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Data protection, backup and archiving

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  Unitrends debuts flash in Recovery Series physical and virtual backup appliances

  Unitrends puts flash in a backup appliance as Recovery Series promises single screen for physical and virtual machine backup

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Kingston Hospital NHS Trust moves off BT with picture archive system

  Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has begun redeploying its picture archiving system on a new architecture as it migrates off BT

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Gateshead NHS migrates over one million radiology images

  Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust moves images and scans to a central archive which can be viewed from any department in the hospital

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Nisa Retail opts for backup appliance for rapid disaster recovery

  Nisa Retail ditches tape-based servers-in-a-van disaster recovery with Quorum backup and high availability mirroring between sites

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Cambridge college replaces legacy EMC with Nimble hybrid flash

  Trinity Hall replaces end-of-life EMC Celerra with Nimble Storage CS220 hybrid flash in a complete upgrade of VMware virtual server environment

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Pernod Ricard toasts centralised data backup and cloud disaster recovery

  Drinks company Pernod Ricard turned to the cloud for backup and disaster recovery for its IT systems in Europe

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Symantec splits storage and security

  Symantec is splitting its storage and security business, following just days after HP announced its split

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Druva targets server backup to the cloud with Phoenix

  Endpoint/BYOD backup specialist Druva aims at the remote office market with Phoenix for server backup to the cloud

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Veeam moves into physical backup with free Endpoint Backup

  Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam announces free module to protect desktops, laptops and servers

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  Virtual backup appliance pros and cons

  Computer Weekly examines virtual backup appliances that run backup and restore from a virtual machine

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Veg supplier freshens up data recovery times with WAN optimisation

  Network congestion limited vegetable wholesaler Product World’s ability to create and move VMs until it deployed WAN optimisation

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Budgets up as virtualisation brings storage and backup headaches

  Survey finds storage budgets rising and more firms getting flash, but server virtualisation is pushing capacity needs

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Datacentre and Storage: 2014 winners

  The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Datacentre and Storage 2014 have been announced

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  NHS trust cuts backups with Spectra Logic disk backup and tape

  Morecambe Bay NHS trust slashes backup window from 24 hours to less than six in a move to Spectra Logic disk-based backup

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Chivas Brothers distillery upgrades SAN data storage for 100% data recovery

  Distillery company Chivas Brothers upgraded its storage area network (SAN) to ensure it can recover 100% of its data in the event of a disaster

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Quantum launches DXi6900 enterprise data deduplication backup box

  DXi6900 aimed at enterprise users as Quantum plans to reduces data deduplication backup product family to one that includes the V-Series virtual appliances and the midrange DXi4700

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  CA spins out Arcserve backup and data protection division

  CA spins out Arcserve to launch as a standalone midrange backup and data protection products company

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  CIPD ditches 20-a-day tape habit for Exagrid data deduplication

  HR professionals organisation the CIPD replaces tape backup with disk-based data deduplication backup hardware from Exagrid

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Red Hat adds erasure coding in Inktank Ceph Enterprise v1.2

  Red Hat adds erasure coding aimed at backup and archive use cases to Inktank Ceph Enterprise version 1.2

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Microsoft adds StorSimple hybrid storage arrays to Azure cloud service

  Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Survey: Storage budgets shrink while capacity balloons

  451 Research survey finds storage budgets shrink while data volumes increase, as flash use becomes commonplace

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Security must change in Indian digital marketplace

  More than 25% of large digital marketplaces will have explicit strategies for consumer computing and security by 2018, according to Gartner

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  Manufacturer boosts bandwidth with Silver Peak WAN optimisation

  Symphony Group gets 50% bandwidth boost and cuts RPO from hours to seconds with Silver Peak VRX-4 WAN optimisation

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Lawyers get Unitrends backup appliance for virtual server backup

  Notts law firm Rothera Dowson moves from Symantec plus tape to Unitrends disk-based backup appliance for virtual server backup and cuts recovery time from days to minutes

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  CA bundles ArcServe products into single UDP backup app

  CA brings together all data protection and backup software in Unified Data Protection product with workflow-style management

• April 25, 2014 25 Apr'14

  Tintri VM storage helps firm solve issues caused by admin clashes

  Pharma firm Colorcon bought Tintri VM storage at cost of maintenance on its existing arrays and solved performance problems rooted in clashes between DBAs and architecture admins

• April 22, 2014 22 Apr'14

  Disaster recovery is vital in software-defined datacentre era

  Jon Toigo argues against virtualisation advocates that say the software-defined datacentre, with its high availability and clustering, does away with the need for disaster recovery

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  UK physicist Stuart Parkin wins Millennium technology prize

  UK-born physicist Stuart Parkin has won the 2014 Millennium technology prize for a breakthrough in magnetic disk drive storage capacity

• April 09, 2014 09 Apr'14

  Vatican Library digitises first 10,000 manuscripts

  The Vatican Apostolic Library has completed the digitisation of around 10,000 of its 82,000 manuscripts as part of a project to make them available online

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  EMC upgrades Avamar, Networker and Data Domain products

  EMC boosts application and hypervisor integration on Avamar, Networker and Data Domain as part of a strategic push to "backup-less backup" and a "data protection continuum"

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Lack of social media archiving creates legal minefield

  Through social media, businesses are creating vast amounts of uncontrolled content and risk legal action because of inadequate archiving and eDiscovery systems

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  Cloud archive pros and cons and the questions to ask providers

  A cloud archive offers a flexible and cost effective alternative to in-house archiving where maintenance is outsourced, but what are the key questions to ask a potential supplier

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Backup appliances offer easy backup for SMEs and branch offices

  Product survey: We run the rule over backup appliances; hardware and software bundles that enable easy deployment and management of backup for SMEs and remote offices

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  India’s Huawei investigation will have lasting effect

  The government investigation into an alleged hack of state-run telecoms carrier Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) by Huawei will bring about regulatory change, whether proved true or not

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Disaster recovery and virtual server backup top 2014 storage projects

  As budgets rise and businesses emerge from recession, disaster recovery and virtual server backup are the top storage projects in 2014

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Top 10 supplier profiles 2013

  Are you thinking of doing business with an IT technology supplier? Check out our independent profiles of the leading technology companies.

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries

  Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here

• November 21, 2013 21 Nov'13

  Scientists banish NAS sprawl with Red Hat scale-out NAS software

  Reading University meteorology department tackles NAS sprawl with Red Hat open source storage software to build scale-out NAS cluster on commodity x86 server hardware

• November 19, 2013 19 Nov'13

  Investec CISO warns that legacy tapes will fail on new hardware

  Many organisations may find that years of irreplaceable tape backups are inaccessible because modern machines cannot handle legacy format

• 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

  East Lincolnshire Council issued penalty after losing children’s personal data

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) served an £80,000 penalty notice to East Lincolnshire Council for losing sensitive data about hundreds of children with special educational needs

• 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 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  UK businesses call for support to close virtual security skills gap

  Most UK businesses want to see virtual security guidelines put in place to help organisations understand best practice

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Actuary gets NetApp, rejects flash drives, Vblocks and FlexPods

  Number-crunching actuarial consultants Hymans Robertson opt for spinning disk plus flash cache over flash drives and reject Vblock and FlexPod converged stack products

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Storage: Winners

  The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Storage have been announced. See who made the top spots

• September 11, 2013 11 Sep'13

  Free disaster recovery training seminar with Jon Toigo

  World-renowned data protection expert Jon William Toigo will lead a free disaster recovery seminar in London on 19 September

• 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

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  EMC upgrades Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy

  EMC Data Domain data deduplication boxes get faster CPUs and bigger disks; Avamar gets NAS and virtual machine enhancements; NetWorker gets point upgrade; Mozy gets AD integration

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Podcast: Virtual server backup fundamentals

  Virtual server backup is different to traditional backup. This podcast looks at the differences and examines key choices in selecting backup products

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Sepaton boosts VTL integration with TSM and Symantec

  Sepaton has upgraded the software on its S2100-E3 2925 virtual tape library to offer support for Symantec Netbackup OST over Fibre Channel and boosted TSM integration via Gresham

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Backup and recovery challenges most small businesses, study shows

  Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are experiencing difficulties with data backup and recovery, a study has shown

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Veeam adds WAN acceleration to virtual machine backup product

  Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam has added WAN acceleration, storage array snapshots and other features to version 7 of its Backup & Replication virtual machine backup product

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  BYOD: Securing the risk to access the cost benefits

  Bring-your-own-device schemes offer businesses the opportunity to cut the costs and improve user experiences, but benefits can be dwarfed by the risks.

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Big data security: getting a grip on multiple data sources

  Big data analyses multiple data points, but how do you ensure that ecosystem is secure? In this podcast, Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, outlines the key steps in achieving big data security

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  EMC posts record Q1 revenues; VMware and RSA star performers

  EMC’s first quarter results include record Q1 revenues. VMware and RSA show stellar growth and storage hardware lags, but COO says, “We’re on course for $30bn in 2016”

• 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

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  Law firm gets EMC unified storage for effective disaster recovery

  Surrey law firm TWM builds VMware virtualised infrastructure with EMC VNX unified storage to enable disaster recovery best practice

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  University shuns cloud archiving and Quantum for Spectra Logic tape

  Bristol University builds Spectra Logic tape archive with NexSan disk front-end, rejecting cloud archive due to uncertainties over data control

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  UK SMEs risk data loss through poor practice

  Less than 20% of UK small and medium-sized enterprises back up all of their data, a study reveals

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  Derbyshire council saves £200,000 with tiered storage architecture

  Derbyshire County Council has made substantial savings using NetApp NAS and Sata drives to create tiered storage with integrator Phoenix

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  Serco opts for Quantum DXi data deduplication and saves £1.3m

  As part of a £20m technology refresh to its private cloud services, Serco chooses Quantum data deduplication hardware to make £1.3m storage savings

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  CommVault’s Simpana 10 backup software makes Big Data play

  CommVault’s Simpana 10 enterprise backup software makes a play for Big Data use cases with extended capabilities around its Common Store data repository and compliance functions

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

  UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Endpoint backup scales past 100,000 with Druva inSync

  Endpoint backup and BYOD data protection specialist Druva re-architects its inSync product to scale past 100,000 users

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Employee hardware ubiquitous but BYOD policies remain weak, finds survey

  Bring your own device (BYOD) policy remains patchy despite near 100% prevalence and instances of data loss

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  University shuns HP array features for SIOS host-based replication

  Nottingham university deploys SIOS host-based replication in £500k HP shared storage project across two mirrored sites to provide 2,000 research staff with 0.5PB capacity

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  VMware a highlight as EMC posts record revenue results

  EMC’s revenues of $21.7bn show demand for VMware virtualisation and more growth for storage hardware and RSA security products

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Quantum aims at Data Domain and claims 4x throughput advantage

  Quantum launches new disk-based backup data deduplication hardware that offers faster throughput

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Disaster recovery and virtual server backup top 2013 storage projects

  Exclusive survey finds disaster recovery and virtual server backup top storage to-do lists in 2013

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Businesses wasting billions storing unnecessary data

  CIOs are urged to rethink their backup strategies following warnings that companies are wasting billions on unnecessary storage

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  NHS trust opts for HP active-active no-SSD tier SAN deployment

  Brighton NHS trust chooses HP private cloud instead of Dell servers and storage, and revamps IT and disaster recovery with active-active LeftHand SANs and no SSD tier

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Film maker storage strategy lead roles for BlueArc, Avere and DotHill

  Framestore revamps storage strategy for Gravity project and chooses BlueArc clustered NAS, Avere and DotHill in lead roles

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  WAN optimisation choices in the age of cloud and virtualisation

  WAN optimisation gives you more bandwidth for your money and now comes in cloud and virtual appliance form factors. We survey the key choices

• January 04, 2013 04 Jan'13

  In 2013 virtualisation will drive flash and backup decisions

  Key choices in 2013: Server and desktop virtualisation will drive developments in storage and backup technology that demand decisions about flash and backup

• December 31, 2012 31 Dec'12

  Top 10 virtualisation and storage stories of 2012

  Virtualisation has had a huge impact on the world of storage. These 10 articles from 2012 chart the effects on storage products and best practices in storage for virtualisation

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  Top 10 storage stories of 2012

  Top storage stories from 2012 reflect the rapid pace of virtualisation, big data, the proliferation of mobile devices and new twists on storage technologies such as tape and RAID

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Data to grow more quickly says IDC’s Digital Universe study

  IDC’s annual Digital Universe study finds data set to expand to 40 Zettabytes by 2020. Emerging markets and machine-generated data will account for increasing proportions of it.

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  United Drug saves €30k-plus a year with Silver Peak WAN optimisation

  Irish drug multinational deploys Silver Peak WAN optimisation products to cure network bottlenecks, ensure effective disaster recovery and save on network costs

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  Computer Weekly European User Awards: Categories

  The Computer Weekly European User Awards honours IT professionals across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology, focusing on the key areas of networking and mobile; storage; security; datacentre and virtualisation; and ...

• December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12

  Law firm adopts smart storage

  Law firm Sackers and Partners is using intelligent storage that moves information from expensive discs to less expensive discs automatically

• November 26, 2012 26 Nov'12

  Kent Police nabs Acronis for physical and virtual backup

  Kent Police slashes backup window and restore times with Acronis, replacing multi-supplier systems as part of disaster recovery project

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  Dell adds CommVault and AppAssure back-up appliances

  Dell launches two back-up appliances: SME-targeted DL4000 with AppAssure physical/virtual/cloud back-up software on board, and Simpana 9-equipped DL2300

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  NetApp pushes clustered NAS ONTAP but customers drag feet

  NetApp pushes clustered NAS capability of Data ONTAP at its Dublin Insight event but very few customers have switched over

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  Trend Micro: Encryption is the foundation of cloud security

  Trend Micro says giving customers the ‘perception of control’ over their data is key for trust and adoption of cloud computing

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Tape revenues drag down Quantum results but disk gives a boost

  Quantum reports year-on-year losses and declining tape revenues but has better news with DXi disk backup and StorNext scale-out file system

• October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

  Jobs firm Hudson dumps NetApp for HP in disaster recovery project

  Multinational jobs firm Hudson recruits HP and fires NetApp as it builds active-active London datacentres to support disaster recovery in Europe-wide CRM roll-out

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Storage briefs: Tape library just the ticket for car park firm

  Tape library for car park firm; IT departments fail on email compliance; Record HDD shipment after Thai floods; Veeam supports Hyper-V

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Social media presents risk of data overload

  Employees are at risk of information overload as social media technologies are increasingly used in the workplace

• October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Businesses to face tougher penalties for data breaches

  Businesses will face tougher penalties for failing to secure personal data under new European legislation

• May 29, 2012 29 May'12

  School cuts unstructured data by 90% with Balesio

  Storage roundup: School cuts unstructured data by 90% with Balesio; Belgian bank gets VirtualSharp DR tool; Bocada teams with Veeam; new Infortrend unified storage arrays; and more news.

• March 26, 2012 26 Mar'12

  Research company gets Acronis virtual machine backup

  Storage roundup: Research company gets Acronis virtual machine backup; cloud provider opts for Nexsan; Arkivum appoints Scallon; Coraid appoints Virmani; and Qsan is VMware-ready.

• October 30, 2011 30 Oct'11

  Cloud storage boom as users rush to outsourcers

  The Spring 2011 edition of IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey says 40%of enterprise storage users plan to outsource some of their storage needs in the next twelve months, with “an average of over 250TB will be acquired” by each user.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Recruitment firm gets cloud backup

  Storage roundup: Jobs firm gets cloud backup; Eden Project grows for NetApp; Law firm’s WAN optimisation; German space centre gets Atempo, and more news.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Flybe flies with Veeam Backup & Replication virtual server backup

  Storage roundup: Airline Flybe has implemented Veeam virtual server backup in a move to virtual servers; Durham upgrades star computer to 1.1 PB; Cornwall hospitals get Simpana; and more news.

• October 03, 2011 03 Oct'11

  Incriptus heads for the enterprise

  Adelaide “community cloud” backup company Incriptus has developed an enterprise version of its product and is seeking funding to help take it to the world.

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  A sneak peek at Avamar vCloud Protector

  EMC has used VMware2011 to show off a new backup tool, Avamar vCloud Protector, which offers new and advanced ways to backup virtual machines.

• August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11

  Veeam brings virtual server backup for NHS trust

  Storage roundup: Hospital cuts restoration times to minutes using Veeam Backup & Recovery; Buffalo launches Windows NAS family; Coraid partners with The Blueprint IT; Dot Hill appointments; and more.

• August 07, 2011 07 Aug'11

  Maritime museum backs up with HP LeftHand, Microsoft

  The Australian National Maritime Museum has revamped its storage infrastructure, selecting HP LeftHand and Microsoft.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Storage roundup: Company cuts backup window from five days to 12 hours

  Storage roundup: Finance co. cuts backup window from five days to 12 hours; NetApp goes to the zoo; Balesio launches new version; tape storage still key, says survey; and more.