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• September 20, 2016 20 Sep'16

  Essex hospital trust upgrades IT infrastructure

  Mid Essex NHS Trust upgrades its storage infrastructure to keep up with increasing volumes of data

• September 19, 2016 19 Sep'16

  Italian bottle maker deploys 88TB of Syneto hyper-converged storage

  Serioplast gets reliable disaster recovery as it replaces NetApp plus remote physical servers with Syneto hyper-converged infrastructure at factories across Europe, Africa and Asia

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Furniture maker scraps legacy backup for Arcserve appliances

  Lancashire-based JJO dumps separate backup apps for servers and PCs to deploy Arcserve UDP backup appliances, and gains 100% protection of 68TB non-virtualised estate

• September 14, 2016 14 Sep'16

  Violin pins hopes on FSP 7650 and 7450 all-flash arrays

  Troubled all-flash pioneer Violin Memory launches two new all-flash arrays, the FSP 7650 for extreme high performance and 7450 for general workloads at 60c per gigabyte

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers fear regulatory action over SSP Worldwide cloud outage

  Insurance brokers hit out at disaster recovery arrangements, fearing two-week outage could put them at risk of action by Financial Conduct Authority

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  Australian council removes costly bottleneck with traditional storage architecture

  Redland City Council chose to return to a traditional storage architecture when it was struggling to get rates notices out in good time

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  The way of all flash in Asean

  Are all-flash arrays the hottest storage technology in Asean and is it only a matter of time before flash will replace hard drives for all hot and warm data?

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  University ditches NetApp for Zadara on-premise private cloud service

  Eindhoven University of Technology gains flexibility and pays only for the storage it uses by dumping in-house managed hardware and getting Zadara’s VPSA private-cloud-as-a-service

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  MaidSafe secure internet concept enters testing phase

  Scottish internet startup MaidSafe brings its vision for a more private and secure approach to the web a step closer to reality

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week

  SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  Combined Dell and EMC company targets intelligent things

  The $74bn merger of Dell and EMC has created a technology giant with a remit to expand into the software-defined datacentre space to support IoT

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows

  Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Cloud collaboration boosts Cumbria County Council's disaster response abilities

  How Cumbria County Council tackled the unsanctioned use of cloud services within its organisation and improved the robustness of its disaster response in face of December 2015's Storm Desmond

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Westpac bank launches Databank data protection service

  Australia's Westpac bank is offering organisations that share customer data a service that it says securely locks down personal information

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Cloud firm Backbone relegates X-IO SAN with Atlantis tiered storage

  London-based Backbone uses Atlantis USX as storage virtualisation layer on top of PCIe flash and X-IO and as a stepping stone to hyper-converged infrastructures

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  VMware to help enterprises manage AWS, Azure and Google cloud deployments

  Virtualisation giant VMware offers enterprises a helping hand with managing multi-cloud environments, spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  London datacentre market enjoys pre-Brexit surge in demand for colocation space

  CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter

• August 23, 2016 23 Aug'16

  Web host opts for Nutanix hyper-converged after supplier nightmares

  Finger-pointing between suppliers in server/SAN environment led Yorkshire-based ticketing web host Millennia to opt for Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure

• August 23, 2016 23 Aug'16

  Simplivity debuts all-flash CN-5400-F hyper-converged product

  Simplivity all-flash hyper-converged infrastructure appliance aims at high-performance datacentre workloads, with MLC drives from Intel

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Rubrik backup appliance adds physical platforms to hybrid cloud

  Flash-powered backup appliances add MS SQL and Linux physical server to VMware backup and hybrid cloud archive in Firefly release, with more physical and endpoint support promised

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  HPE boosts MSA and StoreVirtual with sub-$10,000 flash storage options

  HPE launches new StoreVirtual 3200 entry-level array that can cost as little as $6,000, plus the SME-focused MSA 2042 array which has 800GB of flash embedded

• August 15, 2016 15 Aug'16

  Cloudian makes HyperStore object storage available from AWS

  System available with storage tiers on-site and in the Amazon cloud monitored and billed from the AWS interface

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  Nimble adds to all-flash arrays with entry-level AF1000

  Nimble made its debut in all-flash in February 2016, but now adds an entry-level array, the AF1000, plus upgrades to its hybrid flash array products that up performance and capacity

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  IDC: Global public cloud spend set to double by 2020

  Market watcher predicts use of public cloud will soar over the next five years, with IaaS and PaaS leading the way

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Rackspace divests Cloud Sites as managed cloud services take off

  Rackspace offloads ‘non-core’ Cloud Sites business as speculation about its future as a public company continues

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Microsoft hails cloud security breakthrough with encrypted data

  Microsoft researchers talk up cloud security breakthrough that allows encrypted data to be processed without prior decryption

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  E8 launches D24 NVMe PCIe SSD-based all-flash arrays

  Startup E8 aims at high-end use cases with arrays built from commodity NVMe PCIe flash drives and performance figures that rival EMC’s high-end DSSD D5 rackscale flash

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Rackspace ‘on brink’ of sale to private equity house – report

  Reports suggest managed cloud company could be sold in a matter of days, ending its time as a publicly listed company

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  IBM DeepFlash 150 latest in all-flash aimed at file, object and analytics use cases

  IBM’s DeepFlash 150 adds to the emerging trend of all-flash storage aimed at file, object and analytics use cases with option for petabyte-scale storage using IBM Spectrum Scale

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  Gap between biggest and smallest cloud infrastructure firms is growing

  Synergy Research Group's second-quarter cloud infrastructure services tracker reveals that the gap between the market's biggest and smallest players is getting wider

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  MI5 wrongly told staff it was exempt from privacy safeguards

  Security service MI5 carried out a rearguard attempt to avoid requirements to seek independent approval for accessing the public’s internet, web, email and phone records

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  White House efficiency reforms will limit new datacentre investments from January 2017

  US government CIO Tony Scott outlines the next wave of reforms designed to curtail datacentre use by public sector agencies and departments

• August 01, 2016 01 Aug'16

  Canadian government reveals ‘right cloud’ adoption strategy for public sector organisations

  Government plans G-Cloud-like resource to help public sector CIOs procure cloud services more easily

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: How the enterprise cloud war is hotting up

  With Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reporting strong growth on the back of cloud, we take a closer look at how they have achieved it

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Almost half of UK's largest councils lack cloud strategy, Eduserv FOI study reveals

  Eduserv study into cloud take-up inside local authorities suggests council CIOs are still over-invested in on-premise technology

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  UK cloud firm majors on Tintri hybrid flash for virtualisation

  Wokingham-based We Are Cloud rejects EMC and hyper-converged options as it deploys Tintri VM-native hybrid flash storage to support rollout of cloud services

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Brexit: AWS reinforces commitment to UK datacentre builds

  Cloud services giant claims outcome of EU referendum vote has no bearing on its willingness to invest in the UK or Europe

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Pure Storage drips out more of its all-flash analytics FlashBlade

  Pure lets more customers use its flash-based analytics platform FlashBlade, before the product aimed at high-throughput unstructured data is made generally available later in 2016

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Amazon.com CTO cautions enterprises against underestimating value of test and development

  Speaking at the AWS Summit in London, Amazon.com CTO hits out at legacy suppliers and urges enterprises to get experimental to protect themselves against competitive threats

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Storpool upgrades software-defined storage but remains Linux-only

  Bulgarian software-defined storage maker Storpool adds Cloudstack support and boosted performance, but holds fire on adding enterprise-friendly VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Iceland tops list of low-risk datacentre locations

  Europe nabs six out of the top 10 spots in Cushman & Wakefield's list of low-risk locations to build or buy up datacentre capacity

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  IDC predicts slowdown in public cloud infrastructure spend will be short-lived

  IDC claims prospect of overseas datacentre builds and growing enterprise demand for off-premise services should ensure sales of IT infrastructure increase through 2016

• June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

  Pivot3 merges hyper-converged and all-flash in vSTAC SLX

  Pivot3 clusters its hyper-converged infrastructure boxes with NexGen all-flash to give vSTAC SLX products aimed at multiple workloads, but with key apps’ performance QoS-protected

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Bet365 bets on Simplivity hyper-converged for test and dev

  Bet365 follows up its move to object storage with efficiency gains that result from migration of test and dev work to Simplivity hyper-converged infrastructure from HDS SAN

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Post-Brexit price hikes hit cloud and datacentre community, as currency fluctuations bite

  Cloud and datacentre analysts claim IT buyers are already feeling the pinch from the outcome of the EU referendum, but past performance suggests demand for colocation space will rise in the event of recession

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  Dell divests software business to free up funds for EMC deal

  It has been less than three months since Dell sold off its services arm. Now its software business is being offloaded. We look at the implications

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  Stockport council ditches HDS SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged

  Stockport council shifts to hyper-converged server storage boxes from Nutanix, with its previous SAN reaching end of life and experiencing operational issues and scalability problems

• June 22, 2016 22 Jun'16

  Nutanix adds storage for containers, physical servers and all-flash

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Nutanix adds container support with persistent storage, offers block iSCSI storage for physical servers and allows all-flash across the product range

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Amazon cloud crash forced Australian enterprises to take heads out of sand

  Enterprises in Australia need to rethink their cloud backup strategies following the recent AWS outage in Sydney

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  StorageOS tackles shortcomings of container storage

  As containers gain popularity for webscale apps, startup StorageOS launches in beta to provide persistent storage for containers at Dockercon developer event

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  AWS clinches cloud deal with Colorado law enforcement agencies

  US State of Colorado signs AWS cloud deal, paving way for law enforcers to make greater use of digital technologies during criminal investigations

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Scality upgrades for enterprise adoption of object storage and S3

  Object storage specialist Scality recognises de facto supremacy of Amazon S3 and includes directory features to allow enterprise production use of object-based private and public cloud storage

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Australian datacentre investments rocket due to latest enterprise IT trends

  The increased use of big data, analytics, cloud and mobile technologies in Australian enterprises is driving spending in datacentre services

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Nearly all datacentres have flash storage, reveals 451 survey

  Nine out of 10 enterprises have flash somewhere in the datacentre, according to research

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Scale targets SMEs with hyper-converged hybrid flash HC1150

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Scale Computing targets SMEs with hybrid flash sub-$25,000 HC1150, just weeks after rival Nutanix launched entry-level Xpress

• June 14, 2016 14 Jun'16

  Shadow data and the risks posed by cloud storage and apps

  Cloud storage and apps can open up an organisation to risks of data leakage. Computer Weekly looks at key areas of vulnerability and what you can do to prevent your data going viral

• June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16

  Russia's tech startups aim to defy economic gloom

  The annual Startup Village event near Moscow to showcase Russian innovators was the biggest yet

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Cloud firm adds Cloudian object storage to satisfy S3 demand

  Calligo puts Cloudian object storage on Lenovo hardware to add a tier of storage for customers that want Amazon S3-compatible cloud services, but not from Amazon

• June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16

  Save the Children swaps on-premise migration plan for public cloud

  International charity Save the Children explains why it abandoned plans to shift core IT systems back on-premise to embrace public cloud computing technology

• June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16

  Schools trust dumps 22 backup systems for Arcserve UDP

  Wakefield-based academy school trust went from 22 different backup systems and no adequate disaster recovery provision to unified Arcserve virtual and physical backup

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  NetApp Solidfire adds high-end SF19210 all-flash array

  All-flash array maker tops out the SF family with the SF19210, upgrades OS to add VVOLs compatibility and launches licensing that separates software licences and hardware purchases

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  Financial trader bets on hyper-converged from Nutanix

  London Capital Group ditches server-plus-SAN architecture for Nutanix and slashes deployment times and datacentre footprint with hyper-converged server/storage boxes with VMware

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  Server shipments fall as firms use cloud and virtualisation to cut hardware costs

  Gartner’s latest global server sales tracker highlights the toll that cloud and virtualisation are taking on the market

• May 27, 2016 27 May'16

  Government competition chiefs demand fairer use terms for cloud storage customers

  LiveDrive, JustCloud and Dixons Carphone commit to fairer usage terms for cloud customers, but Microsoft and Google are conspicuous by their absence

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  European cloud buyers unmoved by low prices, suggests 451 Research

  451 Research’s latest Cloud Price Index investigates link between low-cost cloud services and provider market share

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  Bet365 gets SwiftStack object storage as NAS pulls up short

  Online gaming firm Bet365 is set to replace NAS for data with 0.5PB of more scalable and elastic object storage, built on SwiftStack and commodity SuperMicro hardware

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  HPE second quarter results reveal risks in CSC services deal

  HPE’s CEO Meg Whitman admits the company’s flagship private cloud will need to run in CSC/ES datacentres

• May 24, 2016 24 May'16

  Nutanix aims Xpress hyper-converged appliances at SMEs

  Hyper-converged pioneer launches slimmed-down version of enterprise products with its own hypervisor, VMware or Hyper-V on board

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  Theme park company rides with Simplivity hyper-converged

  International theme park operator Merlin Entertainments dumps servers and storage and replaces them with Simplivity hyper-converged infrastructure at 124 sites worldwide

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  IBM PCM leap opens way to new layer of enterprise storage

  IBM shows off triple-level cell phase change memory and says PCM can be used as faster adjunct to flash storage and extension to DRAM memory

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Lawmaker Vaizey hails UK role in resolving datacentre sovereignty issues

  Digital economy minister talks up government’s work in supporting the growth of the UK’s technology sector

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Enterprise storage meets HPC with DDN SFA14KXi all flash array

  High performance computing specialist aims at analytics- and transaction-heavy workloads in the enterprise with its upgraded Intel Broadwell-powered SFA array, the 14KXi

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  Interest in converged platforms grows in Southeast Asia

  The adoption of converged and hyper-converged infrastructures in Southeast Asia is in its early stages, but growth is expected

• May 17, 2016 17 May'16

  Tintri upgrades all-flash arrays, adds scale-out functionality

  T-series arrays acquire 3D flash drives, with the T5060, T5080 and T5040 all set to benefit

• May 16, 2016 16 May'16

  Two-thirds of IT and telco firms not ready for Brexit

  Only 35% of the European IT firms and telcos have developed a clear plan for dealing with the impact of a Brexit vote, a study shows

• May 12, 2016 12 May'16

  Software-defined storage the power behind Monash University microscopes

  Australian academic institute uses the technology to help it deal with huge – and still growing – storage demands

• May 11, 2016 11 May'16

  Salesforce turns to AWS for internet of things cloud test support

  Cloud CRM giant is reportedly using the AWS public cloud to give it the capacity it needs to cope with the internet of things data deluge

• May 11, 2016 11 May'16

  Nato agency signs five-year datacentre construction deal with Luxembourg MoD

  Nato Support and Procurement Agency embarks on five-year datacentre deal to boost its disaster recovery capabilities

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Shadow IT cited as reason why some firms lack formal cloud strategy

  Research from VMTurbo suggests firms are using cloud, even if they claim not to have a formal private or public deployment plan in place

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Legal SME goes for Simplivity hyper-converged infrastructure

  Lawlords snubs traditional SAN and server architecture and upgrades disaster recovery with Simplivity Omnicubes that combine server and storage hardware in one box

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Hyper-converged systems to hit mainstream datacentre adoption within five years

  Market watcher Gartner predicts the hyper-converged market will be worth $5bn by 2019 as integrated systems become a staple of mainstream datacentre environments

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  M&S credits Office 365 with rise in staff collaboration and communication

  Marks and Spencer shares details of how moving to Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite has ushered in an era of ”smarter working” in its retails stores and corporate HQ

• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  Google company’s access to NHS records raises privacy concerns

  A data-sharing agreement between a Google-owned firm and the Royal Free NHS trust raises privacy concerns, despite assurances that Google cannot use the data

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  AWS Q1 Results: How the cloud giant plans to retain its hold on the market

  In light of the continued growth of AWS, Computer Weekly looks at how the firm intends to retain its hold on the cloud market

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  EMC World 2016: Tucci and Dell vaunt datacentre modernisation

  EMC World 2016 kicks off in Las Vegas, with the supplier vaunting datacentre modernisation, based on software-defined storage, cloud, flash and scale out architecture

• May 02, 2016 02 May'16

  EMC launches Unity flash and hybrid arrays at SME customers

  EMC launches Unity, SME-targeted all-flash and hybrid flash arrays built on a Linux OS on commodity hardware with services run from containers

• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  Virtual desktop infrastructure set for Middle East enterprise growth

  More and more IT leaders in the Middle East are considering adopting virtual desktop infrastructures, but user cases are needed to speed things up

• April 28, 2016 28 Apr'16

  DropBox ups cloud collaboration with Project Infinite

  Enterprise cloud collaboration is a major focus for Dropbox, with Project Infinite allowing users to access company files regardless of hard drive size

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  IBM all-flash family gets cloud and enterprise A9000 and A9000R

  IBM announces two all-flash arrays – the modular A9000 and rack A9000R, aimed at service providers and enterprises – and the mainframe-connected DS8888

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  HDS G series arrays get native NAS and cloud as a storage tier

  VSP G series enterprise hybrid flash arrays see addition of native NAS functionality on a controller card plus cloud as a storage tier via Hitachi Content Platform

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Nexsan adds file sync and share to NAS to create Unity

  Storage hardware maker Nexsan adds file sync and share to NST arrays from Connected Data acquisition to create Unity family of NAS with private cloud functionality

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  Rackspace embarks on renewed push to ease enterprise adoption of AWS and Azure clouds

  Managed cloud provider Rackspace outlines how teaming up with IT consultancy Cloud Technology Partners will help enterprises struggling with the move off-premise

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  Spectra Logic claims biggest and fastest TFinity tape library

  Spectra Logic claims multi-petabyte capacities and speedier tape robot cycle times with TFinity Exascale Edition, a product aimed at tape’s new niche in archive and cold storage

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  T-Systems embarks on enterprise-focused cloud push with colocation provider Virtus

  IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom shares five-year plan to close private datacentre in Feltham, after signing colocation deal with Virtus Data Centres

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  Zadara adds object storage, bigger flash and 16Gbps Fibre Channel

  Latest version of Zadara Storage features object storage, Fibre Channel and bigger cache options to software-defined cloud storage product that can run on-premise, off-premise and as a hybrid

• April 18, 2016 18 Apr'16

  X-IO exploits NVMe to develop super-fast Axellio flash storage

  X-IO comes out of stealth with Intel-backed Axellio that will see up to 0.25PB and 12 million IOPS from a 2U box using NVMe as an internal interconnect to speak natively with CPUs

• April 18, 2016 18 Apr'16

  Los Alamos puts 30PB of Scality object storage into production

  Los Alamos National Laboratory uses Scality object storage for disk access to Trinity supercomputer and marries it with GPFS in MarFS homegrown posix/object hybrid file system

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  UK poised to lead global fintech sector, says Tech City chair Eileen Burbidge

  Tech City chair and venture capital expert says the UK is in a position to become a world leader in financial services and sheds light on how cloud can provide failing firms with a stay of execution

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  Falconstor adds cross-platform storage analytics

  Falconstor leverages IP from Cumulus Logic buy to provide Freestor Analytics, which gives customers visibility across heterogeneous hardware of key storage metrics

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  IDC research shows steady drop in on-premise hardware spend as cloud adoption soars

  IDC infrastructure research highlights how enterprise demand for cloud is affecting on-premise IT spending trends