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• February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16

  Cisco recalls Ethernet switches over fault risk

  A potential fault on a number of IE-5000 switches could give users a nasty shock, says supplier

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  SaaS provider rejects “costly” VMware for Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor

  Data services provider Pi rejects VMware as too costly and complex, opting for Nutanix’s computing and storage Acropolis hypervisor

• February 05, 2016 05 Feb'16

  EU-US Privacy Shield: Can written assurances adequately protect EU data from US snoops?

  Privacy campaigners have been quick to question whether Safe Harbour’s replacement will be looked on favourably by the European Court of Justice

• February 05, 2016 05 Feb'16

  Italy embraces cloud storage for multiple platforms

  Investment in the cloud and storage is rising rapidly in Italy as customers see the benefits of cloud storage for many use cases and the savings it can bring

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Service provider turns RAM into VDI storage with Atlantis

  OGL Computer rolls out virtual desktop service to customers using Atlantis software to provide RAM as VDI storage for non-persistent desktops with 200 IOPS of performance each

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  HDS launches Pentaho-based HSP 400 scale-out big data appliance

  Hitachi Data Systems launches big data appliance, the HSP 400, aimed at data lake use cases, with hardware nodes running the Pentaho Enterprise Platform acquired in 2015

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Gridstore plans KVM and container support in further tilt at VMware

  Hyper-converged appliance maker Gridstore gets $19m in funding to drive KVM and container support to provide an alternative to “costly” VMware

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  21% of UK IT professionals now use OpenStack, SUSE research suggests

  Linux distribution provider claims UK IT decision-makers are coming round to the idea of using the open-source cloud platform

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  EU commissioner sets out challenges of finding a Safe Harbour replacement

  European commissioner Věra Jourová outlines the challenges of establishing a data-sharing agreement between Europe and the US

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  TfL shifts corporate archive to AWS public cloud in digital preservation push

  London transport authority has begun moving its first 3TB of corporate archive data to the AWS cloud with the help of Preservica

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  AWS closes in on becoming $10bn run rate business

  Amazon.com posts record profit, as its AWS cloud arm continues to go from strength to strength

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Samsung upbeat despite profit slump

  Samsung says that it will continue to plug away at diversifying and reinforcing its business in a bid to return to profitable growth

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Costain opts for hybrid cloud and hosted bare metal from Navisite

  Construction and civil engineering group Costain gets mix of pure cloud and bare metal hosted at Navisite datacentres as it tools up to provide key highways infrastructure systems

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Low oil prices to fuel datacentre expansions in 2016, claims Canalys

  Canalys claims access to cheaper energy will make it easier for datacentre operators to respond to growing demand for cloud

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Infrastructure as a service tipped by Gartner to be fastest growing part of public cloud in 2016

  Cloud infrastructure services will experience fastest growth in 2016, as enterprises move to shift more of their datacentre investments off-premise

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  University of Strathclyde upgrades IT to support students’ research

  Glasgow-based University of Strathclyde has overhauled its IT environment, introducing new infrastructure and cloud services

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Broadgroup: Colocation providers must act on competitive threat posed by AWS

  Datacentre analyst house uses annual finance forum to coach colocation sector on how to respond to AWS and its public cloud

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Finance firm gets Violin all-flash arrays for performance databases

  Finance sector services provider sidestepped existing NetApp storage to get all-flash arrays for high performance and 100% fault tolerance for Oracle-based apps

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Security will be key public sector cloud adoption driver by 2018, predicts Gartner

  Gartner predicts that by 2018 government agencies will be citing security as a reason to move to public cloud rather than to stay away from it

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Dell SDN’s OS10 promises new levels of network flexibility

  Dell expands its SDN product with a new operating system designed to maximise customer choice and capability

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Cloud host dumps hybrid for all-flash software-defined storage

  Cloud firm Togglebox tried Linux software-defined storage and Nimble hybrid flash, but customers hit it too hard so it opted for all-flash with storage software from StorPool

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  Irish Tax Institute accelerates tax database search with MarkLogic

  The Irish Tax Institute has opted for MarkLogic for its TaxFind database service, with a system that pools a range of data types

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  Public cloud archiving fit for rigorous clinical imaging firm

  Imanova needed bit-level integrity of data for at least 25 years and found Arkivum/100 managed cloud-based archiving preferable to unmanaged cloud or in-house systems

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Flash and virtual machine storage in Russia

  Virtualisation drives the need for flash storage in Russia, but with budgets tight and all-flash a costly option, organisations must look at hybrid flash and spinning disk solutions

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  The National Holocaust Centre uses public cloud for digital preservation project

  The National Holocaust Centre and Museum (NHCM) turns to public cloud provider Datacentred to help preserve stories of World War II survivors

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  HPC research cluster get Red Hat OpenStack private cloud

  Petabyte-scale eMedLab consortium opts for private cloud on Red Hat Linux OpenStack with hybrid Cinder and IBM Spectrum Scale storage, and rejects object and cloud storage

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  Hybrid flash not good enough, says Kaminario customer

  Cloud software provider Clarizen re-tools storage with all-flash arrays from Kaminario and forecasts the end for hybrid flash products that don't deliver on performance promises

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Hybrid flash favoured in Spain – but for how long?

  Flash memory is making its mark on Spanish enterprises, with hybrid flash storage that merges SSD and traditional spinning disk holding the upper hand

• January 07, 2016 07 Jan'16

  Disk system deployment set to decline as datacentres plan for flash

  Survey finds nearly one-fifth of IT departments plan to decommission disk, while hybrid leads the flash assault on the datacentre

• December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15

  Top 10 storage and virtualisation stories of 2015

  Storage and virtualisation are key items on the to-do list for datacentres. That means getting things right when deploying into well-known supplier environments, but also keeping an eye on new trends in the market

• December 24, 2015 24 Dec'15

  Top 10 storage stories of 2015

  The year 2015 in storage was dominated by the continued rise of flash and Dell’s purchase of EMC, but there were steady upticks in trends such as hyper-converged and software-defined storage

• December 22, 2015 22 Dec'15

  Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2015

  Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud computing stories of 2015

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  SThree to rein in IT budget by moving to cloud

  Recruitment group plans to expand by 10% a year, but moving to the cloud will allow it to do more with the same IT budget

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  VMware backs out of Virtustream hybrid cloud venture with EMC

  Virtualisation giant confirms exit from hybrid cloud joint venture with parent company

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Public cloud adoption fuels record spend on datacentre hardware by service providers

  Datacentre infrastructure findings from Synergy Research show how enterprise cloud adoption is affecting the market

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

  Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Dropbox urged by users to open-source soon-to-be shut Mailbox app

  Dropbox finds itself in the firing line after calling time on much-loved email app

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Virtual Instruments to launch hardware NAS probe in 2016

  Maker of SAN testing product Virtual Wisdom is all set to announce a beta-tested hardware NAS probe in 2016, but currently NAS protocols supported will be limited to NFS and CIFS

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Violin doubles all-flash array range with FSP 7250 and FSP 7600

  Violin Memory doubles the size of its all-flash array product family with entry-level and high-performance additions to the enterprise-featured FSP hardware line

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  UK competition watchdog to probe cloud storage sector for consumer law violations

  The Competition and Markets Authority vows to investigate cloud storage market, following user complaints

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  EMC weighs up VMware's involvement in Virtustream joint venture

  Concerns about how VMware's sliding share price could affect its merger with Dell have reportedly prompted EMC to reconsider its stake in Virtustream

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  Microsoft steps up efforts to clarify cloud security and privacy policy

  Microsoft debuts merged security information hub to make it easier for cloud users to find out more about the privacy and security policies of its hosted products

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Arcserve Cloud offers customers cloud target and remote failover

  Backup software and appliance supplier guarantees availability but latency depends on customer-bought infrastructure

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Steel firm gets Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global ops

  Dowco rejected pure cloud over latency concerns but opted for Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global collaboration between offices on different continents

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Equinix rolls out AWS Direct Connect in Slough datacentre

  Datacentre provider launches private internet connection to Amazon Web Services to help customers build hybrid clouds

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  Mixed signals fuel mixed feelings about Australia's data-retention plan

  There are mixed feelings about Australia's data retention plans as the telecommunications industry weighs up the costs of compliance

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Seagate launches HPC storage arrays with RAM HDDs and SMR

  Seagate marries Xyratex IP and hard-drive smarts in Lustre- and GPFS-based HPC arrays with RAM-equipped drives, plus hybrid, all-flash and shingled magnetic recording options

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Trent & Dove Housing virtually upgrades infrastructure

  Moving to a virtualised environment means housing association can move forward with digital projects

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  DDN revamp adds SFA14K plus hyper-converged and all-flash options

  DataDirect Networks upgrades core HPC storage arrays to create SFA14K, and adds hyper-converged SFA14KE plus all-flash IME14K front end to smooth I/O bottlenecks

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Ad agency that rejected cloud boosts Cleversafe object storage

  Ad content agency Hogarth rejected cloud storage as too expensive and unreliable, opting for in-house object storage from Cleversafe with nearly 5PB

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  Hybrid flash maker NexGen launches N5 tiered all-flash

  SanDisk-owned hybrid flash maker debuts in all-flash storage with N5-1500 and N5-3000 that mix RAM, PCIe flash and SAS-connected flash drives with QoS tiering between media

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Flash storage reinvigorates Sydney school district’s centralised IT

  A school district in Sydney has improved the performance of its storage infrastructure through a flash-based infrastructure

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Snoopers’ charter will force ISPs to raise broadband prices

  The Science and Technology Select Committee hears that ISPs may be forced to put up their service charges to cover the cost of retaining communications data, should the Investigatory Powers Bill become law

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  EMC adds remote Isilon SD Edge and hybrid Cloud Pools

  EMC adds software-defined Isilon SD Edge for remote offices, but for now it lacks true clustered NAS capability. Isilon Cloud Pools, however, do act as part of the Isilon namespace

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  HDS launches mid-market F Series all-flash arrays

  Hitachi Data Systems launches the F Series, all-flash arrays aimed at mid-market customers that slot in below HDS's high-end G Series, plus a new 6.4TB high-capacity flash drive

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  Crown Commercial Service backs Huddle's public sector-wide preferential pricing scheme

  Cloud-based collaboration platform provider hopes enterprise pricing scheme will make it easier and less costly for public sector to adopt its technology

• November 06, 2015 06 Nov'15

  Cornwall NHS integrates archiving and backup processes

  Fed up of dealing with backup systems that didn’t talk to each other, time consuming processes and vast amounts of data, Cornwall IT services decided to do something about it

• November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15

  MK:Smart project gets ArcServe for virtual and physical backup

  Milton Keynes smart city project chooses ArcServe UDP data protection product over Veeam for its ability to backup virtual and physical servers

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Nutanix and Lenovo to sell hyper-converged appliances

  Nutanix deal to put storage software on Lenovo servers with products aimed at datacentre use cases plus a 200-strong dedicated sales team could put pressure on its partnership with Dell

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  French atomic agency tests Scality object storage

  CEA opts for Scality Ring object storage software as potential replacement for block and file storage with gains hoped for in hardware independence and disk drive efficiency

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise: think of us as a startup

  As Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc finally part ways, UK managing director Andy Isherwood shares some insight on what the future holds for the newly minted enterprise business

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  Lack of data classification very costly to firms, says survey

  Most data retained by organisations is not identified or classified and gobbles budget spent on storage, as well as being potentially non-compliant, reveals Veritas-sponsored survey

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  The post-merger world: What the future holds for EMC and its federation

  A look at the integration challenges Dell faces in trying to merge EMC’s various business units with its own

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  Flash alternatives graphene and memristor make progress

  Scientists announce tests using atom-thick graphene and 5nm-thick memristors to provide media with many times the storage density of Nand flash and possible fuzzy logic computing

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  Amazon turns surprise Q3 profit as AWS cloud growth soars

  Amazon Web Services continues to go from strength to strength as it banks income similar to its parent company's entire North American e-commerce business

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  HP to retreat from public cloud market, six months after denying exit plans

  Hewlett-Packard announces further revision to its cloud strategy that will see it throw its weight behind its private and hybrid product portfolio

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  Commvault drops Simpana brand and adds features

  Commvault will drop the Simpana name from the end of 2015 as it opens up to third-party data and attempts to bridge the gap between backup and replication

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  EMC and VMware launch managed hybrid cloud joint venture using Virtustream brand

  EMC-owned Virtustream set to become outlet for storage and virtualisation firm's hybrid cloud managed services

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  Marketing firm shuns NetApp for VMware VSAN and HGST server flash

  Grass Roots was struggling with capacity and performance on its NetApp SAN so it deployed VMware VSAN on servers with HGST PCIe server flash and helium HDDs

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  Veeam to add virtualised storage as backup target

  Veeam's Unlimited Scale-out Backup Repository feature in version 9 of its Availability Suite will allow customers to create virtual storage nodes from heterogenous media as targets for backup data

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  IBM reports continued sales decline in Q3 results

  IBM reports sales and profits down again in its Q3 results, as the company continues its transformation across the business to fight off competition

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  Google offers free cloud apps to encourage Office 365 users to ditch Microsoft

  Google ups ante in ongoing war to dethrone Microsoft as the enterprise's preferred provider of cloud-based productivity tools

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  EU data protection regulators set 31 January 2016 deadline for replacing Safe Harbour

  Article 29 Working Party gives EU and US authorities until the end of January to establish an alternative data-sharing agreement

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Enterprise IT buyers swap traditional servers for converged infrastructure, research shows

  A survey from 451 Research suggests enterprises will increase their use of converged infrastructure stacks to swap out traditional server estates

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2015: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2015 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  VMware hails hybrid cloud as answer to enterprise Safe Harbour woes

  VMware chief claims the roll-out of its hybrid cloud network should help ease enterprise concerns about off-premise data protection

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  VMware reacts to the cloud and containerisation

  At VMworld Europe, VMware restates products and roadmap visions that see it react to the perceived inevitability of the cloud, while also getting a grip on containers

• October 12, 2015 12 Oct'15

  Dell set to buy storage company EMC

  Two years after his audacious bid to reinvent the company he founded by re-privatising it, Michael Dell has put in a bid for storage giant EMC

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Sussex college dumps EMC for hyper-converged Scale Computing HC3

  St Richard’s Catholic College deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged HC3 clusters to get log-in times down from more than two minutes to 30 seconds, saving £200,000 in the process

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

  Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Avere launches CloudFusion NAS appliance in Amazon Web Services cloud

  NAS specialist Avere launches 1.5TB tiered storage cloud NAS appliance in the AWS cloud, with data held in RAM, flash and SATA media according to frequency of use

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  AWS debuts 50TB Snowball storage appliance to speed up cloud data transfers

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services makes surprise move into on-premise hardware with release of 50TB data transfer appliance

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  EU Safe Harbour ruling requires a rethink of data processes

  The European Court of Justice's decision to invalidate the Safe Harbour agreement has far-reaching implications for businesses

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  IBM buys Cleversafe to provide object storage capabilities

  IBM spends an undisclosed sum on object storage market leader Cleversafe in a move that gives it object storage hardware and distributed storage for Big Blue's cloud services

• October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15

  Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2015: Shortlist announced

  Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, which is set to take place on Tuesday 13 October at VMworld, Barcelona

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Keeping up with Cassandra, the NoSQL database

  What does Call of Duty, the Hive smart thermostats, Social Weather and the William Hill bookie app all have in common? They are all powered by the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Antarctic survey gets 1PB of hybrid flash DDN storage for big data

  Data growth sees British Antarctic Survey deploy nearly a petabyte of DDN hybrid flash with Lustre parallel file system and tiers of flash, SAS and nearline-SAS

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Employee use of cloud storage puts UK business data at risk

  UK businesses are struggling to catch up with employee use of cloud-based storage services and policies to maintain data security, according to security firm WinMagic

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Legal documents reveal HP's failings over Autonomy

  The board of Hewlett-Packard (HP) knew about Autonomy’s failings – yet voted the $11.1bn acquisition through regardless, internal memos have revealed

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Australia's flash-storage hunger leading Asia-Pacific region

  Australian organisations are taking up RAM-based storage arrays at a fast rate as they begin to harness data analytics technologies

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Apple's Irish datacentre build hit by possible planning permission appeal delay

  A "valid appeal" has reportedly been raised in response to Galway County Council's decision to grant conditional planning permission for Apple's Irish datacentre build

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Most UK users deploy more than one backup product

  Most UK users have more than one backup product, and the biggest headaches in backup are length of window and uncertainty over whether it will work

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Microsoft Azure partners with DataStax

  Microsoft Azure and Cassandra company DataStax announces a partnership that will see the DataStax Enterprise package available on the Azure cloud platform

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  University graduates to Arcserve UDP backup from CommVault

  FX Plus IT team reached the end of its tether with physical server-only CommVault three years ago and moved to Arcserve UDP for physical and virtual server backup, plus replication

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  AWS datacentre service trouble hits Netflix users

  North Virginia datacentre hit by service trouble, blighting delivery of more than 30 of the cloud giant's products

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Infinidat adds NAS to create Infinibox unified storage

  Infinidat adds NAS functionality to Infinibox arrays but clustered NAS capability will have to wait until parallel file system support arrives sometime in the future

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  Bradford Grammar School graduates to DataCore for software-defined storage

  Bradford Grammar School puts DataCore SANsymphony in front of DotHill storage arrays to create cost-efficient software-defined storage with synchronous replication

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Pernix Data launches storage performance tool, Architect, and upgrades FVP

  Flash caching specialist Pernix Data launches storage performance monitoring tool, Architect, that runs as a module in vSphere and helps identify I/O issues in storage traffic

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  HP reinforces commitment to open, hybrid cloud vision as business split looms

  Meg Whitman restates firm's stance on enterprise appeal of hybrid cloud, as latest version of HP Helion CloudSystem goes on general release

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Pernix Data upgrades FVP and new storage performance tool, Architect

  Flash caching specialist Pernix Data launches storage performance monitoring tool, Architect, that runs as a module in vSphere and helps identify I/O issues in storage traffic