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• March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16

  OSNexus unlocks Ceph object storage in QuantaStor v4

  Software-defined storage maker OSNexus adds Ceph-based object storage to its QuantaStor product, adding it to block and file storage from ZFS, Gluster and Ceph

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  Cloud, compliance and data protection top storage priorities for 2016

  The results are in for Computer Weekly’s IT priorities survey 2016, with storage and backup for virtual servers a key task while flash storage has plateaued

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  Pure aims at unstructured data with Flashblade flash system

  Pure Storage charts new waters with all-flash storage array that aims at unstructured and big data analytics workloads with a scale-out modular architecture

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  451 Research warns of software-defined infrastructure skills gaps

  Analyst house 451 Research warns CIOs against the dangers of failing to pair software-defined technology investment with staff training

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Meg Whitman uses Q1 results to argue the case against Dell/EMC

  HPE posts its first financial results following the split of the business

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Civil engineering firm goes follow-the-sun with Azure cloud and Talon

  Robert Bird deploys Talon Storage CloudFAST with Microsoft Azure cloud storage on the back end to enable 24-hour working between offices on three continents

• February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16

  EMC adds DSSD D5 and VMAX all-flash arrays to enterprise portfolio

  DSSD D5 brings array-based PCIe flash to market for EMC. VMAX hybrid arrays upgrade controller software to create two all-flash arrays, the 450F and 850F

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Google calls for datacentre storage disk design overhaul

  Search giant Google says an overhaul of traditional 3.5in disks could lower the total cost of ownership and improve infrastructure performance

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  London overtakes Amsterdam as most in-demand location for datacentre space

  Research from real estate advisory organisation CBRE shows demand for colocation space in London continues to grow, outstripping Amsterdam

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Nimble enters all-flash market with AF series arrays

  Nimble Storage – until now solely a provider of hybrid flash arrays – has added the AF series of all-flash arrays to its portfolio

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Hybrid flash array roundup 2016: The startups

  Startups are as active as ever in the hybrid flash market, with new entrants to the fray since last year, but all-flash is making inroads too

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Law firm snubs big players for Gridstore hyper-convergence

  Scottish law firm MacRoberts replaces more than 80U of ageing, heterogeneous HPE infrastructure with 4U of hyper-converged servers and storage from Gridstore

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  SaaS provider rejects “costly” VMware for Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor

  Data services provider Pi rejects VMware as too costly and complex, opting for Nutanix’s computing and storage Acropolis hypervisor

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Service provider turns RAM into VDI storage with Atlantis

  OGL Computer rolls out virtual desktop service to customers using Atlantis software to provide RAM as VDI storage for non-persistent desktops with 200 IOPS of performance each

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  HDS launches Pentaho-based HSP 400 scale-out big data appliance

  Hitachi Data Systems launches big data appliance, the HSP 400, aimed at data lake use cases, with hardware nodes running the Pentaho Enterprise Platform acquired in 2015

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Gridstore plans KVM and container support in further tilt at VMware

  Hyper-converged appliance maker Gridstore gets $19m in funding to drive KVM and container support to provide an alternative to “costly” VMware

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Samsung upbeat despite profit slump

  Samsung says that it will continue to plug away at diversifying and reinforcing its business in a bid to return to profitable growth

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Costain opts for hybrid cloud and hosted bare metal from Navisite

  Construction and civil engineering group Costain gets mix of pure cloud and bare metal hosted at Navisite datacentres as it tools up to provide key highways infrastructure systems

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Finance firm gets Violin all-flash arrays for performance databases

  Finance sector services provider sidestepped existing NetApp storage to get all-flash arrays for high performance and 100% fault tolerance for Oracle-based apps

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  IBM beats estimates with growth in strategic areas

  IBM claims its transformation efforts are working, but share prices dropped on news of a fall in revenue for the 15th consecutive quarter

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Cloud host dumps hybrid for all-flash software-defined storage

  Cloud firm Togglebox tried Linux software-defined storage and Nimble hybrid flash, but customers hit it too hard so it opted for all-flash with storage software from StorPool

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  HPC research cluster get Red Hat OpenStack private cloud

  Petabyte-scale eMedLab consortium opts for private cloud on Red Hat Linux OpenStack with hybrid Cinder and IBM Spectrum Scale storage, and rejects object and cloud storage

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  Hybrid flash not good enough, says Kaminario customer

  Cloud software provider Clarizen re-tools storage with all-flash arrays from Kaminario and forecasts the end for hybrid flash products that don't deliver on performance promises

• January 07, 2016 07 Jan'16

  Disk system deployment set to decline as datacentres plan for flash

  Survey finds nearly one-fifth of IT departments plan to decommission disk, while hybrid leads the flash assault on the datacentre

• December 24, 2015 24 Dec'15

  Top 10 storage stories of 2015

  The year 2015 in storage was dominated by the continued rise of flash and Dell’s purchase of EMC, but there were steady upticks in trends such as hyper-converged and software-defined storage

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Public cloud adoption fuels record spend on datacentre hardware by service providers

  Datacentre infrastructure findings from Synergy Research show how enterprise cloud adoption is affecting the market

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Virtual Instruments to launch hardware NAS probe in 2016

  Maker of SAN testing product Virtual Wisdom is all set to announce a beta-tested hardware NAS probe in 2016, but currently NAS protocols supported will be limited to NFS and CIFS

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Violin doubles all-flash array range with FSP 7250 and FSP 7600

  Violin Memory doubles the size of its all-flash array product family with entry-level and high-performance additions to the enterprise-featured FSP hardware line

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Arcserve Cloud offers customers cloud target and remote failover

  Backup software and appliance supplier guarantees availability but latency depends on customer-bought infrastructure

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Steel firm gets Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global ops

  Dowco rejected pure cloud over latency concerns but opted for Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global collaboration between offices on different continents

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Seagate launches HPC storage arrays with RAM HDDs and SMR

  Seagate marries Xyratex IP and hard-drive smarts in Lustre- and GPFS-based HPC arrays with RAM-equipped drives, plus hybrid, all-flash and shingled magnetic recording options

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Michael Dell confirms there will be no EMC sell-off

  In spite of product overlaps and VMware’s partnerships with rivals, Dell will be keeping EMC intact

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Ad agency that rejected cloud boosts Cleversafe object storage

  Ad content agency Hogarth rejected cloud storage as too expensive and unreliable, opting for in-house object storage from Cleversafe with nearly 5PB

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  Hybrid flash maker NexGen launches N5 tiered all-flash

  SanDisk-owned hybrid flash maker debuts in all-flash storage with N5-1500 and N5-3000 that mix RAM, PCIe flash and SAS-connected flash drives with QoS tiering between media

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  EMC adds remote Isilon SD Edge and hybrid Cloud Pools

  EMC adds software-defined Isilon SD Edge for remote offices, but for now it lacks true clustered NAS capability. Isilon Cloud Pools, however, do act as part of the Isilon namespace

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  HDS launches mid-market F Series all-flash arrays

  Hitachi Data Systems launches the F Series, all-flash arrays aimed at mid-market customers that slot in below HDS's high-end G Series, plus a new 6.4TB high-capacity flash drive

• November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15

  MK:Smart project gets ArcServe for virtual and physical backup

  Milton Keynes smart city project chooses ArcServe UDP data protection product over Veeam for its ability to backup virtual and physical servers

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Nutanix and Lenovo to sell hyper-converged appliances

  Nutanix deal to put storage software on Lenovo servers with products aimed at datacentre use cases plus a 200-strong dedicated sales team could put pressure on its partnership with Dell

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  French atomic agency tests Scality object storage

  CEA opts for Scality Ring object storage software as potential replacement for block and file storage with gains hoped for in hardware independence and disk drive efficiency

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise: think of us as a startup

  As Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc finally part ways, UK managing director Andy Isherwood shares some insight on what the future holds for the newly minted enterprise business

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  The post-merger world: What the future holds for EMC and its federation

  A look at the integration challenges Dell faces in trying to merge EMC’s various business units with its own

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  Flash alternatives graphene and memristor make progress

  Scientists announce tests using atom-thick graphene and 5nm-thick memristors to provide media with many times the storage density of Nand flash and possible fuzzy logic computing

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  Commvault drops Simpana brand and adds features

  Commvault will drop the Simpana name from the end of 2015 as it opens up to third-party data and attempts to bridge the gap between backup and replication

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  Marketing firm shuns NetApp for VMware VSAN and HGST server flash

  Grass Roots was struggling with capacity and performance on its NetApp SAN so it deployed VMware VSAN on servers with HGST PCIe server flash and helium HDDs

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Enterprise IT buyers swap traditional servers for converged infrastructure, research shows

  A survey from 451 Research suggests enterprises will increase their use of converged infrastructure stacks to swap out traditional server estates

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  VMware CEO credits Edward Snowden with transforming enterprise cloud attitudes

  VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger spoke out at the VMworld Europe conference about how the "professional era" of cloud has been shaped by Edward Snowden's NSA revelations

• October 12, 2015 12 Oct'15

  Dell set to buy storage company EMC

  Two years after his audacious bid to reinvent the company he founded by re-privatising it, Michael Dell has put in a bid for storage giant EMC

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Sussex college dumps EMC for hyper-converged Scale Computing HC3

  St Richard’s Catholic College deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged HC3 clusters to get log-in times down from more than two minutes to 30 seconds, saving £200,000 in the process

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

  Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Avere launches CloudFusion NAS appliance in Amazon Web Services cloud

  NAS specialist Avere launches 1.5TB tiered storage cloud NAS appliance in the AWS cloud, with data held in RAM, flash and SATA media according to frequency of use

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  AWS debuts 50TB Snowball storage appliance to speed up cloud data transfers

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services makes surprise move into on-premise hardware with release of 50TB data transfer appliance

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attacks UK government surveillance

  Websites must use SSL to prevent the UK government monitoring users' activities, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tells delegates at IP Expo in London

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  IBM buys Cleversafe to provide object storage capabilities

  IBM spends an undisclosed sum on object storage market leader Cleversafe in a move that gives it object storage hardware and distributed storage for Big Blue's cloud services

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Government IT spending to be hit hardest by rising US dollar strength, warns Gartner

  Gartner predicts IT spending declines across all industries and vertical markets during 2015

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  University graduates to Arcserve UDP backup from CommVault

  FX Plus IT team reached the end of its tether with physical server-only CommVault three years ago and moved to Arcserve UDP for physical and virtual server backup, plus replication

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Infinidat adds NAS to create Infinibox unified storage

  Infinidat adds NAS functionality to Infinibox arrays but clustered NAS capability will have to wait until parallel file system support arrives sometime in the future

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  Bradford Grammar School graduates to DataCore for software-defined storage

  Bradford Grammar School puts DataCore SANsymphony in front of DotHill storage arrays to create cost-efficient software-defined storage with synchronous replication

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Spectra Verde DPE aims bulk NAS at archive use cases

  Spectra Logic's Verde DPE aims to provide low-cost file archive retention using Seagate 8TB SMR drives in bulk NAS storage in a space increasingly targeted by object storage

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  All-flash datacentre makes sense for 80TB+ of mixed workloads says IDC

  IDC white paper author says secondary economic benefits of flash storage – $/IOPS, density, power and cooling and server utilisation – mean all-flash makes sense above 80TB

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Cloudian boosts object storage HyperStore compliance features

  Distributed object storage software maker Cloudian upgrades HyperStore with added granularity of data protection features that can help meet compliance requirements

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  SanDisk InfiniFlash flash arrays get Nexenta software-defined storage

  SanDisk offers its all-flash array InfiniFlash IF100 with Nexenta's storage software on-board in another move in the trend towards choice in storage hardware and software deployments

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Simplivity adds ROBO hyper-converged box and OS enhancements

  Hyper-converged box maker adds a remote office appliance plus OmniStack operating environment upgrades to help clustering across the WAN and file level restore in backup

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  DataCore teams up with Curvature to offer recycled storage hardware

  Partnership lashes supplier-driven rip-and-replace and promises seven-year lifespan on recycled storage hardware with DataCore software-defined storage deployed

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Barnsley College dumps IBM SANs for Tegile hybrid flash arrays

  IBM DS3200 SANs retired as South Yorkshire college standardises on Tegile hybrid flash arrays in a move that cuts spend on new disk by £30,000 a year

• August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15

  Tintri dives into all-flash storage with the T5000 series

  Tintri is the second hybrid flash storage startup of the summer to debut an all-flash array series, the T5000, with two capacity variants for transactional and VDI workloads

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Gloucester City Homes embarks on VDI-led tech transformation with Exponential-e

  Social housing firm taps into Exponential-e's Ethernet capabilities to make it easier for its staff to work flexibly

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  EMC reportedly mulling over selling up to VMware

  Storage giant is said to be considering a sale to its virtualisation subsidiary, as investor pressure on the company grows

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Skyscape cuts cloud storage price by 50% for public sector IaaS users

  Cloud services provider cites growing public sector business as reason for latest round of price cuts

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Obama orders superfast computer for 2025

  The US is aiming to build a supercomputer that is able to process one exaflop or a billion billion operations a second to process big data

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  X-IO's Iglu Blaze adds replication to ISE HDD, flash and hybrid arrays

  X-IO Iglu Blaze adds a second controller hardware layer to ISE with advanced storage features including asynchronous replication, disaster recovery and high availabillity

• July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15

  World Trade Organisation strikes $1.3tn deal to wipe out IT trade tariffs

  World Trade Organisation's planned update to the 1996 Information Technology Agreement could see prices fall across a wide range of technology products

• 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

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Dell first to market with TLC drives for enterprise flash arrays

  Dell SC series storage customers will be able to use TLC flash drives, which are suited to read-intensive workloads, from August in arrays with MLC, SLC and/or spinning disk

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  All-flash array maker Kaminario plans TLC flash in arrays

  All-flash array pioneer Kaminario says software smarts can overcome limits of TLC flash storage to allow it to offer all-TLC and mixed MLC/TLC arrays

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Nimble OS upgrade gives all-flash tier in CS hybrid flash storage

  Nimble Storage operating system upgrade gives ability to pin data to flash for constant high performance needs in addition to hybrid operations and disk-only

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Seagate embarks on renewed HPC push through partnerships with HP and IBM

  Storage supplier hopes to increase the total addressable market for its ClusterStor appliance by joining forces with HP and IBM

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Panasas boosts scale-out NAS offerings with flash and disk AS18

  Scale-out NAS specialist Panasas has replaced its AS16 appliance with two AS18s that combine flash tier and helium-filled hard drives in 4U units that scale up to 20PB

• 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

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Sales of cloud-enabling infrastructure grew 25% in Q1, finds IDC

  IDC cloud infrastructure tracker suggests enterprises are coming round to the idea of hybrid IT

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Swedish cloud provider gets Solidfire all-flash storage for OpenStack

  Stockholm-based Elastx uses Solidfire all-flash arrays to support as-a-service provision on OpenStack with easy API connections to Cinder

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Fujitsu launches petabyte-scale DS8700 and 8900 S3 enterprise flash arrays

  Fujitsu replaces DS8700 S2 array with two enterprise class arrays, the DS8700 and DS8900 S3, with all-flash and hybrid flash capability and scalability into multiple petabytes

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS to open first datacentres in India from 2016

  Public cloud giant wants to tap into sub-continent's growing demand for cloud services while tackling latency and sovereignty issues

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  CIOs warned of IT overspending risks as US dollar strength grows

  The strengthening US dollar could result in enterprises overspending on IT, as suppliers sneak in under-the-radar price hikes, Gartner warns

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Housing provider in spat with EMC gets Tintri hybrid flash

  Social housing provider Housing & Care 21 lost patience with EMC and signed Tintri hybrid flash with three years’ support for two-thirds of the price

• 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

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Google scolds businesses for citing security as a reason not to use cloud

  Search giant reckons on-premise data is more likely to be breached than information stored in the cloud

• 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

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Connected Data extends file sync and share to on-site NAS

  Connected Data allows users to create internal Dropbox-type file sync and share services from any compatible enterprise NAS box with Transporter Network Storage Connector

• 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

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  SolidFire adds data protection and Cisco/OpenStack to all-flash arrays

  All-flash array maker goes for enterprise market with added data protection features and adds Cisco UCS-based reference architecture for OpenStack cloud environments

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Nutanix’s Acropolis free hypervisor takes aim at VMware

  Hyper-converged server/storage pioneer launches free-of-charge hypervisor in an explicit move to tempt customers from existing VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V deployments

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Nutanix offers hypervisor as it moves towards on-demand hardware

  Nutanix aims to offer public cloud economics for private cloud deployments

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Swedish hardware hub pairs big businesses with IT startups

  Swedish hub pairs hardware-focused startups with businesses to tap into opportunities such as the internet of things

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Enterprise storage performance a mystery to most IT chiefs

  Survey finds more than two-thirds of storage leaders at large enterprises don’t know the impact of I/O from core applications on their storage infrastructure

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  HP launches 3PAR StoreServ 20000 flash and hybrid flash enterprise storage arrays

  HP replaces 3PAR StoreServ 10000 series arrays with 20000 series featuring upgraded CPUs, controller ASICs and on-drive firmware, plus doubled flash drive capacities

• 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

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Interview: Praveen Akkiraju, CEO, VCE

  Six months on from becoming an EMC-owned company, VCE CEO Praveen Akkiraju talks about how the move will benefit his firm

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

  Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

• 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

• 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