News

Virtualisation and storage

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

  AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  B&Q owner Kingfisher dumps Raid rebuilds and saves 40% on disk with X-IO

  Kingfisher puts X-IO drives behind IBM SVC storage virtualisation to save 40% disk costs and dispenses with Raid rebuilds in £120,000 project

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 storage stories of 2013

  Users tackle virtualisation and growth of data and suppliers battle over flash storage and software-defined storage, while big data and hyperscale emerge into the mainstream

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Virtualisation continues to drive European server purchases

  TechTarget survey finds 97.3% of large organisations plan to expand their deployments in 2014, with consolidation the main driver

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  Business-defined storage will help reconnect businesses with IT, says Forrester

  Business-defined storage and datacentres will make IT more business-centric, according to Forrester

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Lotus F1 Team invests in converged datacentre to support race strategy

  Lotus F1 Team is about to go live with a converged datacentre infrastructure as it begins the development of a championship-winning car for 2015

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Will project Baadal stimulate India’s MSME engine?

  The Indian government wants to help its massive community of small businesses become more competitive in the age of the internet through a cloud computing resource, known as Baadal.

• September 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

  Disaster recovery planning: Don’t be fooled by suppliers

  Disaster recovery planning is all about good preparation and not falling for supplier hype. Build appropriate systems, test them and train people well

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Podcast: Virtual server backup fundamentals

  Virtual server backup is different to traditional backup. This podcast looks at the differences and examines key choices in selecting backup products

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Users’ top datacentre pain points

  Storage, network bandwidth, cost and scalability are among the biggest datacentre concerns, say users at Dell Enterprise Forum US

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Businesses wasting billions storing unnecessary data

  CIOs are urged to rethink their backup strategies following warnings that companies are wasting billions on unnecessary storage

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  Whiptail tops the class with flash array plus SAN two-tier strategy

  School slashes virtual desktop login times with two-tier Whiptail flash array plus budget Huawei SAN

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  Whiptail promises four million IOPS all-flash array performance

  All-flash array maker Whiptail has upgraded its Racerunner operating system so Invicta arrays can scale to four million IOPS and 360TB of capacity

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  We need European datacentres to 'be successful' says Box CEO

  Computer Weekly speaks to founder and CEO of cloud storage firm Box about why enterprises are embracing this type of technology and what his firm has to do to keep them happy

• July 30, 2008 30 Jul'08

  NetApp dedupes data on rivals' primary storage

  NetApp extends its free data deduplication to its V-Series gateways, making it possible for its customers to dedupe their primary storage. But users say what's missing is a GUI and data dedupe for VTLs.

• July 28, 2008 28 Jul'08

  3PAR shrinks virtual desktop storage

  3PAR's software package allows users of its high-end disk arrays to store a single "golden image" of virtual desktops and hold that image in cache for better boot performance.

• July 02, 2008 02 Jul'08

  Friction grows between storage vendors, VMware

  As the booming server virtualisation market spawns new competitors to VMware, how virtual machines connect with storage is becoming a matter of contention among vendors.