Stopping trouble before it starts
A 10% error-rate isn't bad in some situations - when making pancakes, for example. However, when money's involved, there's more..
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Is tape the secret weapon in the ransomware battle?
Ahead of GDPR coming into effect on 28 May 2018, there was a lot of confusion about how to comply..
Time for a refresh?
Many UK IT departments still elect to go through a storage refresh cycle every three to five years - it..
A lifetime in storage
When I first started in this industry, I remember having to make all my appointments for a Monday. I'd drive..
Confirmed speed, performance, and quality with Milestone-certified Infortrend storage
Infortrend has announced that its EonStor DS 1016R Gen2 and EonStor GSe Pro 3016 storage systems are now certified for..
Untangling backup strategies
In Gartner's "Market Guide for Data Preparation" (December 2017), it was stated that data has transitioned from a mere technology..
Just how transforming can hyperconverged be?
Hyperconvergence has today emerged as a rightful contender to rein in former data centre expansion madness. Its growth has been..
2020 vision
There has been an influx in NHS practices and hospitals seeking document scanning services over the past few months. A..
Better safe than sorry
The phrase "it's better to be safe than sorry" has never been more pertinent for those involved in IT storage,..
Beta wins QNAP award
QNAP has announced Beta Distribution as Distributor of the Year for 2017.
Tamblyn Calman, UK Channel Account Manager commented on..
On trend
As ever when we put out feelers to the market about their predictions for the coming year, we saw a..
GDPR is coming - can object storage play a role?
There is a view abroad that the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into effect on 25th May..
First steps towards software-defined storage
Software-defined, in business terms, drives the economic gains from flexibility and future-proofing needed to reduce risk, manage growth and..
Third-party support: a logical choice
Storage maintenance companies are an important part of the increasingly popular third-party IT maintenance market. Among the available vendors..
Redefining flash performance
David Tyler: AccelStor is a relatively new name in the UK: what makes the company stand out in an increasingly..
Bigger isn't always better
Everyone is familiar with tier one brands: household names, worldwide organisations, thousands of employees and constantly in the news. They..
Be prepared
The EU GDPR is considered the toughest piece of privacy regulation in the world. It will transform how personal data..
ILM makes a comeback
The classical discipline of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is not something that gets much of an airing in these days..
At your service?
With the ever-increasing demand to make constrained IT budgets stretch further and still maintain comprehensive and robust services, reducing expenditure..
GDPR: time is running out
If you still haven't heard about the upcoming GDPR, you clearly don't work in an office that receives emails from..
Synology RackStation RS1219+
At a mere 12in. deep, it'll fit neatly into a 2-post rack or small wall cabinet and its eight hot-plug..
AccelStor NeoSapphire H510
Along with support for low-cost SATA SSDs, it can deliver top random write IOPS performance while its innovative 'share-nothing' architecture..
Ortial Technologies 1TB SSD
Assembled in the UK using top quality components from manufacturers such as Samsung and Hynix, Ortial offers DDR3 and DDR4..
QSAN XCubeSAN XS5226D
On review we have the XS5226D and with a starting price of ÂŁ6,999, it looks to have achieved QSAN's..
QSAN XCubeNAS XN5004R
Its latest XCubeNAS rack and desktop appliances all offer standard NAS and IP SAN services but stand out from..
Lenovo Storage DX8200D
The Storage DX8200D teams up Lenovo's classy server hardware with DataCore's SANsymphony to deliver a software defined storage (SDS)..
Compuverde vNAS
Not all SDS solutions are the same though, and Compuverde's vNAS offerings stand out as not only truly flexible..
QSAN XCubeSAN X3226D
The latest XCubeSAN XS3200 series takes this to the next level by delivering high-performance all-Flash storage at a price..
Do or die
Data centres are facing a tough challenge: to do more with less. For them transformation is not a choice any..
All about that BaaS?
Cloud-based backup is becoming all-pervasive in the data protection space with an entire marketplace of BaaS (Backup as a Service)..
DR: choosing the right provider for your needs
I recently wrote an article which centred on Gartner's prediction that the Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market would..
Where does storage go from here?
The media industry, with its unanimous loads of content that requires protection and archived storage that can be easily accessed..
Learning a hard lesson
With the BETT education technology show doors closing for another year at the end of January, a glance at the..
The right move
Ask anyone at work in IT what their biggest problem is, and it's probably related to "too much information." We..
Strictly boardroom
The benefits of cloud technology are prompting more and more organisations to investigate how the scalability, security and economy it..
Putting GDPR on the map
With less than nine months to go until Global Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force across the European Union,..
Is time running out for tape?
It's amazing how many IT pros we talk to who are spending a great deal of time working with..
Going hyper
Server refresh period is often understood to be the warranty/maintenance timetable dictated by the OEM vendors (which is typically..
Beyond disasters: doing more with DR
Disaster recovery plans exist to ensure business continuity when the worst happens. They allow organisations and individuals caught up..
Time to break up with your old-school archive
Data archives have a vital role to play in today's information-driven world. They provide a digital repository of corporate..
Public perceptions
When it comes to the public cloud conventional wisdom would have us believe it's user friendly, highly available, scalable..
Testing the limits of storage networks
As businesses embrace a brave new digital world, enterprise IT is striving to accommodate unprecedented growth in data, while..
Try before you buy
Research conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and co-sponsored by Virtual Instruments and other technology firms has found..
Deduplication: not fit for purpose?
We are promised three things in life; death, taxes and the continued growth of data: but in a world that..
Gone but not forgotten
Despite the European GDPR coming into effect in 2018, the business community is still coming to terms with the need..
Big data gets bigger
After the Iron Age and Industrial Age, we are now well into the Information Age. Global economies are shifting..
Pressure sensitive?
The flood of digital content, internet traffic, Big Data and eCommerce has had a dramatic effect on data centres..
Locked in?
It is now a relatively simple process to migrate emails to a cloud solution such as Google Apps for..
Safe and sound
The number of data breaches has risen considerably in recent years. According to one source (see boxout), a quarter..
Digital Embassies: the new data sovereignty paradigm?
Before the topic of what a digital embassy is can be broached, it is important to set out exactly..
This year's model
Cloud's appeal has always been closely linked to the "pay-as-you-go" model. Rather than spending big initially on hardware and software,..
A disaster waiting to happen?
As an organisation which has, in the first half of 2016, seen a 248 percent revenue growth rate in..
Data access for all?
Businesses are feeling tremendous pressure to ensure their organisation is data-driven in order to remain competitive. Yet C-Suite surveys..
Hybrid to the rescue for SME sector
It's been more than two years since Gartner predicted that, by 2017, 50 per cent of enterprises would be using..
Things ain't what they used to be
How confident would you be of a successful moon landing if the mission was controlled solely by a single smartphone?..
Storage wars
Massive amounts of enterprise data are generated every day, and organisations are now faced with two choices: an on-premises..
Survival of the fittest
Neil Armstrong's "one small step" in 1969 marked a new era in space exploration. Most likely unbeknownst to Armstrong,..
DR in the Cloud: read all about it
According to a report by one of the big four auditors, KPMG, more than 40 per cent of companies..
Beta wins QNAP award
QNAP has announced Beta Distribution as Distributor of the Year for 2017.
Tamblyn Calman, UK Channel Account Manager commented on..
Talend appoints Adam Meister as Chief Financial Officer
The appointment comes amidst significant growth for Talend with record revenue for the second quarter and 39 percent year-over-year growth...
Majority of businesses are failing to comply with GDPR, according to new Talend research
Some 70% of businesses worldwide failed to address requests made from individuals seeking to obtain a copy of their personal..
Research reveals UK SMBs are struggling to manage company data effectively
The research polled a representative sample of 1,006 UK SMB employees, asking them about their employers’ data storage practices, preparedness..
Code42’s data security platform reduces user down time and costs for windows 10 migrations
Designed to help organisations reduce risks and costs related to data loss, user downtime and lost productivity, Code42’s data recovery..
Pure Storage announces acquisition of StorReduce
StorReduce’s cloud-optimised technology reduces storage and bandwidth costs, enabling flash plus cloud solutions across a variety of use cases, including..
Backup gets backing from IT decision makers
A new research survey from business continuity and disaster recovery firm, Databarracks, has revealed that organisational confidence in IT backup..
Arsenal signs Acronis as new data defender
In top-flight sports, team and competitor analysis is more important than ever to gain an upper hand over the opposition...
Dropbox pioneers future of cloud infrastructure with SMR technology deployment
The company is successfully deploying Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drive technology, which will increase overall storage density, reduce the company’s..
Mazars deploys hybrid WAN with Silver Peak SD-WAN solution
As a UK firm with a global footprint, Mazars UK runs multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) circuits from its data centre..
StorageCraft helps police solve data challenges of body worn video cameras
As police departments increasingly deploy body-worn video (BWV) technology and dash cams, they encounter a significant obstacle: the high cost,..
Databarracks provides Backup-as-a-Service to Egmont UK
Databarracks has announced that a major implementation of its Backup-as-a-Service solution, using Commvault into Microsoft Azure, was launched with Egmont,..
QSAN appoints Hollis Technology as reseller partner for advanced storage solutions
“We are pleased to welcome Hollis Technology to our growing network of Reseller Partners,” said Steven Lin, Sales Director, Qsan..
Amdocs works with Eaton to build and open new data centre site in under 3 months
Amdocs is a global organisation, with over 25,000 employees and customers in 85 countries, comprising some of the world’s most..
Toshiba launches KumoScale Storage software for cloud infrastructures
The introduction of KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network,..
New Finance & Operations Director appointed at Q Associates
“I am highly excited to join Q and look forward to working with them as the business continues to develop...
Acronis releases free, AI-based ransomware protection
Recent ransomware attacks exposed the vulnerability of endpoint devices, showing that new strains of ransomware can easily bypass traditional anti-virus..
14TB HDD from Toshiba
Toshiba has launched the world’s first enterprise 14TB Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. Using a 9-disk, helium-sealed design, the new..
AccelStor shows off latest AFA offerings in Frankfurt
AccelStor showcased its latest NeoSapphire H510 and NeoSapphire P710 all-flash array systems at this year’s Cloud Expo Europe in Frankfurt...
Curvature launches SSD range
Curvature has announced a new launch of enterprise-class Solid State Drives that stand fully compatible with all major manufacturer servers..
'Guesswork' behind 1/4 of all storage capacity planning decisions
According to research conducted by Tintri during the recent IPExpo in London, nearly a quarter (24%) of storage capacity planning..
Panasas announces next generation of its ActiveStor scale-out NAS solution
The flexible system doubles metadata performance to cut data access time in half, scales performance and capacity independently, and seamlessly..
Hammer becomes new European distributor for StorageCraft OneBlox scale-out storage
The partnership will introduce StorageCraft’s converged mid-market storage technology across Europe, following the company’s acquisition of Exablox Corporation earlier this..
EDF selects Scality to keep its data safe
“Scality RING represents modernisation for EDF. It is our first foray into software-defined storage and it helped our small IT..
LTO-8 tape offerings from Quantum
Quantum has announced that LTO Ultrium format generation 8 technology will be available in its Scalar tape libraries and StorNext..
AccelStor expands NeoSapphire High-Availability series
AccelStor, the software-defined all-flash array provider, today announced its new high-availability all-flash array, the NeoSapphire H510. Targeting the business-critical..
New software-defined offerings from DataCore
DataCore Software has announced new features and enhancements to its software-defined infrastructure product family, which includes SANsymphony and DataCore Hyperconverged..
Upping their game
SEGA Games has significantly improved the stability, availability and manageability of its IT infrastructure by implementing enterprise cloud technology from..
Expanded portfolio from AIC
September saw AIC introduce updated product portfolios for data centre and cloud computing that support Intel’s Xeon Scalable Processors and..
Powering through
Salicru and Beta Distribution have signed a distribution agreement for the UK and other European markets.
Specifically, Beta Distribution will now..
A new level of storage management
Synology has released a new Beta of its DiskStation Manager product. DSM 6.2 Beta is a major leap in the..
AccelStor NeoSapphire H510
Along with support for low-cost SATA SSDs, it can deliver top random write IOPS performance while its innovative 'share-nothing' architecture..
Backup you can bank on
Beeks Financial Cloud is a UK-based service provider for Institutional Capital Markets. With nine data centres globally and low-latency connectivity..
Going large
David Tyler: Panasas has been around for a good number of years now; how would you sum up what the..
QSAN XCubeSAN XS5226D
On review we have the XS5226D and with a starting price of ÂŁ6,999, it looks to have achieved QSAN's..
Confirmed speed, performance, and quality with Milestone-certified Infortrend storage
Infortrend has announced that its EonStor DS 1016R Gen2 and EonStor GSe Pro 3016 storage systems are now certified for..
The Storage Awards 2018 Winners
The Storage Awards 2018 Winners
Innovation of the Year
Winner: Park Place Technologies - Park..
NAS: the first line of defence
Accidents happen, hard drives fail, technology breaks. Ask yourself, is your data protected? Be it business documents or personal..
DR: choosing the right provider for your needs
I recently wrote an article which centred on Gartner's prediction that the Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market would..
Ortial Technologies 1TB SSD
Assembled in the UK using top quality components from manufacturers such as Samsung and Hynix, Ortial offers DDR3 and DDR4..
Just how transforming can hyperconverged be?
Hyperconvergence has today emerged as a rightful contender to rein in former data centre expansion madness. Its growth has been..
Where does storage go from here?
The media industry, with its unanimous loads of content that requires protection and archived storage that can be easily accessed..
All about that BaaS?
Cloud-based backup is becoming all-pervasive in the data protection space with an entire marketplace of BaaS (Backup as a Service)..
Dawn of a new era
As a provider of Video-On-Demand services to our TV customers, BT TV had a vast repository of content that was..
Time to switch?
Shoreditch's Tech City was the venue for an afternoon focused on all things ESF (Ethernet Storage Fabric) as Mellanox..
Do or die
Data centres are facing a tough challenge: to do more with less. For them transformation is not a choice any..
Better safe than sorry
The phrase "it's better to be safe than sorry" has never been more pertinent for those involved in IT storage,..
The right tools for the job
Victorinox AG's history goes back more than 130 years. Today, the global company employs more than 2,100 people worldwide, 1,250..
Read all about it
The UK's largest news publisher, Trinity Mirror (soon to rebrand as Reach following the recent purchase of the Express &..
Flash begets Flash
Solid-state storage continues to be adopted across IT, delivering not only performance benefits, but also other key data centre..
Untangling backup strategies
In Gartner's "Market Guide for Data Preparation" (December 2017), it was stated that data has transitioned from a mere technology..
SDS for consolidation and growth
Digital service provider Virtual1 is incorporating Acronis Storage 2.3 into its infrastructure. The software defined storage solution allows Virtual1 to..
Disaster zone?
Barracuda recently conducted a survey of European customers to gather insights on backup and disaster recovery strategies and on the..
Breaking the language barrier
The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psycholinguistics is one of more than 80 research institutes of the German Max Planck..
Time for a refresh?
Many UK IT departments still elect to go through a storage refresh cycle every three to five years - it..
All data is not equal
David Tyler: Our UK readers may be more familiar with the company you acquired a year or so back, ExaBlox,..
2020 vision
There has been an influx in NHS practices and hospitals seeking document scanning services over the past few months. A..
A lifetime in storage
When I first started in this industry, I remember having to make all my appointments for a Monday. I'd drive..
Outlook bright for Met Office tape disposal project
The Met Office is the UK national weather service, providing weather forecasts to billions of people and making meteorological observations..
Supermarket extends the 'best-before' date of its digital assets
The Sainsbury Archive, which charts the growth and history of one of the UK's largest supermarkets, is implementing Preservica's AWS..
On the up?
During 4Q17, the yield rates of suppliers' respective 3D-NAND processes climbed steadily, while smartphones remained the major demand contributor in..
Seamless workflows
Object Matrix has provided TV3, Ireland's largest independent commercial broadcaster, with MatrixStore, a media-focused private cloud platform, for its..
Healthcare I.T. fine-tuned
Imperial College Healthcare NHS is one of the largest NHS trusts in England. It was formed in 2007 by..
Protect and survive?
Arcserve released results from a new survey to coincide with World Backup Day in March, which revealed that while..
In it to win it
Now just a few short weeks away, March 29th is the closing date for nominations for the fifteenth annual Storage..
Good as gold
The emerging technology could offer a more cost-efficient and sustainable solution to the global data storage problem while enabling the..
On the right course
Virtualisation, 10GbE connection, integrated data synchronisation & encrypted cloud backup are becoming essential as data growth accelerates in higher education..
“Backup? No problem!” say IT decision makers
A new research survey from business continuity and disaster recovery firm, Databarracks, has revealed that organisational confidence in IT backup..
Channel Partner Program of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Barracuda simplifies IT with cloud-enabled solutions that empower customers to protect their networks,..
Eyes on the prize
The Storage Awards ceremony is all over for another year, and the much-coveted trophies are now where they belong -..
Data Protection Company of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Veritas is delighted to be awarded the Data Protection Company of the Year..
Storage Monitoring & Reporting Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Virtual Instruments is an exciting, high-growth Silicon Valley technology company. Since our founding..
Cloud Company of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
"Throughout 2018, we have achieved a number of major milestones, most notably our..
Capacity Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
We are delighted to receive the Capacity Vendor Award this year. StorageCraft helps..
One to Watch – Company (Storage Awards 2018)
The Tape Media Experts: Supply. Maintain. Dispose As Storage Awards 'first timers', we were..
Object Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Object Matrix, named 'Object Storage Vendor of the Year' in the 2018 Storage..
Ransomware Protection Company of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Unitrends increases uptime, productivity and confidence in a world in which IT professionals..
Storage Product of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
ArcticBlue delivers long-term online disk storage for the price of tape. Powered by..
Innovation of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
We were absolutely thrilled to be shortlisted for three awards at The Storage..
Specialist Storage Reseller of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Epaton is the reintroduction of a fundamental missing component in the IT market..
Editor’s Choice - Company of the year (Storage Awards 2018)
Altaro is a fast-growing developer of easy-to-use and affordable backup solutions for businesses..
Hyper-convergence Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
"Since 1992 Boston's mantra has been to excel in all our activities. With..
Cloud Enabler of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Barracuda simplifies IT with cloud-enabled solutions that empower customers to protect their networks,..
Storage Distributor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
"Winning any award is a privilege, especially when voted for by customers and..
Channel Excellence Award (Storage Awards 2018)
CMS Distribution is trade only, selling to over 3,000 business to business..
Storage Maintenance & Service Provider of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
As an award-winning platform, data and services specialist, Q Associates helps organisations across..
Storage Marketing Team of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
"We are thrilled to be recognised as this year's Storage Marketing Team of..
Flash/SSD Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Companies demand reliable storage that can serve as a data warehouse for upper-layer..
Storage Company of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
With the hyper-growth and hyper-sprawl of today's data, traditional data management is not..
Storage Innovators of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Spectra Logic develops data storage solutions that solve the problem of short and..
Hybrid Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Companies demand reliable storage that can serve as a data warehouse for upper-layer..
Software Defined Storage (SDS) Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
We are very delighted and pleased to win, particularly as the result was..
Editor’s Choice - Product of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Underneath its simplicity of design and ease-of-use, Arcserve UDP is enriched with high-performance..
Contribution to the Storage Industry (Storage Awards 2018)
Zerto is proud to have its Vice President for EMEA, Peter Godden, recognised..
Storage Performance Optimisation Product of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
MaxParallel for Windows Server makes workloads more responsive and productive by removing a..
Enterprise Backup Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
ExaGrid's hyper-converged secondary storage for backup offers a unique landing zone and scale-out..
Corporate Storage Reseller of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
As an award-winning platform, data and services specialist, Q Associates helps organisations across..
Stopping trouble before it starts
A 10% error-rate isn't bad in some situations - when making pancakes, for example. However, when money's involved, there's more..
News flash
Media and news production company ITN was struggling with a legacy storage system that made accessing content difficult as well..
Catch up in a flash
This year's Flash Memory Summit (FMS) took place in August at the Santa Clara Convention Center, and featured over a..
A Nuanced approach
Nuance Communications, a leader in conversational AI innovations, is transitioning its current storage infrastructure to ClearSky's on-demand, hybrid cloud service...
Preserving human rights
Amnesty International, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for its "defence of human dignity against torture," has chosen Preservica's..
Is tape the secret weapon in the ransomware battle?
Ahead of GDPR coming into effect on 28 May 2018, there was a lot of confusion about how to comply..
A fresh approach to data protection
Established in 1976, the Museum of London is an award-winning cultural history museum that showcases the history of the English..
Sky-high uptime
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is a Netherlands-based international airport located twenty minutes and approximately nine miles south-west of the centre of..
Synology RackStation RS1219+
At a mere 12in. deep, it'll fit neatly into a 2-post rack or small wall cabinet and its eight hot-plug..
HDD and SSD go head-to-head
With the purchase of new storage systems, a question arises: whether to choose conventional technology i.e. rotating hard disks or..
Protection mechanisms
Kaseya has announced the results of its fourth annual IT operations benchmark survey - "The 2018 State of IT Operations..
Resilience is key
While the majority of businesses surveyed have a cloud, digital transformation or modernisation project already planned for the next two..
Backup gets Active
More than half of small business are not prepared for data loss. The importance of backup is a cliché but..
A Nuanced approach
Nuance Communications, a leader in conversational AI innovations, is transitioning its current storage infrastructure to ClearSky's on-demand, hybrid cloud service...
Catch up in a flash
This year's Flash Memory Summit (FMS) took place in August at the Santa Clara Convention Center, and featured over a..
Protection mechanisms
Kaseya has announced the results of its fourth annual IT operations benchmark survey - "The 2018 State of IT Operations..
News flash
Media and news production company ITN was struggling with a legacy storage system that made accessing content difficult as well..
Stopping trouble before it starts
A 10% error-rate isn't bad in some situations - when making pancakes, for example. However, when money's involved, there's more..
Preserving human rights
Amnesty International, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for its "defence of human dignity against torture," has chosen Preservica's..
Is tape the secret weapon in the ransomware battle?
Ahead of GDPR coming into effect on 28 May 2018, there was a lot of confusion about how to comply..
A fresh approach to data protection
Established in 1976, the Museum of London is an award-winning cultural history museum that showcases the history of the English..
Sky-high uptime
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is a Netherlands-based international airport located twenty minutes and approximately nine miles south-west of the centre of..
Synology RackStation RS1219+
At a mere 12in. deep, it'll fit neatly into a 2-post rack or small wall cabinet and its eight hot-plug..
Backup gets Active
More than half of small business are not prepared for data loss. The importance of backup is a cliché but..
HDD and SSD go head-to-head
With the purchase of new storage systems, a question arises: whether to choose conventional technology i.e. rotating hard disks or..
Resilience is key
While the majority of businesses surveyed have a cloud, digital transformation or modernisation project already planned for the next two..
Object Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Object Matrix, named 'Object Storage Vendor of the Year' in the 2018 Storage..
Backup you can bank on
Beeks Financial Cloud is a UK-based service provider for Institutional Capital Markets. With nine data centres globally and low-latency connectivity..
“Backup? No problem!” say IT decision makers
A new research survey from business continuity and disaster recovery firm, Databarracks, has revealed that organisational confidence in IT backup..
Time for a refresh?
Many UK IT departments still elect to go through a storage refresh cycle every three to five years - it..
Dawn of a new era
As a provider of Video-On-Demand services to our TV customers, BT TV had a vast repository of content that was..
Good as gold
The emerging technology could offer a more cost-efficient and sustainable solution to the global data storage problem while enabling the..
Breaking the language barrier
The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psycholinguistics is one of more than 80 research institutes of the German Max Planck..
On the right course
Virtualisation, 10GbE connection, integrated data synchronisation & encrypted cloud backup are becoming essential as data growth accelerates in higher education..
A lifetime in storage
When I first started in this industry, I remember having to make all my appointments for a Monday. I'd drive..
Eyes on the prize
The Storage Awards ceremony is all over for another year, and the much-coveted trophies are now where they belong -..
Innovation of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
We were absolutely thrilled to be shortlisted for three awards at The Storage..
One to Watch – Company (Storage Awards 2018)
The Tape Media Experts: Supply. Maintain. Dispose As Storage Awards 'first timers', we were..
Storage Marketing Team of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
"We are thrilled to be recognised as this year's Storage Marketing Team of..
Contribution to the Storage Industry (Storage Awards 2018)
Zerto is proud to have its Vice President for EMEA, Peter Godden, recognised..
Channel Excellence Award (Storage Awards 2018)
CMS Distribution is trade only, selling to over 3,000 business to business..
Ransomware Protection Company of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Unitrends increases uptime, productivity and confidence in a world in which IT professionals..
Data Protection Company of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Veritas is delighted to be awarded the Data Protection Company of the Year..
Enterprise Backup Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
ExaGrid's hyper-converged secondary storage for backup offers a unique landing zone and scale-out..
Storage Innovators of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Spectra Logic develops data storage solutions that solve the problem of short and..
Storage Monitoring & Reporting Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Virtual Instruments is an exciting, high-growth Silicon Valley technology company. Since our founding..
Hyper-convergence Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
"Since 1992 Boston's mantra has been to excel in all our activities. With..
Hybrid Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Companies demand reliable storage that can serve as a data warehouse for upper-layer..
Flash/SSD Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Companies demand reliable storage that can serve as a data warehouse for upper-layer..
Cloud Enabler of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Barracuda simplifies IT with cloud-enabled solutions that empower customers to protect their networks,..
Software Defined Storage (SDS) Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
We are very delighted and pleased to win, particularly as the result was..
Storage Performance Optimisation Product of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
MaxParallel for Windows Server makes workloads more responsive and productive by removing a..
Capacity Storage Vendor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
We are delighted to receive the Capacity Vendor Award this year. StorageCraft helps..
Channel Partner Program of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Barracuda simplifies IT with cloud-enabled solutions that empower customers to protect their networks,..
Editor’s Choice - Product of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Underneath its simplicity of design and ease-of-use, Arcserve UDP is enriched with high-performance..
Editor’s Choice - Company of the year (Storage Awards 2018)
Altaro is a fast-growing developer of easy-to-use and affordable backup solutions for businesses..
Storage Maintenance & Service Provider of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
As an award-winning platform, data and services specialist, Q Associates helps organisations across..
Specialist Storage Reseller of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
Epaton is the reintroduction of a fundamental missing component in the IT market..
Corporate Storage Reseller of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
As an award-winning platform, data and services specialist, Q Associates helps organisations across..
Storage Distributor of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
"Winning any award is a privilege, especially when voted for by customers and..
Storage Product of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
ArcticBlue delivers long-term online disk storage for the price of tape. Powered by..
Cloud Company of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
"Throughout 2018, we have achieved a number of major milestones, most notably our..
Storage Company of the Year (Storage Awards 2018)
With the hyper-growth and hyper-sprawl of today's data, traditional data management is not..
The Storage Awards 2018 Winners
The Storage Awards 2018 Winners
Innovation of the Year
Winner: Park Place Technologies - Park..
Confirmed speed, performance, and quality with Milestone-certified Infortrend storage
Infortrend has announced that its EonStor DS 1016R Gen2 and EonStor GSe Pro 3016 storage systems are now certified for..
Protect and survive?
Arcserve released results from a new survey to coincide with World Backup Day in March, which revealed that while..
Untangling backup strategies
In Gartner's "Market Guide for Data Preparation" (December 2017), it was stated that data has transitioned from a mere technology..
Flash begets Flash
Solid-state storage continues to be adopted across IT, delivering not only performance benefits, but also other key data centre..
Outlook bright for Met Office tape disposal project
The Met Office is the UK national weather service, providing weather forecasts to billions of people and making meteorological observations..
Time to switch?
Shoreditch's Tech City was the venue for an afternoon focused on all things ESF (Ethernet Storage Fabric) as Mellanox..
Seamless workflows
Object Matrix has provided TV3, Ireland's largest independent commercial broadcaster, with MatrixStore, a media-focused private cloud platform, for its..
Going large
David Tyler: Panasas has been around for a good number of years now; how would you sum up what the..
Do or die
Data centres are facing a tough challenge: to do more with less. For them transformation is not a choice any..
NAS: the first line of defence
Accidents happen, hard drives fail, technology breaks. Ask yourself, is your data protected? Be it business documents or personal..
Healthcare I.T. fine-tuned
Imperial College Healthcare NHS is one of the largest NHS trusts in England. It was formed in 2007 by..
AccelStor NeoSapphire H510
Along with support for low-cost SATA SSDs, it can deliver top random write IOPS performance while its innovative 'share-nothing' architecture..
SDS for consolidation and growth
Digital service provider Virtual1 is incorporating Acronis Storage 2.3 into its infrastructure. The software defined storage solution allows Virtual1 to..
All about that BaaS?
Cloud-based backup is becoming all-pervasive in the data protection space with an entire marketplace of BaaS (Backup as a Service)..
Disaster zone?
Barracuda recently conducted a survey of European customers to gather insights on backup and disaster recovery strategies and on the..
Just how transforming can hyperconverged be?
Hyperconvergence has today emerged as a rightful contender to rein in former data centre expansion madness. Its growth has been..
All data is not equal
David Tyler: Our UK readers may be more familiar with the company you acquired a year or so back, ExaBlox,..
DR: choosing the right provider for your needs
I recently wrote an article which centred on Gartner's prediction that the Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market would..
Read all about it
The UK's largest news publisher, Trinity Mirror (soon to rebrand as Reach following the recent purchase of the Express &..
Where does storage go from here?
The media industry, with its unanimous loads of content that requires protection and archived storage that can be easily accessed..
Ortial Technologies 1TB SSD
Assembled in the UK using top quality components from manufacturers such as Samsung and Hynix, Ortial offers DDR3 and DDR4..
Supermarket extends the 'best-before' date of its digital assets
The Sainsbury Archive, which charts the growth and history of one of the UK's largest supermarkets, is implementing Preservica's AWS..
The right tools for the job
Victorinox AG's history goes back more than 130 years. Today, the global company employs more than 2,100 people worldwide, 1,250..
QSAN XCubeSAN XS5226D
On review we have the XS5226D and with a starting price of ÂŁ6,999, it looks to have achieved QSAN's..
In it to win it
Now just a few short weeks away, March 29th is the closing date for nominations for the fifteenth annual Storage..
2020 vision
There has been an influx in NHS practices and hospitals seeking document scanning services over the past few months. A..
Better safe than sorry
The phrase "it's better to be safe than sorry" has never been more pertinent for those involved in IT storage,..
On the up?
During 4Q17, the yield rates of suppliers' respective 3D-NAND processes climbed steadily, while smartphones remained the major demand contributor in..
