IDG News Service-Less than a year after a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization(RHEL)package,Red Hat has upgraded the software to offer more advanced storage capabilities. Released Wednesday,RHEV 3.1 allows administrators ...
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IT consortium Charityshare has deployed a Violin Memory 3000 Series all-flash array to support the roll-out of up to 2,000 virtual desktops for its Age UK operations. Violin was chosen on grounds of cost and the company's backing from HP ...
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All-flash array maker Whiptail has announced an upgrade to its Racerunner operating system that will allow its Invicta NAND flash arrays to scale to 30 nodes and up to 360TB of storage. The all-flash array company claims that scaling to ...
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Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
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Existing enterprise mobile device management [MDM] solutions come with "really serious constraints," Westminster Council CIO Ben Goward has told Computing. Speaking at Aditi Technologies' GoCloud 8 conference in London today, Goward said ...
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2X Software,a global leader in Virtual Desktop and Application Delivery today announced 2X ApplicationServer XG is fully compatible with Microsoft RDP 8 RemoteFX,Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.Full RDP 8 RemoteFX features are supported ...
"Technology should be irrelevant," says Gavin Walker, CIO of the UK's air traffic control business, NATS. Walker is a firm believer in focusing on what IT can enable, rather than the technology for its own sake. As CIO, he heads a ...
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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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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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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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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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Joint initiative by seven countries and regions aims to stimulate new biophotonics-related R&D projects. The BiophotonicsPlus competition for R&D Funding starts on 1 October. Biophotonics Plus is a joint initiative by seven ...
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Microsoft has launched Windows Server 2012 to general availability with a strong message that the operating system will capitalise on the growing importance of cloud and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) computing. "This is one of the most ...
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Quick reaction to market fluctuations and flexible manufacturing capabilities have helped many Taiwanese manufacturers of machining centers to escape the impact of economic recession in major markets.Those markets include mainland ...