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• 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

• 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