News

Storage

• 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

  Top 10 premium content articles of 2013

  Computer Weekly presents a selection of the most popular premium content reports and articles of 2013

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  CW500 Club in 2013

  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 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Top 10 supplier profiles 2013

  Are you thinking of doing business with an IT technology supplier? Check out our independent profiles of the leading technology companies.

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2013

  The drive for greater efficiency, CO2 reduction and the development of new technologies continued to dominate datacentre developments this year

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 storage stories of 2013

  Users tackle virtualisation and growth of data and suppliers battle over flash storage and software-defined storage, while big data and hyperscale emerge into the mainstream

• December 24, 2013 24 Dec'13

  Top 10 flash storage stories of 2013

  2013 has been the year of flash, where the big six array makers started to catch up with the pioneering startups and new frontiers opened in flash deployment in the datacentre

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2013

  It was the year big business warmed to the cloud while NSA snooping revelations sent shivers down the industry’s spine...

• December 19, 2013 19 Dec'13

  Civil Liberties Committee calls for tighter data protection for EU, following NSA revelations

  The preliminary conclusions of an inquiry into the NSA surveillance of EU citizens call for political and technology changes

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Microsoft enlists elite providers to ease customer cloud moves

  Cloud OS Network aims to woo organisations seeking hassle-free hybrid cloud

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Dell adds top-end PS6210 flash array to EqualLogic iSCSI family

  Dell has announced a new PS6210 at the top end of its iSCSI SAN EqualLogic family with all-flash array and hybrid flash variants

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Google revs up cloud engine in AWS catch-up race

  A renewed infrastructure as a service (IaaS) push by web giant Google could heat up competition among top providers

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  University tiers HPC cloud with HDS, Spectra Logic and QStar

  Oslo University builds academic cloud for research data scalable to exabytes with HDS disk, Spectra Logic tape and QStar archive

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Virtualisation continues to drive European server purchases

  TechTarget survey finds 97.3% of large organisations plan to expand their deployments in 2014, with consolidation the main driver

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries

  Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  Big beasts fail to dent AWS cloud lead

  Amazon’s cloud service remains more than four times more popular than its closest competitor, survey finds

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  University boosts VDI IOPS by 70% with Nimble hybrid flash array

  The University of Wolverhampton chose Nimble hybrid flash over all-flash from Violin and Fusion-io to boost IOPS for persistent desktops in a staff VDI roll-out

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  HP shareholders win out as revenue declines by $8bn

  HP shareholders are set to receive an early Christmas present in spite of the company making $8bn less in 2013 compared to 2012

• November 21, 2013 21 Nov'13

  Scientists banish NAS sprawl with Red Hat scale-out NAS software

  Reading University meteorology department tackles NAS sprawl with Red Hat open source storage software to build scale-out NAS cluster on commodity x86 server hardware

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  Nordics push to become European datacentre hub

  Do growing datacentre investments in the Nordic countries by IT giants really signal the region is the best place in Europe to site servers?

• November 19, 2013 19 Nov'13

  Investec CISO warns that legacy tapes will fail on new hardware

  Many organisations may find that years of irreplaceable tape backups are inaccessible because modern machines cannot handle legacy format

• November 19, 2013 19 Nov'13

  Executive interview: BMC CEO discusses self-provisioning IT

  BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp believes the only way IT can support business is by enabling self service IT

• November 18, 2013 18 Nov'13

  Angry Birds firm handles massive growth with Riak NoSQL database

  Finland-based Rovio Entertainment deploys Basho Riak open source distributed database on Amazon cloud to deal with massive data growth from hundreds of millions of users

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Movie FX house gets Avere NAS caching for Gravity production

  Movie special effects production shop Framestore deploys Avere NAS acceleration and caching to boost access to high-resolution movie files in 1PB storage infrastructure

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Further education college graduates to near all-virtual with Dell Compellent SAN

  College of North West London replaces ageing EMC SAN with tiered storage for virtual machines and apps on Dell Compellent SC040s

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  School gets Nimble hybrid flash and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup

  Berkshire private college has revamped data protection with Nimble hybrid flash storage and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  Business-defined storage will help reconnect businesses with IT, says Forrester

  Business-defined storage and datacentres will make IT more business-centric, according to Forrester

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Atlantis VDI storage helps hospitals save £500,000 a year

  Leicester hospitals study Atlantis ILIO flash caching to boost VDI storage efficiency and cut £500,000 a year from hardware refresh

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  East Lincolnshire Council issued penalty after losing children’s personal data

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) served an £80,000 penalty notice to East Lincolnshire Council for losing sensitive data about hundreds of children with special educational needs

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Emulex ExpressLane and CrossLink boost HBAs for flash and Hadoop

  Storage card maker Emulex has added QoS prioritisation for flash storage and leveraged RDMA via Fibre Channel to increase server performance in clustered operations such as Hadoop

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  NTT Europe saves time with Sepaton data deduplication VTL deployment

  NTT Europe was sick of tape libraries “shoeshining” so went for a $2.5m deployment of Sepaton data deduplication virtual tape libraries to slash backup and restore times

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Plan for the 'infinite datacentre' in advance, says Gartner

  Enterprises that plan datacentre capacity well can adjust to rapid growth in computing demand with maximum efficiency, says Gartner

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  75% of UK IT leaders believe in big data benefits, finds EMC

  Three-quarters of UK IT leaders surveyed by EMC see business benefits of big data analytics, yet nearly half fail to see clear ROI case

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Lotus F1 Team invests in converged datacentre to support race strategy

  Lotus F1 Team is about to go live with a converged datacentre infrastructure as it begins the development of a championship-winning car for 2015

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Case study: Yellow Pages digitises records for the web

  Canada's Yellow Pages is investing in a digitisation programme to compete with online information providers, such as Google, Facebook and Yell

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  VSan a work-in-progress in VMware software-defined storage plan

  VMware’s VSan storage virtualisation is all set for general availability, but even VMware execs say it’ll be a while before it’s fit for enterprise-level vSphere storage use cases

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  UK businesses call for support to close virtual security skills gap

  Most UK businesses want to see virtual security guidelines put in place to help organisations understand best practice

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Fibre Channel vs FCoE. Fibre Channel rules. For now

  Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and converged network adapters (CNA) offer storage and networking on one infrastructure, but what are the pros and cons of moving to FCoE?

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Actuary gets NetApp, rejects flash drives, Vblocks and FlexPods

  Number-crunching actuarial consultants Hymans Robertson opt for spinning disk plus flash cache over flash drives and reject Vblock and FlexPod converged stack products

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  T600 Series moves Tintri hybrid flash arrays into enterprise class

  Tintri T600 Series expands hybrid flash array family into enterprise class with T650 high-end model with room for 2,000 virtual machines, plus the entry-level T620

• October 04, 2013 04 Oct'13

  Health trust adopts Tintri hybrid flash storage in VDI rollout

  Northern Ireland health trust chooses Tintri hybrid flash storage to replace HP LeftHand array for 2,000 desktop VDI rollout. Startup chosen ahead of EMC, HP and flash newcomers