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• 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

• 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