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July 17, 2017 17 Jul'17
IBM claims breakthrough in mainframe encryption

IBM says its new mainframe ushers in a new era of data protection in response to a call to action from chief information security officers and security experts worldwide
July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17
NVMe flash blocked by array architecture, says Kaminario CTO

Flash pioneer CTO says array controllers are built for a different era and must scale-out as clusters to provide the CPU power needed to allow NVMe to realise its potential
July 11, 2017 11 Jul'17
Scality Zenko.io brings hybrid cloud storage virtualisation

Zenko.io is a control layer that allows customers to manage data in on-site Scality ring object storage and multiple public clouds but falls short of full data portability for now
July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17
Mobile operators must act soon as 5G business models emerge

Full deployment of a commercial 5G mobile network is still at least two years away, but new business models are already beginning to crystallise around the technology, and operators would be wise to start preparations soon, a new report claims

July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17
Tegile launches Intelliflash tiered all-flash arrays with NVMe

Hybrid flash turned all-flash maker Tegile adds tier of NVMe to SAS-connected flash with all drives encrypted and an all-NVMe array planned for later in 2017
June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17
App-based banking continues its ascent in the UK

The number of people banking from their mobile phones is increasing as more services are made available through the channel
June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17
Nutanix makes hybrid cloud push with Calm and Xi Cloud

Hyper-converged pioneer to extend on-premise OS to the cloud with plans to span the datacentre and public cloud using Calm, plus forthcoming hybrid cloud services via Xi Cloud
June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17
News UK dumps tape for backup with Zadara cloud storage

News publishing corporation saves up to 40% on hardware and software costs by switching in-house hardware for a cloud-first policy, using Zadara cloud storage as a backup target
June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17
Red Hat launches open source hyper-converged infrastructure

Infrastructure bundles OS, hypervisor and storage software components from the open source distributor and is aimed at SMEs and remote office use cases
June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17
British Airways IT glitch caused by human error, says IAG CEO

Airline’s datacentre power failure was caused by an engineer accidentally switching the power off and on again, says parent company

June 05, 2017 05 Jun'17
NetApp to launch SolidFire-based HCI hyper-converged appliances

NetApp HCI will comprise hyper-converged infrastructure appliances based on SolidFire flash storage with QoS and compute from an unnamed supplier later in 2017
May 23, 2017 23 May'17
Racetrack Memory products in five years, says IBM fellow

Millennium Prize winner Stuart Parkin says flash and 2D methods of storage are fatally limited – Racetrack Memory offers 100x the capacity without flash’s wear issues
May 17, 2017 17 May'17
Dell EMC all-flash XtremIO X2 gains I/O boost via software upgrade

Dell EMC’s XtremIO X2 all-flash arrays got a performance jump from ungraded hardware, but the real performance boost comes from changes to the way I/O is dealt with
May 09, 2017 09 May'17
Nexsan Unity goes all-flash but leaves NVMe on the back-burner

Nexsan Unity arrays already have SAN, NAS and file sync and share, and now add all-flash and policy-based archiving, but there’s no NVMe on the roadmap for now
May 03, 2017 03 May'17
3D XPoint et al to force architecture and software changes

New solid state technologies such as 3D XPoint will be a second tier of memory, bringing change to hardware architectures and software to be rewritten, says SNIA solid state group chair
May 02, 2017 02 May'17
Intel urges business to patch critical remote-execution flaw

Intel advises business customers to apply a security update for some versions of its administration firmware for vPro processors to fix a remote execution flaw
April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17
Demo shows GPUs are more than simple accelerators

Graphics processor units have helped to accelerate a reservoir simulation program, showing that the technology could be applied to complex code
April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17
Pivot3 launches Acuity hyper-converged with NVMe flash and QoS

Acuity operating environment merges features inherited from NexGen acquisition and adds NVMe Accelerator nodes with flash as cache in front of main storage
April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17
Cancer researcher gets Nodeum LTFS tape NAS

Belgium-based OncoDNA replaces IBM tape library with flash-powered Nodeum LTFS to provide file access to backup and archive tapes at approaching nearline timescales
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
StorageOS goes to market with persistent Docker container storage

StorageOS is now available on the Docker marketplace with software product that manages stateful storage for containers, with advanced storage features such as data protection and encryption
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
Quantum upgrades to StorNext 6 with replication and app QoS

Quantum StorNext scale-out file system adds to cloud capability with granular replication that can operate one-to-one, one-to-many, plus provide storage QoS per application
April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17
Pure Storage launches FlashArray//X with NVMe drives

FlashArray//X has NVMe drives but end-to-end storage-to-host NVMe connectivity will have to wait for an NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMf) version planned for release later this year
April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17
Spending forecast shows early signs of on-premise server demise

The datacentre equipment market appears to be indicating the long-term impact of cloud computing on server sales
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
Analytics, internet of things to drive data volumes to 163ZB by 2025

IDC study predicts consumers as creators of data will decline as the enterprise, analytics and “life critical” scenarios push total volumes to a tenfold increase by 2025
March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17
Red Hat adds Gluster metadata cache and container deployment

Scale out NAS parallel file system speeds operations with client-side caching, and allows container deployment and faster self-healing volumes
March 26, 2017 26 Mar'17
HPE, Tata Communications to build world’s largest IoT network

The Lora-based network will benefit around 400 million people in India who can expect improvements in water quality and public safety
March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17
IBM cognitive assistant to help manage and secure devices

IBM has announced a cognitive assistant powered by IBM Watson to help businesses manage and secure endpoints, including devices making up the internet of things
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
HPE buys Nimble Storage to fill an all-flash and hybrid gap

Hardware giant buys Nimble Storage for $1.2bn and plugs a gap below its high-end flash retro-fitted 3PAR arrays with ground-up solid state-based hardware
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
Nodeum to add S3 connectivity to LTFS-powered tape archive

Belgium-based Linux-plus-LTFS startup adds S3 capability to allow customers to add cloud as a tier and data portability between on and off-premises archiving
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
Virtual reality simulation helps KLM engineers escape in an emergency

Dutch airline KLM develops virtual reality simulation to show engineers what to do if a maintenance hangar catches fire
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
3D printing gets serious in the Netherlands

3D projects abound in the Netherlands, with the technology being applied to canal bridges, bicycles, ship components and buildings
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff

Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Greenpeace calls for sustainable smartphone manufacturing

Electronic waste and the carbon emissions from manufacturing are among the areas smartphone makers must address, says environmental organisation
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
Co-op Bank up for sale now legacy shift to IBM is complete

Bank put up for sale just days after it completed a multimillion-pound migration of its legacy banking platform into an IBM datacentre
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
MobileIron: Corporate IT policy and mobile device security are mismatched

MobileIron report identifies a gap between security policy and the actual deployment of that policy on mobile devices
February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17
MWC 2017: 4G still has plenty of mileage, say mobile analysts

5G is likely to be a hot topic at this year’s Mobile World Congress, which kicks off at the end of February, but operators should be paying more attention to getting more out of their 4G networks
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
South African children’s hospital uses video to train cardiologists

The Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town is using remote video learning to teach paediatric cardiology surgery to medical students
January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17
HPE buys hyper-converged pioneer Simplivity for $650m

Hardware giant pays out for hyper-converged market number two, and says it will keep existing Simplivity products, moving them all to its ProLiant servers by the end of 2017
January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17
Nutanix, Simplivity and Pivot3 lead hyper-converged pack: Forrester

Forrester rates 12 hyper-converged infrastructure providers according to products, company strategy and market presence, with Nutanix, Simplivity and Pivot3 coming out on top-line
January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17
IBM refreshes all-flash DS8880 series with PCIe 3.0 enclosures

IBM adds an F to existing DS8884, DS8886 and DS8888 all-flash and hybrid arrays with addition of PCIe 3.0 disk connectivity, but stops short of NVMe capabilities
January 05, 2017 05 Jan'17
CIOs: Is a PC refresh really necessary?

IT departments are preparing to migrate off Windows 7. Manufacturers are ready with a range of new PCs at this year's CES
December 30, 2016 30 Dec'16
Top 10 virtualisation and storage stories of 2016

Flash storage has held onto the headlines in 2016, but hyper-converged infrastructure, containerisation, software-defined storage and VMware’s plans for the hybrid cloud are rising themes
December 29, 2016 29 Dec'16
Top 10 desktop, tablet, smartphone and mobile device stories of 2016

2016 was the year Microsoft pushed out a major Windows update, Linux celebrated its 25th anniversary and female personae took over AI
December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16
GP tests out connected stethoscope, cleared for NHS use

A digitally connected stethoscope from a Silicon Valley startup is now available in the UK and promises to change patient-doctor interaction
December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16
Tape backup: Often old and confused, but quite cheap

Survey results show those with tape are likely to have old tapes, multiple formats, including defunct ones, and no way of knowing what is on them. But tape is still quite cheap for most
November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16
BP to go all-in on public cloud to cut datacentre upkeep costs

Oil giant BP uses first day of AWS Re:Invent to outline how it is cushioning itself against falling oil prices by using cloud to cut costs
November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16
Australia’s IFC Logistics virtualises storage to prevent further outages

Australian logistics firm moved to virtualised storage through a managed service after a serious outage
November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16
Apple garners local support for Irish datacentre as legal challenge looms

Residents of Athenry, County Galway, unite to back Apple’s Irish datacentre plans as consumer electronics giant awaits High Court decision on legal challenges
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
VMware VSAN 6.5 supports containers and physical servers via iSCSI

VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
Most businesses vulnerable to cyber attacks through firmware, study shows

Company culture and overall attitude to security is a major contribution to vulnerability to cyber attack through firmware, a study by Isaca has revealed