The ‘curse’ of information

Nine in ten companies experienced some form of data loss last year, according to research from global business advisory service CEB.

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UK SMEs still spending on IT, yet £6.89 billion is wasted

SolarWinds has revealed the results from SolarWinds Time and Budget Spent on IT Study, (“the study”), which looked into the priorities and challenges faced by 500 IT decision makers in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across the UK and Germany in March 2013.

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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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Acronis appoints Paul Munday as Sales Manager, UK & Ireland

Acronis has announced the appointment of Paul Munday as Sales Manager, UK & Ireland.

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Platform slashes storage TCO by 70 per cent compared to traditional NAS systems.
 “Lifeblood” delivery vehicle routing application runs four times faster.
IBM and Hortonworks have announced the planned availability of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®)...
Splunk has published the results of new research in a report titled “Damage Control—The...
NetApp has unveiled a new release of its ONTAP software that powers data services on premises and...
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How Clifton College solved its data backup problems

Clifton College is one of the UK’s leading co-educational independent schools. Cristie Data provides the Bristol-based private school with a fully managed, scalable and reliable cloud backup solution that protects pupil data and can easily scale to meet future data growth.

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