Data centre availability is primary concern to meet demand for virtualization and SDN

Fabrics gain recognition as the foundation for data center evolution, but reactive approach to network investment risks business growth and stability. As customers look to adopt virtualization, embrace software-defined networking (SDN) and meet the needs of more demanding users, new research from Brocade among channel resellers across the globe has revealed that “data center availability” is their customers’ biggest concern (40 percent of respondents). Moreover, the survey...

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Bloomberg Vault adopted by Jefferies

Bloomberg's cloud-based archiving and e-discovery solution lowers costs and enhances oversight of enterprise information.

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IT professionals cautiously optimistic on 2014 revenues, IT budgets, and hiring plans

Spiceworks has announced the results of a new survey analyzing the perceptions small-to-medium enterprise (SME) and large organization IT professionals have of the United Kingdom (UK) economy, government policies and the perceived IT skills gap. Despite new technology initiatives and policies aimed at driving growth, most IT professionals feel the UK remains in a recession. However, IT professionals, particularly those in large organizations, are optimistic that revenue, IT budgets, and hiring...

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The power of technology

The improving economy heralds a heartening year for UK investment in IT, according to a new survey from American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) and CFO Research, Supporting Growth with New Technologies. Results of the survey show that more than three quarters (76%) of those surveyed plan to increase investments in technology in 2014, with 41% of CFOs planning to increase their spending on IT by 10% or more in 2014.

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Fibre Channel Industry Association advances 32 gigabit per second fibre roadmap

Continuous speed and bandwidth improvements of Fibre Channel drives storage innovation for next-generation data center architectures.  

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University of Oslo selects Hitachi Data Systems, QStar and Spectra Logic

Spectra Logic and QStar Technologies have announced that the University of Oslo has selected a Spectra Logic T-Finity coupled with QStar’s Archive Manager 6.0 to upgrade its storage systems as part of the NorStore project, where the country’s research community benefits from a government-funded storage infrastructure. With a requirement for 24/7, easy access to large volumes of scientific data, storage reliability is paramount to the University.

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Modernising Oracle with converged infrastructure

Customers who adopt Dell EMC VxBlock technology experienced 99% less planned and unplanned downtime according to a study by IDC.

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