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TBD Networks - Analyze & Act Demo

03 Sep 2010

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Dr. Anindo Banerjea from TBD Networks takes us through a demo on how to address network and storage bottlenecks to keep the utilization of your data centre high.

VMworld 2010 - Compellent and CommVault

03 Sep 2010

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Bruce Kornfeld, VP of business development and alliances at Compellent and David West, VP of marketing and business development at CommVault discussing the partnership, storage efficiency, data mangement and protection for virtualized enterprises and data centers.

EMC transforms management of the Private Cloud

03 Sep 2010

Further powering its customers' journey to the private cloud, EMC has announced the beta program for EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager 2.0. This new offering completely transforms infrastructure management by unifying, and making service-driven, the management of network, compute and storage layers. Ionix UIM 2.0 will empower companies to more easily make the transition from physical to virtual to private cloud infrastructures by unifying and automating the management of Vblock™ Infrastructure Packages, an element of the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition formed by Cisco, EMC, and VMware.

California Agency taps IBM and Pancetera Software to support state-wide emergency services

03 Sep 2010

With built-in intelligence to reduce data transfer, a new solution speeds Agency's backup of virtual machines.

Cloud computing: resilience is the key to success

03 Sep 2010

Our 21st century society has become so used to change and new developments that genuinely progressive concepts are initially not recognised by many people. There is then a rush to implementation once the benefits become obvious. Virtualisation is a good example of this, with the technology being around for a decade before its benefits really became understoodand appreciated.

We are now on the cusp of a significant evolution in information technology, one which has the potential to completely change how organisational IT is provisioned, managed and protected. Welcome to cloud computing.

Visit Britain - Case Study

02 Sep 2010

Working in partnership with key UK tourism associations, Visit Britain is responsible for inspiring the world to explore Britain and for developing the UK’s visitor economy. The organisation works in collaboration with representatives from 35 countries to provide tailored information to promote Britain and its tourist attractions via a global network of 46 websites. It’s goal is to increase overseas visitor spend to all parts of Britain and improve Britain’s rankings on the destination wish list for international travellers.

Ever Heard of a Zettabyte?

31 Aug 2010

A zettabyte is the really large measure of data which represents 1 trillion gigabytes, or 1 billion terabytes.

And, the world's online data is crossing the ZB mark for the first time this year.

According to IDC's annual survey of global digital output (published in May 2010 and sponsored by EMC), the current total amount of global data is expected to pass 1.2 ZBs sometime during 2010. To put this in context, IDC compares this as being equivalent to the amount of data that would be generated by every individual person in the world posting messages on Twitter continuously for a century.

IBM Day 1 – It’s Official

31 Aug 2010

Steve Kenniston writes: Between time off with the family this summer and all the work required to get done between ‘signing’ a deal to be acquired and ‘closing’ a deal to get acquired, the blog has been a bit slow. But I am here now to tell you it is official. Storwize is now Storwize, an IBM company.