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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• September 07, 2015 07 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

• 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

• 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

• August 28, 2015 28 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

• 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

• 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

• August 26, 2015 26 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

• August 25, 2015 25 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

• August 24, 2015 24 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

• 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

• 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

• August 18, 2015 18 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

• 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

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  IaaS providers pin hopes on spending cut reprieve for G-Cloud 7

  G-Cloud suppliers are calling on the government to step up, rather than scale back, investment in the framework as spending cuts loom

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Netflix shuts down final datacentre to go all-in on public cloud

  Netflix is gearing up for the closure of its final datacentre, as it makes good on its earlier pledge to move more of its IT infrastructure to the public cloud

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Gloucester City Homes embarks on VDI-led tech transformation with Exponential-e

  Social housing firm taps into Exponential-e's Ethernet capabilities to make it easier for its staff to work flexibly

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Skyscape cuts cloud storage price by 50% for public sector IaaS users

  Cloud services provider cites growing public sector business as reason for latest round of price cuts

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  CTO interview: Framestore's Steve MacPherson on the pull of Gravity

  Steve MacPherson, global CTO at London-based special effects studio Framestore, wants his servers running at 96% all of the time

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Video effects firm Framestore offloads rendering to Google Compute Engine with Avere

  The Avere filer appliance is being used to run rendering jobs on the Google cloud

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  BlackHat 2015: Firms must switch focus to data security, says Imperva

  Without using any exploits, hackers can turn synchronisation services such as Dropbox, GoogleDrive and Box into a devastating attack tool, warns Imperva

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  Whitehall devolution threat means IT suppliers "must improve" at selling cloud to local councils

  Public sector IT suppliers must swot up on selling services to local councils, as Whitehall proposes devolving more power to them

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Ark Data Centres to underpin delivery of BT's managed cloud services

  BT signs multi-year deal with datacentre provider to support its push into the cloud integrator market

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  3D XPoint memory chips '1,000 times faster than NAND'

  Intel and Micron say new 3D chip technology is biggest breakthrough in memory technology in nearly 30 years

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  X-IO's Iglu Blaze adds replication to ISE HDD, flash and hybrid arrays

  X-IO Iglu Blaze adds a second controller hardware layer to ISE with advanced storage features including asynchronous replication, disaster recovery and high availabillity

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IT departments aren't getting sidelined by cloud, suggests research

  Research from Harvard Business Review suggests IT departments are maintaining a firm grip on enterprise cloud deployments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  ElasticHosts-owned Springs.IO debuts use-based pricing for Docker-like IaaS

  Springs.IO says using Linux-based container technology can help users cut cloud costs

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  AWS on course to become $6bn business, as sales soar during Q2

  Cloud giant's second quarter success prompts speculation about what Amazon might do next with the business division

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Alibaba makes data protection pledge to Aliyun cloud users

  Chinese cloud firm makes data protection promises, as it gears up for overseas expansion

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Worldwide public cloud spend tipped to hit $70bn in 2015

  Latest IDC cloud spending data highlights growing appetite for public cloud services across several vertical markets

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  TLC flash storage: What it is and what it's good for

  We run the rule over triple-level cell (TLC) flash: What it is, how it performs, what it's good for, why it's a competitor to disk, and how it's all been made possible

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  ViaSat UK wins £3.8m contract for military vehicle encryption

  ViaSat UK is to provide an encryption system for British Army armoured vehicles to ensure sensitive mission and intelligence stored on and gathered by Scout SVs will never be put at risk

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Dell first to market with TLC drives for enterprise flash arrays

  Dell SC series storage customers will be able to use TLC flash drives, which are suited to read-intensive workloads, from August in arrays with MLC, SLC and/or spinning disk

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  All-flash array maker Kaminario plans TLC flash in arrays

  All-flash array pioneer Kaminario says software smarts can overcome limits of TLC flash storage to allow it to offer all-TLC and mixed MLC/TLC arrays

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Enterprises miss out on cloud cost benefits by sticking with on-demand pricing plans

  451 Research suggests cloud users that sign up to long-term contracts with providers get better pricing overall than those who don't

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Nimble OS upgrade gives all-flash tier in CS hybrid flash storage

  Nimble Storage operating system upgrade gives ability to pin data to flash for constant high performance needs in addition to hybrid operations and disk-only

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Arvato rejects big six suppliers for Violin Memory all-flash storage

  IT outsourced services company Arvato boosts IOPS for database-heavy customer operations with Violin Memory 6000 series all-flash arrays

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  UK disaster recovery maturing – but testing remains a concern, says report

  UK organisations are not testing their IT disaster recovery plans frequently or thoroughly enough, a study finds

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Seagate embarks on renewed HPC push through partnerships with HP and IBM

  Storage supplier hopes to increase the total addressable market for its ClusterStor appliance by joining forces with HP and IBM

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Panasas boosts scale-out NAS offerings with flash and disk AS18

  Scale-out NAS specialist Panasas has replaced its AS16 appliance with two AS18s that combine flash tier and helium-filled hard drives in 4U units that scale up to 20PB

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Genomics England rejects open source to deploy EMC Isilon HPC storage

  100,000 Genomes Project rejects building open-source parallel file system on x86 servers and opts for EMC Isilon clustered NAS deployed by Capita S3

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Swedish cloud provider gets Solidfire all-flash storage for OpenStack

  Stockholm-based Elastx uses Solidfire all-flash arrays to support as-a-service provision on OpenStack with easy API connections to Cinder

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Fujitsu launches petabyte-scale DS8700 and 8900 S3 enterprise flash arrays

  Fujitsu replaces DS8700 S2 array with two enterprise class arrays, the DS8700 and DS8900 S3, with all-flash and hybrid flash capability and scalability into multiple petabytes

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Housing provider in spat with EMC gets Tintri hybrid flash

  Social housing provider Housing & Care 21 lost patience with EMC and signed Tintri hybrid flash with three years’ support for two-thirds of the price

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  NetApp adds AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays

  NetApp boosts its SSD array portfolio with the addition of AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays built on Data ONTAP, but still no sign of FlashRay general availability