UK retailer uses Cloud Services to scale TV and Social Media campaigns

December is the most important month of the year for UK retailer Marks and Spencer, and its advertising campaigns are the cornerstone of its holiday strategy. When its 2013 primetime Christmas TV ad campaign encouraged people to visit a dedicated website, it was vital it could cope with the spike in traffic. The retailer created a website using Microsoft Azure as it knew it would cope with the potentially high traffic in addition to saving on the expense of physical servers and internal IT...

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Customer satisfaction rises overall

Customer satisfaction drops as customer service agents more frequently use apologetic or polite vocabulary in a conversation, while customers benefit by being polite themselves, according to findings of the quarterly Zendesk Benchmark report released recently.

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Quorum releases onQ v3.8

Quorum has announced the general availability of Quorum onQ™ v3.8. This latest version offers a long list of new features and enhancements — among them, the industry’s first truly agentless protection for application consistency. With this new feature, Quorum delivers the only disaster recovery solution that completely removes the agent from backup, ensuring customers adhere to regulatory compliance.

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Lenovo ThinkServer now offering shared DAS clustering

Syncro controllers bring shared storage with RAID along with storage clustering and failover to expanded lineup of Lenovo server systems.

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Gridstore CEO, George Symons, reviews 2014 Storage Industry Predictions

Gridstore™ has revealed its mid-year review of their original 2014 industry predictions. With data growth showing no signs of slowing down and the variety and number of data storage solutions on the market also increasing, there continues to be a large amount of end-user confusion when it comes to product purchasing decisions. Now at the midpoint of 2014, Gridstore CEO George Symons reviews three of his key predictions to see how far the market has come in six months and where it might be...

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Despite continuing price cuts, analyst firm finds margins still healthy for cloud providers.
SNIA SCSI Trade Association Forum (STA) and the INCITS/SCSI standards organization announce...
New Lenovo TruScale for HPC feature expediates customer access to High Performance Computing...
KIOXIA Europe GmbH has launched Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Ver. 3.1[1] embedded flash memory...
Rather than simply “ripping and replacing” legacy systems in favour of hot new technologies,...
Expanded data protection portfolio of appliances, software and as-a-Service AI offerings help...
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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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