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Computer storage hardware

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  B&Q owner Kingfisher dumps Raid rebuilds and saves 40% on disk with X-IO

  Kingfisher puts X-IO drives behind IBM SVC storage virtualisation to save 40% disk costs and dispenses with Raid rebuilds in £120,000 project

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  EMC brings Hadoop into ViPR upgrade and unifies SRM modules

  EMC launches version 1.1 of its software-defined storage/big data platform ViPR by building in Hadoop analytics capability

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Flash storage alternative MRAM takes another step forward

  MRAM, a likely successor to flash storage, takes a step toward easier manufacture and longer life with new structures theorised by scientists in Singapore

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  School gets Nimble hybrid flash and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup

  Berkshire private college has revamped data protection with Nimble hybrid flash storage and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  Business-defined storage will help reconnect businesses with IT, says Forrester

  Business-defined storage and datacentres will make IT more business-centric, according to Forrester

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Emulex ExpressLane and CrossLink boost HBAs for flash and Hadoop

  Storage card maker Emulex has added QoS prioritisation for flash storage and leveraged RDMA via Fibre Channel to increase server performance in clustered operations such as Hadoop

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  NTT Europe saves time with Sepaton data deduplication VTL deployment

  NTT Europe was sick of tape libraries “shoeshining” so went for a $2.5m deployment of Sepaton data deduplication virtual tape libraries to slash backup and restore times

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Fibre Channel vs FCoE. Fibre Channel rules. For now

  Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and converged network adapters (CNA) offer storage and networking on one infrastructure, but what are the pros and cons of moving to FCoE?

• September 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

  Disaster recovery planning: Don’t be fooled by suppliers

  Disaster recovery planning is all about good preparation and not falling for supplier hype. Build appropriate systems, test them and train people well

• September 19, 2013 19 Sep'13

  Software licences drive Oracle revenue, but hardware takes a hit

  A drop in hardware sales dragged down Oracle’s revenue in its Q1 financial results, but software revenue increased

• September 12, 2013 12 Sep'13

  Quantum upgrades big data storage to StorNext 5

  Quantum’s StorNext big data tiered architecture operating software gets a boost to five billion files and a claimed 10x performance jump via multi-threaded CPU ops

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  Avamar and NetWorker to merge for 'backup-less backup'

  EMC looks forward to backup as an embedded process, with apps and hypervisors copying versioned replicas in native format

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Can Dell survive in the cloud era despite killing its public cloud offering?

  Dell has ditched its public cloud IaaS in favour of partner cloud programme. But will the strategy help secure its future in the cloud era?

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  AMD launches low-power server processors to rival Intel's Atom

  AMD has launched Opteron X-Series low-power server processors that it claims “beat the top-performing Intel Atom processor”

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  World’s fastest supercomputer gets 40PB of DDN storage

  The US Oak Ridge lab builds home-grown HPC NAS for 40PB DataDirect Networks with 1TBps of throughput as a SAN to back-end Spider II file system on Titan supercomputer

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Real-life disaster recovery boost at video firm with HDS clustered NAS

  Special effects video firm The Mill boosts HDS/BlueArc clustered NAS capacity to cope with HD movies and build disaster recovery site at London’s Docklands

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises

  HPC and clustered NAS supplier Data Direct Networks aims at enterprise customers with Hadoop appliance comprising its SFA12K storage and commodity compute components

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  Whiptail tops the class with flash array plus SAN two-tier strategy

  School slashes virtual desktop login times with two-tier Whiptail flash array plus budget Huawei SAN

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  EMC seals deal with Chinese server giant Lenovo for desktop NAS

  Storage giant EMC completes joint venture that will see it provide desktop NAS and SME rackmount storage hardware to Lenovo

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  Whiptail promises four million IOPS all-flash array performance

  All-flash array maker Whiptail has upgraded its Racerunner operating system so Invicta arrays can scale to four million IOPS and 360TB of capacity

• November 09, 2012 09 Nov'12

  DataDirect Networks takes aim at clustered NAS with SFA7700

  DataDirect Networks (DDN) makes a play for clustered NAS customers with big data needs on its journey from HPC to scale-out supplier

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Tesco signs £65m datacentre deal to drive online expansion

  Tesco expects to cut several millions each year from its IT bill following a 15-year £65m datacentre deal with Sentrum

• August 22, 2012 22 Aug'12

  Dell expects tough next quarter

  Dell expects third-quarter revenue to be down between 2% and 5% on second-quarter levels due to the “uncertain economic environment”

• August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12

  IBM acquires Texas Memory Systems

  IBM buys flash storage specialist Texas Memory Systems for an undisclosed sum and promises to invest in further product development

• June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12

  Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers

  Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology

• June 12, 2012 12 Jun'12

  Cisco UCS blade servers integrate Fusion-io PCIe flash cards

  Cisco UCS signs an OEM deal with Fusion-io to incorporate PCIe flash cards directly into Cisco servers

• June 06, 2012 06 Jun'12

  HP eyes EMC’s storage market

  HP has released a StoreOnce data deduplication back-up system, which it claims can ingest data at 100TB per hour – three times faster than EMC’s recently launched Data Domain 990

• May 23, 2012 23 May'12

  Vblocks revenues on track to hit $3bn in 2013

  The tie-up between Cisco, EMC and VMware is ramping up revenues from its datacentre-in-a-box product

• May 22, 2012 22 May'12

  Tucci: FusionIO ‘darn right foolish’ for Flash attitude

  EMC’s CEO hits back at FusionIO as the war of words continues between the two companies

• April 03, 2012 03 Apr'12

  STFC ploughs £30m into high performance computing centre with IBM

  The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has signed a £30m deal with IBM to develop high performance computing (HPC)

• March 06, 2012 06 Mar'12

  CW500: Getting to grips with big data

  Experts from Standard Life, Deloitte and Intelligent Business Strategies share some useful tips for CIOs on understanding big data

• February 20, 2012 20 Feb'12

  CIO priorities 2012: Ali Jaffri, ICT manager, Gallions Housing

  Ali Jaffri, ICT manager at Gallions Housing, talks about the challenges of 2012.

• January 12, 2012 12 Jan'12

  Oracle study shows data demands drive new data centre installations

  Research from Oracle across 10 regions has found that an organisation's growth in data is becoming a boardroom issue.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  Investment bank JP Morgan goes live with FPGA Maxeler supercomputer

  JP Morgan has gone live with a supercomputer for fixed income trading operations. The investment bank is using a Maxeler dataflow supercomputer for analysing and profiling intra-day trading risk.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Thai floods could impact revenues and prices, says Dell

  Computer maker Dell says flooding in Thailand is causing a worldwide shortage of PC hard drives that will last into the first quarter of 2012 and could impact the company’s revenues.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  ElasticStack delivers cloud with SAN-resilient storage on commodity hardware

  Cloud platform provider ElasticStack has refined its software to deliver a cloud platform with resilient storage using low-cost commodity hardware...

• April 08, 2011 08 Apr'11

  Facebook has launched a project to ‘open source’ its datacentre

  In the spirit of open source software, Facebook says it wants to share the innovations in one of its datacentres with the rest of the industry in its

• March 07, 2011 07 Mar'11

  Western Digital bids $4.3 billion for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

  Western Digital has tabled a bid of $4.25m (£2.6bn) to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies ending the Japanese HDD vendor's previous preparations for an IPO.

• January 11, 2011 11 Jan'11

  FULL DETAILS: EMC’s new VNX and VNXe ranges

  EMC will next week launch unified storage devices under the VNX name, but also a range of low-end storage systems dubbed VNXe.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

  David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

• October 21, 2009 21 Oct'09

  Apple enters SMB NAS market with new server

  Our regular roundup of storage news includes a new cloud backup service from Brennan IT, Quantum finding demand for LTO-5 before its launch, a new SMB server from Apple and SNIA ANZ’s last course for the year

• February 10, 2009 10 Feb'09

  Added critical data protection for SMBs

  New technology aiming to solve small and medium size businesses’ perennial problems with protecting business critical data

• October 01, 2007 01 Oct'07

  Storage Basics Part 1: What is Fibre Channel?

  In the first part of a four-day feature, we explain basic storage technologies. Today: Fibre Channel.

• September 06, 2007 06 Sep'07

  Learn all about SATA

  This handbook offers three related SATA tips which compare SATA to SAS and SCSI and provides advice on striking the right balance between them.

• August 20, 2007 20 Aug'07

  3PAR, EqualLogic file for IPOs

  The emerging storage companies file S-1 forms with the SEC, though some experts warn they could be headed for a volatile market.

• August 09, 2007 09 Aug'07

  NAS appliance purchase considerations

  NAS appliances are frequently touted for bringing convenience and simplicity to network storage. Appliances include their own dedicated disks for storage and RAID, and most NAS appliances can be upgraded with more or larger disks for additional ...

• August 08, 2007 08 Aug'07

  NAS appliance specifications

  NAS appliances are noted for their convenience, offering dedicated internal storage that is relatively straightforward to identify and manage. The biggest issue for NAS appliances is avoiding network bottlenecks and supporting expansion without ...

• June 03, 2007 03 Jun'07

  IBM: We're No. 1 in storage hardware

  A new combined disk and tape tracker from IDC has IBM trumpeting from the rooftops that it's the market leader. But what's IBM's story when it comes to software?

• April 17, 2007 17 Apr'07

  Storage consolidation: Disks and disk subsystems overview

  Any storage consolidation effort must involve a serious consideration of disk subsystems and the specific disk types that those systems will contain

• April 16, 2007 16 Apr'07

  Storage consolidation: Weighing the pros and cons

  Storage consolidation holds out the promise of more efficient storage management. But pitfalls include slower network performance and a difficult data migration process.