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• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  Google company’s access to NHS records raises privacy concerns

  A data-sharing agreement between a Google-owned firm and the Royal Free NHS trust raises privacy concerns, despite assurances that Google cannot use the data

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  Zerto adds file level recovery to Virtual Replication

  Cross-hypervisor, storage-agnostic Zerto Virtual Replication version 4.5 allows customers to recover files to any point in time, such as prior to deletion, virus or corruption

• 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 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  CSA outlines CIOs’ top 12 cloud security concerns

  Cloud Security Alliance’s research team uncovers the “dirty dozen” off-premise threats

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Golf gear maker replaces EMC VMAX with all-flash XtremIO

  Callaway dumps hybrid legacy VMAX for 60TB of all-flash EMC XtremIO, and says massive performance gains means no more backup headaches

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Most IT departments fail to meet availability SLAs

  Veeam survey finds most organisations fail to recover from unplanned outages in the time demanded by SLAs, with average recovery time in the UK being five hours

• February 05, 2016 05 Feb'16

  Italy embraces cloud storage for multiple platforms

  Investment in the cloud and storage is rising rapidly in Italy as customers see the benefits of cloud storage for many use cases and the savings it can bring

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Flash and virtual machine storage in Russia

  Virtualisation drives the need for flash storage in Russia, but with budgets tight and all-flash a costly option, organisations must look at hybrid flash and spinning disk solutions

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Hybrid flash favoured in Spain – but for how long?

  Flash memory is making its mark on Spanish enterprises, with hybrid flash storage that merges SSD and traditional spinning disk holding the upper hand

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  Mixed signals fuel mixed feelings about Australia's data-retention plan

  There are mixed feelings about Australia's data retention plans as the telecommunications industry weighs up the costs of compliance

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Flash storage reinvigorates Sydney school district’s centralised IT

  A school district in Sydney has improved the performance of its storage infrastructure through a flash-based infrastructure

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Snoopers’ charter will force ISPs to raise broadband prices

  The Science and Technology Select Committee hears that ISPs may be forced to put up their service charges to cover the cost of retaining communications data, should the Investigatory Powers Bill become law

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  Lack of data classification very costly to firms, says survey

  Most data retained by organisations is not identified or classified and gobbles budget spent on storage, as well as being potentially non-compliant, reveals Veritas-sponsored survey

• 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 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  Veeam to add virtualised storage as backup target

  Veeam's Unlimited Scale-out Backup Repository feature in version 9 of its Availability Suite will allow customers to create virtual storage nodes from heterogenous media as targets for backup data

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  EU data protection regulators set 31 January 2016 deadline for replacing Safe Harbour

  Article 29 Working Party gives EU and US authorities until the end of January to establish an alternative data-sharing agreement

• 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 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  EU Safe Harbour ruling requires a rethink of data processes

  The European Court of Justice's decision to invalidate the Safe Harbour agreement has far-reaching implications for businesses

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Australia's flash-storage hunger leading Asia-Pacific region

  Australian organisations are taking up RAM-based storage arrays at a fast rate as they begin to harness data analytics technologies

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Most UK users deploy more than one backup product

  Most UK users have more than one backup product, and the biggest headaches in backup are length of window and uncertainty over whether it will work

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Pernix Data launches storage performance tool, Architect, and upgrades FVP

  Flash caching specialist Pernix Data launches storage performance monitoring tool, Architect, that runs as a module in vSphere and helps identify I/O issues in storage traffic

• 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

• 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

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Californian state officials reveal driverless car crash numbers for first time

  The Californian Department for Motor Vehicles bows to pressure from The Associated Press to reveal details of self-driving car crashes

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  GDS gives Box the nod for cross-department collaboration

  GDS turns to cloud storage and file-sharing specialist Box to manage collaboration across UK government departments

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Patient care put at risk by IT problems at London NHS trust

  IT problems and poor information governance put patients at risk at a London NHS trust, according to evidence disclosed at an employment tribunal

• May 13, 2015 13 May'15

  CommVault vows to make data backups less costly and more efficient in the cloud

  Data management vendor announces new tools to help make managing cloud data easier for the enterprise

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  EMC predicts return to double-digit sales growth

  Storage giant's EMEA chief claims downbeat first quarter results are as bad as things will get for EMC, and that normal service will soon resume

• May 07, 2015 07 May'15

  EMC-owned Spanning sounds alarm over enterprise attitude to SaaS backups

  EMC's recently acquired SaaS backup firm claims companies are playing fast and loose with protecting their cloud data

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  BT sets out ambition to become enterprise's cloud integrator of choice

  BT outlines its 'Cloud of Clouds' vision to allow users to access cloud apps and services, regardless of where their systems are hosted

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security

  Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought

• February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15

  Transparency key to Europe’s big data opportunity

  Europe has an opportunity to lead big data analysis, says Richard Benjamins, group director of business intelligence big data at Telefonica

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Organisations address virtual server backup but disaster recovery top priority in 2015

  Computer Weekly survey shows fewer UK IT departments prioritise virtual server backup in 2015, but disaster recovery remains a key task

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Santander data storage: Gimmick or real challenge to IT giants?

  Is Spanish bank Santander's offer of data storage just a sideshow to inject confidence in an industry facing increasing competitive tensions?

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Symantec continues cloud investment in spite of poor Q3 results

  Symantec has reported third quarter 2015 revenue of $1.64bn, a drop of 4% compared with $1.70bn over the same period in 2014

• 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 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

  CW500 Club in 2014

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Older hardware puts data at risk

  Delays in hardware upgrades have left many businesses with hardware infrastructure that is more likely to fail, resulting in data loss or downtime

• 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

• 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

  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 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 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach

  At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  CIOs fear compliance and regulation over IT failure to tackle big data

  As many as 87% of CIOs fear that failing to address their untapped intelligence will lead to issues with compliance and regulation, a research revealed

• 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 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Case study: Yellow Pages digitises records for the web

  Canada's Yellow Pages is investing in a digitisation programme to compete with online information providers, such as Google, Facebook and Yell

• 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

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Is Switzerland turning into a cloud-haven in the wake of Prism scandal?

  Enterprises are using Swiss cloud providers to host data, because of their tighter privacy culture, following the NSA surveillance revelations

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Storage firm Guardtime relies on maths for transparent data security

  Estonian storage company Guardtime claims its security technology makes data more transparent, but will it be embraced by Europe?

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

  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 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 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  Dublin Airport Authority turns to virtualisation for CCTV data storage

  Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is planning to use virtualised servers to store CCTV data for easy retrieval and improved management

• 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 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  Beware of unfair SaaS HR contracts

  Businesses must be wary of signing unfair contracts as software as a service takes over from traditional HR technology

• 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

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  Is cloud computing bad for your networking career?

  Many network managers may have an emotional resistance to cloud computing, but experts explain the economic benefits and positive career impact outsourcing data centre resources can have.

• November 01, 2010 01 Nov'10

  File archiving more pressing than email archiving, says survey

  Storage roundup: File archiving more pressing than email archiving; Altaro launches Backup FS; Buffalo launches wireless products; recertified tapes from eMediaplus; and more.

• April 20, 2010 20 Apr'10

  Data backup and data archiving are not interchangeable

  Data backups and data archiving are very different processes. Backups copy data to save against corruption or loss, while archiving moves data to save the cost of storage.

• March 08, 2010 08 Mar'10

  Mimosa NearPoint email archiving software cuts PST file sprawl at BAM Nuttall

  Mimosa NearPoint email archiving software lets BAM Nuttall cut PST file sprawl, move toward legal compliance in email archive and avoid purchasing extra iSCSI SAN storage capacity.

• January 27, 2010 27 Jan'10

  Training and education key to IT compliance, says Hillingdon's Bearpark

  Roger Bearpark at the London Borough of Hillingdon talks about ways to cut down on data sprawl, and how training and education can help your firm meet its compliance goals.

• October 07, 2009 07 Oct'09

  Data backup vs archiving: What's the difference?

  Learn the difference between data backups and data archiving in terms of file format, data retention and searchability, as well as the pros and cons of disk and tape for archive.

• September 14, 2009 14 Sep'09

  University eliminates mailbox quotas with Mimosa Systems' NearPoint email archiving

  Liverpool John Moores University implements Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange email archiving system to eliminate mailbox quotas, cut backup times and slow .pst file growth.

• September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09

  UK users say data sprawl and compliance drive need for email archiving

  Users at the Storage Decisions UK Email and File Archiving Seminar say growing email data volumes and compliance standards are driving their adoption of email archiving.

• May 20, 2009 20 May'09

  Lagan Construction implements Mimosa Systems' NearPoint for email archiving and legal compliance

  Lagan Construction uses Mimosa Systems' NearPoint email archiving product to manage email mailboxes, increase search capability and to track legal compliance record of work won.

• April 24, 2009 24 Apr'09

  How to evaluate a data classification product

  A data classification product should locate and organize data based on user-defined rules. It should also help move and migrate data to the appropriate storage subsystem.

• March 12, 2009 12 Mar'09

  Email retention policy key to compliance

  Archiving email is a necessary part of a legal compliance program and, if done well, can boost employee productivity. So what's the best way to develop an email retention policy?

• October 30, 2008 30 Oct'08

  Taxi firm hails email archiving savings from Mimosa NearPoint

  Learn how Addison Lee contained Microsoft Exchange server sprawl and shortened backup windows by choosing Mimosa NearPoint email archiving.

• July 17, 2008 17 Jul'08

  ILM diary: Time to select the file archiving supplier

  Lundbeck's ILM project reaches vendor selection stage, which means bringing in outside expertise and discovering that formulating questions for prospective suppliers is not always as easy as one might think.

• June 19, 2008 19 Jun'08

  National Library of Wales chooses optical disk media for digital archive

  With its digital archive growing at a rate of 2 to 3 TB annually, the National Library of Wales chooses Plasmon ultra-density optical media for long-term storage of data.

• June 09, 2008 09 Jun'08

  Hull university turns to BridgeHead archiving software in tiered storage move

  The University of Hull implements archiving software from BridgeHead as part of a 25-year data lifecycle plan driven by green storage policy to lower the TCO of storing data.

• June 05, 2008 05 Jun'08

  Pharma firm sets out on ILM journey to shrink backup windows, classify data

  An IT infrastructure designer begins a diary of his company's implementation of ILM and its plans for data classification and archiving to curtail growing data volumes, reduce backup windows and improve data retention.

• May 01, 2008 01 May'08

  SNIA: Expect XAM products by late 2008

  Products based on the eXtensible Access Method spec, which addresses long-term data retention and migration issues, will be available by year-end. SNIA's Wayne Adams expects XAM to unlock the CAS market, but will also find application in enterprise ...

• April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08

  CommVault boosts Simpana e-discovery and data reduction

  CommVault's first service pack for Simpana 7.0 includes e-discovery updates and new integration between replication and file-level single instancing.

• April 07, 2008 07 Apr'08

  Law firm set to climb email compliance mountain

  Michelmores plans to implement email compliance, document management and inter-site replication following successful Hitachi SAN deployment.

• March 19, 2008 19 Mar'08

  Archiving can complicate backups if you're not careful

  Adding an archiving system to your storage environment helps reduce costs long term, but if you're not careful it can throw a wrench into the backup environment.

• March 07, 2008 07 Mar'08

  Mergers happen quickly but backup fallout can last years

  When organisations merge the question of what to do with back ups acquired needs a serious strategic approach to minimise management headaches

• February 14, 2008 14 Feb'08

  Plasmon tries to raise fresh cash

  Struggling optical archive supplier is looking to refinance to stay in the game.

• January 21, 2008 21 Jan'08

  Email in the dock - would yours survive legal scrutiny?

  Increasingly onerous compliance obligations and growing data volumes are driving companies to invest in email archiving systems. What approach is right for your business?

• January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08

  Disclosure becomes a fact of life in leaky Britain

  There's still no law in Britain that forces companies to disclose a data security breach. But few organisations would now be reckless enough to try to hide the fact.

• January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08

  Data Protection Act compliance moves up security agenda

  Companies ignoring Data Protection Act compliance will have to strengthen their security and auditing procedures after a recent spate of high-profile data breaches. New push for data privacy involves Sarbanes-Oxley Act and PCI DSS.