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• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Chef secures $40m spending round as enterprise DevOps adoption soars

  Automation software supplier Chef dismisses buyout talk after sharing details of latest funding round

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Case study: North Middlesex NHS aims to go digital by 2017

  North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust embarks on an ambitious project to go digital by the end of 2017 – three years ahead of the government’s mandate

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Case study: How Ebury took a cloud-first approach to delivering financial services

  Financial services firm outlines how it is helping customers expand their businesses internationally with the help of cloud

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  SanDisk InfiniFlash flash arrays get Nexenta software-defined storage

  SanDisk offers its all-flash array InfiniFlash IF100 with Nexenta's storage software on-board in another move in the trend towards choice in storage hardware and software deployments

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Office 365 overtakes Google Apps as business users' preferred cloud productivity suite

  Use of Microsoft cloud suite has risen steeply over the past 12 months, leaving Google Apps trailing, research shows

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Simplivity adds ROBO hyper-converged box and OS enhancements

  Hyper-converged box maker adds a remote office appliance plus OmniStack operating environment upgrades to help clustering across the WAN and file level restore in backup

• August 27, 2015 27 Aug'15

  Research highlights security risk posed by cloud "super" users

  CloudLock's third quarter report into cloud security trends reveals 1% of users create 75% of the risk in off-premise environments

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  DataCore teams up with Curvature to offer recycled storage hardware

  Partnership lashes supplier-driven rip-and-replace and promises seven-year lifespan on recycled storage hardware with DataCore software-defined storage deployed

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Barnsley College dumps IBM SANs for Tegile hybrid flash arrays

  IBM DS3200 SANs retired as South Yorkshire college standardises on Tegile hybrid flash arrays in a move that cuts spend on new disk by £30,000 a year

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Amazon Web Services opens up machine learning service to European developers

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) claims running service out of Dublin datacentre will reduce latency for European developers using predictive services

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Intel and Goldman Sachs invest in Mirantis to boost OpenStack enterprise adoption

  Chipmaker is one of a number of investors that have pledged to help Mirantis increase the enterprise appeal of open source OpenStack clouds

• August 20, 2015 20 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

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Hybrid cloud two to five years off hitting mainstream adoption, claims Gartner

  Hybrid IT approach is still some way off reaching mainstream levels of enterprise adoption, according to market watcher Gartner

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Cloud storage service Wuala to close in November

  Seagate-owned cloud storage player confirms its closure and gives users three months' notice to remove their data from its servers

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  IaaS providers pin hopes on spending cut reprieve for G-Cloud 7

  G-Cloud suppliers are calling on the government to step up, rather than scale back, investment in the framework as spending cuts loom

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Netflix shuts down final datacentre to go all-in on public cloud

  Netflix is gearing up for the closure of its final datacentre, as it makes good on its earlier pledge to move more of its IT infrastructure to the public cloud

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Gloucester City Homes embarks on VDI-led tech transformation with Exponential-e

  Social housing firm taps into Exponential-e's Ethernet capabilities to make it easier for its staff to work flexibly

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Skyscape cuts cloud storage price by 50% for public sector IaaS users

  Cloud services provider cites growing public sector business as reason for latest round of price cuts

• August 06, 2015 06 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

• August 05, 2015 05 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

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  BlackHat 2015: Firms must switch focus to data security, says Imperva

  Without using any exploits, hackers can turn synchronisation services such as Dropbox, GoogleDrive and Box into a devastating attack tool, warns Imperva

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  Whitehall devolution threat means IT suppliers "must improve" at selling cloud to local councils

  Public sector IT suppliers must swot up on selling services to local councils, as Whitehall proposes devolving more power to them

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Ark Data Centres to underpin delivery of BT's managed cloud services

  BT signs multi-year deal with datacentre provider to support its push into the cloud integrator market

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  3D XPoint memory chips '1,000 times faster than NAND'

  Intel and Micron say new 3D chip technology is biggest breakthrough in memory technology in nearly 30 years

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  X-IO's Iglu Blaze adds replication to ISE HDD, flash and hybrid arrays

  X-IO Iglu Blaze adds a second controller hardware layer to ISE with advanced storage features including asynchronous replication, disaster recovery and high availabillity

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IT departments aren't getting sidelined by cloud, suggests research

  Research from Harvard Business Review suggests IT departments are maintaining a firm grip on enterprise cloud deployments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  ElasticHosts-owned Springs.IO debuts use-based pricing for Docker-like IaaS

  Springs.IO says using Linux-based container technology can help users cut cloud costs

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  AWS on course to become $6bn business, as sales soar during Q2

  Cloud giant's second quarter success prompts speculation about what Amazon might do next with the business division

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Alibaba makes data protection pledge to Aliyun cloud users

  Chinese cloud firm makes data protection promises, as it gears up for overseas expansion

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Worldwide public cloud spend tipped to hit $70bn in 2015

  Latest IDC cloud spending data highlights growing appetite for public cloud services across several vertical markets

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  TLC flash storage: What it is and what it's good for

  We run the rule over triple-level cell (TLC) flash: What it is, how it performs, what it's good for, why it's a competitor to disk, and how it's all been made possible

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  ViaSat UK wins £3.8m contract for military vehicle encryption

  ViaSat UK is to provide an encryption system for British Army armoured vehicles to ensure sensitive mission and intelligence stored on and gathered by Scout SVs will never be put at risk

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Dell first to market with TLC drives for enterprise flash arrays

  Dell SC series storage customers will be able to use TLC flash drives, which are suited to read-intensive workloads, from August in arrays with MLC, SLC and/or spinning disk

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  All-flash array maker Kaminario plans TLC flash in arrays

  All-flash array pioneer Kaminario says software smarts can overcome limits of TLC flash storage to allow it to offer all-TLC and mixed MLC/TLC arrays

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Enterprises miss out on cloud cost benefits by sticking with on-demand pricing plans

  451 Research suggests cloud users that sign up to long-term contracts with providers get better pricing overall than those who don't

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Nimble OS upgrade gives all-flash tier in CS hybrid flash storage

  Nimble Storage operating system upgrade gives ability to pin data to flash for constant high performance needs in addition to hybrid operations and disk-only

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Arvato rejects big six suppliers for Violin Memory all-flash storage

  IT outsourced services company Arvato boosts IOPS for database-heavy customer operations with Violin Memory 6000 series all-flash arrays

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  UK disaster recovery maturing – but testing remains a concern, says report

  UK organisations are not testing their IT disaster recovery plans frequently or thoroughly enough, a study finds

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Seagate embarks on renewed HPC push through partnerships with HP and IBM

  Storage supplier hopes to increase the total addressable market for its ClusterStor appliance by joining forces with HP and IBM

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Panasas boosts scale-out NAS offerings with flash and disk AS18

  Scale-out NAS specialist Panasas has replaced its AS16 appliance with two AS18s that combine flash tier and helium-filled hard drives in 4U units that scale up to 20PB

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Genomics England rejects open source to deploy EMC Isilon HPC storage

  100,000 Genomes Project rejects building open-source parallel file system on x86 servers and opts for EMC Isilon clustered NAS deployed by Capita S3

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Swedish cloud provider gets Solidfire all-flash storage for OpenStack

  Stockholm-based Elastx uses Solidfire all-flash arrays to support as-a-service provision on OpenStack with easy API connections to Cinder

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Fujitsu launches petabyte-scale DS8700 and 8900 S3 enterprise flash arrays

  Fujitsu replaces DS8700 S2 array with two enterprise class arrays, the DS8700 and DS8900 S3, with all-flash and hybrid flash capability and scalability into multiple petabytes

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Housing provider in spat with EMC gets Tintri hybrid flash

  Social housing provider Housing & Care 21 lost patience with EMC and signed Tintri hybrid flash with three years’ support for two-thirds of the price

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  NetApp adds AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays

  NetApp boosts its SSD array portfolio with the addition of AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays built on Data ONTAP, but still no sign of FlashRay general availability

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Google scolds businesses for citing security as a reason not to use cloud

  Search giant reckons on-premise data is more likely to be breached than information stored in the cloud

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Veritas plans to revive backup fortunes with big data analytics

  Symantec spin-out Veritas plans major backup product releases that leverage metadata to make backups more efficient and unlock valuable information via big data capabilities

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Californian state officials reveal driverless car crash numbers for first time

  The Californian Department for Motor Vehicles bows to pressure from The Associated Press to reveal details of self-driving car crashes

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Box Office premieres as Microsoft extends cloud integration

  Microsoft has hedged its bets in the Office 365 online compatibility stakes, with Box now joining Dropbox as a native file store

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Dropbox users can now accept files from non-subscribers to the cloud storage platform

  Dropbox File Requests let users collect files from people who aren't signed up to the cloud storage service for the first time

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Cambridge replaces enterprise storage with direct attach Dell-Lustre setup

  Cambridge University uses Dell's MD direct attached storage with Intel’s Lustre to support its data-intensive research programmes

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Connected Data extends file sync and share to on-site NAS

  Connected Data allows users to create internal Dropbox-type file sync and share services from any compatible enterprise NAS box with Transporter Network Storage Connector

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  Facebook confirms plans to build second European datacentre in Ireland

  Social networking giant Facebook puts paid to weeks of speculation by confirming plans to open new datacentre in Ireland

• June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15

  Council dodges £300,000 NetApp outlay with Atlantis flash caching

  Somerset local authority avoids spending £300,000 on extra hard drives for its NetApp arrays and pays half that for Atlantis ILIO flash caching software that runs VDI from RAM

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  SolidFire adds data protection and Cisco/OpenStack to all-flash arrays

  All-flash array maker goes for enterprise market with added data protection features and adds Cisco UCS-based reference architecture for OpenStack cloud environments

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Nutanix’s Acropolis free hypervisor takes aim at VMware

  Hyper-converged server/storage pioneer launches free-of-charge hypervisor in an explicit move to tempt customers from existing VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V deployments

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft

  The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Public cloud emerges as Europe's least popular off-premise IT deployment method

  Easynet research investigating European IT decision-maker buying trends suggests private cloud rules the roost

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Enterprise storage performance a mystery to most IT chiefs

  Survey finds more than two-thirds of storage leaders at large enterprises don’t know the impact of I/O from core applications on their storage infrastructure

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  GDS gives Box the nod for cross-department collaboration

  GDS turns to cloud storage and file-sharing specialist Box to manage collaboration across UK government departments

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  HP launches 3PAR StoreServ 20000 flash and hybrid flash enterprise storage arrays

  HP replaces 3PAR StoreServ 10000 series arrays with 20000 series featuring upgraded CPUs, controller ASICs and on-drive firmware, plus doubled flash drive capacities

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Pure Storage replaces FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m

  Pure Storage upgrades FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m series devices

• June 01, 2015 01 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

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Microsoft seeks planning permission for another Dublin datacentre

  Software giant will have to wait until August to see if the application for its latest Irish facility has been accepted

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

  Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  A tale of two boxes: Choosing between Box and Dropbox

  Box and Dropbox are in the content and collaboration business, but the two cloud services have taken very different approaches

• May 28, 2015 28 May'15

  NetApp launches AltaVault hybrid cloud backup appliance family

  NetApp repackages the SteelStore hybrid cloud backup appliances it bought from Riverbed as AltaVault physical, virtual and cloud products

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  CIF cloud certification scheme wins European Commission's backing

  Cloud Industry Forum's Code of Practice has been added to European list of trusted certification schemes

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  Commvault launches DropBox-style File Sharing file sync and share

  Commvault is among first enterprise backup software makers to provide file sync and share deployed from datacentres or public cloud

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  EMC plots managed cloud push with $1.2bn deal to acquire Virtustream

  Storage giant claims latest purchase will reinforce its hybrid cloud proposition for enterprises

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Huawei launches SDN operating system for Internet of Things

  At Huawei Network Congress in Beijing, Huawei unveils the world’s first software-defined IoT solution and a upgraded, faster SDN Cloud Fabric

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Salesforce claims to be on course to become $10bn enterprise software business

  Cloud CRM giant comes out fighting after posting better-than-expected Q1 results

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Government cloud adoption hit by ongoing legacy tech investments

  IT supplier Eduserv wants government departments banned from investing in legacy tech to drive up cloud adoption

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Dell boosts midrange backup appliance range with DL4300

  Dell ups number of drives in Intel Xeon-powered backup appliances to create the DL4300 with standard and high-capacity editions and AppAssure backup software

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  Dropbox secures data privacy-focused ISO 27018 standard

  Cloud storage giant hails privacy implications of latest ISO award

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  HGST plans all-flash and hybrid flash storage for cloud customers

  Western Digital subsidiary best known as a drive maker plans to make scale-out, high-capacity all-flash and hybrid flash arrays

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Patient care put at risk by IT problems at London NHS trust

  IT problems and poor information governance put patients at risk at a London NHS trust, according to evidence disclosed at an employment tribunal

• May 13, 2015 13 May'15

  CommVault vows to make data backups less costly and more efficient in the cloud

  Data management vendor announces new tools to help make managing cloud data easier for the enterprise

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  European education network launches search for IaaS providers

  Pan-European education network is on the hunt for IaaS specialists to populate its Cloud Catalogue

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Ctera 5.0 adds Hyper-V, OpenStack and more to cloud sync and share

  Ctera adds more than 100 upgrades to Portal product, and now runs in Hyper-V and OpenStack environments

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Breaking Bad-themed crypto-ransomware reported by Symantec

  Symantec security researchers have discovered crypto-ransomware that is styled around the US television series Breaking Bad

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  College boosts student access with DataCore software-defined storage

  Kirklees College uses DataCore SAN symphony software-defined storage and NexSan arrays for online student access

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  HDS executives share the secrets of a successful acquisition

  HDS executives reveal how to undergo a successful acquisition, during HDS Connect 2015

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  EMC predicts return to double-digit sales growth

  Storage giant's EMEA chief claims downbeat first quarter results are as bad as things will get for EMC, and that normal service will soon resume

• May 07, 2015 07 May'15

  EMC-owned Spanning sounds alarm over enterprise attitude to SaaS backups

  EMC's recently acquired SaaS backup firm claims companies are playing fast and loose with protecting their cloud data

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  HDS says its storage products are cogs in a much bigger machine

  HDS tells Hitachi Connect 2015 attendees of plans to expand reach beyond storage through social innovation strategy

• May 06, 2015 06 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

• May 06, 2015 06 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

• May 05, 2015 05 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

• May 05, 2015 05 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

• May 05, 2015 05 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

• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  HDS joins the software-defined infrastructure pack

  HDS move into software-defined infrastructure space with new portfolio

• April 29, 2015 29 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

• April 28, 2015 28 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%

• April 24, 2015 24 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

• April 24, 2015 24 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

• April 22, 2015 22 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