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Converged infrastructure

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Berlin anarchists cite AI in attack on key energy infrastructure

  Berlin anarchists have sabotaged key energy infrastructure in the city, claiming it as an act of ‘self-defence’ against the planet’s destruction by ‘energy-guzzling’ technologies and the wider fossil fuel economy that underpins their development

• January 09, 2026 09 Jan'26

  CES 2026: Hitachi inks collaborations with Nvidia, Google Cloud, Nozomi Networks

  In its mission to build a ‘harmonised society’, Hitachi claims momentum, with major announcements across areas including mobility, AI and energy

• December 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

  Top 10 networking stories of 2025

  As enterprises become more extended, dealing with network complexity has become almost as important as network performance. The key to this is AI – but only if properly deployed. Discover more in Computer Weekly’s top 10 networking stories of 2025

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Qualcomm and Humain launch AI engineering centre in Riyadh

  Saudi Arabia strengthens its artificial intelligence ambitions under Vision 2030 with a new Qualcomm-powered datacentre hub, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlights tech innovation during his US visit

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped

  ING warns grid congestion threatens Dutch datacentre leadership, while the country’s championed hydrogen solution remains largely untapped

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Du racks up 1Tbps Middle East milestone

  Leading UAE operator Du achieves record-breaking peak traffic through its datamena platform and marks milestone for internet exchange in the Middle East to reach performance level

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Finland government tax proposal worries datacentre investors

  Finland, like other Nordic countries, is targeting datacentre investment, but could tax reforms scupper this plan?

• August 29, 2025 29 Aug'25

  HPE ups ante in self-driving net ops with enhanced Mist agentic AI

  Merged company simplifies IT operations portfolio with aim of elevating user experiences with more autonomous actions delivered via agentic workflows and expanded digital experience twinning

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack

  Hitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy

  Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems

• May 08, 2025 08 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

• April 11, 2025 11 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

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  Interview: The role of IT innovation at Royal Ballet and Opera

  We speak to the Royal Ballet and Opera’s head of IT delivery, Keith Nolan, about how IT lowers costs and helps power stage innovations for world-class performances

• February 11, 2025 11 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

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance

  Dutch political parties have warned about the Netherlands’ growing reliance on US tech giants

• November 25, 2024 25 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

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  Oracle lauds customers and cloud collaboration at CloudWorld ’24

  Oracle’s leadership was in celebratory mood opening its annual CloudWorld jamboree, and with its announcement of a new cloud partnership with AWS, multicloud futures were high on everyone’s agenda

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency

  Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  Broadcom/VMware: Joining the dots to migrate off VMware

  It may take several years to move off VMware. In the meantime, Nutanix and Rimini Street have ramped up efforts to target unhappy customers

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage

  New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  VMware’s APAC customers weigh in on licensing changes

  VMware customers in the region are concerned about higher costs even as they see the benefits of subscription-based pricing and product bundling in the longer term

• March 25, 2024 25 Mar'24

  IBM enhances network IT automation capabilities with Pliant acquisition

  Tech giant makes strategic purchase to further boost software networking capabilities, offering customers the tools to enable network infrastructure observability, connectivity, control and automation across hybrid cloud environments

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  VMware/Broadcom: Should you consider the Nutanix hypervisor?

  Nutanix’s latesting quarterly filing shows the company is benefiting from the fallout following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud

  The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience

  The TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  IT leaders are finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud

  Survey shows that fewer IT leaders are prioritising workload migration, which suggests they are happy with their deployment plans

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona

  VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes

• October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23

  NetApp ‘unified storage’ adds new ASA block storage at Insight

  Las Vegas event sees NetApp continue its evolution to hybrid cloud and data management player announce ASA C-series and Keystone and Kubernetes storage enhancements

• October 23, 2023 23 Oct'23

  Dell updates PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex storage

  Dell storage upgrades include improved AIOps, lower energy usage, real-time HA failover, seamless hardware replacement, and enhancements to take advantage of DPU acceleration

• September 26, 2023 26 Sep'23

  Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO

  SAN and NAS are finished in the age of the cloud when it comes to cloud-native Kubernetes storage, according to container-focused object storage maker MinIO

• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe

  German startup Simplyblock aims to deliver low-cost high-performance flash and NVMe-over-TCP storage for service provider customers, and has Ceph deployments in its sights

• August 15, 2023 15 Aug'23

  Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box aims hyper-converged at AI/ML use cases

  Nutanix targets a pre-configured bundle of AI/ML and GPT software with hyper-converged infrastructure and GPT to help organisations safely take advantage of learning networks

• July 13, 2023 13 Jul'23

  Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon

  Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments

• May 31, 2023 31 May'23

  Generative AI boosts HPE Q2 earnings

  The hype around generative AI appears to be working – at least for HPE, according to the company’s second-quarter earnings

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

  AMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage

• April 21, 2023 21 Apr'23

  Prepare for hybrid cloud headaches

  IT will often need to run different workloads on-premise or in multiple cloud environments

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  IBM Storage launched with backup appliance plan

  Prosaically named brand will replace Spectrum products, while IBM rationalises offer for AI/ML, hybrid cloud and malware, which it sees as the backdrop to contemporary IT

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  BT helps Channel 4 and ITV take Freeview content to the cloud

  Multiplex broadcast consortium Digital 3&4 has ditched its legacy hardware for a software-defined networking setup that will revamp how it delivers Freeview content to viewers

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022

  There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Pure aims at near bare metal I/O with Portworx PX-Fast

  PX-Fast is driven by customer need for scale and high performance in containerised environments and sees reworking of Portworx data architecture to slash storage access time

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud

  Software-defined storage and block access specialist to offer its product on high-performance AWS bare metal and memory-intensive compute, while claiming improved latency

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  VMware’s vSAN 8 gets a rebuild for the solid-state storage era

  At VMware Explore 2022, we interview VMware’s John Gilmartin about the new, faster vSAN, plans to use DPUs, the vSAN+ cloud offering, and VMware Ransomware Recovery

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  VMware CEO defends Broadcom deal

  Raghu Raghuram is confident that Broadcom will invest in growing VMware through a broad portfolio of assets that will serve its entire customer base, not just its biggest customers

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  ‘We must do better’ says Gelsinger on Intel’s latest results

  Chipmaker has reported a massive decline across its major business divisions

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  HPE Discover: GreenLake grows new features and customer base

  Tech giant HPE has used its annual user and partner conference to announce the roll-out of a series of enhancements to its flagship GreenLake as-a-service offering

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

  Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Executive interview: Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO, Nutanix

  We speak to the CEO of Nutanix about growing up in India, the switch from engineering to business leader, and mentoring

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend

  Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend