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• 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

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Dell adds SC4020 as it edges towards iSCSI-FC unification

  Dell ditches separate Compellent and EqualLogic branding with the debut of the Dell Storage SC4020 midrange SAN

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Violin Memory puts advanced features in Concerto 7000 flash array

  Formerly troubled Violin Memory's Concerto 7000 series puts replication, snapshots, CDP and WAN optimisation in an all-flash array

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  Red Hat grows enterprise subscriptions

  Red Hat grew its subscription revenue by 18% year-on-year to $372 million for the first quarter ending 31 May 2014

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  SanDisk to buy PCIe flash pioneer Fusion-io for $1.1bn

  SanDisk to buy PCIe server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io for $1.1bn as part of push into the datacentre flash market

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  NetApp adds high-end FAS8080EX with all-flash array capability

  NetApp adds flagship FAS8080EX with all-flash array options that can scale to 5.8PB

• June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14

  Nimble Storage launches flagship CS700 hybrid flash storage

  Nimble Storage tops off its CS hybrid flash storage products with high-performance CS700 range

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  Manufacturer boosts bandwidth with Silver Peak WAN optimisation

  Symphony Group gets 50% bandwidth boost and cuts RPO from hours to seconds with Silver Peak VRX-4 WAN optimisation

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters

  Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Fusion-io Atomic Series PCIe cards double server flash capacity

  Server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io has launched a new range of PCIe server flash cards, the Atomic Series, which double their capacity by using the latest-generation NAND flash chips

• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  Fund firm speeds SQL access with PernixData caching software

  Fund administrator Quintillion boosts flagging SQL Server I/O access times with PernixData FVP caching software and avoids €60,000 outlay on new SAN hardware

• June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14

  VMware CTO hits back at AWS tool to manage virtual machines

  VMware CTO Chris Wolf warns users against being fooled by tools disguised as hybrid cloud management as AWS launches administration portal

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  Tegile dives into all-flash array market with T3800

  Hybrid flash maker Tegile enters all-flash market with T3800, and adds T3400 hybrid flash array with more flash on board

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  AWS and Microsoft ‘overwhelmingly top contenders’ of IaaS Magic Quadrant, says Gartner

  Gartner’s IaaS Magic Quadrant places AWS and Microsoft in the Leader quadrant, and Google and IBM in the Visionaries quadrant

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Software-defined everything will change datacentre design, function and price

  Datacentres of the future will not be populated with products that perform individual functions as software-defined everything makes hardware irrelevant

• May 29, 2014 29 May'14

  HolSystems shuns flash storage for X-IO HDD arrays

  US cloud provider HolSystems has deployed 60TB of X-IO spinning disk rather than flash storage to boost performance in the remote delivery of virtual servers

• May 29, 2014 29 May'14

  Universities debut £8.1m centre to develop laser and photonics data storage technology

  Universities and industry partners launch centre to train researchers in developing laser technology and silicon photonics for big data storage

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Storage, business growth and virtualisation driving datacentre expansion

  The top three drivers for datacentre capacity expansion in Europe are storage growth, business growth and virtualisation

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  Cloud SME Skyscape receives £4m funding to tap UK public sector market

  Business Growth Fund (BGF) is investing £4m in Hampshire-based cloud firm Skyscape to help it capture the growing public sector cloud market

• May 16, 2014 16 May'14

  Pure Storage adds entry-level and high-end FA 400 flash arrays

  All-flash array maker Pure Storage adds entry-level and high-end FA 400 series arrays and upgrades Purity operating environment

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Microsoft funds datacentre and cloud energy efficiency research projects

  Microsoft has awarded $160,000 to four university projects focusing on cloud and datacentre energy efficiency

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Oxford University gets 330TB of Panasas clustered NAS/HPC storage

  Oxford University gets Panasas ActivStor 14 clustered NAS as HPC storage for high-performance processing

• May 14, 2014 14 May'14

  Object storage: An architecture for the petabyte era?

  Object storage offers massively scalablility for unstructured data.. But can it break out of the niche it is in?

• May 12, 2014 12 May'14

  IDC survey puts IBM, Cisco and HP ahead of AWS, Google and Azure for IaaS

  IBM, Cisco and HP have been rated as the top three infrastructure as a service providers according to a study by analyst IDC.

• May 09, 2014 09 May'14

  Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility

  Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Lawyers get Unitrends backup appliance for virtual server backup

  Notts law firm Rothera Dowson moves from Symantec plus tape to Unitrends disk-based backup appliance for virtual server backup and cuts recovery time from days to minutes

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  CIOs fear compliance and regulation over IT failure to tackle big data

  As many as 87% of CIOs fear that failing to address their untapped intelligence will lead to issues with compliance and regulation, a research revealed

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  CA bundles ArcServe products into single UDP backup app

  CA brings together all data protection and backup software in Unified Data Protection product with workflow-style management

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  Our datacentres are energy efficient and green too, says AWS

  Amazon Web Services says it runs its facilities with energy efficiency in mind despite Greenpeace criticisms

• May 05, 2014 05 May'14

  EMC launches Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) with ViPR 2.0

  EMC’s Project Nile to be sold as Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) private cloud storage mega-appliances that can scale to Exabytes with ViPR 2.0 as control for underlying VNX arrays

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  Microsoft buys PaaS firm Greenbutton to improve Azure service

  The software giant will integrate Greenbutton’s PaaS offerings into Azure and release it as a new cloud service within Azure later in the year

• April 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  VirtualWisdom4 boosts storage performance with server, app views

  Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom4 aims for admin-friendly server, app and storage-centric views of SAN performance with “entity-based” approach to storage monitoring tool

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  LateRooms overcomes database bottleneck with flash storage strategy

  The hotel and accommodation booking firm refreshes its datacentre with virtualisation, consolidation and flash-based storage

• April 25, 2014 25 Apr'14

  Tintri VM storage helps firm solve issues caused by admin clashes

  Pharma firm Colorcon bought Tintri VM storage at cost of maintenance on its existing arrays and solved performance problems rooted in clashes between DBAs and architecture admins

• April 25, 2014 25 Apr'14

  Amazon’s soaring first-quarter sales fail to impress investors

  Amazon has failed to impress investors despite a 32% jump in first-quarter profits and a 23% increase in sales

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  HDS upgrades its mainframe-friendly VSP G1000 enterprise storage array

  Hitachi Data Systems launches the Virtual Storage Platform G1000 enterprise storage array, which boosts capacity, performance and lifespan for the storage virtualisation platform.

• April 22, 2014 22 Apr'14

  Disaster recovery is vital in software-defined datacentre era

  Jon Toigo argues against virtualisation advocates that say the software-defined datacentre, with its high availability and clustering, does away with the need for disaster recovery

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud

  Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  UK physicist Stuart Parkin wins Millennium technology prize

  UK-born physicist Stuart Parkin has won the 2014 Millennium technology prize for a breakthrough in magnetic disk drive storage capacity

• April 09, 2014 09 Apr'14

  Vatican Library digitises first 10,000 manuscripts

  The Vatican Apostolic Library has completed the digitisation of around 10,000 of its 82,000 manuscripts as part of a project to make them available online

• April 09, 2014 09 Apr'14

  Peterborough council to ditch SAN in move to Box cloud storage

  Peterborough City Council will not renew maintenance on its EMC storage arrays and aims to migrate all staff to Box cloud storage by 2015

• April 09, 2014 09 Apr'14

  Data set to grow 10-fold by 2020 as internet of things takes off

  IDC’s Digital Universe study predicts the world's data will amount to 44 zettabytes by 2020, 10% of it from the internet of things

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  UK cloud pioneer scores world first with true utility pricing

  ElasticHosts steals a march on Google, Amazon and Microsoft by billing on the basis of actual consumption of resources

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Law Society advises legal industry's IT teams over cloud

  The Law Society has published best-practice advice for legal firms' IT teams that are considering using cloud computing, following increased use of the cloud to store data

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  The problem with regional clouds

  The clamour to keep clouds closer to home could lead to internet restrictions, fragmentation and a slowdown in the movement of data

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  EMC upgrades Avamar, Networker and Data Domain products

  EMC boosts application and hypervisor integration on Avamar, Networker and Data Domain as part of a strategic push to "backup-less backup" and a "data protection continuum"

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  CIO interview: Andrew Marks, Tullow Oil

  How speeding up seismic data transfer between African oil fields and a Dublin datacentre helps the London-based oil exploration company save millions

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Google throws down cloud gauntlet with massive price cuts

  Automatic discounts for sustained use bring true utility computing a step closer and could help Google close the gap on Amazon Web Services

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Will Cisco’s $1bn Intercloud bridge the way for enterprise customers?

  The networking giant’s bid to build an open, hybrid cloud ecosystem could be good news for buyers - but analysts say its vision needs more clarity

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  EU project aims to boost urban datacentre efficiency

  GreenDataNet consortium will develop smart, open-source technologies to stop smart cities grinding to a halt amid rocketing energy demands

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Symantec hunts for new CEO

  Symantec has got rid of its CEO and president, Steve Bennett, and has hired an executive search company to find a replacement

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Lack of social media archiving creates legal minefield

  Through social media, businesses are creating vast amounts of uncontrolled content and risk legal action because of inadequate archiving and eDiscovery systems

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  SolidFire upgrades Element all-flash array operating system

  All-flash array maker SolidFire adds Fibre Channel connectivity, mixed node clusters, replication between SolidFire devices and integration with cloud backup and restore

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Case study: University of St Andrews squeezes green datacentre into squash court

  University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watt tells how the 600-year-old institution squeezed an energy-efficient datacentre into a squash court

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Upgrade networks, storage and DCIM to support the internet of things

  Analyst Gartner has advised CIOs to prepare for major new investments in datacentre infrastructure to support the internet of things

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  Cloud archive pros and cons and the questions to ask providers

  A cloud archive offers a flexible and cost effective alternative to in-house archiving where maintenance is outsourced, but what are the key questions to ask a potential supplier

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  SAS opens analytics R&D centre in Glasgow, trained on combatting fraud

  SAS has opened a research and development (R&D) centre in Glasgow, focused on combatting fraud and financial crimes

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  CIO Interview: Ian Turfrey, City & Guilds

  The IT chief of vocational training body City & Guilds is generally positive about cloud computing – with some key qualifications

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Shropshire hospitals dump NetApp for Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN

  Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust retires ageing NetApp and replaces Fibre Channel-connected filers with Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs with flash, SAS and SATA tiers

• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  VMware VSAN software-defined storage comes out of beta

  VMware’s VSAN software-defined storage promises pools of flash-driven shared storage created from under-utilised server-attached disk with per-VM performance profiles

• March 11, 2014 11 Mar'14

  London South Bank University: modelling tomorrow's cleaner, greener datacentres

  How London South Bank University (LSBU) meets the IT industry's rising demand for research into building more energy-efficient datacentres

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  Netflix shows how to get cloud rolling

  Streaming movie giant’s former cloud architect reveals how to dramatically speed up processes and shorten product development cycles