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January 29, 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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December 19, 2017
19
Dec'17
Top 10 PC stories of 2017
It has been a good year for the PC business, which is starting to show signs of growth. From an end-user perspective, 2017 is also the year of new user interfaces
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December 19, 2017
19
Dec'17
Top 10 NVMe flash storage stories of 2017
NVMe promises to unleash flash storage to previously unheard-of performance. In this top 10 Computer Weekly NVMe flash stories of 2017, we track this rapidly emerging technology
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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
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December 13, 2017
13
Dec'17
Iron Mountain acquires four datacentres from IO in $1.3bn deal
Agreement includes IO’s facilities at Phoenix, Scottsdale, New Jersey and Ohio and more than 550 customers
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December 06, 2017
06
Dec'17
Space organisation dumps NAS for object storage to gain space
Satellite Applications Catapult upgrade to 2PB of Cloudian object storage pays for itself in power and cooling savings as numerous legacy NAS boxes are replaced
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December 04, 2017
04
Dec'17
Giving machines a voice: what’s next for unified communications?
As Mitel closes its acquisition of ShoreTel, creating a new unified communications and collaboration powerhouse, CEO Rich McBee reveals what’s coming next in the sector
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December 04, 2017
04
Dec'17
Cambridge University deploys Dropbox for file sync-and-share
Dropbox replaces numerous consumer file share products and bespoke connections as Cambridge audits 6,500 academics to roll out invisible collaboration for hundreds of use cases
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December 04, 2017
04
Dec'17
Executive interview: Antonio Neri, HPE
We speak to the man taking over from Meg Whitman as CEO of HPE about how he will continue the company's turnaround
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November 30, 2017
30
Nov'17
Transport researchers get 2PB of Scality object storage
Transport Systems Catapult retires ageing NetApp filers with 2PB of Scality object storage in a £1.5m project that future proofs the organisation with built-in DR
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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
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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
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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
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November 27, 2017
27
Nov'17
NHS trust gets Commvault to cut backup times and get set for GDPR
North Derbyshire hospital trust cuts 70 physical servers to 11 Nutanix hyper-converged nodes, with Commvault replacing multiple backup software products in three-year project
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November 22, 2017
22
Nov'17
Meg Whitman steps down as HPE CEO
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman is to step down after six years in charge
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November 13, 2017
13
Nov'17
Violin rises from ashes with new products planned for 2018
Bankrupted all-flash pioneer’s CEO says company has learned the lessons of its demise and is planning file, object, software-defined storage and a careful entry into the NVMe market
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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
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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
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November 07, 2017
07
Nov'17
Dell EMC claims launch of first designed-for-all-flash SC arrays
All-flash arrays SC5020F and SC7020F boost performance by several times over existing former Compellent products in Dell EMC range that could be configured as all-flash
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November 03, 2017
03
Nov'17
UK supercomputer is now world’s biggest Panasas scale-out NAS cluster
Jasmin network supercomputer storage expands to 20PB of Panasas scale-out NAS, which has helped to cut analysis times for environmental data from days to hours
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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
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October 26, 2017
26
Oct'17
Datrium gets Flash End-to-End in its server/shared hybrid DVX NVMe
Taking aim at hyper-converged, Datrium DVX adds flash as bulk storage, while NVMe at the server handles hot data with the scale needed by enterprise customers in mind
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October 25, 2017
25
Oct'17
Containers will oust VMs and storage arrays, says Red Hat
Red Hat launches storage delivered via containers and predicts a future in which costly and inflexible storage hardware and pricey hypervisors will be a thing of the past
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October 24, 2017
24
Oct'17
Inside Australia’s supercomputing journey
The country’s Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation has upgraded its high performance computing infrastructure to keep pace with global research
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October 19, 2017
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Oct'17
A tenth of datacentre managers shun use of DCIM tools, survey finds
The findings of a new report by Siemens and Intel suggests datacentre managers are taking a reactive approach to keeping on monitoring and managing the health of their infrastructure
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October 19, 2017
19
Oct'17
China and Russia set to drive growth in PC market in 2018, says Gartner
The market will be buoyed by stronger spending on business PCs in Russia and adoption of Windows 10 in China, according to Gartner
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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
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October 17, 2017
17
Oct'17
How to protect your Wi-Fi network from a Krack attack
The discovery of a vulnerability affecting the WPA2 Wi-Fi security standard has people in a spin. But how serious is it really, and what basic steps can you take to keep your network safe from a Krack attack?
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October 17, 2017
17
Oct'17
Colliers dumps Flexpods for Nutanix and Cohesity hyper-converged
Property firm Colliers replaces NetApp converged stacks with hyper-converged infrastructure. Secondary storage and backup from Cohesity replaces tape and supports Nutanix performance tier
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October 17, 2017
17
Oct'17
Qualcomm successfully achieves first 5G data connection
Mobile chipset supplier Qualcomm claims it has achieved a 5G data connection on a 5G modem chipset for mobile devices
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October 17, 2017
17
Oct'17
Gartner survey shows PC boost as businesses upgrade to Windows 10
Businesses are finally shifting from Windows 7 to Windows 10, which is driving a major desktop PC refresh
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October 16, 2017
16
Oct'17
Law firm speeds search and saves TB with Mimecast email archive
Cloud email archiving turbo-charges search, while email security is locked down and terabytes of storage use on-premise avoided with email stub on local servers
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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
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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
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October 11, 2017
11
Oct'17
Samsung: NVMe benefits are available now, within limits
Customers can benefit and make big savings from deploying NVMe flash drives – but there are limits
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October 11, 2017
11
Oct'17
Nvidia unveils ‘world’s first’ AI computer chip for fully autonomous vehicles
Chip maker Nvidia announces an artificial intelligence system designed to support the greater computing workloads of future driverless cars
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October 03, 2017
03
Oct'17
Intel leak reveals plans for more Optane 3D Xpoint products
Leaked Intel slides show 900P products to be launched at end of October with half a million IOPS per card. We run the rule over 3D Xpoint and what it offers enterprise customers
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September 28, 2017
28
Sep'17
Hertfordshire pilots NHS Digital’s Raspberry Pi telehealth kit
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust becomes first healthcare provider to trial open source telehealth system originally developed by NHS Digital using Raspberry Pi devices
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September 28, 2017
28
Sep'17
Maxta adds Red Hat in plan to help customers dodge ‘VMware tax’
Maxta allows migration from VMware to Red Hat Virtualization on its hyper-converged infrastructure nodes and looks forward to PCIe upgrades to help unleash NVMe
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September 27, 2017
27
Sep'17
Prices and unnecessary upgrades push consumers to buy second-hand mobile devices
People in the UK are growing tired of regular upgrade cycles for mobile devices
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September 26, 2017
26
Sep'17
Tegile says NVMe bottleneck is in the network
Tegile's chief technology officer says the NVMe roadmap is all in place, but the key bottleneck is in the network and the applications, not its controllers. They’re ready to scale out into clusters for NVMe
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September 22, 2017
22
Sep'17
Movie maker shuns cloud, gets Spectra Logic Black Pearl tape NAS
Hat Trick ditches industry-specific hardware and deploys Black Pearl, which gives NAS-like file access from tape
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September 20, 2017
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Sep'17
Vexata launches VX NVMe physical and virtual appliances
Startup claims near-bare metal NVMe performance by offloading controller functionality to multiple CPUs on back-end storage with an optimised Linux-based operating system
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September 14, 2017
14
Sep'17
Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics
Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV
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September 12, 2017
12
Sep'17
University gets Nutanix for self-serve cloud to replace Red Hat
The University of Reading replaces ageing and difficult-to-manage Red Hat storage with half a petabyte of Nutanix hyper-converged and dodges £1/2 million of VMware costs
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September 07, 2017
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Sep'17
The storage controller has to go, says Scale Computing CEO
Hyper-converged appliance maker Scale Computing says it achieved near bare metal performance from NVMe by doing away with controller functionality. Is this the end of the SAN?
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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
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September 05, 2017
05
Sep'17
Tegile set to compete with big six with cheaper arrays, says CEO
Tegile’s takeover by Western Digital will propel it to competition with the big six storage array makers, as well as bring economies of scale and see NVMf and 3D Xpoint products
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August 30, 2017
30
Aug'17
Tegile launches NVMe IntelliFlash N Series and gets bought by WD
Tegile adds all-NVMe drive products in a bid to help customers consolidate workloads from transactional processing to file services, but full NVMe performance has to wait
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August 24, 2017
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Aug'17
Most firms don’t test, but rely on supplier to spec storage, finds survey
Most customers simply trust storage suppliers and resellers to recommend the right product for their workloads, while a small minority test their needs and involve application owners
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August 24, 2017
24
Aug'17
HP Inc grows business, but price hike hits commercial PC division
Company reports strong growth for the third quarter 2017, but price increases have hit commercial sales, and a PC price cut may be on the cards
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August 23, 2017
23
Aug'17
Sub-prime lender links technology upgrade to financial problems
Lender partly blames new automation software for its poor performance
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August 23, 2017
23
Aug'17
Bupa Dental saves £350k by insourcing and Veeam backup
Healthcare organisation sweeps away chaotic backup situation and standardises on Veeam Backup & Replication to save £350,000 a year in management and maintenance costs
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August 22, 2017
22
Aug'17
Cambridgeshire firefighters get rugged tablets for frontline work
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue is deploying ruggedised Panasonic tablets across its service to help personnel access vital information in an emergency
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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
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August 22, 2017
22
Aug'17
E8 dodges NVMe/controller bottleneck with server processing
Startup E8 announces v2 of its NVMe-based products with LUNs, Raid and thin provisioning as it sidesteps the NVMe-controller bottleneck by offloading processing to app servers
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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
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August 16, 2017
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Aug'17
GDPR drives cloud firm’s Cloudian S3 object storage deployment
Interoute deployed Cloudian Hyperstore because it believes customers want object storage to help gain compliance with the forthcoming European GDPR regulations
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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
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August 15, 2017
15
Aug'17
How HPE is climbing the supercomputer league to reach exascale performance
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently joined a project to develop exascale computing for the US Department of Energy. We assess the implications
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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
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August 10, 2017
10
Aug'17
Vue Entertainment deploys automated monitoring of cinema IT
Cinema group Vue Entertainment rolls out Kaseya's VSA tool to manage remote IT at its venues and provide proactive maintenance
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August 07, 2017
07
Aug'17
Lenovo wants to move away from shipping boxes
After admitting to being addicted to market share, server supplier Lenovo is changing tack by focusing on customer experience and new areas such as software-defined infrastructure
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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
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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
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July 28, 2017
28
Jul'17
Intel reports record second quarter
Intel chief claims to have raised the bar on performance and predicts record year for the chip maker after record second-quarter revenue
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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
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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
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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
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July 18, 2017
18
Jul'17
Scale hyper-converged adds all-flash 1150F and “workhorse” 5150D
Hyper-converged pioneer Scale Computing targets 1/2PB 5150D at remote sites and big on-site deployments, while 1150F allows customers an all-flash tier to add to existing clusters
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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
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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
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July 13, 2017
13
Jul'17
WekaIO brings hybrid cloud NAS software-defined storage
Startup offers virtual NAS, storage software deployed on commodity servers or in the cloud to give single storage pool of file access the can scale to trillions
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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
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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
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July 10, 2017
10
Jul'17
Apple to build second European datacentre in Denmark later this year
Consumer electronics giant confirms plans to start building a second, renewably-powered datacentre in Denmark during the fourth quarter of 2017
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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
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July 10, 2017
10
Jul'17
Medical college retires HP for Scale Computing hyper-converged
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine replaces ageing HP servers and MSA SAN with Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure, and saves £80,000 in replacement costs
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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
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July 06, 2017
06
Jul'17
IDC: On-premise infrastructure spend will continue to fall in 2017 as cloud demand soars
IDC's latest quarterly cloud infrastructure spending forecast shines a light on how the dwindling demand for on-premise technologies is shaking up IT investments