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• October 28, 2020 28 Oct'20

  NetApp boosts NVMe, QLC and container hybrid cloud offer

  Storage giant NetApp unveils new AFF, FAS and E-series arrays with NVMe and QLC flash capability, plus object storage in Ontap and Spot cloud container resource management in Cloud Manager

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  DBS to deploy IBM z15 mainframes

  Singapore’s DBS Bank has signed a seven-year deal with IBM to run and modernise mission-critical applications on z15 mainframes

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Inside VMware’s Kubernetes playbook

  Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda talks up the evolution of the container orchestration platform and efforts by VMware to help enterprises get the most out of the technology

• October 05, 2020 05 Oct'20

  Veeam buys Kasten to get a boost in Kubernetes backup

  Virtual machine backup pioneer sees $150m purchase of Kasten and the addition of Kubernetes backup to its portfolio as key to becoming a ‘$2bn company’

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  VMworld 2020: VMware partners to accelerate enterprise applications

  A partnership with Nvidia promises to expand AI acceleration to other business apps. It also aims to make Kubernetes enterprise-ready

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  Red Hat rivals VMware and Nutanix with hyper-converged OCS 4.5

  Red Hat’s OpenShift 4.5 extended container orchestration to virtual machines. The arrival of OCS 4.5 moves the solution into the realm of hyper-converged systems

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Pure flashes the cash, paying $370m for Portworx

  Flash storage pioneer believes container storage is the next frontier and pays big money for container persistent storage software provider Portworx in deal set to close this month

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Egypt’s datacentre plans take key step forward

  Government lays the foundations for a datacentre industry with its new data protection law

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Majority of organisations at risk of cloud data exposure

  Report casts doubt on the effectiveness of the shared responsibility model of cloud security

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Datacentre investment boost as Norway’s government reinstates tax relief

  Government reinstates datacentre energy tax relief for cryptocurrency mining organisations after investments in the country’s datacentres drops

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition

  The sector building and supporting the Netherlands’ digital infrastructure wants to be valued as highly as Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are for the Dutch economy

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  What it takes to get DevSecOps right

  DevSecOps will drive at least 50% of new applications in Asia-Pacific by 2024, but getting it right will require change management, a collaborative mindset and the right automation tools

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  How to succeed at site reliability engineering

  Adoption of site reliability engineering is growing in Asia-Pacific, but organisations need to have the right organisational structure and culture to succeed

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  How Sega Europe slashed incident response times using cloud SIEM

  Gaming company’s SOC radically improves its operational efficiency with Sumo Logic’s cloud SIEM service

• May 21, 2020 21 May'20

  Infinidat sees containers and S3 as key to join storage big guns

  But that’s not all. The array maker – that brings flash performance with massive amounts of HDD plus cache – plans for NVMe-over-fabric and use of 20TB hard drives too

• May 19, 2020 19 May'20

  Portworx to add application profiles to persistent container storage

  Kubernetes persistent container storage that runs from inside the cluster will add application storage profiles for applications such as Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch and Postgres

• May 11, 2020 11 May'20

  Dell EMC launches PowerStore NVMe container-based storage array

  PowerStore controller software is based on container modules for SAN and NAS storage, while the mid-range array is all-NVMe and aimed at performance-hungry use cases such as Splunk

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  Open source community joins Covid-19 fight

  Red Hat and others in the global open source community are doing their part to develop tools and other initiatives to help the world tide over the coronavirus outbreak

• May 04, 2020 04 May'20

  StorageOS v2 puts ‘mini brains’ in Kubernetes storage volumes

  StorageOS persistent software-defined storage for Kubernetes distributes control plane decisions to volumes in a cluster and takes away the impact on centralised scheduler

• April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20

  Red Hat-VMware rivalry intensifies with OpenShift virtualisation

  New virtualisation features in OpenShift point to an emerging Kubernetes platform war between Red Hat and VMware

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  How DBS is reaping the dividends of digital transformation

  At DBS Bank, the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has demonstrated the value of technology and the investments it made over the past decade to modernise its technology stack

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  UK challenger stockbroker Freetrade backs Google Cloud to make investing more inclusive

  The CTO and co-founders of UK challenger stockbroking app provider, Freetrade, discuss how Google Cloud has helped them diversify their service offering as user numbers have increased

• April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20

  Happy developers write secure code, report claims

  DevOps specialist Sonatype claims to have found a direct correlation between satisfied developers and application security hygiene

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  APAC remains hotbed for digital transformation

  Nearly half of organisations in the Asia-Pacific region see digital transformation as their top priority, followed by cloud infrastructure deployment and artificial intelligence, survey finds

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Digitisation drives IT modernisation growth

  IT decision-makers realise that old applications restrict agility. As organisations digitise processes, application modernisation is key

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India

  Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Isilon’s multi-dot upgrade to OneFS 8.2.2 masks big changes

  The latest quarterly update to OneFS sees maximum file size grow to 16TB, brings in data deduplication in real time for HDDs, better load balancing and a new Kubernetes CSI

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Promotions for architects of IBM’s $34bn Red Hat deal

  Former CEO of Red Hat and IBM’s cloud chief are now heading up Big Blue as it moves forward to a multicloud, hybrid computing future

• January 22, 2020 22 Jan'20

  Big Blue finds green shoots in Red Hat mix

  IBM’s latest quarterly filing shows early signs that enterprises are buying into its OpenShift and RHEL-powered cloud strategy

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north

  Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  How container applications are shaping storage management

  Persistent storage, backup and recovery were not on the minds of those behind container applications, but that is starting to change

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?

  Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital?

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Why enterprises should care about DevOps

  Besides supporting cloud-native software development, DevOps’ biggest gains lie in legacy systems, says Puppet’s field CTO

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2019

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  Top 10 storage stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories for 2019, with the latest trends in enterprise storage arrays, hyper-converged, object storage, scale-out NAS, and more

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  HPE takes aim at hybrid IT management as a service

  Starting with its GreenLake family, HPE is building out a hybrid platform from the edge to the cloud

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  VMware doubles up on Kubernetes play

  New Tanzu portfolio reflects efforts by VMware to better meet the needs of enterprises that are warming to containers and Kubernetes when building new cloud-native applications

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  HPE says there will be no further cost cuts as it posts lower Q4 2019 revenue

  Antonio Neri is in his second year as HPE CEO and is overseeing a three-year programme to improve efficiencies and reduce costs

• November 17, 2019 17 Nov'19

  Australian bourse to overhaul technology infrastructure

  The Australian Securities Exchange is embracing digital ledger technology, microservices and DevOps to modernise its core systems

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Docker restructure sees enterprise platform business sold to open source cloud firm Mirantis

  Docker, the company credited with popularising the notion of container technologies, sells off its enterprise arm as part of a wider business restructure

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  VMware readies on-premise and as-a-service hybrid offerings

  During its annual VMworld event in Barcelona, VMware unveiled its vision for combining vSphere and Kubernetes

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  OpenStack to get standardisation boost in China

  New standards are being developed by the OpenStack Foundation and a standards body to improve the interoperability of OpenStack distributions in China

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Chinese companies fuelling OpenStack adoption in APAC

  Led by Chinese tech giants such as Tencent and China Mobile, the Asia-Pacific region will account for a third of the global OpenStack market by 2023

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Singapore startup plugs AI skills gap with pre-trained microservices

  Sentient.io is offering artificial intelligence microservices that developers can use to augment their applications with speech recognition and other AI capabilities

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Cloud leaders invest in datacentres as public clouds expand

  Microsoft and Amazon have posted strong results for Q3 2019. Both are investing heavily in cloud infrastructure to support cloud services

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Porsche selects HPE for five-year software-defined datacentre strategy

  The IT business inside Porsche is deploying HPE servers and infrastructure on-demand as part of a hybrid environment

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Trend Micro buys cloud security firm to broaden offering

  Acquisition of Cloud Conformity will address often overlooked cloud security fundamentals

• October 20, 2019 20 Oct'19

  The lure of Google Cloud for Singapore’s Ninja Van

  Regional logistics startup Ninja Van is consolidating all its compute resources on Google Cloud for cost savings and performance

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Southeast Asian organisations warm to Anthos

  Google Cloud sees pockets of interest in Anthos and could review its pricing strategy as adoption of the multi-cloud management platform grows