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• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  Nimble adds to all-flash arrays with entry-level AF1000

  Nimble made its debut in all-flash in February 2016, but now adds an entry-level array, the AF1000, plus upgrades to its hybrid flash array products that up performance and capacity

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  IDC: Global public cloud spend set to double by 2020

  Market watcher predicts use of public cloud will soar over the next five years, with IaaS and PaaS leading the way

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Intel to acquire AI firm Nervana Systems

  Chip maker Intel is to acquire artificial intelligence firm Nervana Systems in a bid to take AI to the next level based on its Xeon and Phi processors

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  E8 launches D24 NVMe PCIe SSD-based all-flash arrays

  Startup E8 aims at high-end use cases with arrays built from commodity NVMe PCIe flash drives and performance figures that rival EMC’s high-end DSSD D5 rackscale flash

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Svitzer Marine tracks tugboats with 4G ship-to-shore Wi-Fi

  Maersk-owned tugboat operator Svitzer Marine has deployed Cradlepoint rugged networking solutions to support its fleet operations in ports around the world

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  White House efficiency reforms will limit new datacentre investments from January 2017

  US government CIO Tony Scott outlines the next wave of reforms designed to curtail datacentre use by public sector agencies and departments

• August 01, 2016 01 Aug'16

  ARM expands IoT security team

  Chip maker continues to boost its internet of things security capabilties by expanding its Israeli engineering team

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Universities give free cloud services to UK medical researchers

  The Universities of Bath, Birmingham, Cardiff, Swansea and Warwick are giving researchers free access to cloud-based compute resources to speed up scientific discovery process

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Smartphone sales boost Samsung’s second quarter

  Samsung has reported a 27% rise in operating profit for its mobile division in the second quarter, driven by strong demand for Galaxy smartphones, which the company expects to continue

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Apple highlights services revenue and future bets as iPhone sales decline

  Apple share price up on strong performance in services and investments in augmented reality and artificial intelligence, despite 27% year-on-year decline in quarterly profit

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Ofcom and BT set out separate plans to increase Openreach independence

  BT Group’s plans to give Openreach greater independence share some common ground with Ofcom’s recommendations, but will this be enough to ease its rivals’ anti-competitive concerns?

• July 22, 2016 22 Jul'16

  Facebook completes first flight of UK internet drone

  Facebook has completed the first test flight in a year-long programme for its UK-developed Aquila drone designed to enable internet connections in remote areas, using high-speed laser communications

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Almost half of UK's largest councils lack cloud strategy, Eduserv FOI study reveals

  Eduserv study into cloud take-up inside local authorities suggests council CIOs are still over-invested in on-premise technology

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Gartner offers insights into how cloud is disrupting traditional IT spending habits

  Market watcher shines a light on how the adoption of off-premise technologies is shaking up enterprise IT spending trends

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Intel’s cloud and IoT-focused businesses deliver disappointing growth

  Intel says its transformation to focus on cloud and IoT is on track, but these key business areas fail to deliver as much growth as expected

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  BT accused of under-investing in Openreach, prompting renewed calls for business split

  The Culture, Media and Sport Committee calls for operation and investment overhaul for Openreach, and claims failure to deliver on this should prompt Ofcom to order breakaway from BT

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  Japanese tech firm to acquire UK chipmaker ARM

  Japanese technology firm SoftBank Group is to acquire Cambridge-based ARM Holdings to capitalise on the UK firm's IP in chipsets for smartphones and IoT devices

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  CIO Interview: Elly Resende, CIO, Rio 2016 Olympics

  As Rio de Janeiro gets ready to host the Olympics, Computer Weekly speaks to the man in charge of its IT

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  UK cloud firm majors on Tintri hybrid flash for virtualisation

  Wokingham-based We Are Cloud rejects EMC and hyper-converged options as it deploys Tintri VM-native hybrid flash storage to support rollout of cloud services

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  Amazon launches bursary to encourage women to study tech

  During the AWS Summit in London, Amazon held an invite-only session to showcase its UK research and development

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  Cisco UK and Ireland CEO Phil Smith steps down after 22 years

  Phil Smith announces he is stepping down from the day-to-day running of Cisco’s UK and Ireland business to take up the role of chairman

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail

  New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Pure Storage drips out more of its all-flash analytics FlashBlade

  Pure lets more customers use its flash-based analytics platform FlashBlade, before the product aimed at high-throughput unstructured data is made generally available later in 2016

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Storpool upgrades software-defined storage but remains Linux-only

  Bulgarian software-defined storage maker Storpool adds Cloudstack support and boosted performance, but holds fire on adding enterprise-friendly VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  IDC predicts slowdown in public cloud infrastructure spend will be short-lived

  IDC claims prospect of overseas datacentre builds and growing enterprise demand for off-premise services should ensure sales of IT infrastructure increase through 2016

• July 05, 2016 05 Jul'16

  Virtual reality finds fans at Reading University

  Professors at Reading University see virtual reality as an increasingly important research and teaching tool in science and arts subjects

• July 01, 2016 01 Jul'16

  HPE wins $3bn in damages from Oracle

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise has won $3bn in damages after a five-year legal battle with Oracle over its decision to stop supporting its database on Itanium-based servers

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Bet365 bets on Simplivity hyper-converged for test and dev

  Bet365 follows up its move to object storage with efficiency gains that result from migration of test and dev work to Simplivity hyper-converged infrastructure from HDS SAN

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Post-Brexit price hikes hit cloud and datacentre community, as currency fluctuations bite

  Cloud and datacentre analysts claim IT buyers are already feeling the pinch from the outcome of the EU referendum, but past performance suggests demand for colocation space will rise in the event of recession

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Intel considers sale of security business

  Intel is reportedly considering the sale of its security business to generate capital as the company restructures

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  Stockport council ditches HDS SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged

  Stockport council shifts to hyper-converged server storage boxes from Nutanix, with its previous SAN reaching end of life and experiencing operational issues and scalability problems

• June 22, 2016 22 Jun'16

  Nutanix adds storage for containers, physical servers and all-flash

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Nutanix adds container support with persistent storage, offers block iSCSI storage for physical servers and allows all-flash across the product range

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Work in progress: How Jisc’s shared datacentre vision is shaking up the education sector

  Computer Weekly gets a progress report from the Jisc shared services datacentre team in Slough about how the education sector is making use of the site

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  StorageOS tackles shortcomings of container storage

  As containers gain popularity for webscale apps, startup StorageOS launches in beta to provide persistent storage for containers at Dockercon developer event

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Bluetooth 5 standard brings range, speed and capacity boost for IoT

  The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced the forthcoming Bluetooth 5 standard, promising significant improvements to support an accessible and interoperable internet of things

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Builders kill Virgin broadband service to thousands of Londoners

  Builders working in Brixton, south London, have severed a crucial link in Virgin Media’s trunk network, cutting broadband and cable TV services to thousands

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Scality upgrades for enterprise adoption of object storage and S3

  Object storage specialist Scality recognises de facto supremacy of Amazon S3 and includes directory features to allow enterprise production use of object-based private and public cloud storage

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  BDUK finds more cash for rural broadband

  BDUK has uncovered and hopes to recover £150m of underspend from Phase 1 of the rural broadband roll-out project

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Australian datacentre investments rocket due to latest enterprise IT trends

  The increased use of big data, analytics, cloud and mobile technologies in Australian enterprises is driving spending in datacentre services

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Nearly all datacentres have flash storage, reveals 451 survey

  Nine out of 10 enterprises have flash somewhere in the datacentre, according to research

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Scale targets SMEs with hyper-converged hybrid flash HC1150

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Scale Computing targets SMEs with hybrid flash sub-$25,000 HC1150, just weeks after rival Nutanix launched entry-level Xpress

• 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

• June 14, 2016 14 Jun'16

  Openreach CEO Selley emphasises broadband delivery technology

  Joe Garner’s replacement at Openreach, technologist and engineer Clive Selley, discusses VDSL, G.fast and pure fibre as elements of the future for UK broadband

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Queen’s Birthday Honours list recognises more women in IT

  The 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours list recognised a number of IT and digital entrepreneurs, and been hailed as the most diverse ever

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Cloud firm adds Cloudian object storage to satisfy S3 demand

  Calligo puts Cloudian object storage on Lenovo hardware to add a tier of storage for customers that want Amazon S3-compatible cloud services, but not from Amazon

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Edge datacentres hailed as answer to latency concerns in IoT era

  With user demand for low-latency, high-performing applications, delegates at Datacloud Europe 2016 hail edge datacentres as the answer

• June 08, 2016 08 Jun'16

  Poor tech choices damage productivity and cut income

  Mid-sized businesses are less efficient and are losing money because they give staff the wrong computing devices to do their jobs

• June 03, 2016 03 Jun'16

  HPE demands $3bn from Oracle over dropped Itanium database support

  The long-running dispute finally enters the courts, but whose fault is it really that organisations are buying fewer high-end HPE servers? Moreover, why are two big players beating each other up over a fast-disappearing market?

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  NetApp Solidfire adds high-end SF19210 all-flash array

  All-flash array maker tops out the SF family with the SF19210, upgrades OS to add VVOLs compatibility and launches licensing that separates software licences and hardware purchases

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  Financial trader bets on hyper-converged from Nutanix

  London Capital Group ditches server-plus-SAN architecture for Nutanix and slashes deployment times and datacentre footprint with hyper-converged server/storage boxes with VMware

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  Server shipments fall as firms use cloud and virtualisation to cut hardware costs

  Gartner’s latest global server sales tracker highlights the toll that cloud and virtualisation are taking on the market

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  Bet365 gets SwiftStack object storage as NAS pulls up short

  Online gaming firm Bet365 is set to replace NAS for data with 0.5PB of more scalable and elastic object storage, built on SwiftStack and commodity SuperMicro hardware

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  Microsoft confirms job cuts at Nokia smartphone business

  Big job losses in Finland as Nadella has a rethink on Windows phones

• May 24, 2016 24 May'16

  TVOne deploys NetSuite ERP to utilise data analytics

  Audio visual hardware producer TVOne chooses NetSuite’s ERP application to help handle and interpret its new and historic data

• May 24, 2016 24 May'16

  Nutanix aims Xpress hyper-converged appliances at SMEs

  Hyper-converged pioneer launches slimmed-down version of enterprise products with its own hypervisor, VMware or Hyper-V on board

• May 24, 2016 24 May'16

  CIO interview: Cloud a necessity at News Corp

  News Corp’s global CIO, Dominic Shine, discusses how the media giant’s five-year cloud strategy has driven the business

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  Theme park company rides with Simplivity hyper-converged

  International theme park operator Merlin Entertainments dumps servers and storage and replaces them with Simplivity hyper-converged infrastructure at 124 sites worldwide

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  IBM PCM leap opens way to new layer of enterprise storage

  IBM shows off triple-level cell phase change memory and says PCM can be used as faster adjunct to flash storage and extension to DRAM memory

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Apple hit with first double-digit drop in iPhone sales

  Smartphone market saturation in developed countries blamed for fall in demand for Apple devices

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Enterprise storage meets HPC with DDN SFA14KXi all flash array

  High performance computing specialist aims at analytics- and transaction-heavy workloads in the enterprise with its upgraded Intel Broadwell-powered SFA array, the 14KXi

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  ING Turkey uses digital technology to improve services and grow customer base

  Turkish bank uses business process management technology to offer financial services through 1,500 grocery stores, technology outlets and post offices

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  Nike and BMW pilot HP Inc's first 3D printer

  HP Inc rolls out its first 3D printer, with hopes that it will revolutionise manufacturing

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  Government claims Electronic Communications Code reforms will boost UK network coverage

  Government plans to cut costs associated with letting mobile operators build infrastructure on private land could lead to lower mobile costs for consumers, it is claimed

• May 17, 2016 17 May'16

  Tintri upgrades all-flash arrays, adds scale-out functionality

  T-series arrays acquire 3D flash drives, with the T5060, T5080 and T5040 all set to benefit

• May 12, 2016 12 May'16

  Barclays develops contactless payments app for Android mobile OS

  Barclays bank is developing its own contactless payments service for users of the Android mobile phone operating system (OS) – hoping to launch in June 2016

• May 12, 2016 12 May'16

  ICO probes Google DeepMind patient data-sharing deal with NHS Hospital Trust

  Data protection watchdog the information commissioner's office (ICO) investigates the NHS data-sharing deal with Google DeepMind, after a complaint from the public

• May 11, 2016 11 May'16

  Salesforce turns to AWS for internet of things cloud test support

  Cloud CRM giant is reportedly using the AWS public cloud to give it the capacity it needs to cope with the internet of things data deluge

• May 11, 2016 11 May'16

  Nato agency signs five-year datacentre construction deal with Luxembourg MoD

  Nato Support and Procurement Agency embarks on five-year datacentre deal to boost its disaster recovery capabilities

• May 10, 2016 10 May'16

  Nokia plunges to €513m loss after Alcatel-Lucent acquisition

  Costs mount up at network equipment supplier Nokia following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent

• May 10, 2016 10 May'16

  Eurovision Song Contest launches contactless payments in Stockholm

  Eurovision Song Contest sponsor Visa Europe equips visitors with contactless payment wristbands backed by Gemalto’s Allynis events platform

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Legal SME goes for Simplivity hyper-converged infrastructure

  Lawlords snubs traditional SAN and server architecture and upgrades disaster recovery with Simplivity Omnicubes that combine server and storage hardware in one box

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Lenovo expands x86 server production to Europe

  Chinese hardware manufacturer claims move will result in faster delivery times and lower costs for European customers

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Hyper-converged systems to hit mainstream datacentre adoption within five years

  Market watcher Gartner predicts the hyper-converged market will be worth $5bn by 2019 as integrated systems become a staple of mainstream datacentre environments

• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  IBM develops quantum as a service

  IBM starts the ball rolling on what it would mean to program a universal quantum computer

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  ViaSat connects satellite development programme for European Space Agency

  ESA initiative aims to kick-start the development process for high-capacity satellite products, apps and services

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  Wi-Fi aggregator iPass offers SDK to simplify network access

  iPass launches a software development kit to let enterprises, operators and suppliers integrate its technology and services into devices and apps

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  HCC Europe: Open standards, hybrid and integration are key to cloud services

  Cloud technology can bring businesses into the internet age, but has to be based on open architecture and innovation to bring value, according to Huawei

• May 02, 2016 02 May'16

  EMC launches Unity flash and hybrid arrays at SME customers

  EMC launches Unity, SME-targeted all-flash and hybrid flash arrays built on a Linux OS on commodity hardware with services run from containers

• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  Virtual desktop infrastructure set for Middle East enterprise growth

  More and more IT leaders in the Middle East are considering adopting virtual desktop infrastructures, but user cases are needed to speed things up

• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  Tech-savvy Asean populations shake up enterprise IT, says AIA CTO

  A young, urban and tech-savvy population in the Asean region has forced enterprises to rethink their IT strategies

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  Mobilising a workforce drives up performance and productivity

  Mobile workers are also more creative, satisfied and loyal, says EIU study

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  IBM all-flash family gets cloud and enterprise A9000 and A9000R

  IBM announces two all-flash arrays – the modular A9000 and rack A9000R, aimed at service providers and enterprises – and the mainframe-connected DS8888

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  Apple CEO looks to services as device revenues fall

  Apple's services division has emerged as its second biggest earner after iPhone sales, as quarterly revenues declined 13%, in line with forecasts

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  OpenStack Foundation calls for greater enterprise input in open source initiatives

  OpenStack Foundation claims enterprises are increasingly realising that their future depends on being actively involved with open source

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  HDS G series arrays get native NAS and cloud as a storage tier

  VSP G series enterprise hybrid flash arrays see addition of native NAS functionality on a controller card plus cloud as a storage tier via Hitachi Content Platform

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  Action for Children mobilises staff on Claranet’s managed network

  Action for Children, the charity behind Byte Night, moves onto Claranet’s MPLS core network to support the wholesale revitalisation of its ICT

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  EE open sources rural network coverage problem

  Mobile operator EE enlists Lime Micro and Ubuntu founder Canonical to help develop open source network capabilities and services for rural areas

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Nexsan adds file sync and share to NAS to create Unity

  Storage hardware maker Nexsan adds file sync and share to NST arrays from Connected Data acquisition to create Unity family of NAS with private cloud functionality

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Indonesian internet users turn to smartphones to go online

  Organisations with a cyber footprint in Indonesia must understand most internet users in the country access online content and services on smartphones

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  Spectra Logic claims biggest and fastest TFinity tape library

  Spectra Logic claims multi-petabyte capacities and speedier tape robot cycle times with TFinity Exascale Edition, a product aimed at tape’s new niche in archive and cold storage

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  Intel to cut workforce despite strong Q1 results

  Intel says strong first quarter results show that its business transformation is working, but it also means cutting 11% of the global workforce

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  T-Systems embarks on enterprise-focused cloud push with colocation provider Virtus

  IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom shares five-year plan to close private datacentre in Feltham, after signing colocation deal with Virtus Data Centres

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  Zadara adds object storage, bigger flash and 16Gbps Fibre Channel

  Latest version of Zadara Storage features object storage, Fibre Channel and bigger cache options to software-defined cloud storage product that can run on-premise, off-premise and as a hybrid

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  PC market pauses while enterprises prepare for Windows 10

  Windows 10 is set to drive sales of high-end PCs, but businesses are not ready yet, says analyst house Gartner

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  La Poste delivers internet of services

  The French postal system is taking existing services and adding a digital dimension to support a new business model

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  Brighton and Hove gets free city centre Wi-Fi service

  Brighton and Hove City Council enables a free city centre Wi-Fi network, comprising 40 Wi-Fi hotspots – thirty of which are already live – with support from BT

• April 18, 2016 18 Apr'16

  X-IO exploits NVMe to develop super-fast Axellio flash storage

  X-IO comes out of stealth with Intel-backed Axellio that will see up to 0.25PB and 12 million IOPS from a 2U box using NVMe as an internal interconnect to speak natively with CPUs

• April 18, 2016 18 Apr'16

  The Middle East’s home-grown app market now really growing, but from a low base

  Despite massive smartphone penetration, native app developers in the region need to listen more closely to what locals want

• April 18, 2016 18 Apr'16

  Los Alamos puts 30PB of Scality object storage into production

  Los Alamos National Laboratory uses Scality object storage for disk access to Trinity supercomputer and marries it with GPFS in MarFS homegrown posix/object hybrid file system

• April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

  E-commerce struggles for growth in Asean countries

  Online retail market growth in the Asean nations remains slow but nonetheless significant, according to a survey of consumer habits in the region