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Storage fabric, switches and networks
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February 09, 2021
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Feb'21
IBM refreshes entry-level FlashSystem arrays with a little NVMe
Big Blue refreshes three entry-level systems – the 5200, 5035 and 5015 – with the flagship of them gaining all-NVMe flash storage capability and cluster scaling to 10s of PB
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September 21, 2020
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Sep'20
India’s storage market takes hit but hasn’t lost its shine
The slower growth in storage spending in India amid the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to be mitigated by digitisation efforts by financial services and manufacturing firms
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September 10, 2020
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Sep'20
Broadcom launches Brocade gen7 Fibre Channel switches
New generation Fibre Channel doubles performance to 64Gbps with switches and HBAs now available. But what future for Fibre Channel with NVMe-over-fabrics hitting the datacentre?
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July 08, 2020
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Jul'20
Pavilion adds object storage to NVMe Hyperparallel Flash Array
Pavilion responds to customer demand for object storage to support AI/ML, big data analytics workloads with multi-controller NMVe flash storage architecture
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June 25, 2020
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Jun'20
Nebulon emerges with software-defined storage, but from the cloud
Startup to offer on-site storage with local I/O and some controller functionality in the cloud, combining software-defined and cloud to bring “fleet management at scale”
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June 23, 2020
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Jun'20
SoftIron aims at data too valuable for commodity storage
UK array maker hopes to be the storage provider of choice for those that really value their data, with highly optimised Ceph-powered hardware aimed at HPC users and enterprises
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February 25, 2020
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Feb'20
IT Priorities 2020: Cloud storage key but SAN/NAS alive and well
In the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey cloud dominates storage spending priorities for 2020, but on-premise technologies such as SAN and NAS are still key to IT
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February 12, 2020
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Feb'20
IBM unifies storage arrays under FlashSystem brand
IBM to bring together all non-mainframe storage arrays as FlashSystem product, with options from entry-level to petabyte-scale with NVMe flash and storage class memory
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January 20, 2020
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Jan'20
Inside NetApp’s transition into a data management firm
NetApp’s leaders in Asia-Pacific discuss the company’s pivot into data services and its traction in the region
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October 21, 2019
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Oct'19
Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers
Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too
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October 10, 2019
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Oct'19
UK and Middle East PR firm ditches NetApp for Nutanix and Talon Fast
Four Communications needed better connectivity for collaboration between the UK and its gulf sites, so dumped server/storage for hyper-converged and a distributed file system
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October 01, 2019
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Oct'19
Dutch group works on digitising collaborator archives created in aftermath of World War 2
Experiments have been carried out to ascertain the best technology to open up the analogue archives of the Central Archive of Special Justice in the Netherlands
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September 30, 2019
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Sep'19
Pure Storage APAC CTO talks up storage trends
Flash-based storage will be around for at least two decades more, while crystal- and DNA-based storage needs a lot more work before becoming mainstream, according to Pure Storage’s CTO for the Asia-Pacific region
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September 17, 2019
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Sep'19
Pure Storage sees stellar growth in APAC
Pure Storage is expanding its footprint in key markets such as Australia, Japan and South Korea, even as it proceeds with caution in China
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August 19, 2019
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Aug'19
Virtual Instruments to add cloud monitoring with Metricly
Storage monitoring specialist Virtual Instruments buys Metricly to add monitoring of AWS compute CPU, memory and resource utilisation to save customer costs
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July 30, 2019
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Jul'19
Australia to upgrade supercomputer in HPC boost
The Gadi supercomputer at the Australian National University will run 10 times faster than its predecessor, giving researchers access to high performance computing resources to solve the toughest research problems
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February 19, 2019
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Feb'19
Pure launches ObjectEngine cloud dedupe, plus inter-rack NVMe
Flash storage pioneer offers flash-to-flash-to-cloud ObjectEngine on-premise and in the cloud while boosting connectivity between datacentre racks with NVMe-over-fabrics
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February 13, 2019
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Feb'19
Cloud and backup top storage priorities for 2019
Deploying the cloud for primary and secondary storage and backup and archiving project top project priorities in 2019. SAN, NAS and hyper-convergence also prominent
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February 05, 2019
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Feb'19
Payday lender cuts troubleshooting by 30% with Virtual Instruments
Curo Financial thought storage was slowing down its websites, but found virtual machine and network issues were to blame. To fix this, it’s going proactive on storage performance issues
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November 29, 2018
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Nov'18
Virtual Instruments aims to be “the brain of the datacentre”
Virtual Instruments hopes artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality that helps IT staff spot connections between application and storage performance could put an end to the “war room”
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August 28, 2018
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Aug'18
Taking stock of Dell EMC’s growth in Asia
Tech supplier Dell EMC is riding on growing demand for servers and hyper-converged infrastructure, and investing in more technical resources to support enterprises in digital transformation efforts
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May 09, 2018
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May'18
NetApp adds Google Cloud NAS and AFF A800 NVMe flash array
NetApp gets on the cloud NAS bandwagon with Google Cloud Platform file storage access, while adding its first NVMe flash-equipped storage array, the AFF A800
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May 02, 2018
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May'18
StorageOS makes hybrid cloud container storage platform generally available
StorageOS releases tool that allows management of persistent storage for containers that can operate on-premise, in public cloud and hybrid cloud to provide deployment, QoS and protection
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April 24, 2018
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Apr'18
Unitrends launches ‘Veeam killer’ VM Backup Essentials
Backup specialist Unitrends says Veeam has become “arrogant” and abandoned large elements of its customer base. VM Backup Essentials aims to fill gap for VMware users
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March 27, 2018
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Mar'18
Pivot3 Cloud Edition adds backup from hyper-converged to AWS
Hyper-converged infrastructure node maker dips its toes into hybrid cloud operations with Pivot3 Cloud Edition on Amazon Web Services to add cloud backup to HCI
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February 20, 2018
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Feb'18
Load Dynamix is now WorkloadWisdom and adds more NAS support
Virtual Instruments enhances NAS testing and monitoring capabilities with SMB and 25GbE support in WorkloadWisdom but hybrid cloud monitoring will remain off limits for now
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November 22, 2017
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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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July 05, 2017
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Jul'17
Storage the favourite use case for public cloud customers
Despite lingering trust issues, storage and backup are key use cases in the public cloud, says Barracuda survey. Meanwhile, Microsoft Azure is Europe’s favourite cloud provider
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June 06, 2017
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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
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April 24, 2017
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Apr'17
Gulf Air refreshes storage and server farm hardware with Dell EMC
Airline completes major project to revamp its storage infrastructure with Dell EMC technologies
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April 12, 2017
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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 05, 2017
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Apr'17
NHS IT group refits with Nimble flash and Zerto disaster recovery
Herts and Beds IT provider relegates Dell Equallogic arrays and gets Nimble plus Zerto hybrid flash environment with replication to give 15 minute restore and 99.9% uptime
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March 20, 2017
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Mar'17
Kaminario looks forward to NVMf, but not this year
All-flash maker Kaminario plans to add NVMe drives, but only when it can replace existing fabric protocols with NVMf and a full stack of advanced storage features
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March 14, 2017
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Mar'17
Scale Computing to bring NVMe flash to hyper-converged
Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Scale Computing is set to introduce NVMe connectivity to its products in 2017 with tiers of all flash also on the roadmap
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March 08, 2017
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Mar'17
Excelero NVMe over fabrics NVMesh brings SAN to hyperscale
Excelero aims at transactional and analytics use cases for webscale users that want to create SAN-like pools of storage with its NVMesh software-defined product
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February 08, 2017
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Feb'17
Apeiron brings NVMe shared direct-attached storage in its ADS1000
Startup removes storage controller and its CPU from the data path to leverage NVMe’s blistering performance with direct-attached flash storage aimed at the likes of Hadoop and Splunk
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January 26, 2017
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Jan'17
Virtual Instruments to add cloud storage monitoring by end of 2017
Storage performance and monitoring provider Virtual Instruments leverages Xangati functionality to add cloud storage monitoring to existing SAN and NAS capabilities in Virtual Wisdom
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December 05, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016
Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016
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November 02, 2016
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Nov'16
Broadcom buys Brocade but will sell off IP network business
Chipmaker will acquire Brocade for $5.9bn to broaden its storage business, and plans to sell off most of its acquisition’s networking business
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October 13, 2016
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Oct'16
Law firm merger ditches tape for Veeam/Exagrid disk-based backup
London-based Charles Russell Speechlys used Veeam as a migration tool after merger between two law firms, then paired it with Exagrid data deduplication to revamp backup regime
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September 27, 2016
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Sep'16
NetApp revamps FAS filers with 15TB flash and NVMe
NetApp brings its Ontap 9 operating system and hardware changes to its FAS and all-flash FAS multi-protocol arrays with a range that scales up to tens of petabytes
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September 22, 2016
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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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August 18, 2016
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Aug'16
Rubrik backup appliance adds physical platforms to hybrid cloud
Flash-powered backup appliances add MS SQL and Linux physical server to VMware backup and hybrid cloud archive in Firefly release, with more physical and endpoint support promised
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August 03, 2016
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Aug'16
IBM DeepFlash 150 latest in all-flash aimed at file, object and analytics use cases
IBM’s DeepFlash 150 adds to the emerging trend of all-flash storage aimed at file, object and analytics use cases with option for petabyte-scale storage using IBM Spectrum Scale
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June 30, 2016
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Jun'16
Pivot3 merges hyper-converged and all-flash in vSTAC SLX
Pivot3 clusters its hyper-converged infrastructure boxes with NexGen all-flash to give vSTAC SLX products aimed at multiple workloads, but with key apps’ performance QoS-protected
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May 18, 2016
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May'16
Interest in converged platforms grows in Southeast Asia
The adoption of converged and hyper-converged infrastructures in Southeast Asia is in its early stages, but growth is expected
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May 12, 2016
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May'16
Software-defined storage the power behind Monash University microscopes
Australian academic institute uses the technology to help it deal with huge – and still growing – storage demands
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April 18, 2016
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Apr'16
X-IO exploits NVMe to develop super-fast Axellio flash storage
X-IO comes out of stealth with Intel-backed Axellio that will see up to 0.25PB and 12 million IOPS from a 2U box using NVMe as an internal interconnect to speak natively with CPUs
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February 22, 2016
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Feb'16
Golf gear maker replaces EMC VMAX with all-flash XtremIO
Callaway dumps hybrid legacy VMAX for 60TB of all-flash EMC XtremIO, and says massive performance gains means no more backup headaches
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February 17, 2016
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Feb'16
Most IT departments fail to meet availability SLAs
Veeam survey finds most organisations fail to recover from unplanned outages in the time demanded by SLAs, with average recovery time in the UK being five hours
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February 09, 2016
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Feb'16
Cisco recalls Ethernet switches over fault risk
A potential fault on a number of IE-5000 switches could give users a nasty shock, says supplier
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January 21, 2016
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Jan'16
Finance firm gets Violin all-flash arrays for performance databases
Finance sector services provider sidestepped existing NetApp storage to get all-flash arrays for high performance and 100% fault tolerance for Oracle-based apps
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January 20, 2016
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Jan'16
Dell SDN’s OS10 promises new levels of network flexibility
Dell expands its SDN product with a new operating system designed to maximise customer choice and capability
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January 15, 2016
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Jan'16
Flash and virtual machine storage in Russia
Virtualisation drives the need for flash storage in Russia, but with budgets tight and all-flash a costly option, organisations must look at hybrid flash and spinning disk solutions
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January 08, 2016
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Jan'16
Hybrid flash favoured in Spain – but for how long?
Flash memory is making its mark on Spanish enterprises, with hybrid flash storage that merges SSD and traditional spinning disk holding the upper hand
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December 03, 2015
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Dec'15
Virtual Instruments to launch hardware NAS probe in 2016
Maker of SAN testing product Virtual Wisdom is all set to announce a beta-tested hardware NAS probe in 2016, but currently NAS protocols supported will be limited to NFS and CIFS
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November 16, 2015
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Nov'15
Ad agency that rejected cloud boosts Cleversafe object storage
Ad content agency Hogarth rejected cloud storage as too expensive and unreliable, opting for in-house object storage from Cleversafe with nearly 5PB
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November 02, 2015
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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
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October 08, 2015
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Oct'15
Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016
Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals
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September 28, 2015
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Sep'15
Australia's flash-storage hunger leading Asia-Pacific region
Australian organisations are taking up RAM-based storage arrays at a fast rate as they begin to harness data analytics technologies
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September 17, 2015
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Sep'15
Pernix Data launches storage performance tool, Architect, and upgrades FVP
Flash caching specialist Pernix Data launches storage performance monitoring tool, Architect, that runs as a module in vSphere and helps identify I/O issues in storage traffic
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August 20, 2015
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Aug'15
Tintri dives into all-flash storage with the T5000 series
Tintri is the second hybrid flash storage startup of the summer to debut an all-flash array series, the T5000, with two capacity variants for transactional and VDI workloads
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August 06, 2015
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Aug'15
CTO interview: Framestore's Steve MacPherson on the pull of Gravity
Steve MacPherson, global CTO at London-based special effects studio Framestore, wants his servers running at 96% all of the time
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August 05, 2015
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Aug'15
Video effects firm Framestore offloads rendering to Google Compute Engine with Avere
The Avere filer appliance is being used to run rendering jobs on the Google cloud
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June 01, 2015
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Jun'15
Interview: Praveen Akkiraju, CEO, VCE
Six months on from becoming an EMC-owned company, VCE CEO Praveen Akkiraju talks about how the move will benefit his firm
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February 25, 2015
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Feb'15
HP sacks China division chairman as networking revenues drop
For the first quarter of 2015, HP reported a decline in revenue of 5% to $26.8bn compared to the same period the year before
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February 18, 2015
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Feb'15
Santander data storage: Gimmick or real challenge to IT giants?
Is Spanish bank Santander's offer of data storage just a sideshow to inject confidence in an industry facing increasing competitive tensions?
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January 28, 2015
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Jan'15
Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis
The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers
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January 23, 2015
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Jan'15
Storage an investment magnet as 2014 funding soars to $1.79bn
Investors pile into storage, with all-flash, hybrid flash and hyper-converged server/storage hardware hitting funding jackpot in 2014
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November 16, 2014
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Nov'14
Food firm dodges €250,000 spend with PernixData flash caching
Danish food firm Chr. Hansen avoids a €250,000 spend on application licences with PernixData FVP flash caching software
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November 05, 2014
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Nov'14
Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making
Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe
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October 22, 2014
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Oct'14
EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%
Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions
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October 08, 2014
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Oct'14
The challenges facing HP as it splits in two
HP is splitting its business in two - but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT
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October 06, 2014
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Oct'14
HP to separate into enterprise IT, and PC and printing companies
HP has confirmed plans to split into two separate companies, one focusing on PCs and printers, the other on enterprise computing
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September 08, 2014
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Sep'14
Intel launches Haswell-EP Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors
Intel has launched Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors (codenamed Haswell-EP) designed for the software defined infrastructure
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August 22, 2014
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Aug'14
Computer Weekly European User Awards for Datacentre and Storage: 2014 winners
The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Datacentre and Storage 2014 have been announced
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August 21, 2014
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Aug'14
IBM software-defined storage chosen for molecular research
Molecular research centre DESY will use IBM software-defined storage to handle growing data load.
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July 31, 2014
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Jul'14
Chivas Brothers distillery upgrades SAN data storage for 100% data recovery
Distillery company Chivas Brothers upgraded its storage area network (SAN) to ensure it can recover 100% of its data in the event of a disaster
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July 18, 2014
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Jul'14
IBM grows security and mobile businesses, but services decline
Following its ground-breaking alliance with Apple, IBM has reported major growth in its security and mobile businesses
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June 10, 2014
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Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters
Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
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April 29, 2014
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Apr'14
VirtualWisdom4 boosts storage performance with server, app views
Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom4 aims for admin-friendly server, app and storage-centric views of SAN performance with “entity-based” approach to storage monitoring tool
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April 28, 2014
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Apr'14
LateRooms overcomes database bottleneck with flash storage strategy
The hotel and accommodation booking firm refreshes its datacentre with virtualisation, consolidation and flash-based storage
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April 25, 2014
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Apr'14
Tintri VM storage helps firm solve issues caused by admin clashes
Pharma firm Colorcon bought Tintri VM storage at cost of maintenance on its existing arrays and solved performance problems rooted in clashes between DBAs and architecture admins
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March 21, 2014
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Mar'14
Lack of social media archiving creates legal minefield
Through social media, businesses are creating vast amounts of uncontrolled content and risk legal action because of inadequate archiving and eDiscovery systems
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March 18, 2014
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Mar'14
Upgrade networks, storage and DCIM to support the internet of things
Analyst Gartner has advised CIOs to prepare for major new investments in datacentre infrastructure to support the internet of things
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January 20, 2014
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Jan'14
QLogic buys Brocade’s converged network adapter business
Brocade sells converged network adapter division to QLogic, as the two firms announce SAN partnership
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January 16, 2014
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Jan'14
IBM boosts memory writes on updated PureSystems server
For memory-hungry applications, the new X6 server family has been designed to deliver three times the scalable memory of servers, IBM claimed
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January 06, 2014
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Jan'14
Consolidation drives down growth in datacentre spending
Analyst Gartner has cut its forecast for datacentre systems spending growth in 2014.
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December 30, 2013
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Dec'13
Top 10 supplier profiles 2013
Are you thinking of doing business with an IT technology supplier? Check out our independent profiles of the leading technology companies.
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November 29, 2013
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Nov'13
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries
Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here
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November 05, 2013
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Nov'13
Business-defined storage will help reconnect businesses with IT, says Forrester
Business-defined storage and datacentres will make IT more business-centric, according to Forrester
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October 29, 2013
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Oct'13
Emulex ExpressLane and CrossLink boost HBAs for flash and Hadoop
Storage card maker Emulex has added QoS prioritisation for flash storage and leveraged RDMA via Fibre Channel to increase server performance in clustered operations such as Hadoop
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October 21, 2013
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Oct'13
Lotus F1 Team invests in converged datacentre to support race strategy
Lotus F1 Team is about to go live with a converged datacentre infrastructure as it begins the development of a championship-winning car for 2015
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October 11, 2013
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Oct'13
Fibre Channel vs FCoE. Fibre Channel rules. For now
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and converged network adapters (CNA) offer storage and networking on one infrastructure, but what are the pros and cons of moving to FCoE?
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September 27, 2013
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Sep'13
Computer Weekly European User Awards for Storage: Winners
The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Storage have been announced. See who made the top spots
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September 17, 2013
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Sep'13
VCE launches datacentre, cloud products as converged infrastructure spend grows
VCE, the joint venture company formed by Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel has launched new variations of its converged cloud suite Vblock as CI market soars
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June 25, 2013
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Jun'13
TechEd Europe 2013: Microsoft releases preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft has released the preview software for Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 at TechEd Europe 2013
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June 14, 2013
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Jun'13
Facebook's Arctic datacentre in Luleå, Sweden goes live
Facebook’s newest datacentre in Luleå, Sweden is turned on to handle live traffic and is storing users’ photos, videos, comments and likes
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June 13, 2013
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Jun'13
Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics
Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study
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June 07, 2013
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Jun'13
Users’ top datacentre pain points
Storage, network bandwidth, cost and scalability are among the biggest datacentre concerns, say users at Dell Enterprise Forum US