Computer storage hardware

Microsoft campus datacentre to rely on gas fuel cells until 2037

Plans show a 72MW datacentre proposed for Microsoft’s Thames Valley Park campus has just 1.8MW of grid power secured, so gas-fed fuel cells will power it until around 2037 Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

It's time to rethink what we mean by a legacy datacentre

Rather than viewing older datacentres as obsolete legacy assets, smart operators are unlocking commercial value by upgrading existing sites for AI and higher density Continue Reading

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• Simon Harris, BCS Consultancy

Why scarcity alone won't pay for Asia's AI infrastructure

Singtel, SK Telecom and China Telecom are each betting on a different kind of scarcity. The fibre boom is a reminder that scarcity attracts capital until it disappears Continue Reading

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• Edwin Lin

APAC has the datacentre demand, but turning plans into capacity is the hard part

Asia-Pacific now generates its own datacentre demand, but executives from AWS, Damac Digital and Delta Electronics say the real test is turning announced investments into working capacity Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

NetApp aims Novus storage at AI factory bottlenecks

NetApp Insight launches for new Novus storage that scales to 100TBps to keep AI factory GPUs fed, European data sovereignty controls and six months of free AI Data Engine Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

IT event dive: AI for its own sake at Tobacco Dock with Everpure

Inside a 200-year-old bonded tobacco warehouse, Everpure’s Accelerate London delegates wrestle with competition, orders from on high and AI for AI’s sake Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

‘Inherent sovereignty is a fallacy’ says Beyond.pl AI factory exec

Beyond.pl built central Europe’s first sovereign AI factory on Everpure and Nvidia kit – now its CEO argues the real issue is operational sovereignty, not where the box sits Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures

An Everpure survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across eight countries finds 90% recognise the risk, yet 64% lack a formal strategy to close ‘the sovereignty gap’ Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Celebrating 60 years of Computer Weekly

Sixty years ago today, the first issue of Computer Weekly landed on IT managers’ desks across the UK. It’s been our privilege to document the incredible progress of UK IT ever since. In this special anniversary issue, leaders from across the sector reflect on their personal memories from six decades of innovation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

How to survive and thrive as a modern CIO

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the growing complexity of the CIO role – and talk to leading IT chiefs about their tips for success. Amid all the fuss and investment around AI datacentres – is there a better, cheaper way than the billions being spent on GPUs? And Microsoft’s customer security chief talks about making her mark in the cyber security arena. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Interview: Huawei targets Saudi Arabia’s shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption

As enterprises move beyond artificial intelligence pilots, Huawei is positioning its cloud, computing and partner ecosystem to help organisations build scalable AI platforms while maintaining control over data, models and infrastructure Continue Reading

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• Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly

CW@60: The long gestation of a data nerd and agent overseer

Computer Weekly's acting datacentre and cloud editor – and data journalist – Antony Adshead traces his tech evolution from green-screen mainframes and DIY coding to steering agentic AI Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Sovereignty’s next chapter: Why AI makes sovereignty a competitive advantage

In part two of a two-part series, Computer Weekly talks to 10 storage suppliers and a lawyer about the next frontier in data sovereignty – from AI model sovereignty to the sovereign SLAs that could redefine the storage market Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

The geography trap: Why a cloud region is no substitute for data sovereignty

In part one of a two-part series, Computer Weekly talks to 10 storage experts and finds that unanimity in data residency is not enough – and that control, jurisdiction and architecture will define the next 18 months Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Natural History Museum’s ‘living laboratory’ logs 11 million environmental records in first year

More than 50 sensors feed temperature, humidity and acoustic readings into the Museum’s AWS Data Ecosystem, which found woodland soils stayed 10°C cooler in June’s heatwave Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Dubai ranks second globally in AI adoption as investment in digital infrastructure accelerates

BCG’s Intelligent Cities Index highlights how the emirate is translating artificial intelligence ambitions into large-scale deployment, supported by investments in datacentres, sovereign AI initiatives and digital infrastructure Continue Reading

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• Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly

Modern datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) is crucial

AI workloads are pushing traditional datacentre management to its limits. Modern DCIM is now essential, using predictive analytics to ensure resilience, efficiency, and sustainability Continue Reading

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• Mark Jaggers, Gartner

AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier

Once dismissed as legacy tech on the way out, the mainframe is being reframed as the trusted anchor of hybrid, AI-era architectures Continue Reading

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• Pratima Harigunani

A deep dive into the Dell Pro Max with GB10 and NemoClaw

AI agents such as OpenClaw are turning developer workstations into always-on edge servers. We test whether the Dell Pro Max with GB10 installed with Nvidia’s NemoClaw is up to the job Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Can the UK become a digital maker instead of a service taker?

Not yet, but maybe. Home grown UK development is not in a digital dark age, but we are absolutely in need of digital re-development. The next government needs to tackle this Continue Reading

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• Owen Sayers, Secon Solutions

Everpure aims to bridge AI data gap with Universal Data Intelligence

Storage-to-data-management firm expands Enterprise Data Cloud at Accelerate 2026 with OneTouch integration and AI pipeline automation to combat enterprise data sprawl Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

How APAC companies are rewiring their tech for the AI era

At Dell Technologies World, APAC tech leaders reveal how they are relying on hyperconverged infrastructure and digital sovereignty to shield themselves from supply chain shocks Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

As AI costs spiral, Dell pitches return to on-premise datacentres

With agentic AI driving up public cloud consumption, Dell Technologies is pitching local and hybrid infrastructure to shield enterprises from soaring token costs Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Interview: Hitachi Vantara takes long view on business and sustainability

We talk to Hitachi Vantara’s Simon Ninan about how the company looks to the far horizon when trying to match business needs with those of society Continue Reading

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• Fleur Doidge

Mastering a marathon with the future of healthtech

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at how digital twins of the human body are helping athletes prepare for the London Marathon. We find out how AI is set to deliver new driving experiences in the latest cars. And we speak to a 146-year-old bank about taking an entrepreneurial approach to tackling legacy IT. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

How a cloud-native architecture handles persistent storage

A detailed understanding of how containerised applications work with data storage is needed to migrate enterprise IT to a cloud-native architecture Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Container storage in the AI age: Block vs object and CSI vs container-native

We look at key choices when it comes to providing storage for containerised applications and whether to choose block, file or object storage Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Blackbox replaces two racks of HPE storage with 8U of Everpure

UK-based IaaS ‘sovereign’ provider, with multiple public sector-facing clients, replaced end-of-life 3PAR arrays with FlashArray storage that saw it reduce power consumption by 85% Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Storage implications of a modern IT architecture

One of the challenges of migrating older applications to a cloud-native, modern IT architecture is how to provide persistent storage Continue Reading

Storage implications of a modern IT architecture

One of the challenges of migrating older applications to a cloud-native, modern IT architecture is how to provide persistent storage Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Hit the north! UK datacentre focus shifts to M62 and points north

Barbour ABI data shows 8GW of total datacentre pipeline with most big projects in the north and Scotland, while London and the M4 corridor are about 25% of projected capacity Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

NetApp targets E-Series at AI and neoclouds with EF50 and EF80

High-performance non-ONTAP workhorse targets AI use cases and aims to ensure GPUs get fed optimally, with claimed 2.5x boost in performance over previous models Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Everpure’s Evergreen One for AI brings Exa flash and GPU-based service-level agreements

Nvidia GTC is the occasion for beta launch of its Datastream appliance that marries software to ingest and manage AI data pipelines with Everpure storage and GPU resources Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Enormous AI growth zone datacentre gets planning approval

North Lincolnshire Council approves 1GW datacentre with nearby electricity generation, but environmental campaigners say the developers did their sums wrong Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Micron opens $2.75bn chip assembly plant in India

Test and assembly site in Gujarat marks India’s first commercial semiconductor production following multibillion-dollar investments in US and Singapore to meet growing demand for storage and memory chips Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Khazna’s NexOps shift signals new operating model for AI-scale infrastructure

Managing director Bart Holsters explains why hybrid insourcing, competence assurance and sovereign readiness are becoming essential as artificial intelligence pushes datacentres to their limits Continue Reading

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• Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly

RWS Global deploys Box’s AI tools to streamline contract workflow

Box Enterprise Advanced is being used to cut contract processing time from 20 minutes down to two Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Meta’s latest results show diversification of datacentre capacity strategy

The social media giant is facing increased datacentre costs due to rising server, memory and storage prices Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Micron breaks ground on $24bn Singapore wafer fab

Memory giant presses ahead with its global expansion strategy, adding new NAND flash capacity in Singapore to meet growing demand for memory chips fuelled by the global AI boom Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Campaigners urge UK to develop digital sovereignty strategy

UK digital rights campaigners have urged UK parliamentarians to implement a digital sovereignty strategy as part of the forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to reduce reliance on technology subject to foreign interference Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

BT: UK’s next phase of quantum progress hinges on network build

UK’s leading network provider reflects on the country’s quantum progress to date, and proposes what needs to happen next as funding and focus shift towards delivery Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Court rule that fuelled Post Office’s prosecution rampage: Everything you need to know

This guide contains essential information about the legal rule that enabled the Post Office to wrongly prosecute subpostmasters Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Interview: Art Hu, global CIO, Lenovo

The IT chief at the PC, servers and storage supplier is using his experience of rolling out tech internally to boost the growing services ambitions of the Chinese tech giant Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Supporting sustainability in IT

In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, there is a focus on IT sustainability, as we dig into how to ensure the networking infrastructure underpinning our artificial intelligence workloads is as green as possible. We also speak to the chief sustainability officer of Genesys about how going green is helping the cloud software provider achieve its business objectives. With the fallout from the Autumn Budget still being keenly felt, we find out more about where the £300m promised to fund improvements in NHS technology is really going. And in the second of our three buyer’s guide features on self-service developer tools, we shine a light on how the technology can help organisations revamp their DevOps workflows. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026

Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

HDD metrics and why mean time to failure is not terribly useful

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about hard drive metrics, why MTTF is less useful than annualised failure rate, and why big systems need to use enterprise drives Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Pulling the plug: A way to halt a cyber attacker in your network?

Rumours of an organisation taking its systems offline during a cyber attack spurred conversation on the consequences of simply pulling the power, or internet access, to stop intruders. We consider the ethics and practicality Continue Reading

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• Dan Raywood

Interview: Lenovo’s Mary Jacques on combining environmental sustainability with circularity

The Hong Kong-headquartered hardware supplier remains serious about tackling climate change – and achieving results, including Scope 3 emissions reduction Continue Reading

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• Fleur Doidge

Podcast: SSD for high performance, but HDD suits ‘warm’ workloads

We talk to Axel Stoermann of drive maker Kioxia about the efficiencies and performance that flash storage can bring, but why hard disk drives are still a key choice in some use cases Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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 Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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% Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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 Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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 Continue Reading

Cloud file storage: Key benefits and use cases

We look at file storage in the cloud, its key benefits and how it can complement on-prem storage, in particular to burst to the cloud in times of increased application demand Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Podcast: Data sovereignty and what you need to do about it

Patrick Smith, EMEA CTO of Pure Storage, talks about data sovereignty, what’s driving heightened interest in it, and how customers, the tech industry and states are preparing for it Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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 Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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 Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

Cloud block storage: Key benefits and use cases

We look at block storage in the cloud, why you might want to use it, its key benefits, how it fits with on-premise storage, and the main block storage offers from the cloud providers Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Storage is key to AI projects that succeed

Artificial intelligence is a key project for enterprise IT currently, but the difference between success and failure rests on having the right infrastructure, especially in data storage Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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 Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Agentic AI: Storage and ‘the biggest tech refresh in IT history’

We talk to Jeff Denworth of Vast Data about a future where employees are outnumbered by artificial intelligence agents and even smaller enterprises may need supercomputing levels of resources Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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 Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

AI and backup: How backup products leverage AI

We look at how AI helps with backup, from AI analysis of backup jobs and their integrity through natural language support functionality to ransomware and anomaly detection Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

VMware virtualisation alternatives and the storage they need

We look at the main choices available to those that want to migrate away from VMware and the core requirements for storage to support virtualisation environments Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Storage suppliers’ market share and strategy

We look at the top eight enterprise storage suppliers’ market share, product offer and how they’ve responded to AI, hybrid cloud, as-a-service purchasing and containerisation Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

What is defragmentation?

Defragmentation, also known as 'defragging' or 'defrag,' is the process of rearranging the data on a storage medium, such as a hard disk drive (HDD), to ensure efficient storage and access. Continue Reading

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• Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
• Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer

Lenovo partners its way up the storage maker rankings

Storage profile: We look at Lenovo, a key storage player that has played the partnership game to rise in the array maker rankings and corner the SME and entry-level market Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Podcast: Key hurdles in AI from proof of concept to production

We talk to DDN CTO Sven Oehme about key technical and organisational hurdles when taking AI projects from test to production, in storage and building the technical team Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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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• Stephen Pritchard

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Stéphane Larcher, LeMagIT
• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

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 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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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• Stephen Pritchard

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

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• Stéphane Larcher, LeMagIT
• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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 Continue Reading

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• Pratima Harigunani

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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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• Stephen Pritchard

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

What is bit (binary digit) in computing?

A bit (binary digit) is the smallest unit of data that a computer can process and store. It can have only one of two values: 0 or 1. Continue Reading

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• Rahul Awati
• Robert Sheldon

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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• Rahul Awati
• Robert Sheldon

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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• Stephen Pritchard

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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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• Stephen Pritchard

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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• Stephen Pritchard

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget