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• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  University of Melbourne claims quantum computing breakthrough

  Australian scientists have simulated the power of quantum computing on classical computers to solve a mathematical problem, paving the way for future breakthroughs in the nascent field

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  San Francisco 49ers add pace to the team with NVMe flash from Datrium

  US NFL football team plans high-performance NVMe flash to power in-game statistics and video decision-making, plus access for scouts to player databases during draft

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  NHS trust dumps creaking EMC SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged

  Derbyshire-based NHS trust had reached end-of-life with Dell servers and EMC SAN, so it took the plunge with Nutanix hyper-converged to reap space, power and reliability gains

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Australian university reaches for the stars after HPC boost

  The University of Sydney has upgraded its supercomputing infrastructure to answer big questions on cosmology and keep pace with growing research needs

• 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 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 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

• 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 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 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

• 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 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

• February 23, 2018 23 Feb'18

  HPE’s new CEO presents strong first quarter for hybrid IT

  Just days into his hew role, Antonio Neri presented HPE’s Q1 2018 results. The figures look good, but the company is rebounding from a rough 2017

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Rackspace upgrade to save $12m with Scality object storage

  Cloud services giant Rackspace brings in Scality object storage in a move that slashes 4,000 boxes from its server count as it separates compute and storage

• February 15, 2018 15 Feb'18

  Dell EMC’s IoT revenue in APAC surpasses $1bn

  The milestone in Dell EMC’s internet of things revenue underscores the APAC region’s rapid uptake of sensors and other IoT devices in industries and smart city projects

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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 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 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 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail

  New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard

• June 22, 2016 22 Jun'16

  Nutanix adds storage for containers, physical servers and all-flash

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Nutanix adds container support with persistent storage, offers block iSCSI storage for physical servers and allows all-flash across the product range

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  Hyperscale computing boosts server revenue

  The likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft have bolstered server sales as they build increasingly powerful scale-out datacentres

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Intel share price drops despite strong results

  Despite growth in Intel's key datacentre and IoT businesses, investors remain concerned by falls in its core PC chip business amid market declines

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

  Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise: think of us as a startup

  As Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc finally part ways, UK managing director Andy Isherwood shares some insight on what the future holds for the newly minted enterprise business

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Met Office's new supercomputer to deliver £2bn of socio-economic benefits

  The Met Office aims to realise a range of socio-economic benefits to UK industries thanks to improved forecasting with its new Cray supercomputer

• October 12, 2015 12 Oct'15

  Dell set to buy storage company EMC

  Two years after his audacious bid to reinvent the company he founded by re-privatising it, Michael Dell has put in a bid for storage giant EMC

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  High-performance computing and mainframe refresh limit server decline

  IDC's market share data for server shipments shows mainframe users are running Linux on the z13, while high-performance computing (HPC) lifts x86 sales

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Lenovo to cut jobs as it faces 'severe' challenges

  Lenovo says the last quarter saw “severe challenges” in its main PC, tablet and smartphone markets

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Mainframe fails to save IBM from 13th declining quarter

  IBM's second-quarter revenue was down 13% year-on-year to $20.8bn, but IBM said the decline is only 1%, adjusting for the sale of its x86 server business and the impact of the strong dollar

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told