TLC flash storage: What it is and what it's good for
We run the rule over triple-level cell (TLC) flash: What it is, how it performs, what it's good for, why it's a competitor to disk, and how it's all been made possible
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July 06, 2015
06
Jul'15
Genomics England rejects open source to deploy EMC Isilon HPC storage
100,000 Genomes Project rejects building open-source parallel file system on x86 servers and opts for EMC Isilon clustered NAS deployed by Capita S3
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June 26, 2015
26
Jun'15
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed
The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots
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June 24, 2015
24
Jun'15
NetApp adds AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays
NetApp boosts its SSD array portfolio with the addition of AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays built on Data ONTAP, but still no sign of FlashRay general availability
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June 19, 2015
19
Jun'15
Veritas plans to revive backup fortunes with big data analytics
Symantec spin-out Veritas plans major backup product releases that leverage metadata to make backups more efficient and unlock valuable information via big data capabilities
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June 15, 2015
15
Jun'15
Council dodges £300,000 NetApp outlay with Atlantis flash caching
Somerset local authority avoids spending £300,000 on extra hard drives for its NetApp arrays and pays half that for Atlantis ILIO flash caching software that runs VDI from RAM
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June 10, 2015
10
Jun'15
OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft
The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed
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June 01, 2015
01
Jun'15
Pure Storage replaces FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m
Pure Storage upgrades FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m series devices
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May 29, 2015
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May'15
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist
Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist
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May 29, 2015
29
May'15
A tale of two boxes: Choosing between Box and Dropbox
Box and Dropbox are in the content and collaboration business, but the two cloud services have taken very different approaches
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May 28, 2015
28
May'15
NetApp launches AltaVault hybrid cloud backup appliance family
NetApp repackages the SteelStore hybrid cloud backup appliances it bought from Riverbed as AltaVault physical, virtual and cloud products
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May 27, 2015
27
May'15
CIF cloud certification scheme wins European Commission's backing
Cloud Industry Forum's Code of Practice has been added to European list of trusted certification schemes
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May 26, 2015
26
May'15
EMC plots managed cloud push with $1.2bn deal to acquire Virtustream
Storage giant claims latest purchase will reinforce its hybrid cloud proposition for enterprises
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May 20, 2015
20
May'15
Government cloud adoption hit by ongoing legacy tech investments
IT supplier Eduserv wants government departments banned from investing in legacy tech to drive up cloud adoption
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May 12, 2015
12
May'15
Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems
Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told
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May 08, 2015
08
May'15
EMC predicts return to double-digit sales growth
Storage giant's EMEA chief claims downbeat first quarter results are as bad as things will get for EMC, and that normal service will soon resume
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May 05, 2015
05
May'15
VCE takes wraps off "hyper-converged" VxRacks to fast-track users to the cloud
EMC-owned converged infrastructure specialist expands portfolio of cloud-enabling platforms
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April 29, 2015
29
Apr'15
Veeam upgrades Availability Suite to support VMware VVOLs
Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam upgrades Availability Suite version 8 to support VMware Virtual Volumes
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April 24, 2015
24
Apr'15
Amazon first-quarter results value Amazon Web Services at $5bn
Amazon's Q1 results confirm Amazon Web Services – AWS – as its most profitable business, valuing the cloud services provider at $5bn
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April 22, 2015
22
Apr'15
Load DynamiX adds OpenStack protocols to storage testing product
Storage testing and validation provider adds OpenStack Swift and Cinder support to existing protocols in its Enterprise version 2.6 hardware
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March 24, 2015
24
Mar'15
Talon upgrades MobileFast for web and Windows file sync and share
Enterprise file sync and share provider Talon Storage adds web browser and Windows workstation access to MobileFast
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March 06, 2015
06
Mar'15
How to ensure your hot-desking colleagues keep their data secure
Once hot-desking is implemented, data security suddenly demands greater attention
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February 25, 2015
25
Feb'15
Dell adds Nutanix-powered XC630 and XC730 hyperconverged systems
Dell targets range of use cases with XC630 and XC730 Nutanix-powered server/storage nodes
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February 24, 2015
24
Feb'15
PernixData FVP boosts RAM as host storage with up to 4x compression
Flash caching firm PernixData adds compression to FVP 2.5 for more scope to use RAM as host-based storage for high-performance datasets
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February 20, 2015
20
Feb'15
IBM moves to MLC in FlashSystem 900 and V9000 all-flash arrays
IBM boosts density with new Micron MLC flash drives in revamped all-flash arrays, the FlashSystem 900 and the V9000 that includes SAN Volume Controller storage virtualisation hardware
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February 17, 2015
17
Feb'15
Suse launches Ceph-based cloud software-defined storage
Suse launches commercially-supported object, block and file Ceph distribution Enterprise Storage, software-defined storage
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February 06, 2015
06
Feb'15
Symantec continues cloud investment in spite of poor Q3 results
Symantec has reported third quarter 2015 revenue of $1.64bn, a drop of 4% compared with $1.70bn over the same period in 2014
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February 03, 2015
03
Feb'15
EMC launches VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliances
EMC announces VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance in general purpose and performance variants
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January 28, 2015
28
Jan'15
Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis
The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers
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January 15, 2015
15
Jan'15
Amatis Networks waves goodbye to LUN woes and deploys Tintri hybrid flash
Managed service provider Amatis Networks deploys Tintri hybrid flash to slash latency and cut time-consuming LUN storage management overheads
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December 10, 2014
10
Dec'14
Hero Group uses vMotion to replace SAN and servers with Nutanix
Baby food, fruit and cereal bar company Hero Group has migrated its Holland operations over to a single virtual platform
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November 05, 2014
05
Nov'14
Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making
Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe
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November 04, 2014
04
Nov'14
Google joins enterprise cloud battle with additions to its cloud platform
Google made a raft of announcements at its GCP Live event, including enhancements to its networking stack and storage price drops
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October 23, 2014
23
Oct'14
BBC takes iPlayer video production to AWS cloud to beat bottleneck and storage woes
Having run Video Factory on AWS for over a year, BBC's Robert Shield explains how he overcame iPlayer bottleneck and availability challenges
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October 22, 2014
22
Oct'14
EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%
Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions
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October 10, 2014
10
Oct'14
Symantec splits storage and security
Symantec is splitting its storage and security business, following just days after HP announced its split
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October 08, 2014
08
Oct'14
The challenges facing HP as it splits in two
HP is splitting its business in two - but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT
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October 02, 2014
02
Oct'14
DDN launches scale-out NAS GS7K GPFS product bundle
DataDirect Networks launches the GS7K, a pre-configured GPFS scale-out NAS/parallel file system storage product
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September 09, 2014
09
Sep'14
Virtual backup appliance pros and cons
Computer Weekly examines virtual backup appliances that run backup and restore from a virtual machine
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July 16, 2014
16
Jul'14
CIPD ditches 20-a-day tape habit for Exagrid data deduplication
HR professionals organisation the CIPD replaces tape backup with disk-based data deduplication backup hardware from Exagrid
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
Microsoft adds StorSimple hybrid storage arrays to Azure cloud service
Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays
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July 09, 2014
09
Jul'14
Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach
At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
EMC XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon get new CPUs and data services
EMC boosts XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon with Ivy Bridge CPUs and advanced data services including flash array snapshots
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity
The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers
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June 26, 2014
26
Jun'14
Security must change in Indian digital marketplace
More than 25% of large digital marketplaces will have explicit strategies for consumer computing and security by 2018, according to Gartner
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June 10, 2014
10
Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters
Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
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May 09, 2014
09
May'14
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility
Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
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April 23, 2014
23
Apr'14
HDS upgrades its mainframe-friendly VSP G1000 enterprise storage array
Hitachi Data Systems launches the Virtual Storage Platform G1000 enterprise storage array, which boosts capacity, performance and lifespan for the storage virtualisation platform.
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April 10, 2014
10
Apr'14
BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud
Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance
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April 09, 2014
09
Apr'14
Data set to grow 10-fold by 2020 as internet of things takes off
IDC’s Digital Universe study predicts the world's data will amount to 44 zettabytes by 2020, 10% of it from the internet of things