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Smart connected devices market continues to grow in Western Europe

The smart connected device (SCD) market posted another quarter of growth in Western Europe, driven mainly by increased demand for personal computers. According to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), PC, tablet, and smartphone shipments totaled 60.1 million units, with volume 8.6% higher compared with the same quarter a year ago. The trends seen during the previous quarter were confirmed in the third quarter of 2014: shipments of PCs continued to post an increase, with...

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Fronde, an Asigra Hybrid Partner, has boosted cloud infrastructure options for enterprises and service providers with the integration of Asigra Cloud Backup™ and Amazon Web Service (AWS). With this integration, Fronde is able to offer mid-market and enterprises, Asigra and AWS working seamlessly together, expanding storage infrastructure choices for public or hybrid cloud backup.

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New company InZafe is basing its business model on Proact’s cloud services. When a company aims to become Europe’s leading supplier of electronic storage for companies’ business documents and accounts data, it needs good partners, secure infrastructure and scalability.

Published in BC/DR Cloud + MS Infrastructure Security Storage Storage + Servers

CenturyLink is announcing the acquisition of DataGardens Inc., a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) provider based in Edmonton, Alberta. This will give customers a cost-effective and innovative way to mirror physical or virtual machine data to a highly available cloud environment. The acquisition brings a proven disaster recovery offering into the CenturyLink Cloud portfolio and lets us more fully integrate this toolset into our product suite.

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Government investment of £113 million in new high performance computing capability is expected to give UK business a two-year head start over international competitors, Science Minister Greg Clark has said.