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Storage
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May 06, 2015
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May'15
HP launches HDD-equipped Apollo 4000 at object storage and big data
HP upgrades Proliant SL family scale-out storage-dense servers to Apollo 4000 series with Intel Xeon chips to offer low-cost, high-volume DAS
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May 06, 2015
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May'15
EMC courts developers with open-source storage software push
Storage giant wants to make it easier for developers to get hold of its software and accelerate app development times
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May 05, 2015
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May'15
Atlantis launches mid-market Hyperscale software-defined storage
Atlantis Computing follows up its USX software-defined storage product with Hyperscale preconfigured software aimed at mid-market customers
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May 05, 2015
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May'15
VCE takes wraps off "hyper-converged" VxRacks to fast-track users to the cloud
EMC-owned converged infrastructure specialist expands portfolio of cloud-enabling platforms
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May 05, 2015
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May'15
EMC revamps its all-flash XtremIO storage arrays
Storage giant EMC hopes software 4.0 update and capacity upgrades will help it maintain its lead in the all-flash storage array market
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April 30, 2015
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Apr'15
HDS joins the software-defined infrastructure pack
HDS move into software-defined infrastructure space with new portfolio
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April 29, 2015
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Apr'15
Veeam upgrades Availability Suite to support VMware VVOLs
Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam upgrades Availability Suite version 8 to support VMware Virtual Volumes
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April 28, 2015
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Apr'15
SanDisk waves its Nand over SX350 PCIe SSD cards
SanDisk uses its own flash chips to create SX350 line of PCIe SSD, with claims of a drop in price per gigabyte by as much as 61%
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April 24, 2015
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Apr'15
Amazon first-quarter results value Amazon Web Services at $5bn
Amazon's Q1 results confirm Amazon Web Services – AWS – as its most profitable business, valuing the cloud services provider at $5bn
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April 24, 2015
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Apr'15
EMC results: Storage arrays falter as VMware marches on
EMC results show hardware revenues’ relative decline as storage rivals and alternative approaches emerge
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April 22, 2015
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Apr'15
Load DynamiX adds OpenStack protocols to storage testing product
Storage testing and validation provider adds OpenStack Swift and Cinder support to existing protocols in its Enterprise version 2.6 hardware
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April 21, 2015
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Apr'15
BT sets out ambition to become enterprise's cloud integrator of choice
BT outlines its 'Cloud of Clouds' vision to allow users to access cloud apps and services, regardless of where their systems are hosted
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April 20, 2015
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Apr'15
VMware Project Lightwave targets containerised app security concerns
Virtualisation giant VMware looks to increase enterprise readiness of container-based apps with security tool
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April 20, 2015
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Apr'15
Cloud hardware investments now account for 30% of all IT spend
IDC infrastructure tracker shows spending on cloud-enabling server, storage and Ethernet technologies is on the rise
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April 13, 2015
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Apr'15
Dell boosts scale-out NAS FS8600 and Fluid File System to v4
Dell beefs up hardware on its scale-out NAS FS8600, which can scale to four nodes in a cluster and a 4PB namespace with an upgrade
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April 09, 2015
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Apr'15
Tintri upgrades virtual machine QoS and takes a shot at VVOLs
Hybrid flash array maker Tintri adds IOPS performance guarantee per VM to its operating system and takes a swipe at VMware’s VVOLs
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April 08, 2015
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Apr'15
HGST marries helium HDDs and Himalaya in object storage Active Archive
Drive maker HGST punts on storage hardware with Amplidata object storage software in a multi-petabyte box filled with HelioSeal HDDs
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March 30, 2015
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Mar'15
Fitness First slashes datacentre hosting costs with Nutanix
Fitness First has migrated its traditional datacentre installation to converged infrastructure based on Nutanix hardware hosted at Telecity
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March 27, 2015
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Mar'15
Amazon Cloud Drive targets Dropbox and Google with unlimited storage
Amazon's cloud storage service to offer unlimited storage at cheaper rates than Dropbox and Google
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March 26, 2015
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Mar'15
IBM adds block and file cloud storage options to SoftLayer
Big Blue adds iSCSI block and file access to SoftLayer cloud storage services
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March 26, 2015
26
Mar'15
Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security
Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought
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March 25, 2015
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Mar'15
Hedvig promises raft of advanced software-defined storage features
Startup comes out of stealth with software-defined storage with Docker deployment and policy assignment to virtual drives on commodity hardware
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March 25, 2015
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Mar'15
EMC launches “data lake” appliance
EMC launches appliance to help customers build “data lakes”, melding tech from Information Infrastructure, Pivotal and VMware
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March 24, 2015
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Mar'15
Talon upgrades MobileFast for web and Windows file sync and share
Enterprise file sync and share provider Talon Storage adds web browser and Windows workstation access to MobileFast
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March 17, 2015
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Mar'15
Adobe Document Cloud seeks to end enterprise reliance on paper-based forms
Adobe plans to roll out a cloud-based digitised document hub to make it easier for enterprise users to manage and process forms
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March 13, 2015
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Mar'15
Google squares up for new AWS cloud battle with Nearline beta launch
Google unveils AWS Glacier challenger, which promises business users unlimited storage and fast data retrieval times
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March 11, 2015
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Mar'15
Connected Data targets business with Transporter cloud file sharing family
Connected Data’s Transporter for Business appliances enable cloud file sharing services for employees from a preconfigured box
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March 10, 2015
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Mar'15
2015 IT priorities: On-premise deployments high on agenda, but cloud interest on the rise
The 2015 Computer Weekly IT priorities survey points to growing interest in cloud technologies, but on-premise still rules
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March 09, 2015
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Mar'15
X-IO debuts in all-flash array market with ISE 800 series
X-IO – known for self-healing, long-life spinning disk hard drives – makes debut in the all-flash array market with the ISE 800 series
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March 06, 2015
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Mar'15
How to ensure your hot-desking colleagues keep their data secure
Once hot-desking is implemented, data security suddenly demands greater attention
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March 06, 2015
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Mar'15
Law firm cuts SQL query times and future-proofs with Tegile hybrid flash
Reading-based Boyes and Turner opts not to replace Dell EqualLogic SAN and brings in hybrid flash array from startup Tegile
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February 27, 2015
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Feb'15
Product survey: Hybrid flash arrays from the startups
Hybrid flash arrays from innovative startups have developed products that exploit the best of flash and HDD
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February 27, 2015
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Feb'15
Solidfire slots in all-flash SF9605 and debuts storage software Element X
Solidfire adds the SF9605, a higher-capacity iteration of its 05-suffixed arrays, and announces availability of Element X operating system
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February 26, 2015
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Feb'15
NTS gets DotHill hybrid flash with tiering in datacentre revamp
The National Trust for Scotland has deployed a DotHill hybrid flash SAN with automated storage tiering to support a revamp of its IT systems
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February 26, 2015
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Feb'15
Transparency key to Europe’s big data opportunity
Europe has an opportunity to lead big data analysis, says Richard Benjamins, group director of business intelligence big data at Telefonica
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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 25, 2015
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Feb'15
Dell adds Nutanix-powered XC630 and XC730 hyperconverged systems
Dell targets range of use cases with XC630 and XC730 Nutanix-powered server/storage nodes
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February 24, 2015
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Feb'15
PernixData FVP boosts RAM as host storage with up to 4x compression
Flash caching firm PernixData adds compression to FVP 2.5 for more scope to use RAM as host-based storage for high-performance datasets
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February 23, 2015
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Feb'15
Organisations address virtual server backup but disaster recovery top priority in 2015
Computer Weekly survey shows fewer UK IT departments prioritise virtual server backup in 2015, but disaster recovery remains a key task
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February 20, 2015
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Feb'15
IBM moves to MLC in FlashSystem 900 and V9000 all-flash arrays
IBM boosts density with new Micron MLC flash drives in revamped all-flash arrays, the FlashSystem 900 and the V9000 that includes SAN Volume Controller storage virtualisation hardware
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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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February 17, 2015
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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
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February 17, 2015
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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
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February 12, 2015
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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
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February 10, 2015
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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
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February 06, 2015
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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
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February 04, 2015
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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
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February 03, 2015
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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
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February 02, 2015
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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
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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 28, 2015
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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
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January 27, 2015
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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
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January 27, 2015
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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
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January 27, 2015
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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
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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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January 22, 2015
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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
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January 15, 2015
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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
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January 15, 2015
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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
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January 15, 2015
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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
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January 13, 2015
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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
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January 07, 2015
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Jan'15
GIW Industries uses Pernixdata to avoid SAN upgrade
GIW Industries has used PernixData to improve the performance of XenDesktop desktop virtualisation
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December 30, 2014
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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
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December 29, 2014
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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
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December 22, 2014
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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
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December 16, 2014
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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
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December 11, 2014
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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
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December 10, 2014
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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
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December 10, 2014
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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
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December 09, 2014
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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
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December 03, 2014
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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
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November 19, 2014
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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
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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 06, 2014
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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
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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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November 04, 2014
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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
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October 31, 2014
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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
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October 28, 2014
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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
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October 27, 2014
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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
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October 27, 2014
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Oct'14
Microsoft and Amazon’s cloud war reaches next level
Microsoft's Satya Nadella made a slew of Azure announcements in San Francisco
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October 24, 2014
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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
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October 23, 2014
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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
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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 20, 2014
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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
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October 17, 2014
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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
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October 16, 2014
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Oct'14
VMworld 2014: Next-generation desktop virtualisation
Are the barriers preventing IT departments from virtualising user computing falling?
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October 16, 2014
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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
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October 16, 2014
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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
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October 15, 2014
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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
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October 15, 2014
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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
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October 15, 2014
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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
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October 14, 2014
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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
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October 10, 2014
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Oct'14
Symantec splits storage and security
Symantec is splitting its storage and security business, following just days after HP announced its split
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October 09, 2014
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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
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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 08, 2014
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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
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October 06, 2014
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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
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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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October 02, 2014
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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
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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
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September 30, 2014
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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