Commtech appointed Value Added Distributor for X-IO

Commtech has been appointed by Storage industry innovator X-IO Technologies to manage its full range of high performance storage solutions. Commtech will distribute the entire X-IO portfolio of solutions including its Hyper ISE and ISE storage systems, through its channel of resellers and systems integrators in the UK and Ireland.

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LSI® TrueStore® PA5200 preamplifiers increase hard disk drive areal density

Superior signal-to-noise ratio allows system designers to push hard disk drive areal density and reliability to new levels.

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GreenBytes receives patent for Deduplicated Snapshot Replication

GreenBytes®, Inc. says that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company a patent (U.S. No. 8,370,305) for its method of minimizing the amount of network bandwidth needed to copy data between deduplicated data storage systems. The patent recognizes GreenBytes’ proprietary method for replicating snapshots by utilizing the company’s zero latency inline deduplication technology, which is a key component in GreenBytes’ award-winning IO Offload Engine and vIO solutions for desktop virtualization.

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84% of IT managers are yet to make the most of cloud computing

Abiquo survey reveals alarming statistics on lack of cloud strategy and integration.

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CenturyLink deploys Ciena 100G packet optical technology

Ciena’s solutions increase capacity and provide a scalable and programmable OPn network architecture optimized for delivering high performance consumer, enterprise, data center and wholesale services.

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IT services market endured a dismal end to 2012

Last year was the worst for IT services contract activity since 2002, according to research from Ovum. Performance in the three months to the end of December 2012 fell well below the levels seen in the same period of 2011, ensuring that annual IT services contract activity fell to its lowest level for 10 years, both in terms of total contract value (TCV) and deal volume.

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Desktop Virtualization management from Oracle

The latest releases of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Sun Ray Software are now available and include integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, providing the industry’s first complete, single vendor desktop virtualization solution that spans hardware, software, and enterprise-class management.

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Fusion-io acquires ID7

Fusion-io adds expertise of innovative software defined storage company and developer of the popular open source SCST SCSI Linux target subsystem used in enterprise storage systems.

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Smallest and densest?

Juniper Networks has unveiled two new products designed to address key challenges facing service providers as they converge their networks to optimize their business.

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Number of data leaks in government sector continues to rise

InfoWatch Research Center has released its latest annual report on worldwide data leaks reported by the press during 2012. According to InfoWatch analysts, more than 1.8 billion records were compromised in 2012, including those containing financial and personal data. The press reported 934 confidential information leaks, a 16% increase compared with last year. Direct losses – those that were published in open sources – alone amounted to more than 37.8 million dollars.

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Global publishing firm exceeds SLAs with scale-out flash storage

Agora Publishing, a global holding company for various publishers of financial, health, travel, and special interest books and newsletters, has built greater scalability, reliability and operational efficiency into its virtualisation infrastructure by deploying Coraid EtherFlash™, a scale-out, all-flash Ethernet storage solution.

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Fujitsu desktop virtualisation ‘in a box’ creates new IT beginnings at The Warren School

New IT increases classroom flexibility and enables remote learning on any device.

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Data Continuity Group launches Cloud Disaster Recovery as Managed Service

Data Continuity Group (DCG) has announced the launch of its managed cloud-based disaster recovery (CDR) service offering organisations the opportunity to deploy a comprehensive and cost-effective DR plan for their entire IT environment for a fixed monthly fee.

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ANS Group invests in Sunrise

Successful IT cloud services company reaps efficiency gains and enhances customer service using ITIL to manage support and administration for over 10,000 customer and prospect contacts.

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Videos

Eric Eppe, Head of Portfolio & Strategy, HPC/AI/Quantum at Eviden, Atos Group and also the UEC Secretary, discusses the formation of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI & HPC at scale.
David Walker, Field CTO, EMEA, Yugabyte, the leading open source distributed SQL database company, warns of the problems associated with legacy databases, discusses the importance of database modernisation - covering the requirements, benefits and potential pitfalls of the migration process - and outlines the many advantages of migrating to open source cloud native databases.
Enrico Signoretti, VP Product & Partnerships, Cubbit, explains the company’s DS3 geo-distributed storage solution, provides some background on how the company is developing its presence in then market, and talks of a new technology solution arriving this autumn.
Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, explains why the organisation is transforming into a global think tank, before discussing the current digital transformation landscape – the good, the bad and the ugly! As ever, he shares some great insights as to what needs to happen to ensure that sustainability is front and centre of the digital world.

Expert Opinions

By Tom Bethell, Business Development Director, Kao Data.
Part 2 of the article from Aryaka: Creating a truly optimised global network
By Drazen Kerzan, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering EMEA at Edgio.