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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
March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14
Why cloud's not reigning in the enterprise

Lack of business-focused offerings from suppliers and misguided private cloud projects are stifling progress, say Cloud Expo speakers
February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14
CenturyLink brings hyperscale storage/compute service to UK

California-based cloud provider CenturyLink will bring hyperscale storage/compute as-a-service to the UK from summer 2014
February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14
Dragon tells cloud businesses to focus on service

Outsourcery boss Piers Linney warns cloud providers that collaboration and investment are key to the industry’s future success
February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14
Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision

State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay
February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14
Backup appliances offer easy backup for SMEs and branch offices

Product survey: We run the rule over backup appliances; hardware and software bundles that enable easy deployment and management of backup for SMEs and remote offices
February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14
Datacentres must tackle local challenges for global growth

Diverse range of opportunities and obstacles shows there’s no ‘one size fits all’ strategy for the datacentre industry
February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14
HP services revenue declines as company readies litigation fund

HP has reported first quarter net revenue of $28.2bn, down 1%, while revenue in its Personal Systems division grew 4% year over year
February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14
Mining firm dumps IBM/NetApp for Tintri hybrid flash storage

Coal Marketing Company upgrades to Tintri hybrid flash storage to meet latency needs of virtual server and desktop environment
February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14
NetApp slims product family with launch of FAS8000 series

NetApp launches FAS8000 line that will replace FAS3000 and FAS6000 series filers
February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14
Interview: The systems supremo helping Sochi run smoothly

Marta Sanfeliu, chief integration officer for Winter Olympics IT supplier Atos, helps ensure it's all smooth running for the IT at Sochi
February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14
Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills

Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University
February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14
Atlantis joins the software-defined storage fray with USX

Atlantis ILIO USX software-defined storage allows customers to virtualise commodity to create flash, hybrid and hyperscale storage
February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14
Salford City Council keys into private cloud benefits

Salford City Council’s award-winning private cloud helps speed up services, boost efficiency and nurture the city’s media startups
February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14
India’s Huawei investigation will have lasting effect

The government investigation into an alleged hack of state-run telecoms carrier Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) by Huawei will bring about regulatory change, whether proved true or not
February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14
Aer Lingus opts for Tegile hybrid flash over IBM and EMC

It was cheaper and easier for Aer Lingus to deploy 80TB of Tegile hybrid flash storage than buy more IBM or EMC, says the airline's CTO
February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14
Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft
February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14
B&Q owner Kingfisher dumps Raid rebuilds and saves 40% on disk with X-IO

Kingfisher puts X-IO drives behind IBM SVC storage virtualisation to save 40% disk costs and dispenses with Raid rebuilds in £120,000 project
February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14
Case study: Putting disaster recovery into action when revellers strike

How an out-of-hand office party in its building brought Icelandic IT services company Midverk to the brink of collapse
January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14
WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?
January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14
EMC brings Hadoop into ViPR upgrade and unifies SRM modules

EMC launches version 1.1 of its software-defined storage/big data platform ViPR by building in Hadoop analytics capability
January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14
ARM aims at Intel’s stronghold with 64-bit standard

Intel hopes new baseline standard for ARM v8 chips will help it flex its muscles in the datacentre
January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14
Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design
January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14
Business college gets Nimble hybrid flash to replace LeftHand SAN

Ashridge Business School dumped creaking end-of-life LeftHand array for Nimble Storage hybrid flash array in a move that also saw Nexenta storage software rejected
January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14
Can elephants dance in the cloud?

IBM’s renewed public cloud strategy could succeed in attracting customers old and new, but the company must tread carefully
January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14
Movie FX house puts 1.3PB on Nexenta Software Defined Storage

Special effects house Framestore moves 1.3PB from “difficult to support” HDS/BlueArc/Engenio clustered NAS to Nexenta Software Defined Storage storage software on Dell servers
January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14
IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture
January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14
QLogic buys Brocade’s converged network adapter business

Brocade sells converged network adapter division to QLogic, as the two firms announce SAN partnership
January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14
Schneider backs British liquid cooling startup

Support from the datacentre giant could help Iceotope spread its innovative immersion cooling system around the globe
January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14
IBM boosts memory writes on updated PureSystems server

For memory-hungry applications, the new X6 server family has been designed to deliver three times the scalable memory of servers, IBM claimed
January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14
Disaster recovery and virtual server backup top 2014 storage projects

As budgets rise and businesses emerge from recession, disaster recovery and virtual server backup are the top storage projects in 2014
January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14
Regional datacentre growth tempers UK price rises

New datacentre clusters outside London keep average costs down, but firms that need space in the capital face a growing premium
January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14
Open arguments stack up as hybrid cloud takes hold

A lack of cloud standards is causing headaches for IT departments, but the drive for greater interoperability is gaining pace
January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14
EMC’s David Goulden made storage CEO

Former CFO Goulden appointed CEO of EMC’s giant storage-focussed information infrastructure division. EMC now has three divisional CEOs ahead of chairman Tucci’s 2015 retirement
January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14
UK blazes trail for cloud use in Europe

Survey suggests UK companies are more comfortable with the cloud than their Continental counterparts
January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14
Chief operating officer of flash array maker Violin steps down

Chief operating officer Dixon Doll leaves the beleaguered flash array maker as share price dips towards $3 and company faces shareholder class action after disastrous IPO
January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14
Consolidation drives down growth in datacentre spending

Analyst Gartner has cut its forecast for datacentre systems spending growth in 2014.
January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14
Flash storage alternative MRAM takes another step forward

MRAM, a likely successor to flash storage, takes a step toward easier manufacture and longer life with new structures theorised by scientists in Singapore
December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13
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