United Utilities gets connected with Fujitsu

United Utilities has tasked Fujitsu with transforming its IT estate. This new partnership highlights a move by United Utilities to invest in a modern IT environment and will see Fujitsu implement a high capacity, scalable and secure data centre environment. This supports its vision of becoming a leading service provider in the North West of England and one of the best UK water and wastewater companies. United Utilities is looking to increase its overall agility and encourage business growth,...

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EMEA Security Appliance market back to strong growth

According to IDC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, 3Q12 factory revenue for the EMEA security appliance market reached $624.9 million, a 6.6% increase over the same quarter a year ago. Shipments declined by 1.8% year on year, with 171,158 units shipped. For 1Q–3Q 2013, security appliance market factory revenue totalled about $1.8 billion, representing a 4.2% increase over 1Q–3Q 2012.

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Movir chooses FlexPod from Proact

Disability insurer Movir recently signed a 3-year contract with Proact for the supply, implementation and management of a converged data center infrastructure solution based on the FlexPod reference architecture. FlexPod is a validated solution from Cisco and NetApp that combines networking, computing and storage in one shared IT infrastructure. The environment as a whole will serve as the basis for increasing the availability, scalability, performance and associated IT infrastructure services.

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