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November 09, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 25, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 18, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 29, 2016
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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
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September 27, 2016
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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
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September 22, 2016
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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
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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
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September 21, 2016
21
Sep'16
Many don’t test disaster recovery plans properly, survey finds
Nearly 40% of UK organisations do not test disaster recovery plans properly, mainly because of concerns about disruption to production operations
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September 21, 2016
21
Sep'16
Skills gaps and ill-defined strategies hold back cloud adoption, suggests IDC research
Cisco-backed research into cloud adoption trends suggests few enterprises have perfected their off-premise IT strategies
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September 21, 2016
21
Sep'16
Virtual Instruments extends VirtualWisdom to NAS testing
Storage performance monitoring and analysis provider extends capability to NAS testing for the first time as customer use of file access for virtualisation brings storage issues
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September 20, 2016
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Sep'16
Essex hospital trust upgrades IT infrastructure
Mid Essex NHS Trust upgrades its storage infrastructure to keep up with increasing volumes of data
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September 19, 2016
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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
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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
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September 14, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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September 08, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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August 30, 2016
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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
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August 30, 2016
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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
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August 30, 2016
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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
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August 24, 2016
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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
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August 23, 2016
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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
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August 23, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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August 11, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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August 09, 2016
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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
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August 05, 2016
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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
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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
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August 03, 2016
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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
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August 02, 2016
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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
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August 02, 2016
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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
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August 01, 2016
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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
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July 29, 2016
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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
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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
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July 12, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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July 07, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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July 06, 2016
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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
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June 30, 2016
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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
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June 28, 2016
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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
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June 27, 2016
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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
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June 23, 2016
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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
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June 23, 2016
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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
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June 22, 2016
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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
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June 21, 2016
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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
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June 20, 2016
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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
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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
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June 16, 2016
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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
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June 15, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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May 27, 2016
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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
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May 26, 2016
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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
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May 25, 2016
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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
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May 25, 2016
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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