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• 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

• January 04, 2013 04 Jan'13

  In 2013 virtualisation will drive flash and backup decisions

  Key choices in 2013: Server and desktop virtualisation will drive developments in storage and backup technology that demand decisions about flash and backup

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  EMC seals deal with Chinese server giant Lenovo for desktop NAS

  Storage giant EMC completes joint venture that will see it provide desktop NAS and SME rackmount storage hardware to Lenovo

• December 31, 2012 31 Dec'12

  Top 10 virtualisation and storage stories of 2012

  Virtualisation has had a huge impact on the world of storage. These 10 articles from 2012 chart the effects on storage products and best practices in storage for virtualisation

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  Top 10 storage stories of 2012

  Top storage stories from 2012 reflect the rapid pace of virtualisation, big data, the proliferation of mobile devices and new twists on storage technologies such as tape and RAID

• December 24, 2012 24 Dec'12

  Top 10 server virtualisation stories of 2012

  Check out our top 10 server virtualisation resources to help storage professionals address the variety of storage-related challenges they may face in a virtual server environment

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Data to grow more quickly says IDC’s Digital Universe study

  IDC’s annual Digital Universe study finds data set to expand to 40 Zettabytes by 2020. Emerging markets and machine-generated data will account for increasing proportions of it.

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  United Drug saves €30k-plus a year with Silver Peak WAN optimisation

  Irish drug multinational deploys Silver Peak WAN optimisation products to cure network bottlenecks, ensure effective disaster recovery and save on network costs

• December 10, 2012 10 Dec'12

  IBM industrialises silicon and optical nanotechnology for big data

  IBM has invented a chip that combines photonics and silicon on a single 90nm die capable of transferring data at 25Gbps.

• December 06, 2012 06 Dec'12

  Microsoft undercuts Google, AWS in cloud storage price drop

  Just days after Google and Amazon Web Services dropped their cloud storage prices, Microsoft has announced a steeper cut

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  Computer Weekly European User Awards Criteria and Information

  Read the entry criteria and general information about entering the Computer Weekly European User Awards.

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  Computer Weekly European User Awards: Categories

  The Computer Weekly European User Awards honours IT professionals across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology, focusing on the key areas of networking and mobile; storage; security; datacentre and virtualisation; and ...

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  Virsto adds HA capability and VMware and Citrix VDI integration

  Virsto virtual machine storage logging product upgraded to version 2.0 with high-availability and support for VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop

• December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12

  Nutanix supports Red Hat KVM in upgraded storage stack hardware and OS

  Nutanix upgrades OS to add replication and disaster recovery, no-downtime addition of nodes, high availability and Red Hat KVM hypervisor support

• December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12

  Law firm adopts smart storage

  Law firm Sackers and Partners is using intelligent storage that moves information from expensive discs to less expensive discs automatically

• November 30, 2012 30 Nov'12

  Charityshare gets Violin flash array for 2,000 seat VDI rollout

  Charityshare chooses Violin Memory 3000 Series over IBM V7000 SAN and flash array rivals Whiptail and Texas Memory Systems for 2,000 seat virtual desktop deployment

• November 29, 2012 29 Nov'12

  AWS launches new EC2 instances and Data Pipeline for big data analytics

  AWS has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads as well as AWS Data Pipeline for big data

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  AWS re:Invent: Amazon launches data warehouse service Redshift and cuts S3 prices

  At its first ever user conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched data warehousing cloud service Redshift and slashed S3 prices

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  Private cloud does not bring full benefits of cloud computing, says AWS

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) senior vice-president Andy Jassy slams private cloud suppliers for failing to deliver the benefits of cloud computing

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  Whiptail promises four million IOPS all-flash array performance

  All-flash array maker Whiptail has upgraded its Racerunner operating system so Invicta arrays can scale to four million IOPS and 360TB of capacity

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  £60m datacentre to be built in Birmingham

  A 10MW modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2012

  Software-defined datacentres, sustainable and green IT, power and cooling management, DCIM tools and keeping the datacentre running despite hurricane are 2012's datacentre highlights

• November 26, 2012 26 Nov'12

  Kent Police nabs Acronis for physical and virtual backup

  Kent Police slashes backup window and restore times with Acronis, replacing multi-supplier systems as part of disaster recovery project

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  Dell adds CommVault and AppAssure back-up appliances

  Dell launches two back-up appliances: SME-targeted DL4000 with AppAssure physical/virtual/cloud back-up software on board, and Simpana 9-equipped DL2300

• November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  Dell OS upgrade nudges Compellent arrays into enterprise SAN market

  Dell announces “game changer” Compellent OS and controller upgrade that pushes at enterprise SAN market

• November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  Dublin Airport Authority turns to virtualisation for CCTV data storage

  Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is planning to use virtualised servers to store CCTV data for easy retrieval and improved management

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  NetApp pushes clustered NAS ONTAP but customers drag feet

  NetApp pushes clustered NAS capability of Data ONTAP at its Dublin Insight event but very few customers have switched over

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  NetApp has no plans for all-flash array, says CTO Jay Kidd

  CTO Jay Kidd explains why NetApp won’t follow the industry trend for all-flash array products – the market’s too small and it’s not a good idea

• November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12

  NetApp records 1,000% growth on FlexPod storage stack sales

  NetApp claims sales of FlexPod integrated storage stacks have risen from 160 12 months ago to a present total of 1,600

• November 09, 2012 09 Nov'12

  DataDirect Networks takes aim at clustered NAS with SFA7700

  DataDirect Networks (DDN) makes a play for clustered NAS customers with big data needs on its journey from HPC to scale-out supplier

• November 07, 2012 07 Nov'12

  HDS adds accelerated MLC flash module to its VSP enterprise SAN

  HDS unveils Hitachi Accelerated Flash controller and drive enclosures for VSP arrays, claiming 1m IOPS from standard MLC flash drives

• November 06, 2012 06 Nov'12

  DSM demonstrates compliance through EMC Documentum D2

  Global life sciences firm DSM shares how EMC Documentum D2 helps it track a document's lifecycle to meet industry compliance standards

• November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12

  Telecity buys Finland datacentre operator Academica for €28m

  Datacentre provider Telecity Group buys Finnish datacentre operator Academica for €28m to gain access to Russian markets

• November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12

  German public sector firm BAG beat data woes with storage virtualisation

  German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - found a solution to its data management problems in storage virtualisation

• November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12

  NetApp nips and tucks FAS3200 clustered NAS unified storage range

  NetApp refreshes FAS3200 series unified storage arrays with changed drive capacities, plus clustered NAS and Flash Cache and Flash Pools

• November 01, 2012 01 Nov'12

  Tape is not a dead storage concept, but needs reinventing

  Despite advances in storage technology such as hard disks, data de-duplication and cloud-based storage, tape is not dead, say experts

• October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12

  Southwark Council outsources IT transformation

  Southwark Council is upgrading all the IT that supports the delivery of council services, through a deal with Capita

• October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12

  Virtual Instruments adds AIX, Hyper-V, SVC and VPLEX SAN testing

  SAN testing supplier Virtual Instruments plans to add AIX and Hyper-V virtual server environments to its capabilities

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  Cloud backup provider McCloud chooses object storage over clustered NAS

  McCloud chooses Amplidata object storage with 15 nines data protection for scalability instead of HP Ibrix and NetApp clustered NAS

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  Trend Micro: Encryption is the foundation of cloud security

  Trend Micro says giving customers the ‘perception of control’ over their data is key for trust and adoption of cloud computing

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  X-IO boosts SSD capacity in hybrid flash Hyper ISE arrays

  X-IO launches the 740, a Hyper ISE hybrid flash storage array with SSD capacity of 3.2TB to target high IOPS in VDI, OLTP and BI use cases

• October 29, 2012 29 Oct'12

  Cheshire Constabulary polices network with SolarWinds

  Police force in Cheshire uses SolarWinds’ infrastructure monitoring tools to keep its IT out of trouble

• October 29, 2012 29 Oct'12

  Fujitsu teams with Violin to drive ‘Ferrari’ SSDs

  Fujitsu has announced a partnership with Violin Memory to incorporate the Silicon Valley firm’s solid state drives (SSDs) into its storage arrays

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  Beware of unfair SaaS HR contracts

  Businesses must be wary of signing unfair contracts as software as a service takes over from traditional HR technology

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Tape revenues drag down Quantum results but disk gives a boost

  Quantum reports year-on-year losses and declining tape revenues but has better news with DXi disk backup and StorNext scale-out file system

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Logistics firm chooses EMC VNX for virtualisation storage

  Logistics firm Crossflight has implemented an EMC VNX storage array to support a virtual server environment and cut power and cooling bills

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Cloud firm snubs mainstream suppliers for Nexenta storage software

  LeaseWeb snubs HP, IBM and NetApp to build public cloud services on NexentaStor software using commodity servers with SAS and SSDs

• October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

  Jobs firm Hudson dumps NetApp for HP in disaster recovery project

  Multinational jobs firm Hudson recruits HP and fires NetApp as it builds active-active London datacentres to support disaster recovery in Europe-wide CRM roll-out

• October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12

  CERN turns on new NetApp ONTAP clustered NAS capability

  CERN turns on NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1.1 clustered NAS functionality for easy scaling and maintenance on its 2PB LHC data storage cluster

• October 15, 2012 15 Oct'12

  VMware Virtual SAN vision to disrupt storage paradigm

  VMware’s vision for storage from the hypervisor is set to pull the rug from mid-range, enterprise and virtual storage product suppliers

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  Nationwide Insurance builds IT ledger for chargeback

  Nationwide Insurance controls IT expenditure using VMware ITBM to provide a service catalogue and pricing for internal departments

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  HDS, NetApp and Nexenta launch storage stacks at VMworld 2012

  Hitachi Data Systems revamps stacks to become VMware-centric; NetApp adds SME ExpressPod stacks to existing FlexPods; Nexenta launches VDI bundle

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  VMware fleshes out vision for enterprise-wide storage virtualisation

  VMware sets out its plans for virtualised pools of storage and virtual SANs that create shared storage from distributed server drives

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  VMware tools up for software-defined datacentres

  At VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware addressed how it would tackle greater IT complexity through management and automation

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  Lamborghini slashes web costs with Amazon Web Services

  Supercar maker Lamborghini has revamped and accelerated the performance of its website by running it on Amazon Web Services

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  NATS virtual desktops take off with Violin Memory flash array

  Air traffic control organisation NATS chooses high IOPS performance Violin Memory all-flash array for a 6,000-seat virtual desktop roll-out

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Storage briefs: Tape library just the ticket for car park firm

  Tape library for car park firm; IT departments fail on email compliance; Record HDD shipment after Thai floods; Veeam supports Hyper-V

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Social media presents risk of data overload

  Employees are at risk of information overload as social media technologies are increasingly used in the workplace

• October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Businesses to face tougher penalties for data breaches

  Businesses will face tougher penalties for failing to secure personal data under new European legislation

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  We need European datacentres to 'be successful' says Box CEO

  Computer Weekly speaks to founder and CEO of cloud storage firm Box about why enterprises are embracing this type of technology and what his firm has to do to keep them happy

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  HMRC becomes first major department to use G-Cloud

  HMRC is the first major government department to procure through the G-Cloud in a deal with Skyscape for centralised data storage.

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  Hitachi Unified Storage VM brings multiprotocol storage virtualisation

  HDS Hitachi Unified Storage VM brings multiprotocol storage with object storage and storage virtualisation that scales to 64 PB with an all-flash array variant planned for November

• August 09, 2012 09 Aug'12

  London’s authority gets Olympic class disaster recovery systems

  In time for the Olympics, the Greater London Authority has ditched tape and deployed disk-based disaster recovery systems to reduce restores from three days to four hours.

• August 02, 2012 02 Aug'12

  University deploys Violin flash storage array

  Storage roundup: Anglia Ruskin University gets Violin's 3000 Series flash storage array; media firm dumps Veeam for Acronis; health firm deploys Coraid flash array; and more news.

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  Academic supercomputer gets 27 PB of HPC storage

  Storage roundup: The University of Edinburgh's HECToR supercomputer has been given an HPC storage upgrade with 8 PB on an array and 19.5 PB on tape; Aptare storage analytics upgrade; and more news.

• July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12

  Cloud provider opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays

  Storage roundup: Cloud provider RTW Hosting opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays; Buffalo’s new iSCSI and NAS arrays; Coraid appointment; OnApp to bundle storage virtualisation software; and more news.

• May 29, 2012 29 May'12

  School cuts unstructured data by 90% with Balesio

  Storage roundup: School cuts unstructured data by 90% with Balesio; Belgian bank gets VirtualSharp DR tool; Bocada teams with Veeam; new Infortrend unified storage arrays; and more news.

• May 10, 2012 10 May'12

  Government lab installs 8.5 PB of Panasas HPC storage

  Storage roundup: Government lab installs 8.5 PB of Panasas HPC storage; college cuts files by 75% with Balesio; StorMagic E.ON storage virtualisation win; and more news.

• May 02, 2012 02 May'12

  Data deduplication technology boosts Shoppers Stop’s backup strategy

  Data deduplication technology helps Indian retail major Shoppers Stop battle the inefficiencies of data backup. Our case study has all the juicy details.

• April 16, 2012 16 Apr'12

  Charity cuts costs with Xsigo network virtualisation

  Storage roundup: Charity cuts costs with Xsigo network virtualisation; prison group gets cloud backup; Danish city deploys Fusion-io software; Amplidata software upgrade; and more news.

• March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12

  Bank of India’s BS 25999 certification journey nears completion

  This is the story of how Bank of India turned around its business continuity strategy from a state of chaos as it geared up for BS 25999 certification.

• March 26, 2012 26 Mar'12

  Research company gets Acronis virtual machine backup

  Storage roundup: Research company gets Acronis virtual machine backup; cloud provider opts for Nexsan; Arkivum appoints Scallon; Coraid appoints Virmani; and Qsan is VMware-ready.

• March 05, 2012 05 Mar'12

  Events company gets VirtualSharp disaster recovery testing

  Storage roundup: Events firm chooses VirtualSharp for application-aware DR testing; Virtual Instruments CEO joins Microsoft board; Qsan launches SMB iSCSI SAN; and more news.

• February 16, 2012 16 Feb'12

  German hosting group deploys Fusion-io server flash

  Storage roundup: German hosting group deploys Fusion-io server flash; Open University opts for Dot Hill; Jaguar Land Rover deploys Isilon; war museum gets Spectra Logic tape library; and more news.

• January 24, 2012 24 Jan'12

  Virtual machine backup and disaster recovery top European storage priorities

  Virtual machine backup and disaster recovery top the storage priorities of European IT departments as recession bites and legal and industry compliance requirements must be met.

• January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12

  NHS service opts for Dot Hill SAN for VMware project

  Storage roundup: NHS service opts for Dot Hill SAN for VMware; Acronis adds Red Hat integration; Atlantis releases ILIO monitoring module; ExaGrid gains Symantec synthetics certification; and more.

• January 15, 2012 15 Jan'12

  Five questions on solid-state drive technology

  Before you strap in, make sure your data center network can handle the performance gains provided by solid-state drive devices.