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• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  EU issues draft data adequacy decision in favour of US

  The European Commission has concluded that the United States does ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union and will now launch the process towards the adoption of an adequacy decision

• December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

  Cloud-based fingerprint system for UK police nears completion

  Police Digital Service announces that a new cloud-based fingerprint system developed under its Transforming Forensics programme is nearly complete, but data protection concerns around the use of US-based cloud providers remain

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Survey: Most want green IT but many won’t get it soon

  IT – and storage in particular – consume huge amounts of energy but sustainability targets are proving to be elusive, according to a survey commissioned by Pure Storage

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  Cohesity doubles down on cyber-defence failings via backup

  Datahawk service and Data Security Alliance bring clean data restores, ransomware artefact detection, data vaulting and data audit for a clearer understanding of attack impact

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  LastPass probes new cyber incident related to August attack

  The August 2022 cyber attack on LastPass seems to have begat another incident, according to company CEO Karim Toubba

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  Panzura partners with AWS on ransomware counter-measures

  Panzura might have slipped beneath the waves, but it’s come back reinvigorated, and now boasts integration with AWS with ransomware protection and Outposts hardware

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Data management, backup becoming the CISO's responsibility

  More and more CISOs are taking on responsibility for wider data management strategies, and this trend looks set to grow next year

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Meta faces UK lawsuit over surveillance business model

  The High Court case against Meta could set a precedent for millions of UK users to object to their personal data being collected and processed for advertising purposes

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Pure aims at near bare metal I/O with Portworx PX-Fast

  PX-Fast is driven by customer need for scale and high performance in containerised environments and sees reworking of Portworx data architecture to slash storage access time

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Genome lab puts Vast Data’s rapid I/O to work on patient data

  French government-backed SeqOIA ditched its Lustre-based storage after it reached performance limits and files got corrupted. That got fixed by a Vast Data QLC flash-based array

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Scality Ring 9 brings Storage Accelerator enhanced flash tiers

  Scality upgrade to Ring 9 of its object (and file) storage software sees enhancements to tiering, the introduction of Prometheus-based monitoring and hooks into VMware vCloud Director

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Met Police removes nearly two-thirds of people from gangs matrix

  Legal action by human rights group Liberty forces Met Police to overhaul its gangs violence matrix database

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Dropbox code compromised in phishing attack

  Cloud storage service says malicious actors successfully accessed some of its code within GitHub, but insists customer data is secure

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  NetApp launches BlueXP as single console across on-prem and cloud

  BlueXP gives customers monitoring and control over all NetApp storage on-site and in multiple clouds. Meanwhile, its Ontap OS has added S3 object storage access

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  Huawei pushes OceanStor’s Arm chip benefits at Paris love-in

  Chinese giant trumpets green benefits on its Arm processor hardware with OceanStor Dorado V6 range, which offers huge capacities and performance at the high end

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  SoftIron’s HyperCloud to ease private cloud deployments

  SoftIron claims its technology stack fully automates the provisioning of storage, compute, networking and infrastructure services, providing a fully functioning, multi-tenant cloud

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  Singapore’s met service to get new supercomputer

  The Meteorological Service Singapore is getting a new Cray supercomputer to improve weather forecasting and tropical climate research

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  ICO warns against using biometrics for ‘emotional analysis’

  ICO warning highlights risk of ‘systemic bias’ and discrimination associated with organisations using biometric data and technologies for emotion analysis

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Microsoft slams external researchers over its own data leak

  Microsoft inadvertently leaked customer data after misconfiguring an Azure Blob, but has hit out at the organisation that discovered its error, claiming it is exaggerating the scope of the issue

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  GRAID puts RAID on a GPU for cut-price disk protection and rebuilds

  US startup puts its software on Nvidia graphics cards to offload RAID processing and throughput of 110GBps throughput across up to 32 NVMe solid-state drives

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Alibaba Cloud readying dedicated cloud regions for private datacentres

  The hybrid cloud offering will provide enterprises with a dedicated Alibaba Cloud region in their datacentres with multiple availability zones

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Bowled out: NVMe flash pioneer Pavilion Data ceases business

  Last of the pioneer NVMe flash storage array makers, Pavilion made multiprotocol highs-speed boxes – but it seems to have run out of sources of investment and gone out of business

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  PoINT to offer on-site S3 object storage archive on disk and tape

  Archival Gateway can cluster up to 256 tape readers to provide S3 object storage clusters capable of storing 50 billion objects per bucket, and giving throughput of 230GBps

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  How AWS is tapping the groundswell in cloud adoption

  Phil Davis, managing director of Amazon Web Services in Asia-Pacific and Japan, talks up the company’s growth strategy and how it is retaining customers amid rivals nipping at its heels

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware family becoming more dangerous

  Researchers from Symantec share fresh insight into the ongoing development of the ransomware-as-a-service family known variously as ALPHV, BlackCat and Noberus

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Dr Martens goes feetfirst into cloud-to-cloud backup

  Iconic bootmaker laces up for a strategy to move all applications to the cloud, beginning with cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 apps plus on-site VMware operations

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  ANZ organisations using antiquated backup and recovery systems

  Nearly half of ANZ organisations are still using backup and recovery systems from over a decade ago, hampering their ability to protect their data assets and recover from ransomware attacks

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Tintri pushes for cloud and container storage with Tintri.io

  Tintri aims to leverage core technology in its products to meet the needs of containers and microservices with cloud versions of its on-premise appliances

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  CISOs should spend on critical apps, cloud, zero-trust, in 2023

  Faced with a global recession next year, security buyers should try to direct investment towards technology that protects customer-facing and revenue-generating workloads, say analysts

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Panasas’s double NAS offer aims at multiple analytics workloads

  ActiveStor Flash and ActiveStor Ultra XL target I/O profiles from rapid AI/ML to processing-heavy modelling but remain firmly on-prem, with object and cloud declared ‘interesting’

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  VMware’s vSAN 8 gets a rebuild for the solid-state storage era

  At VMware Explore 2022, we interview VMware’s John Gilmartin about the new, faster vSAN, plans to use DPUs, the vSAN+ cloud offering, and VMware Ransomware Recovery

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  VMware CEO: Broadcom acquisition is on track

  Raghu Raghuram claims VMware customers are getting more comfortable with the Broadcom acquisition while employees are ‘more or less focused’ on the job at hand

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  NetApp storage goes GA for VMware Cloud on AWS

  Move will bring up to 50% decrease in TCO for customers running VMware apps in the Amazon cloud, says NetApp. No date yet for extension of the service across other public clouds

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al

  Lightbits builds NVMe-overTCP SAN clusters for Linux servers with Intel cards that accelerate network processing to give millions of IOPS with storage for public and private clouds

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  VMware CEO defends Broadcom deal

  Raghu Raghuram is confident that Broadcom will invest in growing VMware through a broad portfolio of assets that will serve its entire customer base, not just its biggest customers

• August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

  CloudMile banks on trust in regional expansion

  Taiwanese cloud and AI startup CloudMile keeps its billing transparent and provides round-the-clock support to build trust with customers as it grows its business in Southeast Asia

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Home Office selects CGI as strategic delivery partner

  IT services supplier will act as strategic delivery partner for the Home Office’s plans to modernise and join up UK law enforcement’s digital capabilities

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Hibs push for the backup premier league with Acronis

  Hibernian FC signs Acronis to get top division data protection and make the most of ticketing information and match footage as it tries to gain more value from the data it holds

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  The verdict is Pure as Scottish prosecutor upgrades high-end storage

  Scotland’s prosecution service saw disk drives in the dock every week with EMC legacy storage. Now it’s got Pure all-flash and has turned over an (Evergreen) new leaf

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Cyber security training ‘boring’ and largely ignored

  Two-thirds of employees don’t bother to pay attention to cyber security training – and the fault does not lie with them

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  No More Ransom initiative helps 1.5 million people in six years

  One and a half million people have now taken advantage of free ransomware decryption tools offered by a joint European project

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Four key need-to-knows about CXL

  Compute Express Link will pool multiple types of memory and so allow much higher memory capacities and the possibility of rapidly composable infrastructure to meet the needs of varied workloads

• July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22

  Transatlantic PET contest open for entries

  A joint UK-US innovation prize challenge for developers of privacy-enhancing technologies has opened for entries

• July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22

  Russia’s Cozy Bear abusing Dropbox, Google Drive to target victims

  Russian APT known as Cozy Bear has become adept at quickly incorporating popular cloud storage services into its attack chain to avoid detection

• July 18, 2022 18 Jul'22

  Vast Data upgrade boosts usable capacity, adds SaaS console

  With improved data reduction algorithms, Vast has boosted its unstructured data storage offer, with 25% more usable data possible

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  ICO wants to ‘empower people through information’

  Information Commissioner’s Office sets out commitment to safeguard the information rights of the most vulnerable people in UK society

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  NHS trust cuts costs and refresh cycle with Wasabi cloud storage

  Imperial College NHS Trust expects to saves 30% in storage costs and cut back on five-year refresh headaches in a move that has seen backup and archive data move to the Wasabi cloud

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  NetApp Ontap to be sole vSAN storage alternative in the cloud

  NetApp Ontap storage will provide file access capacity to extend VMware data stores in AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google clouds as a cheaper alternative to VMware vSAN

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  How Bank BPD Bali modernised its datacentre infrastructure

  The Indonesian bank has deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform in a move to modernise its datacentre infrastructure and pave the way towards hybrid and multi-cloud

• June 30, 2022 30 Jun'22

  ICO to cut back on fines for public sector data breaches

  Information commissioner John Edwards sets out a revised approach to how the ICO handles data breaches in the public sector, saying fining victims risks punishing the public twice over