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• March 15, 2023 15 Mar'23

  Budget 2023: Chancellor affirms tax relief for IT investment

  Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget makes IT investment tax expendable for three years and announces support for artificial intelligence companies, including annual £1m ‘Manchester Prize’

• March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

  Liverpool Football Club signs Wasabi in on-premise-to-cloud storage transition

  Liverpool Football Club has transitioned from lead-footed on-premise infrastructure to Wasabi cloud storage that’s well-suited to its video production and distribution requirements

• March 09, 2023 09 Mar'23

  Velero wants to become the Kubernetes backup standard

  Open source Velero offers modular data protection and disaster recovery functionality via API for Kubernetes container clusters in an effort to become the standard in the field

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  APAC IT leaders bullish on tech spending

  Over half of respondents in this year’s IT Priorities study have bigger IT budgets as they continue to make strategic investments in cyber security, cloud and automation, among other areas

• March 05, 2023 05 Mar'23

  FlashBlade//E to open up new opportunities in Australia

  Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//E will enable the storage supplier to target medical imaging and remote backup workloads and attract new customers in Australia

• March 02, 2023 02 Mar'23

  AWS to open cloud region in Malaysia

  Along with a new infrastructure region, AWS plans to invest $6bn in Malaysia by 2037 as it continues to expand its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region

• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  Pure Storage aims FlashBlade//E at unstructured data capacity

  But not the ones that need super high performance. FlashBlade//E will target use cases that need large amounts of QLC flash without the most-demands for rapid access

• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  LastPass attack saw employee’s home computer hacked

  The ongoing investigation into a series of linked security incidents at LastPass has found that the attacker was successfully able to compromise a developer’s home PC using a vulnerability in a media software package

• February 27, 2023 27 Feb'23

  How Dell is future-proofing its business

  Dell Technologies is building a more resilient supply chain, investing in growth areas like edge and multicloud, and responding to shifts in consumption models to position itself for long-term growth

• February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

  WithSecure proposes ‘undo’ button for ransomware

  WithSecure’s Activity Monitor technology supposedly overcomes the shortcomings of sandbox test environments, and may be able to stop ransomware attacks from ever happening

• February 20, 2023 20 Feb'23

  Veeam bundles backup products into Veeam Data Platform

  Backup and data protection specialist Veeam upgrades and rebrands, with a focus on the challenges of ransomware and rapid recovery, and a claimed 500 new functions

• February 15, 2023 15 Feb'23

  Home Office partners with BAE Systems on border analytics

  BAE Systems wins three-year contract worth £38m to help Home Office develop Cerberus, a project to secure UK borders through advanced data systems and analytics

• February 13, 2023 13 Feb'23

  Hycu aims at universal SaaS backup with R-Cloud

  Hycu’s R-Cloud aims to provide an API-driven backup product for any software-as-a-service application for enterprise customers, based on a simple low-code development environment

• February 13, 2023 13 Feb'23

  Porsche revs up Formula E team with NetApp hybrid cloud

  Porsche’s electric car racing team has to set up on city street courses in short order, and does it with a portable server setup and hybrid cloud storage managed by NetApp GFC

• February 08, 2023 08 Feb'23

  Rakuten targets big edge deployments with Symworld Cloud

  Japanese giant Rakuten bought Kubernetes management platform Robin.io and put it in 50,000-plus telco antennas. Now it aims Symworld Cloud at enterprise edge deployments

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  NetApp adds QLC C-series, new A-series and subscription upgrades

  NetApp C-series QLC-based array family offers flash speed with capacity, while Advance adds subscription upgrades to owned hardware, as well as a new entry-level A-series array

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  Tiger’s hybrid cloud storage targets medical imaging

  Tiger Bridge targets vertical sectors that find it hard to migrate to the cloud by allowing data storage in the cloud while using files locally as if stored on-premise

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  AWS opens Melbourne region, to invest $4.5bn by 2037

  Amazon Web Services’ new Melbourne cloud region will better serve Australian customers such as ANZ Bank and is expected to benefit over 2,500 full-time jobs in the country

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  NGX: Turkish arrays to challenge US mainstream storage vendors

  Ankara-based NGX offers block, file and unified storage with use of cache and RAM to speed access. Software-defined storage, cloud and NVMe-over-fabrics are also coming

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  DataCore software-defined storage helps car firm avoid breakdowns

  Bontaz used to face regular IT outages that took too long to recover from. Then it got DataCore software-defined storage and the ability to rapidly recover from downtime

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation

  Annual report shows secular trend to the cloud and increased use of containers, but prevalence of ransomware attacks means digital transformation is hindered

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Atempo plots course to containerised backup with S3 storage

  Containerised modularised backup services will allow integration with third-party systems and backup storage unified onto S3 object storage for cost and analytics purposes

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022

  There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted

• December 16, 2022 16 Dec'22

  CIO interview: Steve Capper, CIO, SNC-Lavalin

  Engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin has consolidated its global datacentre estate and implemented private cloud to support the unique demands of its business

• December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

  Digital Ethics Summit: Who benefits from new technology?

  Experts at the 2022 Digital Ethics Summit say expedited development cycles and obviously over-hyped PR material, in tandem with the public’s near-total exclusion from conversations around technology, is creating distrust towards the tech sector

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  CIO interview: Andy Pocock, IT director, TrustFord

  The vehicle dealership group has been through a complete digital transformation that embraces cloud, mobile working and automation

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  NHS gets new guidance on public benefits of data sharing

  NHS national data guardian Nicola Byrne has published new guidance on how health and social care bodies should approach the task of evaluating public benefit when using data for purposes beyond individual care

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  EU issues draft data adequacy decision in favour of US

  The European Commission has concluded that the United States does ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union and will now launch the process towards the adoption of an adequacy decision

• December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

  Cloud-based fingerprint system for UK police nears completion

  Police Digital Service announces that a new cloud-based fingerprint system developed under its Transforming Forensics programme is nearly complete, but data protection concerns around the use of US-based cloud providers remain

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Survey: Most want green IT but many won’t get it soon

  IT – and storage in particular – consume huge amounts of energy but sustainability targets are proving to be elusive, according to a survey commissioned by Pure Storage

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  Cohesity doubles down on cyber-defence failings via backup

  Datahawk service and Data Security Alliance bring clean data restores, ransomware artefact detection, data vaulting and data audit for a clearer understanding of attack impact

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  LastPass probes new cyber incident related to August attack

  The August 2022 cyber attack on LastPass seems to have begat another incident, according to company CEO Karim Toubba

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  Panzura partners with AWS on ransomware counter-measures

  Panzura might have slipped beneath the waves, but it’s come back reinvigorated, and now boasts integration with AWS with ransomware protection and Outposts hardware

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Data management, backup becoming the CISO's responsibility

  More and more CISOs are taking on responsibility for wider data management strategies, and this trend looks set to grow next year

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Meta faces UK lawsuit over surveillance business model

  The High Court case against Meta could set a precedent for millions of UK users to object to their personal data being collected and processed for advertising purposes

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Pure aims at near bare metal I/O with Portworx PX-Fast

  PX-Fast is driven by customer need for scale and high performance in containerised environments and sees reworking of Portworx data architecture to slash storage access time

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Genome lab puts Vast Data’s rapid I/O to work on patient data

  French government-backed SeqOIA ditched its Lustre-based storage after it reached performance limits and files got corrupted. That got fixed by a Vast Data QLC flash-based array

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Scality Ring 9 brings Storage Accelerator enhanced flash tiers

  Scality upgrade to Ring 9 of its object (and file) storage software sees enhancements to tiering, the introduction of Prometheus-based monitoring and hooks into VMware vCloud Director

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Met Police removes nearly two-thirds of people from gangs matrix

  Legal action by human rights group Liberty forces Met Police to overhaul its gangs violence matrix database

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Dropbox code compromised in phishing attack

  Cloud storage service says malicious actors successfully accessed some of its code within GitHub, but insists customer data is secure

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  NetApp launches BlueXP as single console across on-prem and cloud

  BlueXP gives customers monitoring and control over all NetApp storage on-site and in multiple clouds. Meanwhile, its Ontap OS has added S3 object storage access

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  Huawei pushes OceanStor’s Arm chip benefits at Paris love-in

  Chinese giant trumpets green benefits on its Arm processor hardware with OceanStor Dorado V6 range, which offers huge capacities and performance at the high end

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  SoftIron’s HyperCloud to ease private cloud deployments

  SoftIron claims its technology stack fully automates the provisioning of storage, compute, networking and infrastructure services, providing a fully functioning, multi-tenant cloud

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  Singapore’s met service to get new supercomputer

  The Meteorological Service Singapore is getting a new Cray supercomputer to improve weather forecasting and tropical climate research

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  ICO warns against using biometrics for ‘emotional analysis’

  ICO warning highlights risk of ‘systemic bias’ and discrimination associated with organisations using biometric data and technologies for emotion analysis

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Microsoft slams external researchers over its own data leak

  Microsoft inadvertently leaked customer data after misconfiguring an Azure Blob, but has hit out at the organisation that discovered its error, claiming it is exaggerating the scope of the issue

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  GRAID puts RAID on a GPU for cut-price disk protection and rebuilds

  US startup puts its software on Nvidia graphics cards to offload RAID processing and throughput of 110GBps throughput across up to 32 NVMe solid-state drives

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Alibaba Cloud readying dedicated cloud regions for private datacentres

  The hybrid cloud offering will provide enterprises with a dedicated Alibaba Cloud region in their datacentres with multiple availability zones

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Bowled out: NVMe flash pioneer Pavilion Data ceases business

  Last of the pioneer NVMe flash storage array makers, Pavilion made multiprotocol highs-speed boxes – but it seems to have run out of sources of investment and gone out of business

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  PoINT to offer on-site S3 object storage archive on disk and tape

  Archival Gateway can cluster up to 256 tape readers to provide S3 object storage clusters capable of storing 50 billion objects per bucket, and giving throughput of 230GBps