News
Storage
-
September 30, 2014
30
Sep'14
How YouGov deployed Veeam Backup & Replication
YouGov has deployed Veeam Backup & Replication to switch suppliers following the breakdown of a managed services contract
-
September 30, 2014
30
Sep'14
All-flash array roundup: A two-track approach from big storage
The big storage suppliers are split between all-flash array products with ground-up designs and retrofitted HDD arrays with flash
-
September 23, 2014
23
Sep'14
Securing virtual machines still a dark art, says Kaspersky Lab
Five common myths about virtualisation security is preventing businesses getting the greatest benefit with the least risk
-
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