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• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Is there a Dutch digital delusion?

  To stand still is to decline. The Netherlands seems to be losing ground in the digital world, according to new reports

• December 12, 2016 12 Dec'16

  KPMG cautions CEOs against ignoring GDPR requirements because of Brexit

  Professional services giant KPMG says UK businesses cannot afford to ignore incoming European data protection requirements if they want to continue to trade successfully with the continent in future

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  Tape backup: Often old and confused, but quite cheap

  Survey results show those with tape are likely to have old tapes, multiple formats, including defunct ones, and no way of knowing what is on them. But tape is still quite cheap for most

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

  Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  AWS CEO hails "changing of the guard" in enterprise IT on the back of cloud growth

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at “old guard” enterprise IT suppliers, while talking up his company’s ability to out-sell and out-innovate them

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  HPE focuses on hybrid IT and IoT as revenue drops

  CEO Meg Whitman continues on her quest to refocus Hewlett Packard Enterprise as the company posts its fourth-quarter results

• November 21, 2016 21 Nov'16

  IBM to triple size of UK datacentre footprint by opening four new sites in 2017

  Big blue claims datacentre expansion plans represent its largest country-specific cloud datacentre investment to date

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  Coop Denmark replaces NetApp with VMware software-defined VSAN

  Scandinavian retailer Coop simplifies virtual server storage with VMware Virtual SAN software-defined storage and sidesteps bandwidth bottlenecks on NetApp Metro Cluster replication

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Cloud set to net a larger share of enterprise IT budgets in 2017, predicts 451 Research

  451 Research's cloud and hosting market review suggests enterprise IT decision makers are preparing to ramp up with use of cloud and hosting services in 2017

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  HyperGrid launches HyperCloud containerised hybrid cloud platform

  Hyper-converged appliance maker HyperGrid promises full two-way workload portability between on-premise hardware, private cloud and public cloud services in HyperCloud launch

• November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16

  Insurance brokers hit by second SSP Worldwide cloud outage in less than a week

  Insurance software house comes under fire from users again, after they run into problems with its cloud service for the second time in a week

• November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16

  Cloud co prefers Tintri hybrid flash to Dell, DotHill and NetApp

  Cloud service provider Access Alto struggled with reliable performance in legacy block and file environment, so moved to Tintri hybrid flash with VMware-native file access boxes

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  Cloud datacentres to house 92% of workloads by 2020, predicts Cisco

  Networking giant Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index shines a light on how the growth of off-premise services is affecting the datacentre market

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Australia’s IFC Logistics virtualises storage to prevent further outages

  Australian logistics firm moved to virtualised storage through a managed service after a serious outage

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Nutanix puts software-defined networking in hyper-converged boxes

  Hyper-converged appliance pioneer Nutanix puts software-defined networking features in its combined server/storage products to give better networking manageability

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  Apple garners local support for Irish datacentre as legal challenge looms

  Residents of Athenry, County Galway, unite to back Apple’s Irish datacentre plans as consumer electronics giant awaits High Court decision on legal challenges

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  Dropbox and Google commit to improving terms of use for cloud storage customers

  Dropbox and Google join the government’s push to ensure cloud storage users are not caught out by sudden price hikes or contract changes

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Nand flash shortage to push up solid-state drive prices

  Flash storage chip supply is being squeezed by smartphone manufacturers’ demand, increased notebook and datacentre hardware demand, and difficulties switching to 3D Nand production

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Broadcom buys Brocade but will sell off IP network business

  Chipmaker will acquire Brocade for $5.9bn to broaden its storage business, and plans to sell off most of its acquisition’s networking business

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Nexsan adds mobile app access to Unity file sync and share

  Nexsan Unity can now be accessed by iPhone and Android mobile users, as well as from desktops and laptops, to provide Dropbox-like functionality within the firewall

• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  Tintri adds VMware and Flocker persistent container storage

  VM-native storage array maker Tintri will allow customers persistent storage for Docker containers via planned VMware vSphere 6.5 functionality or via bare metal/host OS

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  SAP steps up data privacy in Europe

  SAP guarantees technicians outside of Europe will not be able to access companies’ sensitive personnel and other records

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Scale drops three-node minimum for HC3 hyper-converged

  Scale Computing customers no longer need to deploy a minimum of three hyper-converged nodes and can now implement only one at SMEs and Robos

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud

  Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Google to open one new datacentre region a month in 2017 to boost multi-cloud appeal

  Google uses cloud user conference to outline how its commitment to innovation, low prices and new datacentre regions is helping it stake a claim in its competitors’ customer bases

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  VMworld 2016 vox pop: VMware users cool about VSAN

  As VMware announces upgrades to its VSAN hypervisor-based storage software, event attendees seem to think it is a costly product and possibly unsuited to high-end use cases

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  VMware VSAN 6.5 supports containers and physical servers via iSCSI

  VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  More want containers but storage is not up to the job

  Containers offer a rapid and flexible way to deploy apps, but many are put off by lack of storage management support and scalability in SAN and NAS systems, says Portworx survey

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  IBM Q3 results suggest firm’s big cloud bets are paying off

  IBM posted flat revenue figures for third quarter overall, despite solid growth generated by its big data, cloud and artificial intelligence activities

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  VMware aims to virtualise the cloud with Cross Cloud Services

  Virtualisation giant wants to allow customers to run cloud operations in a common environment between on-premises private cloud and public cloud services

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  Law firm merger ditches tape for Veeam/Exagrid disk-based backup

  London-based Charles Russell Speechlys used Veeam as a migration tool after merger between two law firms, then paired it with Exagrid data deduplication to revamp backup regime

• October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16

  Pivot3 adds Edge Office SME/ROBO hyper-converged appliances

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker adds all-flash SME and remote office server-storage hardware with VMware hypervisor to vSTAC SLX products based on NexGen buy

• October 10, 2016 10 Oct'16

  Quantum refreshes Scalar tape library family with i3, i6 and AEL6

  Quantum’s StorNext universe boosted by new tape libraries – the i3, i6 and AEL6 – with increased data density on the back of denser storage and improved robotics

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  The Alan Turing Institute secures $5m of Microsoft cloud investment

  UK data science research institute secures Microsoft funding to accelerate its machine learning and analytics work

• October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16

  PXP reduces costs and raises efficiency with hyperconverged IT

  Payment provider PXP simplifies its datacentre setup and gains a 30% boost in performance

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Demand rises for low-cost flash storage across Australia

  Flash storage gains popularity in Australia, as smaller organisations are attracted by lower prices and higher capacity

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  More organisations than ever have DR plans, but don’t keep them up to date

  The prevalence of disaster recovery plans increases year on year, but many fail to keep their plans up to date or test them, according to a survey sponsored by Databarracks

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Microsoft calls for cross-industry collaboration to create ‘responsible and inclusive’ clouds

  Software giant launches A Cloud For Global Good campaign in a bid to get the industry focused on creating off-premise environments that are accessible to all

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism

  Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Is it NAS? Is it object storage? It’s both. It’s Avere’s C2N

  Avere launches C2N hybrid NAS/object storage box that uses touted efficiencies of erasure coding to take aim at claimed drawbacks of clustered NAS rivals like Isilon

• September 27, 2016 27 Sep'16

  NetApp revamps FAS filers with 15TB flash and NVMe

  NetApp brings its Ontap 9 operating system and hardware changes to its FAS and all-flash FAS multi-protocol arrays with a range that scales up to tens of petabytes

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Dropbox gives UK enterprises option to host cloud data in Europe

  Cloud storage firm makes good on an earlier pledge to give enterprises the opportunity to host data in Europe, as its efforts to court the business community continue

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Hypergrid adds metered usage and networks to hyper-converged kit

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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