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November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17
Cracking genomic codes with the cloud

Australian researchers are using Amazon’s Lambda serverless computing service to solve pressing health problems
November 27, 2017 27 Nov'17
NHS trust gets Commvault to cut backup times and get set for GDPR

North Derbyshire hospital trust cuts 70 physical servers to 11 Nutanix hyper-converged nodes, with Commvault replacing multiple backup software products in three-year project
November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17
Meg Whitman steps down as HPE CEO

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman is to step down after six years in charge
November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17
Australian broadcaster hit by data breach

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the latest organisation to fall prey to misconfigured Amazon S3 storage buckets, exposing database backups and sensitive data such as login credentials

November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17
MPs warn of ‘deeply worrying’ risks if new customs IT systems are not ready for Brexit

Home Affairs committee calls on government to improve contingency planning in case new systems miss Brexit deadline at end of March 2019
November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17
Violin rises from ashes with new products planned for 2018

Bankrupted all-flash pioneer’s CEO says company has learned the lessons of its demise and is planning file, object, software-defined storage and a careful entry into the NVMe market
November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17
Panasas upgrades scale-out NAS to ASD-100 and ASH-100 nodes

New Panasas appliances upgrade CPU and RAM to double throughput while changing hardware architecture. Clustered NAS specialist says all-flash and tiers of flash are on the roadmap
November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 brings file, iSCSI and container storage

Latest version of open source OpenStack-targeted software-defined storage adds CephFS, ISCSI and storage that can be deployed in containers to save hardware
November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17
Dell EMC claims launch of first designed-for-all-flash SC arrays

All-flash arrays SC5020F and SC7020F boost performance by several times over existing former Compellent products in Dell EMC range that could be configured as all-flash
November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17
UK supercomputer is now world’s biggest Panasas scale-out NAS cluster

Jasmin network supercomputer storage expands to 20PB of Panasas scale-out NAS, which has helped to cut analysis times for environmental data from days to hours

October 26, 2017 26 Oct'17
Datrium gets Flash End-to-End in its server/shared hybrid DVX NVMe

Taking aim at hyper-converged, Datrium DVX adds flash as bulk storage, while NVMe at the server handles hot data with the scale needed by enterprise customers in mind
October 25, 2017 25 Oct'17
Oversight of intelligence agencies’ data sharing has ‘failed’, court hears

UK’s intelligence services lack adequate oversight and written guidelines when sharing databases of sensitive information, Privacy International argues in secret court
October 25, 2017 25 Oct'17
Containers will oust VMs and storage arrays, says Red Hat

Red Hat launches storage delivered via containers and predicts a future in which costly and inflexible storage hardware and pricey hypervisors will be a thing of the past
October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17
Commvault joins the hyper-converged backup wave with Hyperscale

Hyperscale Software and Hyperscale Appliance bring Commvault backup software in a reference architecture/software product or as a pre-configured server/storage box
October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17
Colliers dumps Flexpods for Nutanix and Cohesity hyper-converged

Property firm Colliers replaces NetApp converged stacks with hyper-converged infrastructure. Secondary storage and backup from Cohesity replaces tape and supports Nutanix performance tier
October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17
Law firm speeds search and saves TB with Mimecast email archive

Cloud email archiving turbo-charges search, while email security is locked down and terabytes of storage use on-premise avoided with email stub on local servers
October 12, 2017 12 Oct'17
Syneto aims Hyperseries 2100 at hyper-converged for SMEs

European startup targets customers with two-node hyper-converged appliance, with built-in disaster recovery and capacity for up to 15 VMware virtual machines
October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17
Samsung: NVMe benefits are available now, within limits

Customers can benefit and make big savings from deploying NVMe flash drives – but there are limits
October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17
Intel leak reveals plans for more Optane 3D Xpoint products

Leaked Intel slides show 900P products to be launched at end of October with half a million IOPS per card. We run the rule over 3D Xpoint and what it offers enterprise customers
September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17
Maxta adds Red Hat in plan to help customers dodge ‘VMware tax’

Maxta allows migration from VMware to Red Hat Virtualization on its hyper-converged infrastructure nodes and looks forward to PCIe upgrades to help unleash NVMe
September 26, 2017 26 Sep'17
Tegile says NVMe bottleneck is in the network

Tegile's chief technology officer says the NVMe roadmap is all in place, but the key bottleneck is in the network and the applications, not its controllers. They’re ready to scale out into clusters for NVMe
September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17
Veritas to invest more in APAC

Software company Veritas is upping its investments in India and Japan, and partnering with more local and specialised cloud providers in the region
September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17
Movie maker shuns cloud, gets Spectra Logic Black Pearl tape NAS

Hat Trick ditches industry-specific hardware and deploys Black Pearl, which gives NAS-like file access from tape
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
Vexata launches VX NVMe physical and virtual appliances

Startup claims near-bare metal NVMe performance by offloading controller functionality to multiple CPUs on back-end storage with an optimised Linux-based operating system
September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17
Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics

Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV
September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17
Government wants to remain in EU cyber security club after Brexit

The UK government wants to maintain deep links with the European Union’s cyber security working groups following Britain’s exit from the bloc in 2019
September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17
University gets Nutanix for self-serve cloud to replace Red Hat

The University of Reading replaces ageing and difficult-to-manage Red Hat storage with half a petabyte of Nutanix hyper-converged and dodges £1/2 million of VMware costs
September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17
The storage controller has to go, says Scale Computing CEO

Hyper-converged appliance maker Scale Computing says it achieved near bare metal performance from NVMe by doing away with controller functionality. Is this the end of the SAN?
September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17
Legal services firm gets 54TB of NEC Hydrastor NAS as backup target

Quislex has cut backup windows by a third and will roll out 700TB of NEC Hydrastor to Hyderabad datacentre to provide a grid of deduplicated storage for backup and archive
September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17
Tegile set to compete with big six with cheaper arrays, says CEO

Tegile’s takeover by Western Digital will propel it to competition with the big six storage array makers, as well as bring economies of scale and see NVMf and 3D Xpoint products
August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17
Tegile launches NVMe IntelliFlash N Series and gets bought by WD

Tegile adds all-NVMe drive products in a bid to help customers consolidate workloads from transactional processing to file services, but full NVMe performance has to wait
August 24, 2017 24 Aug'17
Most firms don’t test, but rely on supplier to spec storage, finds survey

Most customers simply trust storage suppliers and resellers to recommend the right product for their workloads, while a small minority test their needs and involve application owners
August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17
Bupa Dental saves £350k by insourcing and Veeam backup

Healthcare organisation sweeps away chaotic backup situation and standardises on Veeam Backup & Replication to save £350,000 a year in management and maintenance costs
August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17
Flash memory and OLED shortages will hit smartphone sales

Analysts at Gartner have warned that a components shortage will affect sales of high-end smartphones
August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17
E8 dodges NVMe/controller bottleneck with server processing

Startup E8 announces v2 of its NVMe-based products with LUNs, Raid and thin provisioning as it sidesteps the NVMe-controller bottleneck by offloading processing to app servers
August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17
Cisco buys hyperconvergence software supplier

Cisco’s transformation into a software-led networking business continues with the purchase of Springpath, a developer of hyperconvergence software
August 16, 2017 16 Aug'17
GDPR drives cloud firm’s Cloudian S3 object storage deployment

Interoute deployed Cloudian Hyperstore because it believes customers want object storage to help gain compliance with the forthcoming European GDPR regulations
August 14, 2017 14 Aug'17
Middle East insurance broker migrates backup to the cloud

Middle East finance firm is increasingly moving to the cloud as the business grows
August 14, 2017 14 Aug'17
Film maker shuns cloud storage for Spectra Logic tape

Smoke & Mirrors replaces Quantum tape library with 7PB of Spectra Logic tape and decides the cloud lacks security and would be too costly for the 16TB it archives every day
August 11, 2017 11 Aug'17
Cloud firm gets Tintri hybrid flash storage to save £80,000

Brightcloud replaces complexities of LUN management on HDS SAN and replaces it with Tintri hybrid cloud storage that saves nearly £80,000 on rack space and resource costs
August 07, 2017 07 Aug'17
Lenovo wants to move away from shipping boxes

After admitting to being addicted to market share, server supplier Lenovo is changing tack by focusing on customer experience and new areas such as software-defined infrastructure
July 28, 2017 28 Jul'17
Singapore to review personal data protection rules

If given the green light, the proposed changes to the Personal Data Protection Act will require organisations to notify the authorities of data breaches
July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17
Charity swaps SAN for Hypergrid hyper-converged to save £1m

Tearfund saves £950,000 by deploying Hypergrid hyper-converged in place of HP servers and SAN, cutting costs on space, power, staff and hardware, and avoiding VMware
July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17
Scale hyper-converged adds all-flash 1150F and “workhorse” 5150D

Hyper-converged pioneer Scale Computing targets 1/2PB 5150D at remote sites and big on-site deployments, while 1150F allows customers an all-flash tier to add to existing clusters
July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17
WekaIO brings hybrid cloud NAS software-defined storage

Startup offers virtual NAS, storage software deployed on commodity servers or in the cloud to give single storage pool of file access the can scale to trillions
July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17
NVMe flash blocked by array architecture, says Kaminario CTO

Flash pioneer CTO says array controllers are built for a different era and must scale-out as clusters to provide the CPU power needed to allow NVMe to realise its potential
July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17
Home Office confirmed as early adopter of Oracle’s UK cloud region

The Home Office is to be one of the first public sector organisations to access cloud services from Oracle’s UK cloud region
July 11, 2017 11 Jul'17
Scality Zenko.io brings hybrid cloud storage virtualisation

Zenko.io is a control layer that allows customers to manage data in on-site Scality ring object storage and multiple public clouds but falls short of full data portability for now
July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17
Medical college retires HP for Scale Computing hyper-converged

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine replaces ageing HP servers and MSA SAN with Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure, and saves £80,000 in replacement costs
July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17
Tegile launches Intelliflash tiered all-flash arrays with NVMe

Hybrid flash turned all-flash maker Tegile adds tier of NVMe to SAS-connected flash with all drives encrypted and an all-NVMe array planned for later in 2017
July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17
Tape here to stay, says Spectra Logic with LTO-8 2x capacity gain

LTO-8 tape to boost capacity by leveraging HDD head read technology TMR. Spectra gets in early with offer to customers, “buy LTO-7, get LTO-8 when it ships”
July 05, 2017 05 Jul'17
Storage the favourite use case for public cloud customers

Despite lingering trust issues, storage and backup are key use cases in the public cloud, says Barracuda survey. Meanwhile, Microsoft Azure is Europe’s favourite cloud provider
July 03, 2017 03 Jul'17
Dutch bank cuts compliance data retrieval from weeks to hours

Rabobank has moved from tape libraries and robotic arms to a platform-based storage and retrieval system to help it comply with regulations
June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17
How Donald Trump has nudged French CIOs still further from US cloud storage

French CIOs are looking at alternatives to storing data with US-based suppliers
June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17
The big four cloud firms are set for price war over serverless computing, suggests 451 Research

Cloud industry price wars could enter new phase, as demand for serverless computing services grows, suggests 451 Research
June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17
Nutanix makes hybrid cloud push with Calm and Xi Cloud

Hyper-converged pioneer to extend on-premise OS to the cloud with plans to span the datacentre and public cloud using Calm, plus forthcoming hybrid cloud services via Xi Cloud
June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17
Finnish government scraps paper and digitises archives

The government in Finland is digitising 94 shelf kilometres of documents to save millions of euros and make the information easier to access
June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17
News UK dumps tape for backup with Zadara cloud storage

News publishing corporation saves up to 40% on hardware and software costs by switching in-house hardware for a cloud-first policy, using Zadara cloud storage as a backup target
June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17
Cloud firm gets Infinidat hybrid flash to save £250,000 on storage

Brightsolid replaced EMC and NetApp storage with 1.2PB of Infinidat hybrid flash to help win council contract that saw local authority save £250,000 in yearly storage costs
June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17
Red Hat launches open source hyper-converged infrastructure

Infrastructure bundles OS, hypervisor and storage software components from the open source distributor and is aimed at SMEs and remote office use cases
June 15, 2017 15 Jun'17
Google spins up Google Cloud Platform in Singapore

The search giant’s Singapore cloud region is its third one in Asia-Pacific, underscoring its ambition to challenge Amazon and Microsoft in a fast-growing public cloud market
June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17
Storage performance testing vital, says ex-Morrisons IT chief

Former Morrisons head of technology says testing and monitoring storage performance is key to avoiding outages and getting the benefits from infrastructure upgrades
June 13, 2017 13 Jun'17
Irish cloud provider opts for Tegile hybrid flash storage

Savenet gets 70TB of Tegile hybrid flash in a move that sees Huawei spinning disk arrays replaced as main storage and replaced with hybrid flash for cloud-based services
June 13, 2017 13 Jun'17
Rubrik Alta adds Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV to backup appliance

Rubrik backup appliance now support all major physical and virtual server platforms in flash-equipped boxes that range from a few tens of TB to the hundreds
June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17
Object storage will be 'huge' in stateless world of web and mobile

SNIA Europe director says traditional SAN and NAS are not built for the stateless world of web-based apps and workloads, with object storage set to become dominant
June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17
British Airways IT glitch caused by human error, says IAG CEO

Airline’s datacentre power failure was caused by an engineer accidentally switching the power off and on again, says parent company
June 05, 2017 05 Jun'17
NetApp to launch SolidFire-based HCI hyper-converged appliances

NetApp HCI will comprise hyper-converged infrastructure appliances based on SolidFire flash storage with QoS and compute from an unnamed supplier later in 2017
May 25, 2017 25 May'17
IT firm gets Scality object storage to boost S3-based offerings

Blue Chip deploys Scality Ring object storage on commodity hardware with S3 connectivity to enable new cloud, backup and archiving product offerings at “a few pence a gigabyte”
May 24, 2017 24 May'17
Iceland IT firm gets Cohesity hyper-converged backup boxes

Thekking scraps ageing IBM and HPE iron for Cohesity hyper-converged nodes with hybrid flash capacity to power deduplication for Veeam backups
May 23, 2017 23 May'17
Racetrack Memory products in five years, says IBM fellow

Millennium Prize winner Stuart Parkin says flash and 2D methods of storage are fatally limited – Racetrack Memory offers 100x the capacity without flash’s wear issues
May 18, 2017 18 May'17
Cloud provider snubs SAN for StorPool hyper-converged infrastructure

Coreix found costly SAN capex outlays too onerous so opted to build its own hyper-converged infrastructure from StorPool storage software and SuperMicro x86 servers
May 17, 2017 17 May'17
Dell EMC all-flash XtremIO X2 gains I/O boost via software upgrade

Dell EMC’s XtremIO X2 all-flash arrays got a performance jump from ungraded hardware, but the real performance boost comes from changes to the way I/O is dealt with
May 16, 2017 16 May'17
Ransomware: Protect yourself with good backup and cloud policies

More ransomware attacks are likely. The best way to protect against them is to have up-to-date in-house backups and to ensure cloud backups are adequately protected and available
May 11, 2017 11 May'17
New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience

The New York Philharmonic is digitally archiving millions of documents and making them available online
May 11, 2017 11 May'17
Australian government bolsters IT security in budget boost

The country’s Digital Transformation Agency has been given a shot in the arm to guard public sector IT systems against cyber attacks
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