Cloud storage
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News
12 Feb 2025
Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore
Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
11 Feb 2025
New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage
One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Opinion
13 Aug 2013
The data fragmentation challenge
Few organisations have policies to guide where data should and should not be stored. The result: data fragmentation Continue Reading
By- Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics
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News
23 May 2013
UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes
University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB Continue Reading
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News
24 Apr 2013
Storage Through the Looking Glass
This analyst report aims to help you take a much needed step away from the technical detail of storage to create some strategic perspective. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2013
Six security issues to tackle before encrypting cloud data
Concern about security and privacy is likely to drive adoption of cloud encryption, but there are six security issues businesses should tackle Continue Reading
By- Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst
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News
15 Feb 2013
IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along
UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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Feature
12 Feb 2013
In-house tape vs cloud archiving: What are the pros and cons?
Have cloud archiving services reached a tipping point that makes them cheaper and easier to manage than in-house tape archives? Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2013
Global cloud survey: the implementation challenge
The journey to cloud is proving more complicated and challenging than many had originally anticipated, senior executives reveal in this report from KPMG. Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2013
Businesses wasting billions storing unnecessary data
CIOs are urged to rethink their backup strategies following warnings that companies are wasting billions on unnecessary storage Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
21 Jan 2013
Interview: Alan Clark, chairman, OpenStack Foundation
Alan Clark, chairman of the board of the OpenStack Foundation, talks to Computer Weekly about the future of cloud and the role of open source Continue Reading
By- Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor
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News
28 Dec 2012
Top 10 storage stories of 2012
Top storage stories from 2012 reflect the rapid pace of virtualisation, big data, the proliferation of mobile devices and new twists on storage technologies such as tape and RAID Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
12 Dec 2012
Data to grow more quickly says IDC’s Digital Universe study
IDC’s annual Digital Universe study finds data set to expand to 40 Zettabytes by 2020. Emerging markets and machine-generated data will account for increasing proportions of it. Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
08 Oct 2012
Lamborghini slashes web costs with Amazon Web Services
Supercar maker Lamborghini has revamped and accelerated the performance of its website by running it on Amazon Web Services Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
01 Oct 2012
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 Continue Reading
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News
26 Sep 2012
HMRC becomes first major department to use G-Cloud
HMRC is the first major government department to procure through the G-Cloud in a deal with Skyscape for centralised data storage. Continue Reading
By- Kathleen Hall, TechTarget
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Feature
04 May 2012
Cloud backup options: Pure cloud vs hybrid cloud backup
Cloud backup is increasingly being seen as a flexible and cost-effective option by many organisations, but what are the pros and cons of pure cloud backup and hybrid cloud backup? Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Apr 2011
SMB storage: What can you outsource to cloud storage and backup services?
SMB storage: Cloud storage and backup offer many cost-saving advantages to SMBs, but drawbacks too, so what exactly can you outsource to the cloud right now? Continue Reading
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05 Jan 2010
Evolving cloud storage market has users weighing their enterprise data storage options
This series takes an in-depth look at the evolving concepts of cloud storage and all of its subtypes, such as internal, external, private and public clouds. Continue Reading
By- Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer