News
Virtualisation and storage
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January 29, 2014
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Jan'14
Microsoft joins Open Compute Project
Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design
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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
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December 28, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 23, 2013
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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July 30, 2008
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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.
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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.
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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.