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• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Dell EMC: Time for hyper-converged, but not for mission critical

  Hyper-converged vs converged infrastructure: Dell EMC says hyper-converged isn’t ready for mission-critical applications, but may be by the end of the year

• February 09, 2018 09 Feb'18

  Can we trust Intel Inside to mean secure computing?

  Intel has just released an updated patch after its previous update failed spectacularly. Now its CEO is promising security assurance

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  HPE opens APAC innovation lab to tap IoT market

  Facility in Singapore will rope in partners across the internet of things ecosystem to test new applications powered by HPE’s edge computing capabilities

• 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 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Where senior IT managers plan to spend their budget

  It is the year when IT departments migrate to Windows 10, upgrade to Windows Server 2016, architect microservices and deploy cloud management

• 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

  IT Priorities 2018: Why IT must change its approach to Windows 10

  Windows 10 is set to be a top priority for IT departments this year, but it should be seen as more than just a desktop operating system upgrade

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  ESG survey: Storage spending habits become ‘hybrid-cloud-defined’

  Analyst survey finds cloud is used as a way to make storage more efficient, but organisations are also bringing cloud apps back into the datacentre and spending on in-house capacity

• January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18

  Qumulo file access hybrid cloud QF2 file system launches in Europe

  QF2 brings Posix/Windows-compatible scale-out NAS file storage to hybrid cloud with access via on-premise hardware appliance or Amazon compute and storage in the cloud

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  Leak confirms CEO dumped Intel shares after Meltdown and Spectre processor flaw

  Leaked document show that Intel’s CEO sold his shares the very day the company told hardware makers of its processor flaw

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Cloudian upgrade brings hybrid cloud file and object storage

  Move to Cloudian Hyperstore 7 enables data storage operations across on-premise and Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud environments with object and file access

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Hours lost on patching Meltdown and Spectre flaw

  IT administrators have already lost hours installing the processor patch from Intel, which causes PCs to lock up and systems to crash and slow down

• 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

  Intel recalls botched Spectre fix

  The inventor of Linux, Linus Torvalds, vents his frustration and suggests Intel has no plans to fix Spectre flaw

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Hyper-convergence and containers key storage-related deployments in 2018

  Hyper-converged infrastructure and containers are key deployments planned by UK customers in 2018, with flash storage, virtual machine storage and disk backup also prominent

• 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 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  European Parliament votes to restrict exports of surveillance equipment

  European Parliament votes to tighten export controls to restrict supply of surveillance and encryption technology to states with poor human rights records amid fears British companies may not have to comply after Brexit

• January 21, 2018 21 Jan'18

  Cloud firm speeds customer analytics with Pure Storage arrays

  Cloudhelix replaces Pernix Data storage with Pure Storage FlashArray products to provide “brute force” performance approach for unpredictable customer workloads

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Meltdown and Spectre: to patch or not to patch

  As IT recoils from the Spectre and Meltdown chip exploits, companies face patches that are incompatible, leading to crashes, reduced performance and lock-ups

• 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 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  Call for statutory regulation of police number plate cameras amid concerns over accuracy

  The UK’s automatic number plate recognition database – one the largest non-military data-gathering systems – records up to 1.2 million false readings of number plates every day. It should be subject to statutory regulation, says an independent ...

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  Intel makes security-first pledge

  As it scrambles to deal with the Meltdown and Spectre processor exploits, Intel has made a series of security commitments

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  F-Secure highlights another critical Intel security issue

  As Intel scrambles to issue security updates to address the Meltdown and Spectre exploits, researchers have highlighted another, unrelated, critical security issue that could affect millions of corporate laptops

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  Spectre: How reverse-engineering a microprocessor revealed a fundamental flaw

  Researchers have published their work on Spectre, a flaw that affects every modern CPU. We find out what went wrong from one of the engineers

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Cloud firm scales Cloudian object storage to 2.5PB for GDPR

  Calligo expands Cloudian Hyperstore from three nodes to 30 at worldwide datacentres, with object storage deployed for file-level and metadata capabilities suited to GDPR

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Dutch bank tests wearable technology payments

  ABN Amro is testing out wearable payment devices with 500 customers as part of a four-month pilot

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  CES 2018: Jaguar Land Rover picks Qualcomm to power in-car connectivity

  British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover will incorporate Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820Am automotive platform to power in-vehicle connectivity

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Intel to set up new group to focus on hardware security

  Chip maker is reportedly planning to form a new group to focus on hardware security as it scrambles to limit the impact of recently discovered security flaws in chip designs

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  2017 cemented cloud as the ‘new normal’ for enterprise IT, claims Synergy Research Group

  According to Synergy Research Group, 2017 marked another important milestone in enterprise adoption and acceptance of cloud

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Top 10 storage and backup stories of 2017

  In Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories of 2017, we tracked key trends such as the continued rise of hyper-converged infrastructure, the emergence of NVMe flash and object storage

• November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17

  Datrium’s hybrid Cloud DVX brings off-site mirror of NVMe storage

  Cloud DVX operates in Amazon cloud to provide backup and recovery instance off-site, for use as a mirror site for customers of the NVMe-focused storage maker

• November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17

  As Meg Whitman steps down, HPE fleshes out hybrid ambitions

  Hybrid IT represents a $100bn business, and is a segment HPE has set its sights on

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  HPE Superdome Flex in-memory supports Big Bang research

  Stephen Hawkin’s Cosmos research group takes delivery of a Superdome HPC to enable it to test theoretical models of the Big Bang

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  Panasas upgrades scale-out NAS to ASD-100 and ASH-100 nodes

  New Panasas appliances upgrade CPU and RAM to double throughput while changing hardware architecture. Clustered NAS specialist says all-flash and tiers of flash are on the roadmap

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 brings file, iSCSI and container storage

  Latest version of open source OpenStack-targeted software-defined storage adds CephFS, ISCSI and storage that can be deployed in containers to save hardware

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  How soon will we be driving fully autonomous cars?

  Nvidia sets out vision for driverless cars as its new Pegasus processor promises to support “level 5” autonomy

• 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

  Encryption flaw leaves every Wi-Fi network in the world wide open

  A Belgian researcher has uncovered a major weakness in the WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol that is thought to leave every Wi-Fi network in the world open to attack

• October 12, 2017 12 Oct'17

  Syneto aims Hyperseries 2100 at hyper-converged for SMEs

  European startup targets customers with two-node hyper-converged appliance, with built-in disaster recovery and capacity for up to 15 VMware virtual machines

• 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 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  Flash memory and OLED shortages will hit smartphone sales

  Analysts at Gartner have warned that a components shortage will affect sales of high-end smartphones

• August 18, 2017 18 Aug'17

  Box uses Google’s AI to support image recognition in the enterprise

  Optical character recognition and automated generation of image metadata is now possible, thanks to Google Cloud AI

• August 16, 2017 16 Aug'17

  Fiat joins BMW's autonomous car platform initiative

  Car makers Fiat and BMW are working in collaboration with Intel and Mobileye to develop a scalable platform for self-driving vehicles

• August 14, 2017 14 Aug'17

  Bristol hosts successful test of 5G mobile edge computing

  Participants in the three-week trial of mobile edge computing technology took part in a virtual treasure hunt around the city centre

• August 02, 2017 02 Aug'17

  Apple share price reaches record high on quarterly results

  Apple’s share price rose 6% in after-hours trading to reach a record high in response to the company’s quarterly financial report

• July 31, 2017 31 Jul'17

  OVH opens first UK datacentre in south London

  French cloud provider OVH has opened the doors on its first datacentre in the UK, slightly later than planned

• July 27, 2017 27 Jul'17

  Meg Whitman steps down from HP Inc board

  Whitman has served as chairperson of HP since the separation of HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in November 2015

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  IBM results show slow transition to new business model

  Cognitive is one of the cornerstones of IBM’s ‘strategic imperatives’, yet building out a portfolio of products and services will take time, IBM’s CFO admits

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  Charity swaps SAN for Hypergrid hyper-converged to save £1m

  Tearfund saves £950,000 by deploying Hypergrid hyper-converged in place of HP servers and SAN, cutting costs on space, power, staff and hardware, and avoiding VMware

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Stamford Bridge to offer stadium connectivity in partnership with Ericsson

  Ericsson has begun its partnership with Chelsea to offer home fans a “seamless” connected experience