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• 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

• 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%