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Cloud storage
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July 02, 2025
02
Jul'25
Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation
Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms
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June 23, 2025
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Jun'25
Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group
We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process
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June 20, 2025
20
Jun'25
Restaurant fills DR gap with all-flash Pure and dodges higher cloud cost
Seafood chain Red Lobster opted for Pure Storage as-a-service for rapid failover between datacentres. A fully cloud-based option was on the table, but would have been six times the cost
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June 20, 2025
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Jun'25
Pure CEO Charlie Giancarlo on data management, all-flash and tariffs
We spoke to the Pure CEO about Enterprise Data Cloud and how it can offer insight and management across all its storage, plus a catch-up on the death of the HDD and tariff uncertainty
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June 11, 2025
11
Jun'25
AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation
At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges
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June 04, 2025
04
Jun'25
European Commission should rescind UK data adequacy
Civil society organisations have urged the European Commissioner to not renew the UK’s data adequacy, given the country’s growing divergence from European data protection standards
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May 19, 2025
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May'25
Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation
Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library
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May 19, 2025
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May'25
Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential
Organisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive
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May 14, 2025
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May'25
Australian public cloud spending to hit A$26.6bn in 2025
Gartner forecasts strong growth in cloud infrastructure and platform services even as Australian organisations grapple with scaling AI initiatives and managing rising cloud expenditure
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May 13, 2025
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May'25
NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty
Essex NHS wants to move some capacity to the Nutanix cloud, but can’t be certain prices will hold between product selection and when procurement plans gain approval
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May 12, 2025
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May'25
University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery
University of Reading set to save circa £500,000 and deploy Nutanix NC2 hybrid cloud that will allow failover from main datacentre
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May 08, 2025
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May'25
Nutanix opens up to all external storage
CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says Nutanix will open its platform to all external storage, allowing it to profit from customers wanting to move away from VMware, as well as the hyper-converged curious
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May 07, 2025
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May'25
Nutanix breaks the bounds of HCI again with Pure Storage linkup
Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer adds external Pure Storage arrays in a move that it touts as a way for customers to get off VMware, but which also helps them scale for AI
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May 07, 2025
07
May'25
Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS
Hyper-converged infrastructure provider offers its operating system independently of a hypervisor to allow containerised apps to run at the edge or on Kubernetes runtimes in the Amazon cloud
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April 29, 2025
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Apr'25
VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features
Veeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup
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April 15, 2025
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Apr'25
Alibaba Cloud bolsters AI offerings
The Chinese hyperscaler has launched new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades for international customers following plans to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure
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April 11, 2025
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Apr'25
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
The use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation
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March 31, 2025
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Mar'25
Reassessing UK law enforcement data adequacy
Computer Weekly takes stock of proposed changes to the UK’s law enforcement data protection rules and how it could affect data adequacy with the European Union
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March 31, 2025
31
Mar'25
UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk
The UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy
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March 26, 2025
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Mar'25
Oracle bets big on AI, drives Australian business transformation
At the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Sydney, Oracle executives talked up the company’s strategy to integrate AI across its entire technology stack, empowering Australian businesses to move beyond experimentation and into practical AI-driven solutions
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March 18, 2025
18
Mar'25
AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it
The rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy
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February 24, 2025
24
Feb'25
Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI
Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth
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February 12, 2025
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Feb'25
Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore
Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees
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February 11, 2025
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Feb'25
New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage
One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components
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February 10, 2025
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Feb'25
Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons
Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems
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January 28, 2025
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Jan'25
Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?
Pure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an unnamed hyperscaler, be the first nails in the coffin for HDD?
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January 28, 2025
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Jan'25
Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs
AWS Elastic Block Storage is often over-provisioned. Datafy virtualises EBS volumes to allow customers to scale capacity up and down, and says it will not charge customers if it doesn’t cut their costs
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January 10, 2025
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Jan'25
UK Defence Committee urges MoD to embrace AI
Defence Committee outlines changes it thinks the Ministry of Defence should make to realise the battlefield advantages of artificial intelligence
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December 24, 2024
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Dec'24
Top 10 police technology stories of 2024
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2024
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December 18, 2024
18
Dec'24
Axon still in possession of Police Scotland encryption keys
Supplier’s possession of encryption keys for Police Scotland data sharing system opens potential for access and transfer of sensitive data without the knowledge or consent of the force
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December 18, 2024
18
Dec'24
Top 10 Kubernetes and storage stories of 2024
In this 2024 review, Computer Weekly looks at Kubernetes’ evolution from stateless application runtime to enterprise-ready environment for cloud-native with persistent storage and data protection
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December 17, 2024
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Dec'24
Digital Ethics Summit 2024: recognising AI’s socio-technical nature
At trade association TechUK’s eighth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials and industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with the proliferation of artificial intelligence tools globally and ...
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December 11, 2024
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Dec'24
IaaS firm uses Pure Storage as a service for ‘virtual datacentres’
Espresso Gridpoint moved from largely NetApp to Pure Storage FlashBlade file and object for its ‘virtual datacentres’ business model that offers VMware, Hyper-V and ProxMox VMs
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December 10, 2024
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Dec'24
UK police continue to hold millions of custody images unlawfully
Annual report from the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner of England and Wales highlights the ongoing and unlawful retention millions of custody images of innocent people never charged with a crime by police
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December 03, 2024
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Dec'24
VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp
NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure
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November 25, 2024
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Nov'24
Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware
Continent 8 consolidates infrastructure for cloud services and backs Nutanix as it gains influence over product roadmap and cools on VMware amid customer dissatisfaction over licence changes
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November 12, 2024
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Nov'24
Police cloud project raises data protection concerns despite legal reforms
Ongoing data protection issues with the use of hyperscale public cloud infrastructure by UK police could complicate the ambitions of nine forces to move their common records management system into the cloud
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November 12, 2024
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Nov'24
Pure Storage CTO: How AI is changing storage demands
Pure Storage’s CTO stresses the need for adaptable IT systems to support AI workloads, advocating for open architectures and flexible storage platforms to avoid supplier lock-in
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November 11, 2024
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Nov'24
NetApp boosts AFF, StorageGrid and E-series hardware with 60TB drives
Bigger drives, new CPUs and controller hardware add to upgrades to NetApp arrays that started in September, while the supplier undergoes transition to data management as a key focus
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November 05, 2024
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Nov'24
Nakivo aims at VMware refugees tempted by Proxmox
Version 11 of Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backups, support for Proxmox virtualisation backups – following Veeam – and NAS file data backups to cloud targets
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October 25, 2024
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Oct'24
Lords committee warns about risks of the UK losing its EU data adequacy
The UK government must work with the European Commission (EC) to secure a renewal of UK’s two data adequacy statuses, says cross-party Lords committee, in stark warning about impacts of losing the ability to seamlessly exchange citizens’ personal ...
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October 21, 2024
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Oct'24
Synology takes aim at enterprise customers and flash storage
Best known as an SME and consumer brand, Synology claims multiple enterprise customers especially in backup and storage of infrequently accessed data, but has plans for flash, too
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October 15, 2024
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Oct'24
Google launches Parallelstore file storage at cloud AI training
Originally driven by Intel’s now-defunct Optane storage class memory, Parallelstore offers massive parallel file storage targeted at artificial intelligence training use cases on Google Cloud
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September 26, 2024
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Sep'24
Auckland museum enhances digitisation efforts with storage upgrade
A major storage upgrade is enabling the Auckland War Memorial Museum to safeguard its vast collection, ensure digital sovereignty and enhance visitor experiences using AI
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September 24, 2024
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Sep'24
Pure punts raft of unifying features in FlashBlade file and object
Features are aimed at Pure’s file and object architecture with functionality based on software that aids management at system level
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September 24, 2024
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Sep'24
NetApp maintains push to data management for AI
From data storage to intelligent data infrastructure – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays
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September 03, 2024
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Sep'24
Flash prices drop as drive production increases but demand lags
Flash prices were high in the early part of this year as a result of manufacturer production squeezes but have since dropped because demand has been slack, with flash now costing just under 10 cents per gigabyte
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August 28, 2024
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Aug'24
Cambridge Enterprise saves big with Keepit SaaS backup
University innovation body avoids hardware spend and saves management time as it switches from tape to cloud-to-cloud backup, instant recovery and decades-long retention from Keepit
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August 21, 2024
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Aug'24
QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration
US-based startup will develop storage software allied with FPGA chips to allow data storage to bypass spinning disk era block addressing to speed performance and cut energy use
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July 30, 2024
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Jul'24
APAC organisations can cut carbon emissions with AWS
Accenture study reveals that APAC organisations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by migrating workloads from on-premise datacentres to AWS