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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 12, 2016
12
Oct'16
PC market in longest period of decline since records began, says Gartner
PC shipments across the globe enter an unprecedented period of decline, Gartner reveals
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October 11, 2016
11
Oct'16
How Linux has influenced modern IT
On 25 August 1991, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel. We look at how the open source operating system has evolved in the last quarter of a century
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October 10, 2016
10
Oct'16
Quantum refreshes Scalar tape library family with i3, i6 and AEL6
Quantum’s StorNext universe boosted by new tape libraries – the i3, i6 and AEL6 – with increased data density on the back of denser storage and improved robotics
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September 29, 2016
29
Sep'16
Is it NAS? Is it object storage? It’s both. It’s Avere’s C2N
Avere launches C2N hybrid NAS/object storage box that uses touted efficiencies of erasure coding to take aim at claimed drawbacks of clustered NAS rivals like Isilon
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September 22, 2016
22
Sep'16
Hypergrid adds metered usage and networks to hyper-converged kit
Hyper-converged appliance maker will allow customers to pay for what they use in hardware that will now add networking
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September 19, 2016
19
Sep'16
Italian bottle maker deploys 88TB of Syneto hyper-converged storage
Serioplast gets reliable disaster recovery as it replaces NetApp plus remote physical servers with Syneto hyper-converged infrastructure at factories across Europe, Africa and Asia
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September 08, 2016
08
Sep'16
Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week
SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage
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September 07, 2016
07
Sep'16
Combined Dell and EMC company targets intelligent things
The $74bn merger of Dell and EMC has created a technology giant with a remit to expand into the software-defined datacentre space to support IoT
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August 30, 2016
30
Aug'16
Cloud firm Backbone relegates X-IO SAN with Atlantis tiered storage
London-based Backbone uses Atlantis USX as storage virtualisation layer on top of PCIe flash and X-IO and as a stepping stone to hyper-converged infrastructures
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August 18, 2016
18
Aug'16
Intel Developer Forum: Silicon Photonics boosts datacentre connectivity
Microsoft Azure datacentres increase connectivity to 100Gbps thanks to Silicon Photonics interconnect