Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
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Computerworld-There will be a sea change in the non-volatile memory(NVM)market over the next five years,with more dense and reliable technologies challenging dominant NAND flash memory now used in solid-state drives(SSD)and embedded in ...
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IDG News Service-Vivekenand Venugopal,VP&GM,Hitachi Data Systems,talks about the firm's storage strategy,its BlueArc acquisition,big data,and in the process,takes a dig at the competition. CW:Why does every storage company talk about ...
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The European Organisation for Nuclear Research–better known as CERN and home of the Large Hadron Collider–has implemented clustered NAS in its 2PB estate of NetApp filers. The organisation switched on clustered NAS ...
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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 ...
Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison revealed this week at the OpenWorld conference that the next version of the company's flagship database,Oracle 12c,would feature a radical new architecture called pluggable databases. Pluggable databases will ...
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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has launched an entry-level enterprise storage subsystem that features block, file and object storage access, with an all-flash array variant planned for later this year. The Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) ...
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Jo Stanford joined the hotel and leisure chain De Vere Group six years ago as IT director. She says the backup challenges she faces in IT at De Vere Group are not specific just to her business. ''The challenge is what data you retain and ...
Debenhams has cut its email storage in half by implementing an archiving system. The retailer was running out of disk space on its Exchange servers as the company was seeing 13.8 million emails per month across its 8,000 mailbox users. ...
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Hotel chain De Vere Group has outsourced its IT to a private cloud from IT services firm ANS Group, reducing its 18 rack hosted data cente to three, in a bid to cut hosting costs. ANS Group will implement a private cloud to manage and ...
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When he joined Great Ormond Street Hospital as IT director three-and-a-half years ago,Mark Large was faced with immediate issues as the result of an ageing IT infrastructure. Staff were tied to their desks because there was not a viable ...
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Computerworld-When the Government Employees Health Association(GEHA)overhauled its data center to build a fabric infrastructure,the process was"really straightforward,"unlike that of many IT projects,says Brenden Bryan,senior manager of ...
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