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• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Portworx gets container-native array management for Pure hardware

  Container storage player Portworx builds in container-native functionality to allow discovery, provisioning and management from inside Kubernetes cluster, but only on Pure arrays so far

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  IBM demonstrates ‘120x speedup’ in target quantum application

  A simulation of the molecule lithium hydride, which even on a quantum computer takes 45 days, can now be run in just nine hours, researchers claim

• May 10, 2021 10 May'21

  IBM: Another chip in the wall

  Big Blue has developed technology it hopes will support semiconductor developments for the next decade

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Nebulon helps DCI offer high-performance edge hyper-converged

  Cambridge-based cloud and colo provider DCI will offer DataQube servers with Nebulon, which marries a cloud control plane with local PCIe-connected flash storage

• May 03, 2021 03 May'21

  New standard to simplify IoT device onboarding

  Fido Alliance’s device onboarding protocol will automate the process of connecting internet-of-things devices to device management platforms while improving security

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Impact of low chip supply spreads

  Covid-19, shifts in consumer purchasing, sanctions and a drought in Taiwan have come together as a perfect storm to squeeze the supply of semiconductors

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Intel seeks broader platform play with Ice Lake

  Company is counting on performance improvements from its third-generation Xeon ‘Ice Lake’ chip and its broader platform strategy to regain its mojo in the market

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Scality launches Artesca container-native object storage

  Object storage specialist gets on a burgeoning container object storage market with Artesca, which runs from Kubernetes to provide persistent storage for containerised applications

• April 26, 2021 26 Apr'21

  French legal challenge over EncroChat cryptophone hack could hit UK prosecutions

  Lawyers are challenging the legality of a French police operation to harvest tens of thousands of messages from the EncroChat encrypted phone network in a move that could overturn criminal prosecutions in the UK

• April 23, 2021 23 Apr'21

  Intel quarterly results reveal tactics to address ARM in the datacentre

  The chipmaker aims to make use of standard chip libraries and offer its customers different ways to package and optimise Intel silicon

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Met Office prepares for 1.5 million processor, 60 petaflop supercomputer

  Azure, Cray supercomputers and Epyc core are the key ingredients inside weather forecasting service’s latest development to improve data

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Australia and India team up on critical technology

  The first three projects under a joint research grant programme will focus on developing ethical and regulatory frameworks for quantum computing, AI and 5G

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Winemaker racks Pure all-NVMe all-flash for rapid SAP response

  Concha Y Toro also pocketed a 35% saving in storage costs following a move from as-a-service storage provision to Pure Storage FlashArray//X all-flash hardware

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Digital secretary steps in on Nvidia/Arm deal

  The first stage of a formal investigation by the CMA is now underway, to look at whether the sale of Arm to Nvidia will damage the chip industry

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Dell spins off VMware to fuel post-pandemic PC growth opportunities

  Five years after completing the purchase of EMC and gaining a software-defined powerhouse, Dell is now offloading VMware

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  AET gets Ctera to smooth hybrid cloud access to big files

  Remote locations with unreliable WAN connections needed to share large files, which was a real headache until US engineering firm got Ctera edge filers with Azure cloud as a tier

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  EncroChat lawyers raise questions over use of PII secrecy orders on UK decryption capabilities

  Lawyers claim that public interest immunity certificates may have been used to withhold information on UK intelligence agencies’ ability to decrypt encrypted communications

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Nvidia targets datacentre memory bottleneck

  The graphics processing unit (GPU) chipmaker has introduced its first datacentre chip, named after computer pioneer, Grace Hopper

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Ctera KubeFiler to bring Kubernetes storage to its cloud gateways

  KubeFiler uses the container storage interface to allow Kubernetes to access persistent storage as if it were from a local NAS device, and while keeping existing access profiles

• April 05, 2021 05 Apr'21

  How Lenovo is tackling HCI workloads

  Lenovo has teamed up with AMD to address mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases as APAC organisations look beyond VDI in their hyperconverged infrastructure deployments

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  Project Monterey returns to haunt IBM and Red Hat

  A tech initiative from the late 1990s has become IBM’s nemesis, as the owner of UnixWare and OpenServer file a copyright complaint

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  Lose-lose US sanctions apply brakes to Huawei’s 2020 growth

  Bans on Huawei products in infrastructures around the world begin to affect its bottom line, but comms technology provider shows growth and reaffirms commitment to creating greater value for customers and society in the face of adversity

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Australian firms slow to wean off the mainframe

  Australian companies tend to have a wait-and-see mindset that is slowing down mainframe modernisation initiatives, says Accenture expert

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  Backup survey: UK councils’ downtimes five times longer than average

  Backup product supplier Veeam’s freedom of information request finds councils’ average downtime is seven hours and that backup and disaster recovery testing is not done frequently

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  NHS Shared Business Services launches £1bn digital hardware framework

  Framework consists of 19 suppliers, and offers user IT hardware products and services to the NHS and public sector organisations

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Intel puts chips on everyone’s menu

  Digitisation and geopolitical tension between the US and China may be behind Pat Gelsinger’s news about building fabrication plants in the US and Europe

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  IWM uses StorCycle to free capacity for all-flash SAN upgrade

  Imperial War Museums set to embark on unstructured data archiving project that will archive cold data to tape and free up capacity for a move to IntelliFlash all-flash SAN

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Laying the groundwork on quantum roadmap

  IBM has plans to develop a 1,000-plus qubit quantum computer system within two years. We look at how it is preparing software developers

• March 19, 2021 19 Mar'21

  AWS rolls out clean energy initiative in Singapore

  62MW solar project expected to generate 80,000MWh of clean energy a year, enough to power more than 10,000 homes

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  Coronavirus: How PCs in quarantine and intensive care units can be managed remotely

  NHS IT staff generally have limited access to deployed devices, especially if that device is in an operating theatre or intensive care unit

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  Survey: Backup failures hit a high as pandemic working hits home

  Veeam survey finds distributed working plus operations that span on-prem and the cloud the background to high numbers of failures in backup and restore, with 40% of SLAs not met

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  Mace Group uses RealWear to support Covid-safe site inspections

  Construction consulting business is using augmented reality headsets to enable people on Microsoft Teams to inspect building sites remotely

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  NCSC issues emergency alert on Microsoft Exchange patch

  UK’s national cyber agency calls on organisations affected by the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to patch their Microsoft Exchange Servers immediately

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  UK Space Agency funds projects to tackle space rubbish and micropropulsion

  The UK Space Agency is funding projects such as climate change sensors, compact propulsion systems and satellite image analysis to support the nation’s space ambitions

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  CityFibre extends full-fibre network to Peterborough

  Former leading altnet to put a further £1.5m into its high-speed broadband connectivity project

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  Scottish farm subsidy body slashes dev time with Pure all-flash

  Rural directorate ditched hybrid flash EMC SAN for Pure all-flash storage and cut developer time in half, while beta testing Cloud Block Store and planning container project

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Clarification needed on IT ‘super-deduction’ allowance

  Chancellor announces that companies investing in qualifying new plant and machinery assets will be able to claim a ‘super-deduction’ allowance

• 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

• 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

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  IBM eyes hybrid cloud opportunity in ASEAN

  The hybrid cloud message is resonating among Southeast Asian enterprises that are looking to modernise their applications and systems, says IBM’s general manager for the region

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Dell bets on continued home working to drive PC demand

  The pandemic has led to an increase in PC sales, Dell reports, adding that it expects home working to continue as and when coronavirus restrictions are lifted

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Huawei opens developer lab in Singapore

  Huawei’s Digix lab will provide software development resources to those who are building mobile apps for Huawei’s mobile platform

• 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

• 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

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Oracle unveils final cog in cloud strategy

  Oracle’s Roving Edge Infrastructure is getting interest from mining companies in Australia and manufacturers in ASEAN that are looking to run cloud-based workloads in edge locations

• 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

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  BP joins IBM Quantum Network to support emission goals

  Quantum computing promises unimaginable computing power, which can be applied to helping tackle climate change

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  ENIAC anniversary: What 75 years of computer technology have delivered

  The ENIAC was a computer built for the US Army to calculate missile trajectories during the Second World War, but it was finally delivered in February 1946

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  HPE on the ISS: In space, no one can hear your CPU fans

  In The Martian, Matt Damon is stranded on Mars, and his comms link is so slow that it takes almost an hour to have a conversation. Now HPE is going into orbit

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  IBM refreshes entry-level FlashSystem arrays with a little NVMe

  Big Blue refreshes three entry-level systems – the 5200, 5035 and 5015 – with the flagship of them gaining all-NVMe flash storage capability and cluster scaling to 10s of PB

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Tata Communications grows IoT footprint

  India’s Tata Communications has been shoring up its IoT capabilities through a handful of acquisitions and partnerships with telcos

• 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

• 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

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Emergency Apple updates patch exploited zero-days

  Three vulnerabilities could give attackers full control of their target Apple devices, and must be patched immediately

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  Saudi IT spending to hit $11bn in 2021

  Saudi Arabian organisations will spend about $11bn on IT this year, with emerging technologies high on shopping lists

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  Gartner: IT budgets shift to mature processes around remote business

  The pandemic forced businesses to work remotely. Now, almost a year on, CIOs must consider the IT to run long-term remote business strategies

• January 22, 2021 22 Jan'21

  Where is Intel going to place its next strategic bet?

  Intel is getting a new CEO and the company is on a mission to move beyond the x86, a processor architecture that it has defined and dominated

• January 22, 2021 22 Jan'21

  MinIO stakes leadership claims in cloud object container storage

  2016 startup MinIO reckons it has first mover advantage as a container-native platform that provides private/cloud object storage in and orchestrated by Kubernetes

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Gamarue malware found on government-issued school laptops

  Devices handed out by the government to support vulnerable children contain malware that appears to be contacting C2 infrastructure in Russia

• 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

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  Qualcomm announces Nuvia acquisition plan

  Mobile chip giant makes strategic acquisition to augment technology roadmap to redefine compute performance for next-generation devices

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  VVOLs and Pure win VM storage beauty parade for French chain

  VMware Virtual Volumes and a move from NetApp to Pure Storage saw cosmetics retailer Beauty Success make performance gains and eliminate bottlenecks in ordering and logistics

• January 07, 2021 07 Jan'21

  Competition and Markets Authority kicks off Nvidia/Arm investigation

  In September, Arm and Nvidia announced a £31bn merger. Will Arm chip design remain free from Nvidia’s influence?

• January 05, 2021 05 Jan'21

  AI advancement: Mimicking decision-making

  In The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger is transported back to 1984. If Arnie had to rely on cloud connectivity, he’d still be walking around naked

• December 31, 2020 31 Dec'20

  Top 10 networking stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 networking stories of 2020

• 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

• 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

• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  Singapore employees want more support for remote working

  Singapore workers faced challenges in accessing internal company resources, spotty connections and had to use their personal devices for business while working remotely

• December 13, 2020 13 Dec'20

  Singapore trials beacons to bolster police operations

  Police beacons equipped with video cameras, sirens, floodlights and speakers are being deployed at two parks to improve public safety in a year-long trial

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Amnesia:33 IoT flaws dangerous and patches unlikely, say experts

  The disclosure of multiple flaws by Forescout has raised big questions for the developers of connected products, and for their users

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  HPE offers on-demand high-performance computing managed service via GreenLake

  HPE claims its preconfigured HPC service can speed up the deployment of high-performance computing projects and reduce capital expenditure

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  UK Space Agency awards £7m for space innovation projects

  A range of ‘high risk, high reward’ projects have been awarded a total of £7m from the Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme, aiming to make the UK a world leader in space technology

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Atos develops Q-Score benchmark for quantum computing

  HPC will outpace quantum computer performance for a few years, but Atos believes businesses need a quantum computing strategy

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Dangerous Trickbot evolves to target UEFI/BIOS firmware

  Dubbed Trickboot by researchers, Trickbot’s new features enable malicious actors to read, write or even erase UEFI/BIOS firmware

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  How IoT keeps water flowing in rural communities

  Non-profit organisation Charity: water has built an internet-of-things device packed with sensors to keep wells in remote parts of Africa and Asia flowing with clean water

• November 27, 2020 27 Nov'20

  NI police unable to delete data seized unlawfully from journalists for 10 years

  The Police Service of Northern Ireland is unable to delete terabytes of unlawfully seized data taken from journalists who exposed police failings in the investigation of the Loughinisland sectarian murders

• November 26, 2020 26 Nov'20

  Scottish government hands out laptops and tablets to the digitally excluded

  As part of its Connecting Scotland programme, the Scottish government is giving out 23,000 iPads and Chromebooks to low-income families and care leavers, along with two years of mobile data

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Gartner: IT spending to focus on fast time to value

  There are no surprises in Gartner’s latest forecast. IT budgets are being spent on supporting remote workers, but CIOs have new metrics

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Intel and AMD processors affected by another side-channel exploit

  Two years after Spectre and Meltdown, the x86 processor faces another side-channel exploit – only this time, it is based on sensing temperature

• 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

• 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

• 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

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  Mixed blessings for robots in retail

  Ocado has acquired two US firms to boost its robotics expertise, while Walmart has reverted to using staff for shelf inventory checks

• November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20

  HPE to build new Pawsey supercomputers

  Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has snagged a A$48m deal to deliver a supercomputer for Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

• 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

• October 28, 2020 28 Oct'20

  Avalon Airport deploys touchless kiosks, CT screening

  Australia’s Avalon Airport has rolled out touchless check-in and bag drop systems that passengers can control using speech, head gestures and eye gaze

• October 27, 2020 27 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

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  SonicWall patches 11 firewall vulnerabilities

  SonicWall users are advised to download updates that fix 11 CVEs in the SonicOS operating system, uncovered by Positive Technologies

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Pace of digital transformation accelerates

  As businesses strive to return to profitability, business leaders are relying on tech innovation to drive economic recovery

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  DBS to deploy IBM z15 mainframes

  Singapore’s DBS Bank has signed a seven-year deal with IBM to run and modernise mission-critical applications on z15 mainframes

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Carhartt shifts old data to the cloud with Komprise

  US-based workwear manufacturer cuts storage costs from $1 to $0.25 per gigabyte as it deploys data management software and shifts old files to Microsoft Azure Blob and Cold storage

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Nvidia reveals its plans for Arm

  Nvidia intends to acquire Arm for £31bn, as part of its plan to “create the computing company for the age of AI”

• 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’

• October 05, 2020 05 Oct'20

  FBI seized ‘legally privileged’ material from Ecuador Embassy, claims Julian Assange’s lawyer

  The US struck a secret deal with Ecuador to seize WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s property from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London days before his arrest. The haul included legally privileged documents, says his solicitor

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  Quantum is years away, but business case can be made today

  Business leaders are being urged to start thinking about how their organisations could solve complex problems with quantum technology

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  Red Hat rivals VMware and Nutanix with hyper-converged OCS 4.5

  Red Hat’s OpenShift 4.5 extended container orchestration to virtual machines. The arrival of OCS 4.5 moves the solution into the realm of hyper-converged systems

• 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

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  How Alder Hey NHS Trust uses HoloLens in the operating theatre

  Mixed reality provides a way to present medical data and enable experts and consultants to offer advice during complex procedures

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Iliad Group makes €2.2bn Play acquisition

  In a move covering Poland, France and Italy, parent company of French operator Iliad announces public tender offer for leading Polish mobile provider

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Nutanix boosts storage performance by 50% with BlockStore

  Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix boosts access to NVMe and potentially Optane storage with BlockStore, which avoids the need to access the deepest layers of the OS