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30 Oct 2025
GitHub Universe: Large IT orgs share AI automation gains
Nordstrom saved 15,000 developer hours during a migration with AI agents, while Copilot Autofix helped Cathay Pacific address DevSecOps challenges, but there are also caveats.
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29 Oct 2025
Streaming specialist Confluent unveils AI development suite
In addition to a unified environment for building and deploying agents, the vendor launched a private cloud version of its platform and integrations that simplify data preparation.
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29 Oct 2025
Informatica launches agents, adds new AI development tools
Prebuilt agents for data quality and other data management tasks and a development framework featuring MCP support highlight the vendor's Fall 2025 platform update.
Storage News from the past 365 days
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22 Oct 2025
Container storage: Five key things you need to know
We look at container storage and backup, diving deep into how storage works in containers, container storage interface, container-native storage, and the management platforms storage suppliers offer
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21 Oct 2025
OpenInfra Summit Europe: Migrating off VMware
With Broadcom’s focus on VMware Cloud Foundation subscriptions, OpenStack is being positioned as the open source alternative
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20 Oct 2025
OpenInfra Summit Europe: Digital sovereignty in the face of political tension
Attendees at the OpenInfra Summit in Paris were shown why open source IT infrastructure provides supplier flexibility and digital sovereignty
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16 Oct 2025
AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO
To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns
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14 Oct 2025
NetApp adds cyber resilience to primary storage
NetApp's new Ransomware Resilience service and expanded partnerships with public cloud providers further highlight its widening focus beyond data storage.
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14 Oct 2025
Cohesity CEO: ‘The Middle East is moving faster than any other region in data resilience’
At Gitex in Dubai, Sanjay Poonen, CEO at Cohesity, highlights how the region’s rapid digital growth is shaping new priorities in cyber recovery, AI-driven backup and secure data platforms
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14 Oct 2025
NetApp adds AI Data Engine, expands Nvidia partnership
NetApp forays into AI data management with a data engine that ties in with Nvidia microservices and a disaggregated storage system for AI data.
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09 Oct 2025
Forget training, find your killer apps during AI inference
Pure Storage executives talk about why most artificial intelligence projects are about inference, during production, and why that means storage must respond to capacity needs and help optimise data management
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07 Oct 2025
Pure Storage arms partners with architecture approach
Pure Storage keen to provide the building blocks that provide its channel with the chance to have an elevated conversation around data
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07 Oct 2025
Pure Storage arms partners with architecture approach
Pure Storage keen to provide the building blocks that provide its channel with the chance to have an elevated conversation around data
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06 Oct 2025
Data sovereignty demand pushes Herabit to get S3 storage
Italian service provider gets Cubbit DS3 distributed S3 storage to provide up to 2PB of cloud services to customers demanding data sovereignty, while cutting costs by up to 50%
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05 Oct 2025
Nakivo expands Proxmox backup and DR capabilities in v11.1
Latest version of Backup & Replication adds MSP features, plus Proxmox VM backup functionality, while Nakivo responds to critical vulnerability it was tipped off about in February
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01 Oct 2025
Hammer Distribution brand returns to the channel
Exertis Enterprise reverts back to the well-known name to establish some clarity following the sale of its sister businesses earlier this summer
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01 Oct 2025
How AI is driving a rethink of storage architecture
Pure Storage’s head of AI infrastructure, Par Botes, argues that the growing use of artificial intelligence will require storage systems with audit trails and versioning to ensure trust and traceability
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30 Sep 2025
Infinidat doubles InfiniBox Hybrid array capacity
Enterprise array maker boosts capacity by two times to 33PB, promises high-density QLC flash drives in the fourth quarter, and adds native object storage that can be set up as customers configure volumes
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30 Sep 2025
Cloudian launches object storage AI platform at corporate LLM
Object storage specialist teams up with Nvidia to provide RAG-based chatbot capability for organisations that want to mine in-house information in an air-gapped large language model
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29 Sep 2025
Finland government tax proposal worries datacentre investors
Finland, like other Nordic countries, is targeting datacentre investment, but could tax reforms scupper this plan?
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29 Sep 2025
Data preparation is where AI strategies must start
Seagate is urging its channel to work with customers to establish the foundations for a successful artificial intelligence roll-out
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26 Sep 2025
Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight
Microsoft’s own documentation confirms that data hosted in its hyperscale cloud architecture routinely traverses the globe, but the tech giant is actively obfuscating this vital information from its UK law enforcement customers
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25 Sep 2025
Dell and Lenovo hand partners fresh products to pitch
Hardware suppliers identify private cloud and the SME market as areas where they and their channels can make an impact
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25 Sep 2025
Get HDD temperature right, or risk more drive failures
We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the right temperature to run hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks higher failure rates than what would normally be expected
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23 Sep 2025
Podcast: How to get value from unstructured data
In this podcast, we talk to Nasuni founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez about the obstacles to getting the most value from enterprise unstructured data, especially via metadata
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23 Sep 2025
Channel faces AI tool sprawl and inefficient workflows
Experts across the channel speak of opportunities for partners to help customers that are overwhelmed by the number of tools they are working with
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18 Sep 2025
Should you run VMware 7 unsupported?
In just a few weeks, VMware version 7 reaches end of life, which means Broadcom will no longer issue patches
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17 Sep 2025
Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy
Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer
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17 Sep 2025
Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty
Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust
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16 Sep 2025
eEVOS brings GUI-accessible VMware alternative for SMEs
eEVOS from EuroNAS plays in the same space as ProxMox, but isn’t free. It does, however, offer a graphical UI so customers don’t need to flex the Linux CLI skills to use it
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12 Sep 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at TD Synnex, Arrow, Westcon-Comstor, Exclusive Networks, Umbraco, Evolve IP and Cellhub
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10 Sep 2025
Could an environmental legal challenge derail government’s fast-tracked datacentre builds?
The UK government is under fire after details emerged that it has waved through three large-scale datacentre planning applications without conducting an environmental impact assessment first
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10 Sep 2025
HPE channel boss praises partner Q3 impact
The lid is lifted on the role the channel played in delivering the vendor’s decent quarterly numbers
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09 Sep 2025
ANS adds AI depth with Makutu buy
Consolidation continues at both partner and vendor level, with Mitsubishi Electric also active on the M&A front
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08 Sep 2025
Dell AI server revenues leap but storage waits on Project Lightning
During the past quarter, Dell’s datacentre sales went through the roof due to new server and networking products for AI – but storage has not shared the same dynamic
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05 Sep 2025
How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation
The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings
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01 Sep 2025
Flash drive prices grow quickly while SAS and SATA diverge
Manufacturers have throttled back production of flash drives to tackle over-supply and it shows in rising prices
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28 Aug 2025
Softcat and Pure Storage provide investor cheer
A trading update from the channel player and Q2 numbers from the vendor show both are heading in the right direction
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26 Aug 2025
Broadcom bundles private AI into VCF, adds security automation
At VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom unveiled an integrated private cloud stack with VMware Private AI now included in VCF subscriptions, alongside cyber security services and support for cloud-native object storage
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21 Aug 2025
BT Group ramps up its cloud transformation efforts with another five-year AWS deal
BT Group's multi-year cloud transformation effort is moving on from workload migrations to building out a cloud-native infrastructure, with the help of AWS
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20 Aug 2025
Commvault users told to patch two RCE exploit chains
Storage firm Commvault fixes four vulnerabilities that, when combined, create a pair of RCE exploit chains that could be used to target on-premise customers with ransomware and other nasties
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15 Aug 2025
SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure
The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders
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08 Aug 2025
Interview: How PXP shifted off VMware
When a business begins to see less and less value from an incumbent IT provider, especially as its software becomes more expensive, it might be time to switch. Here’s how one company did just that
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06 Aug 2025
ADP shuffles executive pack to drive growth
Assured Data Protection makes management changes to build on the momentum the managed service provider has seen in recent years
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06 Aug 2025
Australian scaleup to bring AI-led data protection to the MoD
The UK’s Ministry of Defence is embracing AI-led data protection in the wake of a major privacy breach, enlisting Australian cyber firm Castlepoint Systems to oversee sensitive records
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05 Aug 2025
Cloud Software Group to buy data protection vendor Arctera
Cloud Software Group, a company formed after the 2022 merger of Citrix Systems and Tibco Software, is set to acquire Arctera, which formed after the Cohesity and Veritas merger.
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05 Aug 2025
HPE Zerto, storage, networking prioritizing cybersecurity
Updates for HPE Zerto, storage and networking offerings all aim to increase cyber resiliency and recovery without significant enterprise interruptions.
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29 Jul 2025
Arctera Insight Platform now includes LLM data protection
The latest update to Arctera's data auditing software supports public LLM usage for organizations with features like masking, logging and message summaries.
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28 Jul 2025
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
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28 Jul 2025
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
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25 Jul 2025
Commvault to acquire Satori Cyber for GenAI data security
Satori Cyber, the third acquisition eyed by data backup vendor Commvault in less than two years, would add security technologies for generative AI to Commvault's platform.
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25 Jul 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Westcoast, Exertis, TD Synnex, Orange Cyberdefense, Iomart, Source Code Control and Pentest People
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24 Jul 2025
IBM chief confident AI isn’t eroding other parts of the business
Chairman, president and CEO Arvind Krishna talks of growth and margin expansion as Big Blue expects artificial intelligence to deliver internal savings of $4.5bn this year
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22 Jul 2025
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
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22 Jul 2025
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
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22 Jul 2025
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
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18 Jul 2025
Exertis Enterprise looks to life after sale of IT business
Enterprise-focused business was not part of the sale earlier this week and continues to operate under the DCC Technology umbrella
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17 Jul 2025
UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity
Isambard-AI and Dawn are two of the supercomputers that mark the beginning of the UK’s goal to deliver 420 Exaflops of computer by 2030
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11 Jul 2025
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
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09 Jul 2025
Broadcom discontinues vVols storage capability for VMware
The vVols capability, a VMware storage feature for the past decade, is being sunset in VCF 9 and discontinued in VCF 9.1 as Broadcom continues to winnow the VMware catalog.
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07 Jul 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves this past week at BCS, 8x8, Leaseweb, Alteryx, CyberArk and TrafficGuard
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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
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02 Jul 2025
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
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01 Jul 2025
Panzura Symphony conducts automated user data permissions
Panzura tunes its Symphony software to automatically add and remove users from protected data and connect with third-party storage vendors like IBM and NetApp.
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01 Jul 2025
Rubrik pivots to generative AI with Predibase acquisition
Data stored within Rubrik's backup platform could soon be another data lake for customers to tap into as the vendor looks to acquire AI specialists Predibase.
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30 Jun 2025
How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape
Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing
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26 Jun 2025
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
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25 Jun 2025
HPE Alletra modernizes IT at Australian cancer research firm
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute in Melbourne leans on HPE Alletra storage and servers to modernize infrastructure and look to a private cloud future.
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24 Jun 2025
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
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23 Jun 2025
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
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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
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20 Jun 2025
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
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20 Jun 2025
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
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18 Jun 2025
Pure looks beyond storage to data management
The vendor's Enterprise Data Cloud architecture, unveiled at Pure//Accelerate, suggests just how much data management is converging in the enterprise.
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18 Jun 2025
Pure Storage hands channel fresh data management pitch
Vendor announces launch of a cloud data management option that it believes will offer an alternative to traditional storage approaches
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18 Jun 2025
Weka connects storage AI with new NeuralMesh architecture
Weka's Data Platform adapts to AI data center needs with new NeuralMesh architecture, which can deploy in hybrid-cloud setups, self-heal and prioritize storage paths to the GPUs.
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18 Jun 2025
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
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18 Jun 2025
Pure Storage supporting automation with cloudlike approach
Pure Storage's new Enterprise Data Cloud platform automates common storage workloads and refreshes server hardware at the vendor's annual conference.
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09 Jun 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Personnel movements this week at Exclusive Networks, Six Degrees, Tenable, Pure Storage and LogicMonitor
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09 Jun 2025
Object First cranking up UK channel growth
Boss of data backup and restore specialist Object First is keen to build on the momentum the business generated over the past year
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05 Jun 2025
Rubrik expands cloud databases and Oracle Cloud protection
Backup vendor Rubrik will protect numerous new workloads in the platform this year, but cybersecurity experts warn customers to continue prepping for threats.
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05 Jun 2025
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
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04 Jun 2025
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
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30 May 2025
Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy
Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud
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28 May 2025
VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives
With so much Java code running enterprise IT, we consider the benefits of adapting existing systems to make them more cloud-native
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26 May 2025
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
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22 May 2025
Dell arms partners with resiliency and automation tools
Vendor has used Las Vegas event to make a number of announcements that are designed to improve its security, datacentre management and AI position
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22 May 2025
How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt
Gartner analysts explain how infrastructure and operations teams can address the accumulation of outdated systems and make a compelling business case for upgrades
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22 May 2025
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
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21 May 2025
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
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21 May 2025
Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum
Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week
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20 May 2025
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
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20 May 2025
Hacking contest exposes VMware security
In what has been described as a historical first, hackers in Berlin have been able to demo successful attacks on the ESXi hypervisor
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19 May 2025
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
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16 May 2025
No workaround leads to more pain for VMware users
There are patches for the latest batch of security alerts from Broadcom, but VMware users on perpetual licences may not have access
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15 May 2025
Innovation team expanding ADP horizons
Managed service player keen to identify relationships where it can add value with its expertise in disaster recovery and data protection
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13 May 2025
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
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12 May 2025
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
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09 May 2025
Broadcom letters demonstrate push to VMware subscriptions
The owner of VMware is reminding customers on perpetual licences that they will no longer be able to buy support for their VMware products
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08 May 2025
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
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07 May 2025
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
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07 May 2025
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
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06 May 2025
CIOs prepare for recession with greater cost control
Tariffs and the risk of economic slowdown have brought IT budgets into focus, with many IT leaders dropping projects and reducing tech investments
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02 May 2025
Veeam CEO discusses data resilience, VMware migrations, IPO
In this Q&A, Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran speaks to the customer pain point of VMware migrations, the potential for acquisitions and whether tariffs have affected Veeam's business.