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November 04, 2014
04
Nov'14
Google joins enterprise cloud battle with additions to its cloud platform
Google made a raft of announcements at its GCP Live event, including enhancements to its networking stack and storage price drops
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October 23, 2014
23
Oct'14
BBC takes iPlayer video production to AWS cloud to beat bottleneck and storage woes
Having run Video Factory on AWS for over a year, BBC's Robert Shield explains how he overcame iPlayer bottleneck and availability challenges
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October 22, 2014
22
Oct'14
EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%
Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions
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October 10, 2014
10
Oct'14
Symantec splits storage and security
Symantec is splitting its storage and security business, following just days after HP announced its split
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October 08, 2014
08
Oct'14
The challenges facing HP as it splits in two
HP is splitting its business in two - but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT
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October 02, 2014
02
Oct'14
DDN launches scale-out NAS GS7K GPFS product bundle
DataDirect Networks launches the GS7K, a pre-configured GPFS scale-out NAS/parallel file system storage product
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September 09, 2014
09
Sep'14
Virtual backup appliance pros and cons
Computer Weekly examines virtual backup appliances that run backup and restore from a virtual machine
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July 16, 2014
16
Jul'14
CIPD ditches 20-a-day tape habit for Exagrid data deduplication
HR professionals organisation the CIPD replaces tape backup with disk-based data deduplication backup hardware from Exagrid
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
Microsoft adds StorSimple hybrid storage arrays to Azure cloud service
Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays
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July 09, 2014
09
Jul'14
Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach
At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
EMC XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon get new CPUs and data services
EMC boosts XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon with Ivy Bridge CPUs and advanced data services including flash array snapshots
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity
The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers
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June 26, 2014
26
Jun'14
Security must change in Indian digital marketplace
More than 25% of large digital marketplaces will have explicit strategies for consumer computing and security by 2018, according to Gartner
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June 10, 2014
10
Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters
Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
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May 09, 2014
09
May'14
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility
Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
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April 23, 2014
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Apr'14
HDS upgrades its mainframe-friendly VSP G1000 enterprise storage array
Hitachi Data Systems launches the Virtual Storage Platform G1000 enterprise storage array, which boosts capacity, performance and lifespan for the storage virtualisation platform.
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April 10, 2014
10
Apr'14
BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud
Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance
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April 09, 2014
09
Apr'14
Data set to grow 10-fold by 2020 as internet of things takes off
IDC’s Digital Universe study predicts the world's data will amount to 44 zettabytes by 2020, 10% of it from the internet of things
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April 08, 2014
08
Apr'14
Law Society advises legal industry's IT teams over cloud
The Law Society has published best-practice advice for legal firms' IT teams that are considering using cloud computing, following increased use of the cloud to store data
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April 03, 2014
03
Apr'14
EMC upgrades Avamar, Networker and Data Domain products
EMC boosts application and hypervisor integration on Avamar, Networker and Data Domain as part of a strategic push to "backup-less backup" and a "data protection continuum"
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric
DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency
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March 17, 2014
17
Mar'14
Cloud archive pros and cons and the questions to ask providers
A cloud archive offers a flexible and cost effective alternative to in-house archiving where maintenance is outsourced, but what are the key questions to ask a potential supplier
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February 24, 2014
24
Feb'14
Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision
State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay
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February 19, 2014
19
Feb'14
NetApp slims product family with launch of FAS8000 series
NetApp launches FAS8000 line that will replace FAS3000 and FAS6000 series filers
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills
Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Atlantis joins the software-defined storage fray with USX
Atlantis ILIO USX software-defined storage allows customers to virtualise commodity to create flash, hybrid and hyperscale storage
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February 07, 2014
07
Feb'14
Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market
AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft
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February 06, 2014
06
Feb'14
B&Q owner Kingfisher dumps Raid rebuilds and saves 40% on disk with X-IO
Kingfisher puts X-IO drives behind IBM SVC storage virtualisation to save 40% disk costs and dispenses with Raid rebuilds in £120,000 project
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January 31, 2014
31
Jan'14
WIll open source save the datacentre industry?
IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?
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January 30, 2014
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Jan'14
EMC brings Hadoop into ViPR upgrade and unifies SRM modules
EMC launches version 1.1 of its software-defined storage/big data platform ViPR by building in Hadoop analytics capability
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January 29, 2014
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Jan'14
Microsoft joins Open Compute Project
Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design
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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
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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
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December 31, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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September 20, 2013
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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
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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
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August 16, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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