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• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  Universities tempting targets for cyber criminals, warns NCSC

  As hundreds of thousands of students prepare for the new academic year, universities have been warned that they are at high risk of cyber attack

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  WannaCry variants accidentally protecting against WannaCry

  New variants of the infamous WannaCry malware continue to emerge, and many of them have accidentally turned themselves into a somewhat effective, although ill-advised, vaccine against infection

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Pure Storage sees stellar growth in APAC

  Pure Storage is expanding its footprint in key markets such as Australia, Japan and South Korea, even as it proceeds with caution in China

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Northwestern cuts storage costs in half with Komprise

  Komprise’s Deep Analytics helps university classify and migrate research data to cheaper disk and cloud as it cuts storage costs from $1.1m to $680,000 per annum

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Pure Storage outlines growth momentum, bolsters cloud play

  Pure Storage CEO talks up the storage supplier’s competitive edge in a largely stagnant market dominated by larger rivals

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Ecuador citizens’ data breach holds lessons for enterprises

  What caused the mass breach of Ecuadorian citizens’ data, and what can businesses learn from it?

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  GDPR non-compliance worse than feared

  Over half of UK businesses do not yet appear to be fully GDPR-compliant, and many have de-prioritised their compliance efforts

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software

  Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Ctera launches hybrid cloud HC2400M at media use cases

  Edge filer specialist hits up the media and entertainment market with its NAS-like hardware that caches data locally, syncs with other nodes and stages data to the cloud

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Commvault buys Hedvig in push for global storage player status

  Backup player Commvault aims to bring together datacentre and multi-cloud operations with software-defined storage that can unify access to almost any storage medium, anywhere

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  Police use of controversial facial recognition technology deemed lawful

  In a landmark hearing, the High Court has ruled that police use of automatic facial recognition technology is lawful, but that it still infringes on privacy rights

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  Virtual Instruments brings automated VM right-sizing in v6.2

  Storage and app performance specialist can now change virtual machine compute and network resources according to workload, with increased shift to analytics and proactive monitoring

• August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19

  Human rights group challenges police over counter-terrorism powers

  Bringing into question the effectiveness of terror laws, a report by human rights group Cage highlights poor conviction rates and the discriminatory application of police powers at the border

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  Virtual Instruments to add cloud monitoring with Metricly

  Storage monitoring specialist Virtual Instruments buys Metricly to add monitoring of AWS compute CPU, memory and resource utilisation to save customer costs

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  ICO joins international call for transparency around Facebook’s Libra currency

  Data protection regulators from around the world have signed a statement raising privacy concerns about Libra