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• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Cambridge college replaces legacy EMC with Nimble hybrid flash

  Trinity Hall replaces end-of-life EMC Celerra with Nimble Storage CS220 hybrid flash in a complete upgrade of VMware virtual server environment

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  UCL expands DDN WOS object storage capacity to 3PB

  University College London’s object storage goes from 50TB testbed to 3PB of live storage

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Older hardware puts data at risk

  Delays in hardware upgrades have left many businesses with hardware infrastructure that is more likely to fail, resulting in data loss or downtime

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  NetApp: Hybrid cloud storage is a big deal; flash is not

  At its Berlin Insight event, NetApp says hybrid cloud is the big storage story, with flash set to disappear from prominence

• November 16, 2014 16 Nov'14

  Food firm dodges €250,000 spend with PernixData flash caching

  Danish food firm Chr. Hansen avoids a €250,000 spend on application licences with PernixData FVP flash caching software

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  Tintri raises capacity and adds Hyper-V in hybrid flash T800 series

  Hybrid flash firm Tintri boosts capacities and adds Hyper-V support in T800 series with upgrade to operating system

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making

  Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Google joins enterprise cloud battle with additions to its cloud platform

  Google made a raft of announcements at its GCP Live event, including enhancements to its networking stack and storage price drops

• October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

  DataDirect Networks adds Amazon S3 gateway to WOS platform

  DataDirect Networks (DDN) announces Amazon S3 gateway device for its Web Object Scaler (WOS) storage platform

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Pioneering Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange opts for Fujitsu storage

  Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange datacentre provider DARZ chooses Fujitsu’s Red Hat OpenStack-compatible storage nodes

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Fujitsu goes hyperscale with CD10000 open-source storage

  In a tilt at the hyperscale market the CD10000 marries Fujitsu hardware with Red Hat Ceph open-source storage software

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Microsoft and Amazon’s cloud war reaches next level

  Microsoft's Satya Nadella made a slew of Azure announcements in San Francisco

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Arrays cost councils four times more than software-defined storage

  Nexenta finds UK councils spend around £1,200 per terabyte on storage arrays – four times more than on storage software

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  BBC takes iPlayer video production to AWS cloud to beat bottleneck and storage woes

  Having run Video Factory on AWS for over a year, BBC's Robert Shield explains how he overcame iPlayer bottleneck and availability challenges

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%

  Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Kingston University gets 600 IOPS per desktop with Atlantis Ilio

  Surrey-based university deploys virtual desktops for 1,000 remote users and gets up to 600 IOPS per user

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Pernod Ricard toasts centralised data backup and cloud disaster recovery

  Drinks company Pernod Ricard turned to the cloud for backup and disaster recovery for its IT systems in Europe

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  VMworld 2014: Next-generation desktop virtualisation

  Are the barriers preventing IT departments from virtualising user computing falling?

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  As VSAN 2.0 goes beta VMware aims at hyper-converged x86 storage

  VSAN version 2.0 is in beta with VMware targeting the storage virtualisation product at x86-based hyper-converged storage use cases

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Intel bets on custom silicon as specialised workloads rule datacentres

  Intel is betting on workload-optimised silicon as datacentre workloads become sophisticated, dynamic and varied

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Best of VMworld Europe 2014 user awards: Winners

  The Best of VMworld Europe 2014 user awards have been announced. See who made the top spots

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Oxfam unwraps mobile collaboration benefits with Box’s cloud content service

  The move to Box will mean that Oxfam workers will get mobile access to data on the move and at remote locations

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Enterprise IT should be more user-centric, says Box CEO Aaron Levie

  The CEO of cloud-based file sharing and content management service Box calls on enterprises to rethink IT delivery model

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  HP on board with VMware’s EVO:Rail as scale-out future hinted

  HP and HDS join the hardware makers’ list for VMware’s EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Symantec splits storage and security

  Symantec is splitting its storage and security business, following just days after HP announced its split

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Druva targets server backup to the cloud with Phoenix

  Endpoint/BYOD backup specialist Druva aims at the remote office market with Phoenix for server backup to the cloud

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  The challenges facing HP as it splits in two

  HP is splitting its business in two - but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Veeam moves into physical backup with free Endpoint Backup

  Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam announces free module to protect desktops, laptops and servers

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  SolidFire 2405 and 4805 all-flash arrays target the enterprise

  SolidFire adds all-flash arrays in a 1U box with 50,000 IOPS in a move to shift customer focus from cloud providers to enterprise users

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  HP to separate into enterprise IT, and PC and printing companies

  HP has confirmed plans to split into two separate companies, one focusing on PCs and printers, the other on enterprise computing

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Red Hat Storage Server boosts capacity to 19PB and adds snapshots

  Open source software-defined storage Red Hat Storage Server version three ups capacity to 19PB and adds snapshots

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  DDN launches scale-out NAS GS7K GPFS product bundle

  DataDirect Networks launches the GS7K, a pre-configured GPFS scale-out NAS/parallel file system storage product

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  PernixData adds RAM pools to FVP flash caching software

  Flash caching software maker PernixData adds the ability to create cache pools from server RAM

• 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