Irish multinational drug maker United Drug has implemented Silver Peak WAN optimisation devices that have improved application performance, upgraded disaster recovery provision and saved on bandwidth costs to the tune of €30,000 per ...
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The VMworld Europe 2012 winners are: Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: Tiger Wheel & Tyre Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: The National Trust Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project: ...
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Wikipedia was out of action again on Monday, but not intentionally, out of protest, as it has been in the past. This time, the user-generated online encyclopaedia was knocked offline because two fibre cables connecting its datacentres in ...
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Meta Byte today announced a partnership with Fusion-io, the world’s fastest server and application acceleration solution provider to increase the speed of the enterprises in the Middle East region. Meta Byte Technologies ...
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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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Supermarket chain Tesco is investing £65m in a state-of-the-art datacentre as it gears up to expand its web operations outside the UK. The retailer has signed a 15-year contract with datacentre operator Sentrum, to host the ...
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Innovation, consensus and anarchy in Welsh IT Wales as a networked nation Welsh datacentre rationalisation programme Aligning technology to the needs of Wales Balancing Wales's IT books In many respects Wales has a far better track record ...
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Schneider Electric today announced it has seen 4% growth in the last quarter, as well as 9% in the first nine months of 2012, with infrastructure, buildings, power and IT business units showing the most momentum, during the first day of its ...
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Phil Shoesmith, head of IT for the Alzheimer's Society charity, has called on Salesforce to keep its promise to build a datacentre in the European Union (EU). The Alzheimer's Society helps 100,000 suffers of dementia in England, Wales and ...
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A dream tool for hackers capable of cracking nine billion passwords a second can be bought for as little as pound 400, warns hosting firm UKFast. Researchers found a low-spec desktop PC with two readily available, high-power graphics ...
Security experts are warning businesses to take the publication of encrypted LinkedIn passwords by a hacker seriously. The professional networking site has confirmed that "some" of the stolen passwords posted online by a hacker correspond ...
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Microsoft officially launched Windows Server 2012 today in Dubai, describing it as a cornerstone of the Cloud OS that provides customers with a modern platform for the world’s applications. Samer Abu Ltaif, General Manager, ...
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A third of UK CIOs are more concerned with EU regulation–such as the data protection directive–than their own local laws,a study has revealed. Some 34%of UK CIOs and 30%across Europe regard EU regulation as more important than ...
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Microsoft is set to slash Windows Azure Storage prices by 28% from 12 December 2012. The news comes just days after Google cut its cloud-based storage prices by 20% and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a 25% price reduction for Amazon ...
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Deutsche Börse,Standard Life and Resolution are three finance firms that have transformed board meetings through the use of Apple iPads. Using software from Diligent,the companies have replaced hundreds of pages of documents in lever ...