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Gigas Hosts Its Cloud Hosting Platform at Interxion Madrid

17 May 2012

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Gigas, a Spanish company specialised in providing cloud hosting services, has decided to host its cloud service platform in Interxion’s Madrid data centre, from where it offers its services to its clients.

WH Ireland upgrades existing infrastructure

17 May 2012

WH Ireland, a leading stockbroking, wealth management and corporate finance services group has upgraded their infrastructure that will replace the firm’s existing distributed systems, and deliver cost savings and improved performance, preparing them for future IT projects. The product they have invested is the ANS’ Infrastructure 3.0, FlexPod data centre design, from ANS Group.

Keysource 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.

LSI 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.

Dell Introduces the First Multi-User 2U Rack Workstation for Virtualized 3D Workloads

16 May 2012

Enables up to four concurrent users to access a single workstation from virtually anywhere for the first time

Designed to improve ROI through increased access and better utilisation of workstation assets

Dell Precision R5500 rack workstation is the first four-GPU platform to receive Citrix XenServer GPU pass-through certification

Dell announced today it is expanding its client virtualization solutions with the introduction of the first virtualized 2U rack workstation enabling up to four concurrent professional graphics users to work from a single workstation from virtually anywhere. The Dell Precision R5500 rack workstation is the first four-GPU (graphics processing unit) configuration to be certified by Citrix with GPU pass-through on Citrix XenServer® 6 using Citrix XenDesktop® HDX™ 3D Pro, and brings additional security, IT resource optimization and end user flexibility to high performance  workloads. This new usage model is designed for customers running 3D workloads in the engineering, medical, media and entertainment, scientific, software development and economic and finance market segments looking to support additional users on a single workstation.

Leading industry analyst firm selects FireHost for ‘Cool Vendor’ report in cloud security

16 May 2012

FireHost, a global secure cloud hosting company has been named one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Security: Services and Cloud Security for 2012. The report issued in April set out to identify vendors that offer innovative and enhanced technologies in cloud security that CIOs, CISOs and IT executives should consider when choosing a provider.  Earlier this year, FireHost was named in two Gartner Magic Quadrants as “One to Watch;” 2012 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, and 2012 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting.

Equinix Agrees to Acquire ancotel; Significantly Increases Network Density in Europe

16 May 2012

Agreement will increase Equinix capacity in Frankfurt and provide access to more than 400 networks for customers expanding into Europe

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire ancotel GmbH, a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services in Europe. With the acquisition of ancotel, Equinix gains one data center in Frankfurt with 2,100 square meters of data center capacity and increases its European network density by adding more than 400 network customers, which includes 200 new networks and 6,000 cross connects.

LSI to Demonstrate High-Availability Direct-Attached Storage Solutions for Windows Server Platforms

16 May 2012

Simplifies high-availability (HA) storage solutions and redefines economics for cloud datacentre and SMB customers

LSI Corporation announced it will demonstrate high-availability direct-attached storage (HA-DAS) solutions for Microsoft^® Corp.’s Windows^® Server platforms at the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase which took place May 9, 2012, at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif. LSI’s HA-DAS solutionsare designed to provide small and medium-sized business (SMB) and cloud datacentre customers with continuous application uptime at a fraction of the cost and complexity of existing HA solutions.

Ticketmaster turns to nlyte Software for data centre reliability and energy efficiency

16 May 2012

nlyte DCIM suite gives Ticketmaster the visibility and control to deliver business continuity, sustainability and competitive pricing to its clients

nlyte Software, the data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solution provider, founded by data centre professionals for data centre professionals, today announced that Ticketmaster, the worldwide leader in online ticket purchasing, has selected the nlyte DCIM suite to help it actively manage the utilisation of power, space and cooling across its entire European data centre estate. Ticketmaster now has complete insight and control over its data centre environments. Its clients – including elements of the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG), GET ME IN! – now have access to tailored reports, giving them visibility into their data centre capacity utilisation so they can support Ticketmaster’s drive to a ‘greener’, more efficient ticketing process.

Is Loaphobia causing workers to fear losing their jobs?

16 May 2012

19% missed a critical deadline because they couldn’t access the right applications, 14% lost a job and 6% missed a promotion

Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, revealed the results of its recent research that found a fear in the workforce of not being able to hit deadlines, missing promotions or losing their jobs due to ‘loaphobia’ (Lack-Of-Application-Phobia). This fear is well founded as the research found that 19% have missed a critical deadline as a result of being denied full access to an application, 14% lost a job and 6% missed a promotion.

Nearly Half of IT Leaders Do Not Know the Value of Their IT Debt, with Many Unable to Measure or Manage it

16 May 2012

New global research confirms IT organizations need a more robust Application Portfolio Management strategy to curb IT debt and inform mainframe investments

46% of IT decision makers have admitted they do not know the value of their IT debt, creating a hidden balance sheet liability for those organizations as well as a growing business risk. IT Debt is defined as the cost of clearing the backlog of maintenance to bring the corporate applications portfolio up to date.  These findings form part of “Mainframe Transformation: the Elephant in the Room”, an independent global research study undertaken by Vanson Bourne and commissioned by Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions.

Autotask helps Datrix improve customer service and reduce reporting burden

16 May 2012

Professional Services Automation as SaaS helps IT channel clients increase profitability

Autotask Corporation, the world’s leading provider of hosted IT business management software, today announced details of how its customer Datrix, a UK provider of IT business solutions has improved customer service and profitability.

NextiraOne Austria is Cisco Data Centre Partner of the Year

15 May 2012

Cisco Recognises NextiraOne for its achievements in the Data Centre sector during the Cisco Partner Summit

An efficient and reliable IT and communications infrastructure is the foundation for the success of an organisation. Businesses see in the workplace of the future an opportunity to optimise their business processes and reduce their long-term costs. However, companies need to have a reliable partner with all the necessary expertise if they are to take full advantage of the many possibilities that communications and collaboration can offer. A broad knowledge of unified communications and collaboration technologies, including video conferencing and data centre, must be at the heart of such solutions.

Daisy Group unveil £1m bomb proof data centre in Manchester

14 May 2012

Unified business communications provider Daisy Group has opened the 12 tonne bomb proof door to its Manchester data centre, the most powerful and secure data storage facility in central Manchester.

Predicted Cloud growth places onus on the Service providers, says CIF

14 May 2012

New VMware research points to rapid increase in cloud IT

With a third of IT spend in Europe planned to go into cloud computing over the next 18 months, the stakes have never been higher for enterprises to understand what they are getting themselves into.

EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus Cloud Database Is Now Available through HP Cloud Services

10 May 2012

Agreement Expands Cloud-Based Access to Postgres

EnterpriseDB, the leading worldwide provider of PostgreSQL and Oracle database compatibility products and services, today announced that its Postgres Plus Cloud Database is now available on HP Cloud Services. EnterpriseDB has configured its enterprise-class PostgreSQL Database-as-a-Service to be offered through HP Cloud Services, which provides a powerful new option for businesses tapping into cloud environments that are also seeking a dynamic and feature-rich database that is truly scalable.

VPS.net Hits the Ground Running in Europe with Interxion

10 May 2012

INTERXION, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that VPS.net, part of the UK2 Group and a global leader in cloud hosting, has chosen to host its cloud services for France and Germany in Interxion’s data centres inParis and Frankfurt.

Barracuda Networks Launches Massive 90TB Backup Appliance

10 May 2012

Barracuda Backup Server 1090 Redefines Purpose-Built-Backup-Appliance Scalability

Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of content security, data protection and application delivery solutions, today announced the new Barracuda Backup Server 1090, one of the largest backup appliances on the market. With model 1090, Barracuda Backup, Barracuda’s number one selling product line, extends its flexible and simplified backup capabilities to protect even larger environments with 90TB of storage and allows customers to manage all their backups on a single platform.

Accenture Awarded Contract Extension for Medical Imaging in the U.K.

10 May 2012

Accenture has been awarded a one-year contract extension by the United Kingdom Department of Health to continue to provide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) to National Health Service Trusts (NHS) in the North East and East of England/East Midlands that have chosen to extend their current service provision with Accenture. The contract will run until June 30, 2016.

Arup Group selects Vtesse for colocated data centre operations

10 May 2012

Colocated Hertfordshire facility will support global design firm’s 10,000 employees and 3,000 CAD users, enhancing resilience and efficiency

Leading business communications provider Vtesse today announced that its subsidiary, Vtesse Cirrus, has been selected by Arup to provide colocated data centre services based at its Tier III+ facility in Hertfordshire.  The global design engineering firm will migrate its existing operations, comprising more than 500 pieces of equipment, from Arup’s West London headquarters to Vtesse Cirrus’ Hoddesdon data centre over a three month period.

NHS targeted with tailored cloud service from Proact

09 May 2012

NHS demand for secure cloud services met by Service Provider ahead of competition

Proact, Europe's leading storage integrator and cloud services enabler, is today announcing its IGSoC (Information Governance Statement of Compliance) certification, allowing Proact to bring it’s proven Cloud Services to the NHS. 

Leading UK Charity Fusion Housing Implements Securstore Cloud Backup across its Organisation

09 May 2012

Fusion Housing, a respected housing support charity, has chosen Securstore, a market leader in enterprise Cloud Backup, to protect its mission-critical data across multiple sites. Fusion Housing provides a range of services to vulnerable individuals, including its financial Bond Bank, recycling, central services, learning, support and accommodation advice.

ShoreTel Introduces Collaboration Solution To Meet Increasing Demand from Large Enterprise Customers

09 May 2012

Brilliantly simple collaboration tools enable integrated IM, audio and Web conferencing capabilities

ShoreTel^®, the leading provider of brilliantly simple premise and cloud-based business phone system and communication solutions with fully integrated unified communications (UC), has announced the availability of collaboration applications to meet the increasing demands of large enterprise customers deploying ShoreTel solutions around the world.

Smooth Sailing for Sunset+Vine with ASG Digital Archive for Digital Assets Archiving

09 May 2012

Leading sports production company uses ASG Digital Archive to preserve America’s Cup footage for the long-term, while cutting costs and optimising storage

Atempo, an ASG Company and leading provider of cross-platform data protection and archiving solutions, announced today that sports production company Sunset+Vine deployed ASG Digital Archive (ADA), an advanced file archiving platform, to effectively manage and preserve High Definition (HD) coverage of sporting events.

London businesses ‘stress test’ their Olympic preparedness – Vtesse warns not to neglect data centres

09 May 2012

Over the next two days, businesses across London will be participating in the Capital’s largest co-ordinated test of IT, telecommunications and transport, to test their preparedness for the Olympics.  Whilst this ‘stress test’ gives companies a chance to assess their contingency plans, it neglects one of the most significant areas for any organisation today, the data centre.

Emulex Partners with Myricom to Enter High Performance Networking Market for Low Latency Applications

09 May 2012

Emulex Corporation has announced the introduction of a family of new OneConnect® Network Xceleration™ solutions for the High Performance Networking (HPN) market.

Virtustream Announces Cloud Partnership with nWorX Technologies JLT

09 May 2012

Leading Cloud Solution Provider Expands Geographic Coverage with Middle Eastern Partnership

Virtustream, Inc., the leading enterprise-class cloud solution provider, has announced that it has signed a partnership with nWorX Technologies JLT, based in Dubai, UAE to develop and deliver innovative cloud solutions and services in the Middle East, Africa, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) regions.

Hiroshi Kobayashi appointed as new MD of Telehouse and KDDI Europe

09 May 2012

New MD shares vision at Frankfurt Data Centre Opening Ceremony

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres & managed ICT services and subsidiary of KDDI, has announced the appointment of Hiroshi Kobayashi as the new Managing Director of its European Division. Kobayashi-san succeeds Tokuji Mitsui and will be based in London, the European headquarters.

NaviSite Launches NaviCloud Intelligent Storage

09 May 2012

Key Component for BCDR andManaging Big Data in the Cloud

NaviSite, Inc., a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, introduced NaviCloud Intelligent Storage (NCIS) that enables enterprises to store, manage, and protect distributed, unstructured content with a flexible and scalable solution. NCIS offers IT an easy to manage, secure and reliable managed cloud storage solution that complements existing storage and retention requirementswhile also addressing several new business needs around mobility and on-demand storage.

Cloud services are now tailor-made for Syscom

09 May 2012

Syscom partners with Rise to offer customers hosted services

Rise, a provider of hosted services, has today announced that it will supply integrated business software solutions firm, Syscom, with a hosted services platform, in order to support its customers demand for a faster, more cost effective IT infrastructure

Micro Focus Achieves Champion Status in Info-Tech Research Group's Agile ALM and Software Test Management Reports

09 May 2012

Borland solutions recognized for feature-rich functionality and broad support

Micro Focus, the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced it has been named a “champion” in Info-Tech Research Group's Agile ALM Vendor Landscape and Software Test Management Vendor Landscape reports. Through a comprehensive review of companies in both areas, the reports are designed to offer an independent perspective on the range of test and agile development products available in the market.

Big Data Needs a Big Switch

09 May 2012

Gnodal launches the highest density, low latency, Best of Interop Winning, 40GbE (2RU) Switch

Gnodal Limited, a network company delivering cutting edge Ethernet Switch technology solutions, today at Interop, announced the launch of the GS0072, the latest and biggest addition to the industry leading GS-Series with 72 ports of 40 GbE built into a sleek 2RU form factor.  The GS0072 was recently awarded Best of Interop in the Networking Category this week in Las Vegas.

Brocade Networks Help Leading Web-Hosting Firm Manage Doubling Growth Rates While Meeting Service Level Agreements

09 May 2012

Brocade NetIron CER Series routers and Brocade ServerIron ADX Series application delivery switches help CatN increase service performance and reliability for customers including one of the world’s leading leisure travel groups

In order to keep pace with the UK’s growing “connected” population - which has risen by 234 percent over the past decade – Web-focused companies must also continue to grow while meeting their service level agreements (SLAs). To meet this challenge, one of the UK’s fastest growing Web hosting firms, CatN, a Fubra group company, recently turned to Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) to deliver a load balancing solution that could provide the performance, reliability and scalability it urgently needed.

NextiraOne builds telecommunications network for Poland’s National Stadium in Warsaw

09 May 2012

Modern technologies support the operation of Poland’s largest sports, entertainment and conference facility

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has announced the implementation of a telecommunication network for the National Stadium in Warsaw, a multi-functional venue for large-scale  events, including the  UEFA EURO 2012™ European Football Championship.

Schneider Electric Launches First-Ever Physical IT Infrastructure Offering for Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses

09 May 2012

New InfraStruxure for Small IT Solution Enables SMBs to Deploy and Manage Critical IT Infrastructures in Small Environments, Built on Capabilities Previously Available Only to Large Enterprises

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has announced InfraStruxure™ for Small IT, the first-ever industry offer enabling small-to-medium sized businesses to design and build their physical IT infrastructures around the power of a comprehensive offering, including both software and hardware. The InfraStruxure offer, which now provides comprehensive solutions ranging from small IT environments up to two megawatt data centres had previously only been available to large enterprises. This new offer will speed the deployment, configuration and installation of IT infrastructures in small environments, such as a server room, network closet or non-dedicated space.

6fusion Expands Multi-Hypervisor Federated Cloud to Include Xen Customers

09 May 2012

Users can now use a combination of Xen Source, Citrix Xen Server, or VMware hypervisors across public, private and hybrid cloud environments

6fusion, the leading provider of utility metered public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure management solutions today announced multi-hypervisor support with the expansion of its cloud computing platform to support the Open Source and Citrix Xen platforms.

Aspect Benelux announce strategic reseller agreement with Nexct

08 May 2012

Aspect, a leading provider of customer contact and Microsoft® platform solutions, and Nexct, a specialist in corporate communication and collaboration, today announced a strategic reseller agreement within the Dutch market. Nexct will deploy Aspect’s technology and applications in its projects for innovating the customer contact of organisations.

Nexans strengthens its UK sales team with new personnel

08 May 2012

Nexans has reinforced its established UK sales team with the inclusion of two new members of personnel to support and develop the UK business growth.

Introduction of Akamai Terra Cloud Catalyst Allows Public Cloud Providers to Offer Industry-leading CDN Services to Customers

08 May 2012

New service makes it easy to integrate best-in-class Akamai CDN capabilities into third-party cloud provider platforms

Akamai^® Technologies, Inc., a leading cloud platform for delivering secure, high-performing user experiences to any device, anywhere, today introduced Terra Cloud Catalyst. Specifically designed for public cloud providers, Terra Cloud Catalyst can help make it easier for hosted storage, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors of all sizes to offer Akamai’s industry-leading content delivery network (CDN) services to their customers. Cloud providers further benefit from Terra Cloud Catalyst features such as incremental customer activation, pricing and billing models that closely align to the way they serve their users.

Security starts with the database

08 May 2012

New solution launched to secure the database where information needs to be 100 per cent secure and yet totally available

A new Software Developers Kit (SDK), designed to keep all information stored in corporate databases secure, has been launched by the UK search specialist, Simplexo.

Reed Recruitment Roll Out New Business-Focused Application Delivery Network From Azzurri

08 May 2012

Reed Recruitment has awarded Azzurri Communications a multi-million pound, five year contract to provide a network and telecoms managed service for its 3,000 employees. The contract redefines the traditional method of deploying and managing a Wide Area Network (WAN), with service levels focused on the employee experience of business applications, rather than on technical criteria. This is made possible by the capability of Azzurri’s new virtual network, the Intelligent Cloud-Optimised Network (ICON), which aggregates and manages connectivity and services from over 20 best of breed communication providers.

ExtraHop Networks Builds First-Ever Agentless Performance Monitoring Solution for Citrix Desktop Virtualisation

08 May 2012

ExtraHop Delivers the Only Real-Time, Comprehensive, Deterministic Performance Monitoring for Desktop Virtualisation Deployments

ExtraHop Networks, the leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced the launch of the first-ever agentless APM solution that is verified Citrix Ready® to be compatible for Citrix XenDesktop®, Citrix XenApp™, and Citrix NetScaler®. With real-time analysis of virtual desktop wire protocols, the ExtraHop Citrix Module for XenDesktop and XenApp enables IT teams to identify and resolve small issues before they become major problems, quickly determine which part of the infrastructure is responsible for degradation in performance, and gain other valuable insights to help manage their desktop virtualisation deployments.

Sparebanken Vest Banks on Avaya for Future-Proofed Network Infrastructure Upgrade

08 May 2012

Upgrade supports server virtualisation and migration path and future proofs network investment

Reduces provision and management of services and improves network reliability

Sparebanken Vest, one of Norway’s oldest banks, has chosen Avaya’s Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA) as part of a project to upgrade the bank’s network infrastructure and support its move to a virtualised server environment.

Lucierna Revealed As Leading Analyst Firm 2012 Cool Vendor for Application Performance Monitoring

08 May 2012

Lucierna, the specialist application performance and optimization company, has been unveiled as a company that Gartner recognizes as a Cool Vendor in the application performance monitoring (APM) market.*  Alongside its ability to monitor 100% of the code, 100% of the time with just a 2% overhead, Lucierna is able to identify the root cause of a performance issue and provide information in a way that allows for a greater understanding of where the problem lies so that it can be resolved.

Alcatel-Lucent bolsters the performance of enterprise data centre networks, making them faster, more responsive, more flexible and 'cloud-ready'

08 May 2012

Company expands 40 gigabit Ethernet (40 GigE) capabilities throughout the network; collaboration with Citrix helps ensure an exceptional experience for workers with new applications and cloud services

Alcatel-Lucent today announced a major upgrade of its award-winning data centre switching solution or 'fabric', the Alcatel-Lucent Mesh. By extending high-performance 40 gigabit Ethernet (40 GigE) links throughout the Mesh, the company has dramatically increased the speed, responsiveness and flexibility of enterprise data centre networks, making them better able to support bandwidth-devouring, real-time applications like video collaboration, virtual desktop, and the growing array of cloud services.

Whiptail introduces Accela and Ivicta, changes speed of the storage industry

08 May 2012

Family of high performance NAND flash silicon storage products is faster, more scalable than anything on market today

WHIPTAIL, the world leader in high performance 100% solid state storage arrays, today publicly launched INVICTA, the world’s first scale-out, modular, enterprise class solid state storage platform, as well as ACCELA, the next generation of the world’s most widely deployed all flash storage array. INVICTA and ACCELA are available now through WHIPTAIL as well as over 100 partners worldwide.

IT experts warn corporates of malware driven evolution of ransomware

08 May 2012

Commenting on the merging of the Citadel trojan with the Reveton ransomware, Lieberman Software says that this use of multiple attack vectors by cybercriminals is almost certainly the result of rising levels of success by the authorities in their battle against online crime.

Survey: SMB IT Budgets Rise 15 Per cent in the Past 12 Months

08 May 2012

Tablets See Broader Adoption; 75 per cent of SMBs Currently Managing BYOD, but Opinions Vary on Growing Trend

Today at the Interop IT Expo and Conference, Spiceworks™, Inc., the world’s largest social business network for IT, released the results of its bi-annual State of SMB IT survey of technology purchasing and adoption trends among small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). According to the survey results, SMBs are continuing to expand IT budgets, which now average £94,000 ($152,000) per year. The research also finds that SMBs across the board are increasingly adopting tablets, cloud services and virtualisation, but they are divided on support for the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend.

Qbrick Consolidates Servers to Interxion

03 May 2012

Interxion HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Qbrick, a European provider of streaming media, has chosen Interxion to house a large part of their overall server capacity in the Nordic region.  Qbrick cited a greater end-user need for capacity combined with demand for increased quality behind its decision for consolidation.

Keysource makes board appointments

03 May 2012

As part of Keysource’s ongoing strategy of building on its continued success as a leading Data Centre design and build company, two long serving members of the senior team have joined the newly created main board.

Arista Networks to showcase Software Defined Cloud Networking at Interop

03 May 2012

Arista Networks will be demonstrating Software Defined Networks (SDN) with key partners, built on Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System), the world’s most advanced network operating system.  The programmability inherent in EOS is being demonstrated in conjunction with strategic partners at Interop in Arista booth #1539.

UKFast Up For Data Centre Awards Double

03 May 2012

Manchester hosting and cloud specialist UKFast has been named as a finalist in two categories in this year’s Data Centre Solutions Awards, less than a year after opening their first wholly-owned data centre.

AMD Launches Open Compute Project Platform Specification for Financial Services

03 May 2012

“Roadrunner” platform specification will deliver dramatic power and cost savings to demanding market segment

At the Open Compute Summit, AMD, a member of Open Compute and a leader in driving open standards -- today unveiled a flexible and innovative Open Compute Project server platform specification, codenamed “Roadrunner,” to enable power-efficient, cost-effective solutions. “Roadrunner” is specifically designed to meet the general purpose compute, cloud infrastructure, high-performance compute and storage needs of the financial services industry. This move is in line with the Open Compute Project’s mission of driving further innovation and greater energy efficiency in infrastructure technology.

Data centre move marks new beginning for Provident Financial

03 May 2012

Consumer credit company Provident Financial has outsourced its data centre with Node4 in a move that will allow a more scalable solution as the company grows.

Provident Financial, the UK’s leading provider of personal credit products, used the move of its Bradford headquarters as an opportunity to reassess its IT infrastructure and decided to relocate its data centre, which was formerly on site. The new deal, which builds on their previous relationship with data centre provider Node4, will allow Provident Financial to keep control of their equipment but have peace of mind that it will be housed in a suitable purpose built environment.

Mimecast Extends Mobile Services to Windows Phone and Android

03 May 2012

Enterprise Mobility Boosted by Archive Search Capability for all Major Smartphone Platforms

Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving,continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has today announced that it is extending its mobile services to Windows Phone and Android. The Mobile Access apps – both available to download from today – mean that Mimecast is the first and only cloud email management vendor to offer archive search apps for all major smartphone platforms; Windows Phone, iPhone, BlackBerry and  Android.

UK’s Digital Growth Held Back by Poor Connectivity

02 May 2012

Government intervention to boost the country’s connectivity is crucial if the UK is to stand a chance of competing economically with the likes of Scandinavia and Japan.

As the UK approached a double dip recession, a panel of business and technology experts lamented the lack of interest shown by Government in investing in web connectivity in the UK. Experts agreed that a better understanding from the ruling parties of the importance of a fast and reliable network could change the country’s fortunes for the better. 

Majority of UK financial services organisations will invest in ‘cheaper’ ways to engage customers in 2013

02 May 2012

Contact centres operating in the consumer financial services industry are planning to win the customer experience/cost battle with web-based customer engagement and self-service, according to new research from Aspect.

Getronics unveils international strategy following AURELIUS acquisition

02 May 2012

Following completion of its acquisition by AURELIUS, Getronics is set to deliver a great breadth of services across Europe and APAC, placing a continued focus on its Getronics Workspace Alliance

International ICT services provider, Getronics, has today announced the completion of its acquisition by German AURELIUS Group, whilst simultaneously unveiling its international business strategy.  The new Getronics, with operations across Europe and APAC, is investing in the development of next generation technology services, including a new aggregated cloud service which orchestrates third party services and applications, set to launch in Q3. In addition, its focus is firmly on leveraging in-country strengths and sharing those across other regions.  For example, the Swiss operation boasts expertise in Unified Comms, whilst the Belgium division leads the way with their innovative New World of Working initiative, which sees businesses adopt the latest ways of effective working and collaboration, using innovative technologies. By strengthening country-specific operations, Getronics will enhance its international service portfolio with its dual focus on unifying country capabilities at a company level and through the Getronics Workspace Alliance (GWA).

Lieberman Software Enhances Self-Service Password Reset Capabilities for the Windows Enterprise

02 May 2012

Account Reset Console 6.0 Provides Greater Performance and Scalability for User Account Password Management

Lieberman Software Corporation announced the release of Account Reset Console 6.0, the latest version of the company’s self-service password reset solution. The product permits delegated users to reset their own passwords and unlock their own accounts without involving IT staff, helping organizations maintain high productivity levels while simultaneously strengthening security.

GreenField Software partners with GFS Group Holdings in move to enter European market

02 May 2012

Agreement brings GreenField Software offerings into the European Union via GFS Group Holdings

GreenField Software Private Ltd, a pioneer in energy and environment management software, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with GFS Group Holdings Limited, to provide Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Energy and Sustainability Management (ESM) software solutions for enterprises in the European market. GFS Group Holdings will be the master distributor of GreenField Software’s products across the European Union and in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

Imation announces agreement with McAfee on encrypted USB devices

02 May 2012

Imation to sell and support Encrypted USB devices manageable by McAfee ePO

Imation Corp., a global scalable storage and data security company, has announced that McAfee will transition its Encrypted USB device business to Imation, a McAfee partner and the McAfee Encrypted USB devices’ OEM manufacturer and supplier.

Juniper Networks enables secure enterprise network access from any device without burdening IT managers

02 May 2012

Enhanced Simply Connected Portfolio Simplifies and Secures Bring-Your-Own-Device with Holistic Approach to Unified Policy and Mobile Access

Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, announced additions to its Simply Connected portfolio available today that simplify and secure mobile device access to enterprise networks. With new unified policy enforcement that is simplified and automated, IT managers can now set and automatically enforce consistent security and access policies across every wired, wireless and mobile connection from company-issued, personal and guest devices. This new approach ultimately reduces the burden on IT managers who struggle with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) administration and security enforcement access policies.

Enterworks Embeds Talend Enterprise Data Quality to Help Distributors Deliver Trustworthy Big Data

02 May 2012

Leading provider of multi-channel content solutions OEMs Talend Enterprise Data Quality to meet customers’ most complex big data quality requirements

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Enterworks, Inc., a market leader in solutions for managing and transforming a company’s product information into persuasive content for multi-channel sales, is deploying Talend Enterprise Data Quality to help customers cleanse and normalise large volumes of product data. With Talend, Enterworks is creating opportunities for distributors to improve the accuracy and quality of their big data, resulting in better inbound product content from suppliers and richer product content for dealer sales.

Assuria Launches New ‘CyberSense’ Cyber Security Solution

01 May 2012

International cyber-security vendor Assuria has launched its new CyberSense Enterprise Scanner solution to bring enterprise level cyber defence solutions to the widest possible audience.

Media Friendly Chooses SkyDox’s Cloud-Enabled File Sharing and Collaboration Platform to Enhance Team Productivity

01 May 2012

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, file synchronization, file storage, and collaboration tools, announced today that it has been selected by Media Friendly to provide them with a productivity-enhancing collaboration platform. Media Friendly provides issues and crisis management training, media training, and public relations services for chief executives, directors, and managers from large enterprise and government organizations both nationally and internationally.

ShoreTel Reports Financial Results For Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2012

01 May 2012

Completes M5 Cloud IP Telephony Acquisition

ShoreTel®, the leading provider of brilliantly simple premise and cloud-based business phone system and communication solutions with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012, which ended March 31, 2012.

Fake G-Men Attack Hijacks Computers for Ransom

01 May 2012

Trusteer Intelligence researchers have discovered a clever new use of the Citadel malware platform (a descendent of the Zeus Trojan) to deliver code ransomware that poses as the US Department of Justice and highjacks victims’ computers. This ransomware, named Reveton, freezes the compromised machine’s operating system and demands a $100 payment to unlock it. Reveton was observed a few weeks ago being used as a standalone attack, but has now been coupled with the Citadel platform. This is another example of financial malware expanding beyond online banking fraud and being used as a launch pad for other types of cyber-attacks. Citadel is able to target employees to steal enterprise credentials, and in this example targets victims directly to steal money from them, instead of their financial institution.

Google Drive - a great way of sharing your files: with everyone!

01 May 2012

Data privacy should be paramount in the minds of today’s consumer. According to the Cloud Industry Forum 55 per cent of businesses cite privacy as a major concern when it comes to Cloud deployments. One would therefore think that this would be uppermost in the minds of solution providers.

Invu launches virtual data rooms

01 May 2012

Invu launches secure, auditable online document access facility, based upon proven document management software technology, replacing need for costly and inefficient physical data rooms in projects involving sensitive information

Invu, the document control and workflow automation software provider, today announces its Virtual Data Room offering – a secure, on-premise or private cloud hosted facility, with full audit functionality, for sharing sensitive documents in scenarios where access needs to be restricted, such as mergers and acquisitions, large financial transactions or instances of due diligence.

GFI® Software Creates New Revenue Opportunity for Managed Services Providers with Managed Cloud Backup

01 May 2012

GFI MAX Managed Online Backup released as demand strengthens for backup services in the cloud

GFI Software today announced the addition of GFI MAX Managed Online Backup^™ to the GFI MAX RemoteManagement^™ managed services platform. The new service enables managed services providers (MSPs) to add secure data backup to the managed services they can offer customers at a time when demand for online backup continues to rise.

Complacent IT professionals put companies at risk

01 May 2012

43 per cent knowingly breach copyright

Complacent IT professionals could be putting their companies at risk of suspended internet service or worse by ignoring delayed anti-piracy legislation according to research commissioned by Star, a provider of on-demand cloud computing and communication services to UK businesses.

PEER 1 Hosting doubles colocation footprint in Portsmouth

01 May 2012

Demand for mission critical hosting infrastructure drives expansion

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, is today announcing that it has doubled its colocation space in its data centre in Portsmouth. The move is in response to demand from businesses in London and the South looking for a world-class data centre and network for their mission-critical hosting solutions to operate on.

Mozy Launches UK Channel Programme

01 May 2012

World’s most trusted online backup provider offers bespoke package of rewards and opportunities to UK resellers

Mozy®, the world’s most trusted provider of data protection and availability for consumers and businesses, has created a new stream in its internationally award-winning channel programme to meet the specific needs of UK resellers.

Dr Rupert Ogilvie outlines how visualising your data can be the key to successfully managing it

01 May 2012

Dr Rupert Ogilvie outlines how visualising your data can be the key to successfully managing it

Dr Rupert Ogilvie, Optimisation Consultant at Intergence, an IT optimisation consultancy based in Cambridge, has outlined how data visualisation can help manage Big Data that is often too unwieldy to capture, manage, and process within a reasonable amount of time. 

IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards, recognise Rise

01 May 2012

Hosted services provider shortlisted for Service Provider of the Year

Rise, a leading provider of hosted services, has today announced that it has been shortlisted in the IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards, in recognition of its commitment to supporting its channel partners in the delivery of hosted and Cloud based IT solutions.

FAST backs court ruling blocking access to The Pirate Bay

01 May 2012

Industry body welcomes further law enforcement on blocking access to website

The decision to block file-sharing site The Pirate Bay by UK internet service providers following a High Court ruling, has been welcomed by the Federation Against Software Theft.

Rapid Cellular Adoption for Remote Infrastructure Management Propels Opengear 49.9% Year-over-Year Sales Growth

01 May 2012

Andy Harris Joins Opengear to Head EMEA Sales

Opengear, a leading provider of next generation console server and remote infrastructure management solutions, today announced that it grew year-over-year Q1 global sales by 49.9 percent, from 2011 to 2012.  The company has also hired a vice president of sales, Andy Harris, for EMEA.

Avecto wins Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award 2012

30 Apr 2012

Recognition for the 100 most innovative technology companies in Europe

Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, announced today they are winners of Red Herring's Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious award that recognises the top 100 private technology companies from the European business region.

Consumers’ biggest frustrations with their banks and insurance providers lie in the contact centre

30 Apr 2012

Customer service crucial to consumers

New research from Aspect has found that consumers get most frustrated with their banks and insurance providers when communicating with them through the contact centre, affecting cross-selling and upselling opportunities and resulting in loss of customers.

Aimes Grid Services and Keysource provide next generation cloud computing data centre infrastructure

30 Apr 2012

In partnership with Liverpool Innovation Park, AIMES Grid Services, a provider of Cloud services, has appointed Keysource to design and build a new data centre to support its next generation cloud computing infrastructure. The facility at Liverpool Innovation Park is the first phase of a new Cloud Computing Campus. The initial development will provide up to 10,000sq ft of net technical space and the capacity to develop a total of 35,000sq ft.

Colt to build major new energy efficient data centre in the Netherlands

27 Apr 2012

Colt announces site for its 20th data centre to meet increasing demand for modular data centres

Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, today announced its first Modular Data Centre deployment in the Netherlands on a 39,000m² site. Colt will initially deploy 2,000m² of data centre space at the site, before increasing its capacity to 20 halls over 10,000m². With a significant anchor tenant already secured, Colt expects to commence operations at the new carrier neutral data centre in early 2013.

UK cloud computing company iomart Hosting sponsors youth football teams

27 Apr 2012

iomart Hosting announces the first winners of its Host Your Kit competition

iomart Hosting has announced the names of the first 10 youth football teams that will wear its sponsored kit next season.

World Intellectual Property Day gives robust message to the UK – “without clear knowledge ownership, economic growth will stall”

27 Apr 2012

A host of leaders in intellectual property have been assembled at the House of Commons for this year’s World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April 2012.

Violin Memory Adds Eight New Resellers to EMEA Partner Program

26 Apr 2012

Rapid Channel Ramp-up Attracts Viadex and Softcat as Partners

Violin Memory, Inc., provider of one of the world’s fastest and most scalable flash Memory Arrays, today announced eight new channel partners across seven new countries in Europe, all of which joined within the last thirty days.

Equinix Selected for Global Roll-out of BT Radianz Venue Services

26 Apr 2012

Offering enables managed hosted solutions, lowest optimal latency and global connectivity to key financial communities and trading venues

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced that BT, a leading provider of connectivity, hosting and managed services solutions, has selected Equinix data centers for the roll-out of BT Radianz Venue, a cloud-based high-performance suite of services designed to enhance BT’s proximity hosting capabilities and provide the lowest optimal latency and interconnectivity between trading venues throughout the world’s top financial markets.

PwC findings supported but Security on premise and online require a similar approach, says Cloud Industry Forum

26 Apr 2012

PwC 2012 Information Security Breaches Survey asserts that more focus on security is needed for data stored in the cloud, but CIF believe the conclusion over simplifies the situation

Findings announced this week by PwC have shown that only 38 per cent of large firms using the cloud ensure that their data is encrypted and 56 per cent of small businesses do not check their external provider’s security levels. However a conclusion that widespread adoption of encryption of data remediates the issue oversimplifies the reality, costs and nature of risks asserts the Cloud Industry Forum.

Actian and Unruly Media Bring Big Data to Social Video

26 Apr 2012

Unruly’s Proprietary Social Video Technology Platform Can Now Deliver Campaign Data At Unprecedented Speeds

Actian Corporation today announced that Unruly Media has selected Vectorwise, the world’s fastest and most cost-effective analytical database, to provide rapid big data analytics and interactive reporting to its clients, empowering them to take real-time decisions and actions.

Drobo Announces Automated Data-Aware Tiering with “No IT Required"

26 Apr 2012

Industry-First Technology Allows Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMEs) to Easily and Affordably Utilise Solid State Drives (SSD)

Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced general availability of its new Automated Data-Aware Tiering technology. The industry-first advancement combines Drobo’s ease-of-use and automation with the power of solid state drives (SSDs) and data tiering to allow SMB customers to immediately and dynamically optimise their application performance – without the need for extensive technical expertise or budgets that are required for traditional high-end data tiering with SSD solutions. This new functionality is now available on the flagship Drobo B1200i storage system.

OrangeScape fast-tracks Lotus Notes Migration in partnership with CIMtrek

26 Apr 2012

OrangeScape, a Global 10 Platform as a Service provider, has announced a partnership with CIMTrek Ltd, a leader in the automated migration of Lotus Notes applications. Enterprises will now have fast-track migration of the Lotus Domino Applications to a modern cloud based application on OrangeScape platform. This solution will be bundled into OrangeScape’s offering to their mutual customers enabling the rapid transition of apps from Lotus Notes to the Cloud.

UKFast Recognised for VMware Expertise

26 Apr 2012

Manchester-based cloud and hosting specialist UKFast has been named as a VMware Enterprise Service Provider, reaffirming the firm’s position as one of the leading providers of VMware vCloud solutions.

Cloud providers should lead by example when it comes to security, says Claranet

26 Apr 2012

Report issued at InfoSecurity 2012 highlights lack of security offered to businesses by third-party suppliers

Managed services provider Claranet has highlighted the need for cloud and IT service providers to think about security in light of a report issued by PwC at this year’s InfoSecurity event in London. The report highlights the growing number of organisations that have suffered data breaches as a result of poor internal and external supplier security.

Emerson Network Power is Recognised as a Dominant Supplier in Data Centre Infrastructure Management

26 Apr 2012

Independent research firm lists Emerson’s Trellis™ platform as a primary product offering in data centre infrastructure management solutions report

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in maximising availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, has been recognised as a dominant supplier in data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) by Forrester Research Inc., an independent research firm that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology.

Courion survey confirms need for managing user access in the cloud

26 Apr 2012

More than 64 percent of companies use cloud based apps in their organization;

37 percent are considering hosting IAM in the cloud

Courion Corporation, the leader in identity and access management (IAM) for access risk, today announced the results of a survey that confirmed cloud computing’s rapidly growing popularity and also uncovered concerns about protecting vital IT data and applications in the cloud.

Solera Networks Takes Security Out of The Box

25 Apr 2012

Revolutionary New Software Solution Un-Boxes the Power of Security Intelligence and Analytics, Eliminating the Need for Costly, Proprietary Hardware and Storage

Simple and Flexible Solution Brings Cost-Effective, Big Data Security Analytics to Any Enterprise

Solera Networks, the industry's leading advanced Security Intelligence and Analytics provider, today announced a revolutionary new version of its DeepSeer Software solution that helps enterprises of all sizes prepare for the reality of security breaches and attacks. The new software represents the first and only solution to un-box the power of security intelligence and big data analytics technology - eliminating the cost and restrictions of proprietary hardware and storage offerings. With Solera's simple, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy software, any enterprise can now quickly have the answers to difficult post-breach questions like 'who hacked us?', 'how did they do it?', 'what data was compromised?' and 'are we sure it won't happen again?'

Ipswitch File Transfer Survey Finds that only 20% of Organisations Have Visibility of Data Being Moved Within and Outside the Organisation

25 Apr 2012

Only 25% of companies enforce usage of an IT-sanctioned file sharing tool

Ipswitch File Transfer Division, a leading provider of high-performance secure managed file transfer, electronic data interchange, and business-to-business data gateway solutions, today unveiled results of a study undertaken at the show, examining the flow of sensitive information in the workplace. According to the survey, only 20% of the IT Executives said they have visibility into files and data moving inside and leaving their organisation. The survey also examined the biggest risk for data movement, with 29% perceived moving data back and forth between cloud applications as the biggest risk of data loss.

PEER 1 Hosting and Search Laboratory boost online ad spend

25 Apr 2012

Hosting and search marketing company show how to increase the impact of ad budgets

Findings from PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, and its new search marketing partner Search Laboratory, are showing visitors to Internet World, how to boost ad budgets.

Zunicore GPU hybrid cloud offers best of virtualisation and network

25 Apr 2012

Zunicore, the cloud division of PEER 1 Hosting, today announces it is developing a GPU hybrid cloud solution to offer businesses the combined benefits of deploying physical hardware seamlessly alongside virtual servers via secured network hardware.

Varonis Victorious in SC Awards Europe 2012

25 Apr 2012

Varonis is thrilled to confirm that it is a winner in the most coveted and prestigious awards for the information security industry – the SC Awards Europe. Varonis DatAdvantage^® was victorious in the Best Network Security award, a strong validation of its ability to protect enterprise networks from threats.

BeyondTrust Announces Industry’s First DLP Solution with Real-Time Artificial Intelligence

25 Apr 2012

BeyondTrust Announces Industry’s First DLP Solution with Real-Time Artificial Intelligence

BeyondTrust, the leading provider of privilege delegation and authorization management solutions, today announced the industry’s first and only data loss prevention (DLP) solution with real-time, distributed artificial intelligence. With this innovative capability, PowerBroker DLP v4.0 provides organizations a “zero-touch” solution to secure critical data without writing a single rule. It is the simplest, most flexible and easiest to deploy data protection solution for physical, virtual and mobile devices.

Mimecast praised as Champion of email security by Bloor Research

24 Apr 2012

New Bloor Research report gives Mimecast’s email security ‘Champion’ status

Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, today announced that it has been placed in the Champion segment of a new Bloor Research InComparison paper. The report examines the email security market, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of key players in the space. It also features a Bullseye chart that ranks vendors as Champions, Innovators or Challengers, with Mimecast positioned closest to the middle and identified as the vendor most ‘fit-for-purpose’.

iomart Hosting provides cloud support for UK commercial property management software

24 Apr 2012

Trace Solutions chooses iomart’s fully owned UK data centres

UK cloud computing and managed hosting provider iomart Hosting has enabled a leading property management software company to offer direct and affordable web access to its customers.

BATS Chi-X Europe Connectivity Available from Interxion

24 Apr 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that BATS Chi-X Europe is providing an access point at Interxion’s City of London data centre to facilitate capital market participants to connect to Europe’s leading liquidity venue’s primary and secondary sites.

International Law Firm Enhances Virtualisation Performance with Brocade VDX Data Center Switches

24 Apr 2012

Watson, Farley & Williams to tackle data growth and reduce server footprint through a Brocade data centre networking solution

To address IT challenges resulting from business growth and international expansion, Watson, Farley & Williams has turned to Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) to deliver a high-performance data centre networking solution based on Brocade^® VDX^® 6720 Data Center Switches. Deployed at the law firm’s London headquarters, the new infrastructure delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance and underpins the firm’s virtualised data centre strategy.

19 million cyber attacks blocked by FireHost in Q1 2012 - Web Application Attack Report

24 Apr 2012

Secure cloud hosting company, FireHost, has today revealed details about type and origin of web attacks that it has successfully blocked from causing harm to clients’ web applications and databases hosted at its secure US and European data centres during Q1 2012.

Veracode Study of Software Related Cybersecurity Risks in Public Companies Finds that Majority of Applications Are A Risk

24 Apr 2012

Despite Higher Compliance Requirements, Public Companies Fare No Better Than Companies At Large On Software Security

Veracode, Inc., the leader in cloud-based application security testing, today released a feature supplement of its annual “State of Software Security Report” which showed that 84 percent of web applications from public companies were deemed unacceptable when measured against the OWASP Top 10, a widely used industry standard list of critical and most frequently exploited web application vulnerabilities.

Exclusive Networks UK Showcasing Security Implications of ‘Smarter Social Enterprises’ at Infosec 2012

24 Apr 2012

Distributor demonstrating technologies for organisations getting to grips with the IT preferences of the digital native

Exclusive Networks UK will be mapping out the latest security implications for traditional organisations that continue their evolution towards becoming ‘smarter social enterprises’, at this year’s Infosec event. Exclusive Networks UK’s stand (C22) will be showcasing several key security vendors, all with proven value in delivering and securing the smarter social enterprise. These include: Arbor, Aerohive, Tanium, LogRhythm, Anue Systems, and Network Instruments. 

New Cyber-Ark eBook highlights the cyber-attacker's sweet-spot - privilege

24 Apr 2012

New resources provide organisations with insight into cyber-attacks today, as well as the practices needed to defend against them

At Infosecurity Europe 2012 (London, UK) Cyber-Ark Software, a leading global information security provider for protecting and managing privileged accounts and sessions, critical applications and sensitive information, today announced the launch of its e-Book, “Don’t Give Cyber-Attackers the Privilege”, and Infographic.  These two resources examine the nature of cyber-attacks today, and provide best practice guidance on how to effectively mitigate against this threat. 

CORE Security Announces Advanced Security Intelligence Solution to Continuously Predict IT Threats and Preempt Business Risk

24 Apr 2012

CORE Insight™ Enterprise 2.0, Industry’s First Solution to Deliver Advanced Threat Simulation and Replication Combined; Reveals Business Implications of a Breach and Connects Identified Risk to Operational Goals

CORE Security®, a leading provider of predictive security intelligence solutions, today announced a major enhancement to CORE Insight™ Enterprise that provides IT security professionals and leaders with the ability to identify critical exposures to their infrastructure and – for the first time – link them to the actual risk to the business. A real-time security intelligence platform, CORE Insight provides unified threat validation and prioritization while feeding key analytics to the security ecosystem. Additionally, CORE Insight enables organizations to improve IT security, optimize budgets, increase efficiency of security operations, and predict threats without disrupting operations.

Tanium Selects Exclusive Networks UK to Recruit and Equip Partner Channel

24 Apr 2012

Exclusive Networks UK becomes first UK distributor for new real time visibility and control vendor

Exclusive Networks UK has signed a distribution agreement with Tanium, and will be showcasing the security visibility and control vendor’s unique solutions at this week’s Infosecurity Europe 2012 event in London.  Tanium has tasked Exclusive with accelerating reseller recruitment and creating market momentum in several key vertical sectors.

Imation brings StealthZONE ultra-secure USB desktop environment to the Enterprise

24 Apr 2012

Imation Corp., a global scalable storage and data security company, today announced the general availability of its ultra-secure StealthZONE PC-on-a-stick desktop environment to enterprise customers. Already used by national governments and intelligence agencies due to its ability to provide a Secure USB Desktop on a pocket-sized high-security device, StealthZONE will support firms requiring a fully managed, secure work environment on any computer.

Sentrum exceeds first quarter expectations

24 Apr 2012

Sentrum, a specialist in data centre solutions, today announced that several significant client wins were closed in the first quarter of 2012, including a deal with a leading global retailer and another with a major US bank, which equated to 50,000 sq ft of space being leased. In parallel, the company has also secured an industry ‘first’ accreditation; serving to strengthen its roadmap for the future.

Debriefing Software launches proven cloud-based Storage Resource Management solution in the UK

24 Apr 2012

Free, full-featured, 30-day trial version of Wizards Storage Portal® available

Debriefing Software today launched in the UK a non-intrusive, cloud-based, pay-as-you-use storage resource management (SRM) solution designed to reduce and optimise storage and backup CAPEX/OPEX for both mid-sized and large IT infrastructures.

European cloud strategy to be presented at Cloud Computing World Forum

24 Apr 2012

The European Commission’s Megan Richards will present the results of its Digital Agenda for Europe consultations into cloud computing at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London.

The cloud computing strategy for Europe will be placed under the spotlight in seven weeks’ time, when some of technology’s biggest names come together for theCloud Computing World Forum, held at Earls Court, London, on 12 and 13 June 2012.

Accellion Announces Record Growth

24 Apr 2012

Momentum Continues with New Products, Record Revenue, Funding, and New Employees

Accellion, Inc. today announced record growth of close to 100 percent in the first quarter of 2012, compared to the year before quarter.  During this time, the company unveiled Accellion Secure Mobile File Sharing packages for Enterprise, Business and Individuals, announced an investment by Riverwood Capital of $12M, secured close to 200 new customer deals, and increased the number of employees by 50 percent.

Customers Can Harness Big Data Environments by Leveraging Solutions Built on Enhanced NetApp E-Series Platform

24 Apr 2012

New Data Protection Technology Restores Up to Eight Times Faster Than Traditional RAID to Help Customers Optimize Overall Performance

The sheer volume of data and information produced by big data and high-performance applications continues to grow at explosive rates. How organisations store, manage, analyse, and protect this data can mean the difference between forging ahead and falling behind. As a result, the decision an organisation makes about the storage platform or solution that serves as the foundation for its IT infrastructure is as critical as ever.

Royal Ekutir Technology Ltd to Offer Securstore Cloud Backup to 300,000 Customers

24 Apr 2012

Royal Ekutir Technology Ltd has begun offering Securstore’s world leading Cloud Backup and Recovery services to its entire user base of around 300,000. The launch followed Securstore’s training visit to RETL’s Indian office.

Fortinet Expands Network Security Solution Suite with New Dedicated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Products

24 Apr 2012

Family of High Performance Appliances Helps Today’s Enterprises to Defend Against DDoS attacks

Fortinet®, a world leader in high-performance network security, today introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that are designed to detect and help protect against today’s most damaging and sophisticated DDoS attacks. The appliances feature custom ASICs that are capable of mitigating DDoS attacks while maintaining incredibly-low latency (less than 26 microseconds), preventing loss of availability to critical systems, servers and applications.

Wallix launches LogBox 3.0: log collection and analysis in an inexpensive, fast and easy-to-deploy appliance

24 Apr 2012

European leader in Privileged User Management launches the latest version of its log collection and analysis solution. 
Boasting market-leading ROI, through enhanced reporting, improved performance and very attractive pricing.

Wallix, the European leader in Privileged User Management and traceability is pleased to announce the launch of Wallix LogBox 3.0, the latest version of its log collection and analysis solution. Through improved performance and advanced reporting features information is delivered faster to those that need it.

Keysource recognised by Uptime Institute's 2012 GEIT Awards

24 Apr 2012

Keysource and the University of Leicester have been recognised by the Uptime Institute’s Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards. They were joint finalists in the Facility Retrofit category for the design and build of a high-efficiency data centre capable of supporting the high densities associated with High Performance Computing (HPC) to host specialist IT services for researchers.

Ixia launches industry's first off-the-shelf, standards-based OpenFlow test solution

24 Apr 2012

IxNetwork and IxANVL Support OpenFlow Protocol Emulation and Conformance

Ixia, the leading global provider of converged IP and wireless network test solutions, announced today the industry’s first off-the-shelf, standards-based OpenFlow test solution. The company’s IxNetwork and IxANVL test solutions now enable OpenFlow protocol emulation with integrated network traffic and offer a suite of OpenFlow compliance tests. The OpenFlow communications protocol brings network simplification by centralising access to switch and router forwarding planes. Ixia’s test solutions enable network equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprises implementing this promising new technology to verify protocol conformance and tune network designs before deployment. The solution will be demonstrated publically May 8-10 at Interop Las Vegas in Ixia’s booth #1262 and Ixia will participate in the InteropNet OpenFlow Lab.

Hitachi Data Systems redefines unified storage

24 Apr 2012

Hitachi Unified Storage is First to Consolidate and Centrally Manage Block, File and Object Data on a Single Platform

Single Unified Management Framework Extends throughout HDS Portfolio

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation today redefined unified storage with the new Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) and single management framework.

Ipswitch's Network Management Division Acquires iOpus Software

24 Apr 2012

Acquisition Strengthens IT Management Suite with Powerful Web Performance Testing and End-User Monitoring Capabilities

Ipswitch's Network Management Division, developers of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management software, announced today that it has acquired iOpus Software, a provider of Web application performance testing and monitoring solutions from the cloud. The addition of the iOpus AlertFox and iMacros capabilities will empower application owners and IT staff customers to more effectively track and ensure optimal Web application performance, creating a better end-user experience. With this acquisition, Ipswitch’s market leading and affordable IT Management solutions will now extend to every layer of web infrastructure from the cloud to the end-user.

Opengear reports 3G overtakes fixed line out-of-band network management as admins seek to reduce costs

24 Apr 2012

Secure 3G remote access growing at 40% CAGR with significant cost savings over legacy solutions

Opengear, a leading provider of secure, next generation console server and remote infrastructure management solutions, has reported a massive rise in demand for 3G solutions to provide secure out-of-band connectivity to remote sites and mobile locations for network infrastructure monitoring and management.

F5 selected by Arsys to ease current and future deployments of the CloudBuilder® solution

23 Apr 2012

Leading Spanish Cloud Provider chooses F5 BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager™ Virtual Edition for its stability, performance and simple integration with client solutions

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that BIG-IPLocal Traffic Manager (LTM) Virtual Edition (VE) has been picked by Arsys, an Internet leader in technology and innovation, for their CloudBuilder solution.

Revenues soar 24% at Interoute

23 Apr 2012

Strong demand for Cloud services, bandwidth and infrastructure grew Interoute’s top-line revenues to €366 million for the year

Strong demand for Cloud services, bandwidth and infrastructure grew Interoute’s top-line revenues in 2011 to €366 million for the year, a 24% increase over the same period in 2010. Interoute Communications Ltd, owner and operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, boosted EBITDA by 16.5% to €68m. Despite substantial investments in new services and expanded infrastructure, the Company increased profitability, to €7.6 million.

TechnologyOne enhances Corporate Performance Management with Publisher

23 Apr 2012

TechnologyOne has launched a new software solution to simplify the process of generating monthly, quarterly or similar reports like performance reviews, which may contain text, tables, financial reports, charts, indicators, images and photos.

Magirus launches Cloud Computing Training & Certification across Europe

23 Apr 2012

‘Magirus Cloud: Foundations’ IaaS sales training is first module to be available

Magirus, a leading European IT solutions provider has announced today the launch of its Cloud Computing Training and Certification portfolio with ‘Magirus Cloud: Foundations,’ focussing on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The aim of this cloud computing training from Magirus Academy, the company’s specialist channel training division, is to educate on cloud computing and equip business partners with consultancy skills, hands on sales training as well as technical training in the future. The first module is targeted at sales representatives within business partner organisations and leads to certification supported by Colt. The goal is to ensure end-users receive the best possible advice and skills to assist them with their cloud computing implementations.

Veracode to highlight the Risks Posed by Commercial Software at Infosecurity Europe 2012

23 Apr 2012

Sam King, SVP, Product Strategy & Marketing, to share latest research on backdoors and other vulnerabilities in 3rd-party code on Tuesday 24th April.

Veracode, Inc., the leader in cloud-based application security testing, today announced that Sam King, Senior VP of Product Strategy and Marketing will speak at Infosecurity Europe, which will take place from 24-26 April in the Earls Court exhibition centre, London. In addition to this, Veracode will be exhibiting at the event at booth G20, showcasing its market-leading application security-as-a-service platform.

ISACA Survey Reveals Top Enterprise Security Concerns and IT Problems

23 Apr 2012

More than one in five experienced a security breach in the last 12 months

A global study of more than 1,200 IT professionals in EMEA rereleased today reveals that, in the last year, more than one in five enterprises has experienced a security breach and one in 10 has suffered a privacy breach. Nearly half of enterprises (45%) said their enterprises either delayed or even missed an opportunity to reduce costs as a result of an IT-related problem or incident. With exactly half of the organisations reporting an IT staff shortage, these issues are likely to continue.

Volta announces the appointment of Colo-X as sole agent for new, ultra-low latency, Central London data centre

23 Apr 2012

Colo-X to help financial and media companies find colocation space in Great Sutton Street, EC1

Volta, the specialist provider of data centres to the financial, media and content industries, today announces it has appointed Colo-X, The Colocation Exchange, to act as sole agent for Volta’s new Great Sutton Street data centre. The data centre, based in the iconic former Reuters building on Great Sutton Street, EC1, is ideally suited for businesses utilising latency-sensitive services in the City as well as content, new media and cloud service providers in Soho or London’s Silicon Roundabout. The building has served the data centre needs of the City for over 25 years and, following a complete refurbishment, will take on a new lease of life as a state-of-the-art data centre facility built to the highest industry standards. 

Centrica Builds Enterprise Data Warehouse with Teradata

23 Apr 2012

Centrica has purchased a Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance, analytical applications and services to integrate and centralise its growing data volumes

Teradata, the analytic data solutions company, today announced that Centrica, the UK’s leading utility group, has purchased the:

• Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance platform
• Teradata Logical Data Model for the Utilities Industry
• Teradata Analytical Applications for Customer Management and Data Mining

FlexPod Is First Validated Data Centre Infrastructure for Private Cloud Enabled by System Centre 2012

20 Apr 2012

Customers Gain Speed and Flexibility with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0

For customers who are looking to benefit from the latest version of System Centre 2012 and the technologies that enable Microsoft’s private cloud, Cisco and NetApp today announced that the FlexPod™ shared infrastructure is the first data centre solution to be validated by Microsoft for the updated Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0. Through the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0 program, Cisco and NetApp have collaborated with Microsoft to help customers reduce infrastructure and application deployment time from days to hours while helping them achieve greater utilisation of their physical and virtual resource pools.

19% missed a critical deadline because they couldn’t access the right applications, 14% lost a job and 6% missed a promotion

20 Apr 2012

Avecto survey reveals the hidden dangers of mismanaging your user admin rights

Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, revealed the results of its recent survey that showed the massive cost to both organizations and people of mismanaging user admin rights.

Cryptzone says lack of staff security training can be countered by good policy management software

20 Apr 2012

Commenting on research just released, which claims to show that 54 per cent of small businesses – and 38 per cent of their larger peers – do not have a security awareness programme in place, Cryptzone says this is a common failing in many organisations.

Companies leaving the security of their data on cloud to chance, shows research by PwC/Infosecurity Europe

20 Apr 2012

• Only 38% of large organisations ensure that data held by external providers is encrypted
• 56% of small businesses don’t check their external provider’s security
• Half of organisations of national importance use cloud for business critical data

Most organisations are now using cloud computing in one form or another,  yet businesses are omitting to check out the security controls surrounding their data.

PTS Consulting Group PLC ranked in The Sunday Times PwC Ones to Recognise of firms to watch in the future

20 Apr 2012

PTS Consulting PLC, the world class international IT Consulting and Project Management firm, today announced that the company has been ranked in The Sunday Times PwC Ones to Recognise of firms to watch in the future.  The Ones to Recognise runs parallel to the Profit Track 100 table and acknowledges ten outstanding companies commended for their management, innovation, past growth and future prospects.

City Lifeline scraps brown electricity in favour of 100 per cent green IT

20 Apr 2012

Central London colocation data centre City Lifeline is overhauling its electricity policy in order to run on 100 per cent green electricity by July 2012. The move marks the company’s latest milestone in the quest to become one of London’s most environmentally friendly data centres.

AMD to Power TELUS’ New Virtual Private Cloud

18 Apr 2012

AMD Opteron™ Processors Offer Significant Power/Performance Per-Dollar Benefits

AMD has announced that TELUS, a leading Canadian telecommunications company, has chosen AMD Opteron™ processors to power its latest offering, the TELUS AgilIT Virtual Private Cloud. The TELUS AgilIT Virtual Private Cloud, announced today, offers AMDs’ immense processing capabilities at outstanding power/performance per-dollar.

Entrepreneurial Talent - Use It or Lose It!

18 Apr 2012

Businesses that neglect to nurture entrepreneurial spirit within their teams risk losing their most talented employees.

Ex- Deutsche Bank Cloud Expert appointed by Intergence

18 Apr 2012

New role will enable clients to leverage cloud services to drive their business

Intergence an IT optimisation consultancy based in Cambridge, UK, has appointed Alistair McLaurin as a principal consultant, responsible for developing on site relationships with Intergence’s rapidly growing customer base and developing new customer relationships. The role was especially created for him and he will report to Chief Operating Officer, Robert Smith. 

Mozy Expanding Cloud Footprint within Enterprise into Europe

18 Apr 2012

Three Key Trends Fueling European Expansion: Increasingly Mobile Workforces, Smartphone and Tablet Use, and Acceptance of Online Backup Services

Mozy^®, the world’s most trusted provider of data protection and availability for consumers and businesses, is seeing increasing demand for its enterprise online backup solution based on some fundamental shifts in enterprise IT fueling that growth and, as a result, is launching its MozyEnterprise product in Europe.

Lieberman Software’s Enterprise Random Password Manager Now Supports SQL Server 2012

18 Apr 2012

Solution Secures Access to Privileged Accounts Within SQL Server 2012 Databases

Lieberman Software Corporation announced today that its flagship privileged identity management solution, Enterprise Random Password Manager™ (ERPM), now supports SQL Server 2012. ERPM adds SQL Server 2012 support to the industry's most complete privileged identity management solution – covering all major operating systems, databases, business applications, network appliances and more.

Thesaurus Launches BrightPay Payroll Software in the UK

18 Apr 2012

Payroll software company seeks UK resellers to build on 20 year success in the Irish and UK market

HMRC Accredited Payroll Software Delivers Clarity, Usability and Free Customer Support to customers

Thesaurus Software, an Irish company with over 20 years’ experience creating payroll and accounting software for the UK and Ireland, has launched BrightPay.

Racktivity announces first “full feature” DC power sensor

18 Apr 2012

The DC²Sensor completes Racktivity’s power monitoring and management solution targeted at telecommunication, broadband, wireless and broadcast service providers

Racktivity, an innovator in next-generation energy and environment management solutions for data centers, has launched theDC²Sensor, a DC power monitoring solution designed to address the needs of telecommunication, broadband, wireless and broadcast service providers.

Inadequate security on mobile phones and tablets exposes UK businesses to massive risk, according to new research by PwC/InfoSecurity Europe

18 Apr 2012

Organisations large and small are failing to respond to the culture of employees using their own mobile devices for work and are opening up their systems to security risks.  These are the preliminary findings of the 2012 Information Security Breaches Survey (ISBS) written by PwC in conjunction with Infosecurity Europe and supported by the department for Business, Innovation and Skills.  The results will be revealed in full at Infosecurity Europe on 24 April.

Bit9 Commits to EMEA with Strong Expansion Plans

18 Apr 2012

Global Leader in Advanced Threat Protection Invests in Europe, Middle East and Africa as it plans for rapid growth

Bit9, the global leader in Advanced Threat Protection, today announced that it is placing further investment in to its presence in EMEA, with rapidly growing local teams in Central London, UK and in Munich in Germany, identified as immediate targets for expansion.  Bit9 will also be investing in its targeted channel approach and an aggressive campaign to triple its sales in EMEA year-on-year.

SecurEnvoy Embraces BYOD with SecurBYOT – Bring Your Own Token

18 Apr 2012

Users control which device they to use to receive authentication token

Able to provision 100,000 new users in under an hour

SecurEnvoy, the inventor of tokenless authentication, today revealed details of its latest release that gives users full flexibility of the device they use, while ensuring complete security to the organisation. At the click of a button users can have their authentication token as an SMS on a mobile, an app on a Smartphone or tablet, or a soft token on a laptop – with the ability to swap between devices at will.

SKYSQL raises $4 million in series A funding

18 Apr 2012

Investments from Finnish Industry Investment Ltd., Spintop Ventures, Open Ocean Capital and OnCorps Enable SkySQL to Ramp Up Development for the Enterprise and Cloud

SkySQL, the first choice in affordable database solutions for the MySQL® and MariaDB® databases in the enterprise and the cloud, today announces that the company has raised $4 million in Serie A funding from a number of investors, including Finnish Industry Investment Ltd., a Finnish government-owned venture capital and private equity company. Also funding the round are leading European investors including Spintop Ventures and Open Ocean Capital, as well as U.S.-based OnCorps.

Cryptzone says latest patient data fiasco highlights need for an NHS data protection czar

18 Apr 2012

Commenting on reports that the South London healthcare trust has admitted to losing two unencrypted USB sticks containing the medical details of around 630 adults and children, Cryptzone says that this comes almost two years after the deputy Information Commissioner gave an Infosecurity Show keynote in which he revealed that a third of the 30 major data breaches the ICO handles each month involve the NHS in one shape or another.

Cisco Helps Partners Accelerate Growth with Mid-Sized Customers

18 Apr 2012

Partner Plus program delivers greater preference, investment and support

Today at its annual partner conference, Cisco announced Partner Plus, a new global channel program targeting mid-sized customers.   Partners who participate in the program will receive increased preference, investment and support in the form of business accelerators such as incremental incentives, engineering support, marketing and demand generation, sales enablement, and customer intelligence. 

Doyenz Announces Spring ’12 rCloud Release, Launching Support for VMware vSphere Environments

18 Apr 2012

New Release Provides Disaster Recovery for VMware vSphere in less than 15 minutes

Doyenz today announced its Spring ’12 release, which includes the new rCloud Agent for VMware vSphere® and platform-wide enhancements. Purpose built for the SMB, the Doyenz rCloud Agent for vSphere enables customers to restore their environments in 15 minutes or less, providing access to applications and data in the event of on-premise failure. Through its sophisticated yet easy to use interface, the rCloud service protects virtual machines (VMs) from local server or on-site failures by replicating VM snapshots of each VM to rCloud, identifying each snapshot as a recovery point.

Fiat Chooses Akamai to Improve Global Web Site and Application User Experience on Both Desktops and Mobile Devices

18 Apr 2012

Fiat reduces page load times of Alfa Romeo site by 66% and boosts performance of business-critical web-based CRM application by up to 300%

Akamai Technologies, Srl, a leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere, has been selected by Fiat Group Automobiles as a major partner to improve the performance of both its corporate and brand sites and to optimise the navigation experience from desktop and mobile devices. Fiat has rolled out three Akamai solutions: Dynamic Site Accelerator Secure, Mobile Detection and Redirect and Web Application Accelerator. 

Barracuda Networks Launches Integrated Data Protection and Backup for Virtual and Physical Environments

18 Apr 2012

New Barracuda Backup Services Introduces VMware Support

Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of content security, data protection and application delivery solutions, today announced the new Barracuda Backup Service with VMware host support, allowing customers to quickly and efficiently back up and restore guest virtual machines. The new service also provides deduplicated images of virtual servers that can be transferred offsite for comprehensive disaster recovery protection. This new functionality is available free of charge for existing Barracuda Backup Service customers with an active Energize Update subscription.

Silver Peak & Marathon ITS keep Virgin London Marathon moving

18 Apr 2012

Virtual WAN Optimisation technology deployed to maximise bandwidth and support mission critical event operations

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, has announced that its technology will play an integral role in the 2012 Virgin London Marathon as part of information technology (IT) consulting firm Marathon Information Technology Systems’ (ITS) strategy to support the prestigious event.

Brocade Extends Cloud-Optimised SAN Leadership with Complete Suite of Fibre Channel Networking Solutions

18 Apr 2012

Also Announces First OEM Adoption of 16 Gbps Embedded Switch, Mezzanine Adapter and Stand-Up Adapter for Integration with IBM Server Product Families

Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD), the leader in fabric-based data centre networking solutions, is continuing to innovate and gain market leadership for its award-winning family of Fibre Channel SAN fabric solutions based on the new 16 Gbps Fibre Channel standard. The company today announced a new entry-level Fibre Channel SAN switch, the Brocade^® 6505 Switch, to broaden its full suite of next-generation SAN switches and backbones. This new addition further increases customer choice and flexibility for data centre consolidation, expansion and refresh projects. In addition, Brocade has added new, industry-first virtualisation functionality between Brocade adapters and switches to simplify server deployment and management.

Five Green IT Award Nominations for Siemon

18 Apr 2012

Infrastructure expert Siemon is celebrating a flush of nominations in the Green IT Awards, due to be announced at a ceremony on 19 April 2012 at the world famous London Zoo.  The five categories that Siemon is shortlisted to win include Manufacturer of the Year, Sustainable Design Project of the Year, Team of the Year, Product of the Year and the Minister for Energy Award.

Logica and VeliQ partner in Enterprise Mobility

18 Apr 2012

Strategic collaboration on Enterprise Mobile Applications and SAP integration

Enterprise mobility specialist VeliQ and Logica, a global provider of business and technology services, entered into a strategic partnership to integrate SAP-applications with MobiDM.  In addition to co-development, Logica will provide a branded version of the MobiDM solution to its customers, focusing on mobile applications used to access enterprise processes and systems.

Hooters restaurants deploy DigitalPersona fingerprint biometrics to strengthen authentication

18 Apr 2012

U.are.U Fingerprint Readers combined with ITWercs POS software reduce transaction and payroll fraud

DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of multi-factor authentication and access management solutions, today announced Hooters has deployed DigitalPersona’s U.are.U^® Fingerprint Readers to strengthen its loss prevention efforts. The DigitalPersona fingerprint readers and ITWercs Point-of-Sale (POS) software enable nearly 4,000 employees to use fingerprint readers at Hooters restaurants to authenticate transactions, as well as clock in and out for their shifts. With DigitalPersona fingerprint biometrics, Hooters has reduced both transaction and payroll fraud.

OnApp adds free Anycast DNS to the OnApp Cloud platform

18 Apr 2012

Enables cloud providers to out-manoeuvre Amazon Route 53

OnApp has announced general availability of OnApp Cloud 2.3.2, its cloud platform for service providers and enterprises.

Leading hospitality chain De Vere Group chooses TelecityGroup to host its core IT infrastructure

17 Apr 2012

De Vere moves to innovative virtualisation technology to maximise efficiency of IT footprint

De Vere Group, the luxury hotel and hospitality chain, today announced that it has chosen to host its core IT infrastructure in one of TelecityGroup’s state-of-the-art data centres in Manchester. The move will enable De Vere Group to ensure the resilience of its centralised infrastructure, ensuring each of the company’s sixty-five locations across the UK has availability of business-critical systems at all times. 

AlienVault Gives Mimecast Control and Visibility Over its Endpoint Devices

17 Apr 2012

The fully unified security architecture also helps the cloud service organization achieve ISO27001 certification

AlienVault, creator of OSSIM - the de facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), today confirmed how it has helped Mimecast gain valuable insight into the security events occurring on their grid. AlienVault’s OSSIM powered Unified Security Management Platform gives Mimecast an overview, compiled together in a control panel, that delivers visibility of what is happening in all its distributed data centers and remote devices. On top of the basic key service AlienVault’s solution also offers vulnerability scanning, executive reporting and network management.

Arthur D. Little and Exane BNP Paribas: Core European telco revenues to decline by 1.8% p.a. until 2015

17 Apr 2012

But big diversification revenues and cost transformation opportunities exist for operators making the right strategic choices in their markets – operators must act now

The move to an all-IP world where everything is connected presents a major threat to telecom operators’ core voice and SMS revenues, but also significant opportunities for these operators to extract value from adjacent markets. This is one of the main findings of Telecom Operators: Let’s Face It, the 11^th edition of the annual report[1] from global management consultancy Arthur D. Little and equity broker Exane BNP Paribas.

IBM’s game-changing software could revolutionise ecommerce

17 Apr 2012

A new analytics product from the original computer giant could take it to places it has never been before: the realm of the e-marketer, says Jonathon Ross, Business Development Manager UK at FACT-Finder.com

With its latest software package launch, IBM has managed to, once again, raise eyebrows among data analysts. Yet I have to admit the claims that its new predicitive analytics package can pull meaning from big data is laden with promise. And it’s also attracting the interest of many a retail/ecommerce marketer – a niche that I would imagine IBM has, until now, failed to reach. 

Real Status named as only UK finalist at SIIA’s NextGen Showcase

17 Apr 2012

Real Status one of four early start companies presenting at All About the Cloud Event in San Francisco on 8-10 May 2012

Real Status, the IT infrastructure modelling and data visualisation software company, has been selected as one of only four early stage cloud computing companies to present at The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) NextGen showcase. 

Adapt Acquires eLINIA

17 Apr 2012

Acquisition combines deep technical expertise and excellent customer service to offer the broadest range of bespoke IT managed services

Adapt, the independent IT managed services provider, has today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire eLINIA, one of the fastest growing premier IT infrastructure outsourcing specialists in the UK. Based in Cardiff, eLINIA was founded in 2004 and now delivers extremely high quality, secure infrastructure services to many of the UK’s most established organisations across a range of industries.

Mobile phone obsession reaches the bedroom as more than 4 in 10 people check their phone before kissing their partner in the morning!

17 Apr 2012

15% check for work emails on their phone as soon as they wake up

When asked what is the first thing they do in the morning, only a quarter of Londoners said they kissed their partner – compared to 42% who said that they checked their phone for messages, work emails or even to look at Facebook! The street survey was commissioned by Infosecurity Europe in the run up to the 2012 Infosecurity show running from the 24th – 26th April 2012, in Earls Court, London. 

Onyx Group Selects EMC Isilon to Deliver Scalable, Reliable and Future-Proof Platform for Enterprise Cloud Service

17 Apr 2012

UK Full Service Provider Selects EMC Isilon from 10 Vendors as Critical Infrastructure for VMware-based Platform

EMC Corporation today announced that Onyx Group, a leading UK technology provider specialising in business continuity, data centres, network services and cloud, selected EMC^® Isilon scale-out NAS™ over 10 competing vendors for its scalability and reliability as part of OnyxCloud, one of UK’s most comprehensive Cloud IaaS offerings.

Will tough times spur new generation of young entrepreneurs?

17 Apr 2012

With another rise in youth unemployment expected in this month’s official figures out on Wednesday, questions are being raised as to whether a new generation of young entrepreneurs will be created as enterprising young people go into business for themselves.

Directors Portal for the iPad makes even the least security savvy board member secure

17 Apr 2012

Cryptzone, Europe’s IT Threat Mitigation specialists, today announced the launch of the Directors Portal. The portal is a state-of-the-art web based, online workspace, devoted exclusively for board level executives. The portal will be demonstrated for the first time at Infosecurity Europe in London from 24^th to 26^th April 2012. The portal is available as an iPad app to make it always available to the Director who is always on the go.

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory chooses Panasas parallel storage to expand global climate research capability

17 Apr 2012

Panasas® ActiveStor™ Delivers Affordable Performance in One of Britain’s Largest-Ever HPC Storage Deployments

Panasas, Inc., the leader in high performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, today announced that Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), one of the UK’s principal government labs and part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has introduced a new high performance computing (HPC) facility, featuring Panasas® ActiveStor™ 11. The advanced parallel storage system will further RAL’s global climate research capabilities as it satisfies the lab’s substantial scalability, performance and cost requirements.

Deutsche Telekom Joins the Equinix Ethernet Exchange To Extend Its Customer Reach

17 Apr 2012

Europe’s largest telecommunications company’s wholesale arm ICSS gains access to thousands of potential customers, brings millions of international and German locations on-net

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced that Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom AG, has joined the Equinix Ethernet Exchange in order to better serve the increasing demand for Ethernet traffic. Deutsche Telekom has now automatic access to Platform Equinix™ and a 4,000-strong global ecosystem of networks, enterprises, cloud and content service providers. This agreement also expands the depth and reach of carrier Ethernet services available through the Equinix Ethernet Exchange to connect to millions of locations within Deutsche Telekom’s strong on-net coverage in Western, Central and Eastern Europe (including Germany).

Flexiant to Join Oracle, HP Technical Consulting and Colt Technology Services to Discuss Data Centre Expansion Options

16 Apr 2012

Tony Lucas panellist for “Expansion Options: Comparing Modular/Cloud/Convert/New/Expand Old” at IMN European Data Centres Forum on April 24-25, 2012

Tony Lucas, Founder of Flexiant, a leading European provider of cloud orchestration software for on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services, will join Colt Technology Services, Oracle and HP Technical Consulting to discuss data centre expansion options at IMN's upcomingEuropean Data Centres Forum on Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development on April 24-25, 2012 in London, UK.

Interxion Installs Sleeping Pods to Keep London’s Data Moving During the Olympics

12 Apr 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that it is installing sleeping pods in the breakout area of its London data centre to ensure that its high service levels are continually met throughout the Olympic Games.

Equinix Builds New Data Center in Zurich; Expands Geneva Facility

12 Apr 2012

Expansion in Switzerland meets customer demand for highly connected and secure data centers

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced plans to build a fifth International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center inZurich (ZH5), and expand GV2, one of its Geneva-based data centers. The investments are in response to sustained customer growth and increasing demand for network-dense, secure data centers in Switzerland. The expansion capital required for these projects is already reflected in the company’s 2012 guidance.

UK Launch for Australia's biggest Data Management Consultancy

11 Apr 2012

Data warehousing specialist to offer more affordable and agile approach

Altis Consulting, Australia’s largest consultancy offering specialist expertise in business analytics, business intelligence, data management and data warehousing, has announced the opening of a new office in London, servicing the UK market.  With an impressive customer base including Qantas and Lend Lease, the company’s goal is to offer a “new type of service” that is vendor-independent, more flexible and offers greater value than many of its competitors.

SOFTBANK Contributes to Japan’s Recovery Process by Utilizing NetApp Technology Following 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

11 Apr 2012

IT Transformation Enables Softbank to Increase Customer Base by 27% and Reduce Operating Expenses by 30% in the Last Five Years

Companies large and small all over the world depend on their information technology (IT) infrastructures to help drive business success. By making the right decisions, a company can transform its IT environment to accelerate business, create competitive advantages, and increase profits. But what if an IT infrastructure could do more than simply help a company accomplish its business goals? What if the decisions made years earlier about how to transform IT could also lay the foundation to enable a company to respond in a time of crisis?

London businesses in race to beat Olympic internet crash

11 Apr 2012

fibre installation at UK’s trendiest hotel boosts broadband speeds to 20 times national average ahead of Games

London’s Bermondsey Square Hotel has hired, Venus Business Communications, to install a high speed fibre network to ensure that guests don’t suffer any disruption to their internet service during the London 2012 Olympics. The hotel anticipates that many guests will be live streaming sporting events to their iMac TVs, placing enormous demands on the hotel internet connection.

TVT selects Geo for secure data link to BBC Wood Lane

10 Apr 2012

Key industry player opts for ultra-resilient, sewer-based infrastructure

Geo Networks Ltd (“Geo”) today announced that it has secured a three year contract with leading broadcast service provider TVT. The deal will see Geo provide TVT with a dark fibre network that will link TVT’s headquarters in Chiswick to the BBC’s epicentre at Wood Lane. This will ensure that TVT’s customers’ traffic will be safely transmitted across a legacy-free, virtually limitless network.

Over a third of people admit that they work in bed

10 Apr 2012

Working from home’ reaches a new dimension as 35% of people admit that they or their partner work in bed

Infosecurity Europe has revealed the results of its latest street survey which uncovered the vast amount of time people spend working in bed. With 35% of people saying that they or their partners work from bed, it is unsurprising that people complain they don’t feel work ever stops. In fact, 5% of people who say they do work from bed, admit to averaging two hours a day! Of those admitting that they worked in bed, nearly three quarters (73%) were men The survey was commissioned by Infosecurity Europe in the run up to the 2012 event taking place from the 24th – 26th April 2012, in Earls Court, London

Sussex Partnership signs Information Communications Technology contract with 2e2

10 Apr 2012

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Sussex Partnership) has signed a new contract for all its ICT (Information and Communications Technology) services with services provider 2e2.  The contract runs from April 2012 to 2019.

Business analytics transform's DEK International's data into knowledge

10 Apr 2012

IBM Cognos to enhance collaboration and transform DEK’s data into knowledge

International solutions provider, Logicalis UK, has been awarded a six figure contract to design and implement a global IBM Cognos Business Analytics solution to DEK International, a provider of equipment and processes used in the manufacture of devices such as smart phone and tablet circuit boards. The solution will be integrated with DEK’s Oracle ERP, finance, and workflow processes in order to improve communication, collaboration, and informed decision making in its manufacturing facilities, sales, and support operations worldwide. Implementation will be completed by autumn 2012.

Avecto says that admin privileges would have helped prevent the Global Payments 1.5m card credentials data breach

05 Apr 2012

Commenting on the aftermath of the data breach at an Atlanta-based card transaction process, Avecto says that the possibility that the breach was caused by a compromised administrative account that was insufficiently protected shows that governance is a central requirement of modern IT security.

Denmark city Esbjerg Kommune enhances award-winning IT services with Fusion ioTurbine virtualisation caching software

05 Apr 2012

Danish Oil, Gas and Wind Energy Hub Supports Community Entrepreneurship Services and Extends Existing IT Investment with Virtualisation Upgrade; Fusion ioTurbine 1.1 Upgrade Now Supports VMware ESXi 5.0 Virtualisation Hypervisor

Fusion-io today announced that the Danish city of Esbjerg Kommune has virtualised its Microsoft Exchange 2010 infrastructure with Fusion ioTurbinevirtualisation caching software to support a range of community services, including its award-winning entrepreneurship program. The complete details of the deployment have been published in a new case study.

IT experts welcome Ofcom Internet report – but says more needs to be done with online security education

05 Apr 2012

AlienVault has welcomed the latest set of Internet attitudes research from Ofcom - most notably the fact that 87 per cent of users have installed IT security software on their home computers, but cautions that this still leaves 13 per cent of users who are unaware of the significant risks they are running of not installing such software.

AlienVault Expands Board of Directors with Appointment of John M. Jack

04 Apr 2012

Former President and CEO of HP Fortify Brings Decades of Experience in Senior Management

AlienVault, creator of OSSIM, the de facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), announced today the appointment of John M. Jack (JJ) to its board of directors. Jack joins a stellar line up of technology and venture capital leaders, who together bring a broad range of strategic and operational insights to AlienVault.

Infosecurity Europe Welcomes Government's 2012 Annual Fraud Indicator Report

04 Apr 2012

With just three weeks to go before the Infosecurity Europe 2012 show opens its doors for a three-day run in London, the event organisers have welcomed the timely release of the Government's Annual Fraud Indicator 2012, which puts the losses to the UK economy from fraud at a hefty £73 billion.

Emerson Network Power hosts energy theatre at Datacentres2012

04 Apr 2012

The organisers of Datacentres 2012 (www.datacentres2012.com) Europe’s premier content led event for datacentre and cloud users and operators, have announced that Emerson Network Power is acting as Diamond sponsor and host of the Energy Theatre. The event takes place 23-24 May 2012 at the Acropolis Convention centre in Nice, France.

Quest Introduces New vFundamentals Virtualisation Management Suite

04 Apr 2012

Quest Software, Inc. has announced the availability of vFundamentals, a new product suite that delivers best-in-class backup, capacity planning and resource optimization for VMware virtual environments. vFundamentals enables virtualisation administrators to confidently grow their virtual environments knowing that critical assets are properly utilized and protected. Attainably priced at $995 per CPU, the new bundle includes Quest vRanger® Pro, the market’s leading VMware backup, replication and recovery solution, as well as capacity management and optimisation technology from VKernel’s vOps Server Standard Edition.

Varonis says furore about UK Government’s plans to monitor its citizen’s digital travels highlights the power of metadata

04 Apr 2012

Commenting on the furore surrounding the UK Government’s plans to require ISPs and telcos to store all available information on emails, texts, phone calls and web history, Varonis Systems says that the Government is clearly becoming aware of the incredible power of metadata.

Buy a corporate password for less than an Easter egg

04 Apr 2012

Third party research commissioned by Ping Identity^®, the Cloud Identity Security leader™, has revealed that nearly 50 per cent of employees (48 per cent) would readily sell their corporate passwords for less than £5, well under the price of a large Easter egg.  30% would do the deed for even less, happily giving up their corporate passwords for under £1. Only 29.55% of respondents felt that they would not sell this information for any price.

Fast moving cloud hosting company, Zunicore, signs 3700 cloud businesses in its first four months

04 Apr 2012

Zunicore, the public cloud division of global IT hosting company PEER 1 Hosting, announces today that it has registered 3700 businesses just four months after its official launch in November 2011.  Zunicore, a professional-grade cloud service, offers businesses an innovative public cloud with enterprise-level compute power and reliability, packaged for project-sized consumption.

Courion among leaders advocating SCIM standard for cloud-based identity and access management

04 Apr 2012

Leading IAM, cloud companies demonstrate SCIM interoperability

Courion Corporation, the leader in identity and access management (IAM) for access risk, last week helped demonstrate interoperability of products using the new SCIM (Simple Cloud Identity Management) specification for cloud-based identity management.

Actian Launches Vectorwise in the Rackspace® Cloud

04 Apr 2012

Actian Corporation today announced it has entered the Rackspace® Hosting partner program to bring the power and analytical performance of Vectorwise to the cloud. Called the Vectorwise Cloud, the new solution will leverage the Rackspace Cloud infrastructure and will enable companies to take action on their big data without the need for complex and expensive in-house infrastructure.

New online tool measures progress of “green” data centres

03 Apr 2012

The Green Grid launches free self-assessment tool for benchmarking against best practices and industry peers

Data centre operators can now measure their progress towards best practice in efficiency, sustainability and reducing resource consumption, thanks to a new online tool from The Green Grid - the open industry consortium dedicated to improving the resource efficiency of datacentres and business IT.

NextiraOne – Experts in Complex Cloud Infrastructures

03 Apr 2012

Cisco certifies NextiraOne Germany as Cloud Infrastructure Partner

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has been awarded certification as a Cisco Cloud Infrastructure Partner in Germany, reinforcing the strong partnership between the two companies in the data centre market. Cisco has confirmed that NextiraOne Germany has achieved significant levels of competence in the integration and operation of its data centre solutions.

Doyenz helps DataAngel protect leading barristers’ chambers with innovative business continuity service

03 Apr 2012

Switching to rCloud reduces CAPEX by 17% with a 55% reduction in per Gigabyte costs with critical application recovery in just 15 minutes

Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services has announced that BBS Network Communications Systems has reduced costs while improving recovery times for its Business Continuity Service by using Doyenz rCloud Technology.  BBS, an IT service provider with over 20 years’ experience, has deployed its Doyenz powered “DataAngel” service at QEB, a leading set of barristers chambers. DataAngel is helping to protect file servers and critical case management systems at QEB, a chamber that specialises in all aspects of family law from its offices in the Temple, London.

Arista Networks to showcase Software Defined Cloud Networking at Interop

03 Apr 2012

Arista Networks will be demonstrating Software Defined Networks (SDN) with key partners, built on Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System), the world’s most advanced network operating system.  The programmability inherent in EOS is being demonstrated in conjunction with strategic partners at Interop in Arista booth #1539.

Imperva Deconstructs Local and Remote File Inclusion Attack Vectors

02 Apr 2012

Latest report from Hacker Intelligence Initiative provides detailed overview of widely used but lesser known Internet threat

Imperva, a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, today released its latest Hacker Intelligence Initiative report exploring how Local and Remote File Inclusion (RFI/LFI) attacks enable hackers to execute malicious code and steal data through the manipulation of a company’s web server. RFI/LFI attacks made up 21% of all application attacks observed by Imperva in its review of attacks across 40 applications from June – November 2011.

UK web hosting company Easyspace unveils upgraded custom dedicated server range

02 Apr 2012

Easyspace’s custom-built server range offers up to 300GB RAM and enhanced SLAs 

Leading UK web hosting and domain name company Easyspace has upgraded its range of dedicated servers to meet the enhanced needs of modern business.

Groupama Insurances virtualises the desktop with Centralis

02 Apr 2012

VDI replaces traditional desktop PCs to drive efficiency across UK operations

Independent application and desktop delivery specialist Centralis is working with Groupama Insurances, to deliver a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The UK insurance company is replacing its traditional desktop estate and fleet of laptops with VDI across five major locations in the UK under a phased programme that will lower its total cost of ownership (TCO) and environmental impact while increasing security, performance and flexibility.

Violin Memory Flashes Forward with a $50 Million Mezzanine Round and $800+ Million Valuation

02 Apr 2012

SAP Ventures and Longtime Supporter Toshiba Join in Enterprise Storage Transformation

Violin Memory, Inc., provider of one of the world’s fastest and most scalable flash Memory Arrays, today announced $50 million in Series D funding, putting the company at a market value of more than $800 million just three years after CEO Don Basile joined. Investors include long time partners Toshiba and Juniper Networks in addition to new investors SAP Ventures and Highland Capital Partners, among others. With this latest round, Violin continues to be one of the fastest growing storage companies in the past decade. 

Service failure affects one third of online consumers

02 Apr 2012

e-tailers must adopt a proactive approach to customer contact, and enhance their live customer service support during off peak hours.

One third of UK online shoppers are experiencing problems when they shop online, this is according to a major research project conducted by Aspect, a leading provider of next generation customer contact and Microsoft platform solutions.

Emerson Network Power Launches Innovation Partnership Program in Europe

02 Apr 2012

Emerson combines EMEA Avocent and Liebert programs to expand opportunities for partners

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader maximising availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today introduced the expanded Emerson Network Power Innovation Partnership Program for EMEA. It combines solutions from Emerson’s Avocent, Liebert and Knürr brands into an integrated program that enables Information Technology (IT) distributors and resellers to address the key customer challenges in the data centre while maximising their revenue and opportunity potential. The EMEA program builds on the success of the North American version of the Innovation Partnership Program which was launched in March 2011.

TIBCO Spotfire and Attivio Partner to Deliver New Levels of Integration and Discovery for Data and Content

02 Apr 2012

TIBCO Spotfire First Partner to Achieve Platinum Certification on Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine

In a move to deliver new levels of data discovery and analytics to all types of data and content, Attivio and TIBCO Software Inc. announced that, as part of their partnership agreement, the TIBCO Spotfire® analytics platform has achieved the highest level of information access available within Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE™).

Jaspersoft Extends Partnership with Talend to Deliver Big Data Integration

02 Apr 2012

Open source BI leader extends Jaspersoft ETL with Talend’s big data integration technology, providing CIOs, data scientists, and BI Builders the flexibility to harness big data for advanced reporting & analysis

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Jaspersoft, maker of the world’s most widely deployed business intelligence (BI) software, has upgraded its original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Talend to include native support for big data environments in Jaspersoft ETL. 

Offices in the Cloud: how Virtual Offices benefit from flexible cloud services

02 Apr 2012

Vice President of IT Optimisation at Intergence predicts that by 2020, around 80 per cent of employees may be working outside their organisation

Dr Steven Turner, VP of IT optimisation consultancy Intergence, has outlined how using cloud services benefits mobile workers and those operating virtual offices that traditionally have to rely on high speed broadband links to their corporate data centres for connectivity.

virtualDCS successfully launch their Virtual Service Provider (VSP) offering

30 Mar 2012

On Wednesday 21^st March 2012, Cloud Computing experts’ virtualDCS officially launched their innovative new service, which enables users to create custom Cloud solutions.

RapidSwitch offers 10GB of cloud backup free with every server ordered for World Backup Day

30 Mar 2012

Multi-site backup giveaway by European dedicated server leader 

RapidSwitch, a leading European supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, is celebrating World Backup Day by giving away 10GB of premium cloud backup space for FREE with every server ordered this weekend.

TeleWare Increases Choice of Wide Area Connections

29 Mar 2012

Griffin interconnect extends reach for service assurance

TeleWare, the leading provider of communications solutions for the mobile business, today announced the immediate availability of a direct interconnect between its Hosted Communications platforms and the Griffin network. This new interconnect, extends the reach of the TeleWare hosted voice services with quality of service assurances, providing customers and partners with an additional wide area connection option from an established service provider.

Banking Just got Safer as Nedbank Collaborates with Entersekt to Strengthen Online Banking

28 Mar 2012

Stellenbosch based Entersekt, a mobile technology company offering banks an innovative solution for secure online and mobile banking, announced that Nedbank has implemented their interactive transaction authentication (“ITA”) system in their recently released “Approve-it^TM” product which will provide greater protection against online fraud for their customers.

Emerson Network Power Addresses 10 Common Data Centre Surprises

28 Mar 2012

Technologies and Best Practices Provide Path for Better Preparation

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in maximising availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today released a list of 10 common surprises for data centre and IT managers and offered tips on how to be prepared for them. The list, released at AFCOM Data Centre World Spring, includes information on a surprising cause of data centre downtime, what data centre managers might not know about that next server refresh, and the growing trend sneaking up on virtually every IT manager.

Avere Unveils Edge Filer and New Architecture for NAS

28 Mar 2012

AOS 3.0 transforms FXT appliance into Edge filer optimized for today's storage challenges

Avere Systems today unveiled a new NAS architecture that will ensure enterprise IT is best positioned to leverage the performance benefits of Flash, the consolidation benefits of virtualization and the collaborative and economic benefits of the cloud. The new architecture for NAS puts the fastest media and the intelligence to manage it closest to the user, boosting performance and removing storage bottlenecks created by legacy NAS architectures.

Magirus drives Dell’s data centre portfolio in UK with new distribution signing

28 Mar 2012

Dell’s specialist data centre distribution partnership with Magirus extends from continental Europe to UK

Magirus, a leading European IT solutions provider, has announced today that it has become a specialist distributor of Dell’s data centre solutions in the UK. The deal gives Magirus’ UK business partners access to Dell’s full range of enterprise server, storage and connectivity portfolio. This builds on Magirus’ partnership with Dell in continental Europe announced in January 2011.

Hexagrid and Cobalt Align to Engineer a Cloud Computing First in Disaster Recovery

27 Mar 2012

Built on the Hexagrid cloud computing platform, Cobalt Solutions launches the first cloud disaster recovery solution that provides true business continuity.

Hexagrid, a leading developer of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing solutions, announced today that Cobalt Solutions, a Las Vegas based data center solutions provider, has utilized Hexagrid’s cloud computing platform to launch the first ever cloud-based Disaster Recovery (DR) solution that offers true business continuity.  Hexagrid and Cobalt developed this solution to augment Cobalt’s already extensive DR portfolio of solutions which combine to offer businesses the most comprehensive opportunity to proceed with “business as usual” when disaster strikes.

Arista unveils next generation data centre switch

27 Mar 2012

The next phase of software defined cloud networking provides network-integrated applications

Arista Networks, Inc. announced today the Arista Application Switch, the first in a new category of switches, enabling customers to run their own applications directly inside the network.  With latency improvements up to ten times compared to traditional server based implementations, the Arista Application Switch enables increased profitability and boosts competitive advantage.  Initial use cases for the Arista Application Switch include equity trading systems, inline risk analysis, market data feed normalisation, deep packet inspection, intelligence, and advanced security.

Ipswitch Survey Reveals Broad IT Buyer Confusion Around Network Monitoring Software Licensing Models

27 Mar 2012

Complex Licensing Models Push Prices Higher for Comparable Functionality and Value

Ipswitch Inc.’s Network Management Division (NMD), developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management solutions, today released results of a survey focused on the network monitoring software licensing process. 

Ciena and SafeNet Join Forces to Protect Data and Reduce Security Breaches in Commercial and Government Networks

27 Mar 2012

Companies to jointly sell high-speed, low-latency Ethernet link encryption solutions specifically designed to work at Layer 2

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, and SafeNet, a global leader in data protection, today announced a partnership to jointly sell high-speed, low-latency Ethernet link encryption services for commercial and government networks. Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet  and Packet-Opticalplatforms, and SafeNet’s Ethernet Encryptor solutions, have been extensively tested for  interoperability and provide assured, optimized and secure Layer 2 encryption services at speeds of up to 10 Gb/s, reducing the cost and complexity of protecting critical business information and intellectual property.

Virtual Computer Enrolls 40 Resellers in Initial UK Channel Launch

27 Mar 2012

Intelligent Desktop Virtualisation Leader Captures the Interest of Solution Providers across the UK

Virtual Computer, the market leader in intelligent desktop virtualisation (IDV), today announced that as part of its UK channel launch it has signed up 40 new resellers including B2Lateral, Centralis, Cetus Solutions, Overbright, RedPixie, and Virtek. The company has also teamed up with Prianto, a virtualisation-focused distributor, to handle the volume of interest from the UK channel.

X2Engine Selects Talend’s Data Integration Technology to Power Cloud-based Social Sales Management Application

27 Mar 2012

Open source CRM provider embeds Talend to deliver powerful yet simple data integration and transfer in the cloud

X2Engine, a leading provider of open source CRM solutions, today announced it has embedded Talend Enterprise Data Integration inside X2CRM, its next generation, open source, Social Sales Management application, to help streamline contact and sales actions into a compact, social user interface.  

Geo Networks provides London footprint for Swedish media giant Teracom

27 Mar 2012

Media service provider welcomed as Geo’s fifth customer connected to Chiswick Park

Today, Geo Networks Ltd (Geo), a leading provider of dedicated fibre networks, welcomed Swedish media service provider Teracom as its fifth customer connected to Chiswick Park within a year.

Survey of CIOs reveals Olympic disruption concerns

27 Mar 2012

- Almost ten percent believe Olympic chaos is guaranteed
- Information storage ranks as CIO’s biggest headache

UK CIOs are concerned that the upcoming Olympic Games will affect their business, according to a survey conducted by ControlCircle, a leading UK managed services provider.

Focus on fibre is misplaced, says Brocade

26 Mar 2012

The debate around the future of superfast broadband in the UK is focused too much on fibre optic networks and by ignoring the critical importance of the data centre, risks putting the cart before the horse, and creating demand before appropriate infrastructure is in place to cope, Brocade warns today.

Silver Peak to Provide Core Technology for EcoLogic Optimisation-as-a-Service (OaaS) Offering

26 Mar 2012

New Managed WAN Optimisation Service Improves Application Performance while Reducing IT Costs for UK Enterprises

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, today announced that its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) will serve as the core technology for EcoLogic Systems’ Optimisation-as-a-Service (OaaS) offering.  EcoLogic Systems, a leading cloud-based managed service provider, is the first to deliver an OaaS service for UK enterprises of all sizes that allows them to quickly and more-flexibly optimise the network while lowering ongoing telecommunications and infrastructure costs. 

Vision Solutions launches availability and disaster recovery solutions for IBM Power Systems with single user interface

26 Mar 2012

Major new versions of MIMIX Availability for IBM i and Double-Take for AIX provide organizations with faster replication, stronger data protection and smarter management of business continuity

Vision Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of information availability software and services with over 25,000 customers running Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing environments, today announced major new releases of MIMIX Availability for IBM i and Double-Take for AIX. With these launches, both solutions can now be managed and monitored through the Vision Solutions Portal, Vision’s industry-standard browser-based graphical user interface, which allows at-a-glance monitoring and intuitive control from any device with a browser.

Exclusive Cannon Technologies Deal For Distributor CMS

26 Mar 2012

The Cannon Technologies Smart Net range of cabinets, which CMS plc provides on a next-day-delivery basis, offers a wide selection of size options building from six different heights, two different widths, and three different depths. Overall the Smart Net range comprises a choice of over 32 cabinets.

Liaison Technologies Demystifies MFT in the Cloud

26 Mar 2012

With greater demands for secure transfer of Big Data through clouds, Managed File Transfer expands its role and gets a refresh

Liaison Technologies, a global provider of secure cloud-based integration data management services and solutions, is working to demystify Managed File Transfer (MFT) in the cloud by defining it and specifying its requirements, a step that will help organisations better understand its value for moving large sets of Big Data.

Akamai Introduces Terra Alta to Address the Evolving Complexities of Enterprise Application Delivery

21 Mar 2012

Akamai® Technologies, Inc., a leading cloud platform for delivering secure, high-performing user experiences to any device, anywhere, has introduced Terra Alta, an enterprise-class solution designed to address the evolving complexities of application acceleration in the cloud.

CloudSigma Joins Besol’s Tapp Platform for Cloud Infrastructure Management and Migration

21 Mar 2012

CloudSigma Opens up its Flexible, Customer-Centric IaaS Platform to Tapp Customers

CloudSigma, the only international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, has announced that it has joined cloud aggregator Besol’s Tapp platform, a cloud infrastructure management service, still in Beta. CloudSigma is the newest public cloud provider to join Tapp, opening up its flexible, customer-centric IaaS platform to current and future Tapp customers. With the Tapp platform, companies can not only deploy their infrastructure into a public cloud environment and manage their cloud servers more easily, but they can also migrate seamlessly between cloud IaaS providers, or fail over automatically in the event of a cloud outage.

RapidSwitch reports 90+% customer satisfaction for its self-managed dedicated server solutions

21 Mar 2012

Customers praise cost effective and quality hosting provision in Maidenhead data centre

More than 90% of customers who use RapidSwitch, a leading European supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, have reported good to excellent satisfaction levels with the service they receive from the iomart Group plc-owned hosting company.

The Only Way is Ethics: The Co-operative Bank funds new green data centres

21 Mar 2012

Leading green internet hosting company UKFast is seeing expansion and job creation with a £1.2m loan from the Manchester Corporate Banking Centre (CBC) of the Co-operative Bank.

OnApp launches free version of OnApp Cloud, its leading cloud deployment and management platform

21 Mar 2012

Free version enables creation of Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds with off-the-shelf hardware, removing cloud entry barriers.

OnApp  has announced a new free version of OnApp Cloud, which is available for download today from http://onapp.com. OnApp Cloud enables service providers and enterprises to build and run their own public, private and hybrid clouds, quickly and easily. The free version of OnApp Cloud offers similar class-leading functionality, scalability and resilience as the full version. It’s an ideal platform for companies looking to test, develop and launch their own cloud services, free of charge.

Virtus selects Geo Networks to deliver dark fibre infrastructure

20 Mar 2012

10 year deal provides Virtus’ Enfield-based data centre with access to UK-wide connectivity

Geo Networks Limited (“Geo”), a leading provider of dedicated fibre networks, today announced a ten year deal with data centre specialist Virtus, providing connectivity to its new Enfield-based data centre.

Interxion Connects Hilversum’s Media Community to their Amsterdam Campus

20 Mar 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced a new fibre connection between its Amsterdam campus and its Hilversum site, which is home to Technicolor and the Dutch Media Gateway.

The Bunker Partners with Expolink Europe to Deliver Secure Cloud-based Incident and Security Management Solution

20 Mar 2012

The Bunker, provider of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, has announced a new partnership with Expolink Europe to deliver its Incident and Security Management system as a secure Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.

OnApp Announces High Performance Pay-as-you-Grow SAN for Service Providers and Enterprises

20 Mar 2012

OnApp Storage Enables High-End SAN Performance and Scalability on Low-Cost Commodity Hardware, for the First Time, Using Patent-Pending Technology

OnApp has announced OnApp Storage, a new storage platform for service providers and enterprises that, for the first time, offers the performance and resilience of high-end SAN products using off-the-shelf disks and server hardware. OnApp Storage is a distributed block storage platform that enables companies to build high performance, highly resilient SANs using standard SATA and SSD drives in hypervisor servers. It uses patent-pending, ‘smart disk’ technology to overcome the performance, scalability and price limitations of legacy SAN products, creating a fast, resilient storage platform with simple pay-as-you-grow pricing.

AMD Launches New Platform for Dedicated Web Hosting Providers

20 Mar 2012

New AMD Opteron™ 3200 Series Processor Family Changes Industry Economics for Single-Socket, Dedicated Hosting and Cloud customers

AMD today announced the latest solution as part of its ongoing Web/Cloud initiative with the launch of the newAMD Opteron™ 3200 Series processor. 

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Selects DataFlux Technology for Solvency II Data Governance Initiative

20 Mar 2012

Business insurer sees 15% improvement of measured dataset data quality following implementation

DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced that Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), a global leader in large corporate and specialty insurance, has selected the DataFlux Data Management Platform to underpin compliance with the European Union’s Solvency II Directive. The company is seeking to govern 110 separate data feeds, many of which are relevant for Solvency II risk modeling. Through a data management methodology combined with Six Sigma business process improvement strategies, AGCS is focused on identifying and correcting poor-quality or non-compliant data at the source.

Ipswitch Enables Businesses to Overcome European Data Protection Burden with Launch of WhatsUp Log Management v10.1.1

20 Mar 2012

New version comes with out-of-the-box country-specific reports to ease compliance, protect sensitive data and automate log management

Ipswitch Inc.’s Network Management Division, developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management solutions, today announced WhatsUp Log Management v10.1.1. The new version boasts new pre-built, out-of-the-box reports, focused on complying with European-specific data protection regulations. The reports ease key compliance requirements for businesses of all sizes, including the need to meet country-specific data protection requirements such as the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1998; United Kingdom Corporate Governance Code 2010; German Federal Data Protection Act 2009; French Data Protection Act 2004 and French Financial Security Law 2003.

Ping Identity Launches PingOne - First Cloud Identity Switch

20 Mar 2012

Enables Tier 1 Single Sign-On (SSO) and On-Demand Identity Management for Businesses and Application Providers

Ping Identity^®, the cloud identity security leader, today unveiled PingOne, the world’s first multiplexed identity switch in the cloud. One connection to PingOne provides businesses the convenience of tier 1 Single Sign-On (SSO) access to all of their cloud applications and gives IT one place to centralise control and automate identity management. One connection to PingOne equips cloud application providers to offer tier 1 SSO to all of their customers.  For security conscious businesses, tier 1 requires exclusively standards-based, federated SSO protocols such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID with zero tolerance for storing passwords or managing duplicate end-user accounts in the cloud.

Cloud security worries should focus on data location, says Claranet

19 Mar 2012

Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study reveals 74% of respondents concerned about cloud security 

Cloud users say 'security' is their biggest concern according to a new survey, but the research does not provide detail on specific security worries. Managed services provider Claranet says that the most important security question that every cloud user needs to ask is: ‘Where is my data being hosted and how well integrated is a cloud service with network service?’

New Caliber Release from Micro Focus Ensures Requirements Clarity from Inception to Production

19 Mar 2012

Caliber 10.1 release provides a comprehensive end-to-end requirements definition and management solution

Micro Focus, the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, hasannounced Caliber 10.1, the latest from the company’s Borland testing and management product portfolio. The update to the Caliber product line provides even deeper integration between requirements definition and management (RDM) to help organizations increase collaboration between teams, improve the reaction time to changing requirements and reduce costs of producing quality software. 

The race is on to solve potential remote working Olympic nightmare

19 Mar 2012

The disruption that the Olympic Games could cause to London’s transport infrastructure, and the resulting effect on businesses and organisations has been well documented and should not be underestimated.  We have already seen advice from the Games organisers suggesting that employees should be allowed to work at home during the event. As a result both public and some private sector organisations have started to implement plans and hold practice runs for such an eventuality.  However, with so many employees working from home for the first time there is a lot more for organisations to take into consideration than at first glance.

SkyDox Invited to Showcase Secure File Sharing and Collaboration Platform to Investors and Press at the London Web Summit

19 Mar 2012

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, file synchronization, file storage, and collaboration tools, will be exhibiting today at the London Web Summit being held at The Brewery in the City of London.

BSO and Equinix develop a global sales partnership

19 Mar 2012

With this partnership BSO Network Solutions becomes one of the largest clients of Equinix France and will be capable of ensuring the delivery and availability of IT hosting space in the Greater Paris Region, at very competitive prices

In response to the continuing, growing demand for hosting, the saturation of the Datacenters and the new requirements for environmental protection, BSO Network Solutions recently added to its list of Paris area partners the Equinix sites at Pantin and Saint-Denis and has commenced marketing 1200 kW of operating power.

Vtesse eases Olympics disruption with short term data centre services

19 Mar 2012

Colocation provider unveils six month contracts & remote access to help UK businesses operate as normal during ‘lockdown London’ 

Vtesse, a leading UK business communications provider, today announced that its subsidiary, Vtesse Cirrus, is offering short term data centre service contracts at its Hertfordshire facility, specifically designed to reduce disruption for any businesses operating within the Olympic Route Network (ORN) or Paralympic Route Network (PRN) during London 2012.

Emerson Network Power Introduces Latest Release of Aperture(tm) Suite for Managing Data Centre Virtual

19 Mar 2012

Enhancements provide ability to identify the cost of virtual data centre processes and manage growth

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and a global leader in maximising availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today introduced version 650 of its Aperture Suite, a collection of advanced software for data centre planning, management and performance optimisation. The new offering is the first data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solution to provide tools to control data centre virtual sprawl.

UK firms struggling to get the basics right when it comes to business intelligence

19 Mar 2012

Information Builders finds access and accuracy thebiggest issues

UK businesses are failing to make the most out of their business intelligence systems as they are unable to overcome common hurdles such as restricted access, limited availability and poor data quality. This is according to Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions.

VDI Boot Storms do a Disappearing Act with Avere

19 Mar 2012

Testing shows NAS Optimization more effective at eliminating boot storms than upgrades to NAS filers

Avere Systems today announced that testing of its FXT Series proves that NAS Optimization provides the fastest boot times when compared to traditional disk-based filers.

Datacentre Awards 2012 For UK-Europe-CEE Brings Global Recognition To The Region

19 Mar 2012

DataCentre Awards Europe, the top regional event covering the UK, EU and CEE for the datacentre and cloud sector, will take place in London, June 13. With some of the biggest movers and shakers in the industry in attendance last year, this year’s event promises to recognise an even wider range of datacentres across the region.

iomart Group plc manager chosen as torchbearer for London 2012 Relay

19 Mar 2012

Customer services manager gets Olympic honour for voluntary work with Scouts

A manager for UK cloud computing leader iomart Group plc, has been chosen to be an Olympic torchbearer for the London 2012 Relay as it passes through Scotland this summer.

US Researchers Find Flaws in Single Sign-on

19 Mar 2012

Commenting on weekend reports that US security researchers have discovered a number of flaws in single sign-on (SSO) services operated by a number of portals – including Google and PayPal – SecurEnvoy says this highlights the clear need for two-factor authentication (2FA) where financial/personal logins are concerned.

Citrix streamlines delivery of cloud-hosted apps and desktops

19 Mar 2012

New Citrix Cloud Provider Pack provides powerful automation, app aggregation and mobility technologies for hosted cloud services

This week at WHD.global, Citrix is introducing a new “Cloud Provider Pack” for hosting providers delivering Windows apps and desktops as a hosted cloud service. This powerful new collection of enabling technologies, available exclusively to certified Citrix Service Providers (CSPs), makes it easy to set up “Windows-as-a-Service” hosting businesses that are simpler to run, less costly and better optimised for mobile devices.

Pensar helps Mansion House streamline internal IT

19 Mar 2012

Mansion House Consulting, a niche consultancy firm serving the financial sector has selected Pensar Systems to help reduce its IT burden through comprehensive support 

Based in the City of London, MHC works with both market practitioners and software vendors. The consultancy focuses on wealth management, transaction banking, investment banking and asset management communities, and includes some of the leading names in the global financial markets such as Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Barclays.

F5 Recognizes Outstanding Channel Partners in the Americas

16 Mar 2012

Distributors and resellers honored for exceptional performance in 2011

F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, has announced its 2011 Channel Partners of the Year awards for the Americas region. The annual award program recognizes F5 partners that best demonstrate superior account management through identifying and pursuing sales opportunities, providing technical resources for customers and prospects, and staying current on the latest technologies in the F5 solution portfolio.

TelecityGroup France recertified to ISO 27001, 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards

16 Mar 2012

Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance audit demonstrates TelecityGroup’s industry-leadership in France

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, announced today that all its data centres in France have been recertified with the ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 accreditations. The globally recognised certifications - for information security, environmental management, quality management, and occupational health and safety – demonstrate TelecityGroup’s ongoing commitment to provide the optimum environment for its customers to house their telecoms, internet and IT infrastructure.

Mimecast Releases CSA STAR-Compliant Security Controls

15 Mar 2012

Cloud Services Provider Leads the Charge on Security Transparency

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, today announced that it has published its security controls in response to the standards set by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR). STAR encourages companies to post self assessments of their cloud services to prompt informed purchasing decisions. To date, Mimecast is one of only three industry-leading companies to have provided access to their security controls, the others being Microsoft and Solutionary.

FireHost launches secure cloud data centre in Phoenix, Arizona

15 Mar 2012

Offers greater flexibility and an ideal location for disaster recovery requirements

As part of FireHost’s global expansion, which saw the secure cloud host launch operations in Europe earlier this year, the company is now offering services at a state-of-the-art data centre in Phoenix, Arizona.  The Phoenix facility mirrors the innovative, secure cloud hosting environments FireHost has established in Dallas and London, and will allow customers an additional option in choosing where their servers reside.  This is another step in a line of offerings the company provides to ensure customers have the flexibility and control they want for their environments.  New and existing clients can now deploy secure cloud servers in any of the three locations directly through their MyFireHost customer portal.

Large firms can shine the light on “hidden” computer room running costs with new CFD modelling gadget

15 Mar 2012

New modelling software shows data centre operations down to individual computer servers and averts costly diagnostics reports

Large UK companies can start to gain a proper understanding of one of the key cost factors affecting their main computing rooms or data centres, with the arrival of a new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software tool that models these facilities’ infrastructure and internal operating environments down to an individual computer server or the last square metre of a building.

Energy companies need to be smart with forthcoming meter data explosion, cautions OpenText

15 Mar 2012

Energy companies are facing phenomenal data volumes in the next eight years brought on by the rapid and widespread deployment of smart meters across Europe. In light of this huge increase in data, they must already be taking steps to prepare, information management experts OpenText said today.

Poundland builds fast business growth with flexible storage solutions from NetApp

15 Mar 2012

Poundland moves to a virtual server environment with NetApp storage

Poundland, Europe’s biggest single price discount retailer, has moved to a virtual server environment with a NetApp storage system to support the company’s plan to open 50 stores every year,  adding to its current 386 stores.

iCreate and Actian Deliver Superior Analytics for Global Banking Industry

15 Mar 2012

Actian Corporation today announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Banking BI specialist iCreate software, to jointly deliver superior analytical capability to the global banking industry. 

Varonis says data classification gap issue can be solved – with the right data governance systems in place

15 Mar 2012

Commenting on a report just released that says IT professionals in 25 per cent of firms claim a lack of understanding about how to classify and manage their data, Varonis Systems says this is a common problem in most major organizations and is compounded by the steadily increasing volumes of data that must be managed.

Logicalis enables the goodness to come out of ‘BIG DATA’ chip manufacturer

15 Mar 2012

IBM Cognos Express has transformed premier potato chip maker Kettle Foods Ltd’s financial reporting system

International solutions provider Logicalis is supplying premium potato chips manufacturer Kettle Foods Ltd with a tailored and secure business analytics system that has transformed the company’s financial reporting procedures.

Legacy infrastructure will fail to meet regulatory compliance objectives, say over 70% of Banking & Insurance professionals

14 Mar 2012

Independent Whitepaper from JWG Reveals Regulatory Impact on Financial Institutions’ ICT Infrastructure Requirements

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the results of an independent study and whitepaper by financial industry think-tank, JWG. The research is focused on the impact of anticipated regulation of the financial services industry on the ICT infrastructure requirements of banking and insurance firms across Europe.

Duet Group guarantees FSA compliance with implementation of disaster recovery technology from DataFort

14 Mar 2012

DataFort’s Hi-5 suite of business continuity/disaster recovery services provide security, regulatory compliance and vital time-saving in the event of lost servers to global asset management firm

Duet Group, the London-based global alternative asset management firm, has selected Managed Service Provider (MSP) DataFort to protect its entire server infrastructure with Hi-5, a suite of business continuity and disaster recovery services. The Hi-5 service ensures compliance with FSA data storage guidelines, whilst replacing the indefinite recovery timeframes provided by tape backup with guaranteed SLAs for recovery of data, server failure or loss of access to their business premises.

AlienVault research shows China escalating Tibetan cold war firmly into cyberspace

14 Mar 2012

AlienVault has discovered a range of spear phishing attacks taking place against a number of Tibetan organisations, apparently from Chinese attackers.

Global Law Firm Linklaters Boosts Productivity, Improves Client Satisfaction and Helps Environment with Polycom® RealPresence® Immersive Video

13 Mar 2012

• Polycom RealPresence Immersive solutions implemented in 27 offices in 19 countries including London, New York, Frankfurt and Hong Kong
• Reduces travel costs and eliminates 1,900 tons of CO₂ per year
• Improves employee and client integration and productivity 

Polycom, Inc., the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), today announced that global law firmLinklaters has deployed new Polycom RealPresence Immersive video collaboration suites (Polycom® RPX™ series) in offices around the world – including London, New York, Hong Kong and Frankfurt – to improve colleague communications, speed decision-making and boost business productivity. Polycom video collaboration has helped Linklaters, with 27 offices in 19 countries, to reduce its travel budgets by tens of thousands of dollars with further reductions expected, while also saving 1,900 tons of CO₂in just 12 months – the equivalent of taking an extra 365 family cars off the road in a year.

Red Hat Premier Business Partners Help European Customers Embark on Cloud Projects

13 Mar 2012

Local Red Hat Premier Virtualization Partners provide easy on-ramp to cloud with open source virtualization

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today highlighted the capabilities offered by its local virtualization-specialised Premier Business Partners focused around enabling end customers to lay a solid foundation for their future cloud plans. This follows from the January 2012 launch of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, a compelling open virtualization alternative that offers leading performance, scalability, security, manageability and cost benefits.

IFF Research Implements Full Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy with Acronis vmProtect 7

13 Mar 2012

IFF Research, one of the largest independent research companies in the UK, has announced that it has deployed Acronis® vmProtect 7™ to achieve a fully comprehensive backup and disaster recovery strategy across its Virtual Machines (VM).  

Quest Software Meets Escalating Demand for User-Centric Approach to Managing Virtual Offices

13 Mar 2012

Today, Quest unveils its user-centric approach to workspace management that leverages the company’s proven expertise and industry-leading capabilities in desktop virtualisation, application migration and physical desktop management to deliver the most comprehensive solution on the market.

Masergy’s New Intelligent Internet Management Provides Network-Managed Control of Web Applications and Traffic

13 Mar 2012

Suite of Hosted Services Simplifies Network Security, Optimises Bandwidth
and Reduces Costs for Enterprises on the Masergy Global Network

Masergy today introduced Intelligent Internet Management (IIM), a network-based Internet security and content control solution that provides enterprises on the Masergy global network with detailed application control, proactive Web traffic monitoring and enhanced firewall features.

Janet and BT sign new framework agreement

13 Mar 2012

New Framework to include IT consulting services

BT today announced that it has extended its relationship with Janet, the UK’s education and research network, providing a new procurement framework for the next three years.

OpenText Brings Security and Compliance to Digital Content Exchange

13 Mar 2012

New Managed File Transfer Solution Offers Advanced Audit Capabilities, Integration with Microsoft Outlook, Patent-pending Large-File Transfer Acceleration

OpenText today announced a new solution for managing the fast and secure exchange of large files inside and outside enterprises. Easy-to-use and deploy, OpenText Managed File Transfer (MFT) integrates with Microsoft Outlook, helps reduce file attachment size concerns and provides a powerful platform for the secure and auditable exchange of rich digital content including sensitive intellectual property among employees, partners and customers.

Murco Petroleum saves time and money with Timico technology

13 Mar 2012

Forecourt retailer benefits from advanced secure payment back-up service ensuring complete connectivity across all UK retail sites

Independent internet service provider Timico has revealed that hundreds of Murco Petroleum service stations are now benefiting from its latest technological advancements. In an announcement made during this week’s Retail Business Technology Expo at Earl’s Court, the Nottinghamshire-based innovator explained that Murco has invested in new IT systems that will eliminate missed sales opportunities caused by the temporary loss of Internet connection, adding to advancements which have already reduced the time its managers and employees spend on admin.

The Bunker achieves highest level of PCI DSS certification

13 Mar 2012

The Bunker, provider of Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that it has achieved certification on all 12 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements at both of its data centres. This makes it one of the few organisations able to offer a full end-to-end PCI DSS service based on pre-certified components.

Kroll Ontrack recovers more than 103 petabytes of data over the past 25 years

12 Mar 2012

Analysis of the amount of data created, lost and recovered since the advent of the PC

Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of data recovery, information management and legal technologies products and services, today released new statistics that reveal how the creation of storage technologies and digital information has impacted on data loss and data recovery technology since the advent of the personal computer in the 1980s.

SafeNet Deepens Cloud Capabilities with Acquisition of Cryptocard

12 Mar 2012

Acquisition Combines Leader in Data Protection with Cloud Visionary

In a transaction that will significantly broaden and deepen the authentication and cloud-based services it offers to clients, SafeNet, today announced that it has acquired Cryptocard, a privately held leader of cloud based authentication solutions.  Financial terms were not disclosed.

Brocade Bolsters Investment in EMEA with Opening of New Regional Briefing Center

12 Mar 2012

Growing, global network of executive briefing centers help customers drive business transformation through network innovation

Brocade, the leader in fabric-based networking solutions, today expanded its investment in EMEA with the opening of a regional briefing center (RBC) located in the UK. The new networking solutions center will showcase leading-edge product demonstrations and facilitate discussions for enterprise, campus and service provider customers throughout the EMEA region.

Phoenix NAP Selects Interxion for European Node Location

12 Mar 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Phoenix NAP®, a full service data centre, premier infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider and primary network access point (NAP), has chosen Interxion to house Phoenix NAP’s new European node in Amsterdam. The node should be completed during the second quarter of 2012. Phoenix NAP cited the data centre’s geographical location, number of carriers and competitive pricing in its decision selecting Interxion.

Source Expands London Presence with Digital Realty

12 Mar 2012

Long-term data centre lease at Digital Realty’s Redhill facility provides up to 420 kW of capacity

Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a leading global provider of data centre solutions, has signed a new 420 kW lease with Source Managed Services Limited (Source) , a data centre co-location and managed services provider, for its Redhill facility in suburban London. The lease is scheduled to commence on 1 June 2012.

nlyte research reveals businesses could grind to a halt thanks to capacity & power needs in the data centre

12 Mar 2012

nlyte Software today announced the results of its annual data centre trends research, which surveyed 100 IT professionals at the recent Data Centre World Conference and Expo (Olympia, London: 29th February – 1st March) about the state of their organisation’s data centre estate.  The findings revealed that, for the second year running, capacity concerns and the onus on cutting IT operational costs such as power and cooling, continue to dominate IT professionals’ agendas, as overarching corporate IT strategies fail to support the data centre’s needs. 

Varonis says IT security burnout risk can be easily avoided

12 Mar 2012

Commenting on reports from last week’s RSA 2012 event that IT security professionals have a high risk of burnout, Varonis Systems says that the use of cost-effective data governance technology – most notably in the area of unstructured data – can go a long way towards reducing the stress of staff and so avoid the burnout of valuable IT staff. 

Redstor Teams with Nexsan to Deliver Powerful and Efficient Storage and Services

12 Mar 2012

Leading Cloud Storage Provider for the Education Sector Joins Nexsan Partner Program to Power High Productivity Organisation's 

Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems, today announced that Redstor, one of Britain’s top cloud service providers, has partnered with Nexsan for the delivery of on-premise and cloud-based storage solutions.  Through the partnership, Redstor has integrated Nexsan E60 storage systems into its cloud backup infrastructure and solutions portfolio for customers in multiple industries, particularly the education sector (through the Redstor Backup Service for Schools - RBUSS).

Lieberman Software says e-voting flaw could have been prevented

12 Mar 2012

As Super Tuesday got under way in the US elections last week, reports started coming in about an electronic voting platform whose security was massively compromised after the election board invited external researchers to test its systems.

Accellion Unveils kitedriveTM – Dropbox for the Enterprise

12 Mar 2012

Enabling Secure Mobile File Sharing Solutions for Business Use

Accellion, Inc., today announced Secure Mobile File Sharing solutions for enterprises, businesses and individuals that include kitedrive^TM file synchronization capabilities to enable business users to be securely connected to their files anytime, anywhere.  Accellion is filling an important business need by addressing security concerns related to BYOD, and the use of free consumer file sharing applications within enterprise organizations.  Included within the Accellion Secure Mobile File Sharing solutions is kitedrive sync, a new file sharing capability from Accellion, that enables business users to synchronize files across devices, including iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry, for secure anytime, anywhere access to information, while at the same time providing IT and Security teams management over mobile access to content. 

virtualDCS is to launch their exciting new service at the Yorkshire Mafia conference

12 Mar 2012

On Wednesday 21^st March 2012, Cloud Computing experts’ virtualDCS are set to premier their new innovative Cloud service at the exhibition

Yorkshire based company Virtual Data Centre Services (virtualDCS) provide innovative ways to host business systems for companies around the world. The team specialises in Cloud services such as: Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, Recovery as a Service, Voice as a Service and Private Clouds.

Olympics pose power conundrum for businesses

12 Mar 2012

Companies move away from London as concerns of a power squeeze loom

As the countdown to the Olympics draws ever nearer to the opening ceremony, businesses are moving with haste to safeguard their IT provisions to minimise disruption.

Security B-Sides London sells out in a record two minutes!

09 Mar 2012

KPMG confirmed Platinum sponsor, offering delegates a CV analysis

Security B-Sides London, the community-driven event built by and for information security community members, today announces KPMG as a confirmed platinum sponsor, alongside MWR InfoSecurity, Yubico and gold sponsors Qualys, Mimecast and Realex Payments. KPMG will also offer a CV clinic for delegates and run a succession challenge, with an iPad 2 up for grabs!

Six tips to cloud heaven by Peter Job, CEO of Intergence

09 Mar 2012

The IT industry is being transformed by cloud computing and 2012 is predicted to be the year this technology becomes main stream as the market for public cloud computing is set to reach US$5.8 billion by 2015. But the key challenge according to Peter Job, CEO at Intergence is how to optimise and fine tune an organisation’s infrastructure to best take advantage of the new technology. 

Imation brings enterprise-strength Linear Tape-Open (LTO) storage solutions to small and medium-sized companies struggling to manage deluge of digital data

09 Mar 2012

LTO Tape Libraries Feature Speed and Scalability Previously Reserved For Enterprise Customers; Imation Channel Partners Deliver Cost-Effective, Efficient Storage to Growing Organisations

Imation Corp., a global scalable storage and data security company, today announced the availability of enterprise-strength Linear Tape-Open (LTO) storage tape libraries, which are crucial components to data archiving and backup solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The Imation L1200 LTO® 2U and Imation L1400 LTO® 4U Tape Libraries feature the highest LTO capacity and transfer rates available, giving SMBs flexibility to simultaneously manage rapid and unpredictable growth in digital content while still meeting strict industry regulations for retention, retrieval and recovery of data.

The Green Grid announces new material to advance data centre sustainability and productivity

08 Mar 2012

Research, Tools and Case Studies Provide Roadmap for Sustainability at 5^th Annual Members Meeting and Forum

As the global IT industry’s leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in the data centre and business computing ecosystems, The Green Grid introduced new materials today at its annual Member Meeting and Forum. Data centre, business and sustainability leaders from across the globe convened at the annual event to collaborate, network with peers and receive these new research papers, survey results and measurement tools. These tools will provide a roadmap towards increased resource efficiency and productivity in business computing.

UK SME leaders see inadequate technology slashing profits

08 Mar 2012

“Security of data” is top IT challenge

72 percent of entrepreneurs in the UK claim inadequate technology is reducing profitability in their business, with the majority highlighting a reduction of 30 to 50 percent due to technology not fulfilling requirements. According to a study of 400 small business leaders by professional-grade cloud provider Zunicore, “security of data” is cited by 40 percent of respondents as being their biggest IT challenge, closely followed by “capital cost” at 33 percent, with only 9 percent stating that the right technology is helping them to win business.

Magirus achieves certification to ‘build-to-order’ Cisco Unified Computing System B-Series in Europe

08 Mar 2012

Magirus offers full build-to-order Cisco UCS B200-Series offering and launches new UCS B-Series Demo Lab for European resellers

Magirus, one of Europe’s leading IT solution providers, announced today that it has achieved a new, high level of certification to ‘build-to-order’ Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series systems in Europe. Starting immediately, Magirus is able to build Cisco UCS B-Series servers from the bare chassis upwards by assembling processors, hard disk drives, memories and virtual interface cards, according to end-customers’ requirements. Prior to this, the company had a ‘configure-to-order’ capability, restricting it to configuring pre-defined bundles. Also, Magirus has announced a new B-Series Demo Lab providing a cost-effective, online capability for resellers to demo Cisco UCS B-Series systems to their customers

Derry-Londonderry has eyes on 4,000 tech jobs

08 Mar 2012

Derry City Council has said that up to 4,000 ICT jobs could be created in the city by 2020 following a period of massive investment in telecoms and digital projects.

GFI Software Launches GFI WebMonitor™ 2012

08 Mar 2012

Intuitive user interface, smart dashboards and action-based alerts among new features that make it even easier for SMBs to strengthen network security

GFI Software continues to solidify GFI WebMonitor™ as one of the industry’s leading web security solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Last fall, the company introduced several innovations to enable SMBs to better defend their networks, including a website safeness rating, stronger blocking of malicious URLs and more robust protection against zero-hour threats. Today, GFI Software announced GFI WebMonitor 2012, with additional enhancements that make it even easier for SMBs to protect networks from malicious threats.

Actian and Viada Bring Analytics to German ‘Under-Served Majority’

08 Mar 2012

Vectorwise adds speed and efficiency to the IT service provider’s portfolio

Actian Corporation today announced that it has signed a strategic partner agreement with Viada GmbH & Co. KG, an IT service provider that offers custom made software development and project implementation. In addition to designing and developing Java Enterprise based IT solutions, Viada will now offer Actian Vectorwise and the company’s data warehouse and management and business intelligence (BI) capabilities as part of its portfolio. The foundation of this agreement is the collaboration that both companies have with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions.

Launch of Pulsant creates powerful new IT & hosting partner for the UK mid-market

08 Mar 2012

Market leading capability, nationwide network of datacentres and ‘personal touch’ will drive success

Today sees the launch of Pulsant, a powerful and leading supplier of Cloud and Managed Hosting services to the UK mid-market.  Formed by the combination and integration of Lumison, DediPower and Bluesquare Data, Pulsant is a £30 million turnover company which is poised for rapid growth fuelled by a £6 million 2012 investment plan that includes new staff, additional facilities and services as well as targeted sales initiatives.

OCZ Technology Talos SAS SSDs to be Deployed in Drobo’s Business-Class Storage Systems

08 Mar 2012

OCZ Enterprise SSDs Offer Exceptional Performance with Faster Access Times and Maximum Reliability for SME Business Applications 

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that the Drobo will utilise the OCZ Talos SAS SSD Series for integration into its B1200i iSCSI SAN solutions for business environments. Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, has chosen to provide customers with even faster and more robust storage systems by complementing the sophisticated feature set of the B1200i with the superior performance, energy efficiency, and maximum endurance of Talos SSDs.

Adapt named as an approved G-Cloud framework supplier

08 Mar 2012

Adapt to Offer Services Including its Enterprise Virtual Data Centre via the Government’s New CloudStore

Adapt, the independent IT managed services provider, has announced that it has been approved as a supplier for the G-Cloud services framework.  Joining the G-Cloud marketplace, Adapt will offer services including its Enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC) to the UK public sector via the new online portal, CloudStore

Survey - IT Departments Restrict Innovation

08 Mar 2012

“iPads in the workplace – the worst that could happen” say IT’s caretaker generation

Consumerisation of IT (CoIT) has had the single most negative impact on the role of the IT professional according to the findings of a new survey from Star, a provider of on-demand computing and communication services to UK businesses. One in five IT professionals identified consumerisation of IT as having had the most negative impact on their role.

New Cisco Unified Computing System Innovations Help Customers Build Clouds, Deploy Business Applications Faster

08 Mar 2012

Additions to Cisco Unified Computing System portfolio quadruple memory capacity, double switching capacity and simplify management for large-scale UCS deployments

IT organizations today are striving to establish data centers that support virtualization and cloud computing to become more competitive and agile, reduce the cost of physical infrastructure, and support the demands of data growth and Big Data analytics.  Cisco today announced innovations across the CiscoUnified Computing System™ to deliver a third-generation fabric computing platform– which integrates network, compute, virtualization and management– to address these challenges and help customers respond rapidly to changing business needs, scale their data centers, and accelerate transition to virtualization and cloud computing.

IMImobile Deploys IBM Software to Enhance Its Cloud Services Management

07 Mar 2012

Implements IBM SmartCloud Foundation to augment carrier-class service level management

IBM today announced that IMImobile, a global mobile data technology infrastructure and solutions provider to telecom operators, media companies and enterprises has deployed IBM software to enhance its existing service and cloud infrastructure management processes.

Brammer chooses Stibo Systems' product information management platform to drive market leadership

07 Mar 2012

STEP Product Information Management System from Stibo Systems Enables the Leading MRO Distributor to Expand New Product Ranges across its European Operations

Stibo Systems, the Strategic Information Management Technology and Solutions Company^TM has announced that Manchester-based Brammer plc, the leading European distributor of Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) parts, has partnered with Stibo Systems to implement Stibo’s market-leading STEP data management platform across its European operations, to help efficiently manage strategic information relevant to its expanding range of products. Brammer will also utilize STEP to provide vital product data to its customers via multiple channels across fifteen European countries.

Actelis and 3M Services Deploy New Broadband Ethernet Solutions to Harzwasserwerke GmbH

07 Mar 2012

Actelis Networks®, The Broadband Acceleration Company™, and 3M Services GmbH (3M), part of the 3M Group, today announced at CeBIT 2012 that Harzwasserwerke GmbH (Harzwasserwerke) has selected Actelis’ high-performance Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) solutions (EFM) solutions to replace legacy Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) and outdated E1 technology. Harzwasserwerke is one of the largest suppliers of water in Germany, delivering about 90 billion litres of water annually over a system of more than 500km of pipeline.

Avecto confirms staff are weakest link in IT security chain

07 Mar 2012

Avecto has welcomed the latest Ponemon Institute report, which concludes that staff negligence or maliciousness is the root cause of most data breaches.

Imation Expands Scalable Storage Portfolio with New InfiniVault Appliances

07 Mar 2012

New Imation InfiniVault Appliances Provide Tiered Storage Approach for Small and Medium Businesses

Imation Corp, a leading global technology company dedicated to helping people and organisations store, protect and connect their digital world, today announced an expansion to its scalable storage portfolio with a new line of Imation branded InfiniVault® Appliances. Imation’s Appliances are a small-business archive Storage solution that uses elastic vaults of online, nearline and offline storage to automatically retrieve, retain and recover all types of capacity intensive data files. It is compatible with a wide variety of applications and easily connects to your network.

Juniper Networks Qfabric Sets New Standard For Network Scale, Performance And Interoperability In Industry's Largest Independent Test

07 Mar 2012

Network Test and Spirent Communications Validate Juniper Networks QFabric with 1,536 10GE Port Network Fabric Test

Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today set a new standard for data center network scale, performance and interoperability with record-breaking test results for QFabric, Juniper’s single layer data center architecture and foundation for the new network. QFabricdelivers the high performance required for big data and computationally intensive applications. The independent test, conducted by Network Test with support from Spirent Communications, is the industry’s largest yet at 1,536 10GE ports – a port count that covers a wide range of enterprise and service provider data centers.

Varonis® enables Baillie Gifford to remove risk from its data permissions environment

07 Mar 2012

Cost-effective and easy to install, Varonis^® DataAdvantage^® is already paying its way for the Scottish-based Financial Services leader  

Varonis® Systems Inc. announced that its DatAdvantage® solution has been adopted by one of the leading Financial Services and Asset Management organisations in the United Kingdom. Founded over 100 years ago, Baillie Gifford is an independent investment management firm based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With just under 700 staff, the firm manages more than £69.9 billion (US$108.6 billion) in active equity and bond portfolios for its clients in the UK and throughout the world. 

Collier & Madge Plc selects Pensar Systems to deliver fully managed services portfolio

07 Mar 2012

Collier & Madge Plc, a respected firm of chartered surveyors has selected Pensar Systems to help it benefit from comprehensive managed IT services and business continuity platforms utilising the cloud.

Hitachi Data Systems to introduce new server line-up based on Intel Xeon Processor E5 family

07 Mar 2012

Hitachi Compute systems to feature faster performance, higher density and greater energy efficiency leveraging latest Intel Processor technology

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced that it will expand its family of blade and rack server products for the enterprise market. The forthcoming Hitachi Compute Systems will be based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family introduced today by Intel Corporation.

Juniper Networks And Nokia Siemens Networks Launch The 'Integrated Packet Transport Network' Solution

06 Mar 2012

Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, and Nokia Siemens Networks today announced the launch of the ‘Integrated Packet Transport Network’ solution, comprised of the Juniper Networks® PTX Packet Transport Switches and the Nokia Siemens Networks hiT 7300 high capacity optical packet transport platform. 

Iceotope's launch marks new generation in liquid cooling for servers

06 Mar 2012

Iceotope’s innovative solution tackles the energy costs and environmental footprint associated with data centre cooling

Iceotope, the producer of the first truly scalable data centre ready integrated cooling and compute solution, is today launching at CeBIT.  This innovative approach to tackling energy costs and environmental footprints, combines industry standard ICT with next generation liquid cooling to deliver 24/7 free cooling for ICT, anywhere on the planet.  This results in saving 97% of the energy cost of cooling and more than 75% of the mechanical costs.

Geo Networks Joins Interxion’s Content Hub to Meet Growing Digital Demand

06 Mar 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that dedicated fibre infrastructure provider, Geo Networks Ltd (Geo) has become part of the Content Hub community in 

European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) to launch at DataCentres 2012

06 Mar 2012

The newly formed EUDCA to exhibit at the leading conference for content relating to the data centre industry, where they will also be welcoming new members.

Data Centres 2012 (www.datacentres2012.com) to be held in Nice on the 23rd and 24th of May has been selected as the event to formally launch the new European Data Centre Associationbecause of its regional audience and because of its reputation as the leading conference for content relating to the data centre industry. The European Data Centre Association will exhibit at the event, and welcomes new members to meet there.

The Bunker successfully renews IGSoC status

06 Mar 2012

The Bunker delivers Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, and has successfully completed the IGSoC (Information Government Statement of Compliance) approval process for a further 12 months.

Brocade Unveils “The Effortless Network”

06 Mar 2012

Innovative New Brocade HyperEdge Technology and Campus LAN Switches Deliver Unmatched Automation, Scalability and Affordability

Brocade today announced unprecedented innovation in the campus LAN market with the introduction of the company’s vision for The Effortless Network. This vision is based on the new Brocade^® HyperEdge^TM technology , which is designed to deliver new levels of automation and simplification of the campus LAN lifecycle—with significant cost savings and investment protection. Brocade also introduced two additions to the Brocade ICX^TM switch family to support the company’s advancements in campus LAN technology.

Diskeeper Corporation announces new name

05 Mar 2012

Diskeeper Corporation, the leader in high performance optimisation and maintenance software for technology, people and business has changed its name to Condusiv Technologies. The company ceased operating under the name Diskeeper Corporation as of midnight on March 4, 2012.

SSH Communications Security Unveils SSH User Key Management Solution

05 Mar 2012

SSH Communications Security, known the world over as the inventors of the SSH protocol, unveiled today the first new extension of its SSH Information Integrity Platform, SSH User Key Management. The module will serve to provide enterprises the ability to identify, organize and maintain trust relationships of applications, user and service accounts to their respective target SSH servers through the management of public and private keys.

SecurStore Provides Cloud Backup for Enterprise Customer in Panama, Central America

05 Mar 2012

PanAmerica Capital Group, Inc, a leading financial investment and advisory firm based in Southern Central America has, in collaboration with its IT partner Manzilain Ltd, implemented SecurStore’s Cloud Backup and Recovery service to protect its business critical data.

Lyris Embeds Talend’s Big Data Integration Technology to Help Marketers Drive Business Results

05 Mar 2012

Cloud-based digital marketing expert OEMs Talend Enterprise Data Integration to manage and leverage Big Data

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Lyris, Inc., the global digital marketing expert, is deploying Talend Enterprise Data Integration to streamline data management for online marketing campaigns. With Talend, Lyris further differentiates itself from competitors by offering integration technology that harnesses the power of Big Data, creating opportunities for marketers to deliver business results based on data-driven marketing strategy.  

Cloud email specialist finding increasing support for its email security solutions

05 Mar 2012

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving,continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has announced it has continued to gather momentum in the security channel by signing a number of significant new channel partnerships. These include Infosec Technologies, Security Partnerships, and LIMA Networks. Mimecast’s ability to tailor and structure bespoke proposals to meet the needs of each partner was the deciding factor for many of its new resellers.

AMS-IX to launch point-of-presence at TelecityGroup´s new Amsterdam data centre

05 Mar 2012

World’s largest internet hub AMS-IX and TelecityGroup cement relationship in new data centre location

TelecityGroup, the leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, and Internet Exchange AMS-IX has announced that an AMS-IX point-of-presence will be built in TelecityGroup’s new Amsterdam data centre, AMS 5.  The extension of the partnership between TelecityGroup and AMS-IX into the new facility will enable both parties to continue to provide the highest levels of connectivity and peering options to organisations colocating in the Netherlands.

National Institute of Genetics Adopts SGI HPC Solution for New Supercomputer System

05 Mar 2012

Leading Japanese Institution Selects SGI® UVTM 1000 with 10TB of Memory for Genomics Research

SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing, announced today that Japan'sNational Institute of Genetics, an information and systems research organization located in Mishima, Shizuoka, under the leadership of Director-General Yuji Kohara, has selected an SGI® UV™ 1000, the top model in the SGI UV series, for a new supercomputer system. Featuring 768 processor cores 10TB of memory, the system will function as a server for next-generation sequencing data analysis.

Condusiv Technologies introduces Undelete 10

05 Mar 2012

Undelete® 10 One Button Search protects Windows® file servers, desktops, virtual servers and critical application servers, including Exchange, SQL, or SharePoint

Condusiv Technologies, formerly Diskeeper Corporation, the leader in high-performance software optimising technology, people and businesses, has today launched Undelete 10, real time data protection and instant data recovery.

Infosecurity Europe organiser describes commercial DDoS attack trends as worrying

05 Mar 2012

Commenting on research that has detected DDoS attacks being used as a competitive weapon, the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say this is a new attack trend that will have many IT security managers on this side of the Atlantic worried.

Imation and QStar Technologies Announce RDX® A8 Hard Disk Storage Library Solution Certified with QStar Archive Manager Software

05 Mar 2012

Imation to Exhibit Integrated Solution for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses at CeBIT 2012

Imation Corp., a global scalable storage and data security company, and QStar Technologies, Inc., a leading global provider of enterprise-class archive and data management software, today announced certification of QStar Archive Manager software with Imation’s RDX® A8 Hard Disk Storage Library, delivering flexible, low-cost, enterprise-level active archive solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The solution, part of Imation’s scalable storage portfolio, will be showcased 6-10 March at Imation Stand H20 in Hall 14 at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany.

Imation Launches DataGuard Backup Appliances Arming SMBs with Multiple Levels of Data Protection

05 Mar 2012

New Scalable Storage Solutions Provide Compelling Method for Cloud Data Protection Integration

Imation Corp., a global scalable storage and data security company, today introduced new purpose-built backup appliances designed to enable small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to safeguard their valuable information with multiple levels of data protection from a single backup infrastructure. The DataGuard™ Model R4 and DataGuard™ Model T5R appliances utilise hard drives, removable RDX® disk cartridges, replication and cloud storage to deliver enterprise-strength data protection at a price point that is affordable for SMBs. This Imation launch offers a practical solution for a common SMB challenge when adding cloud capability as a new tier within a data protection and backup strategy.

Quarter of security budgets increased due to proposed EU data protection laws

05 Mar 2012

27% of Sample Reporting Security Budgets Have Increased In Response Proposed Changes, Yet Only 11% Automate Compliance Audits

Tufin Technologies, the market-leading provider of Security Policy Management solutions, today announced the results of a survey assessing how the recently announced updates to EU Data Protection legislation will impact IT compliance efforts. 42% of the 100 network security managers sampled by the firewall management software provider said the proposed changes led to increased risk awareness within their organization; 34% stated that their attitude towards Continuous Compliance had changed as a result, and 54% believe that automating audits would reduce the organization’s risk of violating the law.

Sales Directorship for Industry Veteran Brian Myers

05 Mar 2012

TeleWare appoints Brian Myers to head up new high touch sales team

TeleWare today announced the promotion of Brian Myers to the position of Sales Director, heading up its ‘high touch’ team of sales professionals and technical sales specialists. The move consolidates TeleWare’s sales and presales teams as the company looks to continue its recent major successes, particularly in the mobile space.

Red Hat To Host European Cloud Computing Tour Focused on Open Cloud Architecture

05 Mar 2012

7-city tour to feature Red Hat cloud experts and partners on strategies and technologies for building open clouds

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it will host a seven-city tour of one-day, cloud-focused events throughout Europe, kicking off on March 20 with presentations in Helsinki, Finland. The event series will cover strategies and best practices from Red Hat experts and partners on approaches for building open clouds.

Claranet joins the Cloud Industry Forum

05 Mar 2012

Leading managed services provider becomes latest member of industry body

Claranet, the managed services provider, has today announced it has formally joined the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the industry body established to promote trust, security, and transparency within the cloud sector.

Customers Rely on NetApp for the Highest Level of Excellence in Secure Solutions for their Missions

05 Mar 2012

NetApp Data ONTAP 8.0 Earns Internationally Recognised Common Criteria Certification to Meet Stringent Government Standards

NetApp have announced that NetApp Data ONTAP® 8.0.0 operating in 7-Mode and Data ONTAP® 8.0.1 operating in 7-Mode have completed evaluation for an EAL2+ certification under the Communications Security Establishment Canada’s (CSEC) Common Criteria Evaluation and Certification Scheme (CCS).  Government and commercial customers alike receive the best possible security solutions from NetApp as the company continues to commit to achieving the highest calibre in IT government security validations.

OpenText Tempo and New Tempo Express Edition Deliver Private, Secure Hybrid Cloud Document Sharing, Mobile Syncing

05 Mar 2012

Effortless File Sharing, Sync Come Together with an Enterprise-Class Infrastructure to Accelerate Business “Tempo”

OpenText today announced the general availability of OpenText Tempo and introduced Tempo Express Edition, a new offering that lets companies quickly set up a private solution for easily sharing and syncing content in the cloud. Both editions offer all the ease-of-use of consumer-oriented document sharing cloud services coupled with the rigorous records management and security required to meet internal policies and industry regulations. 

Imation launches DataGuard backup appliances arming SMBs with multiple levels of data protection

02 Mar 2012

New Scalable Storage Solutions Provide Compelling Method for Cloud Data Protection Integration

Imation Corp., a global scalable storage and data security company, today introduced new purpose-built backup appliances designed to enable small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to safeguard their valuable information with multiple levels of data protection from a single backup infrastructure. The DataGuard™ Model R4 and DataGuard™ Model T5R appliances utilise hard drives, removable RDX® disk cartridges, replication and cloud storage to deliver enterprise-strength data protection at a price point that is affordable for SMBs. This Imation launch offers a practical solution for a common SMB challenge when adding cloud capability as a new tier within a data protection and backup strategy.

Cloudgermany.de Opens Cloud Testlab at Interxion

01 Mar 2012

INTERXION, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Cloudgermany.de will house its Cloud Testlab within Interxion’s Frankfurt data centre. This proof-of-concept test environment allows service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees.

Talend Empowers Apache Hadoop Community with Talend Open Studio for Big Data

01 Mar 2012

Based on award-winning open source integration technology, big data integration solution to be released under Apache Software License, bundled in Hortonworks Data Platform.

Talend, a global leader in open source integration software, today announced the availability of Talend Open Studio for Big Data, to be released under the Apache Software License. Talend Open Studio for Big Data is based on the world’s most popular open source integration product, Talend Open Studio, augmented with native support for Apache Hadoop. In addition, Talend Open Studio for Big Data will be bundled in Hortonworks’ leading Apache Hadoop distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform, constituting a key integration component of Hortonworks Data Platform, a massively scalable, 100 percent open source platform for storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data.

Node4 launches cloud without the capital

01 Mar 2012

New n4Cloud will offer bespoke route to the cloud without huge upfront investment

Today, data centre and communications firm Node4 has launched n4Cloud, its new cloud infrastructure. n4Cloud is a high quality, high specification infrastructure that offers organisations flexibility by allowing them to build their own cloud-based solution using a ‘pick and mix’ approach.

NetApp and Proact launch joint SaaS programme

01 Mar 2012

Go-to-market strategy brings Software as a Service to ISV’s

Proact, Europe's leading storage integrator and cloud services provider, is today announcing the launch of a joint commitment with global storage vendor, NetApp, which will assist independent software vendors (ISV’s) across the UK in delivering Software as a Service (SaaS) to their customers.

Avecto offers the solution to RSA 2012 CEO keynoter’s call for better security

01 Mar 2012

Responding to comments made by Enrique Salem, CEO of fellow IT security vendor Symantec, Avecto says that the profound – and potentially negative - changes to employee attitudes towards corporate security identified in his speech can be countered by the use of transparent and minimally obtrusive security.

Compuware Study Shows Many CIOs Unprepared to Address Mainframe Developer Shortage

01 Mar 2012

Enterprise Drive Toward Greater IT Efficiency Hampered by Failure to Modernize Mainframe Environment

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, today released the results of a second independent research study conducted by Vanson Bourne* into mainframe use in the enterprise. Key findings reveal that a stagnant mainframe development environment impacts developer productivity and in turn, reduces IT efficiency.

Free Login Vault Ends Security Nightmare Of Multiple Passwords

01 Mar 2012

my1login is the first personal portal to offer bullet-proof password management integrated with a dashboard for email and social media.

A new secure personal portal, my1login, launches today in the US and UK giving web users a highly encrypted ‘vault’ where they can manage, store and even safely share their logins, passwords and PINs using a free, highly secure, web-based interface.

Popular SANS security training returns to United Arab Emirates

01 Mar 2012

Penetration Testing and Network Forensics courses available from March 31st to April 5th

The SANS Institute is offering two of its popular security training courses in Abu Dhabi this coming March.   SANS Certified Instructor Pieter Danhieux will be teaching the Security 560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course to help security professionals build a penetration testing and ethical hacking infrastructure that include the appropriate hardware, software, network infrastructure, and test tools arsenal, with specific low-cost recommendations for maximising effectiveness on a limited budget.

NextiraOne is First in France to Gain Cisco’s Highest Certification Level

01 Mar 2012

International communications specialist shows its mastery of technologies and Cisco culture in achieving the new Gold Certified Partner level

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has achieved Cisco’s highest level of accreditation for its three architectures. This is the first time that Cisco has awarded all three certifications to a French partner organisation at the highest level.

Thales guide helps business to audit their cyber security risk

01 Mar 2012

A report released today by Thales, a global leader in information systems and communications security, highlights the four main areas of cyber security addressed by best practice organisations. The report also warns that businesses may be over-spending on cyber security solutions that over-protect non-sensitive data.

Welsh public sector network celebrates 100 organisations

01 Mar 2012

Wales Leads UK and Reaps the Rewards of Innovation and Investment in Secure Shared Communications Services

Logicalis UK announced today that The PSBA (Public Sector Broadband Aggregation) Network, Wales’s award-winning secure shared communications service, has been chosen by 103 Public Sector bodies as their primary communications service.  The PSBA now supports over 90% of all major public sector organisations in Wales across all major industries including Health, Education, Local Government, Fire and Rescue Service, Police, Ambulance Service, and the third sector.  The service now enjoys contracts for just under 5,000 separate sites and is the UK’s largest and most diverse next generation public sector communications service.

Hundred not out for Rise’s channel partner programme

01 Mar 2012

Rise, a leading Gloucester based provider of Cloud computing services, is building on its success, which has seen it recruit over 100 UK based partners in just over two years, by holding two partner recruitment events in Manchester and Reading during March.

Conexance acquires US firm, Marketing 1by1

01 Mar 2012

With this takeover, Conexance reinforces its positioning on the web and makes inroads into the international market

Conexance, a firm specialised in customer knowledge and shared databases, has acquired Marketing 1by1 and its SaaS software solutions,Campaign 1by1 and Web 1by1. This strategic move allows Conexance to offer a comprehensive proprietary range of solutions and to develop its activities internationally, most notably by entering the US market.

GoGrid Successfully Completes SOC 1 (SSAE 16) Type II Audit

01 Mar 2012

IaaS Leader Safeguards Its Customers’ Cloud Infrastructure with Comprehensive Protection 

GoGrid today announced that it is one of the first cloud infrastructure providers to successfully complete its SOC 1 Statement of Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 (SSAE 16) audit. SSAE 16 is the new auditing standard developed in 2011 by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to replace SAS 70. This audit documents that GoGrid is financially reliable, and therefore is a safe partner for providing critical Internet hosting and data storage services. In other words, SSAE 16 defines a widely accepted, consistent way for organizations to disclose independently assessed information about the design and operation of internal controls related to the services they provide. 

Timico agrees sale and leaseback on Newark Data Centre

29 Feb 2012

DTZ, part of UGL Services, has successfully completed a sale and leaseback deal on a multi-million pound Data Centre in Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire on behalf ofcommunications service provider, Timico.

Boston Limited unveils top secret server at Data Centre World

29 Feb 2012

Boston Limited, now in its 18^th year as distribution partner for Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), has announced that it is to reveal a top secret new server at Data Centre World 2012 in London’s Olympia.

PEER 1 Hosting simplifies the web for SMB’s

28 Feb 2012

Web management and server administration tools unveiled

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, is today announcing the launch of two managed hosting products aimed at simplifying the web for small to medium sized businesses. The upgraded portfolio includes cPanel/WHM and Fulcrum, and is designed to make it easy and quick for SMB’s to manage their servers and configure their websites and email accounts.

Infinity Adds ‘Stockley Park’ Site to UK Data Centre Portfolio

28 Feb 2012

On the eve of Data Centre World at London’s Olympia, Infinity today announced the addition of a new premium West London facility to its growing portfolio of data centre locations. The new ‘Stockley Park’ data centre will be operational in Autumn 2012.

Aspect again named #1 global workforce management solution vendor

28 Feb 2012

Retains top spot in both North American and Global rankings

Aspect, a leading provider of customer contact and Microsoft platform solutions, has announced that the company has been named the leading global workforce management vendor in the 2011 World Contact Centre Workforce Management Systems Market report by Pelorus Associates, an independent market research and consulting company. Globally, Aspect owns 29.7 percent of the workforce management market, and it leads the North American market with 37.7 percent share. Pelorus has tracked the global market for contact centre workforce management systems since 2006 and Aspect has consistently ranked number one in global and North American market share.

iomart Hosting takes UK digital media agency into the cloud

28 Feb 2012

New Brand Vision Group migrates to highly available virtual platform

iomart Hosting has delivered a highly available cloud platform to support the work of UK digital media agency New Brand Vision Group.

BlackBerry still the corporate device of choice, but for how long?

28 Feb 2012

Latest Reality Checker from The Corporate IT Forum reveals that BlackBerry is still king in the corporate world

The tablet and the smartphone have now become a common sight in UK corporate businesses and the latest Reality Checker from the Corporate IT Forum, which surveyed heads of IT at some of the UK’s largest organisations, has found that BlackBerry is still the corporate device of choice, but Apple is hot on its heels and the favourite on a personal basis.   

Venafi announces availability of Venafi Assessor

28 Feb 2012

Venafi Inc., the inventor of and leader in enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, today announced the availability of Venafi Assessor.^™Assessor is a downloadable, easy-to-install, free software solution that scans an organisation ’s network to locate and analyse deployed digital certificates and the associated encryption keys. Assessor produces a series of reports that detail the security, operational and compliance risks derived from the data it collects. Additionally, Assessor provides remediation recommendations based on industry best practices and the aggregate experience of Venafi customers.

SMBs find new user experience and more productivity with Alcatel-Lucent solution

28 Feb 2012

16 million SMB users already count on Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and new mobility features further their communications network investment 

Today's successful small and medium-sized businesses recognise the value of technology and collaboration. To attract a new generation of workers, businesses offering seamless business applications and tools with flexibility across devices, are discovering an increase in productivity as a result of employee engagement, and those employees deliver an increase in customer satisfaction that drives new business.

NaviSite Introduces Enterprise-Class Desktop-as-a-Service

28 Feb 2012

NaviSite, Inc., a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services, today introduced an enterprise-class, cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Services (DaaS) offering that enables IT organisations to deliver virtual desktop services to local and remote users from the cloud with an increased level of security and management and the same functionality as traditional desktops.

Polatis 192x192 Low Loss Optical Switch to be Launched at OFC/NFOEC 2012

28 Feb 2012

New Series 6000 delivers the highest performance all-optical matrix switch in a compact form factor

Polatis, Inc. the performance leader in all-optical switch technology, today announced its new Series 6000 Optical Matrix Switch - a fully non-blocking, all-optical singlemode fiber cross-connect for up to 192x192 fiber ports with less than 1dB typical optical loss. The Series 6000 doubles the maximum matrix size previously available from Polatis and is based on Polatis' patented DirectLight® optical switch technology, featuring leading-edge optical performance with enhanced energy efficiency and port density. The new product line will be demonstrated at the OFC/NFOEC show in Los Angeles next week. Production shipments commence in the second quarter of 2012.

High-Performance Computing Customers Gain Greater Capabilities to Address Big Data Requirements Through NetApp’s Collaboration with OpenSFS and EOFS Communities

28 Feb 2012

Cooperative Efforts with Industry Leaders Underscore NetApp’s Commitment to Support Growth and Expansion of Lustre

Government organisations, universities, and labs worldwide that rely on high-performance computing (HPC) face increasing challenges in managing and processing growing data volumes to advance scientific research and design next-generation products. These organisations have turned to solutions based on the Lustre file system to improve the speed and accuracy of scientific discovery and obtain insights faster into areas such as geonomics, bioinformatics, defense, and climate simulation modeling research.

Micro Focus Advises how to Future-proof IT Systems, Making 2012 the Year of Re-Use

28 Feb 2012

Industry leader Micro Focus urges global corporations to avoid costly failures by modernizing existing IT assets

Standish Group^[i] has recently issued a report describing the risk of failure of major IT projects, citing the dangers of rewriting core business applications or replacing them with generic packages. In 2011, there were well-documented ERP and other software project horror stories, including the RIM and Amazon outages, highlighting the challenges and business-critical nature of having the right IT infrastructure in place.

CBI calls to abolish CRC - nlyte Software co-founder comments

27 Feb 2012

Last week, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) called on the chancellor George Osborne to scrap the much-hyped Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), due to its inability to ‘deliver an effective and proportionate mix of financial, reputational and reporting drivers’. 

Lack of understanding acting as main barrier to cloud adoption

27 Feb 2012

Perceived risks are causing delays to adoption, whilst fears over data sovereignty still reign

Perceived risks over service control and fears over data sovereignty are the key issues that are restricting UK organisations from implementing cloud services, according to recent research from Claranet, the managed services provider.

Rackspace Addresses UK Cloud Skills Market With Recruitment Drive

27 Feb 2012

Rackspace launches major recruitment drive Mission 350 to support the continued growth of cloud computing in the UK

Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has announced the start of a positive training and recruitment initiative Mission 350 designed to encourage skills development among university-level technology students and address job needs at its UK office locations in Hayes and Slough.

A hiding place for software piracy?

27 Feb 2012

Federation Against Software Theft – ‘ruling is unhelpful’

The Federation Against Software Theft has expressed concern at the ruling from the European Union General Court that social networking sites cannot be compelled to install filters to halt the illegal trading of copyrighted material.

Golfbreaks.com’s customer service hits a hole–in-one thanks to Aspect

27 Feb 2012

Contact centre specialist selected to implement full multi-media contact centre infrastructure as more people tee off than ever each year

With a worldwide market of $17 billion¹, golf tourism is growing in popularity amongst people of all nationalities and ages, causing it to become a competitive playground for tour operators. Europe’s largest golf travel company, Golfbreaks.com, has selected Aspect to transform its customer service operation to meet increasing demand and improve the booking process for customers - without increasing personnel resources. Aspect is the market leader in software-based next generation customer contact.

The Cannon Technologies T4 Events Series Helps To Build Better Data Centres

27 Feb 2012

Because the data centre is at the heart of business operations, the roll call of stakeholders has grown, and now regularly includes C-level executives and Business Managers. To help organisations seeking to create, replace or improve their data centre infrastructure, Cannon Technologies is launching the Cannon T4 Event series at Data Centre World 2012. The series is firmly targeted at the growing diversity of disciplines involved in making critical data centre decisions, concerning amongst other things, cooling, power and security.

Imperva Analyzes High-Profile ‘Anonymous’ Attack

27 Feb 2012

Report reveals details on methods employed by hacktivist group to attack high-profile organizations

Imperva, Inc. (NYSE: IMPV), a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, released today a report that reveals details on an attack by hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ against a high-profile unnamed target during a 25-day period in 2011.

iomart Hosting provides cloud storage and backup for new branding network "What Is My Brand" launches in UK

27 Feb 2012

iomart Hosting, one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting services,  is providing cloud storage and backup for a new personal branding network that’s just launched in the UK.

IX Reach and Telx join forces to improve Transatlantic connectivity and peering

27 Feb 2012

Channel Partnership provides Telx’s New York customers and IX Reach’s European customers improved, fast, reliable and direct access to markets through Telx Internet Exchange

IX Reach and Telx today announced that they have entered a non-exclusive channel partnership providing Telx customers with even more connectivity and colocation choice for access to the European markets, and also providing European networks direct, secure access to colocation and connectivity options at Telx’s C³ Cloud Connection Center in New York City. Under the terms of the channel partnership agreement, Telx customers at the 111 8^th Ave. New York City C³ data center can leverage IX Reach for cost-effective connectivity to the key European markets of London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris; while IX Reach’s European customers can tap the Telx Internet Exchange (TIE) for seamless network peering, establishing a cost-effective traffic route to New York City.

UKFast is Only Hosting Provider in Sunday Times Top 100

27 Feb 2012

Team Focus Puts Employees on Cloud Nine

Manchester hosting firm UKFast is celebrating its place as the only hosting company in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.

RMD Power and Cooling to exhibit at Data Centre World Expo

27 Feb 2012

RMD Power & Cooling will be exhibiting at this year’s Data Centre World Conference and Expo at London’s Olympia.

Datacenters 2012 Masterclass by Christian Belady of Microsoft Announced

27 Feb 2012

Datacentres 2012, ( http://www.datacentres2012.com/ ) Europe's leading content driven event for end users, telcos, datacenter operators, cloud players, energy specialists and companies engaged in the sector, has announced that Christian Belady, General Manager, Data Center Services, Global Foundation Services at Microsoft will provide a Masterclass at the event. 

Fibrecomm Enhances Capacity and Flexibility of Malaysian Network with Ciena 40G Deployment

27 Feb 2012

Network carrier is region’s first to deploy OTN switching, directionless ROADM technology

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced thatFibrecomm Network (M) Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia’s leading network carrier, is expanding its network infrastructure using an intelligent Ciena solution featuring advanced optical technologies that include 40G, OTN switching and directionless ROADMs. Deployment began in December and already includes several live network segments.

New Telecom Business Models on Horizon, Urgent Need for Change, Reveals Openet, STL Partners Research

27 Feb 2012

Global Survey Reveals Two-Sided Business Model Innovation with Third-Parties Obstructed by Risk Averse Culture Among Telecom Operators 

Openet, a leading provider of Service Optimization Software (SOS) to tier one communications service providers, today announces the results of a groundbreaking survey gauging the potential for communication service providers (CSPs) to collaborate with Over-the-Top (OTT) application and content providers in order to create compelling new services. The survey reveals that operators intend to leverage their existing assets to enable these two-sided business models, but their execution is misaligned with their goals.

Avere Improves Cloud Performance for Digital Domain by 25,000 Percent

27 Feb 2012

Company's NAS optimization solution slashes WAN latency for leading digital production house

Avere Systems today announced that Digital Domain Productions, a digital production company that has delivered innovative visuals for more than 80 movies including Titanic, TRON: Legacy and Real Steel, with work that has earned multiple Academy Awards, has implemented Avere FXT Series NAS appliances at a Las Vegas co-location data center to maximize IOPS and minimize latency of its cloud-based infrastructure to ensure quick access to massive amounts of computer-generated imagery data.

Varonis announces Partnership with McAfee for Data Loss Prevention

27 Feb 2012

Varonis extends their Metadata Framework™ technology and enterprise context awareness for data loss prevention to McAfee customers

Varonis Systems Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, announced it has joined the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) partner program in order to better address the challenges organizations face as they manage growing volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. The interoperability between the Varonis IDU Classification Framework and McAfee® Data Loss Prevention (DLP) will allow customers to identify sensitive data on their file systems, NAS devices and SharePoint sites, find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn't have access, who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection and classification solutions.

Avecto Integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform Consolidates Endpoint Security and Privilege Management

27 Feb 2012

Avecto – a leader in Windows privilege management, today released further details of the integration of McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (McAfee ePO™) software with Avecto Privilege Guard 3.0. The joint offering provides a complete privilege management solution for securing and protecting endpoints, from a single console, without having to compromise on end user productivity. Privilege Guard’s seamless integration with McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator management platform allows all joint customers to adopt least privilege – an essential part of a desktop security strategy.

HP Helps Organizations Manage and Prioritize Risk with Expanded Enterprise Security Platform

27 Feb 2012

New solutions deliver enterprise visibility with context to reduce business risk across traditional, mobile and cloud environments

HP today announced an integrated platform of risk-driven security solutions that provides enterprises clear visibility across traditional, mobile and cloud environments, and enables them to apply adaptive security defenses based on specific organizational risks.

Password amnesia takes a grip on the UK

23 Feb 2012

60% of nation need to remember more than three different passwords daily ~

61% admit they have to write down their passwords

Third party research commissioned by Ping Identity^®, the Cloud Identity Security leader™, has revealed the use of multiple passwords is posing a security risk to individuals and businesses alike.

Imation announces unified security solutions for secure mobile data, identity and workspaces

23 Feb 2012

Unified product set offers encrypted USB storage, strong user authentication, and secure identity management and mobile workspaces through a simple end-user device plug-in to secure and empower the mobile workforce

Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), a global scalable storage and data security company, has announced its unified Secure Data, Identity and Mobile Workspace product set, to be  showcased at the 2012 RSA Conference, booth #839.

TechnologyOne launches Cloud, reveals future vision

23 Feb 2012

TechnologyOne (ASX: TNE) today unveiled its first Cloud products and vision for the future, which according to founder and executive chairman Adrian Di Marco, will transform how enterprises select, try, buy, implement and use software.

WhipTail co-founder leads growth strategy in EMEA

22 Feb 2012

Brian Feller appointed to VP and General Manager EMEA as solid-state storage sees exciting future

After seeing tremendous growth in its sales in North America, WhipTail is aggressively expanding within Europe. Leading marketing and channel sales in the US for the last two years, WhipTail’s co-founder Brian Feller is relocating to London to take the helm in the territory as VP and General Manager. WhipTail is the maker of the world’s first and most widely deployed all-flash enterprise class storage array.

SkyDox Awarded Accredited Vendor Status for Government G-Cloud Procurement Service

22 Feb 2012

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, file synchronization, file storage, and collaboration tools, announced today that it has successfully completed the Government Procurement Service vendor tender process of the G-Cloud initiative and has been awarded a “Framework Agreement for the Provision of G-Cloud Services.”

Cloud Computing; user expectations maturing as security remains number one concern

22 Feb 2012

Cloud computing has now grown from being a promising business concept to one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. The prospect of drastically boosting infrastructure resources at a lower cost is appealing, but security and control over the infrastructure remain significant concerns. Games developer Zynga, for example, has announced a move away from Amazon Web Services towards a Private Cloud in order to maximise the reliability and performance of its network.

Bradford Networks develops easy-to-use BYOD Mobile Security Suite with HP

22 Feb 2012

Unique workflow wizard simplifies safe onboarding of personal mobile devices to corporate networks

Bradford Networks has announced it has developed a Mobile Security Suite with HP.   The integrated solution combines Bradford’s heterogeneous network access control (NAC) with HP Enterprise Mobility Solutions to create an easy-to-use workflow wizard that simplifies the deployment of both Bradford and HP products.  Benefits include securely allowing personal mobile devices onto corporate networks quickly and a decreased total cost of ownership. 

Racktivity launches new version of its innovative Data Center Performance Management system at Data Centre World London

22 Feb 2012

Stand demonstration shows how Racktivity’s software solution can manage hundreds or thousands of PDUs as a single system.

Racktivity is demonstrating how its Datacenter Performance Management system manages hundreds or thousands of PDUs as a single system to help IT professionals and facility managers reduce energy costs while maximizing uptime.  The live showcase of the full range of innovative energy management products will take place during the Data Centre World conference from 29^th February to 1^st March at Olympia in London.

BYOD signals need for renewed awareness on software licensing

22 Feb 2012

Do companies have enforceable policies in place to ensure software compliance and manage the software lifecycle in the BYOD world?

The Federation Against Software Theft is calling on organisations to be aware of the compliance challenges and not get caught out as working practices shift with the growth in BYOD – Bring Your Own Device.

SGH Martineau Puts Clients at Heart of Communications Infrastructure With ShoreTel

22 Feb 2012

Unified Communications ensures availability, cost savings and flexibility for law firm

ShoreTel^® (Nasdaq: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced that SGH Martineau, a significant UK law firm with offices in Birmingham, London and Brussels, has selected a ShoreTel UC system with ShoreTel Mobility to improve ease of access to fee-earners for clients, without sacrificing security or billable time capture.

Teradata-Hortonworks Partnership to Accelerate Business Value from Big Data Technologies

22 Feb 2012

Joint development, support, and marketing partnership to deliver integrated enterprise architectures that tackle all aspects of big data processing

Teradata, the leading analytic data solutions company, and Hortonworks, the leading commercial vendor promoting the development and support of Apache Hadoop, today announced the signing of a partnership agreement.

Sprint chooses TelecityGroup’s new Manchester facility to meet growing business connectivity demands

22 Feb 2012

First US provider to have Point of Presence in new state-of-the-art Manchester facility

TelecityGroup has today announced that Sprint (NYSE: S) will have a presence in Joule House its new state-of-the-art Manchester data centre from launch. The expansion is expected to  help meet the added connectivity demands in Europe driven by the continued uptake of cloud services by enterprise clients, and enable TelecityGroup’s customers to enjoy the widest connectivity and peering options from the facility.

Ipanema Technologies named finalist in World Vendor Awards for three consecutive years

21 Feb 2012

Newly launched nano|engine product shortlisted in the ‘Best Specialist Vendor’ category for 2012

Ipanema Technologies, the industry leading provider of WAN Governance solutions and application centric VPN services, announced today that it has been nominated as a finalist for the World Vendor Awards (WVAs) for its recently launched low cost, ultra compact devices tailored for branch offices, the nano|engine family. Ipanema Technologies won the ‘Best Specialist Vendor’ category in the WVAs 2011. In 2010, Ipanema Technologies was ‘Highly Commended’ in the ‘Best Specialist Vendor’ category. 

Flexible and remote working to be highlights at UC Expo 2012 ahead of Olympic Games

21 Feb 2012

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to address the issues surrounding flexible and remote working 
UC Expo Stand 604, 6-7th March – Olympia Exhibition Centre, London

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise will demonstrate its award-winning OpenTouch™ suite of multimedia communications platforms at this year's UC Expo. OpenTouch, recognised by Frost and Sullivan as the Most Innovative European Communications Product of 2011, enables any workforce to engage with each other on any device and media from any location at any time. With less than six months to go until the Olympic Games – and as the UK Transport Minister urges businesses to work flexibly during the Olympics – companies need to look at implementing new ways of working. UC Expo this year will offer a chance to see the benefits of OpenTouch and understand exactly how it can assist in seamless flexible working.

Tike farms data with Talend

21 Feb 2012

Advisors to Finnish Ministry of Agriculture select open source data integration tool to meet data demands

Tike, the Information Centre of the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, has turned to Talend to meet the demand of its continually growing data warehouse by implementing its open source data integration tool.

EdgeCast selects Geo Networks to deploy new London content delivery infrastructure

21 Feb 2012

Second substantial CDN customer win sees Geo excel in the media and broadcast sector

Geo Networks (Geo), a provider of high-performance fibre networks, today announced that EdgeCast Networks, the world's fastest and most reliable content delivery network (CDN), has chosen Geo’s dark fibre to deploy a new London infrastructure for transferring media files and applications to its ISP customers. The win marks significant expansion in the media and broadcast sector for Geo.

Daxten brings together the physical power distribution of the Data Centre with wireless power management, metering and monitoring

21 Feb 2012

Daxten, a leading supplier of Data Centre power solutions has announced the introduction of a wireless power management, metering and monitoring system as part of its extensive product portfolio.

Silver Peak opens up WANop to all with Virtual Marketplace

21 Feb 2012

Self-service website offers quick and easy access to Silver Peak free product and trials, including the industry’s only 1 Gbps Virtual WAN Optimiser

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class Wide Area Network (WAN) optimisation, today continues to revolutionise how WAN optimisation is packaged, priced and delivered with the introduction of the Virtual WAN Optimisation Marketplace.  This is the industry’s first and only self-service marketplace for WAN optimisation, where anyone can instantly access Silver Peak’s entire portfolio of virtual WAN optimisation appliances, as well as step-by-step instruction for quick and easy deployment anywhere in the network and on all common hypervisors.

Mid-size businesses lead the way in cloud adoption

20 Feb 2012

Industry survey details mid-market adoption of cloud prevails in the UK

The mid-market is leading the charge towards the adoption of cloud computing, according to the latest research from managed services provider Claranet.

Skyscape Cloud Services awarded G-Cloud Framework Agreement

20 Feb 2012

Providing Assured Cloud Services to the UK Public Sector

Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured Cloud Services Company, today announced that it has been awarded the G-Cloud Framework from the Government Procurement Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office.

Rackspace Eyes Government G-Cloud Contracts

20 Feb 2012

Rackspace advocates pay-as-you-go model for UK Government G-Cloud

Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been selected as a vendor to the government’s £60m G-Cloud framework. Rackspace can now supply Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and higher level Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies to UK Government departments. 

SANS Institute March SME Webcast helps to manage Network-related Risks

20 Feb 2012

Free webcast series offers practical steps towards protecting against cyber attack

"A network firewall is only the starting point not the end point for network security. There are many additional steps an SME (Small Medium Enterprise) can take to secure their network," says Jim Herbeck, an instructor for the SANS Institute and presenter of an ongoing monthly webcast series helping SME’s better protect themselves from information security threats.

4G delay “is blessing in disguise”, says Brocade

20 Feb 2012

Investment urgently needed to get networks up to speed for next-gen mobile Internet

The delay in implementing 4G mobile services in the UK is a “blessing in disguise” because more time is needed to upgrade Britain’s unprepared network infrastructure, says Brocade’s Marcus Jewell.

Leading IT optimisation consultancy Intergence, announced as specialist cloud services supplier of G-Cloud

20 Feb 2012

Leading IT optimisation consultancy Intergence, a business focused on people and performance in IT infrastructure, has been announced as one of the suppliers of the UK Government’s cloud computing procurement initiative, G-Cloud.

CohesiveFT Selected for inclusion is UK Government’s G-Cloud ‘CloudStore’

20 Feb 2012

CohesiveFT, leader in enterprise cloud control, is awarded a Framework Agreement to supply Specialist Cloud Services to the UK Government via it’s G-Cloud programme. The G-Cloud initiative intends to drive down IT costs, engage more with the SME tech suppliers, and increase the flexibility of procurement contracts. G-Cloud lists CohesiveFT's Cloud Container products and services for migration, networking, and orchestration on the ‘CloudStore.’

Large System Integrators Losing Their Hold On Government Contracts As G-Cloud Partners Are Announced

20 Feb 2012

SMEs like Memset Lined Up To Bring Benefits Of Cloud To Public Sector

Award-winning British Cloud provider, Mesmet, has awarded a Framework Agreement for the provision of G-Cloud Services, says large system integrators are starting to loose their hold on government contracts as the G-Cloud partners are announced. 

Experts say long-running Chinese hack of Nortel is a wake-up call

17 Feb 2012

AlienVault say long-running Chinese hack of Nortel is a wake-up call on telecoms security

Commenting on reports that a long-term hack of Nortel Network’s systems could result in security issues for users of the firm’s telecom hardware, AlienVault says the businesses have traditionally tended to ignore the telecoms security issue in favour of their Internet security.

Clarks selects Getronics to provide in-store IT support throughout its 633 UK retail outlets

17 Feb 2012

Getronics to manage IT help desk, break-fix services, a printer refresh and new EPOS systems as the footwear specialist prepares for future growth

Clarks, the leading footwear specialist, today announces it has chosen Getronics in a multi-million euro deal to provide IT hardware support and maintenance across its 633 UK branches. The five-year contract is a continuation of the two firms' existing relationship and will see Getronics responsible for ongoing support, maintenance and break-fix services for hardware, such as store EPOS systems and Clarks’ iconic 3D foot gauge. As part of the new deal, Getronics will also manage a store-wide printer refresh and provide extended IT support services into Europe as Clarks embarks on its plans for international expansion.

PEER 1 Hosting smoothly migrates over 1,600 servers to new Portsmouth data centre

17 Feb 2012

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, has today revealed the successful migration of over 1,600 devices and over 120TB of SAN data, to its recently opened green data centre in Portsmouth.

New ISACA Venice Chapter Kicks Off With Conference Featuring Global Information Technology Experts

17 Feb 2012

Information technology (IT) professionals in Venice, Italy, have formed a new chapter of ISACA, a nonprofit IT audit, security and governance association serving more than 95,000 professionals in 160 countries. ISACA now has 195 chapters worldwide.

Rackspace Acquires SharePoint911 to Provide Industry Leading SharePoint Expertise

17 Feb 2012

Rackspace takes Fanatical Support into the application layer with world-class SharePoint experts

Rackspace^® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, today announced its acquisition of SharePoint911, an industry leader in SharePoint consulting, training, and "JumpStart" services within SharePoint. The unification of both companies provides capabilities to deliver unparalleled SharePoint hosting solutions along with expert services to the enterprise market.

SUSE Studio helps thousands easily deploy workloads into private and public clouds: SUSE unveils latest SUSE Studio user data

17 Feb 2012

Number of SUSE Studio users doubles in one year; number of cloud-ready application images in SUSE Gallery surpasses one million

SUSE today announced that the number of registered users building cloud-ready application images with SUSE Studio has more than doubled in one year to 233,500. Additionally, the number of cloud-ready application images built and maintained in SUSE Gallery surpassed one million. More and more customers worldwide are realising the convenience and time-to-market advantages of the industry's only solution available today that streamlines the configuration, deployment and management of cloud-ready application images. 

JDSU Introduces PacketPortal™

17 Feb 2012

Breakthrough Software Platform Enables Service Providers to Profitably Scale to Billions of Connected Devices and Unpredictable Bandwidth Demand

JDSU has introduced PacketPortal™, a Smart Network Application   Platform (SNAP), that allows communications service providers to profitably scale to unprecedented bandwidth demand while providing the highest quality subscriber experience.   PacketPortal uses microprobe technology to cost-effectively gather intelligence anywhere in the network for use with a suite of customer care, marketing and other applications.  These applications give service providers a new way to drive revenue, build strong brands and command subscriber loyalty.

45% of European IT Decision Makers View Security and SLAs as Leading Barriers to Cloud, According to New Cloud Computing Survey from Interxion

17 Feb 2012

Insight into cloud trends reveals tremendous opportunity for Service Providers and System Integrators to support companies’ transition to cloud

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the results of its cloud computing survey, which found that 45% of European IT decision makers view a lack of security and service level agreements (SLAs) as  top concerns for  moving to the cloud. Created with service providers (SPs) and system integrators (SIs) in mind – two of the key groups supporting companies’ transition to the cloud – the survey results aim to provide a clear understanding of how organisations are using the cloud today and plan to be using the cloud tomorrow.

UNET Selects Ciena and Telindus-ISIT for Carrier Ethernet Upgrade

17 Feb 2012

Expansion of Dutch network enables transport-class service provider services; provides reliable communications alternative for local businesses

Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, has announced that the Dutch information and communications services provider UNET has selected Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Solutions (CES) for the expansion and upgrade of its metro and access network.

OnApp Expands U.S. Presence With New Office, Strategic Hires

17 Feb 2012

North American growth in cloud computing market is key driver for expansion

OnApp, the leading innovator in cloud and CDN software, announced today that it is expanding its U.S. presence to support its rapidly growing North American business. The expansion includes a new office in Utah and key strategic hires across the States. OnApp also plans to grow its U.S. support staff by 50% in 2012.

Accellion Named Finalist for SC Magazine Best Content Security Award

17 Feb 2012

Innovator Becomes Only Secure File Sharing Solution to Make Judges’ Shortlist

Accellion, Inc. has announced its selection as a finalist for the SC Magazine Awards Europe 2012 within the category of Best Content Security product.

SPIELO International takes a sure bet on NextiraOne’s Data Centre Solution

17 Feb 2012

Virtualised Dynamic Data Centre for gaming company

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has been appointed by SPIELO International, a global supplier of games, gaming equipment and system solutions based in Unterpremstätten/Graz, to create a virtualised dynamic data centre (VDDC). This will provide an efficient and reliable IT infrastructure as the foundation for the future success of the company. The contract followed a comprehensive consultation process.

SolarWinds Launches Industry’s­­ First Affordably-Priced Product to Monitor Web Transactions from Cloud-Based Locations

16 Feb 2012

SolarWinds Releases Synthetic End User Monitor at Competitive Price

SolarWinds® continues to deliver powerful IT management software products at competitive prices with the release of SolarWinds Synthetic End User Monitor (SeUM) v. 1.5. SeUM allows system administrators and application support staff to monitor response time proactively for multi-step web transactions. 

Netplan’s Public Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud® Powered Validation

16 Feb 2012

Netplan Internet Solutions Ltd has announced that its VMware public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud  services are underpinned by VMware's leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Netplan provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

ActivIdentity’s CMS Appliance Adds Smart Card Alliance’s New CIV Credential to Long List of Capabilities

16 Feb 2012

First-ever CMS Appliance Integrates with Crescendo Smart Cards from Its Parent Company HID Global

ActivIdentity®, part of HID Global,trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, today announced that its ActivID™Credential Management System (CMS) Appliance now offers the industry’s newly defined Commercial Identity Verification (CIV) credential and fully integrates with HID Global’s new Crescendo C800 smart card.

Xirrus’ wireless network enables BYOD scheme and M2M communication at New College Swindon

16 Feb 2012

New 802.11n network creates the UK’s first purpose-built wireless annexe

Xirrus®, the leader in high-performance wireless networks, has announced that it has deployed an 802.11n wireless network at New College Swindon, one of the largest campuses in the UK for A Level and GCSE students. The new high performance network has created the UK’s first wireless-only annexe, and allows the school to run a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) scheme. This enables students and staff to connect to the campus network from anywhere, at any time, using their own devices. The reliable, scalable solution also supports extensive Machine-to-Machine communication (M2M), and has resulted in substantial cost savings and improved efficiency, amongst other benefits.

Quest Software Announces Executive Changes

16 Feb 2012

Vinny Smith to Return as CEO and Doug Garn to Become Vice Chairman

Quest Software’s Board of Directors announced today that Doug Garn is stepping down from his role as President and Chief Executive Officer and the Board has named Vinny Smith, previously Quest’s Executive Chairman, as the company’s new CEO.  Garn has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Board and Smith will remain as Chairman, effective immediately.

What’s Missing from DLP? Context.

16 Feb 2012

On March 7, 2012 Varonis and an Independent Research Firm will present a new approach to DLP that leverages enterprise context awareness.

Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software has identified a critical missing component to traditional DLP processes - enterprise context awareness – i.e., knowledge of who owns the data, who uses the data, and who should and shouldn’t have access to the data. Traditional DLP solutions that focus on endpoint and network protections commonly fail to fully protect critical data because they focus on symptomatic, perimeter-level solutions instead of addressing a much deeper problem — the fact that users have inappropriate or excessive rights to sensitive information. “For DLP technology to be successful, you must inventory and classify all of your sensitive data and understand your information flows,” advises Forrester. “This is hard to do if you have hundreds, possibly thousands, of terabytes of unstructured data[1].

Hitachi NAS Platform reduces operational costs and offers greater centralised management of VDI deployments

15 Feb 2012

VDI-IOmark testing shows high performance and scalability capabilities for VDI environments to help organisations achieve greater return on storage assets

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced that Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc, has achieved exceptional benchmark results from VDI-IOmark testing based on the delivery of high-performance, scalable and file-based tools essential for managing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. Hitachi NAS Platform has a superior ability to offload critical VDI functionality and delivers massive scalability and clustering capabilities. This is vital for organisations to drive operational efficiencies that further extend their investments in virtual environments, to reduce operational costs and to improve centralised management of enterprise virtual desktop implementations.

Barracuda Networks Integrates Next Generation Firewall and Cloud Web Security

15 Feb 2012

Unique Solution Provides Maximum Protection Both On- and Off-network, Offloads Intensive Security and Reporting Functions to the Cloud

Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security, networking and data protection solutions, has announced the integration of the Barracuda NG Firewall and Barracuda Web Security Flex. This integrated offering marks the first solution to combine powerful cloud-based Web filtering technology with next-generation firewall capabilities, providing maximum protection both on- and off-network, while offloading intensive security and reporting functions to the cloud.

Scality RING Organic Storage: Rethinking Storage for the Cloud Era

15 Feb 2012

Storage at Scale pioneer demonstrates start-up success, big commercial deals, strong partnerships and widespread industry recognition

Storage at scale pioneer Scality's success in 2011 secured its position as a trailblazer for truly scalable, high performing, yet cost effective object based storage. 2011 was a landmark year for the San Francisco-based storage start-up that has invigorated the cloud storage space with the new concept of organic storage. The year's highlights started with a new multimillion dollar round of funding to fuel global expansion, a great deal of industry recognition, and ended with a raft of new customers and partners less than two years after the company's inception.

UC4 Software Redefines the Application Release Automation Market with Acquisition of Ventum

14 Feb 2012

UC4 challenges the “Big 4” IT Process Automation Vision

UC4, the leader in IT Process Automation, is redefining application release automation by combining planning, control and automation through the acquisition of Ventum Solutions, a software provider specialising in enterprise release management. Application release automation is a key capability for organisations struggling with DevOps, IT as a Service, Cloud and Big Data initiatives.

CloudBees Announces AnyCloud™ for Hybrid Deployment Flexibility and European Deployment Options

14 Feb 2012

AnyCloud Architecture Delivers Flexibility in Deploying Applications Across Hosted and On-Premise Cloud Environments, Brings Support to European Markets Immediately via AWS in Ireland, OVH in France

CloudBees, Inc. the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced the availability of AnyCloud™ for the hybrid deployment of production applications. AnyCloud provides CloudBees customers the flexibility to deploy and manage applications across a variety of data centre environments, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), other managed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, hosted data centre providers as well as on-premise, in enterprise data centres. Additionally, with the introduction of AnyCloud, CloudBees can now support customer deployments directed to specific geographies, including for the first time Europe.

AlgoSec Automates Management of Next-Generation Security Infrastructure

14 Feb 2012

AlgoSec Security Management Suite introduces support for next-generation firewalls and secure web gateways; automatically generates topology maps and ensures baseline configuration compliance

AlgoSec, the market leader for Network Security Policy Management, today announced version 6.2 of its award-winning Security Management Suite. The new release introduces the most comprehensive automation for managing policies of next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) and is the first solution of its kind to support secure Web gateways (SWGs).

Nimble Leads Small Businesses into the New Social CRM Age with Nimble 2.0

14 Feb 2012

Now with social discovery, dynamic engagement and marketing integration

Nimble, the award-winning Social Business Platform, today announced that it has launched Nimble 2.0, the most social CRM platform on the market today. Nimble was designed entirely with social engagement in mind and is the first social business platform that empowers companies to get closer to their customers through listening and engagement, helping them turn their social communities into customers for life.

HIRO Media announces deal to supply Viewster with Video Ad Server and ad management tools

14 Feb 2012

HIRO Media, leading video ad management and serving platform for content owners, publishers and media agencies, has signed a deal to become Viewster’s video ad serving and management partner.

Host Europe Virtualises Gaming Databases in the Cloud with Fusion-io

14 Feb 2012

Online Gaming Cloud Services Provider Achieves Up to 5x More Workloads per Server, Virtualises Multiple Databases, and Reduces Hardware by 30 Percent with ioMemory

Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that Host Europe GmbH, a leading European managed cloud service provider and part of the Host Europe Group, has deployed Fusion ioMemory technology in its data centres to dramatically reduce infrastructure and costs while increasing virtualised database performance capabilities and extending savings to customers.

Adaptive Federation from Ping Identity Extends Enterprise Identity Security Policies to the Cloud

14 Feb 2012

New PingFederate 6.6 enables custom user authentication methods and distributed attributes for a personalised, protected and compliant cloud

Ping Identity^®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced new adaptive federation capabilities in its PingFederate cloud identity management software that allow businesses to easily extend their existing security policies to the cloud.

ALTIMATE UK clinches Stonesoft distributorship

14 Feb 2012

Stonesoft, an innovative provider of network security and business continuity solutions, today announces a new distribution agreement with Altimate UK, one of the country’s leading value-added distributors. The partnership will enable Stonesoft to sell its products to Altimate’s portfolio of resellers across the UK and Ireland. 

Avecto says modern security needs to go beyond the world of anti-virus

14 Feb 2012

Commenting on a report from Trustwave claiming that antivirus (AV) software is powerless to stop data breaches, Avecto says the study’s conclusion is similar to that of a Best Buy Guide to Chocolate Fireguards - the end result is always going to be a negative one.

City Lifeline enables iMarket Communications to extend its network to the UK

14 Feb 2012

Housing its network operations centre (NOC) in Lifeline House offers the UK financial, banking and energy customers a reliable and cost-effective telecoms service

City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, today announced that iMarket Communications has purchased space within its data centre to support the company’s strategic move into the UK market. By housing its trader voice and data solutions within Lifeline House, iMarket will now offer the UK financial, banking and energy industries ahigh-performance telecom service in Central London.

Private Mobile Network Solves Communications Issues at Remote Sites

14 Feb 2012

South West Water deploys private GSM to solve patchy mobile coverage

Private Mobile Networks Ltd, the UK provider of private GSM network technology, today announced a successful deployment for South West Water.

Logicalis becomes data centre and cloud provider to Janet community

13 Feb 2012

Logicalis UK Selected under Janet Data Centre and Cloud Services Framework

Logicalis UK has announced that it has been selected as one of a small number of data centre hosting and cloud services providers to the UK education community under a new Janet framework.  Eight providers of data centre and cloud services have been selected, enabling higher, further and other educational institutions to procure data centre hosting, hosted and private cloud services.

DDoS Attack Report Highlights need for Enhanced Security Education

13 Feb 2012

Infosecurity Europe show organisers say Arbor Networks report highlights need for enhanced security education to defend against the IP-borne threats

Commenting on the just-released 7^th annual Infrastructure Security Report from Arbor Networks, the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say that the need for education on the latest security defences has never been stronger.

Hitachi Data Systems eliminates downtime and lowers cost of virtual storage migration

13 Feb 2012

New nondisruptive migration service enables simplified management and reduce effort by 90% when migrating to Hitachi VSP

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today introduced a nondisruptive migration service capability that migrates from Hitachi enterprise storage to Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and is the industry’s first storage migration solution that eliminates host and application downtime. Nondisruptive migration by Hitachi allows organisations to significantly reduce risk, eliminate business disruption, and more efficiently manage migration processes across multivendor storage systems, resulting in 90 percent less effort compared to industry averages.

Media Management at Switch SuperNAP Just Got Easier with Nativ's MioEverywhere

13 Feb 2012

Private cloud solution offers flexible access for Studios and content owners

Nativ, a media technology company specializing in media management and workflow automation is providing a new way for North American content owners and creators to buy technology by giving them access to a content management solution that combines world-class security and connectivity with the flexibility of the cloud, on a transactional ‘on-demand’ basis.

Aspect and 2e2 collaborate to target Microsoft Unified Communications & Collaboration market

13 Feb 2012

Together, customer contact expert and managed service provider meet growing demand for UC capability

A new joint venture designed to support organisations to consol multiple communications channels across the business has been announced. The partnership between Aspect, a leading provider of customer contact and Microsoft platform solutions and ICT Lifecycle services provider 2e2 will target mid-market enterprises and combines Aspect’s and Microsoft’s suites of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) applications and 2e2’s project management, technology and support services.

ABB to embed nlyte Software DCIM Suite into its new Decathlon offering to Deliver Data Center Enterprise Management

13 Feb 2012

nlyte Software the data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution provider founded by data center professionals for data center professionals, and ABB (NYSE: ABB), a global leader in power and automation technologies, announced today that ABB will embed nlyte Software’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) suite as part of the ABB Decathlon™ Data Center Enterprise Management (DCEM) product offering.

Virgin Media Enables Flexible Working with Cisco Quad Collaboration Software

13 Feb 2012

Cisco Collaboration Solutions Foster Engagement and Anytime, Anywhere Productivity

Cisco today announced that Virgin Media, the UK's leading entertainment and digital communications company, is deploying Cisco Quad™, Cisco WebEx® and Cisco Unified Communications to its people. The solutions are being rolled out as part of Virgin Media's Flexible Working Initiative and will enable thousands of employees to collaborate and work remotely with video calls and shared documents, all easily accessible via PCs, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.

Janet signs framework with Liberata to provide Data Centre and Cloud services to Higher Education and Research sector

13 Feb 2012

Janet, one of the world's leading research and education networks, has today announced its framework agreement with Liberata IT Solutions to supply Data Centre and Cloud Services to the Higher Education and research community.

Hybrid cloud attracting interest in a climate of budget and resource constraints

13 Feb 2012

• Budget constraints are seen as the biggest issue facing IT professionals, followed by lack of in-house resources and efficiency, according to survey by Vision Solutions and Frontier Technology
• Hybrid cloud singled out as preferred approach for those organisations looking at cloud computing

Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing markets, has announced that hybrid models are the most popular choice for companies looking at how they can make the most of cloud computing for their business needs. 46 per cent of those who thought they could use cloud computing opted for the hybrid model where both public and private cloud resources are used. This was followed by 41 per cent who would opt for private cloud on its own, and 13 per cent that would use public cloud platforms.

Shoden Data Systems

13 Feb 2012

Acquisition to drive company’s expansion in fast-growing African market

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Shoden Data Systems, a leading provider of data centre technology solutions in South Africa and across sub-Saharan Africa.

Mimecast continues rapid growth with 50% revenue increase

13 Feb 2012

Leading cloud-based email specialist secures millionth user and is set to close this record fiscal year with $50m in recurring revenue and 5,000 customers

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has today announced record revenues for the nine months to December 31^st 2011, up almost 50 percent on the previous year. With revenues up to $36m (£22m) for the nine months ended December 31, 2011, Mimecast expects to achieve approximately $50m (£31m) in revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31^st 2012.

Data Centre awards nominations open for 2012 Gala Ceremony

13 Feb 2012

Categories for the annual Datacentre Awards for UK, Europe and CEE (www.datacentreawards.com) have been announced by the Judges Panel for the 2012 gala ceremony, which takes place in June in London.

EMC crowns MTI ‘Partner of the Year’ for the UK

13 Feb 2012

MTI’s managed services and cloud offering shine

MTI the specialist cloud infrastructure consultancy, was crowned ‘EMC UK Partner of the Year 2011’ at a recent London event. The award recognises MTI’s expertise in providing managed services and cloud technologies to UK companies, from global enterprises to local specialist businesses.

Quest Helps Spark Collaboration at PZ Cussons

13 Feb 2012

PZ Cussons Saves Weeks of Development Time and Fuels Innovation with Quest Web Parts for SharePoint

Quest Software, Inc.  has announced that it is enhancing global ideas generation and collaborative working at PZ Cussons, a leading FTSE 250-listed products group in Europe, Asia and Africa.

SecurEnvoy Secures Patents, Protecting its IP

13 Feb 2012

Tokenless® two factor authentication is officially a business grade service

SecurEnvoy is delighted today to confirm that it has successfully patented its ‘preload’ technology for SecurAccess and SecurMail. This sanction ensures other organisations cannot ‘copy’ its pioneering solution for reliable, business grade, Tokenless® two factor authentication (2FA).

LeanTaaS Embeds Talend Enterprise Data Integration to Enhance its SaaS Solutions

13 Feb 2012

Cloud-based lean analytic tools provider OEMs Talend’s integration solution into its SaaS platform

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that LeanTaaS, a provider of lean analytic tools running in the Cloud, has embedded Talend Enterprise Data Integration (formerly Talend Integration Suite) into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application platform that helps its customers accelerate and sustain improvements in operational performance through a suite of customised analytics, flexible data integration and an intuitive collaboration capability.

Jaguar Land Rover Selects EMC Isilon to Drive its Simulation Operations

10 Feb 2012

Leading luxury car maker simplifies IT, increases production capabilities and improves environmental efficiency with “no compromise” scale-out NAS

EMC Corporation has announced that Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the U.K.'s largest manufacturer of premium vehicles, has deployed EMC® Isilon® scale-out NAS to simplify storage for its Big Data capacity and performance. The demand for new products in shorter timeframes whilst reducing dependency on physical testing had put pressure on JLR engineers to improve and streamline virtual simulation processes and deliver actionable analysis to the manufacturing teams.  

Google Wallet PIN crack has potential security consequences for MasterCard and Visa cardholders

10 Feb 2012

Commenting on a report that the security of the Google Wallet system has been compromised, AlienVault says that this is a warning to smartphone users of the risks they run by storing access to their credit and debit card credentials on handsets for use `on the go.’

Colt to expand Pan-European network reach into Iceland

10 Feb 2012

Colt to provide Icelandic gateway to Europe for customers by connecting world's first dual-sourced 100 per cent renewably powered  data centre

Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, has announced plans to extend its European network into Iceland with a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) located in Verne Global’s new dual-sourced 100 per cent renewably powered data centre campus in Keflavik. The new PoP will connect Colt’s extensive pan-European access and backbone network with the Verne’s data centre site, providing a gateway connection from mainland Europe into Iceland. 

iomart Hosting carries out group wide virtualisation for office2office

10 Feb 2012

UK Government supplier migrates to iomart Hosting’s London data centre

Cloud computing and managed hosting services provider iomart Hosting has announced that it has carried out a group-wide virtualisation for office2office (o2o), the sole provider of offices supplies and Closed Loop document recycling services for the UK government

Verne Global Selects Veteran Systems Integrator Opin Kerfi as its IT Service Partner in Iceland

10 Feb 2012

Leading HP, Microsoft and Cisco System Integrator to provide remote and on-site support to Verne Global’s colocation and wholesale data centre customers

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has announced that Opin Kerfi has been selected as its preferred systems integrator for its dual sourced, 100% renewable-powered wholesale data centre campus in Keflavik, Iceland. Opin Kerfi has been a key part of the IT industry in Iceland and currently has over 115 trained IT professionals on staff and revenues of $40 million.  Since 1985, Opin Kerfi has served as the IT partner for leading Icelandic companies, financial institutions, governmental agencies, the healthcare and the educational industries. In addition to the professional services agreement, Opin Kerfi is also taking space in the data centre for its own hosting requirements to support its growing managed services programmes.

GreenQloud Selects Verne Global's Data Centre Campus for Commercial Roll-out of its Truly Green Public Compute Cloud

10 Feb 2012

Verne Global to Serve as Primary Host for Compute Qloud™ and Storage Qloud™ Services

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has announced that GreenQloud®, the world’s first truly green public compute cloud, is basing its hosting service from the Verne Global data centre campus in Iceland.  GreenQloud, established in 2010, offers hosting and storage for the European and North American markets and can act a single hub for both markets.

Long-term Price Visibility Helps CCP Games Select Verne Global's Icelandic Campus for Corporate Hosting

10 Feb 2012

Long-term Price Visibility Helps CCP Games Select Verne Global’s Icelandic Campus for Corporate Hosting

Producer of EVE Online, Dust514 and World of Darkness goes green with hosting programme at world’s only dual sourced, 100% renewable powered data centre

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has announced that CCP Games (CCP), one of the world’s leading independent game developers and the creator of EVE Online, is moving some of its corporate hosting to its data centre campus in Iceland.  After a careful study of alternatives to its primary hosting facility in London, CCP identified Verne Global as a very attractive hosting option; based on the site’s 100% dual sourced renewable power grid, long-term power price visibility and strategic location between its two primary markets.

Raritan enhances its leadership position in DCIM with dcTrack 2.6

07 Feb 2012

Intelligent capacity, change and asset management solution helps reduce data center capital and operational expenditures; dcTrack helps premier healthcare provider manage data centers and gain 50 percent in asset tracking efficiency.

Raritan today introduced dcTrack^® 2.6 DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software with new intelligent connectivity management capabilities to help data center professionals manage both network and power connections more efficiently.  With better visibility of end-to-end connections of data center infrastructure resources, untapped capacity can be discovered and used -- reducing capital and operational expenditures. 

Emerson Network Power Delivers the Next Generation of Data Center Management Capabilities with Avocent Data Center Planner

07 Feb 2012

New software functionality significantly reduces data center planning and management costs, improves energy efficiency and supports global deployments.

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today introduced the next generation of Avocent Data Center Planner, an award-winning software solution that enables data center managers to make informed decisions for the planning and effective management of their data center assets and physical infrastructure. The latest release of the Avocent Data Center Planner is a component of Emerson Network Power’s extensive portfolio of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) capabilities.

Daxten offers 2 new “ServerLifters” for transporting and lifting heavy IT equipment in the Data Centre

07 Feb 2012

Leading Data Centre supplier extends its ServerLIFT portfolio with new automatic and manual lifting solutions 

Moving IT equipment with a weight of up to a quarter of a ton in the data centre and being able to lift it to the upper parts of racks is certainly “no walk in the park”. It is also not an isolated task as in today’s, dynamic server room and data centre environment, IT equipment has to be changed, supplemented, relocated and reconfigured ever more frequently. This procedure always represents a high risk of injury for the data centre and facility management staff as well as a potential danger of damaging sensitive and valuable IT equipment – IT staff were constantly lifting and risking injury to themselves as well as equipment damage until Daxten introduced the automated lifting solution for heavy IT equipment named ServerLIFT at the end of 2011. Now, the NEW battery operated ServerLIFT SL-500X and the manual ServerLIFT SL-350X complete the serverlifter solution portfolio. The new systems will be shown at Data Centre World being held at Olympia National Hall, London on the 29^th February and 1^st March. (Daxten Stand E60)

Compare the Cloud Names Suresh Mandava and Dave Rokita of Hexagrid as Thought Leaders in Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing

07 Feb 2012

Hexagrid, a leading developer of Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud computing solutions, announced today that Compare the Cloud, a leading independent cloud comparison provider, named Suresh Mandava and Dave Rokita as premier thought leaders in the worldwide Infrastructure as a Service field.  Compare the Cloud made this announcement with the launch of a new cloud computing comparison website which brings together information and evaluation resources about trusted cloud vendors to ensure that customers find the right cloud solutions for the right price.

UKFast Reveals 7th Hacker Profile

06 Feb 2012

Security-aware bosses might think they’ve protected themselves from the six commonly accepted kinds of hacker but they are unaware of the seventh and most dangerous cyber criminal that could take down their business in a matter of minutes.

Actian Releases Vectorwise Workgroup Edition, Claims Best in Affordable Big Data Analytics to Mid-Market

06 Feb 2012

New Product with the Groundbreaking Analytic Firepower of Vectorwise Meets the Business Needs of Mid-size Companies and Workgroups

Actian Corporation (formerly Ingres Corp.), today announced that Vectorwise Workgroup Edition is available for download and purchase. Vectorwise Workgroup Edition is specifically packaged to address the growing technology needs of mid-sized businesses as well as Workgroups within larger organisations by providing them with the power and speed of Vectorwise, the industry’s fastest data analytics engine, at an affordable cost.

Cogenta builds virtual data centre with a couple of clicks

06 Feb 2012

Price intelligence firm is among first customers for Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre service

Market intelligence firm Cogenta has migrated key elements of its IT infrastructure into a virtual data centre that it provisioned itself – with only a few clicks of a mouse.

Avecto Launch Privilege Guard 3.0 with Enterprise Reporting

06 Feb 2012

The Windows Privilege Management Solution of Choice for the Enterprise

Avecto – the leader in Windows privilege management, has now unveiled the latest version of its award-winning Privilege Guard technology.  Developed to enable organizations to give all users the privileges they need to remain productive, Privilege Guard empowers them to perform their role without impacting the security posture of systems and networks. Privilege Guard 3.0 now combines application elevation, application control, end user messaging and a complete auditing and reporting framework for all your Windows based systems.

Innovation and optimisation is top priority for corporate IT departments in 2012

06 Feb 2012

Corporate IT Forum strategy survey shows CIO and departmental differences and a more positive outlook as focus shifts from cost cutting 

2012 will be a year of change and smarter working, with IT departments focused on improving processes and finding ‘new ways of doing things’, according to the latest annual Strategy Survey from The Corporate IT Forum.  Whilst cost cutting was the key goal across all business sectors in 2011, ‘doing more with less’ through optimisation and innovation is the mantra for 2012 and a significant percentage (42.5%) of CIOs are expecting IT expenditure to increase this year.  For respondents from businesses the CIO focus is primarily on supporting organisational strategies for organic growth through new markets and products and the retail sector intends to lead the way in innovation with projects focused on consumerisation.  Budgets across all sectors as a whole will be concentrated on key business applications, alignment of IT and the business and Risk Management.  There is also substantial planned focus on infrastructure investment with the added twist of ‘working smarter’.

e|net Selects Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Solutions to Advance Ireland’s Network Infrastructure

06 Feb 2012

Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet advanced demarcation platforms to support sophisticated QoS and SLAs

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that e|net, the private company that manages the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) programme on behalf of the Irish Government, has selected Ciena’s 3916 and 3930 Service Delivery Switches to improve its regional network infrastructure. The advanced demarcation platforms’ low-touch provisioning and embedded service benchmarking capabilities enable a simple deployment model and speedy set-up of new customer connections, allowing e|net to easily expand its Carrier Ethernet network and offer its service provider customers sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) capabilities.

Key alliance shakes up ecommerce mid-market

02 Feb 2012

PEER 1 Hosting partners with e2x enabling world class, ATG based, online stores to be live in 14 weeks

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, is today announcing its partnership with e2x, one of the most experienced Oracle ATG partners in Europe, having successfully delivered international e-commerce solutions for over a decade. The partnership will offer businesses expanding their global online presence a cost effective, all-in-one e-commerce solution, including world-wide hosting services.

Solarflare Launches Next-Generation 10 Gigabit Ethernet Networking Products for Compute-Intensive Environments

02 Feb 2012

New ultra-low latency 10GbE dual-port server adapter delivers breakthrough application performance

Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware, has announced the next-generation of its family of branded 10GbE products. Solarflare’s SFN6122F dual-port 10GbE server adapter delivers significantly lower latency and higher message rates compared to both prior Solarflare versions and competitive products, making it ideal for handling mission-critical, compute-intensive tasks in high performance, cloud computing and big data environments. The new server adapter features the industry’s first and only field-hardened, full-featured user-level TCP/UDP stack.

Riverbed Releases New Granite Product Family; Introduces New Architectural Approach to Achieve Complete IT Consolidation

02 Feb 2012

Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure Extends the Boundaries of the DataCenter to the Edge of the Enterprise

Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, today announced a new architectural approach called edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI) that does for edge servers what virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) did for desktops:  it allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data center. But unlike VDI, edge-VSI does this while delivering 20-50% lower total cost of ownership (TCO).  Riverbed® Granite^TM is the revolutionary new product that enables edge-VSI. With Granite, global enterprises can achieve complete consolidation of edge applications,servers and storage to the data center, while delivering services to the edge of the enterprise as if they were local. Edge-VSI is complementary to wide area network (WAN) optimization, accelerating performance for applications and use cases not addressed by any WAN optimization approach today.

IT experts agree ICS research highlights the need for easier security technology

02 Feb 2012

Commenting on research from the ICS – the Irish Computer Society – which found that almost 58 per cent of the data breaches were caused by staff, SecurEnvoy says that the human element is the most overlooked aspect of many organisation’s security defences.

Boston Limited Names IT Journalist Veteran Technical Marketing Manager

02 Feb 2012

Former Custom PC and Bit-tech Editor James Gorbold Brought Onboard To Shape And Expand Boston's Technical Product Marketing

Boston Limited, now in its 19th year as a distribution partner for Super Micro Computer®, Inc., today announced the appointment of former Custom PC and Bit-tech Editor, James Gorbold, as Technical Product Marketing Manager. James has worked as an IT journalist for 15 years, working as a senior part of the team at Dennis Publishing for over 12 years.

ShoreTel Acquires Hosted Unified Communications Pioneer M5 Networks

02 Feb 2012

Acquisition Advances ShoreTel’s Cloud Strategy

ShoreTel Inc., the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks (“M5”), a recognized leader in hosted Unified Communications. As a result of the acquisition, ShoreTel will be uniquely positioned to provide customers a choice between on-premise and hosted UC solutions.

Boox chooses The Bunker to provide secure cloud solution

02 Feb 2012

The Bunker, provider of  Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that Boox, an entrepreneurial web-based accountancy solution provider for independent freelancers and contractors, has chosen The Bunker to provide an ultra secure cloud service.

Talend Selected by Leading Analyst Firm in “Who’s Who in Open-Source Data Quality” Report

02 Feb 2012

Talend, a global open-source software leader, has announced that it has been recognised by Gartner, Inc. for data quality in their recent “Who’s Who in Open-Source Data Quality (2012 Update)”[1] report.

Cisco Propels Switching Portfolio Into Next Frontier of Networking Speed and Simplicity

02 Feb 2012

Cisco Leads Switching Market Innovation with 40 GbE Capabilities for Catalyst Switches and 40/100 GbE Capabilities for Nexus Switches; Enhances Network Virtualization with Simplicity and Scale

According to the Cisco Cloud Index, more than 50 percent of computing workloads in data centers will  be cloud-based by 2014, and global cloud traffic will grow more than 12 times by 2015 to 1.6 zettabytes per year —the equivalent of over four days of business-class video for every person on Earth.  Based on these trends, Cisco announced it has updated its switching portfolio with 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) capabilities, the next speed limits for networking.  These new capabilities provide a holistic architectural approach across campus, data center and service provider environments, and give customers a significant advantage while addressing emerging trends like cloud, video, mobility, and the proliferation of 10GbE.

CentraStage announces 300% revenue growth

02 Feb 2012

2012 begins with 300% Revenue Growth & 150% Customer Increase

CentraStage, the leading IT management software provider, confirms it’s ‘Little British Battler’ nomination by announcing revenue growth of over 300% in the past twelve months as the company’s customer base has grown by almost 150%.

Emerson Network Power UPS Systems to Protect LDeX Colocation Clients

02 Feb 2012

London Data Exchange (LDeX), providers of network independent data centres, have today announced that they will be using Emerson Network Power’s Chloride 80-NET UPS systems to help guarantee power availability to their colocation clients at the LDeX1 data centre in North London.

Interxion welcomes the European Commission's Cloud Partnership initiative

02 Feb 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, welcomes and supports the invitation from Neelie Kroes at the World Economic Forum in Davos to create a European Cloud Partnership.

Cloud and SaaS increases security challenges for developers says exper

02 Feb 2012

Cloud Security Best practice, Tokenisations and encryption need to become more prevalent

The rise in popularity of hosted, cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is making life more difficult for developers to secure critical applications. “One of the challenges is exercising controls over the remote infrastructure, especially in multi tenant environments,” explains Dr. Johannes Ullrich, Dean of Research and a faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute. “Each development environment will place restrictions on how data is stored and handled by the applications and developers need to educate themselves on the platform before committing to projects.”

Security B-Sides London, the UK’s first community-driven infosecurity event is back!

02 Feb 2012

Un-conference aims to bridge the technical and business divide

Security B-Sides, the first and only community-driven event built by and for information security community members, today announces the return of Security B-Sides London , which will take place on April 25th at The Barbican. Currently confirmed platinum and gold sponsors for this year’s un-conference include MWR InfoSecurity and Qualys.

Respected Manufacturer becomes first Doyenz UK rCloud customer

02 Feb 2012

Himag Solutions selects innovative cloud-based disaster recovery solution to protect critical systems accessed by users on three continents

Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has announced that Himag Solutions has become the first UK client to use its recently launched rCloud service from its new London data centre.

Ipanema technologies positioned as a visionary in leading analyst firm’s Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation

02 Feb 2012

Ipanema Technologies, the industry leader of WAN Governance solutions for enterprise’s networks and application centric VPN services, today announced it has been positioned in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Gartner 2012 “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers.” (Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers, Joe Skorupa, Severine Real, January 24, 2012).

Telstra International Positioned in the Challengers Quadrant of the Leading Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant for Asia/Pacific Network Service Providers

02 Feb 2012

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Telstra International, a leading provider of managed network services and international data, voice and satellite services, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Challengers quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Asia/Pacific Network Service Providers.*

NetIQ simplifies application and system management

01 Feb 2012

NetIQ AppManager 8 delivers monitoring fidelity to meet IT service commitments

To reduce the burden facing today’s overworked IT operations staff as they work to keep monitoring current for the applications and systems underpinning IT services, NetIQ today announced the availability of NetIQ^® AppManager^® 8.

Data centre provider Node4 is the company to watch in 2012

01 Feb 2012

Ambitious plans and growing trends in cloud computing position Node4 as a company that will lead the pack this year

By 2014 more than 50% of global workloads will take place in the cloud, rising to 57% by 2015, predicts Cisco’s Global Cloud Index. For 2010, that number was just 21%. By 2015, one-third of data centre traffic will be cloud traffic. Cloud computing, and “meeting the big data challenge” are two of Gartner’s Top Ten strategic technology trends for 2012.

Record Number of Exhibitors and Visitors for Data Centre World 2012

31 Jan 2012

Over 140 data centre vendors, resellers and equipment suppliers to showcase solutions between 29th February and 1st March 2012

A record number of exhibitors will attend the fifth annual Data Centre World exhibition and conference, taking place at London Olympia between 29th February and 1st March 2012. 

EMC Isilon is Industry’s First Scale-Out NAS System with Native Hadoop Support

31 Jan 2012

Now Integrated with EMC Greenplum for One-Stop Enterprise Hadoop Solution

EMC® Corporation today announced that EMC Isilon scale-out NAS with HDFS, combined with EMC Greenplum HD,delivers powerful data analytics on a flexible, highly-scalable and efficient storage platform. This new enterprise-ready solution combines scale-out NAS data storage and Hadoop analytics capabilities with services, training and certification, and customer support from a single vendor, ensuring a more seamless user experience. With this solution, EMC eliminates CIOs’ need to spend valuable time investigating and integrating products from multiple vendors.

CommScope’s OM4 Fiber Enables 100 Gigabit Ethernet To Reach 430 Meters in World’s First Public Demonstration

31 Jan 2012

Exceeds Last Year’s Mark of 340 Meters

CommScope, Inc., a global leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks, has once again exceeded industry standards by successfully enabling a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) data transmission over off-the-shelf multi-mode fiber optic cabling at a length of 430 meters.

Ipswitch Network Management Division Achieves 31% Increase In UK Year On Year Revenue

31 Jan 2012

Success underpinned by 60% increase in staff and 20% increase in channel partners

Ipswitch Inc.’s Network Management Division, developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management solutions, today announced an increase of 31% in UK year on year revenue. Buoyed by 60% growth in European staff and a 20% increase in European resellers, Ipswitch Network Management Division’s successful expansion reflects the growing demand for its products and services from its booming customer base.

Microsoft partners with Euclid Opportunities

31 Jan 2012

Euclid Opportunities, ICAP’s early stage financial technology project, today announced a partnership with Microsoft BizSpark designed to support start-ups developing innovation in the global financial markets.

AlienVault Lands $8 Million Series B Funding Round Led By Trident Capital

31 Jan 2012

Creator of OSSIM names J. Alberto Yepez Chairman of the Board

AlienVault, creator of OSSIM, the de-facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution, announced today that it has closed an $8 million Series B financing led by new investor Trident Capital with participation from existing investors Adara Venture Partners and Neotec. The company has named Trident managing director J. Alberto Yepez Chairman of the Board. Trident principal Michael Biggee also joins the AlienVault Board of Directors. The funding will be used to accelerate research and development and aggressively expand sales and marketing to meet increasing demand for unified security management from around the world. AlienVault also recently announced the appointment of a new executive team, led by CEO Barmak Meftah and CTO Roger Thornton.

OpenText Becomes First Major Vendor to Achieve VERS Certification for Records Management on Microsoft SharePoint 2010

31 Jan 2012

OpenText announced that it has continued to extend its leadership as a global information governance solution provider by becoming the first major ECM vendor to achieve VERS certification for its records management solution with Microsoft SharePoint 2010.  With this accomplishment, OpenText further establishes itself as the premier partner for information governance solutions that extend and enhance SharePoint 2010.

PMB Holdings invests £35 million into UK data centre market

31 Jan 2012

Veteran property developer, Peter Beckwith demolishes Robert Maxwell’s Milton Keynes premises

PMB Holdings, the commercial real estate and leisure investment group founded by veteran property developer, Peter Beckwith, has today announced a £35 million project in Milton Keynes to build the MK DataVault.  Once the property of disgraced ex-media tycoon, Robert Maxwell, the MK DataVault is the first data centre to be developed by PMB Holdings.

World’s first server with total liquid submersion cooling technology is now available from Boston Ltd. in the UK

31 Jan 2012

The LSS 200 can reduce data centre cooling costs by 80% or more and deliver a 40% or more decrease in overall electricity costs

Boston Limited announced today the UK availability of the world’s first patented server with total liquid submersion technology - the LSS 200. By regulating server temperature more effectively than any existing server, the LSS 200 reduces power consumption and costs, maximises floor space and decreases a data centres’ carbon footprint. Boston is the exclusive UK reseller of LSS 200 systems, manufactured by Hardcore Computer, Inc.

nlyte Software Reports Record Q4 and Growth for 2011

30 Jan 2012

DCIM provider continues to show strong market momentum

nlyte Software the data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution provider founded by data center professionals for data center professionals, has achieved record growth for calendar year 2011 including: record revenue growth, significant customer acquisitions and on time delivery of new product releases.

SANS Institute offers free webcast series to help SME's improve information security and reduce risk

30 Jan 2012

Series covers a wide range of topics including IT security, risk management, policy development, and business continuity

“Millions of small businesses assume that Information security is just too complex,” explains Jim Herbeck, an instructor for the SANS Institute. “But by breaking down the complete process into smaller, bite sized chunks using the same best practice favoured by larger organisations, SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises) should understand that having good information security is a very realistic goal.”

“Health check essential before jumping into a cloud migration strategy”

30 Jan 2012

The IT industry is being transformed by cloud computing and 2012 is predicted as the year this technology becomes main stream as the market for public cloud computing is set to reach US$5.8 billion by 2015. But the key challenge according to Peter Job, CEO at Intergence, an independent IT infrastructure technology company, is how to optimise and fine tune an organisation’s infrastructure to best take advantage of the new technology.

Campus network set to take centre stage as web economy of G20 to double by 2016

30 Jan 2012

Boston Consulting Group has found that within four years three billion of the world’s population will be using the Internet; and 80 percent of this figure will be using mobile phones and mobile devices to gain access to the web.

Talend Confirms Enterprise Open Source Leadership in 2011

30 Jan 2012

Open source innovator boasts 103 percent growth with accelerated customer adoption, technology innovation and community contributions 

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced significant corporate performance milestones in 2011, fuelled by increased industry demand for open source integration solutions, and marked by accelerated growth of its enterprise customer base, cutting-edge product development and continued contributions to the community. Heading into 2012, Talend is ideally positioned to further extend and consolidate its position as the leading provider of enterprise-grade open source integration solutions.

NL-ix to Establish ‘Super-Core-Site’ in New Equinix AM3 Data Center

30 Jan 2012

100Gbit/s capacity node to be established in new 6,400 m² Equinix data center

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced that NL-ix, one of the world’s leading Internet Exchanges, is to establish a ‘super-core-site’ with up to 100 Gbit/s port-capacity in the new 6,400 square metre AM3 facility, Equinix’s latest International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center.

Condé Nast Digital Germany Powers Secure, Flexible, Cost-Effective Content Delivery With GoGrid’s Cloud Infrastructure Services

30 Jan 2012

GoGrid’s Hybrid Architecture Helps Leading Global Publisher Meet Its High Standards for Data Security

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced that Condé Nast Digital Germany, publisher of top magazines including the German-language editions of Vogue and Glamour, relies on GoGrid cloud infrastructure services to distribute its content over the web. By taking advantage of GoGrid’s hybrid architecture, Condé Nast Digital Germany can control its costs and focus on innovation while providing a secure, high-performance experience to site visitors.

Infiniserv Launches, Providing Cloud Computing Without Limits

27 Jan 2012

Company Launches Three New Cloud Services To Grant Any Organisation The IT Infrastructure It Needs

Infiniserv, a C4L Company, has announced the launch of its three new cloud services, designed to give organisations the exact IT infrastructure they need under a price plan that suits them. Infiniserv provides virtual infrastructures ranging from single private servers to a whole data centre’s worth of machines, together with pricing plans ranging from per-minute to annual billing and in-house management of resources. This grants customers the flexibility to take on the precise service needed: from a single website server to an entire IT infrastructure to an elastic IT environment designed to deal with huge peaks in demand. As part of the C4L group, Infiniserv can also back up its services with total transparency, strict security policies, guaranteed CPU capacity and 100% guaranteed dedicated leased line connectivity.

Thailand’s Thai News Agency (MCOT Public Company Limited) sets new standard for remote news gathering with Aspera Mobile

27 Jan 2012

fasp-AIR™ significantly increases transfer speed and reliability for worldwide news content contribution over wireless networks

Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s digital assets at maximum speed, has announced that MCOT’s Thai News Agency has selected and implemented Aspera’s leading mobile data transfer solution for Apple iOS and Google Android. Headquartered in Bangkok, Thai News Agency is owned by the MCOT Public Company Limited, which was originally the first television station on-air in Thailand in 1955, broadcasting news and entertainment programs to 89 percent of the population, 24 hours a day through 35 local network stations nationwide.

Richardson Eyres Adds Cloud to Managed Services Offering with NaviSite Partnership

27 Jan 2012

Leading provider of IT services to deliver NaviSite’s cloud-based enterprise services to UK customers

NaviSite Europe Limited, a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, has announced a new partnership with IT solutions and services provider, Richardson Eyres. The alliance marks a significant step forward for both companies, helping them to meet the rapidly growing demand for cloud-based managed services, and follows the recent launch of NaviSite’s UK cloud node.

IX Reach Supports Amazon Web Services Direct Connect in Europe

26 Jan 2012

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now utilize the services of IX Reach to get secure dedicated connections into the AWS cloud directly over their network infrastructure.

 IX Reach is pleased to announce becoming an AWS Direct Connect Solution Provider to deliver private dedicated connectivity from any location on their extensive network directly into the AWS Cloud Platform.

Vnetrix Delivers Cloud Services to Global Businesses in Hours Using CA Technologies Private Cloud Software

26 Jan 2012

Global managed service provider (MSP) uses CA AppLogic® turnkey cloud computing platform to easily deploy hosted applications and grow market share

CA Technologies today announced that Vnetrix, a U.K.-based managed service provider (MSP), has reduced the launch time for hosted cloud services from weeks to hours using CA AppLogic® software and is helping global customers, Universal Music and Atkins, to benefit from cloud-based operations. This fast-growing MSP, with a network of data centres spanning Europe and North America, is leveraging the CA Technologies AppLogic turnkey cloud computing platform to drive Business Service Innovation by reducing time-to-market for new business services, while simultaneously increasing margin.

Sentrum builds momentum with the appointment of new international Sales Director

24 Jan 2012

Sentrum, a specialist in data centre solutions, is pleased to confirm today that it has appointed Michael Wall as Sales Director EMEA & LATAM. In this role, Wall will be responsible for identifying and developing sales opportunities across EMEA and Latin America.

KDDI and Telehouse launch Telecloud

24 Jan 2012

New portfolio of enterprise Cloud solutions deployed within Telehouse’ state-of-the-art data centres

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT services, together with parent company, Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI, has launched a portfolio of enterprise Cloud solutions deployed within its state-of-the-art, highly secure data centres.

Infinity signs 15-Year Data Centre deal with Cable & Wireless Worldwide

24 Jan 2012

Infinity today announced that is has concluded an agreement with Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) to provide a new 4.3MW data centre facility. This multi-million investment represents a 25 per cent expansion in CWW’s data hosting capacity.

Phoenix Managed Networks launches in Europe to answer the call for a payments network alternative

24 Jan 2012

Formed in response to the market demanding greater choice

Phoenix Managed Networks (Phoenix) the  next generation payment network, today announced the most significant launch in the payments industry of the year. Following the widespread success in the USA Phoenix has introduced a new, dedicated PCI DSS payments transaction network to bring the U.K. and Europe, the fastest, most flexible and reliable service available in the industry.

Magirus Clinches First Pan-EMEA Distribution Deal with Embotics

24 Jan 2012

Cost effective virtualisation and cloud management solution set to open up SME market for cloud consultancy services

Magirus, a leading European IT solutions provider has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Embotics, a Canadian company which is a leader in virtualisation and private cloud management software. The partnership represents Embotics’ first pan-EMEA distribution agreement.

Launch countdown to IPv6 begins

23 Jan 2012

135 days and counting…

Last year, a number of the worlds largest companies transferred IPv6 for 24 hours as a test run to determine whether it would work as predicted. June the 8^th came and went without the Internet breaking, companies imploding, or the sky falling in – much to the relief of the pro-IPv6 camp.

6fusion Releases Next Generation UC6 Cloud Console at Cloud Expo Europe

23 Jan 2012

New Release Improves Partners Ability To Manage And Scale In the Cloud

6fusion, a provider of utility-metered public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure management software and services, today announced the release of its next generation UC6 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) federation platform.  The company is previewing the technology at this week’s Cloud Expo Europe with general availability coming on February 1.

Boston Limited Reveal Groundbreaking Cloud Services And Solutions At Cloud Expo Europe 2012

23 Jan 2012

Boston Limited, now in its 19^th year as a distribution partner for Super Micro Computer®, Inc., are delighted to present their latest Cloud based platform at Cloud Expo Europe 2012; designed, developed and deployed in partnership with Interxion and Flexiant. For more information and demonstrations visit Boston on stand #819.

iomart Hosting voted one of best web hosting companies

23 Jan 2012

UK managed hosting provider also recognised for cloud services

iomart Hosting is proud to announce that it has been voted one of the best web hosting companies and cloud service providers of 2011.

The UK cloud computing and managed hosting services provider was voted into third place, the highest placing of any European company,  in the prestigious HostReview Annual Web Hosting Awards, behind US companies Liquid Web and SoftLayer.

Sikorsky Selects SGI to Power Next Generation Helicopter Design

23 Jan 2012

Scalability and Flexibility of SGI® UV™ 1000 Deemed Critical to Advance Analysis Capabilities

SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that Sikorsky Innovations, the technology development organization within Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, has selected an SGI® UV™ 1000 high performance computing (HPC) system with 576 cores and 1.5 TB of RAM, powered by Intel® Xeon® processor X7500 series, along with additional SGI storage and services, to enhance its digital prototyping and virtual design capabilities.

Justin.tv selects TelecityGroup Netherlands as gateway to European expansion

23 Jan 2012

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that US-based Justin.tv, the world’s largest live video platform serving 31 million users a month, has selected TelecityGroup Netherlands as its colocation provider in Europe. The deal will enable Justin.tv to further expand its services in Europe and maximise European service levels for TwitchTV, the company’s new and fast-growing video game broadcasting and chat community. 

Amazon to save at least 10% on Data Center Electricity Costs

20 Jan 2012

Energy costs of cloud data centers like those of Amazon can easily be reduced by up to 10% through a simple but powerful synergetic data center and cloud management method, saving up to over US$ 1 million per year for any 10 MegaWatt consuming facility. Following recent research findings from the US based institute IDC (“data storage on a global scale is projected to multiply by a factor 50 in the coming decade”), potential savings will add up to 10’s of millions per year for the largest global data providers.

It’s all about security

20 Jan 2012

End users number one concern is data security in the Cloud and yet this is FUD

The latest research from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has again highlighted end user concerns over migrating to a Cloud service model.  The research conducted in December 2011 highlighted that widely held view that many organisations cite their number one concern, namely the mitigation of risk, when committing data to the Cloud.

Techgate plc's Trusted Cloud Computing Service Attains VMware vCloud Powered Validation

20 Jan 2012

Techgate plc, a leading provider of Cloud Infrastructure and Business Continuity services today announced that its Trusted Cloud Computing Service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Techgate plc provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

Institute of Directors (IoD) Accelerates Virtualisation Strategy and Meets Member Demand with Brocade 10 GbE Routing Solution

19 Jan 2012

IoD to provision next-generation business tools and reduce server footprint through 10 Gigabit Ethernet-based network

The Institute of Directors (IoD), the longest standing membership organisation for business leaders, has turned to Brocade to increase its network performance and reliability, and lay the foundation for an enterprise-wide virtualisation strategy. With data volumes having doubled three times in the last five years and with plans to roll out bandwidth-hungry services, such as online training and video streaming, the IoD needed to upgrade its legacy network to deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance and a blueprint for future growth.

AMD Replaces Disk with WhipTail Solid-State Arrays in Performance Lab for Virtualised Database Benchmarking

19 Jan 2012

Proven Enterprise Flash Storage Provides Superior Flexibility and Significant Improvements in Latency and Performance 

Today WhipTail, maker of high-performance, cost-effective solid-state storage arrays, announced that AMD’s Optimisation Engineering Department has replaced 480 15K spinning drives with WhipTail solid-state storage arrays. The move will help eliminate slow response times associated with traditional storage arrays. 

Networks must prepare for 4G data deluge

19 Jan 2012

High expectations means users will not tolerate poor network performance

News reports of Ofcom’s recent changes to the 4G spectrum auction tended to focus on the potential winners and losers among mobile network operators, or on the extended capabilities and coverage promised by 4G.

Flash-Based Storage Leader WhipTail Secures Series B Funding Round

19 Jan 2012

Today WhipTail, maker of the world’s first and most widely deployed all-flash enterprise class storage array, announced it has secured a Series B round of funding to continue to fuel its accelerated growth in the global IT marketplace. New York-based venture capital firm RRE Ventures led the round, with Ignition Partners and Spring Mountain Capital also participating. 

Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks team up in the fight against ‘denial-of-service’ attacks by hackers

18 Jan 2012

Integration of Arbor’s Threat Management System into Alcatel-Lucent IP routers helps service providers counter the growing threat of attacks and ensures the integrity of their networks and cloud services

Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks, a leader in network monitoring and security solutions, have joined forces to tackle the growing threat of ‘distributed denial-of-service’ (DDoS) attacks by hackers.

ShoreTel Reinforces Commitment to Resellers with Program and Systems Enhancements

18 Jan 2012

Latest investments in reseller tools and resources demonstrate ShoreTel’s channel leadership

ShoreTel Inc., the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced Certification Central, a new learning management training system associated with ShoreTel University; an updated reseller dashboard, a critical partner relationship management tool; and a revitalized store for resellers, for quick and easy access to print-on-demand ShoreTel collateral and other demand creation tools – all available internationally. Mirroring the brilliant simplicity of its Champion Partner Program, ShoreTel strives to provide resellers with easy-to-use tools that support a successful business relationship, while delivering some of the best product and service margins in the industry.

Taking security seriously; how many wake up calls do organisations need?

18 Jan 2012

Hacktivist group, TeaMp0isoN, has revealed it was able to exploit fundamental human errors and digital security failures in publishing the personal information of 80 T-Mobile employees online.

Customers and Partners Accelerate Time to Market and Improve Efficiency by Up to 60% with Cloud Services Built on NetApp

18 Jan 2012

Leading Service Provider Program Nearly Doubles in Size in Six Months, Enables  Partners to Increase Profits and Help Customers Succeed with NetApp

Organisations worldwide are turning to cloud services to gain efficiencies and respond faster to today’s rapidly changing business demands. Service providers play a critical role in bringing cloud services to market and helping customers make strategic infrastructure decisions. Together, NetApp and its service provider partners have achieved proven success as trusted advisors to these customers. By collaborating with NetApp and its partners, customers are achieving accelerated business results with cloud solutions ranging from on-premise private cloud solutions to off-premise public cloud services. 

Talend Platform for Data Services Operationalises Information and Data

18 Jan 2012

Converged Platform Provides Holistic Integration Capability across Data, Applications and Services

Talend today announced the availability of the Talend Platform for Data Services, making it easier for organisations to operationalise core data between multiple applications and synchronise data across enterprise boundaries. The first platform solution built on the Talend Unified Platform, it provides developers and users of the data services a common development, deployment and monitoring environment for both data management and application integration.

The Associated Press Sets the Bar for HD Video With EMC Isilon

18 Jan 2012

News Giant Gains Competitive Advantage by Speeding Access to HD Video with “No Compromise” Scale-out NAS

EMC Corporation today announced that The Associated Press (AP), one of the world’s largest sources of independent newsgathering, has deployed EMC® Isilon® scale-out NAS to support the Big Data demands of its high-definition video production and archive workflows. By implementing a single EMC Isilon system and software, AP has boosted the performance of copy and transfer rates, streamlined storage management, improved reliability, and lowered its video archive storage costs, without compromising on any of these dimensions.  Although EMC Isilon was initially deployed specifically for AP’s video editing workflow, the news organization soon began using Isilon to archive content as well, realizing significant cost savings. 

Timico Launches £5 Million Data Centre in the Midlands

18 Jan 2012

Independent managed service provider Timico has today opened its new Data Centre in Newark-on-Trent. Ideally placed with excellent network connectivity, good transport links and a low potential for security risks, the £5 million hosting centre is a state-of-the-art construction, that will enable Timico to offer advanced IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud-based computing solutions for businesses across the UK.

ControlCircle urges organisations to plan ahead to avoid Olympic disruptions

17 Jan 2012

Offers 2012 service package to maximise uptime

Companies need to be proactive to avoid disruption during the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, advises ControlCircle, a leading UK managed service provider.

Interxion Strengthens its Financial Community with Infront

17 Jan 2012

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Infront, a leading provider of real-time market data and electronic trading solutions, has chosen to house its solutions at Interxion’s Stockholm data centre and City of London data centre, in order to provide its financial customers with faster connectivity to exchanges and  key liquidity venues.

Wick Hill Appointed As Silver Peak Distributor For The UK And Central Europe

17 Jan 2012

Wick Hill expands channel opportunities with data centre class WAN optimisation

Wick Hill today announced that it has been appointed by Silver Peak Systems as a value added distributor (VAD) in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and will offer the company’s full range of physical and virtual wide area network (WAN) optimisation appliances. This is a strategic partnership for Wick Hill as the company continues its expansion strategy, targeting areas with high-growth potential for value added resellers (VARs).

AlienVault Hires Leadership Team from HP Fortify

17 Jan 2012

Creator of OSSIM taps senior HP executives, names Barmak Meftah CEO, Roger Thornton CTO

AlienVault, creator of OSSIM, the de-facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution, announced today the appointments of Barmak Meftah as president and chief executive officer and Roger Thornton as chief technology officer. Meftah previously served as chief products officer at Fortify Software. Thornton incubated and founded Fortify at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, serving as its chief technology officer and member of the board of directors.

SafeNet Aids Fight Against eBanking Fraud with New Optical Signing Device

17 Jan 2012

eToken 3500 Secures Online Transactions and Simplifies User Experience for Financial Services

SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection, announced today the availability of a new identity and transaction protection solution that addresses multiple levels of risk associated with online banking and trading transactions. SafeNet’s new eToken 3500 is an innovative electronic signing and strong authentication token-based device that will enable financial services organizations to successfully achieve the right balance of risk mitigation, cost-effectiveness, and usability when securing eBanking applications.

TelecityGroup, IX Reach and AMS-IX enable direct UK connectivity to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange

17 Jan 2012

Exclusive agreement provides TelecityGroup customers in the UK with cost-effective high- performance connectivity into and across mainland Europe

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, has today announced an agreement with IX Reach and AMS-IX to enable TelecityGroup customers in the UK to directly connect to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, AMS-IX, in the only official AMS-IX enabled sites in the UK.

Varonis Systems says latest NHS data leak highlights need for security automation

17 Jan 2012

Following the news that a former NHS care assistant has been convicted of obtaining the medical records of five members of her ex-husband's family in order to obtain their new phone numbers, Varonis Systems says this rogue employee incident shows why the automation of IT security enforcement is critical to organisations with large databases.

New RiT CenterMind DCIM centralizes management of network and infrastructure assets

17 Jan 2012

New DCIM solution set to slash costs, reduce downtime and automate laborious provisioning, network planning, implementation and operational tasks 

RiT Technologies today launched the RiT CenterMind™ Solution, a new approach to data center infrastructure management (DCIM), which enables data center managers to optimize performance through a real-time consolidated view of data center IT assets, connectivity, power and environmental conditions.

COSMOS & Miracle Consortia Select SGI Technology to Close in on the Big Bang & Exoplanets

16 Jan 2012

Research Collaboration Led by Professor Stephen Hawking and DiRAC Select Next-Generation SGI® UV Shared Memory System

SGI has announced that COSMOS and Miracle Consortia* have selected SGI as its preferred technology partner for their shared-memory node, as part of the STFC funded DiRAC collaboration. This is a continuation of the national service offered by Stephen Hawking's COSMOS Consortium, based at the University of Cambridge. This announcement enlarges and extends a long-standing relationship between SGI and the COSMOS Consortium, and will allow these interdisciplinary organisations to solve some of the most complex computing challenges of our time and find answers to astoundingly big questions.

F5 Keeps Android Users Connected and Productive with New Secure Access Solutions

16 Jan 2012

F5 adds industry-leading support for Android’s 4.x OS, enhances SSL VPN capabilities to help IT staff manage secure mobile access to data and services

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that itsBIG-IP^® Edge Client^™ is the industry’s first SSL VPN solution that provides comprehensive security and mobile access for all devices running Android 4.x (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich). F5’s free, downloadable client enhances mobile user productivity by providing accelerated client access to corporate resources via a full SSL VPN connection.

FAST Legal Advisory Group (FLAG) leads debate on the future of IP law and enforcement

16 Jan 2012

Event organised to debate the future of IP law following the Hargreaves Review, 18^th January 2012, Bird & Bird, London

FLAG, the Federation Against Software Theft’s (FAST) Legal Advisory Group, has organised a unique event at Bird & Bird, London on January 18^th 2012 to discuss hot topics including the future of the software business and the government’s progress on reform following the Hargreaves review into intellectual property.

SecurEnvoy expresses astonishment on lack of authentication on Israeli SCADA systems

16 Jan 2012

Commenting on reports that Anonymous has apparently published the credentials of several Israeli SCADA system users, SecurEnvoy has expressed surprise that the systems concerned were not also protected by authentication technology.

Telstra expands global reach with new Frankfurt PoP

16 Jan 2012

Also provides new low latency route between Europe and Asia

Telstra International, a leading global supplier of managed network and hosting services, today announced an extension to its global network connectivity by opening a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) in Frankfurt and provision of a new low latency telecommunications route from Europe to Asia.

ElasticHosts Launches across North America with scalable, easy-to-use Cloud Servers

16 Jan 2012

LA and Toronto data center openings add to existing locations to provide continent wide IaaS

ElasticHosts, the cloud server provider, has today announced its launch into North America. The company will open two new data center locations in Los Angeles, USA and Toronto, Canada, adding to its existing locations in London, UK and San Antonio, Texas. With a central, east and west coast presence sitting alongside London, ElasticHosts will now be able to provide its elastic, easy-to-use, pay-as-you-go cloud hosting to customers across North America.

Datapoint teases contact centre industry with new Cloud service in the lead up to Cloud Expo Europe 2012

16 Jan 2012

Cloud-based customer contact offers businesses the flexibility and scalability to excel in service quality

Contact centres in the Cloud are set to move further in 2012 as organisations try to operate as cost effectively as possible, without compromising customer service as Datapoint prepares to launch its new Cloud offering at Cloud Expo Europe 2012. Visitors to stand 229 at the rapidly growing show, which takes place on 25 and 26 January in London, will get a hands on demonstration of Datapoint’s flagship contact centre application, Katalyst, as well as a preview of the company’s forthcoming Cloud release.

Courion Accelerates European Growth Plans with New Senior Sales Appointment

16 Jan 2012

Identity and access risk management provider to expand presence in central Europe

Courion® Corporation,  the leader in identity and access management for access risk, today announced the appointment of Rik Van Bruggen, as head of sales for Central Europe.  He joins the EMEA team led by Marc Lee, Sales Director EMEA and will be responsible for building on Courion’s existing successes in the region and accelerating the company’s  growth into Benelux, Germany, Austria, Switzerland  and France. 

Cable & Wireless Worldwide and Equinix collaborate to deliver enterprise cloud platform

13 Jan 2012

• Building on the success of its successful Flexible Computing platform in the UK, C&W Worldwide expands cloud offering to customers globally
• Global enterprises will have access to world class data centre services in multiple countries

Cable&Wireless Worldwide, a global provider of mission critical communications, is collaborating with Equinix Inc., a provider of global data centre services, to become a one-stop shop for global enterprises that require best-of-breed data centre services.

NextiraOne is only Company to achieve Cisco UC Master Partner in Austria

13 Jan 2012

Company reaffirms leading role in Unified Communications with extensive certification success

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has announced that it is the only Austrian Cisco partner to have achieved Master Unified Communications certification.

FireHost Chooses Platform Equinix to Support European Expansion

13 Jan 2012

Equinix London and Amsterdam facilities selected to provide high-performance, secure cloud hosting services

FireHost, a secure cloud hosting company, today announced that it has selected Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data centre services, to support its imminent European cloud hosting service launch. Equinix’s state-of-the-art LD5 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in London will become FireHost’s primary data centre in Europe, with Equinix’s AM2 IBX in Amsterdam providing disaster recovery capabilities for the region.

AlienVault says Chinese are tapping malware to attack US DoD smart card security

13 Jan 2012

AlienVault - the Unified Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions specialist – has found evidence of Chinese-originated attacks against the US government agencies including the US Department of Defense (DoD), which use a new strain of the Sykipot malware to compromise DoD smart cards.

Global internet landmark reached in TelecityGroup Amsterdam as Atrato goes live with world’s first single 100 Gigabit Ethernet connection into Amsterdam Internet Exchange

13 Jan 2012

Atrato IP Networks becomes the first service provider with an operational 100 Gigabit Ethernet connection into a public internet exchange marking the next phase of internet growth

On 10th January 2012 a global milestone was reached when service provider Atrato IP Networks became the first ever organisation to connect into a public internet exchange at a speed of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE).  Atrato’s connection into the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) node in TelecityGroup’s Amsterdam South-East data centre is the largest single connection onto any public internet exchange ever achieved globally, and is a significant development for the internet as a whole.

iomart Group named as one of Scotland’s Top 500 companies

13 Jan 2012

Business Insider names cloud hosting leader in its Top 500

iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting services, is delighted to announce that it has been named as one of Scotland’s Top 500 companies by Business Insider magazine.

Global Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Goes Digital with EMC Isilon

12 Jan 2012

200+-Year-Old Publisher Undergoes IT Transformation; Tames Big Data and Reduces Operating and Power Costs with EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS

EMC Corporation today announced that John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,(NYSE: JWa, JWb), has deployed EMC® Isilon® scale-out NAS systems in eight global locations to manage its Big Data growth. Recent innovations in consumer technologies have put unprecedented pressure on publishing companies to create and store rich-media content. Wiley deployed VMware server virtualization tools and EMC Isilon true scale-out NAS to transform its entire IT infrastructure, streamlining data access, while reducing energy consumption and data center complexity.

TelecityGroup Supports Amazon Web Services AWS Direct Connect in Europe

12 Jan 2012

Dedicated network connection to Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables flexible cloud solutions with lower costs, improved performance and increased bandwidth throughput

TelecityGroup, one of Europe's industry-leading providers of premium carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that AWS Direct Connect is now available in its London Docklands data centres.

Interxion Passes 50% Milestone for Provision of Data Centre Power from Renewable Energy Sources

12 Jan 2012

Interxion today announced that, as of this month, over half of the power it provides for customers in its data centres is from solar, wind, geothermic, tidal or hydro energy sources. Power from renewable energy sources is available to customers across the company’s 11-country European footprint, and Interxion’s operations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK are 100% powered by renewable energy sources.

SANS returns to Germany in 2012

12 Jan 2012

Early birds offered 250-euro discount as SANS heads to Stuttgart with information security training for managers, penetration testers and developers

After a four year absence, SANS will be running an event in Germany this March (10^th – 15^th) following substantial demand from security professionals, military and large enterprises across the region.

LSI Announces Industry’s First 28nm Read Channel for Hard Disk Drive Manufacturers

12 Jan 2012

TrueStore RC5100 enables increased capacity, higher yield and lower power consumption for HDD manufacturers 

LSI Corporation has announced that it is demonstrating to OEM customers the TrueStore^® RC5100 read channel for hard disk drives (HDD). The RC5100 is the industry’s first 28nm read channel and features a new low-density parity check (LDPC) iterative decoding architecture, which enables HDD manufacturers to achieve increased areal density, higher yield and lower power consumption for HDDs.

Node4 receives esteemed Cisco recognition

12 Jan 2012

Node4 has announced that it has achieved the Advanced Unified Computing Technology Specialisation from Cisco in the UK.

3M launches Pre-terminated MPO range for high density fibre connections

12 Jan 2012

Helps conserve space in data centres while supporting high speeds

3M, the diversified technology company, has announced the launch of its ‘plug and play’ Multi-Fibre Push-On (MPO) solution for fibre cabling connections, designed to meet the challenges of high speed cabling and limited space typical in data centres.  Features of the 3M solution include the highest fibre cable density available on the market – up to 96 connections on a single 1U rack unit – and a broad range of options, including OM3, OM4 and OS2 fibre standards.

Speechly Bircham selects BSO Network Solutions for high-speed network link between international offices

12 Jan 2012

Signs 3-year deal for Virtual Private LAN Service

International law firm, Speechly Bircham is working with BSO Network Solutions to ensure high-speed communications links between its newly opened international offices and its London HQ.

Netop Introduces Next Generation of Classroom Management Solutions With Launch of Netop Vision Pro

11 Jan 2012

World Leader in Classroom Management Software's Premium Solution Features High-Speed Screen Sharing, Other Capabilities to Accelerate Learning

Today at the BETT show, the world's leading event for education technology,  Netop introduced the next generation of classroom management software with the launch of Netop Vision™ Pro. A new powerful classroom management solution that combines ease of use with enhanced features for best- in-class performance, Vision Pro gives educators unsurpassed flexibility and control over student computer use, which ultimately results in improved student achievement. 

New high specification data hall opens at The Bunker’s Kent data centre

11 Jan 2012

The Bunker, provider of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that it has successfully opened a significant new high specification data hall in Kent. 

More Than Half of Small Organisations Across Europe Lack formal Disaster Recovery Plans

11 Jan 2012

Over half of small organisations across the UK, France and Germany are operating without a formal disaster recovery plan in place, according to research from analyst firm Freeform Dynamics, sponsored by Quest Software.

Telstra International Extends Global Ethernet Private Line reach with comprehensive ‘One-Stop-Shop’ Ethernet service option and half circuit launch

11 Jan 2012

Enables customers to buy or build their own ‘one stop shop’ Ethernet service

Telstra International, a leading global supplier of managed network and hosting services, today extended the global reach of its Ethernet Private Line (EPL) offering with the launch of a ‘One-Stop-Shop’ (OSS) Ethernet service option and the release of its Ethernet half circuits.

100 Gigabit Ethernet Industry Milestone Achieved; Brocade Delivers 100TH Blade

11 Jan 2012

Renowned International Research Institute, CERN, Advances Particle Physics Research Using Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet Solution

From initial customer shipments of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) in June 2011, Brocade established itself as a leading provider of carrier-grade 100 GbE routing solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. By November 2011 the Company delivered its 100TH two-port blade to the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, one of the world’s largest centers for scientific studies, as a critical component to accelerate its research..

Dell Delivers New Storage Backup, Application and Networking Solutions for SMBs to Large Enterprise Customers; Advances Fluid Data Architecture

11 Jan 2012

At its first Dell Storage Forum event in Europe, Dell today announced advancements in its Fluid Data™ architecture that enable customers to quickly adapt to the changing demands of their organisations and increase automation for management of their primary, backup and archive data. 

As the one-terabyte Swiss Army Knife arrives, Varonis Systems says - defend your data

11 Jan 2012

Commenting on the launch of the Victorinox one-terabyte Swiss Army Knife - unveiled on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas - Varonis Systems says that, with these levels of data storage hidden in a humble pocket knife, organisations need to take extra care when defending their corporate data.

Cabinets and racks the critical component for 2012’s data centres

11 Jan 2012

2012 will be the year when the 19in cabinet and the racks it contains become the key component for thousands of new data centres, according to Cannon Technologies’ Managing Director Matt Goulding.

Ping Identity Soars into 2012 on Cloud Identity Security Demand

11 Jan 2012

Sales Surpass $100 Million Since Company Inception

Ping Identity^®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced that demand for cloud identity security pushed annual revenue growth over 50% for the second consecutive year and enabled the company to surpass the $100 million mark in sales since its inception.  Nearly 800 enterprises, including 42 of the Fortune 100, and hundreds of millions of users now depend on Ping Identity’s standards-based cloud identity management solutions for both private and public cloud environments.

PCCW Global Partners with Ciena for Submarine Cable Upgrade

11 Jan 2012

100G coherent technology will significantly increase capacity on routes interconnecting Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan

PCCW Global, an operating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications provider, and the network specialist, Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), today announced an upgrade to the carrier’s subsea network with Ciena’sindustry-leading WaveLogic™ coherent optical 100G networking solutions.

Lightower Fiber Networks Deploys 100G Services to Customers

11 Jan 2012

Northeast metro fiber leader first to market in footprint with 40G and 100G Ethernet and 100G wavelengths by leveraging Ciena’s coherent transport technology

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced it has been selected byLightower Fiber Networks, the premier metro fiber and bandwidth service provider in the Northeast, to support the delivery of Ethernet services and managed wavelengths at bandwidths up to 100 Gb/s to enterprise and service provider customers throughout Lightower’s footprint, beginning immediately.  Powered by Ciena’s coherent optical technology, Lightower’s end-to-end fiber-based solutions include 40-Gigabit and 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services as well as 100G managed wavelengths.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server now available on Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacentre Service

11 Jan 2012

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first Linux operating system available to customers through Dell's new public cloud offering; Dell joins leading cloud providers including Intel, 1&1, SGI and Verizon

SUSE today announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first Linux distribution for Dell’s new VMware software-based cloud offering, Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacentre Service. SUSE Linux Enterprise offers the broadest application portfolio, as well as optimisation with the VMware cloud infrastructure suite. Now, Dell customers can efficiently run a wide range of ISV applications, on demand with maximum performance, while receiving streamlined support from Dell and SUSE across the Dell public and private cloud offerings.

Novell ZENworks Application Virtualisation 9 delivers reliable virtual applications faster

11 Jan 2012

New update includes industry’s first proven harvesting tool designed to save time while ensuring quality

Novell today announced the availability of Novell ZENworks Application Virtualisation 9. This latest release leverages a unique approach to application harvesting that enables enterprise IT staff to tap into a library of trusted resources and find the best stored version to build the necessary virtual application dynamically. By harvesting work that has already been done, IT users can scan a target endpoint and quickly build a set of needed virtual applications, saving time and ensuring quality.

Cryptzone partners with B2B Secure to cope with explosive growth in Benelux region

10 Jan 2012

Cryptzone the innovators in mitigating IT security risk have joined forces with Dutch Information Security specialist B2B Secure to manage the huge spike in demand that they’ve seen across the Benelux region. It comes as more and more companies have to address their security strategies in the wake of latest compliance rules and increasing breaches such as Diginotar which had a knock on effect especially on businesses in this region.  The two companies will work closely to promote Cryptzone’s award winning information security solutions addressing policy compliance, content security, secure access and endpoint encryption.

Cisco launches ‘Out of the Blocks’ to inspire children ahead of London 2012

10 Jan 2012

Cisco at the heart of classrooms across the UK brings London 2012 to life

Cisco, the official network infrastructure provider to London 2012 has launched its ‘Out of the Blocks’ Series  – an initiative to provide free Key Stage 4  Maths and Science resources to all state-funded secondary schools in the UK.

Rise appoint new Managing Director to develop Cloud Infrastructure Services

10 Jan 2012

Rise, the Gloucester based provider of Cloud infrastructure and hosted services, is delighted to announce the promotion of Alex Hilton to managing director of the company, having successfully built sustainable partnerships through the Rise brand as sales director since joining the company in June 2010.

WAN Virtualization Adds Up for Accounting Firm Whiting & Partners, Increasing Bandwidth and Raising Resiliency for VoIP and VDI

10 Jan 2012

Talari Networks, Inc. today announced Whiting & Partners has deployed Talari's WAN Virtualization appliances to ensure high-availability networks for voice and data applications, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Using Talari’s WAN Virtualization technology, the firm of general practice chartered accountants has increased bandwidth by a factor of five, cut the cost per Mbps in half, and made the network more reliable for their real-time and interactive applications.

Telehouse Launch New German Data Centre in Frankfurt

10 Jan 2012

Acquisition of major colocation facility in Germany’s key financial district

Telehouse Holdings Ltd, a leading provider of global data centres and subsidiary of $42 billion telecommunications giant KDDI Corporation announced today it has opened a new German data centre. The 100 per cent share acquisition of one of Germany’s largest colocation providers Databurg GmbH extends the number of Telehouse data centres to 43 in 23 cities across the world adding over 67,000m2 of floor space to its global footprint.

Phoenix Unites Under Single Brand

10 Jan 2012

Business reorganises to deliver customer centric solutions for both partners and end-users

Phoenix, one of the leading providers of hosting, cloud and managed IT services in the UK, has today unified into a single integrated entity bringing together the strengths of both the ICM and Phoenix IT Services brands under one name – Phoenix.

Talari Networks Brings Dramatic Savings for Enterprise-Grade Branch Office Connectivity

10 Jan 2012

New Appliance Also Includes Software to Maintain Uptime During Internet, Data Center Outages

Talari Networks, Inc. today announced the addition of the Mercury T510 appliance to its family of Adaptive Private Networking (APN) products for WAN Virtualization, offering enterprise-grade connectivity for small branch offices. The company also announced an accompanying software release, APNware 2.3, which introduces system-wide improvements that simultaneously boost WAN reliability and provide accurate accounting on the availability of underlying networks.

Datacentre M&A Valued At More Than USD12.3 Billion Globally In 2011 Survey

10 Jan 2012

M&A activity in the datacentre sector (businesses and property) generated more than USD12.3 billion in deal values globally in 2011.  The most active market is the USA followed by the UK and Australia.

In a review of finance and investment in the datacentre sector, consulting firm BroadGroup assessed all publicly available data across M&A and fund raising activity.

New sales director to exploit demand from the financial services industry

10 Jan 2012

Geo Networks (Geo), a leading provider of dedicated fibre networks, has today appointed Carol Nash as its new sales director, finance. With over 25 years of experience working in the City, Carol’s previous incarnations include senior level roles in organisations such as Reuters and Cable and Wireless. She has previously worked with clients such as Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Lloyds. In her new role, Carol will be responsible for driving and accelerating Geo’s customer growth in the financial services sector.

Thales and Infoblox Help Protect Internet Integrity

10 Jan 2012

Leading Vendors Provide Integrated, Best-in-Class IP Address Management and Highly Secure DNSSEC Key Management

Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, announces that the Thales nShield hardware security module (HSM) is now integrated with the Infoblox DNS platform to enable the simple and secure deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). This joint solution addresses common DNSSEC deployment challenges and enables service providers, government departments, financial institutions and other organizations to secure their online identities more easily and protect critical services against cyber threats.

Research Confirms ShoreTel Has Lowest Total Cost of Ownership

10 Jan 2012

Comprehensive industry analyst study shows ShoreTel Unified Communications solution has lowest total cost of ownership in the industry

ShoreTel Inc., the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced the results of an Aberdeen Group study on the total cost of ownership (TCO) of unified communications solutions. The survey of 236 different businesses validates that ShoreTel’s unified communications solution is the easiest to use, deploy and manage when compared to other solutions on the market today.

Mobile devices boost Christmas & New Year sales for online retailers

10 Jan 2012

According to one of the UK’s largest online retailers, Shop Direct, recent sales figures for the pre and post Christmas period have exceeded all previous predictions; citing the boost in numbers as a direct result of increasing tablet and smartphone usage amongst consumers.

IT trends of 2012: enjoy the benefits without taking unnecessary risks

10 Jan 2012

Kroll Ontrack looks at key developments and their implications

Kroll Ontrack, today announced its predictions for the most important technology trends for the coming year, which include virtualisation, cloud computing, social networking and energy efficiency. However it cautions that businesses that want to benefit from these trends need to also look at adopting iron-clad information management and security strategies to ensure data security and data loss avoidance.

Adapt's eVDC achieves VMware vCloud Powered status

10 Jan 2012

Adapt, the independent IT managed services provider, today announced that its Enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC) service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are under-pinned by VMware’s leading virtualisation and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Adapt provides its eVDC VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

Quest Optimizes Continuous Data Protection with NetVault FastRecover

10 Jan 2012

Quest Software, Inc., today announced the availability of NetVault® FastRecover 4.5, which enhances the company’s continuous data protection (CDP) capabilities by enabling instant recovery of critical Oracle data through patented Virtual On-Demand Recovery™ technology.

RapidSwitch goes ‘Extreme’ for cloud hosting

10 Jan 2012

Dedicated host offers HP-branded processing boost for virtualization hypervisors

RapidSwitch, a leading European supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, has announced an HP-branded ‘Extreme’ package for customers who want more processing power from their self-managed servers.

MTI to demonstrate live hacking

09 Jan 2012

MTI to showcase latest cloud and security offerings

MTI, the specialist cloud infrastructure consultancy, and its security practice, GSS, are to showcase their latest developments and capabilities at the MTI Solutions Showcase. The one-day event will explore the latest cloud technologies, and the latest developments in data security. A live hacking demonstration will be a highlight.

UK operator Vaioni taps Ciena for Carrier Ethernet Upgrade

09 Jan 2012

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that Vaioni, the UK’s largest Ethernet aggregator, is deploying a range of Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet solutions as part of its enhanced Ethernet service offerings to enterprises, carriers and cloud providers across the country. Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery (CESD) portfolio has been rolled out across Vaioni’s UK network infrastructure, allowing the operator to significantly extend the reach of its core network connectivity in its home market, deliver a full suite of next generation Ethernet services, and maximise service availability while reducing the cost and complexity of turning up new services.

Half of North West businesses will switch to cloud computing in 2012

06 Jan 2012

Businesses in the North West are planning to invest significantly in cloud computing in 2012, according to new research out today.

The survey of 1000 businesses – carried out by Manchester-based Melbourne Server Hosting – showed that half of all companies in the region plan to deploy the cloud over the next 12 months.

Cisco Interview Series Enables Public to Interact With Sporting Heroes

06 Jan 2012

Cisco and BT launch the Cisco Interview Series: Join the first webinar with Iain Percy on 11 January

Cisco, the official network infrastructure provider for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and BT Conferencing today announced a series of live webinars focussing on London 2012. The Cisco Interview Series will enable anyone, anywhere to interact with top Olympians and world class athletes ahead of the Games.

As the software industry protects its intellectual property the Federation Against Software Theft calls to maintain the robust IP environment

06 Jan 2012

The Federation Against Software Theft has supported the right of software intellectual property rights holders to protect their IP in the face of counterfeiting and piracy, following the news that Microsoft has issued legal proceedings against Comet.

Unite Launches Professional ‘out of the box’ Rack Management Solution

06 Jan 2012

Easy to install, per rack solution for real-time monitoring and management of data centre power consumption

Data centre power and energy management specialist, Unite Technologies, has launched a new ‘out of the box’ professional rack management solution for legacy and new build data centres. The RackMS is easy to install and deployed on a per rack basis to enable highly cost-effective real-time monitoring, alerting and management of data centre power usage.

SecurEnvoy says Stratfor user credential analysis shows that password security is now dead in the water

06 Jan 2012

Commenting on reports that Utah Valley University researchers have analysed the many hundreds of thousands of Stratfor user account credentials which were  hacked by Anonymous late last year due to weak passwords, SecurEnvoy says this proves the fact that the human element in security is now the weakest link.

Fusion-io Breaks One Billion IOPS Barrier

06 Jan 2012

New Breakthroughs in Low Latency Data Performance Achieved with Technology Preview of Upcoming Auto Commit Memory Extension at DEMO Enterprise

Fusion-io today announced that it achieved one billion input and output operations per second (IOPS) in a technology demonstration conducted at DEMO Enterprise: An Evening of Innovation, in a preview of the company’s latency reducing Auto Commit Memory (ACM) extension, part of the Fusion ioMemory subsystem.

Accellion Secures $12M Investment for Expansion from Riverwood Capital

05 Jan 2012

Leading Enterprise Cloud File Sharing solutions provider raises funds to Accelerate Market Adoption

Accellion, Inc., today announced a $12M Series 3 round of expansion funding from Riverwood Capital, a technology-focused private equity firm. The new funding follows a record year for new customer growth, revenue, profitability and positive cash generation. The company will use the investment to accelerate its rapid growth, continue to invest in the development of enterprise-grade mobile file sharing product offerings, pursue strategic partnerships, and grow the Accellion team internationally. 

Transatlantic Bunker Partnership Provides Ultra Secure Hosting to FTSE and Fortune 500 Companies

05 Jan 2012

The Bunker, provider of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres is pleased to announce a new partnership with Montgomery Texas based Westland Bunker to provide UK and US nuclear bunker based data centres to large enterprises requiring distributed data centres with the highest levels of security and resilience.

Acision Cloud Services: on-demand, secure, scalable and globally connected Acision goes live with global data centre network to meet demand for mobile services from the cloud

05 Jan 2012

Acision, the global leader in mobile messaging, today announced the launch of an international network of cloud based data centres, enabling it to offer on-demand messaging services from within the Acision Cloud Service Store.

World Lottery Association Accreditation Criteria includes ISACA Certifications

05 Jan 2012

ISACA Certifications included in World Lottery Association Accreditation Criteria

The World Lottery Association (WLA) has added two certifications from the nonprofit global IT association ISACA to its list of recognised qualifications. In its Guide to Certification for the WLA Security Control Standard 2010/2011, this international trade organisation included the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certifications as acceptable criteria for certified auditors seeking accreditation from the WLA Security and Risk Management Committee (SRMC) to conduct WLA Security Control Standard certification audits. The World Lottery Association represents the interests of over 140 government-sanctioned lotteries from more than 80 countries with combined annual revenues in excess of US $200 billion.

Israeli Credit Card hack creates more opportunities for hackers

04 Jan 2012

In a recent data breach incident, a Saudi hacker defaced a prominent sports news web site in Israel and linked its front page to a file exposing the details of many credit card numbers of Israeli citizens.

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Imation announces distribution agreement with Wick Hill for Imation’s Mobile Security solutions

04 Jan 2012

Following the launch of the Imation Mobile Security EMEA Partner Programme in December 2011, Imation has now appointed Wick Hill as a UK distributor for Imation’s mobile security solutions. Wick Hill will focus on Imation’s mobile security portfolio of MXI, Ironkey and Defender solutions, and is currently sole distributor in the UK for Imation’s MXI Stealth Zone and ACCESS Enterprise solutions. Working with Imation will give Wick Hill’s channel partners the strength of a worldwide  market leader, the benefit of excellent price performance and the opportunity to sell a range of solutions to its customers to suit all their security needs. All of this in a market where a significant percentage of customers still has to address the increasing problem of mobile data security.

WPS security issues are just the tip of the insecurity iceberg, says Cryptzone

03 Jan 2012

Commenting on reports that a researcher has discovered a gaping hole in the security of the WiFi Protection Setup (WPS) method of simplifying the pairing of a device with several brands of wireless access point, Cryptzone says that WiFi users should be more concerned with the fact that wireless passwords have been inherently insecure for some time.

ISACA Tips to Manage Top Three IT Trends in 2012

03 Jan 2012

Big Data, Consumerisation of IT and Mobile Growth

Global nonprofit IT association ISACA shared recommendations today for managing three of the trends widely cited to dominate the IT landscape in 2012: Big Data, the consumerisation of information technology (BYOD) and the growing dominance of mobile devices.