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ControlCircle Opens Asia-Pacific Operations

31 Jan 2011

Expansion comes amid global growth in cloud computing and virtual technology outsourcing

ControlCircle today announced the opening of its Asia-Pacific operations in Singapore.  ControlCircle APAC will provide regional marketing, sales and support for ControlCircle’s growing portfolio of blue-chip clients expanding in the Asia Pacific region.  Stephen Harrison, former CEO Cellnet Pty Ltd Australia is appointed General Manager (GM) APAC and will spearhead ControlCircle’s expansion into one of the fastest growing markets in the world.

Integration of CommScope’s iPatch® Solution with Cisco’s EnergyWise Delivers Real-Time Location-Enabled Energy Management

31 Jan 2011

CommScope and Cisco to deliver first public demonstration of real time location-enabled energy management at Cisco Live!

CommScope, Inc., a global leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks, will demonstrate how its SYSTIMAX® iPatch® Intelligent Infrastructure Solution can enhance the energy saving potential of EnergyWise®, Cisco’s energy management architecture, at London’s Cisco Live! event on January 31 – February 3.

UK’s first community-driven infosecurity event announces call for speakers

31 Jan 2011

Security B-Sides "Unconference" call for papers closes February 15th, 2011 

Security B-Sides, www.securitybsides.org the first and only community-driven event built by and for information security community members, today announces its first-ever London conference, which will take place on April 20th at The Skills Matter eXchange. 

Interxion Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

28 Jan 2011

Interxion Holding N.V. has announced that it has priced an initial public offering of 20,375,252 ordinary shares at $13.00 per share. Interxion is offering 16,250,000 ordinary shares and certain selling shareholders are offering 4,125,252 ordinary share.

F5 Accelerates VMware View Deployments with BIG-IP Access Policy Manager on a Virtual Platform

28 Jan 2011

F5’s Access Policy Manager on BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition offers increased flexibility, improved user experience, and lower deployment costs for VMware View

F5 Networks, Inc. has announced a cost effective, scalable solution that streamlines and accelerates VMware View™ virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. F5 is delivering enhanced support for VMware View by making the F5^® BIG-IP^® Access Policy Manager™ (APM™) module licensable on the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM^®) Virtual Edition (VE) product. APM for LTM VE, a high performance access and security solution, offers organizations an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) module for virtual Application Delivery Controllers. APM for LTM VE can be deployed on existing hardware alongside virtual servers that host VMware View desktops, helping organizations control their infrastructure costs.

NewSpring Capital Makes Growth Investment in Raritan Inc.

28 Jan 2011

Invests in Raritan’s Power Management Business

Raritan Inc. has announced that NewSpring Capital (“NewSpring”), a leading provider of private equity capital in the Mid-Atlantic region, has made an investment to support Raritan’s growing power management business that helps companies improve energy efficiency and operations in their data centers.  Funds were provided through NewSpring’s growth equity fund -- NewSpring Growth Capital II, L.P.

Force10's 10GbE switch wins industry lowest latency score in independent Lippis/Ixia test

27 Jan 2011

Lippis/Ixia testing concludes Force10’s access switch delivers up to 70 percent lower latency than competitors’ products in data centre network tests

Force10 Networks today announced that its’ S-Series S4810 top-of-rack (ToR) access switch demonstrated as much as 5 percent to 70 percent lower latency than comparable switches in a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) configuration based on a network performance and power test.  The test was conducted by independent analyst and publisher Nick Lippis of The Lippis Report and Ixia, a leader in converged IP network test solutions.

Citrix connects Amazon Web Services to enterprise XenServer customers

27 Jan 2011

Citrix to deliver optimised cloud solutions for Windows and XenServer customers worldwide using Amazon Web Services

Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced it is providing engineering support to Amazon for the optimisation of Citrix products and Windows applications that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  This effort will further enhance interoperability and performance of Windows workloads on AWS, while ensuring continued innovation for the Xen virtualisation platform. Citrix will also work to extend these optimisations to on-premise deployments of its commercial server virtualisation platform, Citrix XenServer, making it easier for customers to seamlessly migrate workloads between enterprise datacentres and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).  As a result, AWS customers will be able to take advantage of the extensive expertise Citrix provides in virtualising and optimising the delivery of Windows workloads.

Metropolitan Police Firearms Unit use The Bunker’s Data Centre for Specialist Training

27 Jan 2011

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd has been selected by the Metropolitan Police Firearms Unit for armed police training purposes.

As the leader in ultra secure data centre services, The Bunker was considered to be ideal to use as a training facility by the Metropolitan Police Firearms Unit, due to the uniqueness layout and physical security infrastructure. The Metropolitan Police started their training in the first week of January, and will continue once a week, practising different scenarios at The Bunker facilities for several months.

UKSolutions keeps World Cruising Club data safe and secure in the ‘cloud’ and pirates at bay

26 Jan 2011

Joint venture enables over 1.6 million sailors to stay connected via ‘cloud’ computing services to international sailing events / Stability of Noonsite  benefits cruising sailors globally

UKSolutions has cast off with World Cruising Club (WCC), ensuring that more than 1.6 million people can access data on global sailing events, from locations around the globe.  The very nature of the events run by WCC means that people require access to information and data from all over the world, and courtesy of UKSolutions’ Cloud Computing provision, WCC can provide 100 per cent website uptime. At the same time the company has been entrusted by WCC to host Noonsite, the global information portal for cruising sailors. The website provides data from anti-piracy activity to port facilities, weather and tax issues pertinent to yacht owners.

TM Forum delivers industry’s first set of Enterprise-Grade External Compute Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Requirements

26 Jan 2011

Ground-breaking work by TM Forum’s Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council delivers first-ever handbook for defining and managing external compute IaaS deployments

TM Forum today announced the release of their new “Enterprise-Grade External Compute IaaS Requirements” document. Produced by the Forum’s Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC), this set of clearly-defined business and technical requirements for external private cloud services puts a stake in the ground for how business and technical agreements between enterprise customers and cloud service providers should be defined and managed.

Platform Computing announces industry’s most complete application-centric software for private cloud management

26 Jan 2011

Platform ISF 2.1 empowers enterprises with choice across heterogeneous resources

Platform Computing, the leading independent cloud management software provider, today announced the general availability of Platform ISF 2.1, a new release of its modular software for building and managing enterprise private clouds.  Platform ISF’s unique application-centric approach enables customers to support multi-tier applications in addition to provisioning infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (middleware) as services. Customers benefit with a solution that can support the entire application lifecycle from dev / test to production-ready application clouds in as quickly as 30 days.

jclouds and Libcloud add CloudSigma coverage

26 Jan 2011

CloudSigma AG today announced inclusion in the jclouds and Libcloud interoperability standards. Customers of CloudSigma can now develop cloud infrastructure based on either standard and deploy it seamlessly across multiple clouds including CloudSigma, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, GoGrid and many more.

StorageCraft ShadowProtect Named Finalist for Storage Product of the Year

26 Jan 2011

StorageCraft Technology Corporation today announced StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® is a finalist for the Storage magazine / SearchStorage.com 2010 Products of the Year competition.

Quest Software Enhances Coexistence Manager for Notes with Directory Synchronization between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

25 Jan 2011

Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced its newest version of Coexistence Manager for Notes, a solution for ensuring e-mail and calendar coexistence between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange Server, Exchange Online and hosted Exchange. In this latest release, Coexistence Manager for Notes provides directory synchronization between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010. This enables users on both platforms to seamlessly interact with each other and view a common list of users, groups and resources, no matter where their mailboxes reside. 

1E Joins Microsoft Partner Solutions Center to Strengthen Virtualisation and Cloud Offerings

25 Jan 2011

1E Extends Relationship with Microsoft to Focus on Development of Integrated IT Efficiency Solutions

1E, a software and services company that improves enterprise IT efficiency, today announced that it joined the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC), building on its long-term, strategic partnership.  1E will work together with Microsoft Corp. to design and validate integrated IT efficiency solutions for joint enterprise customers in virtualised and cloud computing environments.

Siemon's QSFP+ high-speed passive copper interconnect products pass InfiniBand testing

25 Jan 2011

Siemon today announced that its passive copper QSFP+ (quad small form-factor pluggable plus) high speed interconnect products have been tested by the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) and these 40Gb/s interconnect cable assemblies have been accepted as compliant to the InfiniBand Architecture Specification.

Imperva Strengthens Cloud Footprint With PartnerSphere Cloud Alliance Program

25 Jan 2011

More Than A Dozen Major Industry Cloud Vendors Achieve Certification

Imperva today announced its PartnerSphere Cloud Alliance Program (PCA), designed to enable Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP), Hosting and Cloud Providers to deliver best-in-class data security for their cloud data centers.  The program sets parameters for select partners, helping MSSP customers identify cloud service providers whose technologies and services have been certified by Imperva.

Kodak partners with Data-Shield to add specialist legacy networking expertise to its service portfolio in Europe

24 Jan 2011

Support for legacy SAN equipment means companies can ‘sweat assets’ further, extend equipment life and avoid unnecessary CAPEX  

Kodak today announced that it is partnering with Data-Shield to add specialist legacy networking expertise and support skills to its service portfolio in Europe.  The agreement is complementary and offers new business generation opportunities for both companies.

Adapt launches vendor-neutral Virtual Data Centre

24 Jan 2011

From virtual colocation to managed services, new solution reduces it complexity and delivers highly resilient data centre services tailored to individual customer needs

Adapt has today announced the availability of its Virtual Data Centre (VDC) service, which makes use of Adapt’s comprehensive portfolio of best-of-breed data centres to offer customers bespoke colocation and managed services that grow with their business.  With Adapt’s highly flexible ‘pay as you grow’ model, customers of any size can realise the benefits of virtualisation without the traditionally associated upfront capital investment.

Altodigital announces Document Despatch as a strategic partner

24 Jan 2011

Altodigital, a leading independent supplier of digital print and document solutions to businesses across the UK, is delighted to announce its strategic partnership with direct mail solutions company, Document Despatch Ltd. 

Shenzhen Genomics Institute (SGI) Selects Force10 Networks 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switching Solutions for its Human Gene Sequencing Computation Projects

21 Jan 2011

The core-to-edge switching solution provides the high performance, low latency and scalability that SGI needed to process complex computations involved in gene sequencing

Force10 Networks, Inc., a global technology leader, today announced that the Shenzhen Genomics Institute (SGI) has deployed its C-Series™ resilient chassis-based switches and its S-Series™ access switches to deliver core-to-edge switching solutions for the institute’s high-performance computing network environment. The high-performance Force10 solution has played a pivotal role in distributing large amounts of compute resources and network traffic resulting from SGI’s human gene sequencing computation projects.

Server Technology Launches New Downloadable Version of Sentry Power Manager Featuring Improved Data Center Power Measurement Accuracy Capabilities and FTP Server Functionality

21 Jan 2011

Upgraded Version 4.3.2 supports Per Inlet Power Sensing (PIPSTM) Cabinet Power Distribution Unit (CDUs) and features Integrated FTP Server for Automated CDU Firmware Upgrades 

Server Technology has introduced the latest update to the Sentry Power Manager (SPM) solution, version 4.3.2. "We're excited about the continued improvements made within our CDU products and the ability for Sentry Power Manager, our power monitoring and measurement solution, to support them," said Brandon Ewing, president of Server Technology.

F5 Networks Announces Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2011

20 Jan 2011

Revenue growth, up 41 percent year-over-year, driven by solid performance across all geographic regions

For the first quarter of fiscal 2011, F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced revenue of $268.9 million, up 5.8 percent from $254.3 million in the prior quarter and 40.7 percent from $191.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2010.

According to ISACA 40% of Global Executives Block Move to the Cloud

20 Jan 2011

IT Governance Institute Survey Also Reveals Outsourcing, Social Media and GEIT Trends

Forty percent of C-level executives have stated that they are not planning to adopt cloud computing, according to the fourth Global Status Report on the Governance of Enterprise IT (GEIT, conducted by the nonprofit, IT Governance Institute (ITGI), ISACA’s research affiliate.  Respondents who do not plan to use cloud computing at all in the near future list security (47%) and privacy concerns (50%), followed closely by legacy infrastructure investments (35%), as barriers to adoption.

Read the full report here

Global Network Monitoring Specialist Paessler Enters 2011 on a High

19 Jan 2011

Paessler AG is starting the year in a position of strength having closed a successful 2010. Despite challenging market trading conditions, Paessler has increased its UK sales by almost 50 per cent over the past 12 months and anticipates further growth in the year ahead.

Melbourne makes "Serverlove"

19 Jan 2011

Melbourne has launched Serverlove – a new cloud computing service.

The new service – which has been billed as ‘the most flexible choice for server hosting’ – went live this month following a period of extensive development and Beta testing in which over 100 customers trialled the product. 

Equinix and OpSource team to accelerate global delivery of scalable cloud solutions

19 Jan 2011

OpSource Joins Platform Equinix to expand service footprint, enhance performance and advance collaboration with company’s 3,700 customers to grow revenue.

Equinix and OpSource have announced an agreement to deliver enterprise-class cloud and managed hosting solutions to Equinix’s ecosystem of more than 3,700 customers across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. OpSource becomes part of Platform Equinix, which combines business ecosystems and a global footprint of state-of-the-art IBX (International Business Exchange) data centres for enabling companies such as OpSource to accelerate business growth.

Thales nShield Hardware Security Modules support Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

19 Jan 2011

Thales HSMs provide highest level of security assurance and cryptographic key management for database encryption

Thales, leader in information systems and communications security and a Microsoft Gold Partner, announces its nShield hardware security modules (HSMs) now provide comprehensive key management and hardware-based cryptography for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Microsoft customers selecting Thales HSMs now benefit from additional security features including encryption key management and storage of master encryption keys in FIPS-validated hardware – a long-standing industry best practice – enabling organizations to meet compliance mandates such as PCI DSS and data breach notification acts.

Interactive Data Extends Presence to Interxion’s Stockholm Data Centre

18 Jan 2011

Interxion today announced that Interactive Data 7ticks, part of Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, has extended the footprint of its real-time services by locating a Point of Presence (POP) in Interxion’s Stockholm data centre. The POP offers customers low-latency connectivity and proximity hosting both to the Stockholm-based exchanges and between the London and Stockholm financial centres.

Jaspersoft Certifies its Business Intelligence Offering with Ingres VectorWise

18 Jan 2011

Joint Certified Solution Delivers Cost-Effective and Blazing Fast Analytics and Reporting 

Ingres Corporation today announced that Jaspersoft, provider of the world's most widely deployed business intelligence (BI) software, has certified Jaspersoft with Ingres VectorWise. Jaspersoft's  business intelligence products were tested with Ingres VectorWise and delivered faster query response times compared to other database solutions on the market.

F5 Announces Two BIG-IP Apps Now Available at the App Store

18 Jan 2011

Free F5 apps deliver secure and optimized corporate network access for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

F5 has announced that its BIG-IP^® Edge Client^™App and BIG-IP Edge Portal^™ App are now available at the App Store. These apps provide iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users with convenient, secure, and accelerated access to corporate materials and ensure IT teams can confidently support both corporate and personal devices.

Wireless Coverage Is Now On-Board Italy’s High Speed Trains, Thanks to CommScope’s Andrew Solutions

18 Jan 2011

Providing reliable wireless coverage inside large buildings can be challenging, but doing so in structures moving at 350 kilometers per hour is downright daunting. That is why Telecom Italia called on Andrew Solutions, the CommScope, Inc. division that is a global leader in wireless communication systems and products, to provide its equipment, commissioning services, and expertise in support of 2G and 3G wireless networks on Trenitalia Frecciarossa high speed trains in Italy.

New Talari WAN virtualization solution aimed at reducing costs for mid-sized enterprises with up to 24 remote sites

18 Jan 2011

Talari Technology Allows Enterprises to Augment or Replace Private WAN Connections such as MPLS by Enabling 99.99 Percent Reliability using Public Internet Connections

Talari Networks™ today announced the addition of the Mercury T750 appliance to its family of Adaptive Private Networking (APN) products for WAN Virtualization.  Aimed at mid-sized enterprises with up to 24 remote sites, the T750 provides business-class (99.99 percent or greater) reliability & predictable performance by using inexpensive public WAN links.  As a result, enterprise WAN customers gain 30 to 100 times the bandwidth per dollar; can reduce monthly WAN service costs by 40 percent to 90 percent; and have greater reliability and application performance predictability than existing private WANs that use single-provider Frame Relay or MPLS services.

TechnologyOne heads into the cloud

17 Jan 2011

TechnologyOne has announced its cloud computing offering, TechnologyOne C2, promising to help customers migrate to the cloud to realise major operating and capital expenditure savings.

CommScope Names New Leader for Wireless Sales in Europe

17 Jan 2011

CommScope has named Phil Sorsky as vice president of Wireless Sales for Europe, effective immediately.

EuroCloud UK welcomes European board to landmark meeting in London

14 Jan 2011

Microsoft and NTRglobal join cloud industry leaders from across Europe for first live webcast of EuroCloud UK event

Cloud industry leaders from across Europe will converge in London next week for the first UK-hosted board meeting of fast-growing trade network EuroCloud (http://eurocloud.org/). Now entering its second year of operations, EuroCloud is active in more than two dozen European countries, providing a focal point for cloud industry collaboration and advocacy. 

MarketPrizm Hosts Financial Trading Infrastructure at Equinix London Data Center

14 Jan 2011

Trading Infrastructure Service Now Available to Financial Customers at Equinix LD4

Equinix has announced MarketPrizm has deployed an access node for its trading network and infrastructure service at Equinix’s LD4 London International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre. MarketPrizm is a comprehensive trading infrastructure for European trading participants.

Healthcare Focus Just What the Doctor Ordered for BridgeHead Software in 2010

13 Jan 2011

Healthcare Storage Virtualization^™ (HSV^™) specialist grows 40 per cent in 2010 as hospitals in North America and EMEA respond to BridgeHead’s unique healthcare data and storage management offerings

BridgeHead Software announced today that its year-over-year income had increased 40 per cent for fiscal year 2010, which ended on September 30. BridgeHead attributed its dynamic 2010 growth to its singular focus on developing and delivering data and storage management offerings that meet the unique needs of the healthcare market.

Genethon Secures Human Genome Scientific Data with Atempo Digital Archive

13 Jan 2011

With Atempo Digital Archive and Dell storage platforms, a non-profit research center for biotherapy
 preserves its scientific assets while optimising storage resources

Atempo announced today that Genethon has deployed Atempo Digital Archive, Atempo’s advanced file archiving platform, to optimise its storage resources.

Companies incurring unnecessary IT costs- through lack of fundamental knowledge

13 Jan 2011

Five simple rules to help

Computers in the workplace that run slowly, hang or even stop unexpectedly are responsible for staff frustration and lack of productivity as well as pushing up the costs of IT support. Independent research published by CA technologies, showed that European* organisations above 50 employees are collectively losing more than €17 billion in revenue each year through IT downtime and data recovery. This in turn means European businesses lose 1 million hours due to IT downtime each year, therefore minimising this aspect could provide much needed savings in corporate budgets.

Building a Cloud that Fits: BMC Software Offers Policy Control and Customisation to Cloud Customers

13 Jan 2011

As cloud computing continues to top the list of priorities for IT organisations, BMC Software is at the forefront of helping customers embrace the next important phase in cloud computing, namely, controlled customisation of cloud environments to meet each organisation’s specific needs.

Logicalis publishes Public Sector Network Delivery Framework release

13 Jan 2011

Open Source Framework Provides Fast Start Programme and Advocates PSN as Marketplace for ICT Service Users and Service Providers

Logicalis today published its Public Sector Network (PSN) Delivery Framework, bringing its unique experience in delivering large scale PSN projects into the public domain and helping public sector organisations to accelerate shared service communications projects, the critical first steps for frontline service and back office ICT consolidation.

Leading hosting service provider ReadySpace selects Force10 Networks to give customers "BulletProof" reliability and low latency performance

12 Jan 2011

Force10 Networks, Inc. today announced that ReadySpace, a leading hosting service provider based in Singapore, has selected the S-Series 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) fibre switch to provide 10 GbE performance and reliability for its growing number of customers in South Asia.

Teliti Datacentres Sdn Bhd

11 Jan 2011

Teliti Datacentres selected as a key contributor to Malaysia’s Economic Transformation Programme

Teliti Datacentres, a builder and provider of fully-integrated data centres and related services in Malaysia, is delighted to have been acknowledged in the Malaysian government’s Economic Transformation Programme (‘ETP’), announced by Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Mohd. Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak earlier today. The ETP is a comprehensive government initiative that will transform Malaysia into a high-income nation by 2020.

Q1 Labs helps BGL Group to massively reduce the number of false security alerts

10 Jan 2011

Switching from Cisco SIEM and log management to QRadar reduces alerts from 500 a day to less than 12 and additionally helps network operations team troubleshoot complex problems.

Q1 Labs today announced details of a successful project at BGL Group that has helped to drastically reduce volume of false security alerts, strengthen its security management procedures and reduce operational cost and complexity. The deployment of Q1 Labs’ flagship QRadar Security Intelligence Platform is also helping operations teams track down complex issues through detailed reporting of historical log data from multiple systems.

SANS London 2010 sets record attendance

10 Jan 2011

Issue of Cyber Security “top of the agenda” for enterprises and governments

SANS London 2010, Europe's largest IT security training event, has announced its most successful year ever with attendance rising 32 percent over 2009. New courses such as the 'SEC660: Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploits, and Ethical Hacking' were over subscribed by 50%. Every other course was either over 95% capacity or expanded due to a surge in applicants during November.

Varonis enables departments and agencies to comply with new wikileaks US document automation clampdown

10 Jan 2011

Limit and Automate Access to Sensitive Data with Free Trial of the Varonis Data Governance Software Suite

Following the release of massive amounts of confidential government documents by WikiLeaks, the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has directed federal departments and agencies to review their procedures for safeguarding classified national security information, and to complete an assessment of the safety measures they have in place to protect confidential documents by January 28.

Opening of the Nexans Technology Network Centre

10 Jan 2011

Nexans is delighted to announce the opening of the Nexans Technology Network Centre in Brussels.

A new virtual data centre has been created, alongside a product showcase, conference room and demonstration facility. IT managers and consultants from data centres and networking environments will be able to meet Nexans’ experts to discuss the latest technology developments such as changes in standardisation, IP convergence, energy efficiency, and how all of these will affect network strategy and design.

Silver Peak positioned as visionary in Gartner's 2010 Magic Quadrant for WAN optimisation controllers

06 Jan 2011

Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

Silver Peak Systems has announced that it has been positioned in the ‘Visionaries’ quadrant of the Gartner 2010 ‘Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers’ (Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers, Severine Real, Andy Rolfe, Joe Skorupa, December 23, 2010).

Keysource enhances knowledge of EU Code of Conduct

06 Jan 2011

Ten Keysource employees have obtained the BCS Intermediate Certificate in EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres. The qualification has been achieved following a three-day training course designed to provide essential knowledge about the terminology, structure and basic concepts of the Code, along with guidance on how best to implement and obtain participant status.

Survey shows HPC users experimenting with private and public clouds

06 Jan 2011

Nearly half of user organisations using cloud report a positive experience.

Sixty-two percent of high performance computing (HPC) users have experimented with private or public cloud, according to a survey of delegates performed by Platform Computing at the Supercomputing Conference (SC’10) in November 2010. HPC users cited a number of ways they are evaluating private cloud infrastructures, including building shared infrastructures (36 percent) and bursting existing workloads (15 percent). Users are also experimenting with offloading applications or workloads to run on public cloud infrastructures (23 percent).

PEER 1 Hosting strengthens Disaster Recovery with Adam Continuity

06 Jan 2011

Data centre recovery specialist partners exclusively with PEER 1

PEER1 Hosting today announces its exclusive UK partnership with Adam Continuity, the BS25999 accredited, and leading provider of business continuity solutions to IBM, Barclays and Dell. 

Raritan's New dcTrack Software Greatly Simplifies and Reduces the Cost of Implementing a Data Center Infrastructure Management Solution

06 Jan 2011

dcTrack Virtual Appliance model introduced; Release 2.4 simplifies data center capacity management and lowers operations cost

Raritan today announced that its award-winning dcTrack™ data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software solution is now available as a VMware®-ready virtual appliance, lowering total cost of ownership by dramatically simplifying installation and saving countless hours for deployment and configuration.  In addition, platform operating system and database licensing costs are eliminated, along with their associated integration costs. 

Cloud Security Alliance Announces Appointment of EMEA Strategy Advisor

05 Jan 2011

Raj Samani has been appointed as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) EMEA Strategy Advisor, it was announced today.

The role is a non-compensated role that is intended to advise the CSA on best practices and a roadmap within EMEA, as well as support existing and developing CSA Chapters where appropriate within EMEA.  The CSA is a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

Isilon enables Hibbert Ralph Animation to increase production efficiency

05 Jan 2011

Award-Winning UK Animation Studio Deploys Isilon Scale-Out Storage to Consolidate Animation, Visual Effects and Media Production Applications, Streamlining Operations to Accelerate Project Delivery  

Isilon® today announced that leading UK animation studio Hibbert Ralph Animation (HRA) has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its entire animation and media production workflow. Using Isilon’s X-Series, powered by the OneFS® operating system, HRA has consolidated its animation, visual effects and television production onto a single, shared storage resource, simplifying content management to accelerate productivity. With Isilon scale-out storage, HRA can now complete more projects in less time, expanding the studio’s bandwidth for new business.  

2011: Year of the Cloud set to drive mass data centre migration

05 Jan 2011

Gartner research is predicting that by 2015, at least one G20 nation's critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged by online sabotage.The biggest security concerns for the coming year will be cyber-sabotage and cyber-espionage, say industry experts citing the success of the Stuxnet worm in attacking industrial control systems as a prime example of what to expect in 2011. With the help of private cloud computing, these worries can be virtually eliminated and with the year ahead set to be the year of the cloud, mass business migration to sophisticated data centres will become inevitable. As well as improved security, cloud technologies will enable companies of all sizes to cut costs and drive efficiencies by renting their IT on a pay-per-use-basis, without the hassle of maintaining or managing their own data. 

Armadillo Managed Services Attains Gold Certified Partner Status in Fortinet Partner Program

04 Jan 2011

Armadillo has been accredited with ‘Gold Partner’ status by Fortinet.

Neil Morgan, Sales Director at Armadillo commented ‘We are delighted to have attained The Fortinet Gold Status Accreditation. It confirms that Armadillo have successfully achieved unprecedented growth and profit by delivering superior, next generation multi-threat security solutions to our growing client base. As a Gold Partner, Armadillo has demonstrated expertise with Fortinet technologies and a proven ability to meet customer’s needs. The benefit’s provided through our Gold Certified Partner status will allow us to continue to enhance the offerings that we provide to our customer’s”.

Wick Hill announces the availability of LogLogic 5, with support for the newly launched VMware vCloud™ Director

04 Jan 2011

More secure, more compliant cloud computing

VAD Wick Hill announces the availability of LogLogic 5, with support for the newly launched VMware vCloud™ Director. LogLogic®, a leader in SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and log management, will provide full support for VMware vCloud™ Director, as part of its LogLogic 5 product offering.

Economy wobbles as growth figures downgraded

03 Jan 2011

Cloud computing adoption could provide much needed boost to the economy in 2011

Britain’s rapid move out of recession experienced a blow as surprise figures revealed third-quarter growth of 0.7%, still healthy but below previous official estimates of 0.8%. The full impact of the Chancellor’s £81 billion cuts will be felt early next year and coupled with increase in VAT will mean even more pressure on the economy.