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• 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

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  How Barnsley Council became a tier three datacentre

  Spending cuts, the need to deliver high-quality IT at lower costs and efficiency needs saw Barnsley Council pick a robust tier 3 datacentre facility

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Storage: Winners

  The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Storage have been announced. See who made the top spots

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  British startups don’t get the ‘respect’ of Silicon Valley

  The CEO of Tarmin claims his British startup needed a US base to be taken seriously by prospective customers

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Industry bodies launch security certification to boost confidence in cloud

  BSI and Cloud Security Alliance together launch Star certification to assess security of cloud providers

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  70% of IT professionals using cloud at work

  Almost three-quarters of IT professionals use cloud-based applications at work with security and backup in the cloud becoming more common

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Will project Baadal stimulate India’s MSME engine?

  The Indian government wants to help its massive community of small businesses become more competitive in the age of the internet through a cloud computing resource, known as Baadal.

• September 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

  Disaster recovery planning: Don’t be fooled by suppliers

  Disaster recovery planning is all about good preparation and not falling for supplier hype. Build appropriate systems, test them and train people well

• September 17, 2013 17 Sep'13

  VCE launches datacentre, cloud products as converged infrastructure spend grows

  VCE, the joint venture company formed by Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel has launched new variations of its converged cloud suite Vblock as CI market soars

• September 17, 2013 17 Sep'13

  DDN launches upgraded WOS 7000 object storage platform

  DataDirect Networks launches upgraded WOS7000 Web Object Scaler object storage platform into a niche market that is yet to be embraced by all the big six storage suppliers

• September 12, 2013 12 Sep'13

  Quantum upgrades big data storage to StorNext 5

  Quantum’s StorNext big data tiered architecture operating software gets a boost to five billion files and a claimed 10x performance jump via multi-threaded CPU ops

• September 11, 2013 11 Sep'13

  Where will Cisco put Whiptail flash array after $415m buy?

  Cisco has announced it will buy flash array maker Whiptail for $415m in 2014, but how will it incorporate a standalone array into its UCS server platform?

• September 11, 2013 11 Sep'13

  Free disaster recovery training seminar with Jon Toigo

  World-renowned data protection expert Jon William Toigo will lead a free disaster recovery seminar in London on 19 September

• September 10, 2013 10 Sep'13

  Housing firm builds Nexenta storage software hybrid flash array

  Housing association North Devon Homes builds dual-site Nexenta storage software arrays with hybrid flash as shared storage for VMware/Hyper-V virtual server environment

• September 04, 2013 04 Sep'13

  EMC refreshes mid-range VNX unified storage arrays for flash

  EMC refreshes mid-range unified storage arrays with upgrades to VNX operating system for Intel 32-core Xeon processors to optimise for flash drive operations

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  UCL trials DDN object storage for central research store

  University College London trials DDN object storage and GRIDscaler parallel file system to consolidate research with metadata cataloguing

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  New Nexenta VSA tackles VDI storage with flash cache

  Nexenta launches flash cache software in a virtual storage appliance for VMware’s Horizon View platform to boost performance for virtual desktop deployments

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  VMware strengthens cloud and software-defined datacentre portfolio at VMworld 2013

  At VMworld 2013, VMware launched products and services to accelerate enterprise adoption of software-defined datacentre architecture

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  VMware must demonstrate it is a ‘serious IaaS provider’ at VMworld: Gartner

  As VMworld 2013 is about to kickoff, Gartner analyst explains what users can expect at the event and VMware’s future in the mobile and cloud era

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  UCAS adopts public cloud to process university admissions

  Ten days before the A-level results, UCAS adopted a public cloud infrastructure to scale up its IT and to make admission process efficient

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  Brocade profits rise despite stifled sales

  Increased profits offset a drop in revenues at Brocade due to recovery in the storage market and cost reductions elsewhere

• August 08, 2013 08 Aug'13

  Smart and Diablo launch Ulltra DIMM memory channel storage

  Ulltra DIMM memory channel storage from Smart and Diablo puts flash on DDR3 cards to outperform PCIe flash

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Mimecast enables 2GB Outlook attachments

  Mimecast has introduced Large File Send for Outlook, a service to enable users to send large attachments

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Colt deploys a petabyte of SolidFire all-flash arrays

  European telecoms provider Colt rolls out more than a petabyte of SolidFire all-flash array storage to support cloud services

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  Egnyte synchronises Google Drive with enterprise storage

  Hybrid cloud and on-premises provider Egnyte has integrated its product with Google Drive

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  Avamar and NetWorker to merge for 'backup-less backup'

  EMC looks forward to backup as an embedded process, with apps and hypervisors copying versioned replicas in native format

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  EMC upgrades Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy

  EMC Data Domain data deduplication boxes get faster CPUs and bigger disks; Avamar gets NAS and virtual machine enhancements; NetWorker gets point upgrade; Mozy gets AD integration

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Slow storage market hits Brocade revenues

  Networking firm Brocade blames SAN sales not meeting expectations for a revenue slide of 8% in its second quarter

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Is Switzerland turning into a cloud-haven in the wake of Prism scandal?

  Enterprises are using Swiss cloud providers to host data, because of their tighter privacy culture, following the NSA surveillance revelations

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Podcast: Virtual server backup fundamentals

  Virtual server backup is different to traditional backup. This podcast looks at the differences and examines key choices in selecting backup products

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Surveyor E.surv builds on Nimble hybrid flash arrays

  House valuation surveyor E.surv retires creaking Dell EqualLogic iSCSI arrays and boosts IOPS with a pair of Nimble Storage CS240 SAN with front end MLC plus bulk SATA drives

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  PSN and G-cloud prove major advantages for UK public sector, says HMRC

  HMRC has benefited by centralising data storage systems on public cloud and adopting public services network (PSN) strategy

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Storage firm Guardtime relies on maths for transparent data security

  Estonian storage company Guardtime claims its security technology makes data more transparent, but will it be embraced by Europe?

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Sepaton boosts VTL integration with TSM and Symantec

  Sepaton has upgraded the software on its S2100-E3 2925 virtual tape library to offer support for Symantec Netbackup OST over Fibre Channel and boosted TSM integration via Gresham

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  TechEd Europe 2013: Microsoft releases preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2

  Microsoft has released the preview software for Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 at TechEd Europe 2013

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Fusion-io upgrades ioTurbine with VM flash cache choices

  Previously only available as a hypervisor-plus-VMs deployment, ioTurbine can now apply flash cache intelligence where users want it in the physical/virtual server environment

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Scality CEO: Why would any start-up go to Europe?

  The French CEO of the object storage specialist vents his frustration at the difficulty of breaking into Europe for US start-ups

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  EMC to build ViPR adapters for other suppliers’ arrays

  EMC won’t need to wait for other storage companies to build adapters for its ViPR storage virtualisation/big data platform. If they don’t write them, EMC will do it for them.

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Users want reduced cloud complexity and more interoperability, study finds

  Cloud adoption has risen in 2013 but to yield its true benefits, cloud complexity must be reduced and interoperability increased, shows study

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Facebook's Arctic datacentre in Luleå, Sweden goes live

  Facebook’s newest datacentre in Luleå, Sweden is turned on to handle live traffic and is storing users’ photos, videos, comments and likes

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  NetApp boosts scale and functionality in clustered Ontap 8.2

  NetApp has boosted scalability to 69PB over 24 nodes and met customer needs for SnapMirror functionality in the new version of its clustered NAS operating system, Ontap 8.2

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  HP boxes clever in flash array fray with 3Par 7450

  HP launches 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array, with operating system and controller hardware that provide flash performance to rival ground-up designed products

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Users’ top datacentre pain points

  Storage, network bandwidth, cost and scalability are among the biggest datacentre concerns, say users at Dell Enterprise Forum US

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Fruit firm dumps HP servers for EMC VSPEX bunch

  Birmingham exotic fruit firm MWW upgraded from HP servers and DAS to twin EMC VNX SANs under its VSPEX reference architecture and saved about 15% on the HP equivalent

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Danish tunnel builder Femern opts for DataCore storage virtualisation

  Femern will use DataCore storage virtualisation in place of EqualLogic array, cutting disk costs by 75%

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Dell bets on Oracle alliance and converged infrastructure

  Dell has expanded its strategic alliance with Oracle for a new x86 infrastructure product and launched converged infrastructure products.

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 and flash array on the way

  Dell upgrades Compellent Storage Center OS to version 6.4 and announces Flash Optimised Solution all-flash array

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Backup and recovery challenges most small businesses, study shows

  Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are experiencing difficulties with data backup and recovery, a study has shown

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Finance house deploys Tintri hybrid flash array for VMware View VDI

  Fund investment advisor MVision has deployed a VM-centric Tintri hybrid flash array to speed consultant remote access to its VMware View 5.1 virtual desktop infrastructure

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Movie FX shop adds Avere NAS acceleration to BlueArc scale-out NAS

  Video effects specialist Image Engine adds Avere NAS acceleration to provide high-performance cache while retaining BlueArc clustered NAS arrays as bulk storage

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Royal Opera House tunes online queuing with AWS cloud

  The Royal Opera House has deployed AWS cloud to eliminate the virtual "waiting room" on its website for customers booking tickets online

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes

  University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  VMware's hybrid cloud to allow users to extend datacentres to public cloud

  VMware has launched vCloud Hybrid Service IaaS to allow users to extend their datacentre to the public cloud without rewriting applications

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Dell appoints new UK head to drive services transformation

  As the company attempts to reinvent itself, Dell has a new UK head, Tim Griffin who aims to deliver a single country focus

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Veeam adds WAN acceleration to virtual machine backup product

  Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam has added WAN acceleration, storage array snapshots and other features to version 7 of its Backup & Replication virtual machine backup product

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  BYOD: Securing the risk to access the cost benefits

  Bring-your-own-device schemes offer businesses the opportunity to cut the costs and improve user experiences, but benefits can be dwarfed by the risks.

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  Spoilt for choice: Enterprise flash deployment options

  The question is no longer whether to use flash, but where in the enterprise server and storage infrastructure it should go

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Suffolk university dumps failing IBM DS SAN and gets Fujitsu DX-80s

  University Campus Suffolk couldn’t go on when IBM “washed its hands” of a failing DS4700. After disastrous pitches from numerous storage suppliers it went with Fujitsu

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  EMC: Data everywhere – ViPR software-defined storage the answer

  At EMC World the company set out its vision of a future of massive amounts of distributed data and revealed ViPR – software-defined storage with which it aims to tame it

• May 06, 2013 06 May'13

  EMC unveils ViPR software-defined storage platform

  EMC’s Project Bourne comes out of stealth mode as ViPR, a software-defined storage platform aimed at a future of hyperscale datacentres and big data analytics

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Can VMware capture the cloud with its software-defined datacentre strategy?

  According to VMware, a software defined datatcentre is the foundation of a hybrid cloud to help businesses deliver ITaaS

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  University does the maths and dumps HDS for Nexenta storage software

  Greenwich university school of computing and maths opts for Nexenta storage software on commodity hardware and gains 20% savings

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Public cloud: Ready for business?

  Cloud computing is moving beyond small companies, start-ups and software development to the era of full-scale enterprise deployments.

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Brocade outlines on-demand datacentre strategy

  Brocade has developed a strategy for an “on-demand datacentre” which combines physical and virtual networking elements

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Big data security: getting a grip on multiple data sources

  Big data analyses multiple data points, but how do you ensure that ecosystem is secure? In this podcast, Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, outlines the key steps in achieving big data security

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Fusion-io buys NexGen to join hybrid flash array fray

  PCIe server flash pioneer Fusion-io has bought itself an array maker; Nexgen and its PCIe flash/SAS hybrid. Is Fusion-io’s next move into all-flash arrays?

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  EMC posts record Q1 revenues; VMware and RSA star performers

  EMC’s first quarter results include record Q1 revenues. VMware and RSA show stellar growth and storage hardware lags, but COO says, “We’re on course for $30bn in 2016”

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  SGI debuts clustered NAS storage virtualisation disk archive gateway

  SGI launches hybrid clustered NAS and storage virtualisation archiving for single view of disk, tape and object storage

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  World’s fastest supercomputer gets 40PB of DDN storage

  The US Oak Ridge lab builds home-grown HPC NAS for 40PB DataDirect Networks with 1TBps of throughput as a SAN to back-end Spider II file system on Titan supercomputer

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Real-life disaster recovery boost at video firm with HDS clustered NAS

  Special effects video firm The Mill boosts HDS/BlueArc clustered NAS capacity to cope with HD movies and build disaster recovery site at London’s Docklands

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  Law firm gets EMC unified storage for effective disaster recovery

  Surrey law firm TWM builds VMware virtualised infrastructure with EMC VNX unified storage to enable disaster recovery best practice

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  Royal Military Police cuts digital forensics costs with distributed processing

  Royal Military Police (RMP) Service Police Crime Bureau (SPCB) cuts case backlog by 42% and reduces costs per initial case by nearly 33%

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  Iceland media firm opts for ATA-over-Ethernet archive

  Icelandic media firm 365 Media opts for 600TB Coraid ATA-over-Ethernet storage system after rejecting iSCSI and DIY open source file storage

• April 05, 2013 05 Apr'13

  HP chairman Ray Lane steps down following shareholder attack

  Ray Lane has stepped down as chairman of the board of HP following a meeting with angry shareholders in March

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  St Andrews upgrades to Dell Compellent SANs with SSD tier

  St Andrews university gets dual FCOE-linked Compellent SANs with an SSD tier as it consolidates storage from DAS/NAS at 50 locations to two sites for disaster recovery provision

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  Total shuns flash storage for 17PB SGI HPC supercomputer

  Oil company Total unveils 17PB €60m supercomputer based on short-stroked Sata drives and tape. Flash storage rejected as too costly until the price comes down

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  Six security issues to tackle before encrypting cloud data

  Concern about security and privacy is likely to drive adoption of cloud encryption, but there are six security issues businesses should tackle

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  University shuns cloud archiving and Quantum for Spectra Logic tape

  Bristol University builds Spectra Logic tape archive with NexSan disk front-end, rejecting cloud archive due to uncertainties over data control