News

Storage

May 11, 2017 11 May'17
CIO interview: Bernie Burdett, head of IT, Dogs Trust

The animal charity is revamping its IT to provide better customer service, protect itself from cyber attacks and ensure GDPR compliance
May 10, 2017 10 May'17
Dell EMC World brings “bigger, faster, stronger” storage upgrades

All-flash additions plus hardware and software upgrades see platform refreshes across all Dell EMC storage offerings, as well as design changes in Isilon and Xtremio
May 09, 2017 09 May'17
General election: ODI hopes to see data, skills and innovation pledges in party manifestos

The Open Data Institute wants the UK’s political parties to make room for data policy in their manifestos ahead of the general election
May 09, 2017 09 May'17
Nexsan Unity goes all-flash but leaves NVMe on the back-burner

Nexsan Unity arrays already have SAN, NAS and file sync and share, and now add all-flash and policy-based archiving, but there’s no NVMe on the roadmap for now

May 03, 2017 03 May'17
3D XPoint et al to force architecture and software changes

New solid state technologies such as 3D XPoint will be a second tier of memory, bringing change to hardware architectures and software to be rewritten, says SNIA solid state group chair
May 02, 2017 02 May'17
Most think cloud services are as good as or better than IT department

Veeam survey shows levels of penetration for as-a-service cloud options and reveals that most IT managers think cloud providers meet service levels better than in-house IT
April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17
SLAs being met but most fall short of ‘always on’ backup and restore needs

Veeam Availability Report finds most IT professionals think there is a gap between how fast they can restore data and their requirements to be an “always on” organisation
April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17
Pivot3 launches Acuity hyper-converged with NVMe flash and QoS

Acuity operating environment merges features inherited from NexGen acquisition and adds NVMe Accelerator nodes with flash as cache in front of main storage
April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17
Huddle needs $5m equity injection or to find a buyer, as investment declaration deadline looms

Companies House documents reveal Huddle needs to raise $5m or more by the end of April or find a buyer to meet its financial obligations for the next 12 months
April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17
Gulf Air refreshes storage and server farm hardware with Dell EMC

Airline completes major project to revamp its storage infrastructure with Dell EMC technologies

April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17
Cancer researcher gets Nodeum LTFS tape NAS

Belgium-based OncoDNA replaces IBM tape library with flash-powered Nodeum LTFS to provide file access to backup and archive tapes at approaching nearline timescales
April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17
Motorola brings big data digital evidence service to UK police forces

Motorola is launching a digital evidence management service to UK police forces, backed off into AWS cloud infrastructure
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
StorageOS goes to market with persistent Docker container storage

StorageOS is now available on the Docker marketplace with software product that manages stateful storage for containers, with advanced storage features such as data protection and encryption
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
Quantum upgrades to StorNext 6 with replication and app QoS

Quantum StorNext scale-out file system adds to cloud capability with granular replication that can operate one-to-one, one-to-many, plus provide storage QoS per application
April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17
Pure Storage launches FlashArray//X with NVMe drives

FlashArray//X has NVMe drives but end-to-end storage-to-host NVMe connectivity will have to wait for an NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMf) version planned for release later this year
April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17
Cloud increasingly part of the job for storage professionals

451 Group research finds storage professionals are less concerned with data growth than last year but increasingly likely to have to manage storage capacity in the cloud
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
NHS IT group refits with Nimble flash and Zerto disaster recovery

Herts and Beds IT provider relegates Dell Equallogic arrays and gets Nimble plus Zerto hybrid flash environment with replication to give 15 minute restore and 99.9% uptime
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
No More Ransom expands capacity

More organisations have joined an anti-ransomware cross-industry initiative, boosting its capacity to help victims of ransomware as attackers begin to focus on business targets
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
Analytics, internet of things to drive data volumes to 163ZB by 2025

IDC study predicts consumers as creators of data will decline as the enterprise, analytics and “life critical” scenarios push total volumes to a tenfold increase by 2025
April 03, 2017 03 Apr'17
Cloudian launches beefed-up Hyperstore 400 object storage box

Object store specialist packs nearly a TB into 4U of rackspace in appliances with S3 and file access aimed at service providers, media and video surveillance use cases
March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17
Red Hat adds Gluster metadata cache and container deployment

Scale out NAS parallel file system speeds operations with client-side caching, and allows container deployment and faster self-healing volumes
March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17
Storage fails the business as data balloons, survey finds

Lack of agility and failure of storage to keep pace with the business and data growth are major concerns to UK businesses that see data volumes increase by 27% a year
March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17
Kaminario looks forward to NVMf, but not this year

All-flash maker Kaminario plans to add NVMe drives, but only when it can replace existing fabric protocols with NVMf and a full stack of advanced storage features
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Biggest pain in backup is lack of storage capacity, survey finds

Ever-growing need for more storage is the biggest problem for backup, followed by administration overheads, poor performance, scalability and multi-supplier complexity
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Scale Computing to bring NVMe flash to hyper-converged

Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Scale Computing is set to introduce NVMe connectivity to its products in 2017 with tiers of all flash also on the roadmap
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Analytics sell Tegile hybrid flash as college replaces iSCSI

Bolton College replaces six-year-old Dell EqualLogic iSCSI block arrays and is won over to Tegile hybrid flash by ease of troubleshooting troublesome VM I/O spike issues
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Excelero NVMe over fabrics NVMesh brings SAN to hyperscale

Excelero aims at transactional and analytics use cases for webscale users that want to create SAN-like pools of storage with its NVMesh software-defined product
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
HPE buys Nimble Storage to fill an all-flash and hybrid gap

Hardware giant buys Nimble Storage for $1.2bn and plugs a gap below its high-end flash retro-fitted 3PAR arrays with ground-up solid state-based hardware
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
Veritas expands partnership with Google

Enterprises can now deploy NetBackup and Backup Exec on the Google Cloud Platform, among other capabilities
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
Nodeum to add S3 connectivity to LTFS-powered tape archive

Belgium-based Linux-plus-LTFS startup adds S3 capability to allow customers to add cloud as a tier and data portability between on and off-premises archiving
March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17
Australian crowdsourcing platform turns to cloud storage to fuel growth

Airtasker is using Amazon Web Services to ramp up its storage capabilities to meet the needs of an expanding user base
February 28, 2017 28 Feb'17
IWM digitises vast collection in SpectraLogic tape archive

Imperial War Museum deploys SpectraLogic tape archive systems with LTFS Black Pearl in digitisation project for 21,000 hours of film and millions of images and voice recordings
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Nimble offers Nimble Cloud Volumes all-flash cloud storage

Hybrid and all-flash array maker extends offer to the cloud with Nimble Cloud Volumes cloud storage that can be provisioned for compute on Amazon or Microsoft clouds or on-premise
February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
Pure Storage adds Cohesity Data Platform to FlashArray//M arrays

All flash array maker gets Cohesity functionality natively in its arrays, in a move that will allow snapshots to be tiered between platforms and managed by Cohesity
February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17
Netherlands expertise unravels enterprise blockchain

Dutch hackathons, pilots and projects are building new applications based on blockchains
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
Amazon, Apple and Microsoft pledge to support government push for fair cloud storage use

Competition and Markets Authority confirms support of Amazon, Apple and Microsoft as it concludes compliance review into cloud storage sector
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
Diablo targets flash in DIMM slots at in-memory apps

Apps such as Apache Spark need memory. Diablo has changed tack to provide flash as memory in DIMM slots that acts as cache behind regular DRAM so apps don’t have to hit disk storage
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Singapore's central bank sets up analytics group

The move by The Monetary Authority of Singapore is part of larger efforts to position Singapore's financial sector for the digital economy
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Kaminario upgrades K2 all-flash to Gen6 with new controller CPUs

All-flash array maker puts Intel Broadwell processors into its controllers to boost I/O performance and increases capacity to multi-petabytes with 3D TLC flash drives
February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17
Apeiron brings NVMe shared direct-attached storage in its ADS1000

Startup removes storage controller and its CPU from the data path to leverage NVMe’s blistering performance with direct-attached flash storage aimed at the likes of Hadoop and Splunk
February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17
Government cloud security classification confusion dogs Digital Marketplace listings

Misinterpretation of the Government Security Classifications could result in the overprovisioning of public sector IT systems
January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17
Virtual Instruments to add cloud storage monitoring by end of 2017

Storage performance and monitoring provider Virtual Instruments leverages Xangati functionality to add cloud storage monitoring to existing SAN and NAS capabilities in Virtual Wisdom
January 25, 2017 25 Jan'17
NetApp: Solidfire to get some Snap functionality but not NVMe

NetApp Solidfire execs talk of roadmap SnapMirror and SnapVault functionality in Solidfire, but NVMe will have to wait until customers are ready to pay for it
January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17
HPE buys hyper-converged pioneer Simplivity for $650m

Hardware giant pays out for hyper-converged market number two, and says it will keep existing Simplivity products, moving them all to its ProLiant servers by the end of 2017
January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17
Nutanix, Simplivity and Pivot3 lead hyper-converged pack: Forrester

Forrester rates 12 hyper-converged infrastructure providers according to products, company strategy and market presence, with Nutanix, Simplivity and Pivot3 coming out on top-line
January 16, 2017 16 Jan'17
Network overhaul speeds up business for motor racing venue

Rockingham Motor Speedway in Northamptonshire beefs up network infrastructure to support expansive business plans
January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17
IBM refreshes all-flash DS8880 series with PCIe 3.0 enclosures

IBM adds an F to existing DS8884, DS8886 and DS8888 all-flash and hybrid arrays with addition of PCIe 3.0 disk connectivity, but stops short of NVMe capabilities
January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17
Plastics maker dumps tape for Arcserve backup appliance and cloud

PW Hall faced backup windows of 13 hours but reduced this to about 90 minutes a day spread across a number of incrementals with jobs copied to cloud backup
January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17
Asean storage moves towards hybrid model

Storage is moving to the cloud in the Asean region and a number of storage companies are jostling for position
January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17
Cloud provider moves to QoS flash performance on NetApp Solidfire

Carrenza guarantees specified I/O to customers on all-flash arrays from NetApp Solidfire in a move that allows it to offer storage performance as a product
January 08, 2017 08 Jan'17
Cloud-based infrastructure is a top ANZ priority in 2017

Projects involving cloud storage and back-up will feature strongly for CIOs based in Australia and New Zealand this year
January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17
Synergy Research Group hails 2016 as landmark year for cloud services growth

Market watcher's latest cloud market tracker suggests services market is growing three times faster than off-premise hardware and software market
December 30, 2016 30 Dec'16
Top 10 virtualisation and storage stories of 2016

Flash storage has held onto the headlines in 2016, but hyper-converged infrastructure, containerisation, software-defined storage and VMware’s plans for the hybrid cloud are rising themes
December 23, 2016 23 Dec'16
Top 10 storage stories of 2016

The year has been dominated by the continued rise of flash, plus the rapid emergence of hyper-converged infrastructure. Meanwhile NVMe promises huge performance gains for flash
December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16
Top 10 cloud stories of 2016

Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2016
December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16
AWS opens UK datacentre region to meet "pent-up" demand for locally-hosted cloud

The UK managing director of AWS claims region opening will help existing customers meet their latency and data sovereignty requirements, and benefit the wider economy
December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16
Is there a Dutch digital delusion?

To stand still is to decline. The Netherlands seems to be losing ground in the digital world, according to new reports
December 12, 2016 12 Dec'16
KPMG cautions CEOs against ignoring GDPR requirements because of Brexit

Professional services giant KPMG says UK businesses cannot afford to ignore incoming European data protection requirements if they want to continue to trade successfully with the continent in future
December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16
Tape backup: Often old and confused, but quite cheap

Survey results show those with tape are likely to have old tapes, multiple formats, including defunct ones, and no way of knowing what is on them. But tape is still quite cheap for most
December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16
Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016
December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16
AWS CEO hails "changing of the guard" in enterprise IT on the back of cloud growth

AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at “old guard” enterprise IT suppliers, while talking up his company’s ability to out-sell and out-innovate them
November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16
HPE focuses on hybrid IT and IoT as revenue drops

CEO Meg Whitman continues on her quest to refocus Hewlett Packard Enterprise as the company posts its fourth-quarter results
November 21, 2016 21 Nov'16
IBM to triple size of UK datacentre footprint by opening four new sites in 2017

Big blue claims datacentre expansion plans represent its largest country-specific cloud datacentre investment to date
November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16
Coop Denmark replaces NetApp with VMware software-defined VSAN

Scandinavian retailer Coop simplifies virtual server storage with VMware Virtual SAN software-defined storage and sidesteps bandwidth bottlenecks on NetApp Metro Cluster replication
November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16
Cloud set to net a larger share of enterprise IT budgets in 2017, predicts 451 Research

451 Research's cloud and hosting market review suggests enterprise IT decision makers are preparing to ramp up with use of cloud and hosting services in 2017
November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16
HyperGrid launches HyperCloud containerised hybrid cloud platform

Hyper-converged appliance maker HyperGrid promises full two-way workload portability between on-premise hardware, private cloud and public cloud services in HyperCloud launch
November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16
Insurance brokers hit by second SSP Worldwide cloud outage in less than a week

Insurance software house comes under fire from users again, after they run into problems with its cloud service for the second time in a week
November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16
Cloud co prefers Tintri hybrid flash to Dell, DotHill and NetApp

Cloud service provider Access Alto struggled with reliable performance in legacy block and file environment, so moved to Tintri hybrid flash with VMware-native file access boxes
November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16
Cloud datacentres to house 92% of workloads by 2020, predicts Cisco

Networking giant Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index shines a light on how the growth of off-premise services is affecting the datacentre market
November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16
Australia’s IFC Logistics virtualises storage to prevent further outages

Australian logistics firm moved to virtualised storage through a managed service after a serious outage
November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16
Nutanix puts software-defined networking in hyper-converged boxes

Hyper-converged appliance pioneer Nutanix puts software-defined networking features in its combined server/storage products to give better networking manageability
November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16
Apple garners local support for Irish datacentre as legal challenge looms

Residents of Athenry, County Galway, unite to back Apple’s Irish datacentre plans as consumer electronics giant awaits High Court decision on legal challenges
November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16
Dropbox and Google commit to improving terms of use for cloud storage customers

Dropbox and Google join the government’s push to ensure cloud storage users are not caught out by sudden price hikes or contract changes
November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16
Nand flash shortage to push up solid-state drive prices

Flash storage chip supply is being squeezed by smartphone manufacturers’ demand, increased notebook and datacentre hardware demand, and difficulties switching to 3D Nand production
November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16
Broadcom buys Brocade but will sell off IP network business

Chipmaker will acquire Brocade for $5.9bn to broaden its storage business, and plans to sell off most of its acquisition’s networking business
November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16
Nexsan adds mobile app access to Unity file sync and share

Nexsan Unity can now be accessed by iPhone and Android mobile users, as well as from desktops and laptops, to provide Dropbox-like functionality within the firewall
November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16
Tintri adds VMware and Flocker persistent container storage

VM-native storage array maker Tintri will allow customers persistent storage for Docker containers via planned VMware vSphere 6.5 functionality or via bare metal/host OS
October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16
SAP steps up data privacy in Europe

SAP guarantees technicians outside of Europe will not be able to access companies’ sensitive personnel and other records
October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16
Scale drops three-node minimum for HC3 hyper-converged

Scale Computing customers no longer need to deploy a minimum of three hyper-converged nodes and can now implement only one at SMEs and Robos
October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16
Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud

Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm
October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16
Google to open one new datacentre region a month in 2017 to boost multi-cloud appeal

Google uses cloud user conference to outline how its commitment to innovation, low prices and new datacentre regions is helping it stake a claim in its competitors’ customer bases
October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16
Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier
October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16
VMworld 2016 vox pop: VMware users cool about VSAN

As VMware announces upgrades to its VSAN hypervisor-based storage software, event attendees seem to think it is a costly product and possibly unsuited to high-end use cases
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
VMware VSAN 6.5 supports containers and physical servers via iSCSI

VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
More want containers but storage is not up to the job

Containers offer a rapid and flexible way to deploy apps, but many are put off by lack of storage management support and scalability in SAN and NAS systems, says Portworx survey
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
IBM Q3 results suggest firm’s big cloud bets are paying off

IBM posted flat revenue figures for third quarter overall, despite solid growth generated by its big data, cloud and artificial intelligence activities
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
VMware aims to virtualise the cloud with Cross Cloud Services

Virtualisation giant wants to allow customers to run cloud operations in a common environment between on-premises private cloud and public cloud services
October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16
Law firm merger ditches tape for Veeam/Exagrid disk-based backup

London-based Charles Russell Speechlys used Veeam as a migration tool after merger between two law firms, then paired it with Exagrid data deduplication to revamp backup regime
October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16
Pivot3 adds Edge Office SME/ROBO hyper-converged appliances

Hyper-converged infrastructure maker adds all-flash SME and remote office server-storage hardware with VMware hypervisor to vSTAC SLX products based on NexGen buy
October 10, 2016 10 Oct'16
Quantum refreshes Scalar tape library family with i3, i6 and AEL6

Quantum’s StorNext universe boosted by new tape libraries – the i3, i6 and AEL6 – with increased data density on the back of denser storage and improved robotics
October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16
The Alan Turing Institute secures $5m of Microsoft cloud investment

UK data science research institute secures Microsoft funding to accelerate its machine learning and analytics work
October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16
PXP reduces costs and raises efficiency with hyperconverged IT

Payment provider PXP simplifies its datacentre setup and gains a 30% boost in performance
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
Demand rises for low-cost flash storage across Australia

Flash storage gains popularity in Australia, as smaller organisations are attracted by lower prices and higher capacity
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
More organisations than ever have DR plans, but don’t keep them up to date

The prevalence of disaster recovery plans increases year on year, but many fail to keep their plans up to date or test them, according to a survey sponsored by Databarracks
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
Microsoft calls for cross-industry collaboration to create ‘responsible and inclusive’ clouds

Software giant launches A Cloud For Global Good campaign in a bid to get the industry focused on creating off-premise environments that are accessible to all
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism

Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety
September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16
Is it NAS? Is it object storage? It’s both. It’s Avere’s C2N

Avere launches C2N hybrid NAS/object storage box that uses touted efficiencies of erasure coding to take aim at claimed drawbacks of clustered NAS rivals like Isilon
September 27, 2016 27 Sep'16
NetApp revamps FAS filers with 15TB flash and NVMe

NetApp brings its Ontap 9 operating system and hardware changes to its FAS and all-flash FAS multi-protocol arrays with a range that scales up to tens of petabytes
September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16
Dropbox gives UK enterprises option to host cloud data in Europe

Cloud storage firm makes good on an earlier pledge to give enterprises the opportunity to host data in Europe, as its efforts to court the business community continue
September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16
Hypergrid adds metered usage and networks to hyper-converged kit

Hyper-converged appliance maker will allow customers to pay for what they use in hardware that will now add networking