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• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Medical firm puts vTax and SAN to sleep to save £30,000 with Scale

  Penlon replaces HPE servers and storage and VMware virtualisation to escape the high costs of licensing, and deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged appliances at two UK datacentres

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  GDPR and backup: A potential minefield easily avoided

  The right to be forgotten will be impossible in backups and snapshots, but systems can be built that automate for compliance, says Andy Barratt of security consultancy Coalfire

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Digital Catapult partners with Cray to give AI startups supercomputing power

  Innovation centre says partnership will bring down some of the barriers to entry that startups often face in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Nexsan adds Assureon Cloud Transfer for hybrid cloud archiving

  Nexsan archiving appliances add hybrid cloud capability to AWS and Azure cloud for unstructured data, targeting users that want to retain files on-site with cloud access

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Scality boosts Ring with easy deployment and lower node count

  Object storage maker Scality upgrades software-defined storage to give unified deployment, provisioning and management while cutting minimum nodes required to three

• May 30, 2018 30 May'18

  HP Inc results boosted by PC sales as it waits for 3D manufacturing to take off

  3D manufacturing is HP Inc’s next big growth area, but that is 10 years away. In the meantime, it needs to rely on PC and printer sales

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Pure debuts new FlashArray //X arrays with NVMe across the range

  Pure is set to replace //M series boxes with FlashArray //X arrays in which NVMe is standard with NVMe-over-fabrics connectivity to servers and expansion shelves

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Intelligence on the edge will see workloads migrate from clouds

  IoT devices’ ability to make their own decisions will see computing shift back from the cloud to the edge, ABI Research has predicted

• May 27, 2018 27 May'18

  Dedicated HPC infrastructure still rules, says Huawei

  A Huawei executive makes the case for dedicated high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, despite the growth of public cloud services that have democratised access to HPC and AI capabilities

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Compliance in the cloud: Avoiding the cloud compliance trap

  When you hand over data to a cloud provider, you don’t hand over responsibility for legal and regulatory compliance. Beware of falling into a cloud compliance trap

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Technicolor speeds up movie production with Excelero NVMe flash

  Film giant Technicolor had to duplicate workstreams or schedule access to movies being worked on, but Excelero NVMe allows concurrent access to 10 or more workstations at a time

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Zerto previews 2019’s version 7 with Elastic Journal backup

  CDP-based data protection product will allow point-in-time copies from seconds to years ago with Elastic Journal, as part of a move to unify backup, disaster recovery and cloud data protection

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Qualcomm and Facebook working on FWA broadband

  Qualcomm is to integrate a number of its chipsets with Facebook’s Terragraph technology to build fixed wireless access broadband solutions for urban areas

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Security researchers find fourth CPU flaw

  Security researchers have reported another flaw in common microprocessor chips related to the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  Micron first to market with QLC flash drive 5210 QLC SSD

  Micron’s 5210 QLC SSD is aimed at analytics and content delivery in cloud and web-scale operations that currently use 7,200rpm spinning disk in huge Raid sets to gain IOPS

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  IBM adds deduplication to Spectrum Virtualize, and Storwize arrays

  IBM has added data deduplication to Spectrum Virtualize and array products that run it. It has also upgraded array analytics and the cloud version of Spectrum Virtualize

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  Augmented reality can improve efficiency for retailers

  Augmented reality has been positioned as a way to extend digital experiences onto the retail shop floor – but it has far more uses behind the scenes

• May 18, 2018 18 May'18

  Three ditches 3G mobile phones

  Three has become the first of the big four UK mobile operators to stop selling 3G mobile devices

• May 15, 2018 15 May'18

  Cage director Rabbani heads for Supreme Court after appeals court rules password demands lawful

  Muhammad Rabbani, director of campaigning group Cage, will appeal to the Supreme Court after Court of Appeal rules that police did not act unlawfully by demanding his computer and mobile phone passwords under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act

• May 11, 2018 11 May'18

  Police Scotland did not inform public of mobile phone searches

  Members of the Scottish Parliament heard that Police Scotland did not conduct impact assessments or give explanations to the public when they were accessing private data on their mobile phones

• May 11, 2018 11 May'18

  Emerson ordered to pay UK-based BladeRoom $30m in damages over datacentre IP theft

  Energy giant Emerson told to compensate UK-based modular datacentre tech maker after US court rules that it stole trade secrets

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  NetApp adds Google Cloud NAS and AFF A800 NVMe flash array

  NetApp gets on the cloud NAS bandwagon with Google Cloud Platform file storage access, while adding its first NVMe flash-equipped storage array, the AFF A800

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Nutanix builds hooks to SDN and cloud with Flow, Era and Beam

  Hyper-converged pioneer builds in functionality from acquisitions with Flow software-defined networking, Beam cloud monitoring and Era database provisioning and data protection

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Microsoft predicts five-year wait for quantum computing in Azure

  Industry experts predict it will take 10 years for quantum computing to become a reality, but Microsoft believes it has the research edge, with systems, software and technology to get there in five

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Dell EMC freshens high-end SANs with VMAX makeover, PowerMax

  Dell EMC rebrands VMAX high-end SAN arrays as PowerMax, with CPUs upgraded, new inline data deduplication, controller code re-worked and NVMe and Optane hardware on the roadmap

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Dell EMC unveils Isilon scale-out NAS in the Google cloud

  The trend to cloud NAS continues as Dell EMC announces beta phase of Isilon Cloud for GCP that will see fully-featured scale-out NAS available to customers via the Google cloud

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Britons used contactless for 42% of card payments in 2017

  Paymentsense survey confirms rapid growth of contactless payments, but £30 limit is preventing further dominance

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  StorageOS makes hybrid cloud container storage platform generally available

  StorageOS releases tool that allows management of persistent storage for containers that can operate on-premise, in public cloud and hybrid cloud to provide deployment, QoS and protection

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  ARM aims to boost physical security of IoT

  Chipmaker ARM announces microprocessor aimed at improving the physical security capabilities of devices making up the internet of things

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  Australia government earmarks A$70m to refresh supercomputers

  The investment will fund replacements for two supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in an effort to bolster Australia’s research capabilities

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  How application container technology is helping YMCA open up access to education

  Youth charity YMCA is in the midst of a push to reduce its reliance on paper-based education aids, with the help of Droplet Computing’s application container technology

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Next generation of SCADA industrial controls will protect against cyber attack

  Oil, energy and chemical companies are rethinking how to control big manufacturing plants, replacing expensive control technology with cheaper, more secure systems, taking their cue from biology

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  AI is renewing interest in high-performance computing

  Growing adoption of artificial intelligence is spurring interest in high-performance computing beyond research institutions

• April 22, 2018 22 Apr'18

  Thales to open ‘digital factory’ in Asia

  India and Australia are potential candidates for Thales’s new coding centre that will support digital transformation efforts

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  IBM admits poor storage results but promises to do better

  IBM’s first-quarter 2018 results shows failings in its storage business, while cognitive computing via Watson remains its main growth engine

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Elastifile adds NAS file access storage to Google Cloud Launcher

  Israeli startup Elastifile launches NFS file access service in the Google cloud to provide hybrid cloud distributed file system functionality with the speed of flash

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Huawei invests in 5G mobile networks, but eases back on the hype

  Telecoms supplier Huawei has been updating the industry on its 5G vision at its annual Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China, but shied away from making bold predictions

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  US tax cuts and dollar’s decline propel datacentre spending

  Gartner’s latest spending forecast shows the strongest growth in IT spending, which it expects to total $3.7tn in 2018, up 6.2% from 2017

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  Microsoft teams up with Japan’s JRCS on mixed reality

  Software giant Microsoft has partnered with a Japanese supplier of maritime systems to test the use of HoloLens headsets for training and maintenance work

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Only newer systems will get Intel firmware updates for Spectre chip flaw

  Intel will not issue patches for legacy processors, so older systems and legacy embedded applications will remain vulnerable to Spectre exploits

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  InfiniSync backup ‘bunker’ gives zero RPO for critical apps

  Infinidat launches InfiniSync “black box” as off-site storage on-site, plus new Infinibox PB-scale array, cloud storage service Neutrix Cloud and InfiniGuard backup appliance

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  Western Digital adds StorReduce deduplication to object storage

  US hardware giant Western Digital links up with StorReduce to provide data deduplication for object storage that combines WD ActiveScale scale-out appliances with the startup’s dedupe software

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Arm and Nvidia collaborate on internet of things intelligence

  A collaboration between Arm and Nvidia looks to provide deep learning and artificial intelligence on internet-connected devices

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  BlackBerry QNX to power Jaguar Land Rover electronic controls

  BlackBerry’s embedded operating system and cryptography platform will be used to power the carmaker’s next-generation connected and autonomous cars

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Train leasing firm demos mobile edge computing for smart trains

  Rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains is demonstrating edge computing over a wireless mesh network to make life easier for its customers’ on-board staff

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Nodeum adds clouds to boost tape-to-hybrid-cloud platform

  Belgian startup’s Linux-based storage environment now stretches from on-premise disk, LTFS tape and NAS to hybrid cloud working via AWS and Azure public clouds, with more planned

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Boom expected in processor attacks

  Sonicwall's latest research shows worrying signs that the processor flaws revealed at the start of 2018 are set to dominate IT security

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Maplin in administration: Internet connectivity issues hit in-store card payments

  Internet issues at beleaguered high-street electronics retailer Maplin cause trouble at the tills in stores across the UK

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Hybrid cloud mainstream, but seamless operations hard to achieve

  Survey by 451 Research finds most organisations use a mix of on-premise and cloud locations, but truly seamless hybrid cloud operations are very difficult to achieve

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  Cost and compliance deter users from public clouds

  Hyper-converged server provider Nutanix argues that Azure and AWS are not the best option for running predictable workloads