Perpetual data needs perpetual licensing

Businesses are finding themselves tackling continually growing amounts of data. Analysing its content before economically storing the information is becoming a top priority in order to gain a competitive edge. Demand for greater storage capacity is rising and business leaders are looking to IT to drive the best business results. To achieve this, traditional upgrade approaches have centred on forklift upgrades, but constantly growing data volumes has belied the cost-effectiveness of this method. IT decision makers are now focusing on refresh plans that offer constant, gradual and economic scaling to meet with data growth demands. By Robin Kuepers, Marketing Director, Dell Storage.

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University of St Andrews implements Dell storage

The University of St Andrews has implemented a Dell Compellent storage solution, with a substantial strategic investment.

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QLogic unveils FabricCache: the caching SAN adapter

QLogic furthers its leadership position in high-performance data centre connectivity, revolutionizing enterprise application performance with the release of the QLogic® FabricCache™ 10000 Series adapter.

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Mediaprint transforms IT and streamlines editorial operations

Mediaprint, the largest newspaper and magazine publisher in Austria, has transformed its IT infrastructure with EMC® VNX® unified storage, EMC VPLEX® Metro virtual storage and VMware virtualization solutions. The EMC and VMware solutions have enabled Mediaprint to increase application performance by 300%, achieve five-nines availability for critical publishing, editorial and production systems, as well as accelerate virtualization of its IT infrastructure.

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Mobile device data recoveries up 161 percent as mobile phones set to exceed world population by 2014

According to the International Telecommunication Union, the number of mobile phones worldwide is expected to exceed the world’s population by 2014, with overall penetration rates reaching 96 percent globally by the end of this year. Consistent with the widespread adoption of mobile devices, Kroll Ontrack, the world leader in data recovery and edisclosure software, saw a 55 percent increase in mobile device recoveries for phones and tablets from 2010 to 2011, and a 161 percent increase from 2011 to 2012. With more and more people storing valuable personal and business data on their mobile devices, there is no doubt the demand for recovery when something goes wrong will continue to climb.

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Emulex 16Gb Fibre Channel-Lösungen erhalten Zertifizierungen von Technologiepartnern DataCore Software, GreenBytes, Pure Storage, Quantum und X-IO

Emulex meldet eine breite Partnerunterstützung seiner LightPulse® 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) zur Entwicklung gemeinsamer Virtualisierungs-, Flash Storage-, Datenarchivierungs- und Backup-Lösungen

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Mit NovaStor erfolgreich durch den Restore-Test

Anlässlich des World Backup Days gewährt NovaStor vom 28. März bis zum 5. April 2013 einen Preisnachlass von 20% auf NovaBACKUP-Lizenzen zum Schutz von PCs und Servern

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HP delivers business continuity for Unified Communications

New offerings deliver simple, reliable communications across applications and geographies.

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Craig Dynes joins Acronis As Chief Financial Officer

Acronis says that Mr. Craig Dynes has joined the Executive Team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Dynes brings nearly 30 years’ of experience in the software industry as a CFO for venture-backed startups, rapidly growing private companies and well-established large public corporations.

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IT services market endured a dismal end to 2012

Last year was the worst for IT services contract activity since 2002, according to research from Ovum. Performance in the three months to the end of December 2012 fell well below the levels seen in the same period of 2011, ensuring that annual IT services contract activity fell to its lowest level for 10 years, both in terms of total contract value (TCV) and deal volume.

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Less than two in 10 backup all data

Less than two in ten companies backup all of their data, according to new research commissioned by Onyx Group, specialist IT providers of datacentre services, business continuity, and cloud.

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Failproof backup?

EVault, Inc. has announced the new EVault 7 backup appliances, redesigned to more efficiently scale, protect, and recover customers’ ever-growing data stores.

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Oscar-prämiertes Produktionsstudio Framestore nutzt Quantum StorNext

Framestore, ein international führendes Produktionsstudio für visuelle Filmeffekte und Computeranimationen, hat sich für die Nutzung des Quantum StorNext File-Systems und StorNext Storage Managers entschieden. Sie dienen dem Oscar-prämierten Produktionsteam zur Unterstützung seiner hochperformanten Workflows und Verwaltung der digitalen Archive

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Emulex drives 16Gb Fibre Channel ecosystem with partner adoption

Emulex Corporation has announced broad partner adoption of its LightPulse® 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) worldwide, for joint virtualisation, flash storage and data archiving and backup solutions.

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Videos

Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.
Interview with Bev Markland, Chief People Officer at Agilitas. Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.
Max Schulze, CEO and Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the importance of local and regional clouds as an alternative approach to the hyperscale model, suggesting that, in a world apparently obsessed with issues such as data sovereignty, time would be better spent understanding the importance of infrastructure ‘independence’.
DCS talks to Jake Green from Scolmore at the Data Centre Alliance's 10x10 Event on 16th February 2023.

Expert Opinions

The 8th March marked International Women’s Day, which presents an annual opportunity to celebrate women's accomplishments, but also serves as a reminder that there is still much to be done to eliminate gender inequality.
By Tim Loake, VP, Infrastructure Solutions Group UK, Dell Technologies.
By Richard Cooke, UK business lead, Keepler Data Tech.
Keerthi Mukku, Commercial Account Manager at Plextek investigates the importance of Foreign Object Detection (FOD) at any airport.