Storage
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E-Zine
13 Apr 2023
CW EMEA: Under attack and stressed out
In this month's CW EMEA, we look at how cyber attacks are taking a toll on security professionals, damaging their mental health and forcing some to quit. We also look at Finland's allure for tech entrepreneurs, how software is enabling a new business model for a Swedish car manufacturer, and the importance of backup testing. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
09 Mar 2023
CW EMEA: How Sweden is accelerating digitisation
Large conglomerates with diverse business portfolios face challenges when digitally transforming because one size cer-tainly doesn’t fit all. In this month’s CW EMEA, we find out how Richard Ventre, group CIO at Dutch company SHV Holdings, goes about ensuring his IT department pro-vides the foundations for a wide variety of businesses to thrive digitally. We also find out how to make the most of a composable enterprise architecture and how green storage can deliver savings if done right. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Tip
04 Aug 2025
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Business continuity in the cloud: Benefits, issues and tips
Using the cloud for business continuity helps reduce downtime, increase redundancy and simplify disaster recovery plans. Learn how to implement it with this tip. Continue Reading
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News
01 Aug 2025
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Met Police to double facial recognition use amid budget cuts
The UK’s largest police force is massively expanding its use of live facial recognition technology as it prepares to lose 1,700 officers and staff Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Feature
01 Aug 2025
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Risk assessment matrix: Free template and usage guide
A risk assessment matrix identifies issues with the greatest potential for business disruption or damage. Use our free template to prioritize risk management plans. Continue Reading
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Tip
31 Jul 2025
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RAID 1 vs. RAID 0: Which level is best for data protection?
RAID 1 and RAID 0 are two of the most basic RAID levels. While one offers better performance, backup admins might choose the level that provides redundancy to better protect data. Continue Reading
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Tip
30 Jul 2025
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Build IT resilience to avoid paying ransomware demands
No one wants to pay the ransom after a cyberattack, but many organizations feel like they have no choice. Explore the benefits of investing in resilience over making payments. Continue Reading
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Tip
30 Jul 2025
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The pros and cons of on-site backup
On-site backup is a good option for organizations of all sizes, especially those handling sensitive data. Learn about the pros and cons of backing up files on-site in this tip. Continue Reading
By- Helen Searle-Jones, Tritech Group
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Definition
30 Jul 2025
What is data in use?
Data in use is data that is currently being updated, processed, erased, accessed or read by a system, application, user or device. Continue Reading
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News
29 Jul 2025
European Commission ignores calls to reassess Israel data adequacy
The European Commission is ignoring calls to reassess Israel’s data adequacy status in spite of concerns raised about its data protection framework and use of personal data in ‘repressive practices’ Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Feature
29 Jul 2025
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M&A data storage integration challenges and how to tackle them
The need for efficiencies after mergers and acquisitions affects all IT operations. But data storage also raises issues around security, privacy and the reuse of data Continue Reading
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News
28 Jul 2025
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Kioxia launches 245TB LC9, the biggest flash drive on the market
Japanese drive maker piles one card on top of another to produce 245.76TB E3.L drive, with lower capacity variants in 2.5in and E3.S formats, and claimed low energy use benefits Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Tip
28 Jul 2025
Is cloud data backup and recovery right for you?
Still not sure if cloud data backup and recovery is the best choice for your organization? Here are six questions for IT managers to consider when making the move to cloud. Continue Reading
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News
28 Jul 2025
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Data resilience critical as ransomware attacks target backups
With more threat actors targeting backup repositories to ensure a payday, Veeam urges organisations to treat data resilience as a competitive advantage, not just an insurance policy Continue Reading
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Tip
28 Jul 2025
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Top business continuity risks to plan for and monitor
The key to mitigating business continuity risks is identifying them early. Here are 10 top risks concerning business continuity pros today. Is your organization ready for them? Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Jul 2025
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Disaster recovery: As-a-service vs on-premise?
It’s easy to backup to the cloud, and we run lots of applications there now, too. So, running DR as-a-service in the cloud makes perfect sense for many. We look at the pros and cons Continue Reading
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News
22 Jul 2025
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AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage
S3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
22 Jul 2025
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Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack
Hitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have Continue Reading
By- Stéphane Larcher, LeMagIT
- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
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News
22 Jul 2025
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Fresh allegations of ‘sustained’ police and MI5 surveillance against BBC reporters
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is investigating claims that police spied on the phone of investigative journalist Chris Moore amid further claims of a sustained monitoring operation against BBC reporters in Northern Ireland between 2006 and 2022 Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor
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E-Zine
22 Jul 2025
UKtech50 2025: The most influential people in UK IT
In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, we share the results of this year’s UKTech50 list of the IT leaders who are shaping the UK’s digital economy. We also feature a profile of this year’s winner, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who is the first person ever to top the list twice. Elsewhere in the issue, we also take a look at what steps IT leaders can take to lockdown their Amazon Web Services stacks, and discover the role that data management platforms play in the delivery of a great customer experience. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
18 Jul 2025
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DWP accused of shielding AI deployments from public scrutiny
Amnesty International and Big Brother Watch say Department for Work and Pensions’ ‘unchecked’ and opaque use of AI in the UK benefits system treats claimants as suspicious and is shielded from public scrutiny Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Tip
18 Jul 2025
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Why you need a payroll disaster recovery plan
Payroll data is critical, and the consequences of losing it are steep. Learn how to create a strong payroll disaster recovery plan to protect employee data. Continue Reading
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18 Jul 2025
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Crisis communications plan: How to build one, with template
Don't overlook crisis communications when you are disaster recovery planning. Use these tips and our free template to build a thorough crisis communications plan. Continue Reading
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Podcast
17 Jul 2025
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Podcast: How (agentic) AI can help with unstructured data
In this podcast, MongoDB CTO Boris Bialek discusses how artificial intelligence can bring together multiple levels of corporate data to better automate processes and how agentic AI can be a key part of that Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
16 Jul 2025
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Pure Storage profits from all-flash, as-a-service and cloud focus
Storage profile: Pure Storage evolves its all-flash offer across multiple workloads while embracing cloud models in data management, as-a-service and containerisation Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
11 Jul 2025
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UK to create ‘governance framework’ for police facial recognition
Home secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed UK will regulate police facial recognition, citing police reticence to deploy systems without proper governance, but declined to say if any new framework will be statutory Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
11 Jul 2025
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European Commission accused of rigging data watchdog appointment
The European Commission has been accused of rigging the selection process for the next European Data Protection supervisor Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor
- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Tip
10 Jul 2025
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Get to know storage-as-a-service providers and their offerings
If you're looking for cloud storage or an on-premises platform with similar billing methods, you might find what you need in this list of 14 storage-as-a-service providers. Continue Reading
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Podcast
10 Jul 2025
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Podcast: HDDs performance metrics and the workloads they excel at
We talk to Toshiba’s Rainer Kaese about spinning disk performance, why HDDs are good at what they do and how hard disk drives still come out top in workloads that suit them Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Podcast
09 Jul 2025
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Podcast: Container storage challenges and how to overcome them
We talk to Pure Storage about the challenges of increased complexity, ‘technical debt’, skills needs of container deployments and why strategic thinking trumps tactical solutions Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
08 Jul 2025
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Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the private sector
In the second of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil and how private sector customers have at least some flexibility in how to absorb their impacts Continue Reading
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News
07 Jul 2025
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Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur
A UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘crimes of apartheid and genocide’ Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Feature
07 Jul 2025
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Types of backup explained: Incremental vs. differential vs. full, etc.
There are several different types of backup available today. Choose the best way to safeguard your data and recover appropriately in the event of an incident. Continue Reading
By- Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor
- Brien Posey
- Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director
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Tip
02 Jul 2025
Implement a business continuity plan for remote workers
Business continuity efforts don't stop when employees go remote. Learn how to create and manage a reliable business continuity plan for remote workers. Continue Reading
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News
02 Jul 2025
DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer
Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025 Continue Reading
By- Stéphane Larcher, LeMagIT
- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
02 Jul 2025
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Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation
Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Tip
01 Jul 2025
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Can AI predict natural disasters?
AI technology works with vast amounts of information to provide data-driven planning. Learn how AI can help organizations prepare for upcoming disruptions with this tip. Continue Reading
By- Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction
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Feature
01 Jul 2025
NetApp: Not just NAS filers, and a comprehensive cloud strategy
NetApp market share has slipped, but it has built out storage across file, block and object, plus capex purchasing, Kubernetes storage management and hybrid cloud Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Podcast
01 Jul 2025
Podcast: AIOps in storage management, security and sustainability
Dell’s Stewart Hunwick explains why AIOps – artificial intelligence for IT operations – is key to gaining efficiencies in storage management and sustainability, and discusses reactive and proactive data security Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Tip
30 Jun 2025
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Change management in business continuity
Change management and business continuity share a common goal: Preventing future disruptions. Find out where change management fits into business continuity planning here. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jun 2025
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MPs propose ban on predictive policing
MPs are attempting to amend the UK government’s forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill so that it prohibits the use of controversial predictive policing systems Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
27 Jun 2025
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Silicon Valley execs sworn in to US Army reserves specialist unit
Four technology executives are brought into the military to make the armed forces ‘more lethal’, reflecting softening attitudes throughout the sector towards ‘the business of inflicting violence’ Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
26 Jun 2025
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UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years
A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Podcast
26 Jun 2025
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Pure CTO drills down on key-value, no DFMs on FA//ST, and fast object
In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage CTO Rob Lee about use of key-value stores in its storage OS, plus why its much-vaunted DirectFlash isn’t in the new FlashArray//ST product Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Tip
25 Jun 2025
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RAID 6 vs. RAID 10
There are numerous RAID configurations to choose from, and navigating the nuances of each can take a lot of work. In the case of RAID 6 and 10, both have distinct pros and cons. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Jun 2025
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Best practices for VoIP disaster recovery
VoIP technology can provide communications support in a crisis. Disaster recovery teams must protect VoIP systems just as you would any server holding mission-critical information. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2025
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Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware
We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
24 Jun 2025
Digital ID: cool or contentious?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we dig into the discourse surrounding the proposal to roll out a national digital identity scheme across the UK, and hear from HPE’s CIO on what he’s learned from his time previously working as an IT chief in the retail sector. We round out the buyer’s guide to cloud repatriation with a look at what’s driving the trend, before concluding the issue with a look at the controversy surrounding quantum computing. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2025
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Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group
We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Definition
20 Jun 2025
What is a pandemic plan?
A pandemic plan is a documented strategy for how an organization plans to provide essential services when there is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease. Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2025
UK data reforms become law
UK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
20 Jun 2025
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Restaurant fills DR gap with all-flash Pure and dodges higher cloud cost
Seafood chain Red Lobster opted for Pure Storage as-a-service for rapid failover between datacentres. A fully cloud-based option was on the table, but would have been six times the cost Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 Jun 2025
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Pure CEO Charlie Giancarlo on data management, all-flash and tariffs
We spoke to the Pure CEO about Enterprise Data Cloud and how it can offer insight and management across all its storage, plus a catch-up on the death of the HDD and tariff uncertainty Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
18 Jun 2025
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Pure Enterprise Data Cloud bundles its IP for business outcomes
All-flash evangelist bundles storage management and as-a-service under Enterprise Data Cloud banner while boosting hardware offerings with performance arrays and a 300TB flash module Continue Reading
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E-Zine
17 Jun 2025
Would AI lie to you?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we hear how data analytics and intelligence company Bloomberg keeps a lid on fib-telling AI, and learn how experts are predicting the future of the technology is set to become a lot more immersive. CCS Insight shares its take on the thorny issue of competition in the cloud, before we look at alternative storage management hardware strategies for legacy VMware vSAN users. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Jun 2025
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Fine-tune your storage-as-a-service approach
Method of delivery, service levels, data protection and upgrade schedules can be differentiators for how well storage as a service works for your organization. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Jun 2025
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Business continuity failures: 5 real-world examples to study
Business continuity failures are costly and can significantly harm a company's reputation. These five high-profile examples demonstrate what can go wrong when a plan fails. Continue Reading
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13 Jun 2025
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6 DRaaS risks to assess and mitigate
Cloud DR is a popular strategy today, but not exactly invulnerable to threats. Assess the risks associated with DRaaS and learn to mitigate them before a crisis strikes. Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2025
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AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation
At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Definition
11 Jun 2025
What is change control?
Change control is a systematic approach that includes the various steps needed to process changes made to a product or system. Continue Reading
By- Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
- Paul Kirvan
- Wesley Chai
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Podcast
11 Jun 2025
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Podcast: Data management and storage strategy in the AI era
We talk to Pure Storage EMEA field chief technology officer Patrick Smith about the challenges of data management in an era of AI and data proliferation, and how storage functionality can help Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
10 Jun 2025
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Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the public sector
In the first of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil in public sector IT procurement, the particular challenges faced by public sector procurement, and how the cloud and pay-as-you-go can help Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Jun 2025
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IBM reorients storage to cloud, containers and as-a-service
Storage profile: We look at Big Blue’s storage offer, which spans file, block and object, on-premise, in the cloud, and mainframes, while also embracing containers and the cloud Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
09 Jun 2025
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Are we normalising surveillance in schools?
Children and teenagers are subjected to a vast array of surveillance technologies in schools. These are intended to keep them safe, but are we normalising surveillance for young people? Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Jun 2025
What happens if Silicon Valley’s AI investment bubble bursts?
US tech giants are burning through unprecedented amounts of capital to develop artificial superintelligence, but authoritarian regimes around the world could keep the pursuit of a techno-utopian future alive when the bubble subsides Continue Reading
By- Kyle Hiebert, Computer Weekly
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News
06 Jun 2025
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UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy
The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
05 Jun 2025
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UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’
People experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Definition
05 Jun 2025
What is a storage filer?
A storage filer is a type of file server designed and programmed for high-volume data storage, backup or archiving. Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2025
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European Commission should rescind UK data adequacy
Civil society organisations have urged the European Commissioner to not renew the UK’s data adequacy, given the country’s growing divergence from European data protection standards Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Tip
02 Jun 2025
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Organizational vs. operational resilience
Organizational and operational resilience are two critical components of BCDR. Learn the differences between the two and how to establish them for peak resilience. Continue Reading
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Tip
29 May 2025
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8 data sanitization software options for businesses
These eight data sanitization software options can help backup administrators protect sensitive information, ease compliance and strengthen data security. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 May 2025
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AI and compliance: Staying on the right side of law and regulation
Without careful planning, AI projects risk blundering into a legal and regulatory minefield. We look at the risks from hallucinations, basic errors and coming regulation Continue Reading
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Podcast
29 May 2025
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AI compliance: Dealing with data change and proliferation
Podcast: We talk with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge about staying on top of compliance and artificial intelligence, where the danger is data that changes during AI processing and can also proliferate Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
28 May 2025
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UK biometric surveillance exists in ‘legal grey area’
The rapid proliferation of ‘biometric mass surveillance technologies’ throughout the UK’s public and private sectors is taking place without legal certainty or adequate safeguards for the public Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Feature
28 May 2025
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AI and compliance: What are the risks?
We look at the areas of risk in artificial intelligence. Potential exposures abound, and include security and privacy issues, bias, accuracy and complete fabrication of results Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 May 2025
Putting a price on the value of IP
The government sees artificial intelligence (AI) as a high octane fuel to boost productivity and drive the economy forward. The Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) aims to cut bureaucracy to ... Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Tip
27 May 2025
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Data center power outage causes and how to prevent them
Mitigating data center power outages is crucial for business survival. Learn the strategies today's organizations use to safeguard their critical infrastructure from disruptions. Continue Reading
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News
26 May 2025
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Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future
With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors Continue Reading
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News
23 May 2025
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Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment
An equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Feature
23 May 2025
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AI storage: NAS vs SAN vs object for training and inference
Artificial intelligence operations can place different demands on storage during training, inference, and so on. We look at NAS, SAN and object storage for AI and how to balance them for AI projects Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2025
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Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands
As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Tip
21 May 2025
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Clear, Purge, Destroy: NIST media sanitization 101
NIST SP 800-88 outlines how to responsibly destroy data and keep confidential information out of the wrong hands. Learn more about the NIST guidelines for media sanitization here. Continue Reading
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Podcast
21 May 2025
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Podcast: RSA 2025 – AI’s risk surface and the role of the CISO
We review RSA 2025 with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge who looks at the impacts on compliance of AI’s expanding risk surface, the role of the CISO, and a changed supplier approach Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Opinion
21 May 2025
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UK Fraud Bill targets benefit claimants for mass surveillance
The UK government’s proposed Fraud Bill will disproportionately place millions of benefit claimants under constant surveillance, creating a two-tier system where people are automatically suspected of wrongdoing for seeking welfare Continue Reading
By- Anna Dent
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Definition
21 May 2025
What is hyperconverged storage?
Hyperconverged storage is a software-defined approach to storage management that combines storage, compute, virtualization and networking technologies in one physical unit that's managed as a single virtualized system. Continue Reading
By- Rahul Awati
- Brien Posey
- Rodney Brown, TechTarget
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News
21 May 2025
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Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 May 2025
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Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy
Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
19 May 2025
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Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation
Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
19 May 2025
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Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential
Organisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive Continue Reading
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Tip
16 May 2025
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High availability and resiliency are vital to a DR strategy
Together, high availability and resiliency can prepare an organization for potential disruptions. Find out how these metrics work in disaster recovery. Continue Reading
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15 May 2025
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Data compression vs. deduplication
Compression and deduplication both have a role to play when it comes to improving the backup process and cutting storage costs. Continue Reading
By- Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction
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News
14 May 2025
UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data
Electronic visa data and biometric technologies will be used by the UK’s immigration enforcement authorities to surveil migrants living in the country and to ‘tighten control of the border’, attracting strong criticism from migrant support groups Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Feature
14 May 2025
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Roundtable: Why did customers sail away from VMware?
At Nutanix’s recent .Next event in the US, customers talked about why they migrated away from VMware and the pain points that accelerated their decision to switch hypervisor Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 May 2025
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Australian public cloud spending to hit A$26.6bn in 2025
Gartner forecasts strong growth in cloud infrastructure and platform services even as Australian organisations grapple with scaling AI initiatives and managing rising cloud expenditure Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Definition
13 May 2025
What is a distributed file system (DFS)?
A distributed file system (DFS) enables clients to access file storage from multiple hosts through a computer network as if they were accessing local storage. Continue Reading
By- Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
- Ryan Arel, Former Associate Site Editor
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Tip
13 May 2025
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The importance of a data destruction policy
Data destruction policies increase backup efficiency, ease data management and help organizations meet compliance requirements for data storage. Continue Reading
By- Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction
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News
13 May 2025
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NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty
Essex NHS wants to move some capacity to the Nutanix cloud, but can’t be certain prices will hold between product selection and when procurement plans gain approval Continue Reading
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Definition
12 May 2025
What is virtual memory?
Virtual memory is a memory management technique where secondary memory can be used as if it were a part of the main memory. Continue Reading
By- Paul Kirvan
- Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor
- Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor
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12 May 2025
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University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery
University of Reading set to save circa £500,000 and deploy Nutanix NC2 hybrid cloud that will allow failover from main datacentre Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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08 May 2025
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Nutanix opens up to all external storage
CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says Nutanix will open its platform to all external storage, allowing it to profit from customers wanting to move away from VMware, as well as the hyper-converged curious Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
07 May 2025
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Nutanix breaks the bounds of HCI again with Pure Storage linkup
Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer adds external Pure Storage arrays in a move that it touts as a way for customers to get off VMware, but which also helps them scale for AI Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
07 May 2025
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Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS
Hyper-converged infrastructure provider offers its operating system independently of a hypervisor to allow containerised apps to run at the edge or on Kubernetes runtimes in the Amazon cloud Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor