While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge. ...
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Amazon Web Services has announced four new features for Amazon RDS for Oracle, including the ability to run the database in a private cloud, the company said on Thursday. Enterprises can now launch RDS (Relational Database Service) ...
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VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) is one of the hottest technologies going, and there are nearly as many ways to deploy it as there are companies providing the solutions. Some VDI solutions are server-based, running on "big iron" in a ...
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Global recruitment company Hudson has dumped NetApp for HP Lefthand storage as part of a datacentre consolidation and disaster recovery project that saw it cut energy use by 50% and double storage efficiency. The project began as a move ...
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CommVault has announced Simpana IntelliSnap Recovery Manager, a software product for automating snapshot management and application-aware recovery. The introduction comes as the company attempts to support recovery of critical ...
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At the Dell Storage Forum in Paris this week, Dell launched a back-up appliance – the DL4000 with AppAssure virtual server and cloud back-up software – and an upgrade to its DL2300 Commvault appliance, with increased capacity ...
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During the next eight years, the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes, which is the equivalent of 5,200 GB of data for every man, woman and child on Earth, according to an updated Digital Universe study released today. ...
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Computerworld-During the next eight years,the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes,which is the equivalent of 5,200 GB of data for every man,woman and child on Earth,according to an updated Digital Universe study ...
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Network World-Motorola Solutions has unveiled a pair of quasi-cloud services that make it simpler for IT groups to set up secure connections for guest Wi-Fi users,including those with personally-owned devices,on corporate or retail wireless ...
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Kent Police has revamped its backup systems with Acronis Back-up & Recovery software that has allowed it to cut backup windows from several days long to 16 hours. Data recovery times on the mixed physical and virtual server backup ...
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Storage area network(SAN)testing supplier Virtual Instruments plans to add monitoring capabilities for AIX and Hyper-V virtual server environments,IBM SVC and EMC VPLEX storage virtualisation products,Fibre Channel over Ethernet,NAS and ...
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Cost pressures and the rise of cloud computing have led many businesses to turn to lower-cost virtual environments on premise and in the cloud, but a lack of expertise and experience may be exposing these organisations to unnecessary ...
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Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority has upgraded its storage infrastructure to support a web-based core database application. Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority (SCPHA) replaced its legacy information management system with a ...
Three storage suppliers used VMworld Europe 2012 to launch converged storage stacks. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) launched 11 Unified Computing Platform stacks, NetApp added SME-targeted ExpressPods to its existing FlexPod converged stack ...
UK air traffic control provider NATS has deployed a Violin Memory all-flash array solid state storage system to support a planned 6,000-seat virtualised desktop infrastructure(VDI)roll-out. The Violin all-flash array will provide ...
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