Computerworld - Symantec Tuesday announced the latest version of its Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), which adds the ability to reduce virtual machine recovery times by using VMware's vMotion data migration capabilities. The new version of ...
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As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a ...
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Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the department that oversees three airports in the LA area, recently implemented a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). As part of the effort, the ...
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Red Level Networks, a premier Michigan-based IT solutions provider, announced today that it has been selected for inclusion in the 2012 Inc. 500|5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for the second year in a row. Red ...
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Persson Associates, in the business of assisting companies develop disaster recovery plans for over 28 years, has improved their web site to offer simple, easy to use planning products and at a cost everyone can afford. The disaster ...
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Quantum has reported an 11% loss in revenues of $147m for the second quarter of the financial year, with net losses of $5m compared to profits of $14m in the same period the year before. Quantum blamed lower-than-expected revenue from ...
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BURLINGTON, MA, September 12, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- StarWind Software Inc., an innovative provider of storage virtualization software and VM backup technology, announced today the release of the new StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS V6 and ...
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Cloud computing is all about cutting costs, but some organisations that are going down that road are reporting increased cost instead. How is this possible? According to Marc Noble, director of government affairs for (ISC)2, he knows of ...
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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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Southwark Council is upgrading all IT that supports the delivery of council services, with the biggest IT changes in over a decade planned. The London local authority has outsourced the upgrade and management of the IT to Capita for 10 ...
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Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices for some models have plummeted from $3 to less than $1 per gigabyte. After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according ...
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According to CABLExpress' 2012 Data Centre Executive Survey, IT executives are most concerned with business continuance, disaster recovery and maximizing uptime (44%), as they look to designing their next-generation data centre ...
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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 (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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