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Daisy Group completes £1m investment in bomb-proof data centre

Unified communications provider Daisy Group has added a 12-tonne, bomb-proof door to its underground data centre in Manchester, which houses critical data for clients including Manchester Airports Group, Racing Post and Trinity Mirror.
Software-defined networking to star at Interop

The potential game-changing technology that surrounds software-defined networking (SDN) will be center stage at Interop next week with high-profile product introductions, technology demos and information sessions all set to roll.
SAP fires back against Oracle 'falsehoods' about HANA

SAP technology chief Vishal Sikka has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of "falsehoods".
Hitachi-LG Data Storage exec pleads guilty to price-fixing

An executive with Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) has agreed to plead guilty and serve time in a US prison for his participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids for the sale of optical disk drives to Hewlett-Packard, the US Department of Justice said.
Google Drive privacy concerns raised by YRO advocates

Google Drive has been criticised by privacy advocates, who have voiced strong concerns over how stored data may be used during and after customers are actively engaged in the cloud storage service.
hVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity

hVault plans to begin shipping a holographic disc drive, rack-mountable autoloader and robotic library later this year, offering archival storage that lasts at least 50 years.
IBM to develop data analysis system for SKA 'Big Bang' telescope

IBM is developing new data management and analysis technologies for what will be the world's largest radio telescope. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), due to become operational in 2024, will produce so much data that even tomorrow's off-the-shelf computers will have difficulty processing all of it, the company predicted.
Jaguar Land Rover deploys Colt modular data centre

Jaguar Land Rover is taking delivery of a pre-built modular data cantre for its Solihull advanced manufacturing plant in the West Midlands.
Micron releases 2.5-inch P320h PCIe SSD

Micron has announced PCIe-based server products, one involving a traditional card approach and the other a first-of-its-kind 2.5-inch hard drive form factor.
Lumison, DediPower and Bluesquare merge to become Pulsant

Three UK-based IT service companies ? Lumison, DediPower and Bluesquare Data ? have announced they are merging under the name Pulsant, to offer a range of services including co-location, managed hosting, managed applications, managed networking and cloud.

Latest Features

Pondering Google Drive: Who owns your data in the cloud?

Google Drive raises several concerns about cloud storage. Many of these consumer-level questions - who owns your data, how data can be used and what happens if the data is lost or stolen - are ones enterprise IT executives should be asking, too.
Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

Expensive and specialised Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind?
Google's BigQuery offers infrastructure to crunch big data

Google today announced the general availability of its cloud-based BigQuery Service, an online analytical processing (OLAP) system designed for crunching terabyte-scale datasets using the search engine giant's infrastructure.
Should you worry about Google Drive privacy?

The wording of the Google Drive terms of service has ruffled some feathers. However, the short answer to the question posed in the title of this article is "no". Allow me to explain.
Securing your hybrid cloud

The debate over public cloud versus private cloud continues to rage within the IT industry. As most organisations take an ad-hoc, evolutionary approach to new technologies, the environment over the next five years is likely to be a mixture of the two.
SkyDrive improvements make cloud storage tool a threat to Dropbox

Microsoft is shaking things up with SkyDrive. The new features and capabilities move it out of the Microsoft-centric shadows and pit it more directly against Dropbox, and possibly the imminently rumored Google Drive. However, Microsoft also announced a change to SkyDrive that many won't appreciate.
Securing your business in the cloud

Any IT professional who has heard ?send it to my Gmail? echo across the office will know how impossible it is to keep employees from using outside applications for work when those provided don?t quite meet their needs.
Bring your own device - Effective policies and practice in a BYOD environment

Bring your own device (BYOD) is now ubiquitous among enterprises. For IT leaders this has meant developing and maintaining effective policies and practices to keep the organisation secure and efficient, while managing a proliferation of devices.
The 15 worst data security breaches of the 21st century

Data security breaches happen daily in too many places at once to keep count. But what constitutes a huge breach versus a small one? For some perspective, we take a look at 15 of the biggest incidents in recent memory. Helping us out are security practitioners from a variety of industries, including more than a dozen members of LinkedIn's Information Security Community, who provided nominations for the list.
Data destruction - The in-depth guide

A key part of any information security strategy is disposing of data once it's no longer needed. Failure to do so can lead to serious breaches of data-protection and privacy policies, compliance problems and added costs.

How-tos

How to implement next-generation storage infrastructure for Big Data

How to write a data storage policy

How to negotiate a better cloud computing contract

How to automate data storage with tiering

How to solve the data challenge, with environmental efficiency

Case Study: A pair of green-IT users

Case Study: Protecting sensitive information in transit

Case Study: Giant steps are what you take

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