Bar chain Novus Leisure has moved its IT infrastructure into the cloud and is benefiting from low costs and scalable IT which has helped it increase bookings by 100%. The company refreshed its customer relationship management(CRM)system ...
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Organisations need to focus now on the changes they need to make to take advantage of the performance and operational improvements that the data centres of the future will offer. Speaking as part of a panel at IPEXPO this week, Anthony ...
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IT executives keen to learn how search engine giant Google is running its datacentres or curious to know how users' data – including YouTube videos and Google+ accounts – are stored and secured, now have an opportunity to ...
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The CIO of professional services firm PwC UK,Dominique Moreau,has hit back at remarks made by his Groupama Insurances counterpart Jem Eskenazi that the CIO role is set to disappear in the next 15 to 20 years,by declaring that"the CIO role ...
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Facebook is to open a"cold storage"facility at its datacentre in Prineville,Oregon,to provide a lower cost repository for its users'old and infrequently accessed photographs and videos. Further reading The shape of datacentres to ...
Flash-based solid-state devices(SSDs)are making headway in the datacentre,especially for read-intensive applications requiring high performance,but will continue to take second place for write-intensive applications,including many"big ...
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Datacentres are still running at below 20oC wasting electricity although the optimum temperature for operating them is 25-26oC, experts have said. "Many datacentres operate at cooler temperatures than necessary because customers are not ...
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A review of disaster recovery capabilities has made multinational specialist recruitment company Hudson more resilient in its day-to-day business. "We have improved Hudson's business continuity by modifying our disaster recovery ...
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British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
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Hosting companies purporting to offer cloud services are offering the same services that they were 10 years ago,but simply marketing them as cloud instead in a bid to make money,claims Flexiant founder Tony Lucas. "If you were to believe ...
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The big three datacentre cooling infrastructure providers – Schneider Electric, Emerson and Eaton – together held 47% of the total datacentre energy market in 2011, a report has found. The report – titled Datacentre ...
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Remote working has been changing from a nice idea to part of the day job for many companies, especially in 2012. Be it the inspiration (or scaremongering) of the Olympic traffic situation or the influx of new devices hitting the shelves, ...
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Software defined datacentres, cloud management and automation, virtualisation licensing, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and the need for IT executives to develop new skills in the cloud era were some of the themes of the VMworld ...
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A shift has taken place with companies running public, private and hybrid cloud. So said Jorg Liebe, chief information officer of Lufthansa Systems, during a session at VMworld Europe 2012. Headquartered in Kelsterbach, near ...
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Reseller and cloud service provider, Mason IT has managed to avoid the use of costly storage area network (SAN) architecture, after deploying Nutanix for the cloud. Mason IT, which partners with Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Huawei and now ...
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