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• December 31, 2015 31 Dec'15

  Top 10 internet of things stories of 2015

  2015 was the year the internet of things began to move from theory to widespread practice, and the fledgling industry shook off the millstone of connected kitchen appliances

• December 31, 2015 31 Dec'15

  Top 10 PC and desktop stories of 2015

  The PC is not dead – but the desktop is evolving as IT departments embrace BYOD, software as a service and cloud-based storage

• December 24, 2015 24 Dec'15

  Top 10 storage stories of 2015

  The year 2015 in storage was dominated by the continued rise of flash and Dell’s purchase of EMC, but there were steady upticks in trends such as hyper-converged and software-defined storage

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Isle of Man eyes datacentre industry growth opportunity after Safe Harbour ruling

  Government's e-business head explains how island could be a safe haven for enterprises concerned by the Safe Harbour fallout

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Public cloud adoption fuels record spend on datacentre hardware by service providers

  Datacentre infrastructure findings from Synergy Research show how enterprise cloud adoption is affecting the market

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

  Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Building regulations will drive IoT in offices

  Gartner predicts 1.6 billion connected things will be used by smart cities in 2016, an increase of 39% from 2015

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Samsung agrees to pay $548m to settle dispute with Apple

  Samsung is expected to pay the outstanding damages to Apple by 14 December 2015, but it has reserved the right to collect reimbursement

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Virtual Instruments to launch hardware NAS probe in 2016

  Maker of SAN testing product Virtual Wisdom is all set to announce a beta-tested hardware NAS probe in 2016, but currently NAS protocols supported will be limited to NFS and CIFS

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  VMware research shines light on volume of UK enterprise data stored overseas

  A poll of UK IT decision makers suggests just 37% know exactly where their enterprise data is located

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  HPE will use its experience to help customers with M&A, says CEO Meg Whitman

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s CEO claimed the firm would be able to better assist customers undergoing structural changes

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Violin doubles all-flash array range with FSP 7250 and FSP 7600

  Violin Memory doubles the size of its all-flash array product family with entry-level and high-performance additions to the enterprise-featured FSP hardware line

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Case study: Tideway uses private cloud to manage London ‘super sewer’ infrastructure

  Infrastructure services director explains why Tideway has opted for a managed, private cloud setup to support sewer project

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  Orange enhances internet of things strategy with additional services

  Orange has beefed up its internet of things strategy and announced the deployment of a long-range network to support IoT projects in 17 urban areas in France

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Arcserve Cloud offers customers cloud target and remote failover

  Backup software and appliance supplier guarantees availability but latency depends on customer-bought infrastructure

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Steel firm gets Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global ops

  Dowco rejected pure cloud over latency concerns but opted for Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global collaboration between offices on different continents

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Equinix rolls out AWS Direct Connect in Slough datacentre

  Datacentre provider launches private internet connection to Amazon Web Services to help customers build hybrid clouds

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  Windows 10 starts shift to platform-independent computing

  Gartner expects Windows 10 will become mainstream faster than any previous version. But deploying Microsoft's OS will coincide with a shift in IT

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Seagate launches HPC storage arrays with RAM HDDs and SMR

  Seagate marries Xyratex IP and hard-drive smarts in Lustre- and GPFS-based HPC arrays with RAM-equipped drives, plus hybrid, all-flash and shingled magnetic recording options

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Michael Dell confirms there will be no EMC sell-off

  In spite of product overlaps and VMware’s partnerships with rivals, Dell will be keeping EMC intact

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Businesses struggling to transition to digital era

  Businesses are struggling to understand new technologies and the exponential process improvements they can enable, according to Ernst & Young partner Christoph Kilger

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  European Commission gives Equinix the go-ahead to acquire datacentre rival TelecityGroup

  European Commission clears datacentre merger, after resolving concerns about its impact on European colocation pricing

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Ad agency that rejected cloud boosts Cleversafe object storage

  Ad content agency Hogarth rejected cloud storage as too expensive and unreliable, opting for in-house object storage from Cleversafe with nearly 5PB

• November 13, 2015 13 Nov'15

  Case study: Eir embarks on datacentre consolidation to support quad-play telco growth

  Irish telco Eir shares details of its datacentre consolidation project and explains why investing in a robust UPS was a must

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  Hybrid flash maker NexGen launches N5 tiered all-flash

  SanDisk-owned hybrid flash maker debuts in all-flash storage with N5-1500 and N5-3000 that mix RAM, PCIe flash and SAS-connected flash drives with QoS tiering between media

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Ministry of Defence CIO explains defence as a platform

  Mike Stone took to the stage at the Microsoft Future Decoded event to explain the Ministry of Defence’s plan for defence as a platform

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  EMC adds remote Isilon SD Edge and hybrid Cloud Pools

  EMC adds software-defined Isilon SD Edge for remote offices, but for now it lacks true clustered NAS capability. Isilon Cloud Pools, however, do act as part of the Isilon namespace

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  HDS launches mid-market F Series all-flash arrays

  Hitachi Data Systems launches the F Series, all-flash arrays aimed at mid-market customers that slot in below HDS's high-end G Series, plus a new 6.4TB high-capacity flash drive

• November 09, 2015 09 Nov'15

  Falling deployment costs prompt enterprise interest in private cloud, claims Verizon

  Latest state of the cloud market report by Verizon suggests enterprises want to do more in the private cloud, as skills and cost barriers to entry fall

• November 09, 2015 09 Nov'15

  Amsterdam Arena aims to set digital example to others

  The Amsterdam Arena is a digital powerhouse which, according to its CIO, wants to set an example for the city to follow

• November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15

  MK:Smart project gets ArcServe for virtual and physical backup

  Milton Keynes smart city project chooses ArcServe UDP data protection product over Veeam for its ability to backup virtual and physical servers

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Atos co-ordinates IT suppliers for Metropolitan Police

  The Metropolitan Police Service has awarded Atos a service integration and management contract as part of its technology transformation

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Microsoft and Red Hat join forces to help ease enterprises into hybrid cloud

  Tech giants set aside years of rivalry to help enterprises with mixed IT environments move to the cloud with greater ease

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Nutanix and Lenovo to sell hyper-converged appliances

  Nutanix deal to put storage software on Lenovo servers with products aimed at datacentre use cases plus a 200-strong dedicated sales team could put pressure on its partnership with Dell

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  French atomic agency tests Scality object storage

  CEA opts for Scality Ring object storage software as potential replacement for block and file storage with gains hoped for in hardware independence and disk drive efficiency

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  A tale of two HPs: Hewlett-Packard splits into two digital businesses

  The two Hewlett-Packard (HP) businesses are both digitally aligned. HP Enterprise is pushing hybrid clouds; HP Inc is taking the road to 3D printing

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise: think of us as a startup

  As Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc finally part ways, UK managing director Andy Isherwood shares some insight on what the future holds for the newly minted enterprise business

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Met Office's new supercomputer to deliver £2bn of socio-economic benefits

  The Met Office aims to realise a range of socio-economic benefits to UK industries thanks to improved forecasting with its new Cray supercomputer

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  Apple reports record quarterly profit and annual sales

  Apple reports record sales of $234bn and net profit of $53.4bn for the 2015 financial year, up by 35% from $39.5bn in 2014

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  The post-merger world: What the future holds for EMC and its federation

  A look at the integration challenges Dell faces in trying to merge EMC’s various business units with its own

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  Flash alternatives graphene and memristor make progress

  Scientists announce tests using atom-thick graphene and 5nm-thick memristors to provide media with many times the storage density of Nand flash and possible fuzzy logic computing

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Café chain Le Pain Quotidien deploys epos terminals with Aures

  Worldwide bakery café Le Pain Quotidien has launched its electronic point of sale (epos) system with Aures. Here its IT director, Robert Brown, explains why

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  HP to retreat from public cloud market, six months after denying exit plans

  Hewlett-Packard announces further revision to its cloud strategy that will see it throw its weight behind its private and hybrid product portfolio

• 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 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  EMC and VMware launch managed hybrid cloud joint venture using Virtustream brand

  EMC-owned Virtustream set to become outlet for storage and virtualisation firm's hybrid cloud managed services

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  Marketing firm shuns NetApp for VMware VSAN and HGST server flash

  Grass Roots was struggling with capacity and performance on its NetApp SAN so it deployed VMware VSAN on servers with HGST PCIe server flash and helium HDDs

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  IBM reports continued sales decline in Q3 results

  IBM reports sales and profits down again in its Q3 results, as the company continues its transformation across the business to fight off competition

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Enterprise IT buyers swap traditional servers for converged infrastructure, research shows

  A survey from 451 Research suggests enterprises will increase their use of converged infrastructure stacks to swap out traditional server estates

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Intel revises down growth forecast for datacentre business division

  Chipmaker Intel blames the weakening macroeconomic situation – with continued delays in hardware refresh cycles – in its datacentre business forecast revision

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  VMware CEO credits Edward Snowden with transforming enterprise cloud attitudes

  VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger spoke out at the VMworld Europe conference about how the "professional era" of cloud has been shaped by Edward Snowden's NSA revelations

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2015: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2015 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• October 12, 2015 12 Oct'15

  Dell set to buy storage company EMC

  Two years after his audacious bid to reinvent the company he founded by re-privatising it, Michael Dell has put in a bid for storage giant EMC

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  PCs still the right choice for business, despite decline in sales, says Gartner

  Android or iOS devices with keyboards are unlikely to replace Windows-based laptops and hybrids, according to analyst firm Gartner

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Sussex college dumps EMC for hyper-converged Scale Computing HC3

  St Richard’s Catholic College deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged HC3 clusters to get log-in times down from more than two minutes to 30 seconds, saving £200,000 in the process

• 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 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Avere launches CloudFusion NAS appliance in Amazon Web Services cloud

  NAS specialist Avere launches 1.5TB tiered storage cloud NAS appliance in the AWS cloud, with data held in RAM, flash and SATA media according to frequency of use

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  AWS debuts 50TB Snowball storage appliance to speed up cloud data transfers

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services makes surprise move into on-premise hardware with release of 50TB data transfer appliance

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attacks UK government surveillance

  Websites must use SSL to prevent the UK government monitoring users' activities, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tells delegates at IP Expo in London

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Microsoft launches Surface Book, its first own-brand laptop

  Software giant Microsoft announces a range of new Windows 10 devices, including smartphones, a tablet – and Surface Book, the company's first laptop device

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  IBM buys Cleversafe to provide object storage capabilities

  IBM spends an undisclosed sum on object storage market leader Cleversafe in a move that gives it object storage hardware and distributed storage for Big Blue's cloud services

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  Buying IT before the end of 2015 could help businesses offset tax

  Upgrading servers or refreshing desktops before the end of the year could make sense for businesses

• October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15

  Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2015: Shortlist announced

  Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, which is set to take place on Tuesday 13 October at VMworld, Barcelona

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  UK bioinformatics team builds research-sharing cloud on OpenStack

  Genomics researchers must replicate the hardware and software environment of bioinformatic data analysis to reproduce results – which is where cloud can help

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  European IT budgets expected to fall in 2016, research reveals

  IT professionals in Europe anticipate their IT budgets decreasing by almost $700, according to a survey by Spiceworks

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Smart peep-hole maker Peeple announced as 2015 Jlab winner

  John Lewis accelerator JLab announces Peeple, a smart peep-hole producer, as its 2015 winner

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Free energy from radio waves could power the internet of things

  A pocket-sized pollution monitor is one of the first applications to use free energy from Wi-Fi and mobile phone signals

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  Surrey University 5G lab puts UK plc at forefront of mobile innovation

  At the launch of Surrey University’s 5G Innovation Centre in September 2015, mobile experts said the lab will put the UK at the heart of networking development

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Singapore’s Land Transport Authority pilots wearable technology

  Commuters in Singapore may be able to make contactless payments using wearable devices if trial is successful

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Nominet Trust Tech for Good list – why awareness of good causes is important

  Nominations for the Nominet Trust Tech for Good closes at the end of September 2015 – and here's how highlighting good technology deeds helps the industry

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Enterprises warned off rushing into software-defined datacentre investments

  Market watcher Gartner has urged users to take a cautious approach to software-defined datacentre investments

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  IT buyers waste money using Tier III datacentres for non-critical workloads, claims IO

  IO's UK managing director claims datacentre users could save money by wising up about how much availability and resiliency their apps and workloads really need

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Government IT spending to be hit hardest by rising US dollar strength, warns Gartner

  Gartner predicts IT spending declines across all industries and vertical markets during 2015

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Device shipments stagnate as users sweat their assets

  Worldwide device shipments are expected to begin to contract this year, says Gartner

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  University graduates to Arcserve UDP backup from CommVault

  FX Plus IT team reached the end of its tether with physical server-only CommVault three years ago and moved to Arcserve UDP for physical and virtual server backup, plus replication

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  BT unveils ultrafast broadband pledge card to support digital economy

  At an event in London, BT sets out four key pledges around broadband and connectivity to ensure and secure the digital future of the UK

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Android drives dramatic rise in smartphone adoption in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and India

  Young people in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and India are driving the rapid adoption of mobile devices, with the Android operating system coming top

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Infinidat adds NAS to create Infinibox unified storage

  Infinidat adds NAS functionality to Infinibox arrays but clustered NAS capability will have to wait until parallel file system support arrives sometime in the future

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  Bradford Grammar School graduates to DataCore for software-defined storage

  Bradford Grammar School puts DataCore SANsymphony in front of DotHill storage arrays to create cost-efficient software-defined storage with synchronous replication

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Haircare firm GHD rehomes hybrid cloud infrastructure in new Rackspace datacentre

  Haircare product maker shifts hybrid website infrastructure to Rackspace's Crawley datacentre in preparation for Christmas rush

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  RSA Group flags ID theft risk to Lloyds Bank customers following datacentre storage theft

  International insurance group has seen 500 customers take up offer of identity theft protection in wake of datacentre theft

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  HP topples Cisco to become cloud infrastructure equipment market leader

  Hardware giant overtakes rival in the cloud infrastructure market as demand for servers, storage and private cloud-enabling kit soars

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Spectra Verde DPE aims bulk NAS at archive use cases

  Spectra Logic's Verde DPE aims to provide low-cost file archive retention using Seagate 8TB SMR drives in bulk NAS storage in a space increasingly targeted by object storage

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  All-flash datacentre makes sense for 80TB+ of mixed workloads says IDC

  IDC white paper author says secondary economic benefits of flash storage – $/IOPS, density, power and cooling and server utilisation – mean all-flash makes sense above 80TB

• 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

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  High-performance computing and mainframe refresh limit server decline

  IDC's market share data for server shipments shows mainframe users are running Linux on the z13, while high-performance computing (HPC) lifts x86 sales

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Equinix buys Japanese datacentre firm Bit-isle to tap into Asia-Pacific cloud demand

  Datacentre giant Equinix reveals details of its latest acquisition target, Japanese firm Bit-isle, to meet demand for cloud and hosting services in the Asia-Pacific region

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Toshiba share price up despite £208m loss

  Toshiba investors are said to be relieved that, by meeting the latest deadline to post its results, the company has avoided the risk of delisting

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Smaller businesses swap traditional Windows laptops for tablets

  While PC shipments continue to decline, businesses have generally stuck with Windows PC upgrades – but attitudes may be changing

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Sixth-generation Intel core processor offers PC makers a lifeline

  Computer Weekly looks at whether the next generation of Intel desktop and mobile processors can help the ailing PC industry

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  Intel spends a little to make quantum leap

  Intel has invested in quantum computing, a technology breakthrough that promises to rewrite the rules of computing

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  SanDisk InfiniFlash flash arrays get Nexenta software-defined storage

  SanDisk offers its all-flash array InfiniFlash IF100 with Nexenta's storage software on-board in another move in the trend towards choice in storage hardware and software deployments

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  IBM and ARM deepen collaboration around internet of things

  IBM and ARM to offer device and risk management, as well as analytics capabilities, for the internet of things

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  The US Federal Aviation Administration's hybrid cloud plans take flight with help from CSC

  US aerospace agency sets out plans to wind down its datacentre investments and move more of its IT to the cloud

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  Dell claims VDI projects must focus more on the client used than the datacentre

  Hardware giant Dell tells users that a good VDI experience requires more than just big datacentre investments

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Demand for datacentre co-location services rises, as enterprise outsources more IT

  Demand for co-location services is rising, with enterprises preparing to pay more to outsource their IT, 451 Research reveals

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Simplivity adds ROBO hyper-converged box and OS enhancements

  Hyper-converged box maker adds a remote office appliance plus OmniStack operating environment upgrades to help clustering across the WAN and file level restore in backup

• August 27, 2015 27 Aug'15

  Intel invests $60m in Chinese drone company Yuneec

  Intel's $60m investment follows smaller investments in two other drone manufacturers as part of the chip maker’s strategy to gain ground against competitors

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  C4L blames legacy network for datacentre services outage

  Co-location provider C4L confirms it's preparing to ditch legacy network as two-day service outage ends

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  DataCore teams up with Curvature to offer recycled storage hardware

  Partnership lashes supplier-driven rip-and-replace and promises seven-year lifespan on recycled storage hardware with DataCore software-defined storage deployed

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  Strong US dollar hits European server shipments as CIOs protect IT budgets

  Gartner server shipment figures highlight the impact of a strong US dollar on European IT buying habits as the global economy braces for another period of uncertainty