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• 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.

• December 15, 2011 15 Dec'11

  Amplidata object-based cloud for social networking company

  Storage roundup: Social networking company opts for Amplidata object-based cloud; Front-safe chooses Fusion-io; Balesio now supports PDFs; architect selects Dot Hill iSCSI arrays; and more news.

• December 02, 2011 02 Dec'11

  Agile design process takes business to the doghouse and the cloud

  When faced with the challenge of designing and deploying a new system, 99designs turned to their won rapid development methodology and the cloud

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Union Solutions adopts Caringo’s object-based storage for cloud storage

  Storage roundup: Union adopts Caringo’s object-based storage; Crossroads ships LTFS box; Infortrend adds tiering and QLogic hardware; NetApp customer win; NovaStor’s NAS backup; and more news.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  NetApp announces Big Data solutions as market grows

  In the quest to manage Big Data, NetApp has announced new solutions to manage the growth in unstructured data in a dynamic market

• November 15, 2011 15 Nov'11

  Storage supplies constrained by Thai floods

  Storage prices are on the way up with the recent floods in Thailand resulting in supply chain constraints.

• November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11

  DDN HPC storage calculates risk

  Storage roundup: DDN HPC storage calculates risk; BBC Wales gets Object Matrix NAS; Arkivium to use IBM tape; CommVault expands global support from Reading; and more news.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Coraid expands ANZ presence

  Ethernet SAN solutions developer has invested $50M towards international expansion and increasing its ANZ presence.

• November 02, 2011 02 Nov'11

  SNW Europe 2011: Conference coverage

  Find out what took place at SNW Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, this year. See pictures and read tips and blogs from sessions.

• October 30, 2011 30 Oct'11

  Cloud storage boom as users rush to outsourcers

  The Spring 2011 edition of IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey says 40%of enterprise storage users plan to outsource some of their storage needs in the next twelve months, with “an average of over 250TB will be acquired” by each user.

• October 30, 2011 30 Oct'11

  I spy web servers which don’t lie

  The storage blogosphere is reporting an interesting incident involving Symantec and Permabit, plus a stoush between Oracle and NetApp.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Recruitment firm gets cloud backup

  Storage roundup: Jobs firm gets cloud backup; Eden Project grows for NetApp; Law firm’s WAN optimisation; German space centre gets Atempo, and more news.

• October 18, 2011 18 Oct'11

  Disaster Recovery Not Keeping Up With Cloud

  A recent survey by Acronis reveals that companies aren't updating their DR plans as they move to cloud solutions.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Flybe flies with Veeam Backup & Replication virtual server backup

  Storage roundup: Airline Flybe has implemented Veeam virtual server backup in a move to virtual servers; Durham upgrades star computer to 1.1 PB; Cornwall hospitals get Simpana; and more news.

• October 03, 2011 03 Oct'11

  Incriptus heads for the enterprise

  Adelaide “community cloud” backup company Incriptus has developed an enterprise version of its product and is seeking funding to help take it to the world.

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  IBM’s racetrack memory: 1,250x increase in storage density promised

  IBM promises 1,250 times the storage density at the same cost per gigabyte as disk with its racetrack memory. But difficult choices lie ahead for IBM if it works.

• September 26, 2011 26 Sep'11

  Australian Bureau of Statistics counts on no storage team, HP, for census

  Australia’s recent agricultural and population censuses will be stored on and tabulated using HP SANs, but a dedicated storage team won’t help the count.

• September 25, 2011 25 Sep'11

  Bad Sectors: the latest storage news

  Our regular roundup of storage news sees EMC notch a Canberra win, a couple of agencies announce their plans to buy SANs, Ninefold's sneakernet, a nasty rumour about HP and a new entrant to the local SAN market.

• September 19, 2011 19 Sep'11

  Richard Gere loves EMC, so it probably isn’t worried about NetApp haters

  Our monthly wade through the slime of the storage blogosphere has found an EMC Symmetrix making Richard Gere look animated, and some rather odd Spam in NetApp’s back yard

• September 14, 2011 14 Sep'11

  Disaster Recovery focus at Intel Developer Forum

  For many CIOs, disaster recovery or business continuity planning starts and stops with backups, hot recovery sites and well documented plans. At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel is showcasing the roles played by diverse types of computing in the ...

• September 13, 2011 13 Sep'11

  Transport police get Dell Compellent SAN storage tiering

  Storage roundup: The British Transport Police has implemented Compellent SANs with storage tiering as part of a VMware virtualisation project; university boots Buffalo for Overland NAS; and more news.

• September 12, 2011 12 Sep'11

  Four hot storage startups from the floor at VMworld 2011

  VMworld 2011’s Solutions Exchange saw a bright new crop of storage companies step onto the industry’s stage. We were there to watch them debut.

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Extreme data recovery

  When Orly Productions had a LTO tape immersed in mud following the Christchurch earthquake, they turned to Kroll Ontrack to recover the critical data

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Royal College prescribes NetApp for VMware storage

  Storage roundup: Royal College prescribes NetApp for VMware storage; university goes solid-state for VDI; waste firm gets Dot Hill SANs; Coraid’s VMware integration; and more news.

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Server appliances simplify deployment

  There was a time when deploying a new server required a team of engineers but server appliances are simplifying the task.

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  A sneak peek at Avamar vCloud Protector

  EMC has used VMware2011 to show off a new backup tool, Avamar vCloud Protector, which offers new and advanced ways to backup virtual machines.

• August 29, 2011 29 Aug'11

  VMware CEO Paul Maritz on the role of storage in the virtual world

  VMware has recently released some products that threaten traditional storage models. What’s the company up to? CEO Paul Maritz explains the company’s attitude to storage in this brief podcast from VMworld 2011.

• August 29, 2011 29 Aug'11

  How ASIC stops I/O storms hurting its SANs

  The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has deployed virtual desktop infrastructure, creating 3000 desktop images for its 2300 staff. At VMworld it explained how it runs that fleet without boot storms hurting its SANs.

• August 26, 2011 26 Aug'11

  Bad Sectors – Dell, HP refresh storage ranges

  Dell has announced new EqualLogic products, HP has announced a ‘storage federation’ and the VCE alliance has received a boost from a global partner.

• August 22, 2011 22 Aug'11

  Bad Sectors - Amazon warns on S3 security, UXC and CommVault cuddle

  This week’s roundup of storage news touches on cloud security and a stronger alliance between UXC and CommVault

• August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11

  Veeam brings virtual server backup for NHS trust

  Storage roundup: Hospital cuts restoration times to minutes using Veeam Backup & Recovery; Buffalo launches Windows NAS family; Coraid partners with The Blueprint IT; Dot Hill appointments; and more.

• August 07, 2011 07 Aug'11

  VMware, Intel, EMC, NetApp and IBM battle in the blogs

  The storage blogosphere is ablaze with many battles over VMware, XIV, VMAXe and more.

• August 07, 2011 07 Aug'11

  Bad Sectors - Maritime Safety Authority loves Gartner, Blu-Ray for servers

  The Australian Maritime Safety Authority will only consider companies appearing in a Gartner magic quadrant for up to $10million of storage.

• August 07, 2011 07 Aug'11

  Maritime museum backs up with HP LeftHand, Microsoft

  The Australian National Maritime Museum has revamped its storage infrastructure, selecting HP LeftHand and Microsoft.

• August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11

  Bad sectors – Storage news from Dell, Zerowait and Waikato District Health Board

  Dell plans to bring its vStart pre-packaged infrastructure stacks to Australia later this year, while ZeroWait has scored an Australian customer for its SimplStor product.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Storage roundup: Company cuts backup window from five days to 12 hours

  Storage roundup: Finance co. cuts backup window from five days to 12 hours; NetApp goes to the zoo; Balesio launches new version; tape storage still key, says survey; and more.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  NetApp trials University alliance to tackle skills shortage

  NetApp will try to introduce certifications in its products to the curricula of nine Australian universities, to address a shortage of people skilled in operating its products.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Bad sectors – Storage gossip from EMC, Dell, NetApp and Fujitsu

  A NetApp employee claimed the company had poached all of the VCE alliance’s local staff, but quickly deleted the evidence.

• July 17, 2011 17 Jul'11

  New Zealand Bank banking on SAN virtualisation strategy

  Kiwibank has acquired new HDS SANs to assist with its virtualisation strategy, but has not consolidated SANS, instead buying single-purpose arrays.

• July 17, 2011 17 Jul'11

  EMC plans VMAXe vBlocks

  EMC plans create vBlocks around its new VMAXe storage array, says Brian E Gallagher, President of the company’s Enterprise Storage Division.

• July 13, 2011 13 Jul'11

  VSphere Storage Appliance to replace mid-range arrays: analyst

  An analyst says VMware’s vSphere Storage Appliance, launched today, will eventually cause the demise of products like EMC’s Clariion and NetApp’s low-end FAS.

• July 12, 2011 12 Jul'11

  Disaster recovery management: Kale Consultants’ ten-year journey

  Kale Consultants’ disaster recovery management and business continuity planning journey makes for interesting reading in this comprehensive case study.

• July 11, 2011 11 Jul'11

  EMC’s caveman creed, HP says FAST is its idea, Pillar crumbles

  The storage blogosphere has thrown up a fascinating EMC video explaining how cave painting is like social media. Seriously. Also HP says EMC’s FAST is its idea.

• July 11, 2011 11 Jul'11

  Essex college deploys ATA over Ethernet; and more news

  Storage roundup: Essex college deploys ATA over Ethernet; the Eden Project goes NetApp; British Airways gets its SANs tested; Council cloud uses Xsigo virtual I/O; and more news.

• July 01, 2011 01 Jul'11

  News in Brief: EMC’s digital universe, Synology’s latest, Insentra surges

  EMC has released its latest digital universe study, and gee we’re all making a lot of data. Plus news from Synology and Insentra.

• June 26, 2011 26 Jun'11

  XSI brand disappears as UXC Connects with data centre optimisation

  One Australia’s most storage-centric IT consultancies, XSI, will disappear as its parent company UXC creates a new data centre optimisation practice.

• June 21, 2011 21 Jun'11

  Chemical firm opts for Acronis for XenServer backup

  Storage roundup: Chemical firm gets Acronis for XenServer backup; print firm installs ATA-over-Ethernet; Dot Hill supports 3 TB drives; Enhance’s EU HQ; and more news.

• June 20, 2011 20 Jun'11

  Apple’s weird storage decision

  Apple has adopted a non-standard SATA interface in new iMacs. We’re trying to figure out why.

• June 20, 2011 20 Jun'11

  Data management at Teachers Credit Union

  How does 132TB go into 8TB? Colin Thomas, CIO of the Teachers Credit Union, has changed his data management strategy to achieve the impossible

• June 13, 2011 13 Jun'11

  Dell and EMC "Still get together when the kids are around"

  EMC and Dell have reached an "amicable separation rather than a nasty divorce" and still get together when it's important, says EMC's marketing CTO Chuck Hollis.