APTARE granted patent for cataloguing the metadata for billions of files

APTARE, a pioneer in data centre optimisation software, has been notified by The US Patent and Trademarks Office that it has been granted a patent to create a, "Catalogue that Stores File System Metadata in an Optimised Manner," (United States Patent No. 8,402,071). This patent provides a method for the persistence and cataloguing of billions of file and folder metadata contained in unstructured file systems through a highly efficient, optimised, and compact mechanism.

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Native SQL server failover clustering in the Amazon Cloud

New SteelEye DataKeeper Cloud Edition delivers complete data protection, high availability, performance and cost savings in Amazon EC2 environments with no SAN required.

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Leading European SuperVAD selects the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform to complement existing technology suite and educate the market.

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