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February 24, 2021
24
Feb'21
Veeam v11 adds continuous data protection and cloud archive
Backup specialist’s annual upgrade brings continuous data protection to offer better RPOs and RTOs than existing snapshot functionality and without impact on running processes
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February 21, 2021
21
Feb'21
Dell to invest $50m in Singapore innovation hub
Dell Technologies’ global innovation hub will house a research and development lab and other facilities to drive development and adoption of emerging technologies
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February 19, 2021
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Feb'21
Oracle unveils final cog in cloud strategy
Oracle’s Roving Edge Infrastructure is getting interest from mining companies in Australia and manufacturers in ASEAN that are looking to run cloud-based workloads in edge locations
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February 18, 2021
18
Feb'21
Google Cloud partners Tata Communications in India
Tata Communications will offer managed services for Google Cloud that will include cloud architecture planning and workload migration
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February 17, 2021
17
Feb'21
IXsystems: TrueNAS gets hyper-convergence
TrueNAS has added hyper-converged functionality to NAS and aims at the edge use cases left behind in the rush to the cloud
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February 17, 2021
17
Feb'21
Executive interview: Tapping APAC’s storage potential
Lenovo’s head of storage in Asia-Pacific singles out the region’s market opportunities and predicts that the healthcare sector will go full-fledged with flash storage in the next year
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February 16, 2021
16
Feb'21
C40, C60 R3, go! Pure adds to FlashArray//C QLC flash range
Hybrid storage killers: Pure Storage adds entry-level FlashArray//C40 R3 QLC array plus re-CPUed C60 R3 that will scale to 5PB or more
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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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February 01, 2021
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Feb'21
Netbackup 9 adds flexibility with hyper-converged backup options
Veritas’s enterprise backup flagship is available in hyper-converged infrastructure and has embraced containerisation, for better hardware and application scalability
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January 31, 2021
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Jan'21
Indian firms see growing value of data
Half of Indian IT leaders see a permanent increase in value of data as their organisations come under threat from mounting cyber attacks amid the pandemic
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January 29, 2021
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Jan'21
Human factor dominates Australia’s latest data breach numbers
The number of data breaches resulting from human error increased by 18% in the second half of 2020, according to Australian government’s latest notifiable data breaches report
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January 28, 2021
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Jan'21
Nakivo to use AWS Object Lock as anti-ransomware tool
Backup software maker leverages AWS Object Lock’s ability to create immutable WORM repositories as a means of helping organisations protect against malicious deletion or corruption
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January 27, 2021
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Jan'21
Pandemic response has improved privacy posture, says Cisco
Data privacy seems to be ‘coming of age’ to some extent and organisational responses to Covid-19 may be partly responsible, according to a report
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January 27, 2021
27
Jan'21
Grindr complaint results in €9.6m GDPR fine
Norway’s data protection authority plans to apply a fine totalling 10% of LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr’s revenues over its data sharing practices
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January 26, 2021
26
Jan'21
Conservatives broke data law to racially profile millions
The Conservative Party acted illegally in collecting data that inferred voters’ ethnicity and religious background, a Select Committee has heard
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January 26, 2021
26
Jan'21
ICO extends commissioner Denham’s term of office
Extension of Elizabeth Denham’s tenure as information commissioner will give the government more time to appoint her successor
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January 22, 2021
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Jan'21
ICO resumes adtech investigation
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office was criticised for ending its investigation into alleged malpractice in advertising technology, but has now resumed its probe
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January 22, 2021
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Jan'21
MinIO stakes leadership claims in cloud object container storage
2016 startup MinIO reckons it has first mover advantage as a container-native platform that provides private/cloud object storage in and orchestrated by Kubernetes
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January 20, 2021
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Jan'21
Architect slashes 20% off storage costs with Nasuni NAS gateway
LA-based Jerde Partnership replaced on-premise storage and backup with Nasuni hybrid cloud NAS gateways to provide seamless access across timezones to project files
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January 19, 2021
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Jan'21
Value of GDPR fines shows dramatic increase in 2020
European regulators imposed almost €160m worth of fines during the past 12 months, a substantial rise
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January 18, 2021
18
Jan'21
MoD reports 18% rise in data loss incidents
The Ministry of Defence reported more than five hundred data security incidents in 2019-20, with seven serious enough to warrant disclosure to the ICO
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January 15, 2021
15
Jan'21
150,000 records accidentally wiped from police systems
Home Office claims data wiped from national police systems only relates to people who have never been convicted of a crime or had further police action taken against them following an arrest
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January 15, 2021
15
Jan'21
Coalition proposes secure standard model for Covid-19 passports
Vaccination Credential Initiative is working to ensure that people vaccinated against Covid-19 can access their records in a secure, verifiable and privacy-preserving way
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January 14, 2021
14
Jan'21
VVOLs and Pure win VM storage beauty parade for French chain
VMware Virtual Volumes and a move from NetApp to Pure Storage saw cosmetics retailer Beauty Success make performance gains and eliminate bottlenecks in ordering and logistics
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January 11, 2021
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Jan'21
Malaysia’s storage market dips amid uncertainty
Malaysia’s enterprise storage market declined 9.2% in 2020, but recovery is on the cards this year as business confidence improves
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January 08, 2021
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Jan'21
Major facial-recognition supplier builds system to identify masked faces
Facial-recognition supplier claims new system can accurately identify masked faces, therefore promoting public health during the pandemic. But questions remain about whether its existing UK law enforcement clients will be deploying the technology
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January 08, 2021
08
Jan'21
Brexit deal grants UK temporary data adequacy
The EU-UK Brexit deal has granted the UK temporary data adequacy to allow for the continued flow of data across borders, but the agreement has divided data protection experts
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January 07, 2021
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Jan'21
Hackney Council data leaked by Pysa ransomware gang
Council data stolen in October is leaked online in a double extortion attack
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January 05, 2021
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Jan'21
SKT and AWS debut 5G edge cloud service
SK Telecom’s multi-access edge computing service will let enterprises build low latency applications that make use of AWS cloud services
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December 23, 2020
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Dec'20
Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020
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December 23, 2020
23
Dec'20
Top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020
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December 21, 2020
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Dec'20
Top 10 container storage stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 container storage stories for 2020, when providing persistent Kubernetes storage, backup and disaster recovery became a key challenge for many organisations
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December 18, 2020
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Dec'20
Utility supplier People’s Energy has entire customer list stolen
All 270,000 customers of People’s Energy, a renewable energy startup, have had their details compromised in a major data breach incident
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December 17, 2020
17
Dec'20
AWS brings disaster recovery programme to Australia
Project Resilience will offer up to $5,000 worth of credits to public sector and community organisations to offset the cost of storing data on Amazon Web Services
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December 09, 2020
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Dec'20
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2021
The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be a cradle for technology innovation in the new year, whether it is 5G services, artificial intelligence, cloud computing or cyber security
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December 08, 2020
08
Dec'20
AWS to open Melbourne cloud region in 2022
Amazon Web Services’ second Australian cloud region is part of its growing infrastructure investments in the maturing cloud market
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December 07, 2020
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Dec'20
HMRC referred 11 data security incidents to ICO in 2019-20
HM Revenue & Customs shares details of a number of data security incidents that occurred during the 2019-20 financial year in its annual report
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December 02, 2020
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Dec'20
Re:Invent 2020: AWS CEO Andy Jassy on redefining hybrid cloud
Amazon Web Services’ Re:Invent user conference has moved online this year, with the firm’s CEO using the opening keynote to explain how AWS’s take on hybrid cloud has changed over time
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November 24, 2020
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Nov'20
Pure adds block, Azure and convergence to as-a-service offerings
Pure customers can get its storage on-premise, in colocation or the cloud, and now it has added FlashArray C// block capacity and Flash Stack converged infrastructure to the catalogue
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November 17, 2020
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Nov'20
Kaspersky shuts down data-processing activities in Russia
Cyber security provider’s data storage and processing activities for customers in Europe, the US and Canada, have now been fully relocated to Switzerland
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November 12, 2020
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Nov'20
IT Priorities 2020: Budgets rejigged to support 2021 recovery
IT has been essential in helping organisations remain operational. IT chiefs are now considering the IT to drive a sustained business recovery
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November 10, 2020
10
Nov'20
Leaky AWS S3 bucket once again at centre of data breach
Prestige Software exposed millions of records after failing to pay attention to the security of its cloud instances
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November 10, 2020
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Nov'20
IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 consolidates storage push to cloud
The emphasis on home and remote working has been felt in storage and backup as in all areas of IT, with continued evolution towards the cloud and as-a-service storage and backup
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November 10, 2020
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Nov'20
IT Priorities 2020: After Covid-19, security goes back to basics
This year’s transition to remote working highlighted big gaps in the fundamentals of security, as updated TechTarget/Computer Weekly data reveals
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November 10, 2020
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Nov'20
Canada ad firm subtracts 44U with HPE and Ctera hyper-converged
Glenn Davis Group slashed its hardware estate from 48U of rack space to 4U when it ditched its SAN and tape legacy kit for flash-based Ctera X Series and cloud backup
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November 09, 2020
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Nov'20
Quantum’s ATFS aims to classify and manage unstructured data
Quantum triumvirate now comprises ATFS for file system classification and management, StorNext for high performance with large files and ActiveScale object storage as a bulk store
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November 09, 2020
09
Nov'20
AWS expands footprint in India with Hyderabad region
Amazon Web Services is investing $2.8bn in a second cloud region in one of the fastest-growing public cloud markets in the Asia-Pacific region
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November 06, 2020
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Nov'20
ICO sued over ‘failure’ to address ad industry practices
Privacy campaigner the Open Rights Group claims the advertising technology industry is systematically breaching the GDPR, and the ICO is doing nothing about it
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November 05, 2020
05
Nov'20
Slot of the Antarctic: Tape the best option for polar survey backup
Tape deemed the best medium for backup on board the Antarctic research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough, with Quantum’s Scalar i3 chosen in a fully redundant deployment
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November 03, 2020
03
Nov'20
GDPR lawsuit against Oracle and Salesforce moves forward
Class action suit seeks claims worth more than £10bn over the processing of personal information