Welcome to the second wave of Cloud adoption

Cisco has released the findings of a global study that indicates cloud is moving into a second wave of adoption, with companies no longer focusing just on efficiency and reduced costs, but rather looking to cloud as a platform to fuel innovation, growth and disruption. The study finds that 53 percent of companies expect cloud to drive increased revenue over the next two years. Unfortunately, this will be challenging for many companies as only 1 percent of organizations have optimized cloud...

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Hedvig and ClusterHQ accelerate adoption of Docker

Hedvig, the company with distributed systems DNA that is 'reinventing' software-defined storage, has joined the ClusterHQ storage partner ecosystem to offer modern enterprises an integrated solution that simplifies storage provisioning and data persistence for Docker volumes. Hedvig and ClusterHQ, The Container Data People, collaborated on the development of the Hedvig storage driver for Flocker, a software plugin that integrates Hedvig's software-defined storage solution and...

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BridgeHead VNA at forefront of North Middlesex University Hospital’s data transformation programme

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust has selected BridgeHead Software’s Independent Clinical Archive, HealthStore™, also referred to as a next generation Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA), to assist it in the long-term storage, protection and sharing of radiology images following its exit from the National Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) contracts. The hospital also intends to use HealthStore™ alongside its new Electronic Document Management System...

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Scaling and protecting public safety applications

The Town of Vail, Colorado is leveraging SimpliVity to transform the reliability, performance and economics of its IT infrastructure. The SimpliVity solution enables high availability and disaster recovery for a variety of public safety applications, including 911 dispatch and video surveillance systems, and for other business-critical systems such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases.

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Tangoe launches New Cloud Discovery offering

Tangoe has launched its new cloud discovery service, MatrixCloud Cloud Discovery, which is designed to detect, analyse, and optimise an enterprise’s sanctioned and unsanctioned public cloud environment, which includes Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). According to a recent survey by IDG, 60% of respondents did not feel confident in regards to the level of visibility into the actual cost of existing cloud deployments.

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Achieving greater ROI for mission-critical applications

Brocade has announced continued innovation in its Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions with the introduction of the Brocade® Analytics Monitoring Platform. Representing a new product line for the company, the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform allows organisations to achieve greater ROI and reduced OpEx for their mission-critical applications by providing IT staff with the highest levels of monitoring and analytics between servers and storage. As a result, organisations can...

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