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Features in this issue

• Visa reveals 'rare' datacentre switch fault as root cause of June 2018 outage

  by  Caroline Donnelly

  Visa has offered a retrospective analysis of what went wrong in its datacentre during its UK-wide outage on Friday 1 June, in response to a request from the Treasury Select Committee for more detail about the downtime

• Software-defined storage: Startups bring innovation to SDS

  by  Chris Evans

  We survey the startup suppliers pioneering new approaches to software-defined storage, including block, file and object, and VM and container-oriented approaches

• Adapting to the rise of the holistic application

  by  Adrian Bridgwater

  A containerised, componentised and compartmentalised approach to software presents CIOs with the challenge of managing a more complex environment