S3 celebrates 25 years of success with Reseller of the Year Award

Solid State Solutions (S3) won the Channel, Reseller of the Year Award at the recent Datacentre Solutions Awards – a fitting reward for the company’s 25 year track record as a Value Added Integrator of Data Storage and Storage Management Solutions. More recently, S3 has become the UK’s leading Big Data and Virtualisation Infrastructure specialist.

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Seven key network challenges, and how to overcome them

By Ennio Carboni, President and General Manager, Ipswitch Network & IT Management Division.

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Mobile security in the spotlight

63% of businesses do not attempt to manage corporate information on employee-owned devices; mobile security incidents cost more than $100,000 for almost half of firms surveyed.

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Most data breaches caused by human and system errors

Symantec Corp. and the Ponemon Institute have released the 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis which reveals human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012 and pushed the global average to $136 per record[1]. Issues included employee mishandling of confidential data, lack of system controls, and violations of industry and government regulations. Heavily regulated fields including healthcare, finance and pharmaceutical incurred breach costs 70 percent...

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DDoS for the data centre

Juniper Networks has announced the availability of Junos® DDoS Secure to protect data centres against increasingly complex Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. A key part of Juniper’s security portfolio, Junos DDoS Secure uses behavioral analytics and detailed network visibility to provide scalable protection against all major types of DDoS attacks.

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The EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market finished the second quarter with an increased...
NetApp survey finds that over 50 per cent of UK businesses need Flash, but less than 20 per cent...
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Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem SR860 V2 and SR850 V2 mission critical servers feature 3rd Gen Intel...
A team of UK scientists are hoping to show how an advanced form of computer modelling could 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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