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Data protection regulations and compliance

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Trust underpins innovation, says UK information commissioner

  Underlining the relevance of data protection legislation to business, the UK information commissioner says consumer trust is key to innovation

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  ICO head tops DataIQ data leader list

  The UK’s information commissioner has been named at the top data leader for 2018 in the DataIQ 100 list of most influential data leaders

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  Ideal Standard standardises in Emea with Nakivo virtual backup

  Bathroom multinational strips out country-based systems to virtualise across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nakivo beats Veeam on cost to provide VMware disk-based backup and slashes restore times

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  Zerto boosts cloud-to-cloud and hybrid cloud replication

  Zerto Virtual Replication version 6 allows hybrid cloud data protection operations across on-premises datacentres and Amazon, Microsoft and IBM clouds, and 350-plus service providers

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Google Q4 results show businesses are buying into its public cloud

  The Google Cloud Platform is earning the search engine giant $1bn per quarter. Expect more cloud investment this year

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  GDPR requests to take thousands of hours a month, says survey

  A recent survey predicts organisations will potentially face thousands of customer requests about their personal information every month, with many unprepared for GDPR compliance

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Data breach disclosure law will lift Australia’s cyber security game

  New rules underscore Australia’s recent efforts to tackle cyber security challenges on the local and international stage

• January 24, 2018 24 Jan'18

  GDPR worries hit cloud storage investments, says survey

  NetApp-sponsored survey finds lack of customer confidence in cloud service providers’ retention of GDPR-affected data has led organisations to rethink and scale back cloud investments

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  ITV goes on air with SpectraLogic LTFS tape backup and archive

  2PB of SpectraLogic tape front-ended by Black Pearl LTFS object storage access creates integrated archive that lets broadcaster optimise use of existing Isilon clustered NAS

• January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18

  Laing O’Rourke unifies on-site and cloud backup on Commvault

  Construction firm sweeps away tape and multiple backup products for single Commvault environment to cut admin time, slash backup windows and boost legal and regulatory compliance

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Growing interest in hybrid IT in ASEAN

  CIOs and IT professionals in Southeast Asia have earmarked hybrid infrastructure as a top priority in 2018, in spite of waning interest across the wider Asia-Pacific region

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Australia to focus on cyber security and IT outcomes in 2018

  Besides transforming themselves through AI and automation, businesses down under will keep a closer eye on cyber security and the outcomes of their technology investments

• November 27, 2017 27 Nov'17

  NHS trust gets Commvault to cut backup times and get set for GDPR

  North Derbyshire hospital trust cuts 70 physical servers to 11 Nutanix hyper-converged nodes, with Commvault replacing multiple backup software products in three-year project

• October 25, 2017 25 Oct'17

  Oversight of intelligence agencies’ data sharing has ‘failed’, court hears

  UK’s intelligence services lack adequate oversight and written guidelines when sharing databases of sensitive information, Privacy International argues in secret court

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Commvault joins the hyper-converged backup wave with Hyperscale

  Hyperscale Software and Hyperscale Appliance bring Commvault backup software in a reference architecture/software product or as a pre-configured server/storage box

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  Law firm speeds search and saves TB with Mimecast email archive

  Cloud email archiving turbo-charges search, while email security is locked down and terabytes of storage use on-premise avoided with email stub on local servers

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Government wants to remain in EU cyber security club after Brexit

  The UK government wants to maintain deep links with the European Union’s cyber security working groups following Britain’s exit from the bloc in 2019

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Legal services firm gets 54TB of NEC Hydrastor NAS as backup target

  Quislex has cut backup windows by a third and will roll out 700TB of NEC Hydrastor to Hyderabad datacentre to provide a grid of deduplicated storage for backup and archive

• August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  Bupa Dental saves £350k by insourcing and Veeam backup

  Healthcare organisation sweeps away chaotic backup situation and standardises on Veeam Backup & Replication to save £350,000 a year in management and maintenance costs

• August 16, 2017 16 Aug'17

  GDPR drives cloud firm’s Cloudian S3 object storage deployment

  Interoute deployed Cloudian Hyperstore because it believes customers want object storage to help gain compliance with the forthcoming European GDPR regulations

• July 28, 2017 28 Jul'17

  Singapore to review personal data protection rules

  If given the green light, the proposed changes to the Personal Data Protection Act will require organisations to notify the authorities of data breaches

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  Home Office confirmed as early adopter of Oracle’s UK cloud region

  The Home Office is to be one of the first public sector organisations to access cloud services from Oracle’s UK cloud region

• July 03, 2017 03 Jul'17

  Dutch bank cuts compliance data retrieval from weeks to hours

  Rabobank has moved from tape libraries and robotic arms to a platform-based storage and retrieval system to help it comply with regulations

• June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17

  Finnish government scraps paper and digitises archives

  The government in Finland is digitising 94 shelf kilometres of documents to save millions of euros and make the information easier to access

• May 16, 2017 16 May'17

  Ransomware: Protect yourself with good backup and cloud policies

  More ransomware attacks are likely. The best way to protect against them is to have up-to-date in-house backups and to ensure cloud backups are adequately protected and available

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience

  The New York Philharmonic is digitally archiving millions of documents and making them available online

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  Australian government bolsters IT security in budget boost

  The country’s Digital Transformation Agency has been given a shot in the arm to guard public sector IT systems against cyber attacks

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  CIO interview: Bernie Burdett, head of IT, Dogs Trust

  The animal charity is revamping its IT to provide better customer service, protect itself from cyber attacks and ensure GDPR compliance

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  General election: ODI hopes to see data, skills and innovation pledges in party manifestos

  The Open Data Institute wants the UK’s political parties to make room for data policy in their manifestos ahead of the general election

• April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17

  SLAs being met but most fall short of ‘always on’ backup and restore needs

  Veeam Availability Report finds most IT professionals think there is a gap between how fast they can restore data and their requirements to be an “always on” organisation

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Gulf Air refreshes storage and server farm hardware with Dell EMC

  Airline completes major project to revamp its storage infrastructure with Dell EMC technologies

• April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17

  Cloud increasingly part of the job for storage professionals

  451 Group research finds storage professionals are less concerned with data growth than last year but increasingly likely to have to manage storage capacity in the cloud

• February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

  Singapore's central bank sets up analytics group

  The move by The Monetary Authority of Singapore is part of larger efforts to position Singapore's financial sector for the digital economy

• January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17

  Plastics maker dumps tape for Arcserve backup appliance and cloud

  PW Hall faced backup windows of 13 hours but reduced this to about 90 minutes a day spread across a number of incrementals with jobs copied to cloud backup

• January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17

  Asean storage moves towards hybrid model

  Storage is moving to the cloud in the Asean region and a number of storage companies are jostling for position

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  Tape backup: Often old and confused, but quite cheap

  Survey results show those with tape are likely to have old tapes, multiple formats, including defunct ones, and no way of knowing what is on them. But tape is still quite cheap for most

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

  Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  SAP steps up data privacy in Europe

  SAP guarantees technicians outside of Europe will not be able to access companies’ sensitive personnel and other records

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  Law firm merger ditches tape for Veeam/Exagrid disk-based backup

  London-based Charles Russell Speechlys used Veeam as a migration tool after merger between two law firms, then paired it with Exagrid data deduplication to revamp backup regime

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Many don’t test disaster recovery plans properly, survey finds

  Nearly 40% of UK organisations do not test disaster recovery plans properly, mainly because of concerns about disruption to production operations

• September 20, 2016 20 Sep'16

  Essex hospital trust upgrades IT infrastructure

  Mid Essex NHS Trust upgrades its storage infrastructure to keep up with increasing volumes of data

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Furniture maker scraps legacy backup for Arcserve appliances

  Lancashire-based JJO dumps separate backup apps for servers and PCs to deploy Arcserve UDP backup appliances, and gains 100% protection of 68TB non-virtualised estate

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers fear regulatory action over SSP Worldwide cloud outage

  Insurance brokers hit out at disaster recovery arrangements, fearing two-week outage could put them at risk of action by Financial Conduct Authority

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  The way of all flash in Asean

  Are all-flash arrays the hottest storage technology in Asean and is it only a matter of time before flash will replace hard drives for all hot and warm data?

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Cloud collaboration boosts Cumbria County Council's disaster response abilities

  How Cumbria County Council tackled the unsanctioned use of cloud services within its organisation and improved the robustness of its disaster response in face of December 2015's Storm Desmond

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Westpac bank launches Databank data protection service

  Australia's Westpac bank is offering organisations that share customer data a service that it says securely locks down personal information

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Rubrik backup appliance adds physical platforms to hybrid cloud

  Flash-powered backup appliances add MS SQL and Linux physical server to VMware backup and hybrid cloud archive in Firefly release, with more physical and endpoint support promised

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  MI5 wrongly told staff it was exempt from privacy safeguards

  Security service MI5 carried out a rearguard attempt to avoid requirements to seek independent approval for accessing the public’s internet, web, email and phone records

• June 14, 2016 14 Jun'16

  Shadow data and the risks posed by cloud storage and apps

  Cloud storage and apps can open up an organisation to risks of data leakage. Computer Weekly looks at key areas of vulnerability and what you can do to prevent your data going viral

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Lawmaker Vaizey hails UK role in resolving datacentre sovereignty issues

  Digital economy minister talks up government’s work in supporting the growth of the UK’s technology sector

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  Interest in converged platforms grows in Southeast Asia

  The adoption of converged and hyper-converged infrastructures in Southeast Asia is in its early stages, but growth is expected

• May 16, 2016 16 May'16

  Two-thirds of IT and telco firms not ready for Brexit

  Only 35% of the European IT firms and telcos have developed a clear plan for dealing with the impact of a Brexit vote, a study shows

• May 12, 2016 12 May'16

  Software-defined storage the power behind Monash University microscopes

  Australian academic institute uses the technology to help it deal with huge – and still growing – storage demands

• 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