Managed services sector experiencing growing pains as it matures

Managed Services is now a mature business sector, although by its nature, it will continue to evolve, attract new entrants, stimulate innovations and grow as it takes over from the traditional IT industry. Further changes in the industry are required though, especially in sales approach and the way it addresses and engages with customers if it is to achieve its full potential. These were some of the conclusions from a very successful Managed Services and Hosting Summit held in London on 17...

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LTO-7 technology to be a part of Spectra tape Libraries

Spectra Logic is now taking orders for Spectra tape libraries configured with Linear Tape-Open Generation 7 (LTO-7) technology. The combination of LTO-7, the industry-standard for tape technology, and Spectra tape libraries will result in the best storage density available per dollar.

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U2 rocks with all-Flash technology

With declining revenues from recorded music, road tours are becoming more and more important. Historically, artists could expect up to 25% of their revenue to come from album sales; today they typically receive little more than a penny for 20 plays on YouTube. As a result, a t-shirt sale can generate as much profit as 25,000 plays. For big acts, the figures can be huge. In the first 11 nights of their iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour, U2 grossed $22 million and the band has recently embarked upon...

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Consumers think online outages are caused by poorly built and designed websites

Rackspace is warning retailers to get their websites ready for predicted traffic spikes after 83 per cent of UK consumers claim a consistently slow or unavailable websites negatively affect their brand loyalty. According to a survey of over 2,000 consumers in the UK[1], over half of consumers (56 per cent) buy something online at least once a week and 59 per cent of shoppers will browse online during big shopping events such a Black Friday.

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Toshiba Memory Europe GmbH will officially change its name to Kioxia Europe GmbH on October 1,...
Leveraging its strength and leadership in flash, Western Digital has launched the new WD Red SN700...
he EMEA external storage systems market value was up 3.3% year on year in dollars but down 5.5% in...
Tintri replaces an Atlantis ILIO-based solution with Enterprise Cloud platform.
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