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January 18, 2016
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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
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January 15, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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January 08, 2016
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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
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January 07, 2016
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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
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December 30, 2015
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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
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December 24, 2015
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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
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December 22, 2015
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Dec'15
Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2015
Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud computing stories of 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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November 30, 2015
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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
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November 26, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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November 16, 2015
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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
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November 16, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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November 10, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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November 06, 2015
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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
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November 05, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 27, 2015
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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
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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
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October 23, 2015
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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
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October 22, 2015
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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
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October 22, 2015
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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
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October 21, 2015
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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
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October 21, 2015
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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
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October 20, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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October 19, 2015
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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
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October 15, 2015
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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
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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
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October 13, 2015
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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
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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
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October 12, 2015
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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
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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
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October 08, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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October 06, 2015
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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
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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
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October 05, 2015
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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
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October 02, 2015
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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
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September 30, 2015
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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
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September 30, 2015
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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
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September 30, 2015
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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
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September 28, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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September 24, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 18, 2015
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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
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September 17, 2015
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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
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September 16, 2015
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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
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September 16, 2015
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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
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September 16, 2015
16
Sep'15
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute supports bio startups on Nutanix
Converged infrastructure is helping Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's IT team to provide scalable servers and storage for its Campus Business project
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September 15, 2015
15
Sep'15
Accenture buys Cloud Sherpas for SaaS applications push
Accenture sets out plans to acquire Salesforce consultancy business and give enterprises a helping hand with moving to the cloud
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September 11, 2015
11
Sep'15
HP topples Cisco to become cloud infrastructure equipment market leader
Hardware giant overtakes rival in the cloud infrastructure market as demand for servers, storage and private cloud-enabling kit soars
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September 11, 2015
11
Sep'15
Spectra Verde DPE aims bulk NAS at archive use cases
Spectra Logic's Verde DPE aims to provide low-cost file archive retention using Seagate 8TB SMR drives in bulk NAS storage in a space increasingly targeted by object storage
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September 10, 2015
10
Sep'15
UK CIOs lament lack of IT support for cloud services
Research from ElasticHosts suggests most cloud users are unhappy with the level of tech support they receive from their providers
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September 10, 2015
10
Sep'15
All-flash datacentre makes sense for 80TB+ of mixed workloads says IDC
IDC white paper author says secondary economic benefits of flash storage – $/IOPS, density, power and cooling and server utilisation – mean all-flash makes sense above 80TB
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September 10, 2015
10
Sep'15
Microsoft makes fresh legal bid to protect emails stored in Irish datacentre from US government
Software giant's ongoing battle to protect emails stored in overseas datacentre from US government enters new phase
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September 10, 2015
10
Sep'15
Cloudian boosts object storage HyperStore compliance features
Distributed object storage software maker Cloudian upgrades HyperStore with added granularity of data protection features that can help meet compliance requirements
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September 09, 2015
09
Sep'15
Chef secures $40m spending round as enterprise DevOps adoption soars
Automation software supplier Chef dismisses buyout talk after sharing details of latest funding round
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September 07, 2015
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Sep'15
Case study: North Middlesex NHS aims to go digital by 2017
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust embarks on an ambitious project to go digital by the end of 2017 – three years ahead of the government’s mandate
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September 04, 2015
04
Sep'15
Case study: How Ebury took a cloud-first approach to delivering financial services
Financial services firm outlines how it is helping customers expand their businesses internationally with the help of cloud
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September 03, 2015
03
Sep'15
SanDisk InfiniFlash flash arrays get Nexenta software-defined storage
SanDisk offers its all-flash array InfiniFlash IF100 with Nexenta's storage software on-board in another move in the trend towards choice in storage hardware and software deployments
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August 28, 2015
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Aug'15
Office 365 overtakes Google Apps as business users' preferred cloud productivity suite
Use of Microsoft cloud suite has risen steeply over the past 12 months, leaving Google Apps trailing, research shows
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August 28, 2015
28
Aug'15
Simplivity adds ROBO hyper-converged box and OS enhancements
Hyper-converged box maker adds a remote office appliance plus OmniStack operating environment upgrades to help clustering across the WAN and file level restore in backup
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August 27, 2015
27
Aug'15
Research highlights security risk posed by cloud "super" users
CloudLock's third quarter report into cloud security trends reveals 1% of users create 75% of the risk in off-premise environments
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August 26, 2015
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Aug'15
DataCore teams up with Curvature to offer recycled storage hardware
Partnership lashes supplier-driven rip-and-replace and promises seven-year lifespan on recycled storage hardware with DataCore software-defined storage deployed
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August 25, 2015
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Aug'15
Barnsley College dumps IBM SANs for Tegile hybrid flash arrays
IBM DS3200 SANs retired as South Yorkshire college standardises on Tegile hybrid flash arrays in a move that cuts spend on new disk by £30,000 a year
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August 24, 2015
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Aug'15
Amazon Web Services opens up machine learning service to European developers
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) claims running service out of Dublin datacentre will reduce latency for European developers using predictive services
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August 24, 2015
24
Aug'15
Intel and Goldman Sachs invest in Mirantis to boost OpenStack enterprise adoption
Chipmaker is one of a number of investors that have pledged to help Mirantis increase the enterprise appeal of open source OpenStack clouds
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August 20, 2015
20
Aug'15
Tintri dives into all-flash storage with the T5000 series
Tintri is the second hybrid flash storage startup of the summer to debut an all-flash array series, the T5000, with two capacity variants for transactional and VDI workloads
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August 18, 2015
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Aug'15
Hybrid cloud two to five years off hitting mainstream adoption, claims Gartner
Hybrid IT approach is still some way off reaching mainstream levels of enterprise adoption, according to market watcher Gartner
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August 18, 2015
18
Aug'15
Cloud storage service Wuala to close in November
Seagate-owned cloud storage player confirms its closure and gives users three months' notice to remove their data from its servers