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Data protection, backup and archiving
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March 04, 2021
04
Mar'21
Veritas looks beyond NetBackup for growth in ASEAN
Veritas has seen increased demand for its availability tools as it looks to address backup and recovery requirements from cloud, database and VMware workloads
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March 03, 2021
03
Mar'21
UK’s Arkivum up for €4.8m EU science data archive project
CERN-led multi-petabyte scale research data archive bid will use Google cloud and compete with AWS-based and open source designs from other providers Libnova and Onedata
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March 03, 2021
03
Mar'21
SME backup: Card maker ditches tape-only for Nakivo 3-2-1 setup
IG Design Group gains a modern backup regime with data held on disk, in the cloud and long-term on tape in a move that has helped it to slash backup and restore times
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February 24, 2021
24
Feb'21
Transport for NSW hit by Accellion breach
Australian state agency Transport for New South Wales is the latest victim of the supply chain attack against Accellion’s legacy file transfer system
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February 24, 2021
24
Feb'21
Arcserve and StorageCraft merger aims for ‘single pane of glass’
Arcserve and StorageCraft bring a lot of similarities but enough differences for their backers to bet on with their merger, with unifying management between product sets the only priority currently stated
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February 24, 2021
24
Feb'21
Veeam v11 adds continuous data protection and cloud archive
Backup specialist’s annual upgrade brings continuous data protection to offer better RPOs and RTOs than existing snapshot functionality and without impact on running processes
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February 17, 2021
17
Feb'21
IXsystems: TrueNAS gets hyper-convergence
TrueNAS has added hyper-converged functionality to NAS and aims at the edge use cases left behind in the rush to the cloud
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February 17, 2021
17
Feb'21
Executive interview: Tapping APAC’s storage potential
Lenovo’s head of storage in Asia-Pacific singles out the region’s market opportunities and predicts that the healthcare sector will go full-fledged with flash storage in the next year
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February 16, 2021
16
Feb'21
C40, C60 R3, go! Pure adds to FlashArray//C QLC flash range
Hybrid storage killers: Pure Storage adds entry-level FlashArray//C40 R3 QLC array plus re-CPUed C60 R3 that will scale to 5PB or more
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February 01, 2021
01
Feb'21
Netbackup 9 adds flexibility with hyper-converged backup options
Veritas’s enterprise backup flagship is available in hyper-converged infrastructure and has embraced containerisation, for better hardware and application scalability
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January 31, 2021
31
Jan'21
Indian firms see growing value of data
Half of Indian IT leaders see a permanent increase in value of data as their organisations come under threat from mounting cyber attacks amid the pandemic
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January 28, 2021
28
Jan'21
Nakivo to use AWS Object Lock as anti-ransomware tool
Backup software maker leverages AWS Object Lock’s ability to create immutable WORM repositories as a means of helping organisations protect against malicious deletion or corruption
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January 20, 2021
20
Jan'21
Architect slashes 20% off storage costs with Nasuni NAS gateway
LA-based Jerde Partnership replaced on-premise storage and backup with Nasuni hybrid cloud NAS gateways to provide seamless access across timezones to project files
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January 15, 2021
15
Jan'21
150,000 records accidentally wiped from police systems
Home Office claims data wiped from national police systems only relates to people who have never been convicted of a crime or had further police action taken against them following an arrest
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January 15, 2021
15
Jan'21
Coalition proposes secure standard model for Covid-19 passports
Vaccination Credential Initiative is working to ensure that people vaccinated against Covid-19 can access their records in a secure, verifiable and privacy-preserving way
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December 23, 2020
23
Dec'20
Top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020
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December 21, 2020
21
Dec'20
Top 10 container storage stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 container storage stories for 2020, when providing persistent Kubernetes storage, backup and disaster recovery became a key challenge for many organisations
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December 18, 2020
18
Dec'20
Utility supplier People’s Energy has entire customer list stolen
All 270,000 customers of People’s Energy, a renewable energy startup, have had their details compromised in a major data breach incident
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December 17, 2020
17
Dec'20
AWS brings disaster recovery programme to Australia
Project Resilience will offer up to $5,000 worth of credits to public sector and community organisations to offset the cost of storing data on Amazon Web Services
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December 07, 2020
07
Dec'20
HMRC referred 11 data security incidents to ICO in 2019-20
HM Revenue & Customs shares details of a number of data security incidents that occurred during the 2019-20 financial year in its annual report
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November 17, 2020
17
Nov'20
Kaspersky shuts down data-processing activities in Russia
Cyber security provider’s data storage and processing activities for customers in Europe, the US and Canada, have now been fully relocated to Switzerland
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November 10, 2020
10
Nov'20
Leaky AWS S3 bucket once again at centre of data breach
Prestige Software exposed millions of records after failing to pay attention to the security of its cloud instances
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November 10, 2020
10
Nov'20
IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 consolidates storage push to cloud
The emphasis on home and remote working has been felt in storage and backup as in all areas of IT, with continued evolution towards the cloud and as-a-service storage and backup
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November 10, 2020
10
Nov'20
Canada ad firm subtracts 44U with HPE and Ctera hyper-converged
Glenn Davis Group slashed its hardware estate from 48U of rack space to 4U when it ditched its SAN and tape legacy kit for flash-based Ctera X Series and cloud backup
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November 09, 2020
09
Nov'20
Quantum’s ATFS aims to classify and manage unstructured data
Quantum triumvirate now comprises ATFS for file system classification and management, StorNext for high performance with large files and ActiveScale object storage as a bulk store
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November 05, 2020
05
Nov'20
Slot of the Antarctic: Tape the best option for polar survey backup
Tape deemed the best medium for backup on board the Antarctic research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough, with Quantum’s Scalar i3 chosen in a fully redundant deployment
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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
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October 27, 2020
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Oct'20
Commvault launches Metallic backup service in Europe
Backup giant adds backup as a service, with cloud-to-cloud backup and e-discovery functionality that can work across on-site datacentres and the AWS and Azure clouds
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October 15, 2020
15
Oct'20
Cloud data protection keeps the Crick’s medical research Covid-secure
Cloud data management services from Rubrik gave the Francis Crick Institute a data protection edge and have helped keep its vital work going through the pandemic
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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’
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September 28, 2020
28
Sep'20
Swiss ISP opts for Scality object storage for backup service
Move to object storage allows Lake Solutions to cut customer backup costs by 66% while providing new S3-based bucket storage for customers based on Scality on HPE
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September 21, 2020
21
Sep'20
India’s storage market takes hit but hasn’t lost its shine
The slower growth in storage spending in India amid the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to be mitigated by digitisation efforts by financial services and manufacturing firms
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September 18, 2020
18
Sep'20
Open Data Institute explores diverse range of data governance structures
Unlocking the economic and social potential of data will require a diverse range of governance structures to meet the needs of different contexts, use cases and stakeholders
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September 15, 2020
15
Sep'20
Scality aims at high-performance object with Ring 8 all-flash
Object storage specialist – with file storage capability – aims at tier-1 use cases such as AI/ML, content delivery and some backup tasks with all-flash upgrade to Scality Ring 8
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September 07, 2020
07
Sep'20
Dutch bank set to save €5m via Veeam backup upgrade
Rabobank ditched legacy backup where patching took months and restores took hours. Those times are now cut down massively and the bank has a readily available test environment
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September 01, 2020
01
Sep'20
Pure aims at unified file and object and launches new QLC storage
Flash storage maker says unified storage in file and object is what is needed for contemporary analytics and AI workloads, while it launches a new all-QLC version of FlashArray//C
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August 25, 2020
25
Aug'20
TikTok takes Trump to court
Under-fire video app TikTok files a formal complaint in the federal courts challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to ban it in the US
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August 19, 2020
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Aug'20
Veeam to add CDP, plus Google cloud as a target
Backup giant set to add continuous data protection for the most critical workloads, plus Google cloud as a target – all on the back of a storming quarter during the pandemic
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August 18, 2020
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Aug'20
Reports Oracle to enter TikTok bidding war
Oracle may be about to make a bid to acquire the US operations of TikTok from its Chinese parent ByteDance, according to the FT
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
Pure and Cohesity launch FlashRecover for flash-speed restores
Flash market pioneer links up with scale-out backup product maker to provide bundled backup plus super-fast recovery based around Pure FlashBlade storage arrays
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July 29, 2020
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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
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July 28, 2020
28
Jul'20
Backblaze takes aim at ‘costly and complex’ AWS cloud storage
Backblaze offers free transfer to its S3-based cloud storage – which it claims costs a fraction of AWS et al – as long as it’s more than 50TB and you commit to at least 12 months
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July 24, 2020
24
Jul'20
A question of trust: University and supplier on the hook for data breach
Data on students at the University of York was stolen in a ransomware attack on a supplier two months ago, and the response of both parties raises serious questions
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July 23, 2020
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Jul'20
Commvault refreshes HyperScale backup appliances with Hedvig
Backup player set to replace Fujitsu/Red Hat-based backup appliances with new hardware and storage software from Hedvig, which it bought late last year
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July 17, 2020
17
Jul'20
Enterprises need to rethink how end-of-life equipment is dealt with
Electronic waste is a massive and growing problem, but many companies are not recycling or reusing IT equipment, instead opting for physical destruction of the assets
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July 09, 2020
09
Jul'20
Clearview AI faces ICO investigation over facial recognition
Controversial company that scraped data from the public internet to build its facial recognition algorithm faces a joint UK-Australian investigation into its practices
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July 07, 2020
07
Jul'20
Fujifilm software allows S3 access to LTO tape libraries
Fujifilm Software Defined Tape allows tape libraries to act as an S3-based object storage archive accessible as a tier of storage on-premise or in the cloud
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June 25, 2020
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Jun'20
Veeam bullish on growth in APAC
Veeam’s top executive in Asia-Pacific expects the company’s growth momentum in the region to continue despite the Covid-19 pandemic, and is setting sights on growth areas such as container backups
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June 24, 2020
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Jun'20
EU judges GDPR an overall success, but changes still needed
Two years after its implementation, an EU report says that the GDPR is achieving what it set out to do, with a few reservations
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June 18, 2020
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Jun'20
US buildings firm saves big on HDDs with Nasuni cloud NAS
APi Group dumps first-generation file sharing for Nasuni, which allowed it to save ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ with standard hardware deployments and cutting local storage
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June 10, 2020
10
Jun'20
Unsecured Elasticsearch server breached in eight hours flat
Comparitech’s Bob Diachenko wanted to find out how long it would take for hackers to find and attack an unsecured, public internet-facing database, so he set up a honeypot
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June 09, 2020
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Jun'20
Churchill gets Ctera hybrid cloud NAS and dodges 3PAR disk spend
Potteries-based ceramics maker faced the choice between expanding its HPE SAN at great cost or deploying Ctera hybrid cloud NAS. It saved thousands by heading for hybrid cloud
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June 09, 2020
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Jun'20
AS Roma to develop video tracking with Acronis AI expertise
Italian football club will get variable-price ticketing using artificial intelligence expertise to develop systems. It has also deployed Acronis cloud backup
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June 09, 2020
09
Jun'20
Poorly-secured AWS buckets used to launch Magecart attacks
Cyber criminals are exploiting misconfigured AWS S3 buckets to run credit card fraud and malvertising campaigns, according to new data
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June 02, 2020
02
Jun'20
Digital transformation held back by lack of skilled people
Veeam survey finds digital transformation a hot topic, but 44% of firms are held back by skills shortages. Meanwhile, the cost of downtime is found to be $67,651 per hour for the most important apps
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May 29, 2020
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May'20
Singapore’s contact-tracing app tops privacy study
Singapore’s TraceTogether is least intrusive in terms of privacy communications compared with similar apps in the region, study finds
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May 19, 2020
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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
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May 19, 2020
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May'20
Storj app builds QNAP NAS into its Uber-like cloud storage network
QNAP NAS users can use the Storj app to configure spare capacity as part of the Tardigrade S3 cloud, which offers storage at half the cost of the main providers
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May 12, 2020
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May'20
APAC firms still coming to grips with data protection
More governments in Asia are implementing data protection regimes, but challenges such as checkbox compliance and the lack of effective staff training remain
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May 12, 2020
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May'20
How Australian firms can plug data protection gaps
Australian organisations can address data protection challenges by creating roles such as a data governance lead, classifying data and improving employee awareness of cyber hygiene
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May 06, 2020
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May'20
Pure Storage FlashBlade OS v3.0 brings protected snapshots
Pure also adds remote replication and aims at storage use cases for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads in its all-flash NAS and object nodes
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May 04, 2020
04
May'20
NHSX contact-tracing app needs legislative oversight
Legal experts have told Parliament’s Human Rights Committee that legislation is desirable to ensure public trust in the data security of the Covid-19 coronavirus contact-tracing app
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April 24, 2020
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Apr'20
Dark data is contributing to carbon emissions
Almost six million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere this year as a result of dark data, Veritas research finds
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April 21, 2020
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Apr'20
When data protection is not enough
Organisations should take a holistic approach to data protection and cyber security in what the CEO of Acronis deems a “cyber protection” strategy
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April 16, 2020
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Apr'20
Check Point sounds alarm over double extortion ransomware threat
Researchers say double extortion ransomware attacks are likely to increase in frequency, and warn organisations to be on guard
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March 26, 2020
26
Mar'20
Coronavirus: What are the latest free cyber security offers?
We round up the latest free offers on cyber security products and services being made available during the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis
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March 20, 2020
20
Mar'20
Unpatched Zyxel storage devices co-opted into IoT botnet
Owners of Zyxel network-attached storage devices are in danger of being hijacked by Mukashi, a descendant of the infamous Mirai botnet, if they don’t patch a critical vulnerability
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March 18, 2020
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Mar'20
Prudential turns to AI to secure computer networks against cyber attacks
Prudential, the UK’s largest listed insurer, is turning to artificial intelligence to protect its computer networks in the US, Asia and Africa from malware hackers and internal threats
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March 17, 2020
17
Mar'20
UK makes its case for post-Brexit data adequacy decision
Government sets out an explanatory framework as it seeks adequacy decisions from the European Commission to maintain the free flow of personal data between the European Union, the UK and Gibraltar
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February 28, 2020
28
Feb'20
NCSC makes ransomware attack guidance more accessible
Following a swathe of high-profile ransomware attacks, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has made changes to its guidance, emphasising the importance of offline backups
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February 27, 2020
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Feb'20
Clearview hack fuels debate over facial recognition
Customers of Clearview AI, a controversial startup that scrapes and sells billions of photos of people from social media to police forces, have found themselves at the centre of a major data breach
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February 25, 2020
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Feb'20
IT Priorities 2020: Cloud storage key but SAN/NAS alive and well
In the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey cloud dominates storage spending priorities for 2020, but on-premise technologies such as SAN and NAS are still key to IT
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February 24, 2020
24
Feb'20
Thai university to roll out data protection certification
Thailand’s National Institute of Development Administration is offering a certification programme to get organisations ready for the country’s data protection regime
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February 19, 2020
19
Feb'20
Cost of cloud misconfigurations set at $5tn
Cloud security outfit DivvyCloud says more than 33 billion records have been exposed in cloud misconfiguration incidents in the past 24 months
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February 18, 2020
18
Feb'20
Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds NAS backup and cloud tiering
Availability Suite is mostly about consolidating the company’s data management platform idea, but it has added incremental forever NAS backup, cloud tiering and recovery to vSphere
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February 10, 2020
10
Feb'20
US hotel group ditches datacentre for Nasuni cloud NAS
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts got rid of its datacentre and put everything in the cloud, with Nasuni cloud NAS providing storage from which any user can restore files
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February 05, 2020
05
Feb'20
Veeam pushes subscription licensing in cloud-centric ‘Act II’
Backup specialist wants to “win the cloud” as it pushes towards a cloud-focused vision that includes pay-for-what-you-use and multicloud after its acquisition last month
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February 04, 2020
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Feb'20
Acronis CEO bullish as specialist goes beyond backup
Acronis is set to launch Cyber Protect as it rides a wave of confidence based on increasing revenues and investor funding. Will the backup-plus-cyber protection calculation pay off?
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January 28, 2020
28
Jan'20
Data privacy benefits outweigh spend, says Cisco
Cisco’s 2020 data privacy study shows organisations can generate substantial returns on their data privacy and protection spending
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January 24, 2020
24
Jan'20
Disaster recovery failover choices: Synchronous mirrors, P2V and the cloud
We survey the key options in disaster recovery: whether to failover to an on-site location or off-site facility. We also look at the cloud as an option in disaster recovery
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January 20, 2020
20
Jan'20
Exposed AWS buckets again implicated in multiple data leaks
A series of data leaks in the past week have once again implicated poorly secured Amazon S3 buckets, which are supposed to be private by default
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January 20, 2020
20
Jan'20
Inside NetApp’s transition into a data management firm
NetApp’s leaders in Asia-Pacific discuss the company’s pivot into data services and its traction in the region
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January 16, 2020
16
Jan'20
Thailand gets ready for data protection law
Thailand’s personal data protection law comes into effect in May 2020, subjecting organisations to new rules that safeguard the personal data of individuals
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January 15, 2020
15
Jan'20
Threat landscape grew in complexity in 2019, no respite in sight
Check Point’s annual state of security report shares some 2019 trends and looks ahead to 2020
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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
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January 13, 2020
13
Jan'20
$5bn buy-out set to make backup giant Veeam a US company
Veeam’s founders are out as investment fund gets its hands on a pioneer of virtual machine backup. Now it will be a US company and eligible to target US government customers
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January 09, 2020
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Jan'20
Don’t become the next Travelex: Get ready for ransomware
With Travelex’s IT still in disarray and banks and travellers left without access to funds more than a week after it was hit by a ransomware attack, we ask what others can learn from the foreign exchange services company’s response to the incident
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January 09, 2020
09
Jan'20
New GDPR service aims to ease compliance challenges
Security consultants claim their software platform will address a pressing need for an effective and efficient means of complying with data protection rules
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January 08, 2020
08
Jan'20
Cloud adoption in ANZ gathering pace
Australia and New Zealand have seen a four-fold increase in the amount of data moving from on-premise environments to the top public clouds, survey finds
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January 02, 2020
02
Jan'20
California’s CCPA an opportunity for security industry to do better
California’s consumer protection and data privacy laws came into effect on 1 January 2020, and present a golden opportunity for the cyber security practitioners
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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
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December 09, 2019
09
Dec'19
Public sector still losing user devices in high numbers
The Ministry of Justice has lost 354 smartphones, PCs, laptops and tablets in the past 12 months, according to a Freedom of Information request, and other government departments are in the same boat
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December 03, 2019
03
Dec'19
Survey finds most firms don’t respond to GDPR requests in time
Most organisations do not respond to requests for GDPR data in the one month allowed, while many return incorrect data. The education sector does best, but the public sector lags behind
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November 28, 2019
28
Nov'19
Australia’s Fenner Dunlop ditches tape backups for cloud
Australian manufacturer of conveyor belts Fenner Dunlop has freed up its IT staff to focus on future projects by moving tape backups to the cloud
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November 25, 2019
25
Nov'19
University of Leicester dumps SANs and LUNs for Cloudian object storage
One-to-one mapping between Dell SANs and media servers had passed their sell-by date and caused vulnerabilities for the University of Leicester, which fixed the problems by a move to “stateless” object storage on Cloudian
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November 22, 2019
22
Nov'19
Mystery surrounds leak of four billion user records
Threat researchers uncover four billion user records on a wide-open Elasticsearch server but who left them there is a mystery
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November 20, 2019
20
Nov'19
Datrium boosts VMware protection but won’t add more hypervisors
NVMe flash pioneer turned DR-as-a-service-focused data platform provider Datrium says VMware and Kubernetes have “won the market” and it won’t extend support beyond those two
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November 19, 2019
19
Nov'19
Businesses failing to wipe data from old endpoints
Organisations are not taking adequate precautions to sanitise data held on endpoints when refreshing their PC or mobile device estates
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November 14, 2019
14
Nov'19
ASEAN regulatory sandbox will promote cross-border data flows
The Regulatory Pilot Space will offer ASEAN businesses a safe test environment to provide digital services across the region while complying with data privacy rules
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November 05, 2019
05
Nov'19
Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards: The winners
Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2019 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona