24/7 data centre availability now 'a reality' for all applications and workloads

Veeam® Software has announced Veeam Availability Suite™ (available Q3, 2014), a solution that ensures all applications and data are accessible whenever and wherever they are needed. In this way, Veeam is pioneering a new solution category that does what legacy data protection and backup systems could never do: enable the Always-On Business™.

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Teacher Stern selects Tikit and Databarracks to overhaul backup solution

Tikit has joined forces with cloud backup and disaster recovery provider, Databarracks, to deliver Backup as a Service into commercial law firm Teacher Stern LLP. Established in 1967, Teacher Stern has grown steadily to employ over 100 people. IT manager, Christine Ardis, heads up the IT department, supported by Tikit’s Managing Consultant, Jonathan Walker.

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Cisco and Dimension Data to accelerate global Hybrid Cloud adoption

Cisco and Dimension Data have announced an expansion of their 23-year relationship with plans to accelerate and streamline hybrid cloud adoption globally. Cisco will use Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Platform and SaaS solutions to deliver a suite of mid-market centric cloud services to its customers and resellers. Dimension Data and Cisco will partner to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution that will be packaged with Cisco technology and software-as-a-services (SaaS)...

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Nexenta delivers next-generation Software-Defined Storage solutions at Cisco Live 2014

Nexenta has announced the general availability for version 2.3 of NexentaConnect View Edition. This release follows the debut of NexentaConnect for XenDesktop announced last week; this product portfolio will now give customers VMware and Citrix end-to-end VDI storage solutions.

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IDC lowers IT spending forecasts

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book, worldwide IT spending will increase by 4.1% in constant currency this year, down from IDC’s previous forecast of 4.6% and also down from last year’s growth of 4.5%. According to the new report, IT spending has been volatile since the beginning of the year, with macroeconomic wild cards including the crisis in Ukraine and the slowdown in China adding to the general sense of uncertainty which continues to...

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