Logicalis completes IT overhaul for Birmingham City University

Logicalis has completed a comprehensive IT infrastructure overhaul for Birmingham City University. The project, which commenced in 2012, included the design and deployment of two onsite data centres, wired and wireless network for staff and students, and the rollout of Cisco Unified Communications Manager for 4000 users. The project, part of the University’s £180 million investment in new facilities, will provide an agile IT architecture to support long-term innovation and evolving...

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Brocade demonstrates Fibre Channel innovation

Brocade has announced continued innovation and leadership in storage networking to support solid state storage system vendors who have adopted Fibre Channel as the protocol of choice to optimize application performance in enterprise storage area networking (SAN) environments. In addition to a new solid state storage system qualification program, the company also announced support for for the launch of Gen 6 Fibre Channel by the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA).

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FCIA announces industry's fastest storage networking

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) has announced Gen 6 Fibre Channel, representing the industry's fastest industry standard networking protocol that enables storage area networks (SANs) of up to 128GFC and includes a variety of features that further improve network reliability, energy efficiency, and operational simplicity.

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