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• 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

• April 21, 2015 21 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

• April 20, 2015 20 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

• April 20, 2015 20 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

• April 13, 2015 13 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

• April 09, 2015 09 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

• April 08, 2015 08 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

• March 30, 2015 30 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

• March 27, 2015 27 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

• March 26, 2015 26 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

• 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

• March 25, 2015 25 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

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  EMC launches “data lake” appliance

  EMC launches appliance to help customers build “data lakes”, melding tech from Information Infrastructure, Pivotal and VMware

• March 24, 2015 24 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

• March 17, 2015 17 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

• March 13, 2015 13 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

• March 11, 2015 11 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

• March 10, 2015 10 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

• March 09, 2015 09 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

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  How to ensure your hot-desking colleagues keep their data secure

  Once hot-desking is implemented, data security suddenly demands greater attention

• March 06, 2015 06 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

• February 27, 2015 27 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

• February 27, 2015 27 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

• February 26, 2015 26 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

• February 26, 2015 26 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

• February 25, 2015 25 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

• February 25, 2015 25 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

• February 24, 2015 24 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

• February 23, 2015 23 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

• February 20, 2015 20 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

• February 18, 2015 18 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?

• 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