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• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Suse launches Ceph-based cloud software-defined storage

  Suse launches commercially-supported object, block and file Ceph distribution Enterprise Storage, software-defined storage

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Violin Memory launches full-featured 7300 and 7700 series flash arrays

  Violin Memory launches 7300 and 7700 series all-flash arrays with replication, failover, WAN optimisation and data deduplication

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Catalogic hopes to bury backup with ECX copy data management

  Software maker believes backup can be a thing of the past if users leverage snapshots for data protection using copy data management products

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Actifio One adds hybrid cloud storage tier to appliances

  Actifio One adds hybrid cloud functionality to existing software and hardware appliances that slim multiple file iterations to fewest needed across the organisation

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Symantec continues cloud investment in spite of poor Q3 results

  Symantec has reported third quarter 2015 revenue of $1.64bn, a drop of 4% compared with $1.70bn over the same period in 2014

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Veeam posts 40% growth in virtual machine backup product revenues

  Virtual machine backup software maker Veeam records 40% year-on-year increase in booked licence revenues in 2014

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  EMC launches VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliances

  EMC announces VSPEX Blue EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance in general purpose and performance variants

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  ArcServe puts UDP software in 7x00 backup series with flash

  ArcServe set to launch flash-powered data deduplication backup appliances with replication, high availability and agentless VM backup

• January 28, 2015 28 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

• January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

  NetApp adds EF560 and E5600 all-flash and hybrid flash arrays

  NetApp adds boosted IOPS in all-flash EF560 plus hybrid flash and HDD products in E5600 series, expanding capacity in the midrange

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  AstraZeneca deploys Box to all its 51,000 staff to boost collaboration

  Multinational biopharma business AstraZeneca has chosen to deploy Box cloud-based collaboration to all its 51,000 employees

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  A lot of nonsense touted about IoT, says analyst

  There is a lot of nonsense being touted about the internet of things, says Ovum analyst

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Quantum adds hybrid cloud storage options to StorNext Q-Series and DXi

  Quantum adds Q-Series Archive, Q-Series Vault and Q-Cloud Protect for AWS to its StorNext environment

• January 23, 2015 23 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

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  Unitrends debuts flash in Recovery Series physical and virtual backup appliances

  Unitrends puts flash in a backup appliance as Recovery Series promises single screen for physical and virtual machine backup

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Kingston Hospital NHS Trust moves off BT with picture archive system

  Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has begun redeploying its picture archiving system on a new architecture as it migrates off BT

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Gateshead NHS migrates over one million radiology images

  Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust moves images and scans to a central archive which can be viewed from any department in the hospital

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Amatis Networks waves goodbye to LUN woes and deploys Tintri hybrid flash

  Managed service provider Amatis Networks deploys Tintri hybrid flash to slash latency and cut time-consuming LUN storage management overheads

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Nisa Retail opts for backup appliance for rapid disaster recovery

  Nisa Retail ditches tape-based servers-in-a-van disaster recovery with Quorum backup and high availability mirroring between sites

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  GIW Industries uses Pernixdata to avoid SAN upgrade

  GIW Industries has used PernixData to improve the performance of XenDesktop desktop virtualisation

• December 30, 2014 30 Dec'14

  Top 10 storage stories of 2014

  While users upgraded storage and backup for virtualisation, hyperscale, software-defined, OpenStack and object storage gained traction

• December 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

  CW500 Club in 2014

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2014

  In 2014's datacentre market, trends of social, cloud, analytics and big data have influenced datacentre architectural decisions

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  CIO interview: VMware's Tony Scott re-engineers IT as a service

  Agility is only as effective as the slowest step. At VMware, CIO Tony Scott has his sights set on tackling this

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Cern cuts latency in move from NetApp PCIe flash cards to drives

  Large Hadron Collider operator Cern used PCIE flash cards for databases but found their limits and deployed flash drives in NetApp filers

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Hero Group uses vMotion to replace SAN and servers with Nutanix

  Baby food, fruit and cereal bar company Hero Group has migrated its Holland operations over to a single virtual platform

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Cambridge college replaces legacy EMC with Nimble hybrid flash

  Trinity Hall replaces end-of-life EMC Celerra with Nimble Storage CS220 hybrid flash in a complete upgrade of VMware virtual server environment

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  UCL expands DDN WOS object storage capacity to 3PB

  University College London’s object storage goes from 50TB testbed to 3PB of live storage

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Older hardware puts data at risk

  Delays in hardware upgrades have left many businesses with hardware infrastructure that is more likely to fail, resulting in data loss or downtime

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  NetApp: Hybrid cloud storage is a big deal; flash is not

  At its Berlin Insight event, NetApp says hybrid cloud is the big storage story, with flash set to disappear from prominence

• November 16, 2014 16 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

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  Tintri raises capacity and adds Hyper-V in hybrid flash T800 series

  Hybrid flash firm Tintri boosts capacities and adds Hyper-V support in T800 series with upgrade to operating system

• November 05, 2014 05 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

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Google joins enterprise cloud battle with additions to its cloud platform

  Google made a raft of announcements at its GCP Live event, including enhancements to its networking stack and storage price drops

• October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

  DataDirect Networks adds Amazon S3 gateway to WOS platform

  DataDirect Networks (DDN) announces Amazon S3 gateway device for its Web Object Scaler (WOS) storage platform

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Pioneering Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange opts for Fujitsu storage

  Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange datacentre provider DARZ chooses Fujitsu’s Red Hat OpenStack-compatible storage nodes

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Fujitsu goes hyperscale with CD10000 open-source storage

  In a tilt at the hyperscale market the CD10000 marries Fujitsu hardware with Red Hat Ceph open-source storage software

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Microsoft and Amazon’s cloud war reaches next level

  Microsoft's Satya Nadella made a slew of Azure announcements in San Francisco

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Arrays cost councils four times more than software-defined storage

  Nexenta finds UK councils spend around £1,200 per terabyte on storage arrays – four times more than on storage software

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  BBC takes iPlayer video production to AWS cloud to beat bottleneck and storage woes

  Having run Video Factory on AWS for over a year, BBC's Robert Shield explains how he overcame iPlayer bottleneck and availability challenges

• October 22, 2014 22 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

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Kingston University gets 600 IOPS per desktop with Atlantis Ilio

  Surrey-based university deploys virtual desktops for 1,000 remote users and gets up to 600 IOPS per user

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Pernod Ricard toasts centralised data backup and cloud disaster recovery

  Drinks company Pernod Ricard turned to the cloud for backup and disaster recovery for its IT systems in Europe

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  VMworld 2014: Next-generation desktop virtualisation

  Are the barriers preventing IT departments from virtualising user computing falling?

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  As VSAN 2.0 goes beta VMware aims at hyper-converged x86 storage

  VSAN version 2.0 is in beta with VMware targeting the storage virtualisation product at x86-based hyper-converged storage use cases

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Intel bets on custom silicon as specialised workloads rule datacentres

  Intel is betting on workload-optimised silicon as datacentre workloads become sophisticated, dynamic and varied

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Best of VMworld Europe 2014 user awards: Winners

  The Best of VMworld Europe 2014 user awards have been announced. See who made the top spots

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Oxfam unwraps mobile collaboration benefits with Box’s cloud content service

  The move to Box will mean that Oxfam workers will get mobile access to data on the move and at remote locations

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Enterprise IT should be more user-centric, says Box CEO Aaron Levie

  The CEO of cloud-based file sharing and content management service Box calls on enterprises to rethink IT delivery model

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  HP on board with VMware’s EVO:Rail as scale-out future hinted

  HP and HDS join the hardware makers’ list for VMware’s EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Symantec splits storage and security

  Symantec is splitting its storage and security business, following just days after HP announced its split

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Druva targets server backup to the cloud with Phoenix

  Endpoint/BYOD backup specialist Druva aims at the remote office market with Phoenix for server backup to the cloud

• October 08, 2014 08 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

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Veeam moves into physical backup with free Endpoint Backup

  Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam announces free module to protect desktops, laptops and servers

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  SolidFire 2405 and 4805 all-flash arrays target the enterprise

  SolidFire adds all-flash arrays in a 1U box with 50,000 IOPS in a move to shift customer focus from cloud providers to enterprise users

• October 06, 2014 06 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

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Red Hat Storage Server boosts capacity to 19PB and adds snapshots

  Open source software-defined storage Red Hat Storage Server version three ups capacity to 19PB and adds snapshots

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  DDN launches scale-out NAS GS7K GPFS product bundle

  DataDirect Networks launches the GS7K, a pre-configured GPFS scale-out NAS/parallel file system storage product

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  PernixData adds RAM pools to FVP flash caching software

  Flash caching software maker PernixData adds the ability to create cache pools from server RAM

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  How YouGov deployed Veeam Backup & Replication

  YouGov has deployed Veeam Backup & Replication to switch suppliers following the breakdown of a managed services contract

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  All-flash array roundup: A two-track approach from big storage

  The big storage suppliers are split between all-flash array products with ground-up designs and retrofitted HDD arrays with flash

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Securing virtual machines still a dark art, says Kaspersky Lab

  Five common myths about virtualisation security is preventing businesses getting the greatest benefit with the least risk

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Software-defined infrastructure challenges legacy IT culture, warns Gartner

  Software-defined infrastructures are rapidly emerging and could disrupt conventional IT control, responsibility and support

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Nokia and Red Hat collaborate to create open-source telco cloud

  Nokia Networks and OpenStack provider Red Hat join forces so mobile broadband operators can create a telco cloud infrastructure

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  What’s driving OpenStack’s rise as a viable cloud alternative?

  OpenStack revenue will soar from $883m in 2014 to $3.3bn in 2018. Here are five factors that are taking the open cloud mainstream

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Design firm adopts sole supplier for outsourced IT

  Small and medium sized enterprises should not overlook the advantages of a close relationship with a sole supplier

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Datacentre market set to undergo dramatic change says Gartner

  Disruptive factors including cloud dominance, datacentre competition, market fragmentation and changing economic dynamics will dramatically reshape datacentres by 2016

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  Virtual backup appliance pros and cons

  Computer Weekly examines virtual backup appliances that run backup and restore from a virtual machine

• September 08, 2014 08 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

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Busting cloud myths: Four user instances where cloud computing failed

  Cloud can be beneficial but only when implemented correctly. Here's why four enterprises failed in their cloud projects

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  HP launches cloud and SDDC-ready ProLiant servers

  The next generation of x86 ProLiant servers are designed for the new compute era and are cloud and software-defined ready, vouches HP

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Cloud firm cuts latency with PernixData flash caching software

  Cloud apps provider Virtustream cuts VMware host latency by 96% with PernixData FVP flash caching software

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Server revenue grows for the first time since 2011

  Server shipments grew marginally in the second quarter of 2014, the first rise in nearly three years. HP led the pack, but IBM's revenues shrank

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Veg supplier freshens up data recovery times with WAN optimisation

  Network congestion limited vegetable wholesaler Product World’s ability to create and move VMs until it deployed WAN optimisation

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Budgets up as virtualisation brings storage and backup headaches

  Survey finds storage budgets rising and more firms getting flash, but server virtualisation is pushing capacity needs

• August 22, 2014 22 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

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  HP targets software-defined datacentre customers with new storage products

  HP launches software-oriented storage services including entry-level all-flash array and virtual storage appliance

• August 21, 2014 21 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.

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Nexenta adds object storage NexentaEdge and all-flash array NexentaStor

  NexentaEdge software-defined storage delivers petabyte-level scale-out capability, NexentaStor gets all-flash array functionality

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Datacentres are a ‘soft target’ for environmental lobbyists, says CBRE

  Lack of clear international standards for datacentres is allowing environmental groups to criticise the sector for its energy use

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Only one in 100 cloud providers meet latest EU data protection requirements

  Majority of cloud providers are not yet prepared to meet the requirements of the new EU data protection regulation

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Travis Perkins beats ‘kingdoms of data’ woes with Google cloud services

  Travis Perkins has chosen Google Apps and Google Drive services to store and share data more efficiently

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  NHS trust cuts backups with Spectra Logic disk backup and tape

  Morecambe Bay NHS trust slashes backup window from 24 hours to less than six in a move to Spectra Logic disk-based backup

• July 31, 2014 31 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

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Quantum launches DXi6900 enterprise data deduplication backup box

  DXi6900 aimed at enterprise users as Quantum plans to reduces data deduplication backup product family to one that includes the V-Series virtual appliances and the midrange DXi4700

• July 18, 2014 18 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

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  CA spins out Arcserve backup and data protection division

  CA spins out Arcserve to launch as a standalone midrange backup and data protection products company

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  CIPD ditches 20-a-day tape habit for Exagrid data deduplication

  HR professionals organisation the CIPD replaces tape backup with disk-based data deduplication backup hardware from Exagrid

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Microsoft signs 20-year wind energy deal to power datacentres

  Microsoft has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for wind energy with EDF Renewable Energy – its “largest wind investment to date”

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Why Rackspace is betting on managed cloud amid doubts over future

  Rackspace has relaunched its public cloud services as managed cloud to differentiate its costly services from cloud heavyweights. Will the move help?

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Red Hat adds erasure coding in Inktank Ceph Enterprise v1.2

  Red Hat adds erasure coding aimed at backup and archive use cases to Inktank Ceph Enterprise version 1.2

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Open-E aims Jupiter DSS software defined storage at enterprise SAN

  Open-E adds ZFS functions and scalability to take its DSS storage to the enterprise at a claimed 25% of the cost of storage array products

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Microsoft adds StorSimple hybrid storage arrays to Azure cloud service

  Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach

  At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  EMC XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon get new CPUs and data services

  EMC boosts XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon with Ivy Bridge CPUs and advanced data services including flash array snapshots

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity

  The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Survey: Storage budgets shrink while capacity balloons

  451 Research survey finds storage budgets shrink while data volumes increase, as flash use becomes commonplace

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  IBM opens SoftLayer datacentre in London for local cloud customers

  IBM opens a datacentre in Chessington, specifically for its SoftLayer cloud customers

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Skyera hits UK market with skyHawk all-flash arrays

  All-flash array startup Skyera inks UK distribution deal that brings 1U MLC-based arrays to market

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Security must change in Indian digital marketplace

  More than 25% of large digital marketplaces will have explicit strategies for consumer computing and security by 2018, according to Gartner