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TheDataChain owner, Rudi Keyser, is going to be running this years London Marathon to raise money for the Leukaemia Busters Charity. The research organisation is close to his heart as his youngest daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of the cancer last year.
Open Sourcing The Enterprise: Ten Years Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 May 2012
Red Hat Enterprise Linux transformed enterprise IT, and dramatically changed the software industry forever. By combining the open source development model with a customer-centric subscription based business model, Red Hat gave enterprise customers a way to leverage the value of open source in a way that made sense for them, and that spurred the adoption of Linux across the enterprise.
View video detailsSmartCloud Provisioning
16 May 2012
IBM® SmartCloud™ Provisioning is an entry-level, infrastructure-as-a-service solution that allows quick cloud deployment. It provides automated provisioning, parallel scalability, integrated fault tolerance and a foundation for more advanced cloud capabilities. This low-touch private cloud environment offers near-zero downtime and automated recovery.
View video detailsLSI Announces DataBolt™ Technology to Accelerate Datacentre Performance
17 May 2012
Achieve improved performance benefits of 12Gb/s SAS with existing 6Gb/s drive infrastructure
LSI to demonstrate DataBolt technology, together with Xyratex, at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase
LSI Corporation has announced DataBolt™ bandwidth optimiser technology, a unique performance acceleration feature for LSI® 12Gb/s SASsolutions designed to allow users to take advantage of 12Gb/s speeds while using existing 6Gb/s drive infrastructure.
Read news postKeysource scores high for service
17 May 2012
When it comes to client service and satisfaction, Keysource is amongst the best performing businesses within the UK according to the company’s latest Net Promoter Score (NPS). Keysource has been using the customer loyalty metric since 2006 to measure performance and has achieved an impressive average score of 73.02 per cent.
Read news postConsigned to History by the Smartphone
17 May 2012
It might seem hard to believe but the mobile phone was first introduced to the UK in 1985. Just twenty seven years later and the device that we now love is hardly recognisable to those first Motorola handsets. And it’s not just the size and battery life that’s changed. Let’s face it, if you were to upgrade your handset tomorrow, would you just be looking for one that can make calls!
Read articleDon’t Believe the Spin – Why Tape is Best for Archiving
16 May 2012
When it comes to creating the best long-term storage solution for data, one of the most important considerations is which medium to use; tape or spinning disk? Many suggest that spinning disk is the way forward. However, data tape has many benefits for long-term data storage, in particular Linear Tape Open (LTO) technology and the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format.
Read articleVodafone & CWW: consolidation and speculation
08 May 2012
Nick Ballard at Geo Networks writes: As anticipated it was confirmed last week that the Vodafone would offer just over £1bn for Cable and Wireless Worldwide (CWW) which values the company at a price of 38p per share – a 92% premium to the closing price of the company a day before the talks were unveiled!
Read articleAnnouncing OpenShift Origin – Open Source Code For Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
01 May 2012
The Cloud Computing team at RedHat write: It's been almost a year to the date since Red Hat launched the OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at Red Hat Summit. Since launch, OpenShift has established itself as a compelling PaaS choice for developers seeking enterprise capabilities.
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