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• 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

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  QLogic launches FabricCache for shared server flash

  QLogic merges PCIe server flash and cache management in FabricCache QLE10000 to share flash cache between servers for clustered applications

• March 19, 2013 19 Mar'13

  Easynet opts for HP compute/storage with SSD tier for Agile Platform

  Managed services provider Easynet shuns point solutions for HP compute and storage with SSD tier for Agile Platform end-to-end services

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  Use of cloud for disaster recovery, backup and desktop set to rise

  Adoption of cloud computing will move from SaaS to more sophisticated uses such as disaster recovery, backup, business continuity and desktop services

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  ID7 buy takes Fusion-io deeper into software-defined storage

  Server flash pioneer Fusion-io buys ID7 for its Linux SCSI stack storage expertise and will offer products for hyperscale storage later in 2013

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  UK SMEs risk data loss through poor practice

  Less than 20% of UK small and medium-sized enterprises back up all of their data, a study reveals

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  Violin Memory enters PCIe server flash SSD market with Velocity

  Violin Memory enters the PCIe server flash SSD market with Velocity cards that aim at server flash pioneer Fusion-io, with claims of doubled price/performance advantages

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  EMC XtremIO flash array available July, server flash cards expanded

  EMC's XtremIO flash array will be available in July as server flash capacities are expanded and flash cache roadmapped

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  Derbyshire council saves £200,000 with tiered storage architecture

  Derbyshire County Council has made substantial savings using NetApp NAS and Sata drives to create tiered storage with integrator Phoenix

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  Serco opts for Quantum DXi data deduplication and saves £1.3m

  As part of a £20m technology refresh to its private cloud services, Serco chooses Quantum data deduplication hardware to make £1.3m storage savings

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises

  HPC and clustered NAS supplier Data Direct Networks aims at enterprise customers with Hadoop appliance comprising its SFA12K storage and commodity compute components

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Microsoft to provide credit to customers after Windows Azure outage

  Microsoft will reimburse customers affected by the Windows Azure outage caused by an expired SSL certificate

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  CommVault’s Simpana 10 backup software makes Big Data play

  CommVault’s Simpana 10 enterprise backup software makes a play for Big Data use cases with extended capabilities around its Common Store data repository and compliance functions

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards: Open for entries

  Entries for the Computer Weekly European User Awards are now open. Find out about the five awards series running throughout 2013.

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Facebook to build cold storage facility at Prineville datacentre for old photos

  Facebook is planning a ‘cold storage’ facility at its Prineville datacentre facility in Oregon to archive users’ old photographs

• February 19, 2013 19 Feb'13

  NetApp launches first all-flash array and new operating system

  NetApp dips its toe in the all-flash array market with adapted E-Series, announces a ‘new’ OS and revamps high-end FAS6200 arrays with flash options rather than default

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Tax charges lead to losses for Brocade

  The networking firm reports record revenues, but confirms a tax charge pushed it to report losses of $21m

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

  UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Nutanix CEO: Converged storage makes SAN look like the mainframe

  Nutanix CEO interview: How converged storage will make the SAN obsolete; and the threat from VMware’s VSAN storage virtualisation plans

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  US Army boots up VDI with Atlantis ILIO flash caching software

  US Army Medical Command equips 11,000 staff at six hospitals with virtual desktop access and login times slashed to 30 seconds using Atlantis ILIO flash caching software

• February 12, 2013 12 Feb'13

  VMware buys Virsto Software to extend software-defined datacentre strategy

  VMware is buying storage virtualisation specialist Virsto Software to deliver on its software-defined datacentre strategy

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  Intel adds flash cache for Linux, with multi-node write planned

  Intel adds Linux capability to CAS flash cache software product acquired from Nevex last year and plans multiple-node write cache functionality later in 2013

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  CIO interview: Mark Bramwell, head of IT, The Wellcome Trust

  As The Wellcome Trust enters year two of a five-year IT strategy, head of IT Mark Bramwell is preparing to lead some high-profile projects

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Endpoint backup scales past 100,000 with Druva inSync

  Endpoint backup and BYOD data protection specialist Druva re-architects its inSync product to scale past 100,000 users

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Employee hardware ubiquitous but BYOD policies remain weak, finds survey

  Bring your own device (BYOD) policy remains patchy despite near 100% prevalence and instances of data loss

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Brits stash £24bn of digital assets in the cloud

  Brits are storing about £24bn of photos, music and videos in the cloud, as well as sensitive data such as passwords, study shows

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  University shuns HP array features for SIOS host-based replication

  Nottingham university deploys SIOS host-based replication in £500k HP shared storage project across two mirrored sites to provide 2,000 research staff with 0.5PB capacity

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  VMware a highlight as EMC posts record revenue results

  EMC’s revenues of $21.7bn show demand for VMware virtualisation and more growth for storage hardware and RSA security products

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Quantum aims at Data Domain and claims 4x throughput advantage

  Quantum launches new disk-based backup data deduplication hardware that offers faster throughput

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Government risks missing benefits of big data with focus on storage

  Government risks missing the opportunities of big data by getting bogged down in storage technologies rather than analytics, according to IDC

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Security in virtual environments neglected, survey shows

  Survey reveals 48% of IT organisations have reported or suspect unauthorised access to files on virtual servers

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Disaster recovery and virtual server backup top 2013 storage projects

  Exclusive survey finds disaster recovery and virtual server backup top storage to-do lists in 2013

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Businesses wasting billions storing unnecessary data

  CIOs are urged to rethink their backup strategies following warnings that companies are wasting billions on unnecessary storage

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  Interview: Alan Clark, chairman, OpenStack Foundation

  Alan Clark, chairman of the board of the OpenStack Foundation, talks to Computer Weekly about the future of cloud and the role of open source

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  NHS trust opts for HP active-active no-SSD tier SAN deployment

  Brighton NHS trust chooses HP private cloud instead of Dell servers and storage, and revamps IT and disaster recovery with active-active LeftHand SANs and no SSD tier

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Film maker storage strategy lead roles for BlueArc, Avere and DotHill

  Framestore revamps storage strategy for Gravity project and chooses BlueArc clustered NAS, Avere and DotHill in lead roles

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  FusionIO launches hyperscale computing server flash card

  FusionIO launches PCIe card-based server flash ioScale for hyperscale users who want to dispense with HDDs in commodity-based servers

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  Former Lloyds executive cries foul over IT whistle blowing

  Former head of business continuity at Lloyds Banking Group tells tribunal he was forced out because he blew whistle on flawed IT systems

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  Whiptail tops the class with flash array plus SAN two-tier strategy

  School slashes virtual desktop login times with two-tier Whiptail flash array plus budget Huawei SAN

• January 10, 2013 10 Jan'13

  News International presses ahead on the cloud with AWS

  News International has reaped public cloud benefits such as scalability, quick time-to-market and cheaper capital expenditure with AWS cloud

• January 10, 2013 10 Jan'13

  Flash storage widely used, with 60% running an SSD tier

  Flash use in storage is now common, with 60% using an SSD tier, but where to put that flash – server, array or appliance – is still a dilemma

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  WAN optimisation choices in the age of cloud and virtualisation

  WAN optimisation gives you more bandwidth for your money and now comes in cloud and virtual appliance form factors. We survey the key choices

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  Dell doubles object storage software choices with Scality

  Dell certifies Scality Ring object storage software in its PowerEdge R620 servers, mirroring its arrangements with object storage supplier Caringo