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HP and VMware collaborate

HP and VMware have announced the expansion of a long-standing relationship to help customers gain competitive advantage by adopting the software-defined data center and hybrid cloud.

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According to a new IT spending forecast report published by IDC Energy Insights, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to reach $13.5 billion by 2018, with an estimated 2013–2018 CAGR of 4.1%. Analyzing current IT spending, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to be $11.6 billion in 2014, with electricity companies accounting for the largest share of spending, at 67% or $7.7 billion of the total.

UK workforce is ‘doing IT’ for themselves

IT leaders see the value of end user computing strategies but risk and compliance issues prohibit progressive implementation.

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Hitachi Data Systems has acquired Sepaton, a leader in incredibly fast, scalable, and cost-efficient purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA). The addition of Sepaton as a wholly-owned subsidiary is part of a larger HDS data protection strategy that offers enterprise customers comprehensive data protection that is scalable and integrated.

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Tintri has announced the availability of Tintri OS 3.0, Tintri Global Centre 1.1 and Tintri Automation Toolkit. The new capabilities in these product releases enhance the industry’s only storage platform with VM-level operations for data management with multi-hypervisor support and end-to-end VM-level automation to accelerate virtualisation and private cloud deployments.

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Chivas Brothers partnered with CSA Waverley to undertake a storage area network (SAN) and disaster recovery (DR) upgrade using HP technology. This move has created a highly efficient, cost-effective and available storage environment for Chivas Brothers.

Three quarters of councils say a lack of investment in IT is undermining current service delivery

A lack of strategic focus and investment in IT capability is undermining the ability of local...

Hyperscale scale-out Object Storage Management Software

Nexenta has announced the general availability (GA) of NexentaEdge®. The award-winning Block...

QLogic and Dell deliver certified 10Gb Ethernet Converged Networking solutions

QLogic says that its converged network adapters (CNAs) have been certified and recommended for use...

No escape from company email

Independent research commissioned by GFI Software reveals that the demands of work email are...

Proact rewarded for data centre excellence

Proact has been named FlexPod Partner of the Year by NetApp. The award was presented to Proact CEO...

2015 to mark the year of disruptive technology, says Advanced 365 report

Internet of Things, Intercloud, Avatars and Software Defined Networks to dominate business agendas.

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