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Making “fast, good and affordable” a reality for entreprise IT

Why modern companies should ditch data silos and adopt unified software platforms By Sazzala Reddy - CTO & Co-Founder - Datrium.

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Can your Business Afford a Skills Gap?

In the last several years the UK workforce has struggled to deal with many of the threats that have arisen with the growth of the digital economy. By Graham Hunter, VP Skills Certifications, CompTIA.

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Why a flexible hybrid strategy offers a route around potential vendor lock-in

As the cloud services market has developed, many businesses have forged exclusive service provider partnerships to benefit from the scale, agility and performance capabilities now offered by numerous large global hyperscalers. While their enormous success is testament to the way they have met the needs of businesses worldwide, many organisations have additional requirements relating to application performance, legacy applications, data hosted under certain jurisdictions, and data security. By Eltjo Hofstee, Managing Director, Leaseweb UK.

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IT Professionals: The Hidden Heroes of the Public Sector

Each year September rolls around, bringing with it the annual IT Professionals Day—a day dedicated to appreciating IT professionals, and the critical role they play in end users’ lives and in operating successful organisations across every sector. IT professionals are the hidden heroes regardless of where they work, but for those in the public sector, keeping technology up and running can be the difference between life and death in an operating theatre, or between a law being passed and a law being put on hold in government.

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Windows Server 2008 End of Life: A Storage Modernisation Opportunity

For organisations operating Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the end is near; both are being shelved by Microsoft and will officially reach “end of life” status as of January 2020 and July 2019 respectively. It is impossible to determine the exact market share of each individual Microsoft Server operating systems in use; however, Ned Pyle, principal program manager in the Windows Server high availability and storage group, provided information indicating that the market share of those operating systems was around 40% in 2018 (1). Although these figures aren’t completely current, it is obvious that an important number of Windows 2008 servers are still in use despite losing access to security updates. So, how will businesses cope? By Aron Brand, CTO at CTERA.

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Successfully Navigating Hybrid Cloud Challenges

According to a recent report from 451 Research, the ability to migrate workloads easily between on-prem and public cloud is the number one reason that organisations opt for a hybrid IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, a significant divide exists today between traditional enterprise IT environments and the public cloud with different management models, consumption models, application architectures, and storage and data services. These differences can limit your ability to easily move enterprise and cloud-native applications where you need them. By Peter Gadd, VP EMEA Core, Pure Storage.

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Outsourcing maintenance makes sense

Bill Raftery, SVP of Global Storage Solutions, Curvature, discusses the advantages of outsourcing maintenance provision to bolster storage infrastructures that sit behind non-critical apps.

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“...One giant leap for mankind”: How is technology powering space exploration 50 years on from the moon landing?

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. It’s been 50 years since Neil Armstrong uttered those famous words, but they remain every bit as iconic and powerful today. Half a century on, and man landing on the moon is undoubtedly one of the most important events in our collective history. By James Petter, VP, EMEA, Pure Storage.

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Greater protection across hybrid environments

Quest Software has released NetVault Backup 12.4, an enterprise-class, cloud-ready data protection solution for hybrid data centers. NetVault simplifies backup and recovery for a wide range of systems, applications and data and now adds enhanced capabilities for Office 365 Exchange Online and OneDrive, as well as support for SAP HANA and Nutanix AHV environments. Available today from the Quest Data Protection business, the newest release of NetVault Backup makes it easier than ever for organizations to protect and recover their business critical applications and data in both the data center and in the cloud.

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Data liberation in the cloud

Moving data from one system to another can be challenging. Ensuring the data arrives intact and usable is paramount.

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Data management – much more than storage backup and recovery

Druva is a leader in Cloud Data Protection and Management, delivering a data management-as-a-service solution that aggregates data from endpoints, servers and cloud applications and leverages the public cloud to offer a single pane of glass to enable data protection, governance and intelligence. This increases the availability and visibility of business critical information, while reducing the risk, cost and complexity of managing and protecting it. DW talks to Druva CEO, Jaspreet Singh.

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CAE S.p.A. Reduces Hardware Dependency, Energy Costs and Management Time with SvSAN

StorMagic® has announced a customer win with Bologna, Italy-based manufacturer, CAE S.p.A. CAE’s original environment consisted of a traditional Storage Area Network (SAN) connected through SAS and fibre channel.

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Videos

Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.
Max Schulze, CEO and Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the importance of local and regional clouds as an alternative approach to the hyperscale model, suggesting that, in a world apparently obsessed with issues such as data sovereignty, time would be better spent understanding the importance of infrastructure ‘independence’.
Elizabeth Green, EMEA Advisory and Cyber Lead, at Dell Technologies, discusses the ever-shifting cybersecurity landscape, where cyber resilience is very much the focus.
DCS talks to David Sanders from atNorth at the Data Centre Alliance's 10x10 Event on 16th February 2023.

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Innovative routing technologies and platforms, next-generation cloud transit, and hands-free provisioning and automation for the enterprise.
Readiness is critical: 82% of respondents said they expect a cybersecurity incident to disrupt their business in the next 12 to 24 months.
According to a new report from Arelion, escalating energy prices and their impact on network operations are the prime concern for over half (53%) of business leaders, but many are also anxious about possible energy supply shortages with 43% citing this as their second-biggest worry. So major are the issues, that 45% of leaders have admitted to having suffered significant stress over the recent energy price surges, with 14% going so far as to say that the situation is actually causing them to lose sleep.
92 percent of business leaders surveyed believe that fluctuating energy costs and instability still pose a threat to business competitiveness.