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Videos Consolidate Infrastructure and Processes for Lower Total Cost of Ownership

16 May 2012

In this video, the SunGard Operations team explains how consolidating the operational environment through advanced reconciliation software can reduce costs, improve visibility and lessen the administrative burden on a financial institution.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

Articles SAN Storage ensures high availability and delivers virtualisation platform for North East secondary school

03 May 2012

Aegis IT works with Framwellgate School Durham and installs Huawei technology to deliver a future-proofed storage solution

Framwellgate School Durham located just outside of the historic city of Durham in the North East of England is a science and sixth form college for 11-18 year olds. At that time they were running two standalone ESXi servers on existing shared storage with 6 SATA disks.

News 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. 

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

Videos Brandeis University

10 Apr 2012

Brandeis University Upgrades to Gigabit to Address BYOD

News 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.

Videos American University - Customer Testimonial

30 Mar 2012

American University ensuring growth with Fluid Data storage

Videos Future Forms of Solid State Technology

27 Mar 2012

There is a lot of excitement in the technology world about the promise of solid state - and it's not just flash. In this video, Panasas co-founder and CTO, Dr. Garth Gibson, discusses future forms of solid state technology and how they might benefit HPC storage.

News 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. 

News 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.

News 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.

News 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).  

News 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).

News 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.

Videos Intel Data Direct I/O (DDIO) chalk talk video

07 Mar 2012

ntel® Data Direct I/O (Intel DDIO) allows Intel® Ethernet controllers and adapters to talk directly to processor cache, delivering increased bandwidth, lower power utilization, and reduced latency. Intel DDIO is a key component of Intel® Integrated I/O and is available on Intel Xeon processor E5-based systems. Learn how Intel DDIO works in this chalk talk video, with Intel expert, David Fair.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

Videos Up and running in 10mins with storage from WhipTail Tech

20 Feb 2012

Darren Williams, EMEA SE Director, talks to us about the pro's and pro's of their product.

Videos Scale Computing - Markets

20 Feb 2012

Scale Computing's Simon Marrion talks to us about the verticals and markets which are finding great value in their products.

News 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.

Videos Arista Networks 7050 Datasheet

15 Feb 2012

Martin Hull, Sr. Systems Engineer at Arista Networks, introduces the new family of Arista switches, the 7050 Series.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

Articles FCS Financial - Case Study

13 Feb 2012

Integrated customer relationship management solution supports 20% annual business growth with limited staff additions

The Company

FCS Financial is part of the nationwide Farm Credit System located in Jefferson City, MO. that provides lending opportunities and financial services to more than 14,000 farmers and farm-related businesses through 29 branch offices.

News 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.

News 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.  

Videos Whiptail's James Candelaria

06 Feb 2012

James talks us through Whiptail's background, the VDI Market and what the future holds.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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. 

News 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. 

News 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. 

News 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).

News 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.

Videos Advantages of Scale-out Storage : Scalability

16 Jan 2012

Scale Computing's highly parallel, scale-out architecture is designed for storage performance in demanding workloads like virtualization.
Data is striped across all nodes through a dedicated 1GbE network. This architecture delivers enhanced performance by combining the I/O performance of all disks, network interfaces, and processors in the cluster.
With more caching and network ports than normally found in storage priced for the small to medium enterprise, and an architecture designed to increase the performance as nodes are added, work gets done faster with Scale Computing.

Articles Oracle Application Acceleration Solutions Provide Customers with Improved User Experience

12 Jan 2012

Since most database applications are I/O-intensive, they generally require high storage I/O performance – such is the case with Oracle-based applications. Research on user needs have shown that Oracle application users share a common belief that their back-end storage system I/O performance needs to be improved in order to overcome major challenges such as long index query response times, slow index updates, low efficiency of external cache hot database table queries, and low concurrent capacity. However, the root cause of these problems is often that the arbitrary I/O processing capacity of a storage system cannot meet the performance requirements of Oracle applications.

News 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.

News 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..

News 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.

News 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. 

News 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.

Videos Scale-Out Data Storage Solutions and Virtualization with Scale-Out Steve

11 Jan 2012

Whether it's a small business or not, every company faces change. But how easily those changes are conquered can depend on several things. Follow Scale-Out Steve's company's storage timeline to see how Scale Computing's scale-out storage solution helped them overcome the extensive storage demands they've faced over time. 

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

Videos Cloud Architectures with HDS and Brocade

06 Jan 2012

Brocade and Hitachi Data Systems Join Forces to Automate and Accelerate Cloud Adoption

This ESG video highlights the need for organizations to create and deploy more open and agile IT architectures in order to better respond to the business. It further describes how Brocade and HDS are working together to enable highly flexible, converged solutions by leveraging their open cloud architectures, Virtual Compute Blocks and Converged Data Center Solutions respectively, and avoid vendor lock in.

News 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.

Videos Virtual Machine (VM) Growth and Your Business: Scale-out Steve - Scale Computin

04 Jan 2012

Scale-out Steve's business is experiencing rapid virtual machine growth. Their virtualization platform is designed to handle it, but the storage system isn't. Discover why it's so important to increase performance as your virtualization demands increase. 

News Enhancements to Hitachi Data ingestor help organisations reduce costs and simplify cloud adoption

15 Dec 2011

New content sharing, file restore and NAS migration capabilities increase manageability and flexibility for cloud and distributed IT environments

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today introduced enhancements to Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI), a bottomless, backup-free cloud on-ramp and filer, to help organisations simplify and accelerate cloud adoption. Featuring new content sharing, file restore and NAS migration capabilities, the new version of HDI gives seamlessly scalable, backup-free storage solutions to distributed consumers of IT, such as remote offices and branch offices (ROBO) or cloud storage users. Working in conjunction with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), a virtualised object store with advanced storage and data management capabilities, HDI is deployed as a minimal-footprint or virtual appliance that sends data from the edge to the core infrastructure to easily and cost-effectively help customers move data to the cloud at their own pace.

News Front-safe takes performance to the Cloud with Fusion-io and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

14 Dec 2011

IBM’s Denmark 2010 Cloud Partner of the Year Says “Customers Noticed the Difference” After Integrating Fusion-io Powered IBM High IOPS Adapters to Power Cloud-Based TSM

Fusion-io has announced that backup and archiving solutions provider Front-safe has integrated Fusion ioMemory-based IBM High IOPS Adapters into its Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) cloud solution to power performance improvements while saving time and money.

Articles 2011 storage review and 2012 predictions

13 Dec 2011

Jeff Ready, CEO and Matt McPhail, global systems engineer, at Scale Computing offer their insight.

Storage Review 2011

The industry buzz around virtualisation has intensified in 2011 as more businesses have become aware of the benefits it provides. Virtualisation is becoming the cornerstone of organisations’ drive towards reducing operating costs, improving productivity and increasing efficiency. This is further demonstrated with industry expertsreporting that 60% of SMBs have already moved towards incorporating a virtualisation strategy[i].

News Red Hat Releases First Integrated Scale-Out Storage Product for Unstructured Data

08 Dec 2011

Red Hat Storage Software Appliance delivers flexibility, performance and quality for enterprise environments

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, which is its first integrated product that provides scale-out storage for unstructured data. 

News HP Bridges Human Information and Extreme Data to Drive Insight, Foresight, Action

29 Nov 2011

New HP Information Optimization solutions power Instant-On Enterprises

HP today extended its Information Optimization portfolio with new solutions that help Instant-On Enterprisesturn information, intuition and ideas into insights to drive better decision making.

News Brocade Selected as the Core for World’s Largest Single Site Deployment of 100 GbE in a Research Institute

14 Nov 2011

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Advances Neuroscience and Imaging Analysis with 100 GbE, Improving Efficiency by 50 Percent

Some high-performance research institutes generate millions of digitised images in the course of a year that require complex algorithms and robust computational horsepower to analyse. Their research demands that the computing environment be ultra-responsive and extremely efficient.  

Videos Is Your Network Real-Time Ready?

14 Nov 2011

Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (Avaya VENA) allows organizations to more easily optimize business applications and service deployments in and between data centers and campuses.

News Juniper Networks to Deliver Business-Ready Secure Mobility Solutions with Samsung

31 Oct 2011

Collaboration to create and market secure mobility and device management solutions for select Samsung mobile devices

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, announced it is expanding its partnership with Samsung to deliver comprehensive mobile security, secure connectivity and device management capabilities for enterprise customers of Samsung high-end smart mobile devices, starting with GALAXY Note, GALAXY SII and GALAXY Tab 10.1. Juniper and Samsung will collaborate to deliver significantly enhanced secure mobility solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to protect mobile devices as well as the network resources and applications they access in today’s mobile enterprise environment.

News Quantum achieves record launch with DXi6701/02 disk backup and deduplication appliances

28 Oct 2011

Quantum Corp. (NYSE:QTM), a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, today announced that the September quarter launch of its new DXi6700disk backup and deduplication appliances was the most successful branded systems product launch in the company’s history in terms of revenue generated. The DXi6701 and DXi6702 appliances saw wide market acceptance for providing a unique combination of industry-leading performance and value, along with broad scalability spanning midrange and enterprise environments and multi-protocol interfaces. Leveraging the inline data flow of Quantum’s DXi 2.0 software, the new DXi6700 appliances run at more than twice the speed of the comparable offering from EMC Data Domain and work with all leading backup applications.

News Violin Memory Arrays Certified with IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

28 Oct 2011

Best-of-Breed Storage Virtualization Solution Simplifies Migration from Legacy Disk Arrays to Silicon-Based Primary Storage

Violin Memory, Inc., provider of the world’s fastest and most scalable Memory Arrays, today announced that IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) V6.3.0 supports Violin 3000 Series flash Memory Arrays. With the transition to silicon storage well underway, enterprise customers can take advantage of IBM’s virtualization and storage management to transparently deploy flash Memory Arrays in the data center. SVC provides heterogeneous support for multiple storage vendors and media types with centralized management, enabling Memory Arrays to be used in production environments with seamless migration of applications. Additionally, SVC offers a full range of data management tools such as FlashCopy, Easy Tier, live migration and replication that work seamlessly with Violin arrays.

News Hitachi Data Systems unveils roadmap for the Information Cloud and new cloud offerings

26 Oct 2011

Introduces new Hitachi cloud services and solution packages; provides update on BlueArc and ParaScale Integration

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today unveiled its plans for helping customers transform their data into actionable information and harness its power as a strategic asset for business insight and innovation. To accomplish this, Hitachi Data Systems has aligned its product and solutions portfolio around a 3-tiered strategy of infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud that builds on existing IT investments to provide a single virtualisation platform for all data.

News F5 Introduces High-Performance Platforms to Help Organizations Optimize Application Delivery and Reduce Costs

24 Oct 2011

F5’s new BIG-IP solutions enable customers to accelerate applications, ensure FIPS compliance, and increase the efficiency of dynamic data centers

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced new BIG-IP^® platform offerings. Adding to F5’s broad range of Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solutions, the BIG-IP 11000 platform is specifically designed for high levels of throughput, making it an ideal solution to support application acceleration to improve user experience, and data center-to-data center replication to enhance disaster recovery efforts and overall business continuity.

News Silver Peak teams up with Commtech for WANop distribution

20 Oct 2011

Commtech Distribution, one of Ireland's leading trade only ICT distributors, today announced that it will distribute the entire portfolio of Silver Peak Systems data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation appliances to resellers across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

News Exinda Accelerates UK Market Traction at IP Expo 2011 with Virtual WAN Optimisation Appliance

20 Oct 2011

New Product Enhances Cloud, Enterprise WAN Optimisation, Supports Mobile Road Warriors

Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimisation solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management, today announced a fully featured new virtual appliance, which delivers each of the key benefits delivered by Unified Performance Management with its hardware-based WAN optimisation solutions in a virtualised software load. Enterprises and service providers can use the Exinda virtual appliance to deliver WAN optimisation services to users and customers without having to use a dedicated hardware appliance.

News NextIO Announces the Availability of vNET™ I/O Maestro

20 Oct 2011

vNET I/O Maestro simplifies server management, lowers CAPEX by up to 40 percent, and reduces OPEX costs up to 60 percent

NextIO, the pioneer in I/O consolidation and virtualization solutions, today announced the general availability of vNET I/O Maestro, a rack-level appliance that simplifies the deployment and management of complex server I/O by consolidating and virtualizing I/O resources. Based on industry standard PCI-Express (PCIe) switching technology, vNET I/O Maestro’s innovative IOV architecture enables a single I/O device to appear as multiple virtual adapters so that servers in the rack can share a single PCIe device.

Videos 2011 IT Capabilities & Needs Survey Results

20 Oct 2011

Protiviti's 2011 IT Capabilities and Needs Survey identifies top areas of concern for CIOs and their teams. This video offers a snippet of some of the notable findings of this survey which include virtualization and cloud computing, social media, security and privacy, regulatory change, and data classification and management are among their highest priorities.

Articles 2011 Information Technology Capabilities and Needs Survey

20 Oct 2011

More than 200 respondents, including CIOs, chief technology officers, chief security officers, and IT vice presidents and directors, participated in the study. Respondents answered more than 100 questions in three general categories: Technical Knowledge, Process Capabilities and Organizational Capabilities.

Videos Violin Memory Channel VP Talks HP Database Solution

20 Oct 2011

The server-connected flash memory arrays are built to break I/O app bottlenecks. The VMA3205 and VMA3210 are virtual memory arrays with five and ten terabytes of capacity respectively. They deliver 350,000 read IOPS, 250,000 write IOPS and a 1.4GB/sec bandwidth.

News Cisco Network Innovation Enables the Most Scalable Data Center Fabric on the Planet

20 Oct 2011

Cisco scales data center fabrics to more than 12,000 10GbE server ports – double the market’s next-best and at half the cost; Cisco firewall to raise the bar for virtualized security  

As Internet traffic volumes increase at exponential rates (by 2013 it’s predicted that there will be 56 exabytes (about 12.8 billion online movies) crossing the internet per month) the data centers that house and secure applications and data need to scale while remaining highly secure. Today, Cisco® introduced ground-breaking additions to its data center networking portfolio that address these needs and deliver unmatched architectural flexibility and scale for physical, virtual or cloud computing environments.

News IMG Media readies for 3D HDTV and a move to the cloud with Brocade 10 gigabit Ethernet routing solution

18 Oct 2011

Global sports broadcaster turns to Brocade for high-performance, non-blocking networking solution to meet customers’ viewing demands for higher resolution TV

To meet consumer demand for high-bandwidth applications such as high definition (HD) television, global sports broadcaster IMG Media has turned to Brocade to deploy a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) routing solution. This new solution is designed to provide the performance and scalability IMG needs to deliver media assets electronically, while consolidating its switch and server estate to facilitate a transition to a private cloud-based Media Asset Management System (MAMS) ― the first of its kind in the UK.

News Silver Peak extends virtual WANop technology with HP

18 Oct 2011

Silver Peak VXOA on HP Advanced Services zl Modules simplifies and reduces costs when optimising branch WAN connections

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, today extended its flexible options for deploying ‘WAN optimisation anywhere’ with the availability of Silver Peak VX virtual WAN optimisation appliances on HP 5400zl and 8200zl switches.  Leveraging HP’s recently announced virtualisation support for the 5400zl and 8200zl switches, Silver Peak integration allows enterprises to easily and cost-effectively deploy WAN optimisation in branch offices to ensure fast access to centralised applications, optimised backup of remote data, and the highest quality voice and video services to distributed employees.

Articles The Pensions Trust - Case Study

18 Oct 2011

The Pensions trust is one of the leading multi-employer occupational pension funds in the UK for the Third Sector. Established for over 60 years, The Pensions Trust has assets of more than £4.4 billion and serves over 150,000 employers and members.

News Scale Computing announces partnership with European Electronique

17 Oct 2011

Storage solution experts team up with education specialists to offer enterprise-class storage for schools and academies across the UK

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of unified, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualisation and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized business (SMB), announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement with European Electronique, a leading technology company specialising in ICT solutions for the UK education sector. European Electronique, with its track record in infrastructure services for schools, is an ideal partner for Scale Computing to realise opportunities in the UK education market, which is seeing academies and schools increasingly running 24/7 environments with collaborative and flexible learning environments. European Electronique is a strong partner to deliver Scale Computing’s unified, scale-out storage solutions, as it has projects across a variety of schools, academies and further education colleges throughout the UK.

Articles Data Centre Business Continuity

17 Oct 2011

How is the choice of data centre, and data centre connections, key to supporting mission-critical applications – and what should you look for when choosing? Bob Griffiths, MD of Next Connex explains.

According to research from the Business Continuity Institute, approximately 20% of companies suffer a major disaster or disruption every five years, including damage caused by natural disasters, fires, IT system failures and power cuts. Of these companies, over three-quarters don’t survive the disaster. Such disruptions cost UK firms almost £4bn each year, and studies show that the average business suffers up to 11 virus attacks on a daily basis.

News Portman Travel Leads the Way with ShoreTel Unified Communications

17 Oct 2011

UK travel management company boosts customer service and implements cost avoidance with ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center

ShoreTel®), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced that Portman Travel, one of the UK's largest independent business travel companies, has deployed a ShoreTel UC system along with a ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center in order to create a single, integrated communications infrastructure. The ShoreTel solution allows Portman Travel to deploy cost avoidance strategies, increase productivity through significant time savings, support sustainable growth within the company and enable more dynamic, interactive customer service.

Articles WhipTail Tech - XLR8r

17 Oct 2011

Solid State Optimization for Virtual Desktops

The WhipTail XLR8r is an SSD appliance designed to cost effectively meet the demanding performance needs of virtual desktop infrastructure deployments. An XLR8r uses flash drives instead of hard drives to narrow the gap between processor and IO access performance. MLC flash drives are used to deliver cost effective price/performance that’s ideally suited for virtual desktop workloads.

Videos American University - Case Study

13 Oct 2011

American University ensuring growth with Fluid Data storage

Videos ESG on Cloud Storage

10 Oct 2011

Terri McClure, ESG Senior Analyst for IT infrastructure discusses the top criteria for success in cloud storage.

Blog Need Help Justifying That Infrastructure Upgrade?

06 Oct 2011

James Donovan writes: I often get asked by customers, partners and fellow employees: ‘How do we justify the expense of an infrastructure to the powers that be who control the purse strings?’

News Cisco Helps Businesses Improve Application Performance for Cloud Services, Virtual Desktops and Video with New WAN Optimization Appliances

06 Oct 2011

Cisco Introduces a Set of WAAS WAN Optimization Appliances to Help Organizations Deliver Business Applications with a High-Quality Experience Across Corporate Networks

With the number of Internet-based applications expected to reach 1 million this decade, Cisco is focusing on helping its customers deliver more Web-based software applications and rich media content across networks at scale and with high quality to any user and device. To achieve this goal, the company today introduced the next generation of its Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) appliances - the Cisco family of WAN (wide area network) optimization solutions.

News Imation completes acquisition of Ironkey's security hardware business

06 Oct 2011

Offers Industry’s Most Complete Solutions for Secure Mobile Data and Secure Mobile Workspaces; Continuing Strategic Transformation as Technology Leader in Secure and Scalable Storage

Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), a leading global technology company dedicated to helping people and organizations store, protect and connect their digital world today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the assets of IronKey’s secure data storage hardware business. Imation and IronKey have also entered a strategic partnership whereby Imation receives an exclusive license from IronKey for its secure storage management software and service, and a license to use the IronKey brand for secure storage products. IronKey will partner with Imation to provide its online cloud-based security services.

News Citrix NetScaler delivers massive network consolidation for private and public clouds

06 Oct 2011

New NetScaler solution uses integrated virtualisation to consolidate up to 40 appliances into a single platform

Citrix Systems has unveiled four new additions to its leading Citrix NetScaler MPX and SDX product lines, delivering the unprecedented performance and virtualisation that businesses require in the cloud era.  

News Quantum Introduces First Capacity on Demand Deduplication Appliance

06 Oct 2011

New DXi4601 Combines Simple, Non-Disruptive Capacity Growth with Leading Performance and Data Reduction Rates for SMBs and Remote Office Environments

Quantum Corp. (NYSE:QTM), has announced an innovative approach to expanding in-line deduplication capacity with the latest addition to its DXi4000 family of disk backup systems. The DXi4601 scales from 4 TB up to 12 TB of usable capacity by simply activating a licensing key. This industry-first capability results in fast and easy scalability without requiring hardware changes or service visits, overcoming the limitations and complexity of grid systems that scale by adding nodes. Designed for small data centers or remote offices, the DXi4601 achieves twice the deduplication performance of competitors in its class at half the price, delivering fast data backup and restores as well as a quick return on investment.

News Hungarian National Information Infrastructure Development (NIIF) Institute Selects SGI to Power Advanced Scientific Research

05 Oct 2011

SGI, a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that the National Information Infrastructure Development (NIIF) Institute headquartered in Budapest, Hungary has purchased a combined SGI® Altix® UV 1000 and SGI® Altix® ICE 8400 supercomputing solution that will enable advanced academic and scientific research in Hungary.

News F5 Networks’ New Professional Services Offering Helps Customers Seamlessly Transition to IPv6

05 Oct 2011

Interop New York 2011 attendees experience F5’s IPv6 capabilities first-hand with BIG-IP solutions deployed in Interop Network Operations Center

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced its new IPv6 Solution Services offering. This Professional Services offering will help organizations address their need to establish a presence on the IPv6 Internet as new IPv6-only devices flood the market and the available supply of IPv4 addresses dwindles. F5 has also announced that its BIG-IP^® solutions are deployed in the Network Operations Center (NOC) at Interop New York, happening October 3‒7 at the Javits Convention Center. These solutions will provide key application and IPv6 connectivity in support of Interop vendors and attendees.

News F5 Study Shows 75 Percent of Organizations See IT-as-a-Service Becoming Commonplace

05 Oct 2011

At least 67 percent of enterprises are already implementing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) models

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the results of the F5 Networks 2011 Journey to ITaaS Study. This survey summarizes enterprises’ attitudes about and progress toward implementing IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS)—a business model in which stakeholders select and self-provision IT services on demand. With the static data center model of the past lacking sufficient agility to support today’s myriad user types, complex applications, and increasing demands on IT, enterprises are showing support for the idea of ITaaS as they move toward a dynamic data center model.

News Exinda Presents Next Generation WAN Optimisation at IP Expo

05 Oct 2011

Discusses latest WAN Optimisation techniques to assist businesses improve network performance in the age of unified communications

Exinda, a global provider of WAN Optimisation solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management, will educate IP Expo 2011 visitors on the network performance challenges associated with running today’s mission critical business applications and how to resolve them. As video, VoIP and other collaborative applications become must-haves, so businesses need to be able to run them without suffering any network performance issues. At IP Expo, Exinda will demonstrate to visitors how to do this through the latest innovations in WAN Optimisation techniques via two key seminars.

News Paessler Launches PRTG v9 with Faster, Easier, More Advanced Network Monitoring Features

04 Oct 2011

Award-winning network monitor upgraded with next generation web interface, IPv6 support and new enterprise console

Paessler AG, the innovative network monitoring solutions specialist, today announced the launch of its new PRTG Network Monitor v9. Version 9 offers a number of powerful new features, including new capabilities aimed at making network monitoringeasier, more efficient and more flexible.

News Micro Focus Announces Revolutionary Approach to IBM Mainframe Application Testing

04 Oct 2011

Micro Focus Test Server innovation provides additional test capacity for mainframe applications

Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today released Micro Focus Test Server^[1]a unique technology that will accelerate testing processes while significantly reducing operating costs. Customers such as the largest listed Portuguese bank, Banco Espirito Santo (BES), are implementing Micro Focus Test Server to enable them to improve software quality by increasing available mainframe test capacity on a Windows platform. Micro Focus Test Server is an IBM z/OS compatible environment where application execution behaves just as it would on the target production mainframe. This makes it possible to perform a broad range of pre-production testing on readily available hardware. Testing capacity can now be easily increased to meet business-critical timeframes without incurring prohibitive costs.

Videos London Olympics - The impact on networks

04 Oct 2011

Mike Ainger, Chief Operating Officer at Geo Networks, talks to us about the impact the Olympics will have on networks.

Videos Oracle OpenWorld 2011: F5 ARX & Oracle ZFS Storage

04 Oct 2011

Peter Silva meets with F5's ARx Solution Engineer Matt Quill for a F5 ARX and Oracle ZFS Storage along with chatting with Oracle's David Wallace.

News ExaGrid Systems Reports Record Q3 2011 Results

04 Oct 2011

Company Sales Grew By More Than 30 Percent, Award Wins Set High Bar for Disk-Based Backup Companies

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced a record quarter for the third fiscal quarter of 2011. Sales grew by more than 30 percent over the same quarter for 2010. During the quarter the company expanded its partner network and grew technology partnerships, announced additional backup appliance support and gained significant award recognition in the process.

News Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information Implementing Korea’s First 100G Network with Ciena

04 Oct 2011

Industry-leading coherent 100G technology from Ciena to support delivery of high-bandwidth services and enhance Korean institutions’ access to the global research and education community

Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information(KISTI), today announced the deployment of the first 100G network in Korea. KISTI will leverage Ciena’s industry-leading coherent optical technology to expand its network capacity to support enhanced collaboration across the nation on science and technology initiatives for the industrial, academic and corporate sectors.

News New storage class memory beats Fusion ioDrive on all metrics

03 Oct 2011

Next-generation enterprise flash product delivers more capacity, enhanced enterprise reliability, better performance, all at a lower cost: Introducing the new ioDrive2 from Fusion-io

Fusion-io, Inc., (NYSE: FIO) pioneer of shared data decentralisation, today announced the next evolution of its ioMemory platform for powering application acceleration and data centre optimisation. The company that broke performance barriers, brought you the first enterprise MLC products, dramatically enhanced reliability metrics for enterprise flash and redefined server side flash has done it all over again with the new ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo.

News Colt and Ciena Partner to Deliver Enterprise Managed Services Across Europe

30 Sep 2011

New services offering features integrated data encryption solutions from Ciena

 Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, and Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, today announced a partnership to extend Colt’s portfolio of managed security services. The two companies will enrich the performance, reliability and security of Colt’s managedHigh Speed Services portfolio with sophisticated, integrated wire-speed encryption capabilities from Ciena’s Packet-Optical Transport portfolio, enabling Colt’s enterprise customers to secure and protect their critical business information and intellectual property.

Blog Channeling Mr. Spock – And Sector

30 Sep 2011

Philip Sorrells writes:Oh the wonder of a long weekend!  You may not be a Trekkie but this geek loves to get his Spock on and, over a recent weekend, enjoyed back-to-back to back Star Trek episodes on cable TV.

News Private Mobile Networks supports Macro GSM for connecting between networks

28 Sep 2011

Supporting mobile macro GSM as an interconnect

Private Mobile Networks Ltd, the UK provider of private GSM network technology, today announced support for GSM operator networks as an interconnect between distributed Private Mobile Network sites.  Private Mobile Network traffic can now be distributed between locations over satellite or IP, or break out and pass over a national Macro GSM network.

Articles High & Low: Performance & Latency Matters

28 Sep 2011

How the speed & throughput of next generation networks matters for mission-critical applications, and the influence it has on choice of data centre location

In networking, speed matters. Bandwidth-hungry apps and mission-critical systems demand ever more throughput and capacity. While the trail has been blazed in data-intensive sectors such as stockbroking, commodities trading, and the film and media industries, it’s hard to think of any business area that would not benefit from improved wide-area network performance. 

Videos The Bunker Secure Hosting Migrates to IPv6 with Brocade

27 Sep 2011

Ray Welsh of The Bunker talks about how Brocade MLX Series Routers helped the hosting provider make a seamless migration from IPv4 to IPv6 and deliver 10 GbE performance

News Cold War Facility Provides the Security; Brocade Provides the Path to IPv6

27 Sep 2011

Brocade MLX Series Routers deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance and “dual stack” capabilities to help The Bunker make a seamless migration from IPv4 to IPv6

Customers who have hosted their data centre facilities at The Bunker are set to benefit from a major network upgrade to its existing Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) environment. The evolution of The Bunker’s Brocade^® MLX™ Series routers is designed to provide future-proofing for clients during the IPv4 to IPv6 transition, deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance and enable the company to stay ahead of increasingly bandwidth-intense applications, such as high-definition streaming media.

News IP Infusion Extends Position as the De Facto Standard in Software-based Networking with ZebOS 7.9

27 Sep 2011

Helps OEMs and Service Providers Innovate at Breakneck Speeds; Supports Evolving Data Centre, Mobile Backhaul and Carrier Ethernet Requirements

IP Infusion, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent network software for enhanced Ethernet and IP services, today extended the company’s leadership in software-based networking with the release of ZebOS 7.9 network platform software. The newest technology advancements in ZebOS software help networking OEMs worldwide deliver customised and differentiated solutions to telecom as well as public and private cloud service providers with lower costs and faster time-to-market. Solutions built on IP Infusion’s ZebOS software help customers avoid product commoditisation, improve return on investment and eliminate network bottlenecks.

News Interoute announces three year ICT infrastructure and hosting partnership with UEFA

27 Sep 2011

Europe’s largest private cloud services platform to support UEFA’s entire business operations and online presence for next three seasons

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the governing body of football in Europe, has selected Interoute’s pan-European cloud services to support all its business, football competitions and events over the next three seasons. Interoute will host all applications and systems used directly by UEFA including its Football Administration and Management Environment (FAME) and the UEFA.com website.

News F5 Helps Latisys Offer Differentiated Private Cloud and Enhanced Managed Services

22 Sep 2011

Managed services provider relies on F5’s VIPRION Application Delivery Networking solution to ensure its cloud services infrastructure scales rapidly and reliably to meet customer demand

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced thatLatisys is implementing F5^® VIPRION^® Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) as a foundation of its private cloud and managed hosting solutions. Latisys provides IT outsourcing—such as data center colocation services, managed hosting, and cloud solutions—from its secure, high-density, Tier III data centers across the United States. The company is enhancing its high availability enterprise-grade managed services offering, which provides security, backup and recovery, storage, compute resources, and load balancing, to achieve service provider-grade performance levels. Through Latisys cloud services, customers will be able to expand their IT infrastructures dynamically to meet sudden increases in demand for computing resources while benefiting from a highly secure, fully redundant platform.

News Nimsoft Announces Comprehensive Monitoring for SAP Environments

22 Sep 2011

Automated Solution Helps Customers Optimise Service Levels across Physical, Virtual and Cloud Infrastructure while Minimising Technology Ownership Costs

Nimsoft today announced Nimsoft Monitor for SAP, an automated solution that enables customers to optimise service levels across physical, virtual and cloud environments while reducing their technology ownership costs.

News Kroll Ontrack develops techniques to recover data from Dell EqualLogic systems

22 Sep 2011

Leading data recovery provider is the first and only company to offer proven recovery capabilities for these systems

Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of information management, data recovery, and legal products and services, today announced new data recovery capabilities for Dell EqualLogic SAN systems. Using proprietary technology it developed to address Dell EqualLogic system data losses, Kroll Ontrack is now able to recover data from both traditional and virtualised file systems on Dell EqualLogic storage products.

News Vision Solutions Partner Network Supporting Customers With Cloud Recovery

22 Sep 2011

More than 70 organisations across the UK rely on hosted business continuity and cloud –based disaster recovery solutions powered by Double-Take range of products

Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing markets today announced that more than 70 organisations in the UK are now relying on its real-time data replication products in order to protect their critical business data in the cloud. Through its Cloud Protection and Recovery Programme, Vision Solutions is working with 24 service providers in the UK to provide customers with simple effective business continuity and cloud recovery services that protect their critical IT systems and applications.

News Brocade Strengthens Application Delivery Switching Performance and Security for Cloud-Optimised Data Centres

21 Sep 2011

Compact Application Delivery Switch with the Highest Gigabit Ethernet Fibre Density Provides High Scalability, Efficiency and Flexibility

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) expands customer control with the introduction of the Brocade® ServerIron® ADX 1000F compact application delivery switches, which includes the benefits of combined copper and fibre connectivity. This extension to the award-winning Brocade ADX 1000 Series is designed to deliver increased customer choice and flexibility for cloud-focused service providers, financial institutions and governmental agencies while also setting the industry benchmark for application delivery switching performance, scalability and investment protection. The result is up to 50 percent power savings and improved data transmission reliability and security while also dramatically consolidating data centre rack footprint.

Articles GEO Foundation Case Study

19 Sep 2011

Based in Indiana, USA, the Greater Educational Opportunities (GEO) Foundation has worked to improve education since 1998. Specifically, GEO Foundation helped foster support for academy law and now sponsors four academies in the United States that serve more than 1,200 students.

News LSI Announces Support for Continuously Available Systems Clustering on Next-Generation Microsoft Windows Server Platforms

15 Sep 2011

LSI to unveil high-availability direct-attached storage technology on stage at Microsoft BUILD Conference

LSI (NYSE: LSI) today announced it is working with Microsoft on the development of low-cost, Windows-based, high-availability (HA) server clustering solutions for Cloud datacentres and small and medium business (SMB) environments. The solutions will combine Microsoft’s experience in managing clustered server environments through the Windows operating system with LSI’s expertise delivering highly scalable storage and RAID interconnect technology. 

Videos Bill Swanton Previews the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Applications Track

14 Sep 2011

Cloud, software as a service, social, collaboration, mobile, integration and intelligence technologies will have a significant impact on how applications are sourced and managed. The applications track focuses on how these forces will dramatically overhaul the application portfolio and require new skills for application leaders to balance new and legacy investments.

Videos IlliniCloud Video Case Study

12 Sep 2011

Jason Radford, System Administrator for IlliniCloud, a cooperative providing low cost infrastructure for the educational community, gives his view of how not to fear automation. Virtualization and Cloud can translate into high degree of automation and can dramatically increase cost savings.

News HP Unveils Expanded Enterprise Solutions for the Instant-On Enterprise

12 Sep 2011

Comprehensive security services and technology portfolio delivers insight and protection against modern cyberthreats

HP today announced its expanded Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio, designed to help enterprises establish and execute a comprehensive security strategy that addresses threats and potential liabilities resulting from the rise of mobility, cloud computing and social media.

News EMC Isilon to showcase transformational storage technology at IBC

08 Sep 2011

Storage leader to showcase largest file system, fastest Scale-out NAS platform and enhanced flexibility needed for next generation HD, 3D and VFX

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that EMC Isilon will be showcasing its most complete line-up at IBC (Stand 7H10) to help deliver transformational IT systems to support advances in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content.

Videos SpringCM Video Case Study

08 Sep 2011

Schalk Theron, Chief Information Officer for SpringCM, a cloud document management company, provides his view of cloud computing and IT-as-a-Service. ITaaS allows IT to provide a catalog of services for self-provisioning and align the technology with business needs. F5 and VMware are excellent examples of collaboration to provide these strategic points of control.

News RWE Chooses Verizon Managed Network Service Solution to Transform Energy Exchange

07 Sep 2011

RWE IT GmbH, the IT supplier within RWE AG, has joined with Verizon, a global leader in delivering communication, IT security and network solutions, to provide an international network organisation for its customers across the RWE Group. Under a new five year agreement, Verizon will work with RWE IT GmbH to provide a fully managed, end-to-end global communications service, including managed wide area network, local area network, Internet, voice and security solutions.

News NextiraOne Extends its Relationship with NetApp, becoming Gold Partner in Austria

06 Sep 2011

Communications expert strengthens comprehensive data centre portfolio with expertise in storage and data management from NetApp

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has achieved NetApp Gold Partner status in Austria, extending the companies relationship with NetApp across Europe.

Videos Fabrics 101

05 Sep 2011

The Impact of New IT Technology. As the marketplace moves to Ethernet Fabric, Phil O'Reilly, VP Integrated Marketing, explains what you need to learn.

News Mimecast launches archive search capability for BlackBerry® to increase mobile workforce productivity

01 Sep 2011

Unified Email Management provider launches first email archiving solution to integrate with the BlackBerry email application, with more mobile platforms to follow

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, today announced its new email archiving service for BlackBerry smartphones. The new Mimecast service aims to increase mobile workforce productivity by giving users access to their entire personal archive through their standard BlackBerry email interface. Users will be able to search and view their Mimecast personal archive from a BlackBerry handset, copy email from the archive to their inbox, and reply and forward archived messages.

Videos SGI Think Ecological®

01 Sep 2011

In this video, SGI speaks with Tom Dadmum, Vice President and David Slifka, IT Manager at Adtran, a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment, about their efforts to green their IT operations, workforce and the workplace

Videos Clabber Girl saves $50K by deploying Scale Computing

31 Aug 2011

The Clabber Girl Corporation, manufacturer of Clabber Girl Baking Powder, transitioned from an aging physical server infrastructure with direct attached disk to a virtual infrastructure with shared storage. Their choice of a scale-out, unified Scale Computing storage cluster was an essential component to achieve high availability for critical business applications.

Videos Ethernet Fabric Momentum

31 Aug 2011

Jason Nolet, VP of Data Center and Enterprise Networking for Brocade, talks about the technical and business continuity benefits of deploying ethernet fabrics for cloud architectures in the data center.

News Brocade Advances Ethernet Fabric Innovation to Unleash the Power of Virtualisation

31 Aug 2011

New Brocade VDX Switch Models and Zero-Touch Virtual Machine Discovery, Configuration and Mobility Enhance the Industry’s Only Shipping Ethernet Fabric Portfolio to Increase Business Agility and Simplify Operations

Today at VMworld, Brocade today announced it is delivering more choice, flexibility and automation to customers deploying virtualisation and cloud IT infrastructures. Specifically, the company announced enhancements to the Brocade^® Ethernet fabric portfolio that utilises Brocade VCS™ technology. These enhancements are designed to increase scalability, improve virtual machine (VM) awareness, further simplify management and significantly reduce operational overhead.

Videos Hobsons. Empowering Education Professionals

16 Aug 2011

Hobsons delivers a powerful suite of education-oriented SaaS-based applications to colleges and universities. As such, Hobsons' application delivery infrastructure is mission-critical. The company chose ADN devices from F5 Networks, running the TMOS operating system, BIG-IP version 10, to support its SaaS infrastructure. With this solution, Hobsons is able to reduce its own costs while providing shared services that help its customers do more with less.

Articles Central & Cecil - Case study

12 Aug 2011

Central & Cecil was founded in 1926 and is committed to providing housing and care for a wide range of people in London, Berkshire, Luton and the Midlands. Its responsibilities include contributing to housing the elderly, the homeless and others with special support needs as well as providing access to personal development, arts and education programmes.

Videos Bluelock Video Case Study

11 Aug 2011

Bluelock is a managed technology services company and one of the first providers of virtual cloud computing offered through an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model. With Bluelock's IaaS model, clients pay a monthly fee for the IT infrastructure they use, plus a retainer for reserve capacity.

News Convergence Group selects Geo Networks’ fibre for its customers

08 Aug 2011

Three-year dark fibre deal will underpin company’s scalable data services

Geo Networks Limited (“Geo”), the leading provider of dedicated fibre networks, has today announced a second deal with Internet Protocol (IP) and network provider, Convergence Group. The Midlands based, service provider serves bandwidth intensive sectors such as technology and broadcast. The deal sees a 36km network carry voice, web and video traffic across London via Geo fibre in the city’s sewer network.

Videos Scale Computing 2011 VMware vExpert Award Winner, Shane Weinbrecht

08 Aug 2011

Scale Computing is excited to annouce the nomination of Shane Weinbrecht, Systems Engineer as a 2011 VMware vExpert

News Advent Optimises Global Access to Data and Applications with Silver Peak

28 Jul 2011

Silver Peak WAN Optimisation Eclipses Industry with Unmatched Scalability, Ease-of-Use, and more than 10x Performance Improvement of Data Transfers over Shared WANs

Providing mission-critical applications to thousands of companies requires high-performance WAN connectivity across distance.  However, the underlying wide area network (WAN) infrastructure spanning the globe is plagued with bandwidth limitations, latency, and packet loss that can impair application use and delivery.  Advent Software Inc., a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, is addressing this by standardising on the Silver Peak Systems data centre class WAN optimisation appliances.

News LSI First to Sample 12Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip, Controller and Expander ICs to Server and External Storage OEMs

25 Jul 2011

Technology demonstrations for OEM customers break the million IOPS performance barrier with a single 8-port RAID-on-Chip IC

LSI Corporation today announced the industry's first sample shipments of 12Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC), controller and expander ICs to server and external storage OEMs, underscoring LSI leadership in the SAS market segment. By providing customers with early samples of 12Gb/s SAS silicon, LSI is delivering a key technology milestone and laying the foundation for the anticipated SCSI Trade Association 12Gb/s SAS Plugfest in mid-2012.  

News LSI Announces Availability of Family of Network Accelerator Cards for Enterprise, Data Centres and Service Providers

22 Jul 2011

Complete platform built on industry-leading silicon with software protocols to provide high performance and deterministic features for networking OEMs

LSI Corporation has announced the availability of a family of network accelerator cards that offload complex, compute-intensive functions, delivering high performance and reducing time to market. The accelerator cards come in a variety of industry form factors and are highly programmable, allowing OEMs to use existing software investments and reducing development costs. 

News HP Helps Enterprises Advance Development for the Cloud

22 Jul 2011

Service virtualization and application life cycle intelligence solutions accelerate application delivery

HP has announced new software solutions that improve collaboration among application delivery teams, enabling organizations to accelerate business innovation and lower operational costs.

News Logicalis forms Joint Venture in Indonesia with Metrodata

21 Jul 2011

Logicalis Group, the international IT and Communications solutions integrator, has announced it is establishing a joint venture operation in Indonesia. Heads of terms have been agreed with leading Indonesian ICT Group, P.T. Metrodata Electronics, Tbk based in Jakarta.

News Ciena and Felix Telecom Bring 100 Gigabit Ethernet to Eastern Europe

18 Jul 2011

Romanian National Research and Education Network RoEduNet leverages Ciena’s coherent technology for science and education projects

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that the Romanian Educational Network (RoEduNet) has chosen Ciena’s high-capacity coherent optical technology for the first live 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network in Eastern Europe. The next-generation infrastructure, deployed together with Ciena’s BizConnect partner Felix Telecom, provides scientists and researchers from Romania the highest network capacity available on the commercial market for science and education projects.

News Scale Computing Reports 102% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth in the SME Market for Second Fiscal Quarter 2011 and Exceeds 550 customer installations to Date

14 Jul 2011

Partner growth increases 192% Quarter-Over-Quarter

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced record results for its second quarter, ending June 30, 2011 (Q2’11).  Scale Computing’s Q2’11 revenue in the SME market grew102 percent over Q1’10.  In addition, Scale Computing launched a new partner program that resulted in a 192 percent increase in new partners quarter–over–quarter.

News Silver Peak leverages virtualisation to enable ubiquitous WAN optimisation

14 Jul 2011

New Open Architecture revolutionises the delivery, pricing, and packaging of WAN optimisation

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, today unveiled its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA), a combination of software and flexible pricing options that enable customers, partners, and service providers to deploy WAN optimisation more conveniently than ever.

Articles NetApp helps Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust consolidate its servers and rationalise its infrastructure

30 Jun 2011

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust was formed on 1 April, 2006 after East Kent NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust merged. The trust provides mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, and other specialist services for 1.6 million people across Kent and Medway. It is committed to providing high-quality clinical services, innovation, and partnership working. It is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, covering an area of 1,450 square miles, employing over 3,600 staff, and operating from over 140 buildings across the locality.

News EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS Shatters Performance Test Records

29 Jun 2011

World’s Fastest NAS Platform Delivers High Transactional Access And Linear Scalability for Big Data

EMC Corporation has announced that the Isilon S200 scale-out NAS system is the new industry performance leader based on independent benchmark measurement by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC®). According to the latest SPEC testing data – which measures networked file performance and overall response times – the EMC Isilon S200 scale-out NAS platform achieved record performance results, trumping competitors by more than double their closest results.

Videos SGI® ArcFiniti™ Integrated Data Archive Solution

27 Jun 2011

ArcFiniti is the leading archive technology consolidated into an easy-to-deploy, fully integrated solution.

News European IT Security Study Reveals How Enterprises Struggle to Contend With Emerging Business Trends

27 Jun 2011

Among key findings: wireless networks identified as most pressing vulnerability; draconian stance adopted on user-owned smart devices; 93% of enterprises involved in security consolidation practices

Fortinet® has today unveiled the findings of a wide ranging, European survey into the IT security strategies of over 300 mid to very large sized enterprises.  The survey, commissioned by Fortinet, queried enterprise IT decision makers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux and the UK about their approaches to security strategy amid a constantly changing landscape for how businesses use IT.

News Data Protection and Business Growth Support for HARIBO

27 Jun 2011

HARIBO, one of the UK’s leading confectionery brands has commissioned CVSI to deploy IBM BladeCenter, System Storage technologies and Tivoli software to protect its growing volume of stored data in the UK. 

Videos Building a Dynamic Datacenter

23 Jun 2011

Learn how you can build an agile infrastructure and deliver more services with your BIG-IP system

News EMC ISILON enables industrial color to turn big data into new business opportunity

21 Jun 2011

Pioneer in File Sharing, Digital Photo and Video Workflows Deploys Isilon Scale-Out NAS to Simplify Big Data Management and Expand Client Service Offerings

 EMC Corporation today announced that Industrial Color, which invented the online digital photo workflow and supports clients including Victoria’s Secret, NBC Universal, Kohls, Showtime Networks, Kate Spade, and Warner Bros, has deployed EMC® Isilon® scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform for its wide range of file and media sharing, editing and delivery services, including a range of leading-edge multimedia services. Using EMC’s Isilon S-Series and X-Series, Industrial Color has created a single, shared storage platform for its file transfer, file sharing, and content editing workflows, accelerating media access and distribution for its global client base, while simplifying big data management to less than a fraction of one full-time equivalent (FTE). With Isilon, Industrial Color has consolidated a variety of file-based applications onto a flexible, easy to use storage infrastructure, enabling the media production and software leader to create new client service offerings, while simultaneously expanding its bandwidth for increased customer demand.

Articles Global produce labelling leader Sinclair International achieves cost-savings, rationalisation and performance improvement via virtualised storage

21 Jun 2011

Having pioneered the development of automatic fruit labelling systems nearly 30 years ago, UK firm Sinclair International now operates in 35 countries worldwide. With a 100% focus on the global fresh produce sector, Sinclair provides customers with an unmatched combination of fruit labelling equipment, labels and service - all from a single, reliable source, with its network of subsidiaries and partners all linking to one global data centre/ERP system in Norwich.

News Academy of Contemporary Music Hits the High Notes with Data Backup Support from Barracuda Networks

21 Jun 2011

Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced that the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) has selected the Barracuda Backup Service to house and store its media, audio and video content, as well as provide disaster recovery functionality for all critical data.

Articles Consulting Firm Avoids Significant Infrastructure Costs, Improves Application Availability

20 Jun 2011

With roughly 70 percent of its consultants working from client sites or from home, A.T. Kearney depends heavily on email, instant messaging, VoIP, and other unified communications services. The company needed to ensure that these tools are secure and available to users from any location and on any device.

Videos NetApp* Unified Networking & Storage Reference Architecture

17 Jun 2011

NetApp's Jason Blosil talks about how to move to a unified networking & storage environment with Intel Ethernet 10g. Included in his discussion are insights around lower infrastructure costs with increased server bandwidth.

News Opengear Expands Product Line with 32-Port Next Generation Console Server

17 Jun 2011

Opengear, provider of next generation console server and remote management solutions, announced a new line of 32 port units. The ten new 32 port units give Opengear more than 100 different products available, more than any other console server manufacturer. 

News Quantum Acquires Pancetera Software

15 Jun 2011

Combination of Pancetera’s Technology and Quantum DXi^® Disk Backup and Deduplication Appliances Provides More Efficient and Cost-Effective Data Protection

Quantum Corp. has announced that it has acquired Pancetera Software Inc., a privately held company that has significantly reduced the complexity and cost of managing and protecting data in virtual server environments. The $12 million transaction consisted of  $8.4 million in cash and $3.6 million in Quantum common stock (approximately 1.2 million shares), and is expected to be accretive to operating profit by the end of the current fiscal year. The acquisition extends Quantum’s technology leadership by adding key assets for dramatically enhancing data management in virtual environments. Pancetera technology is already compatible with Quantum’s DXi disk backup and deduplication products, and the company plans to further integrate the technology into its longer-term roadmaps for both DXi and its StorNext^® high-performance file sharing and archive offerings.

Videos AMS-IX talks about Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology

15 Jun 2011

Henk Steenman, CTO at AMS-IX, discusses how Brocade's 100 GbE technology has helped the Internet Exchange Point (IXP) engineer a peering architecture to ensure that it can stay ahead of Internet growth and cater for the demands of consumers.

News DTU accelerates metagenomic research with SGI Altix UV

14 Jun 2011

Solution Expected to Become One of Europe’s Largest Supercomputer Systems

SGI today announced that the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has selected an SGI Altix UV 1000 high performance computing (HPC) system to help researchers mine huge amounts of genomic data from microbes and humans to identify novel genes and proteins that give living organisms their distinct properties.

News TeleWare Launches UK’s First Fully-Converged Business Mobile Network

14 Jun 2011

• Simple SIM change offers single number for mobile and landline
• Powerful business applications inside the network improve flexibility of telephony 
• Integration with on-premise telephony systems allows mobiles to function as an extension 
• TeleWare MVNO provides unique call handling services, including VoIP and Call Recording, while reducing ongoing call charges

TeleWare today announced the launch of TeleWare Mobile, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that will offer a range of unique, high value services specifically designed for business use.  TeleWare Mobile is the first mobile network to deliver true convergence of fixed and mobile networks with a seamless core for both Fixed and Mobile calls and data.

News Verizon Upgrades Global Communications for Ariston Thermo Group to Help Company Achieve Its Business Goals

14 Jun 2011

Ariston Thermo Group’s ongoing global expansion left it with disparate platforms and technologies that were not aligned with the company’s goals of growth and integration. To resolve that issue Ariston Thermo has chosen an integrated Verizon communications and networking solution that will enable the manufacturing leader to drive more effective collaboration across its extensive operations and implement a range of advanced services.

Videos CommVault and Dell announce Converged Virtual Infrastructure Building Blocks

14 Jun 2011

CommVault's Director of Worldwide OEM Marketing, Mark Eastman, discusses the new CommVault-Dell Converged Virtual Infrastructure Building Block solution architecture at Dell Storage Forum 2011.

Articles German TV Broadcaster RTL II Accelerates Content Delivery with Storage Solutions from SGI

08 Jun 2011

RTL II is a German-language private TV company operated by RTL2 Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG which offers a full schedule of programming for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The programmes are delivered via cable networks, DVB-T and satellite. The company, which was founded in 1993 and has about 150 employees, is headquartered in Grünwald near Munich, whilst news programmes are produced in Cologne. The main shareholders in RTL II are the RTL Group, the Bauer Media Group and the Tele München Group; Burda GmbH holds a stake of 1.1 percent.

News AMS-IX and Limelight Networks Field-Test Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet Technology to Stay Ahead of Internet Growth

08 Jun 2011

Leading IXP and CDN Companies Significantly Expand Network Capacity to Increase Flexibility and Scalability; Field-Testing Indicates that New Service Will Benefit Peering Landscape

Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the world’s largest Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), and Limelight Networks, the world’s leading content delivery network (CDN) for thousands of entertainment, technology, enterprise and government entities, have field-tested 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology from Brocade with live Internet traffic. The field test with Limelight Networks illustrated how AMS-IX’s 100 GbE-based service will deliver a new dimension to the peering model.

News NextiraOne’s new Unified Building Services Division completes its Comprehensive Data Centre Portfolio

07 Jun 2011

The Communications Experts become The Infrastructure Experts with Turnkey Data Centre Design and Build Solutions

NextiraOne has completed the transformation of its Data Centre business proposition in the UK with the launch of its Unified Building Services division. This brings together all the physical infrastructure aspects needed for the creation of powerful effective Data Centres for NextiraOne’s private and public sector customers in the UK. It represents the final step in NextiraOne’s Data Centre strategy of creating a comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio covering physical infrastructure, network architecture, storage and virtualisation.

News Opengear Teams With Cormant to Increase Security, Visibility, Control and Reporting for Remote Physical Infrastructure

07 Jun 2011

Opengear (www.opengear.com), provider of next generation console server and remote management solutions and Cormant (www.cormant.com), developers of CableSolve a market leading physical layer IT infrastructure management system, today announced integration that gives MSPs, VOIP Service providers and others centralized management, secure access, control and visibility into all physical IT assets behind firewalls.

Videos Infrastructure Management Best Practices

07 Jun 2011

Bob Waldie, CEO of Opengear, discusses new security issues around physical assets such as power and PDU units - can hackers turn off equipment at will? Opengear helps solve these security issues.

News Silver Peak's NX-10K launched to simplify data centre networking for the Cloud & virtualisation

06 Jun 2011

Silver Peak NX-10K simplifies data centre networking and acceleration for cloud computing and virtualisation with multiple 10 Gbps interfaces, small 2U footprint, and support for all applications

Silver Peak Systems today extended its data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation leadership with the release of the new NX-10000 (NX-10K) appliance.  The Silver Peak NX-10K is the industry’s first multi-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) WAN optimisation appliance built for next-generation data centres supporting cloud and virtualisation architectures.  The NX-10K is the latest addition to Silver Peak’s full range of physical and virtual WAN optimisation appliances, all of which provide the most-scalable and cost-effective WAN optimisation for data centre and branch office deployments.  The new Silver Peak NX-10K appliance delivers three-times more capacity and throughput performance than its nearest competitor.

Videos Riverbed Connect Podcast

06 Jun 2011

Bob Gilbert and Naveen Prabhu discuss the advanced QoS capability that was introduced as part of the RiOS 6.5 update to Riverbed's Steelhead appliance family of WAN optimization products

Videos Common Networking Goals

01 Jun 2011

Learn how EMC and Brocade are partnering to achieve common networking goals.

News Industry veteran joins Silver Peak to head up EMEA channel partnerships

31 May 2011

Silver Peak, the leader in data centre WAN optimisation, has today announced the appointment of Pierre Langlois as channel director of Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA).

Videos HP Networking and CERN

31 May 2011

Learn how HP's networking solutions are helping CERN innovate new technologies while investigating the universe's greatest mysteries.

News Scale Computing Launches New Partner Program to Leverage Growth and Benefits of Scale-out Storage for Virtualisation

25 May 2011

Scale’s partner program has grown 95% in the last 12 months

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualisation and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today launched a new partner program. A 100 percent channel organisation, Scale Computing’s Partner Program offers resellers new market opportunities, significant profit margins, strong marketing programs, responsive support and zero conflict with channel partners.

News Force10 Networks Receives 2011 Leadership Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s NGN Magazine

23 May 2011

S4810™ Top-of-Rack Switch Honored for Outstanding Innovation in Network Technology

Force10 Networks, Inc. has announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named  the Force10 S-Series™ ultra-low latency S4810™ top-of-rack (ToR) switch as a recipient of the 2011 NGN Leadership Award presented by TMC’s publication, NGN Magazine. 

News Barracuda backup servers now features "private cloud" capabilities for offsite data redundancy

19 May 2011

New Site-to-Site Replication Features Broaden Data Storage Options for Customers Beyond Local and Cloud Backup

Barracuda Networks today launched site-to-site replication capabilities for the Barracuda Backup Service, a market leading solution that allows companies to efficiently back up their data both locally and offsite without the hassle of tapes or other removable media. This enhancement allows customers to deploy a “private cloud” by enabling one Barracuda Backup Server to replicate data to one or more Barracuda Backup Servers housed locally or deployed at other locations for disaster recovery.

News Fusion-io delivers high performance for Dell In-Memory solutions

19 May 2011

ioDrive Duo Storage Memory Modules Provide Scalable Enterprise Acceleration to Meet Requirements for Rapid Data Analysis with Dell In-Memory Appliances

Fusion-io has announced that its ioMemory technology is being offered by Dell for integration into its In-Memory solutions to meet performance requirements for scalable, near-real time analytics. Enterprises can customise a powerful Dell In-Memory solution with either 360 GB or 640 GB Dell branded ioDrive Duo modules integrated into a Dell PowerEdge R910 Rack Server for performance intensive data analysis in demanding business environments.

News Geo Networks announces partnership with EirGrid to deliver its second Anglo-Irish fibre route

13 May 2011

7 Terabit capacity in conjunction with €600 million EU Interconnector project

Geo Networks (Geo), a provider of high-performance fibre networks, has signed a commercial agreement with Eirgrid, Ireland’s prominent electricity system operator and developer, to provide a second fibre optic subsea cable between the UK and Ireland. This route forms the second half of the diverse fibre connectivity ring between North Wales and Dublin, providing Anglo-Irish businesses with the most secure, reliable and advanced network availability.

News Silver Peak and EMC accelerate private clouds with integrated WAN optimisation and virtual storage

12 May 2011

EMC VPLEX Geo and Silver Peak data centre class WAN optimisation integration can provide up to 20x improvement in WAN capacity while reducing WAN costs by up to 10x

Silver Peak Systems today announced integration of its data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation solutions with the new EMC VPLEX Geo storage federation technology, extending  performance and cost savings for private clouds across geographically distributed data centres.  Working in close collaboration with EMC, the Silver Peak WAN optimisation solution is qualified, optimised, and tightly-integrated with VPLEX Geo to enable the VPLEX features for application mobility, high-availability, and collaboration over lower capacity, less-expensive networks.

News EMC Isilon delivers world's largest single file system for big data

10 May 2011

New Scale-out NAS Products Top 15 Petabytes in a Single File System and Single Volume, Providing the Storage Foundation for Maximizing the Big Data Opportunity

EMC Corporation has announced the world’s largest single file system with the introduction ofEMC Isilon’s new IQ 108NL scale-out NAS hardware product. Leveraging three terabyte (TB) enterprise-class Hitachi Ultrastar™ drives in a 4U node, the 108NL scales to more than 15 petabytes (PB) in a single file system and single volume, providing the storage foundation for maximizing the big data opportunity. EMC also today announced Isilon’s new SmartLock data retention software application, delivering immutable protection for big data to ensure the integrity and continuity of big data assets from initial creation to archival. By combining Isilon’s new NL-Series product with the recently announced OneFS® 6.5 operating system, and S200 and X200 scale-out NAS hardware products, enterprise businesses can create a complete, end-to-end storage platform for big data workflows, simplifying management and achieving maximum IT efficiency and flexibility.

News Force10 Uses Intel Expressway Cloud Access 360 for Cloud–Bursting and SaaS Application Deployment

05 May 2011

Intel Corporation will help deliver secure “cloud-in-a-rack” by integrating Intel® Expressway Access 360 for Single Sign On and Account Provisioning into Force10’s Open Automation Framework

Force10 Networks, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an agreement designed to integrate cloud single sign-on (SSO) with Force10 top-of-rack (ToR) switches utilizing cloud access control software from Intel Corporation.

Videos HP - David Scott

04 May 2011

David Scott, senior vice president and general manager, HP Storage, discusses the company's cloud initiatives and how the next-generation FC technologies will optimize private cloud environments.

News Ixia Launches Data Centre Solution for the Enterprise

04 May 2011

Next-Gen Software and Hardware Solutions Offer Data Centre Managers Means to Efficiently Test Enterprise Networks

Ixia today announced simplified and flexible testing solutions that meet the needs of evolving enterprise data centres.  Ixia’s latest IxNetwork^TM v6.00 test application introduces a new, intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), productivity tools and automated test suites.  The next generation software, combined with higher-density and more flexible hardware, overcomes enterprise testing barriers such as steep learning curves, insufficient test reproducibility and poor return on investment (ROI). 

Deleted United Biscuits Gets a Flavour for Flexible IT with NetApp - Case Study

03 May 2011

The challenge

To find a storage solution that would support an increasingly virtualised environment and provide simultaneous backup and instant failover.

Articles United Biscuits gets a flavour for flexible IT with NetApp

03 May 2011

The challenge

To find a storage solution that would support an increasingly virtualised environment, and provide simultaneous backup and instant fail-over. 

The solution

A V3140 central appliance, incorporating United Biscuits’ existing SAN, to provide increased centralised storage resources across the organisation. A fully-mirrored FAS3140 will be located at a second site to provide full backup and ensure business continuity in the event of disaster.

Benefits

• Integration of existing IBM SAN into the feature-rich NetApp environment through V-series controller
• Full disaster recovery and business continuity will be provided through the installation of a second NetApp appliance
• Additional storage capacity immediately available to meet the needs of a desktop virtualisation roll-out across the organisation
• Reduced costs, increased capacity, and greater functionality and flexibility within storage service

Blog Avoiding the rush hour: Application Performance Management is essential to IT Consolidation projects

03 May 2011

Nigel Pink writes: As a result of acquisitions multinational enterprises often have a plethora of different IT systems. Data centre and server consolidation simplifies complex IT infrastructure and reduces IT costs but increases complexity when delivering applications

News EMC Isilon enables ITN to accelerate broadcast operations

27 Apr 2011

EMC Corporation has announced that ITN, the United Kingdom’s largest independent news agency, has deployed EMC Isilon® scale-out NAS to consolidate a range of broadcast and business operations, simplifying data and application management to accelerate productivity. Using Isilon, ITN has unified its news production, media asset management and data backup onto a single storage resource, improving workflow efficiency and reducing operating costs. 

Videos Cloud Computing and Storage Management

26 Apr 2011

Milan Patel, of IBM, speaks about storage management within the cloud environment. Cloud computing is exciting for companies, as it allows them to focus on end-user experience without worrying about the individual pieces comprising the IT infrastructure. Storage management plays a key role. Companies need to ensure all data is available to users, in a timely fashion, and applications perform at highest level.

News Talari Networks Named a "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm

26 Apr 2011

Vendors' Selection Includes Innovation That Makes Enterprise WANs and Access to Cloud-based Services More Secure, Reliable and Efficient

Talari Networks has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the April 5, 2011 report, "Cool Vendors in the Enterprise Communications and Network Services," by Jay Lassman, Steve Blood, Bern Elliot, Mark Fabbi, Geoff Johnson, Robert F. Mason, Neil Rickard and Ted Chamberlin at Gartner, Inc.

News Force10 Networks introduces Open Automation 2.0 as part of Open Cloud Networking initiative

26 Apr 2011

New development community portal and ScriptStore enable open exchange of SmartScripts

Force 10 Networks today announced Open Automation 2.0, a major expansion of its Open Automation Framework – a standards-based approach to network automation that optimises data centre network performance and efficiency and lays the foundation for cloud-based services. Open Automation leverages new “open” elements within the modular Force10 Operating System (FTOS) software that streamline the data centre network fabric’s ability to participate in automated, policy-driven, real-time workload allocation in response to changing application and service demands. Open Automation 2.0 extends these capabilities with the debut of the DevExchange development community and ScriptStoreSM, an open exchange for SmartScripts.

Videos HP 3PAR Utility Storage: LiveOffice

21 Apr 2011

HP delivers big power, capacity and administration savings for the LiveOffice cloud.

News Citrix NetScaler SDX brings service delivery networking to the cloud era

21 Apr 2011

Groundbreaking NetScaler SDX platform brings virtualisation “inside the box” to transform service delivery

Citrix Systems has announced NetScaler SDX, a groundbreaking new virtualised networking platform designed from the ground up to serve as the “front door” for virtual data centres and clouds. With the new NetScaler SDX platform, customers can now run numerous virtualised NetScaler instances on a single purpose-built physical appliance with full multi-service, multi-tenant support. This innovative new architecture helps customers move from traditional application delivery to far richer “service delivery” required by the adoption of cloud computing, and growing user demand for new services delivered to a wide range of consumer devices. 

News StorageCraft Releases ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange v6.1

20 Apr 2011

New version of backup software delivers simple solution for e-mail recovery, search and migration to new Exchange servers.

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unique challenges when it comes to backing up, restoring, searching or migrating their Exchange database (EDB) files. It’s often expensive and time consuming, which can bring productivity to a screeching halt.

News Scale Computing Positioned in Leading Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions

19 Apr 2011

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, clustered storage solutions tailored to the virtualisation and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced that Gartner, Inc. has recognised Scale in its 2011 Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions report*.  Scale is positioned in the Niche Players quadrant. 

News Origin Launches Datalocker III with new security features and high speed USB3.0

18 Apr 2011

Origin Storage today confirmed its release of Data Locker 3. First launched in 2009, the Data Locker Secure Drive continues to give users peace of mind in the unfortunate event that their data storage device is lost or stolen. The information stored on the unit – which will be demonstrated at Infosecurity Europe from 19th – 21^st April 2010 at Earls Court, London (Stand F83) - is secured by a 6-32 digit alpha numeric PIN number that is entered directly on the device itself.

Articles Top Considerations for Ensuring 99.999% Data Availability in Mid-range Storage

15 Apr 2011

Few organisations today would deny the importance of their company data and reliability of storage technology as mission-critical.

News EMC Isilon enables Laika to transform Big Data into movie magic

15 Apr 2011

Academy Award-Nominated Feature Film and Animation Studio Deploys Isilon Scale-Out NAS to Consolidate End-to-End Production Workflow, Simplifying Big Data Management to Accelerate Workflow Productivity 

EMC Corporation has announced that LAIKA, the studio behind the Academy Award®-nominated Coraline, has deployed more than a petabyte of EMC Isilon® scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform for its end-to-end animation and computer graphics (CG) workflow, simplifying big data management to increase artist collaboration and accelerate project completion. Using Isilon’s SmartPools™ software application, LAIKA has unified three performance tiers into a single file system, consolidating its compositing, computer graphics and stop motion workflows onto a single, shared storage resource, streamlining production operations and improving IT efficiency. 

News Juniper Networks Announces New Product Family that Delivers Secure, Unified Network Access and Application Control Solutions

14 Apr 2011

Juniper Networks® MAG Series Junos® Pulse Gateways Converge Secure Mobile, Remote and Local Access for Small Businesses to Large Enterprises

Juniper Networks has announced availability of the Juniper Networks MAG Series Junos Pulse Gateways, built specifically to provide a single point of convergence for managing the secure network connectivity and access challenges of a mobile, always-connected workforce. The MAG Series Junos Pulse Gateways, with the Junos Pulse client, deliver mobile, remote network access with Juniper’s market-leading SSL VPN and local access with Unified Access Control (UAC) technologies all in a modular, purpose-built chassis

News European Businesses Look to the Cloud to Drive Business Agility, Not Just Save Cost

14 Apr 2011

Pan-European research shows that enterprises are putting the cloud at the heart of their IT strategy, with 48 percent seeing it as key to empowering agility and business performance

As organisations strive to compete in today’s economy, with workers demanding instant access to information wherever they are, the cloud is becoming a critical part of modern business strategy. Supporting this trend are the results from a new research project1 from Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) indicating that 48 percent of European businesses are already actively deploying cloud architectures, with more than half of respondents citing business agility as the key driver. Cost-savings, operational or capital, were of secondary concern at 16 and 14 percent, respectively.

News FalconStor UK signs up Violin Memory distributor Diamond Point to reseller channel

14 Apr 2011

FalconStor the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions, today announced that Diamond Point International (DPI) has joined its UK reseller channel.  DPI is the European distributor of Violin Memory, with which FalconStor announced the FalconStor® NSS SAN Accelerator flash memory-based storage system in March 2010.  DPI will resell this solution as well as other solutions from FalconStor’s data protection portfolio.

News Geo Networks and Next Connex seal deal to provide diverse fibre connectivity to Europe’s largest Tier 3 data centre, in South Wales

12 Apr 2011

New network set to close latency gap between London to South Wales to under 2 milliseconds

Geo Networks today announced that it has agreed a deal with Next Connex, the specialist data centre VNO, to provide over 780kms of backhaul fibre network from London to Newport, South Wales, via the Midlands and the M4 corridor.

News Isilon delivers breakthrough performance for Big Data

11 Apr 2011

New Hardware and Software Products Accelerate Data Performance, Throughput and Replication, Creating the Storage Foundation for Maximizing the Opportunity Associated with Big Data

Isilon today announced new generations of its EMCIsilon® scale-out NAS hardware and software platforms, delivering industry-leading performance, throughput and replication for big data. Isilon’s new hardware platform enables customers to choose from a range of drive configurations, including solid state drives (SSD) with either serial attached SCSI (SAS) or serial ATA (SATA) drives, and combine them with a large, globally coherent cache and next-generation quad core processors to deliver optimum price-performance for accelerating big data access. Leveraging these new hardware innovations, Isilon’s OneFS® 6.5 operating system delivers enhanced enterprise functionality to improve performance for mission-critical data center operations, while Isilon’s SyncIQ™ 3.0 significantly improves recovery point objectives, providing unmatched big data protection.

Videos Proactive Data Management for eDiscovery

11 Apr 2011

Simon Taylor, senior director of information management at CommVault, shares a few best practices so IT can better take control of data.

Videos F5 Supports Arab National Bank's Financial Service Infrastructure

08 Apr 2011

ANB (Arab National Bank), one of the top 10 banks in the Gulf region, has integrated F5's BIG-IP® Application Delivery Controllers into its core banking system to improve customer service and achieve greater transaction and investment efficiencies. ANB enhanced core banking system performance and saved three months of development time using BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager

News Force10 Networks’ Top-of-Rack solutions selected by Avid, a leading digital media editing solution provider

06 Apr 2011

S-Series access switches to integrate with Avid ISIS 5000 shared storage system to provide customised, end-to-end solutions for small to mid-size businesses

Force10 Networks, Inc. has announced that Avid, a recognised leader in digital audio and video editing solutions, has selected top-of-rack (ToR) access switches from Force10 Networks to integrate with its Avid ISIS 5000 shared storage system and provide customised end-to-end media editing solutions for small to mid-size production facilities.  The ultra-low latency, port density and dynamic buffering capabilities of selected S-Series ToR access switches will enable Avid to provide a variety of cost-effective, flexible and real-time shared media storage solutions.

News Origin Storage welcomes new CESG security product certification plans

05 Apr 2011

Origin Storage has welcomed the impending Commercial Product Assurance (CPA) Foundation and Augmented certification scheme from the CESG - the Communications-Electronics Security Group - since it will give public sector organisations a wider and more competitive choice of security products.

Videos HP Software & Solutions Information Management

05 Apr 2011

Erik Moller discusses results of an HP commissioned global information management study, as well as at HP's new information management products and services

Read the related Press Release here.

News HP Helps Organizations Reduce Risk, Increase Efficiency of Information Management

05 Apr 2011

Study finds 70 percent of organizations lack holistic approach to managing business-critical information

HP today updated its Information Management portfolio to enable organizations to reduce risk, increase efficiency and simplify the way they manage their business information.

Watch Erik Moller discuss this press release here.

News Siemon adds intelligent-ready patch panels to MapIT G2 range

04 Apr 2011

Siemon, a global leader in network cabling solutions has launched new  ‘intelligent-ready’ patch panels and fibre enclosures to extend its popular MapIT G2âIntelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) solution.

Articles Bright3D moves to StorageCraft based business continuity with OneStop IT to protect critical servers and files

04 Apr 2011

Award winning designers streamline backup and recovery strategy using ShadowProtect

StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions, has announced details of a successful project at Bright3D that is helping to protect systems from disruption using innovative business continuity features.

News Platform Computing announces support for MapReduce

30 Mar 2011

Company brings history of enterprise-class distributed computing to “big” data analytics with support for Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model

Platform Computing has announced the company is now bringing enterprise-class distributed computing to business analytics applications that process “big” data using the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model. Based on more than 18 years of industry leadership in workload management for high performance computing (HPC) applications, Platform Computing’s analytics solutions are a natural expansion of the company’s distributed computing experience built on the company’s core technologies, Platform LSF and Platform Symphony.

Articles Helping SMEs find the tools to tackle the 'Budget for Growth'

29 Mar 2011

Although the Coalition’s budget announced a cut in corporation tax and reduced some of the red tape surrounding businesses, the limited nature of these changes shows little room for manoeuvre. Small businesses will need to continue looking for tools and innovations to help them survive and grow. This includes making intelligent decisions, enabling efficiency and investing wisely in IT.  One particular problem SMBs face is the data explosion and an economical way to harness, store and secure the increasing volumes of data and the expectation that ‘everything can be stored’.

News Origin Storage launches Government grade encrypted portable hard drive

29 Mar 2011

Origin Storage has today announced that DataLocker Inc. received FIPS 140-2 validation certificate #1504 for the DataLocker Enterprise v2.0 encrypted portable hard drive. Issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation program ensures that cryptographic modules meet all government and military standards for data encryption.

Videos Most Power Efficient 10Gb Ethernet Switch

29 Mar 2011

Doug Gourlay and Jeff Hirschman discuss the 7050 switch.

News Scale Computing Enables Mays Chemical to Successfully Execute Affordable Virtualization Project

29 Mar 2011

Scale’s Intelligent Storage Eliminates SMB’s Virtualization Cost Barrier

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, clustered storage solutions that are tailored to the needs of the small and medium-sized businesses (SMB),  today announced that Mays Chemical, a fully integrated chemical distributor, has deployed Scale’s intelligent storage to complete its virtualization project.  Scale’s S-Series, 4TB cluster has delivered a simple, scaleable, VMware Ready™ storage solution.  In addition, Scale’s cost-effective storage, combined with VMware’s vSphere™ Essentials Kit, made Mays Chemical’s virtualization project an economic reality.

News StorageCraft offers enhanced Reseller Partner Programme for 2011

28 Mar 2011

Partners to receive stronger support, more training, better margins and lucrative bonuses tied to quarterly targets.

For over three years StorageCraft® Europe has supported its resellers with a partner programme that improves their profitability and business effectiveness. Today StorageCraft Technology Corporation has announced a new Partner Programme for 2011 that offers Reseller Partners an improved bonus scheme designed to reinforce the direct relationship with each reseller without the need for a regional distributor.

Articles Open Network Automation is Critical to the Virtual Data Center

25 Mar 2011

Mr. Kerravala is a distinguished research fellow at The Yankee Group, leads the Research Council and is chartered with the responsibility of providing thought leadership to the research organization. Comprising senior research leaders, the Research Council provides outreach to clients and the broader Yankee Group community, as well as ensures that the company's research agenda addresses the needs of business leaders. Kerravala drives the strategic thinking of the research organization and helps shape the research direction.

News Scality Partners with Gladinet to Unleash Mass Adoption of Cloud Storage

24 Mar 2011

Gladinet will seamlessly drive customers’ take-up of cloud storage all over the world, leveraging Scality’s vast and worldwide network of StaaS providers, built upon the software vendor’s innovative object-based storage system.

Cloud storage system pioneer Scality has announced a partnership with Gladinet, a leading cloud gateway software vendor, to provide an end-to-end cloud-based storage solution to help drive cloud adoption for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and enterprises with multiple branch offices.

News Brocade Facilitates IPv6 Internet Transformation with Cloud-Optimised Application Delivery Solution

23 Mar 2011

Enables Seamless Adoption of IPv6, Doubles the Performance of Brocade ServerIron ADX Application Delivery Switches, and Optimises Application Visibility Control at No Added Cost

Brocade has announced software release version 12.3 for the Brocade^® ServerIron^® ADX Series of application delivery switches, which enables these platforms to act as a seamless gateway between existing IPv4 networks and new ones built on IPv6. This gateway functionality provides Brocade customers with a pragmatic path to adopt IPv6 technology and support both IPv4 and IPv6 environments simultaneously, offering them a seamless and non-disruptive migration strategy.

News Origin Storage says Canadian health data theft highlights case for multi-layered drive security

22 Mar 2011

Reports from Canada about the theft of a hospital hard drive containing photos and videos of patients shows how easy it is for data drives to go missing in public areas, says Origin Storage.

Videos In conversation with Deb Dutta and Frost & Sullivan on Simplifying the Data Centre

22 Mar 2011

Brocade's data centre strategy and vision; Brocade One vision and VCS/VDX solutions.

News Bott's storage helps boost GKN Driveline's productivity

22 Mar 2011

GKN Driveline has procured and installed new storage products from Bott Ltd, the leading manufacturer of industrial and workplace storage solutions, to improve  workshop facilities for its employees. Set up around three different locations within the plant, an assortment of drawer units, cupboards and workbenches were specified to create an enhanced professional image for staff and visitors.

Deleted Most Power Efficient 10Gb Ethernet Switch

22 Mar 2011

Doug Gourlay and Jeff Hirschman discuss the 7050 switch.

Articles Child’s Play: Why The Data Centre Should Be As Simple As A-B-C

17 Mar 2011

Nearly every large enterprise is struggling to accommodate growing business demands within their existing budgets and infrastructure. The on-going challenge is clear: how to maintain efficiency while data volumes continue to grow at exponential rates – hitting 35 Zettabytes of digital data by 2020¹. With this in mind, enterprises are looking to migrate to virtualised environments to reduce costs, improve quality-of-service (QoS) and make more efficient use of resources. No longer do businesses want to retain racks upon racks of under-utilised servers in a leviathan data centre, consuming huge resources to power/cool, that requires tens of personnel to manage.

News CommScope Introduces Its Enhanced Shielded Solution to the SYSTIMAX® GigaSPEED® X10D Solution Portfolio

17 Mar 2011

CommScope, Inc. has introduced its enhanced shielded solution to the SYSTIMAX® GigaSPEED® X10D Solution portfolio.

Videos Online Gaming Leader Nexon Wins with EMC Avamar and VMware

17 Mar 2011

Multi-million Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) engage gamers in an immersive, multi-sensory experience. For flawless performance, Nexon, the pioneer of interactive gaming software, partners with EMC. Chris Kang, IT Manager at Nexon, describes how Avamar has helped Nexon meet and manage data growth while providing quick and efficient backup and de-duplication for its growing VMware virtualization environment. 

Articles VW goes VoIP - Case Study

16 Mar 2011

Formed in 1999, with locations in Derby and Leicester and annual sales of around 4,500 new and used cars, VW Parkway prides itself on delivering excellent customer service and strives to maximise on all opportunities.

News Seagate raises the bar in enterprise storage: Unveils groundbreaking SSD and HDD solutions

16 Mar 2011

Solutions range from cutting-edge, performance-optimized Pulsar® solid state drives, to performance and capacity-balanced Savvio®, to capacity-optimized Constellation™ 3TB hard drives

Seagate Technology has announced its latest enterprise solutions designed to deliver storage for the widest range of application environments. Joining the industry’s most award-winning enterprise lineup, these solutions include: two new members of the Pulsar® Solid State Drive (SSD) family that deliver the ultimate enterprise performance, endurance and reliability; two next-generation Savvio® 15K and 10K hard disk drives (HDD) optimized for a balance of high performance and capacity; and the latest Constellation™ ES.2 HDD for pure capacity-optimized mass storage needs.

News New Era, New Brand: CommScope Unveils New Identity

16 Mar 2011

Solutions At Home, At Work and On the Go for Customers around the World

The company that began as a small provider of cabling to the nascent cable TV market in the 1970s has blossomed into a multi-billion dollar, global infrastructure leader with solutions installed in the world’s best wireless, wireline, enterprise and cable television networks.  Beginning today, its new branding will better reflect the energy, capabilities and leadership that CommScope provides every day in serving its vast array of customers across multiple markets.

Articles Sysmex America - Case Study

16 Mar 2011

Healthcare Company Achieves 99.999 Percent Availability for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with F5

Sysmex America develops clinical testing devices for the healthcare industry. To ensure business continuity and seamless communication among customers, partners, and employees, Sysmex must keep email systems highly available. 

News Force10 Networks expands carbon credit programme to include its newly offered top-of-rack switches

15 Mar 2011

Customers purchasing S4810 10/40 GbE top-of-rack switches can offset greenhouse gas emissions by receiving carbon credits based on energy consumption for the life of the product

Force10 Networks today announced the expansion of its carbon credit programme to include those customers purchasing selected models of its S-Series 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) top-of-rack (ToR) access switches.  This programme expansion will enable Force10 customers who buy ExaScale virtualised core switch/routers and now the S4810 top-of-rack switch - the industry’s only core-to-edge 40 GbE solution - to receive carbon credits, which offset greenhouse gas emissions associated with the energy consumption of these solutions.  Carbon credits are provided through TerraPass, a leading third-party provider.

News Luxury retailer Radley + Co deploys FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector for both backup and disaster recovery

15 Mar 2011

FlaconStor Software inc. today announced that London-based luxury retailer Radley + Co has deployed FalconStor^® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) to provide both disaster recovery (DR) and backup services.

Videos The Buzz From CeBIT 2011

14 Mar 2011

Stephan Rettenberger and Gareth Spence explore some of the hot topics at this year's CeBIT and find the industry has a lot to talk about, including Agile Core Express, 100G and network automation

News StorageCraft ShadowProtect 4.1 enhances backup and system migration solution to support leading virtualisation platforms

11 Mar 2011

Free Upgrade adds HeadStart Restore capability for latest versions of VMWare ESX/ESXi

StorageCraft Technology Corporation has announced the launch of new 4.1 versions of its ShadowProtect® family that introduces deep compatibility with VMWare ESX, ESXi and VirtualBox 4.0.2 and 4.0.4 environments.

Videos F.A.S.T

10 Mar 2011

Fully automated storage tiering with Oliver Shorey (EMC).

News Raritan Introduces Industry’s Most Secure and Comprehensive Solution for Managing Remote Server Racks and Branch Offices

10 Mar 2011

Enables IT maintenance tasks to be performed securely from anywhere; Management appliance meets stringent industry and government security standards, including FIPS 140-2 encryption and Smart Card/CAC authentication

Raritan today introduced significant enhancements and new security features to the Dominion^® KSX II integrated appliance targeted at companies wanting a single, easy-to-use solution to manage all the IT equipment residing in remote locations in a very secure and responsive way.

News SGI announces ArcFiniti integrated data archive solution

10 Mar 2011

Leading SGI Archive Technology Consolidated Into an Easy-to-Deploy, Fully Integrated Solution

SGI today announced the introduction of SGI ArcFiniti data archive solution, a fully integrated disk-based solution that targets the exploding problem of unstructured, file-based data sprawl.

News LSI to Sell External Storage Systems Business to NetApp for $480 Million

10 Mar 2011

Board Authorises New $750 Million Stock Repurchase Program

LSI Corporation today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its external storage systems business to NetApp, Inc. for $480 million in cash. The company also announced today that its board of directors has authorised a new stock repurchase program of up to $750 million. 

Videos F5 and IBM: Cloud Computing Reference Architecture

09 Mar 2011

Building a dynamic, agile enterprise cloud can be a daunting task. F5 and IBM have created a reference architecture that will accelerate the design and deployment phases and help ensure a successful enterprise cloud architecture.

News Restrictive email policies creating hidden security risks for business

09 Mar 2011

Second part of the Generation Gmail Report by Mimecast reveals that employers must provide flexibility for email users if they are to protect their corporate IP from leaking outside the organisation

Mimecast today announced the second instalment of its Generation Gmail Report; an international study investigating how attitudes to work email use are evolving and the differing ways in which employers are managing this core communication channel.  The report indicates that IT departments are fighting a losing battle in seeking to constrain employees’ behaviour through policy alone. Findings suggest that a new approach is needed in order to empower employees while protecting corporate intellectual property and ensuring the business complies with the relevant regulations.

Videos Increasing Computing Power in the Data Center

08 Mar 2011

Pradeep Sindhu, founder and CTO of Juniper Networks, discusses how with QFabric, the performance of general purpose computers will improve, enabling data centers to scale.

News SmartJog secures, accelerate and ensure the reliability of its worldwide network with Brocade

04 Mar 2011

The leader in global digital media content delivery has adopted a Brocade network solution to enhance file transfer speeds

Brocade has announced that SmartJog, a leading player in digital content delivery over optical fibre and satellite networks, has deployed the Brocade® NetIron® XMR core routers, as part of a major network upgrade to increase network performance and simplify management.

News Cloud Storage Systems trend setter Scality secures $7 million in Series B round funding

02 Mar 2011

CEO Jerome Lecat unveils strategy to embrace the full potential of the Cloud

Cloud storage system pioneer Scality has announced a successful Series B round of funding led by IdInvest Partners (formerly AGF Private Equity) to secure an additional US $7 million. Scality will complement its San Francisco headquarters with an East Coast sales and services office in New York. Furthermore, Scality continues enhancing its unique distributed object-based storage platform, adding full multi-tenancy for Service Providers who want to offer Virtual Private Clouds, and new tiering algorithm for the Private clouds environments.

Videos CNBC Clip: Kevin Johnson Discusses QFabric

01 Mar 2011

CNBC News clip interviews Juniper CEO, Kevin Johnson, who discusses the introduction of QFabric Data Center technology.

News Huawei Symantec partners with Force10 to enhance world-class networked storage solutions across vertical markets

28 Feb 2011

Huawei Symantec Technologies Co., Ltd. has announced a strategic partnership with Force10 Networks.  Together, Huawei Symantec and Force10 Networks will aim to deliver solutions that will increase reliability and decrease costs for customers.  The partnership will combine Huawei Symantec’s expertise in storage hardware and software with Force10 Networks’ best-in-class Ethernet switches to create high performance solutions aimed at strategic vertical markets.

News Juniper Networks introduces QFabric: The foundation of data centres for the next decade

25 Feb 2011

New Paradigm in Data Center Fabric Provides Breakthrough Scale, Speed, Savings and Simplicity to Power the Cloud Computing Era

Juniper Networkshas unveiled QFabric, the world’s first true data center fabric.  An outcome of “Project Stratus,” Juniper’s multiyear data center network research and development initiative, QFabric delivers quantum leap improvements in data center performance, operating cost and business agility, from the enterprise to the large scale cloud provider. Engineered as a simplified, highly scalable data center network solution, QFabric enables a superior approach to building and securing virtualized data centers that eliminates the tradeoff between quality of experience and economics that plagues today’s legacy networks. 

Videos Inflection Point In the Data Center

24 Feb 2011

Pradeep Sindhu, founder and CTO of Juniper Networks, discusses the inflection points in the data center, and the potential of QFabric.

News Independent metal stockholder polishes legacy systems with Talend Integration Suite

23 Feb 2011

Aalco selects open source data management tool to integrate legacy systems

Aalco Metals Ltd., one of the UK’s largest independent metal stockholders, has announced it has selected Talend Integration Suite, an open source data management tool, to fully integrate it existing legacy accounts and trading systems.

News Dundee City Council Boosts Availability of On-line Citizen Services with IBM

23 Feb 2011

New mainframe server and storage solution helps deliver 50% more workload with no increase in IT budget

Dundee City Council, working with IBM has upgraded its IBM mainframe server and storage systems in order to deliver greater value to its citizens whilst also meeting reduced cost targets. They have strengthened a cost effective IT architecture which supports key systems such as social services and the Council’s Web portalwww.dundeecity.gov.uk, and has improved the performance it delivers by 50% on the previous infrastructure. The IT team can now respond more quickly to end user needs and new disaster recovery capabilities allow for all systems to be restored at a back up site within 20 minutes of an incident. 

News Belvedere Trading drives down latency with Force10 in high-frequency trading environment

23 Feb 2011

Force10 Networks, Inc. today announced that Belvedere Trading LLC, a leading proprietary trading firm specialising in equity index and commodity derivatives, has selected and deployed high-performance Force10 S-Series top-of-rack (ToR) switches as part of a successful network design aimed at providing ultra-low latency, which better supports the highly transactional nature of their business.

News Connectria selects Scality to launch a public cloud storage service

22 Feb 2011

Scality’s first ‘Storage as a Service’ customer in North America

Scality today announced that Connectria - one of the longest-standing, most experienced, enterprise-class hosting businesses in North America – has selected Scality RING as the core technology of its new Storage as a Service offering.

News Scott DeWall, Vice President of Worldwide Channel Development at Scale Computing, Recognised as a Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN

22 Feb 2011

Scale Computing has announced that Scott DeWall, vice president of worldwide channel development, has been named a Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN. Channel Chiefs are leaders in creating effective channel programs for solution providers.  They consistently defend, promote and execute effective channel partner programs and strategies.

News NextiraOne Unifies Communications for Ricoh Users Across Europe

21 Feb 2011

New communications system to link 18 countries to improve productivity and accelerate Ricoh’s Green agenda

NextiraOne has reached an agreement with Ricoh Europe, a specialist in office solutions, managed document services and production printing, to deliver Unified Communications in up to 18 countries. The new solution will create a collaborative working environment that will help Ricoh to increase employee productivity, provide enhanced customer services and underpin the company’s environmental vision which is to reduce its carbon impacts by 88% by 2050. View the associated video interview here.

Videos NextiraOne Unifies Communications for Ricoh Users Across Europe

21 Feb 2011

A video interview of Steven Skakel regarding the associated press release earlier today.

Videos RSA2011 - Interview with Jeremiah Grossman

18 Feb 2011

Peter Silva chats with security expert Jeremiah Grossman, Founder & CTO of WhiteHat Security. The interesting discussion touches on WASC, XSS attacks, OWASP and a few other security topics. Fun and informative.

Videos IBM XIV: Reinventing Your Storage Reality

18 Feb 2011

Attractive 5 min. modular flash demo takes you quickly through the "what, why, and how" of IBM XIV Storage and its many benefits

Blog HP's Acquisition of Vertica: Comment by Ingres

17 Feb 2011

Ketan Karia, SVP of Marketing, Ingres writes: "With the acquisition of Vertica, HP joins the list of players such as SAP, IBM and EMC who have recently chosen to invest in DBMS. As Gartner recently noted (MQ for Data Warehouse & DMBS, January 2011), vendors have begun to establish their positions in preparation for a major battle over data warehouse DBMS market share. These strategic moves in the market are based on a simple observation- companies of all sizes are making significant investments in operational analytic solutions as well as operational and predictive Business Intelligence (BI), and the trend is expected to grow exponentially in the future. The impact of BI on enterprises is essential and the DBMS has become an important component of speed and performance in real-time analysis environments where complexity of data and increasing data volumes have to be taken into consideration.”

Videos University of Leeds - Case Study

16 Feb 2011

HP TippingPoint security helps the University of Leeds protect and secure its network, dramatically reducing the number of incidents, freeing up bandwidth and improving network visibility.

Videos Ken Duda on ZTP

16 Feb 2011

Kenneth Duda, Vice President of Software Engineering at Arista Networks, discusses Zero Touch Provisioning

News Raritan Introduces expreZo KVM Switch to Help Small- and Medium-Sized Organizations Cost Effectively Manage IT Equipment

16 Feb 2011

expreZo provides powerful boost to server room manageability  

Raritan today introduced expreZo, a compact, easy-to-use KVM switch designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses simplify server management by providing access and control of multiple servers from a single console.

Videos Xiotech introduces hybrid storage to bridge capacity & performance

16 Feb 2011

Jim McDonald talks a bit about the new product launch at Cloud Expo earlier this month.

News IBM Introduces New Systems to Bring More Efficiency to Data Centers Run Amok

15 Feb 2011

Continues Ongoing Investments in Innovative Workload-Optimized Systems 

IBM today announced workload-optimized systems to help companies manage a range of more demanding workloads that are placing new stresses on already over-taxed data centers.

News F5 Networks Wins Global Technology Innovator Award at VMware Partner Exchange 2011

14 Feb 2011

Partners from around the world take home top honors for delivering VMware virtualization and cloud solutions to companies of all sizes

F5 Networks has announced that it has been recognized by VMware as a winner of a Global VMware Partner Network Award in the Technology Innovator Partner of the Year category. The award was presented at VMware Partner Exchange 2011, VMware’s annual partner event, this week in Orlando.

Videos Brocade Wins Pinnacle Grand Prize at AFP Conference

11 Feb 2011

Jean Furter, Vice President and Treasurer at Brocade, discusses how Brocade become the Pinnacle Grand Prize Winner at this year's AFP Conference.

Videos IT Transformation and the Business Value It Can Create

11 Feb 2011

Kim Stevenson, VP and General Manager, IT Global Operations and Services at Intel Corporation, shares her thoughts on the importance of IT transformation and the business value it can create.

Articles Storage predictions for 2011

10 Feb 2011

Company storage solutions are a hot topic of discussion for the majority of SME and enterprise organisations. Industry analysts, Forrester report that storage capacity requirements are growing 20% to 40% each year, influenced by escalating regulations and recordkeeping requirements. It seems that 2011 will be no different as an increasing number of companies begin to consider their options, their key concerns gravitate towards the varying importance and challenges that virtualisation, data deduplication and cloud computing will propose. With this in mind, we have explored the key topics and what affect they will have on both markets. 

Videos Laureate Institute for Brain Research Depends on Brocade

03 Feb 2011

The Laureate Institute for Brain Research, a multi-disciplinary organization that correlates clinical content, imaging and genetic data of the human brain, has chosen Brocade® solutions to power its new 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) edge-to-core healthcare networks and high-performance computing (HPC) environment. The decision was based on overall network performance, security and quality of service, as well as savings in capital and operational costs.

News Force10 to power Winter Universiade sports competition's network infrastructure in Turkey

02 Feb 2011

Ethernet switches to help power network infrastructure underpinning the 25th Winter Universiade in Turkey

Force10 Networks, Inc. has announced that its C-Series resilient chassis-based switch and its S-Series top-of-rack (ToR) access switch have been selected for deployment at the 25th Winter Universiade Games in Erzurum, Turkey.  The Winter Universiade runs its Olympic-style sports competition from January 27–February 6, 2011.

News Xiotech introduces hybrid storage to bridge capacity & performance

01 Feb 2011

HDD/SSD Hybrid and Tiering Innovations Enable Continuous Adaptive Data Placement Across Storage Media

Xiotech Corporation today announced the newest member of its groundbreaking ISE technology family, Hybrid ISE.  Hybrid ISE combines both hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state disks (SSD) into a hybrid storage pool that delivers consistent high-performance in the face of random and multi-tenant workloads, thanks to Continuous Adaptive Data Placement.

Articles Converging Storage and Data Networks in the Data Center

31 Jan 2011

In typical large data centers, IT managers deploy different types of networks for data and storage networks. Today’s data networks are mostly based on 1GbE, with 10GbE adoption expected to exponentially increase in 2011 and 40GbE/100GbE coming soon after. Enterprise data centers primarily use fiber channel for storage interconnects due to its reliability, performance and lossless operation.

Videos Data Centre World 2011

28 Jan 2011

This year Data Centre World, the UK’s largest and fastest growing exhibition and conference for data centre managers, professionals, distributors and channel partners will deliver more than ever before with more sessions, more theatres and more exhibitors.

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

28 Jan 2011

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

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

Videos EMC talks about Intel Open FCoE

28 Jan 2011

EMC's Paul Brown talks about the qualification of Intel Open FCoE in the EMC E-labs.

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

27 Jan 2011

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

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

Articles A Report On The Force10 Network’s S-Series S4810

27 Jan 2011

Open Industry Network Performance & Power Test for Private/Public Data Center Cloud Computing Ethernet Fabrics Report: Evaluating 10 GbE Switches

To assist IT business leaders with the design and procurement of their private or public data center cloud fabric, the Lippis Report and Ixia have conducted an open industry evaluation of 10GbE data center switches. In this report, IT architects are provided the first comparative 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch (10GbE) performance information to assist them in purchase decisions and product differentiation

Videos Execute a Scalable Environment with HP's Converged Infrastructure

27 Jan 2011

Vision Critical, an online market research software company, uses HP technology to create a converged infrastructure with servers, storage, networking and virtualization.

Videos Brocade Enables Channel to Deliver Ethernet Fabric Technologies

26 Jan 2011

Barbara Spicek, Brocade's VP of Worldwide Channels, talks about the new APN Specializations and how they enable partners to deliver Ethernet fabric-based networking solutions and capitalize on virtualization and cloud opportunities.

News StorageCraft ShadowProtect Named Finalist for Storage Product of the Year

26 Jan 2011

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

Videos BIG-IP APM & Citrix XenApp

25 Jan 2011

Watch how F5 customers can now simply use BIG-IP APM to consolidate access control in a central location, keeping infrastructure administration concerns to a minimum. With BIG-IP solutions, customers enjoy the flexibility and scalability needed to extend Citrix applications to both local and remote users without changing local XenApp deployments or requiring STA to provide secure remote access to applications.

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

24 Jan 2011

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

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

Articles British American Tobacco

24 Jan 2011

British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) is the world’s second largest tobacco group, with 300 different brands sold in more than 180 markets. The company was founded over 100 years ago, but its use of IT is right up to date.

Videos Customer Video: Cox Communications

19 Jan 2011

Hear EMC customer, Cox Communications, discuss how new VMAX features helps their business

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

18 Jan 2011

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

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

Videos Customer Video: De Novo Software

18 Jan 2011

De Novo Software has been developing flow cytometer data analysis solutions since 1998. Things began quite innocently, when the President and founder, David Novo, while doing research using flow cytometry, was looking for flow analysis software to use for his own analysis. There wasn’t a product that met his needs at that time. Being the resourceful person that he is, he set out to create his own. When he had completed his data analysis program, other people in his lab liked what they saw, and said that they would use his product if he would add a few new features. This is how FCS Express Version 1 was created.

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

18 Jan 2011

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

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

Videos ESG and Quantum StorNext White Paper

17 Jan 2011

Meeting Unstructured Data Storage Requirements Across the Data Lifecycle with Scale-Out Storage

Articles Quantum StorNext - White Paper

17 Jan 2011

Meeting Unstructured Data Storage Requirements Across the Data Lifecycle with Scale-Out Storage.

Videos Non-Stop Campus Networking

14 Jan 2011

Jared Valentine, Senior Systems Engineer at Brocade, talks about Campus Networking.

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

12 Jan 2011

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

Articles Financial Services – The VIPs of Data Centre Networking

07 Jan 2011

Communication and data are the backbone of the global capital markets industry. In today’s Matrix world, financial services transactions happen not between people, but between servers. The extent of these communications enacted virtually - at the network edge - account for more than 99% of all financial services’ exchanges and correspondence. Ensuring that data arrives with minimal, deterministic and “fair” latency, therefore, is vital. Financial institutions, however, are increasingly faced with the challenge of deploying a network which champions “zero latency” and high throughput at the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO). 

Videos Choosing a deduplication strategy: HP Deduplication Solutions

07 Jan 2011

Explosive data growth is making data deduplication one of the hottest topics around. HP offers a variety of deduplication solutions which suit a range of performance and cost requirements.

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

06 Jan 2011

Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

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

News Isilon enables Hibbert Ralph Animation to increase production efficiency

05 Jan 2011

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

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

News Victorian government selects monitoring and management platform

23 Dec 2010

CenITex, the Victorian government’s shared-services IT agency, has selected BMC Software for its operations monitoring and management platform.

News CommScope and Cisco Prove 40 Gb/s Ecosystem Ready for Data Center Deployment at Supercomputing 2010

10 Dec 2010

CommScope’s SYSTIMAX LazrSPEED fiber solutions and Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 Series Switch demonstrate interoperability for 10 and 40 Gb/s Ethernet technology

As member organizations participating in the Ethernet Alliance booth, CommScope, Inc. and Cisco Systems, Inc. recently showcased the industry’s first-ever public demonstration of interoperability between 10, 40 and 100 gigabits per second (Gb/s) higher speed Ethernet (HSE) sub-systems at last month’s Supercomputing 2010 in New Orleans, LA. 

Videos Customer Video: People's Republic of Animation (PRA)

08 Dec 2010

PRA is an award-winning animation house in Australia, with many titles under their belt. Seagate provides capacity for their high data throughput.

News Isilon helps West Nottinghamshire College simplify storage management for 26,000 staff and students

07 Dec 2010

Isilon Channel Partner Khipu Networks Limited Deploys Isilon Scale-Out Storage to Consolidate Data Management for Leading United Kingdom College, Reducing IT Costs and Complexity

Isilon today announced that West Nottinghamshire College, one of the largest providers of post-16 education in the United Kingdom, has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to consolidate its data storage environment, simplifying data management for 26,000 staff and students. 

News Oracle delivers refresh of SPARC Enterprise Server product line

03 Dec 2010

Demonstrating its commitment to the SPARC platform, Oracle has expanded the SPARC platform by announcing a SPARC Solaris-based Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud T3-1B engineered system and a complete refresh of the SPARC server product line.

Videos Tim Burke on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

03 Dec 2010

New version of systems management solution enables organisations to more easily manage the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating platform; Offers improvements in subscription management, compliance and content management.

News Tupperware readies for Christmas rush with IBM POWER7 technology

01 Dec 2010

IBM Power 750 servers provide platform for future increased IT infrastructure needs.

News Dell PowerEdge server platforms deliver maximum performance For Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)

30 Nov 2010

PowerEdge servers help the largest U.S. options exchange improve performance and lower latency while handling mission-critical applications.

Articles Data Center Transformation

29 Nov 2010

Data centers today are undergoing a dramatic shift in terms of the design objectives, technology options and configurations, and functional requirements. The combination of increasing service and availability requirements, continued data growth, and capacity constraints is placing substantial pressure on organizations to adopt new approaches to accommodate current and future business needs.

News Yunnan Copper picks Juniper for data center upgrade

25 Nov 2010

Yunnan Copper Industry (Group) Co Ltd has migrated data center network to switches, routers and security devices running the Junos® operating system. Deployment of Juniper Networks® EX4200 Ethernet Switches, SRX3600 Service Gateways and M10i Multiservice Edge Routers enables Yunnan Copper to scale its data center operations and provide improved services to its branch offices and subsidiaries.

Articles 10 CRM Lessons from 2010

24 Nov 2010

Having a more sophisticated approach to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is fundamental to a businesses' sustainability and progress. It not only prioritises the importance of the end-user in the supply chain; it ensures complete visibility and control of the management processes needed to address customers’ needs efficiently and accurately. Paul Elswood of CDC Software, MD, CDC Software UK & Ireland describes his top 10 CRM lessons which have been learnt from 2010 and how to move forward in 2011.

News nlyte Software Closes USD 12 Million Series C Funding

24 Nov 2010

Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Leader to Use Investment to Meet Rapidly Increasing Global Demand

nlyte Software has announced that it has received USD 12 million in Series C funding.  Led by NGEN Partners, the new capital will be used for expansion of operations, acceleration of product development, strengthening of the partner ecosystem and the continued attraction of world class talent.

Videos Brocade Reports Record-setting Q4 FY10 Earnings

23 Nov 2010

Brocade announced its Q4 FY10 financial results, an all-time record for the company in terms of revenue, representing an increase of over nine percent quarter-over-quarter. Brocade attributed the record performance to a number of factors including an all-time company high in revenue for its Ethernet business which is composed of products and services.

Videos University of California Irvine

23 Nov 2010

University of California Irvine gets 45% more research done with Dell and Intel HPC cluster

News Fujitsu upgrades Broadcast Management System for Shizuoka Telecasting

17 Nov 2010

Shizuoka Telecasting has upgraded its broadcast management system, which handles all television programming and advertising content, as well as broadcast scheduling, using Fujitsu's cutting-edge platform products. The new system delivers both the high reliability and quality essential in mission-critical systems, and includes early-warning indicators for operational problems, enhancing the system's ability to offer 24x7 stability.

News Juniper Networks introduces the next-generation core router for the new network

17 Nov 2010

Juniper Networks has introduced its next-generation and the industry's fastest core routing platform that delivers breakthrough levels of performance with the new network economics necessary to support service provider business models into the next decade. Juniper Networks® T4000 Core Router, powered by the Junos® operating system, provides the scalability and flexibility required to meet rapidly expanding bandwidth requirements, while extending the unprecedented investment protection of the T Series platform, the most widely deployed core routing platform in the world.

News Boston Limited announces the launch of their next-generation SuperFlex Blade™

16 Nov 2010

Boston Limited, now in its 18th year as a distribution partner for Silicon Valley-based Super Micro Computer, Inc. today has formally announced the launch of their next generation of blade server solutions, the groundbreaking new Boston SuperFlex Blade™

News Boston Limited Launch their latest SmartCluster M Series based on Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

15 Nov 2010

Boston Limited, now in its 18th year as a distribution partner for silicon valley based Super Micro Computer, Inc, today has formally announced the launch of their latest generation of Microsoft HPC Server 2008 R2-based SmartCluster M Series portable blade solutions.

Videos Brocade & EMC

11 Nov 2010

Pat Gelsinger, President and COO, Information & Products at EMC talks about the advantages of adopting Brocades new Strategy One.

News Force10 Launches New Open Automation Products for Virtualised Data Centres to Boost Productivity and Lower Costs

10 Nov 2010

Force10 Pioneers An Alternative to Proprietary Approaches to Network Automation

Force10Networks today announced new functionality for its innovative network automation solutions designed to provide additional flexibility, availability and manageability as well as lower operational costs in today’s data centre environments.  Force10’s new SmartScripts software enhances network reliability and improves management by providing a scripting environment for Force10 switching platforms.  Also, Force10 announced that its HyperLink software now supports automated VM/VLAN migration in VMware and Citrix environments to help ensure improved network connectivity and security.

News Dutch IT Service Provider deploys Cisco's Unified Computing system

04 Nov 2010

Previder (formerly Introweb BV), a provider of virtual services to the IT specialist, software vendor and Internet service provider (ISP) sectors, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System in its data centers. By adopting the Cisco technology, Previder can now offer its partners new and competitive IT solutions such as Web hosting, streaming media servers, DNS and mail servers, faster than ever before while reducing its physical server count by 94 per cent (from 30 racks down to just 2).

News Force10 announces industry first 40 Gigabit Ethernet for converged, high performance & automated data centres

03 Nov 2010

New S-Series 10/40 GbE top-of-rack switch and 40 GbE line card for the ExaScale core switch/router increases bandwidth from the data centre edge to the core by 4x and simplifies the network

Force10 Networks has announced an end-to-end 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40 GbE) solution designed to bring increased performance while delivering network simplicity to converged data centres.  For the data centre edge, Force10 is launching the S-Series S4810 10/40 GbE top-of-rack (ToR) switch, while for the network core, it is announcing the new 40 GbE line card for its ExaScale virtualised core switch/router.

News Wavenet selects Discus Systems and StorageCraft to protect critical data with innovative business continuity solution

01 Nov 2010

StorageCraft based solution offering 15 minute recovery selected following accidental record deletion causes significant operational issues

StorageCraft has announced details of a successful project at Wavenet, a voice and data communications specialist that is helping to protect critical data with a 15 minute recovery window.

News Brocade and Partner Ecosystem To Take London by Storm

29 Oct 2010

Dell, EMC, HP, Fujitsu and IBM join Brocade’s CMO and VP product marketing in discussing how to embrace the virtual data centre 

Brocade has announced more information on the Brocade Conference, which will take place on 1-2 December at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London.  Join over 1,500 other delegates across EMEA to hear Brocade outline its vision for the virtualised data centre and innovations that will transform the networking landscape.

Videos UDS N Interview with Mark Shuttleworth

29 Oct 2010

UDS N Amber Graner interviews Mark Shuttleworth

News Oracle invests in Mellanox

28 Oct 2010

Oracle has made a strategic investment in Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage systems, to further align product vision and maximize partnership efforts.

News Scality Partners with CommVault to Offer Complete Data Management Based on Cloud Storage Software

26 Oct 2010

Scality RING object storage platform enables private and public cloud storage deployments and now supports backup from CommVault Simpana

Scality and CommVault announced today a technology partnership. Enterprises throughout Europe are now in a position to set up a full, in-house backup and data management solution benefiting from CommVault’s groundbreaking Simpana software and Scality’s massively scalable, always available object storage platform, Scality RING. Web hosts already using Scality RING to facilitate public cloud storage can now offer a strong backup product offering with CommVault.

Videos Iron Mountain's New Enterprise Discovery Suite

26 Oct 2010

Join Iron Mountain experts as they discuss how automating and integrating governance and discovery processes can transform an organization.

News Force10 announces support for Oracle virtualisation solutions based on Open Automation Framework

25 Oct 2010

Oracle-supported software illustrates continued delivery of solutions based on Force10’s Open Automation Framework

Force10 Networks today announced plans to build network automation solutions that support Oracle VM server for x86 virtualisation software and Oracle Linux.  Force10 will help ensure interoperability and complementary virtualisation of network resources as they develop virtualisation solutions based on their Open Automation Framework while utilising the functionality of Oracle VM and Oracle Linux.

News Gartner identifies seven major CEO concerns CIOs should address

22 Oct 2010

With the increased reliance on IT from business leaders, it’s important for CIOs to understand the concerns of CEOs and the implications they may have on IT, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts have outlined the seven major concerns from CEOs that CIOs should address.

Videos Arista Networks at IP Expo

22 Oct 2010

Andy Bechtolsheim, Chairman & Chief Development Officer at Arista Networks, talks to us from IP Expo 2010 in London.

News Brocade Provides First Integrated Converged Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter

22 Oct 2010

IBM BladeCenter Customers Benefit from Unified Switch and Adapter for End-to-End SAN/LAN Connectivity

Brocade today announced that it will be offering the first fully converged embedded 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch module and Converged Network Adapter (CNA) designed specifically for IBM BladeCenter server environments. The new converged switch module and CNA provide IBM BladeCenter customers with increased bandwidth through higher-density 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and 10 GbE port count, investment protection of their existing servers, and reduced hardware costs, along with unmatched flexibility and the scalability to grow.

News Buckeye Telesystem relies On Force10 Networks

21 Oct 2010

Telecommunications provider selects ExaScale E-Series® core switch/router to ensure the scalable delivery of wireless backhaul and next-generation data services.

Blog Event: The Content Crisis- Driving Down Customer Acquisition Costs

21 Oct 2010

Justin Pirie writes: It’s been a little while since I’ve posted on this blog- but I felt it was time to give an events update as there is some really good stuff happening and readers don’t seem to be getting the best of me these days…

Videos Brent Akeson, national credit manager, Adidas, Canada

21 Oct 2010

Brent Akeson, national credit manager, adidas Canada, speaks to SunGard about the need for Transparency, Efficiency and Networks at Toronto City Day 2010.

News New Points of Presence in Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia

20 Oct 2010

Global Crossing has expanded its premier IP-based global network to datacenter facilities in Sofia, Bulgaria; Bucharest, Romania; and Bratislava, Slovakia.  The expansion will enable each data center’s tenants to easily access Global Crossing's network services to support their IP and data networking requirements.

Articles Force10 Networks Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure

19 Oct 2010

The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership(TCO) — as well as being the focal point for green IT initiatives.

News Buckeye Telesystem Relies On Force10 Networks Switch/Routers For High Performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet Core Network

19 Oct 2010

Telecommunications provider selects ExaScale E-Series® core switch/router to ensure the scalable delivery of wireless backhaul and next-generation data services

Force10 Networks has announced that Buckeye TeleSystem has selected its ExaScale™ E-Series® core switch/router and S-Series™ access switches to power the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) core of its telecommunications infrastructure, which delivers voice and data services to more than 7,500 businesses in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.

Videos Force10 Networks at Oracle OpenWorld 2010

19 Oct 2010

Force10 Networks at Oracle OpenWorld 2010. 
Paul Nathan describes Force10's Open Automation Framework

News Fujitsu seals server and storage deal with China Mobile

15 Oct 2010

China Mobile Communications Corporation, the country's largest mobile phone carrier with 550 million subscribers, has purchased over 500 units of Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise UNIX servers and ETERNUS disk storage systems, worth up to US$50 million. This is the largest-ever platform products-related contract for Fujitsu in China.

Articles Oracle’s Optimized Solution for Oracle Database — A Business White Paper

14 Oct 2010

Virtually all IT organizations in both the private and the public sectors use a database system at the core of their operations. These databases are integral to day-to-day operations. If they are not available around the clock it will have a significant detrimental effect on business and in some cases the safety of employees.

News Platform Computing and Excelian partner to deliver high performance analytics for financial services

14 Oct 2010

On-demand trading and risk applications for organisations seeking to avoid traditional cost and scalability constraints

Platform Computing today reinforced its strategic partnership with Excelian, a leading Murex, OpenLink, Grid and High Performance Computing (HPC) consulting company, to deliver high performance analytics as a new service.  Based on Platform Symphony, the world’s leading SOA grid middleware, Excelian’s service offering enables Financial Services customers to securely and seamlessly scale compute capabilities for risk and trading analytics without the cost and time required to acquire servers, network bandwidth or administrative staff.

News Al-Nahdi Medical Company ‘Switches’ to Brocade’s High-Performance Network Infrastructure to Support Aggressive Expansion Plan

12 Oct 2010

Leading Saudi Arabia Based Pharmacy Chain Seeks to Drive Business Efficiency and Application Performance.

News Cisco and Slumberland Inc. to Showcase Use of Cisco Data Center Solutions for Retail Industry

12 Oct 2010

Live IPTV Broadcast to Highlight Slumberland Inc.'s Deployment of Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco MDS Storage Director and Microsoft Virtualization.

News Force10 Networks Broadens Reseller Agreement With IBM

12 Oct 2010

S-Series™ S60 top-of-rack Gigabit Ethernet access switch now certified on IBM iDataPlex solutions

Force10 Networks today announced that its S-Series™ S60 access switch has been certified to interoperate with IBM's iDataPlex servers and clusters. By certifying the S60 top-of-rack (ToR) GbE switch for integration with iDataPlex technology, IT managers can now leverage Force10’s open network automation functionality to gain greater data center efficiency and agility. IBM plans to provide support for the S60 and the Force10 ExaScale™ virtualized core switch/routers.

Videos IT Efficiency and Services

11 Oct 2010

Customers reveal how they streamlined the process of design and deployment by working with Dell Services to implement customized IT solutions. Technical officers and executives from the European Patent Office, HotSchedules, Pensions First, Data Guard Systems, Cadence Design Systems, salesforce.com, Renewable Energy systems (RES) and Lotus Racing talk about how expertise and business-ready solutions from Dell increased efficiency over the whole IT lifecycle, enabling them to focus on business innovation.

News IBM Announces New Storage Systems Designed to Increase Efficiency

08 Oct 2010

Optimised for Workloads such as Transaction Processing & Analytics Continues to Invest in Storage Innovation to Help Clients Speed Delivery of Data for New Workloads.

Blog Are our global networks secure?

07 Oct 2010

Gareth Spence writes: This is a question that many of us perhaps take for granted. When was the last time you considered the security of your data as you transferred money online or emailed sensitive information to work colleagues? Personally, I rarely consider the risk that someone may be intercepting this data. At least I didn’t until now.

Videos Ravensbourne Chooses Cisco to Transform New Campus Ahead of London 2012

07 Oct 2010

Chris Thompson, head of enterprise and innovation at Ravensbourne talking about their plans for 2012 and the Cisco Borderless Network.

News New solutions simplify deployment, improve security and accelerate performance of applications

06 Oct 2010

HP has announced new Converged Infrastructure solutions in networking, security and scalable computing that significantly enhance the delivery of application services to business.

Videos Control Your Environment: HP BladeSystem Matrix

06 Oct 2010

Customers describe how to unlock IT efficiencies, consolidates power management and transform business with the HP Blade System Matrix.

News Force10 Introduces High Performance 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet Top-of-Rack Switch

06 Oct 2010

S55 switch offers non-blocking performance, energy efficient design and advanced network automation features for dynamic data center environments

Force10 Networks today announced the extension of its S-Series™ family with the new S55 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) top-of-rack (ToR) access switch. Optimized for data center environments, the new S55 provides a resilient and energy-efficient hardware design that delivers non-blocking, line-rate switching performance as well as support for the Force10 Open Automation Framework to make virtualized data center environments more responsive and manageable.

News IBM to acquire BLADE Network Technologies

05 Oct 2010

Technology to further optimize IBM servers for cloud computing, analytics and other new workloads.

News EMC delivers integrated backup products

05 Oct 2010

EMC has announced the availability of new EMC® NetWorker® backup software integrated with EMC Data Domain® Boost software.  The integration of these products dramatically increases backup speeds and simplifies configuration and management.  The NetWorker Management Console now offers control for the full range of Data Domain system functionality, including Data Domain replication for scheduling and monitoring of backups at all sites.  EMC also announced new productivity enhancements for NetWorker users, such as checkpoint restart, simplified cloning and new disk load balancing and space management capabilities.

News i/o Data Centers maintains always-on availability

01 Oct 2010

Leading provider of colocation and data center services, i/o Data Centers (“i/o”) is using BMC Software’s (NASDAQ: BMC) Service Desk Express Suite to help maintain its commitment of being always-on during a time of phenomenal growth and heavy demand.

News Siemon products support new IEEE 802.3ba Ethernet standard

30 Sep 2010

The recently ratified IEEE 802.3ba Standard specifies 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet applications for deployment over optical fibre cabling and high speed interconnect assemblies.

Videos Data Center Management & Storage Technologies: SAS Integration, RAID

30 Sep 2010

Data Center management and storage technologies coming to Intel's Romley platform. Integration of SAS via Patsburg and next generation RAID are discussed by Clive D'Souza, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Intel Storage Group.

Articles Firewall Cleanup

29 Sep 2010

Firewalls are designed to provide access control. Although there is risk associated with any access, by limiting what access is permitted the risk is limited and understood and can be evaluated against business need to effectively justify the risk. However, poor firewall management defeats this purpose by ineffectively controlling access and limiting visibility into what access is actually permitted; poor management also increases the cost associated with security management.

Videos Treasury Centralisation at Goodrich Corporation

29 Sep 2010

Jeannot Jonas, director of global treasury operations at Goodrich Corporation, explains how AvantGard Treasury helps companies to achieve the goal of having a single system in place that can handle all treasury functions, while offering connectivity with banks, money market portals, cash management portals and foreign exchange portals.

News Optimising global online trading

28 Sep 2010

Capital Fund Management (CFM), a Paris-based global financial investment management company, has deployed a "new network" data center running the Junos® operating system to optimize its global trading infrastructure.

News Simplification and consolidation

28 Sep 2010

HP has announced integrated solutions that simplify operations and accelerate IT resource consolidation, enabling clients to streamline their delivery of mission-critical application services.

News PLug and play data centres

28 Sep 2010

Panduit is partnering with IBM to bring large modular, plug and play data centres to market.

Videos See What's New in HP StorageWorks

28 Sep 2010

Introducing the HP StorageWorks P9500 Disk Array, which raises the bar with next-generation storage while lowering the cost of mission-critical storage.

News Magirus opens up European SME data centre market with launch of vBundles

28 Sep 2010

Lower price point allows resellers to address wider section of the data centre and cloud-based computing market.

Magirus has launched across Europe its vBundle unified data centre offers, aimed specifically at the Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) data centre market. The competitively-priced vBundles comprise a series of industry-leading computing, network, storage and data management technologies from VMware, Cisco and EMC, all integrated and pre-configured for resellers.

Videos VTB 24 Chooses Oracle Database -- the Market Standard

27 Sep 2010

The existing solution for its collections department did not meet VTB24’s needs; after evaluation, the bank chose Oracle Siebel, which was implemented in 3 months. Now it is perceived to be the market standard.

Articles Too much data can mean insecure data storage is the result

27 Sep 2010

Data exists in many forms in most organisations and, as IT managers find to their annoyance when they start trying to archive that data in a coherent manner, its sheer volume can often be overwhelming.

Videos Aurecon Manages Email Continuity & Spam with Mimecast

27 Sep 2010

South Africa poses challenges of high cost of bandwidth combined with spam attacks and power outages. Aurecon manages email high availability and spam issues in the cloud using Mimecast. Aurecon executives can now access email anywhere in the world even when the email system is down. Email Continuity, Email Security, Email Archiving, Bandwidth, Anti-Spam

Videos Force10 Networks Interview @ 360ºIT 2010

24 Sep 2010

Steve Garrison and Michael Augustine from Force10 Networks talk at 360ºIT 2010

Videos Avocent Interview from 360ºIT

24 Sep 2010

Ian Paul UK Channel Manager from Avocent speaks at 360ºIT

News Oracle outlines next major release of Oracle Solaris

23 Sep 2010

Oracle Solaris 11 Express to include advanced technology features and new Partner Program – paving the way for Oracle Solaris 11 in 2011.

Videos Data Center Interviews with Intel and Cisco

21 Sep 2010

Intel and Cisco experts discuss their data center offerings and what they mean for partners and customers.

News New technology to cut storage costs by up to 70 per cent

20 Sep 2010

City of London shows SMEs the way, choosing Intelligent Clustered Storage™ for the London Metropolitan Archive

The cost of data storage for UK SMEs drops dramatically this week as Scale Computing makes its third-generation storage solutions available in the UK and Europe.

News Brocade introduces Unified Network Management Platform

17 Sep 2010

The Brocade Network Advisor is a new platform that provides a single, easy-to-use management solution across Brocade Fibre Channel SANs, IP networks, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks, wireless networks and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks.

Videos PeopleSoft with F5's BIG-IP Web Acceleration & WAN Optimization

17 Sep 2010

In this side by side demo, you will see PeopleSoft users accessing the Human Capital Management application, both with and without acceleration from F5 Networks. How to accelerate Oracle PeopleSoft for remote users with both WAN and WEB optimization from F5's BIG-IP.

News Teradata-DataFlux Collaboration Helps Companies Better Manage Rising Data Volumes

16 Sep 2010

New initiative combines Teradata enterprise intelligence systems with DataFlux data quality technologies for master data management

DataFlux and Teradata today announced a partnership agreement for the Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region which will integrate DataFlux data quality technology in Teradata data warehousing and master data management (MDM) environments. The solution is a joint offering that will enable organisations to more effectively manage growing volumes of detailed enterprise data accurately, reliably and consistently.

News Cisco expands data centre portfolio

15 Sep 2010

Cisco has introduced Unified Network Services, which are designed to deliver any network service in any environment and in any form factor, and Unified Fabric and Unified Computing enhancements to deliver increased deployment flexibility, simplicity and cost-effectiveness. Cisco also unveiled new professional services that help partners and customers realize the full value of their Cisco Data Center Business Advantage investments.

Videos Health Care Data Storage

14 Sep 2010

Dr. Todd Rowland of Bloomington Hospital talks about his utilization of Scale Computing's Generation 3.0 Storage Solutions

Articles How Operations Management & Intelligence Helped the Makers of Pom Bears Improve Factory Productivity, Efficiency and Costs

13 Sep 2010

Intersnack is a leading European snack manufacturer, best known in the UK for its Pom-Bear, Penn State Pretzel and Mr Mash brands. Over the last year it has significantly improved the operational efficiency of two of its factories in the Netherlands following a review of factory processes. The cost saving and productivity gains were so significant that Intersnack is now going to install the same factory management solution, CDC Factory, into 10 more factories across Europe.

Videos Private Cloud Security

13 Sep 2010

Nirav Mehta, Director of Strategy and Technology, RSA, the Security Division of EMC discusses the new solutions for Cloud compliance and security.

News Isislon accelerates time-to-market for media and broadcast production

10 Sep 2010

ABC, Clear Channel, CTV, Dailymotion, Lightstorm Entertainment, NBC Universal, Orange, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Travel Channel and Turner Studios Among Leading Media and Broadcast Companies Using Isilon Scale-Out Storage to Simplify Content Management and Reduce Costs

From the International Broadcasters Conference (IBC), Isilon today announced that ABC, Clear Channel, CTV, Dailymotion, Lightstorm Entertainment, NBC Universal, Orange, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Travel Channel and Turner Studios are among leading media and broadcast companies using Isilon scale-out storage to simplify content management for media production workflows, reducing costs and accelerating time-to-market.

News China Mobile Shaanxi selects Juniper Networks for data center network

09 Sep 2010

The Shaanxi provincial arm of China Mobile has upgraded its Internet data center with Juniper's New Network based on the Junos® operating system to ensure the subscriber experience and improve the economics of the rapidly growing network. The deployment of Juniper Networks' routers, switches and security solutions provides China Mobile Shaanxi with a high-performance, low-latency and energy-efficient data center fabric with ample scalability and security to meet the expanding bandwidth and service delivery needs of their subscribers.

Videos Customer Video: Fritz Egger

08 Sep 2010

FRITZ EGGER was running 16 separate SAP ERP environments, supporting a total of 2,000 users, on proprietary HP Alpha servers running HP True64 UNIX. The company had for some time wanted to move away from this proprietary hardware and software combination, both to reduce long-term costs and to free itself from reliance on a single vendor. When HP announced that the Alpha range was to be discontinued, FRITZ EGGER decided to actively seek out a new infrastructure for its SAP software.

Deleted Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter

08 Sep 2010

As data volumes grow and budgets shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. StorageTek tape drive and tape library solutions from Oracle provide the answer, helping companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power, floor space, and operating costs.

News Force10 unplugs the competition in data centre energy consumption; It's switch/routers consume up to 52% less power than largest competitor

08 Sep 2010

Independent testing by The Tolly Group shows the significant advantage Force10 offers over Cisco and Juniper for data centres looking to earn an Energy Star rating or implementing energy-efficiency measures to lower power and cooling costs.

Force10 today announced that its ExaScale E-Series chassis-based core switch/router consumed significantly less power than comparable Cisco and Juniper switches based on independent tests conducted by The Tolly Group and compared to vendor-published data. This demonstrated power savings advantage in both Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10 GbE line-rate switching configurations enables data centres to lower energy consumption and related costs, and can contribute toward earning the recently announced data centre Energy Star rating.

News Higbie forecasts for the future of data centres at DatacenterExpo in Düsseldorf

07 Sep 2010

Infrastructure thought leader and data centre expert, Carrie Higbie of Siemon, is due to speak on the topic of the changing face of the data centre in light of new technologies at the forthcoming DatacenterExpo event in Düsseldorf on 17 September 2010. Her talk will focus on the impact of cloud computing, virtualisation, consolidation and higher bandwidth demand technologies on the data centre environment.

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

03 Sep 2010

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

Videos VMworld 2010 - Compellent and CommVault

03 Sep 2010

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

Videos TBD Networks - Analyze & Act Demo

03 Sep 2010

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

News Cisco announces intent to acquire Arch Rock

02 Sep 2010

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately held Arch Rock Corporation, a pioneer in Internet Protocol-based wireless network technology for smart-grid applications. Based in San Francisco, Arch Rock will accelerate Cisco's ability to facilitate the utility industry's transition to an open and interoperable smart grid by enabling Cisco to offer a comprehensive and highly secure advanced metering infrastructure solution that is fully IP and open-standards based.

News TX deploys Juniper Networks end-to-end networking solution

02 Sep 2010

STX Corporation, one of Korea's leading conglomerates, has deployed a complete high-performance networking solution running on the Junos® operating system at a new state-of-the-art office block near key production facilities in Kyungnam region. Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches and SRX Series Services Gateways installed in the STX Institute of Technology enable STX to increase organizational agility and scale operations while maintaining low operational overheads.

News Datalink awarded $8 million project by global consulting and software company

01 Sep 2010

Datalink has been awarded an $8 million project with a Midwestern global IT consulting and software company. Datalink will optimize this client's disaster recovery (DR) capabilities via disk-based, site-to-site replication technologies. In addition, Datalink will consolidate and virtualize this client's data center storage infrastructure, making it more agile and easier to manage. In addition to hardware and software, this award includes Datalink professional services and customer support.

News Mellanox InfiniBand selected by Goethe University of Frankfurt to accelerate vast range of scientific applications

31 Aug 2010

Mellanox® Technologies' industry-leading end-to-end 40Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity products, including ConnectX®-2 (LoM) adapters, IS5030 and IS5035 switches and cables, provide the high-performance server and storage networking for Goethe University’s Hessian high-performance computer (HHLR-GU) “LOEWE-CSC” supercomputer.

Videos Junos Connect: Video 8

31 Aug 2010

Junos Connect is your community-based video source for all things Junos. Highlighting some new features of Junos 10.3.

Videos Eliminate Idle Redundancy in Your Data Center

30 Aug 2010

Everyone needs a disaster recovery plan. The challenge with typical DR plans is that investments in your standby databases sit idle waiting for disaster to strike. John Brust, of Oracle, takes us through how to provide disaster recovery and eliminate idle redundancy in your data center using Oracle Active Data Guard

Videos City of Griffin On Its New Network Architecture

27 Aug 2010

Hear from Jack Poland, Director of IT for City of Griffin, GA on how his new network architecture and VM deployment has helped the city improve responsiveness and provide higher return on network investment.

Articles Data Centre Virtualisation: Context is Crucial

25 Aug 2010

Virtualisation has rapidly become one of the key foundation stones for operations teams as they look to realise greater data centre efficiencies. One of the main reasons for this is that virtualisation allows consolidation. Single physical systems can support multiple platforms at the same time, hence operating expenses are reduced. Owen Cole, Technical Director, F5 Networks writes.

Articles Shared Data Centres: The Application Delivery Solution Approach

25 Aug 2010

The US government recently announced one of the largest data centre consolidation projects ever. When complete, more than 1,100 data centres across the country will be consolidated into a smaller number of extremely large data centres. It is thought UK public sector organisations will follow this lead.

News Kooperativa Förbundet Signs New Services Agreement with HP

25 Aug 2010

HP Enterprise Services has announced that Kooperativa Förbundet (KF), one of the leading supermarket companies in Sweden, has extended its existing relationship with Hewlett-Packard Sverige AB by signing a new five-year infrastructure services agreement. The new contract is designed to reduce complexity and improve the efficiency of KF’s technology environment.

News USA.net simplifies compliance and e-Discovery with Isilon

25 Aug 2010

Leading Provider of Hosted Email and Email Compliance Solutions Uses Isilon Scale-Out Storage to Consolidate VMware Environment, Simplifying Virtual Server Management and Reducing Costs

Isilon today announced that USA.NET has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its Message Archival solutions. USA.NET’s rapid business growth required a move to a more efficient and flexible virtual environment that could ingest, parse, index and archive hundreds of millions of small files. Leveraging Isilon’s X-Series powered by the OneFS® operating system, USA.NET's Archival Services group consolidated its VMware-based servers and file-based storage onto a single file system, simplifying both data and virtual server management.

Articles Northern Rail - Case Study

24 Aug 2010

Serving a population of nearly 15 million people, Northern Rail plays a vital role in the northern region of England by connecting tens of thousands of those people everyday to their places of work, leisure, education, and more. It is owned by a 50:50 joint venture between Serco Group plc, the international services company, and Abellio, a subsidiary of NS Dutch Railways. Northern Rail was formed in December 2004 when those parent companies won the franchise contract, awarded by the UK Government, to operate train services in the north of England until September 2013.

Videos Consolidating a trading platform for global multi-market trading

24 Aug 2010

OCBC Securities' Hui Yew Ping describes the trends impacting SE Asia and how SunGard is helping his firm deliver a one-touch trading point to its customers across South East Asia.

News Stanford University accelerates research on solar variability

19 Aug 2010

The Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory Solar Observatories Group at Stanford University has selected SGI server and storage infrastructure to support the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) group's critical research on the origin of solar variability. The SDO strives to understand the characteristics of the Sun's interior and the components of its magnetic activity to help forecast space weather, and relies on SGI's technology to receive, process and archive massive amounts of data.

Articles Quality cabling infrastructure gives Yorkshire Water information on tap

19 Aug 2010

Yorkshire Water is the principal UK subsidiary of Kelda Group plc and provides water and waste water services to more than 4.7 million people and 140,000 businesses throughout the Yorkshire and Humberside areas of the UK. Every day it supplies 1.3bn litres of drinking water which is equivalent to a glass of water for every person on the planet! The water company is also responsible for collecting, treating and disposing of around a billion litres of waste water each day. It operates more than 700 water and sewage treatment works and 120 reservoirs.

Articles Considering Deduplication for a Midrange Datacentre? Seven questions you should ask.

19 Aug 2010

Deduplication has been one of the hottest technologies in the storage industry for almost three years. During that time, it has generated marketing wars, industry consolidation, and comments and controversy from vendors. IT managers in most midrange data centers typically have limited staff and few backup specialists, and it can be hard to figure out how deduplication might fit into their situation. Following are important questions for IT managers to ask as they consider deploying deduplication in a midrange datacentre.

News Force10 Networks powers two of the world’s fastest supercomputers

18 Aug 2010

Force10 Networks' Ethernet switch/router solutions contribute significantly to the network performance of two of the world’s top five most powerful supercomputers, according to the most recent Top500.org list. The third-ranked supercomputer worldwide, Roadrunner, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Germany’s Forschungszentrum Juelich, ranked fifth, both deploy the Force10 E-Series switch/router to provide dynamic connectivity to the supercomputer’s high-speed Ethernet networks.

News IBM to deliver new POWER7 Systems

17 Aug 2010

IBM has announced new POWER7® systems designed to manage the most demanding workloads and emerging applications, including a high-end system that offers markedly better energy efficiency than competitive systems from HP and Oracle.

Blog Are Data Centers complying with Executive Order 13514?

17 Aug 2010

Joe Polastre writes: In October, 2009, President Obama issued an Executive Order (EO 13514) that set federal energy efficiency standards. EO 13514 superceeds the previous executive order put in place by President Bush (EO 13423) from 2007. While the previous order required the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 3% per year, totaling at least a 30% reduction by 2015 from 2003 levels, Obama's order actually lets each department set their own goal. EO 13514, in contrast to EO 13423, is much more specific about the improvements that have to be made in transportation fleets, building design, etc. Just to be clear, this order only applies to federal government and their respective organizations, not the country at large. You can think of it as a government-specific climate bill.

Videos Linden Lab Second Life Runs Junos

17 Aug 2010

Linden Lab, the team behind Second Life, partnered with Juniper Networks for their next-generation data center and wide area networks to improve the user experience and lower operating costs.

Videos New Network Data Center Security Solution: (Demo)

16 Aug 2010

Today's data center demands an advanced, end-to-end network security solution that can address evolving and multi-faceted security challenges. Juniper Networks new network data center security solution is addressing these challenges by focusing on three areas: making security dynamic and providing application visibility and identity-aware networking. The result is a cloud-ready data center network with security that is both intelligent and elastic.

Videos NextIO

12 Aug 2010

Dell's OEM Technology Evangelist Franklin Flint (@franklinatdell) and Business Development Manger Corbin Moore delivered a cutting edge PCIe chassis from our DCS Lab to NextIO labs for qualification.

Articles DBSi Case Study – The Evolution of Network and Application Performance Management

12 Aug 2010

DBSi is a leading regional provider of high availability disaster recovery, managed hosting, and data centre services. Headquartered in Pennsylvania USA, its business model is based on flexible, cost-effective solutions tailored to the specific needs of its clients. DBSi operates multiple advanced technology recovery and hosting centres which also contain seats for workspace recovery; and through its high-speed fibre optic networks provides seamless connectivity between its facilities, clients and the world.

Videos IT Efficiency and Services

11 Aug 2010

Customers reveal how they streamlined the process of design and deployment by working with Dell Services to implement customized IT solutions. Technical officers and executives from the European Patent Office, HotSchedules, Pensions First, Data Guard Systems, Cadence Design Systems, salesforce.com, Renewable Energy systems (RES) and Lotus Racing talk about how expertise and business-ready solutions from Dell increased efficiency over the whole IT lifecycle, enabling them to focus on business innovation.

Videos College of West Anglia chooses Brocade for campus-wide network

11 Aug 2010

Toby George, head of IT Services at the College of West Anglia (CWA), talks about why it deployed Brocade's high performance IP switch technology. This deployment will upgrade CWA's network, improve reliability and underpin a raft of new IT initiatives campus-wide, including voice over IP (VoIP), campus-wide wireless LAN (WLAN) and HD video production and transmission

Articles Data Centre Consolidation: Relying on Application Delivery Solutions

11 Aug 2010

The UK Government announced in January 2010 that it will cut the number of public data centres it uses from 130 to 10. HP made a move to consolidate its 85 data centres into 6, and Intel over 130 into eight dense data centres. Reader’s Digest, one of the world’s longest established traditional publishers announced as early as 1994 that it was commencing a five year plan to consolidate its 17 data centres, demonstrating that consolidation is not new to the IT agenda.

News Turkcell deploys Andrew’s InSite Connect remote cell site management system

11 Aug 2010

Turkcell can now remotely monitor and control its base station site operations—with the aim of decreasing operating expenses and optimising performance—thanks to its deployment of OneBase InSite® Connect, the site management solution from Andrew Solutions.

News Supercomputer for anticancer Drug development simulations

10 Aug 2010

Fujitsu and the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo have jointly built a supercomputer system for use in the development of drugs to treat cancer relapse and metastasis. The new system began operations on August 1, 2010.

Videos Centre Hospitalier d'Avignon Uses BLADE VMready to Protect Patient Records

10 Aug 2010

Helene Sol, IT Manager at the Centre Hospitalier d'Avignon discusses how they used BLADE Network Technologies as the backbone of their new IT infrastructure.

News AppDirector achieves Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.1

10 Aug 2010

Radware says that its intelligent application delivery controller (ADC), AppDirector version 2.11, has achieved Oracle Validated Integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 provides global organisations with a business foundation that reduces costs and increases productivity by leveraging a portfolio of rapid value solutions, integrated business processes and industry-focused solutions. Radware's AppDirector provides availability, scalability, performance and security of traffic management for Oracle E-Business Suite business transactions, providing long-term investment protection and business continuity as well as facilitating incremental growth demanded by businesses today.

Blog Monitoring is not Management

09 Aug 2010

Joe Polastre writes: There's been a lot of discussion recently about the difference between monitoring and management. This week, I received an email with the title "Revolutionizing Energy Management". Interesting, I wonder what management solution this company provides for energy. The content of the email went on to talk about a brand new meter that provides real time power load information. While I'm sure this company's meter is very innovative (names purposely omitted to protect the innocent), it was clear that this company did not understand what the word "management" even means.

Videos CommVault® Simpana® Whiteboard Series: Information Governance

09 Aug 2010

Simon Taylor, Senior Director of Information Access and Management at CommVault, talks about Information Governance, covering unified solutions for application, compliance, and records managers.

Videos Customer Video: Websense

06 Aug 2010

Websense, a leader in unified web, data and email security solutions, reveals how it achieved significant growth in key markets by working with Dell OEM Solutions. It describes the way Dell OEM Solutions delivered a customised solution on a high-performance Dell server platform and provided technical support for Websense customers worldwide.

Blog Open Systems SnapVault (OSSV) and Deduplication - Fooling Around With 4K Blocks

06 Aug 2010

A little while ago I blogged about how SnapVault and Deduplication work together for efficient D2D backups. SnapVault allows two NetApp systems to back each other up using block-level incremental snapshots and automatic deduplication. But what if you think that SnapVault is so cool you want to use it for all you backups, including DAS data stored directly on servers? In this blog I’ll tell you how you can do this with another type of SnapVault - Open Systems SnapVault, otherwise known as OSSV.

News Imperva Partners with ActiveBase to Provide first-ever Joint Data Activity Monitoring and Data Masking Solution

06 Aug 2010

Imperva announced today it has partnered with ActiveBase, a pioneer in Dynamic Data Masking, to provide the broadest protection for sensitive data available today. Imperva and ActiveBase will jointly sell and implement the full solution.

News Dell powers visual effects

05 Aug 2010

Double Negative, Europe's largest provider of visual effects for film, has selected Dell to provide an x86 standards-based blade server solution to drive the computing power behind render farm operations at its London headquarters.

Videos EMEA Core Technology - If Not, Why Not?

05 Aug 2010

Chris Baker, SVP Core Technology EMEA, outlines how the Oracle Database business is still growing and how database options provide partners with new ways to grow their Oracle business.

Videos Duke University: Managing More with Less Using Unified Storage

04 Aug 2010

Duke University Assistant Director of Infrastructure Systems Eric Johnson and Senior Storage Network Administrator Brian Boyd describe why this top university with over 12,000 students and 30,000 employees turned to EMC to manage its continually growing data.

News UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging Simplifies Data Management with Isilon

03 Aug 2010

Leading University Deploys Isilon Scale-out Storage to Power Research into Alzheimer’s Disease, Schizophrenia and Other Brain Disorders, Improving IT Efficiency and Accelerating Workflow Performance

Isilon today announced that the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), home of the world’s largest collection of research neuroimages, has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its research into Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and other brain disorders.

Articles Shifting The Mix: A Practical Approach To Making IT More Strategic

03 Aug 2010

Today’s IT budget is spent mostly on “keeping the lights on”. In fact, roughly 70% of the budget is spent on sustaining and running existing capability while only 30% is spent on providing new capabilities to the business. The business, together with IT, needs to find ways to increase the value created by the existing and new investments in IT.

Articles Reducing Costs Through Better Server Utilization

02 Aug 2010

As IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures, maintaining datacenter agility is critical By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs—without sacrificing performance or impacting service levels.

Videos Server Performance: Intel® Data Center Dude, "Not All Cores Are Created Equal"

30 Jul 2010

The first in a series of videos on performance measurement from the Intel Data Center Dude. Shows a bake-off between Xeon and Atom cores. Highlight in a dramatic fashion that all cores are not created equal. Use of the 3D graph to show the performance difference.

Videos MDeC deploys an IBM solution consisting of the XIV Storage System

30 Jul 2010

MDeC deploys an IBM solution consisting of the XIV Storage System, the System x: iDataPlex servers and the Animation Cloud services. The solution marries the best of technologies and know how to provide more available and robust services to their customers.

Articles Vizioncore’s “hot” backup solution, vRanger Pro, helps keep things “cool” at Emerson Climate Technologies

30 Jul 2010

Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. utilized virtualization for server consolidation to reduce operating costs. The company needed to deploy a comprehesive back up and recovery solution for its virtual environment.

Articles Global CIO: Oracle Reveals Strategy And Customers For White-Hot Exadata

30 Jul 2010

Transcending data warehousing and OLTP, Oracle's Exadata is triggering an industrywide redefinition of the core IT systems that fire the global economy.

Oracle's 22-month-old Exadata Database Machine has leapfrogged the data-warehousing market and become a major player in high-end OLTP environments, and is now being positioned as a core database-consolidation platform due to its unprecedented capacity and throughput.

News End-to-end FCoE solution with VMware

29 Jul 2010

As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware have announced the industry's first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware-virtual environments.

News Cardiff University expands deployment of Brocade

29 Jul 2010

University has spent £5 million on Brocade technology since 2003, deploying Brocade BigIron, FastIron and NetIron platforms to deliver a high-performance campus-wide solution.

News Mimecast Launches Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, Easing Migration Concerns for Administrators

29 Jul 2010

Innovations include greater policy control, load reduction on Microsoft Exchange and automated message management controls

Mimecast today announced support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, easing migration headaches and controlling costs while unlocking the immediate benefits of Microsoft’s newest 64-bit architecture. Avoiding expensive on-premise management overheads and removing the need for .PST files, Mimecast’s Unified Email Management (UEM) suite of services now fully supports Microsoft Exchange 2010 and provides a single-platform approach to archiving, security, continuity and policy control; integrating seamlessly into customers’ existing – or newly planned – IT infrastructures.

Videos Global IT Council

28 Jul 2010

Daryl Plummer and David Cappuccio introduce the benefits you can get from the Global IT Council. View a related webinar: http://is.gd/dDyip

Videos The Evolution of Risk Management

27 Jul 2010

Marcus Cree, Principal Risk Consultant for SunGard's Capital Markets business talks about transparency, risk and the challenges, past and present.

Videos DoubleTake & Vision Solutions Merger

26 Jul 2010

Nicholaas Vlok, CEO of Vision Solutions speaks about completing the merger agreement with Double-Take Software and how the combination of the two companies expand their global service and products for the disaster recovery for IBM Power Systems, Windows, Linux and Cloud Computing market

News IBM unveils zEnterprise system

23 Jul 2010

IBM has announced the zEnterprise mainframe server and a new systems design that allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7 and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized system. The new mainframe is also the most powerful and energy-efficient mainframe ever.

News DataCentre Expo’s Visitor Marketing reaches over 1 million internationally

23 Jul 2010

DataCentre Expo’s visitor marketing plan is extremely high-profile, with a ‘global reach’ of over 1 million recipients.

Email broadcasts, off-the-page advertisements, online advertising and press coverage will really take off throughout July and August. The marketing campaign has already produced impressive results with appearances in: IT Mittelstand, eWeek and Network Computing, DV Dialogue, Manage IT and of course TheDataChain.

Articles Quo Vadis, SNMP? Part 2: Putting SNMP into practice

21 Jul 2010

In the first part of this White Paper, we looked at the basic features of SNMP, the history, problems, and future prospects. Alternatives to the established, yet frequently problematic, protocol were also shown. This second part focuses on the technical side – from the use of MIBs to the practical setup of network monitoring. As the developer of an established network monitoring software, Paessler AG has been dealing with SNMP extensively since 1996 and has looked closely into its options – and inadequacies.

Articles Quo Vadis, SNMP? Part 1: Introducing SNMP

21 Jul 2010

As business efficiency becomes more and more dependent on connected computer systems, monitoring and ensuring their reliability in performance is absolutely necessary. Because of the huge amount of devices on the market, supplied by various manufacturers, it was imperative to introduce a standard for this kind of monitoring. That is why IETF1 developed Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) towards the end of the 80s. Today, the third generation of SNMP is still the standard for network management – not least because there is no practical alternative. However, the use of this protocol as a basis for extensive network management is not unproblematic – it requires comprehensive know-how and sometimes the ability to improvise.

News Station Casinos bets on Cisco

20 Jul 2010

Station Casinos Inc., a large casino and resort operator in Las Vegas, has implemented one of the gaming industry's most sophisticated data center infrastructures using the Cisco Unified Computing System. The network-based infrastructure serves as a platform for virtualizing a number of operations and gaming applications, from mobile Internet Protocol phone and safety systems to account-based sports betting.

Videos Dimension Data Talks Video, Collaboration

20 Jul 2010

Raoul Tecala from Dimension Data discusses the importance of collaboration and how Cisco helps along the way.

News Atempo Joins the Active Archive Alliance

20 Jul 2010

Industry Association Dedicated to Education and Awareness of Active Archiving

Atempo today announced that it has joined the Active Archive Alliance, a non-profit storage industry association dedicated to market education on the evolving use of active archives for simplified, online access to all unstructured file data.

Videos OpenStack storage project lead, Will Reese

19 Jul 2010

Dell's cloud evangelist Barton George interviews Will Reese, project lead for OpenStack storage at the inaugural OpenStack design summit in Austin.

News Daxten signs Vello

16 Jul 2010

Daxten has announced a distribution agreement covering Europe, Middle East, and African (EMEA) markets, with Vello Systems, a leader in next-generation high performance IP+Optical networking systems for carriers and eEnterprise.

Videos NYSE Euronext Standardizes on JBoss Enterprise Middleware

16 Jul 2010

"We've been running mission-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a long time. It was that experience and those results that led us to consider JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and we're satisfied, and not surprised, knowing that Red Hat's middleware solutions are as enterprise-class as its platform solutions."
- Brian Clark, chief software architect, NYSE Euronext

Articles Redstor and Education Bradford

15 Jul 2010

Education Bradford Select RBUSS to Improve Services.

"The online backup service from Redstor has completely transformed how we backup school data so much so that we have no hesitation in recommending it to other authorities"

The Local Education Authority is based on collaboration between Bradford Council and Serco PLC, an international service company which combines commercial know-how with a public service ethos. It improves services by managing people, processes, technology and assets more effectively.

News HP Secures Applications Services Contract with 3M

15 Jul 2010

HP Enterprise Services today announced that 3M, which produces thousands of innovative products for dozens of diverse markets, has signed a multimillion dollar, three-year applications services agreement to help improve productivity, enabling the company to get innovative products into the market more quickly.

Articles DMS UK manages exceptional data growth with highly scalable solution from Overland

14 Jul 2010

Digital Media Services (DMS) UK is one of the world’s leading media monitoring and trailer distribution companies in the digital media sector.

Focusing on two specialist areas within the digital market, DMS manages vast amounts of data for its clients. Firstly, it provides cost-effective media monitoring solutions. Secondly, its Panther product works with 80 percent of the world’s major film studios to provide thousands of film trailers online.

Videos Customer Video: Priceline.com

14 Jul 2010

Juniper has been fundamental in helping us build a faster, simpler and more cost-effective data center network infrastructure," said Michael P. Diliberto, CIO, Priceline.com. "We've reduced our network operating costs dramatically by occupying far less rack space and consuming less power than our old gear. It's rare that you find a technology that helps you reduce cost and increase quality and scalability, while simultaneously increasing speed and agility.

Articles Change the Channel Please

14 Jul 2010

Where are we now?

Every so often the technology channel has to adapt to changing economies and technologies. 2009 saw the start of one of these channel changes with the onset of a recession. Despite the initial belief that the technology industry would not be hit by the recession a survey of 270 CIOs by Datamonitor confirmed that 23% of senior executives felt budget cuts stopped them winning business and new technologies seemed more of a nice to have than a necessity, many were happy to "make do" with what they had already paid for.

Articles Old Mutual Mitigates Hardware Spend and Halves Helpdesk Calls with Triometric

13 Jul 2010

Old Mutual is a leading international long-term savings group. Established in 1845 in South Africa, the FTSE 100 Company now serves the growing demands of customers, companies and their advisors in 35 countries.

Videos Customer Video: Old Mutual

13 Jul 2010

Old Mutual Mitigates Hardware Spend and Halves Hyperion Helpdesk Calls with Triometric

Videos Brocade and Microsoft Team Up to Deliver Seamless UC Experience

12 Jul 2010

Warren Barkley, senior director of Microsoft's Unified Communications group, talks about how Brocade networking technologies work with Microsoft products to deliver high performance, best-in-class UC solutions to customers.

Articles Is your network monitoring equipment still working for you?

12 Jul 2010

Any IT Manager worth his salt knows a corporate network cannot run efficiently without some degree of network performance management. But with corporate networks becoming progressively more complex and being required to support increasingly sophisticated applications, how many can confidently claim their network monitoring and performance management systems are still up to the job?

Sean O’Donnell, SevOne’s director for EMEA, looks at the impact of developments in enterprise applications on the corporate network and the risks faced by businesses which fail to invest in effective network performance management tools.

Articles Increasing IT Efficiency in a Dynamic Datacenter with a Virtualized Storage Solution

12 Jul 2010

End to End Efficiency Delivered by Microsoft Server Virtualization and Compellent Storage Virtualization

Datacenter efficiency is a large concern for Information Technology (IT) management as demands for services continue to increase while budgets continue to be reduced. Supporting growth and maintaining availability per the service level agreements while mitigating the risks to critical data, systems, applications, and the computing infrastructure in the event of a system outage or a complete disaster presents an ongoing challenge from both a technological and a business perspective. Organizations must consistently find solutions that not only meet application and data requirements for capacity, performance, and availability, but also have proven return on investment and cost reduction capabilities.

Articles Managing the Cloud: An Even Greater Need for IT Cost Transparency

12 Jul 2010

While there is considerable controversy about what technologies and approaches constitute “Cloud Computing,” the overall idea is that customers can buy and use computing on demand. The computing power resides on the Internet – the Internet is often represented as a cloud in architecture diagrams– and people access this computing power as they need it via the Internet.

Videos Customer Testimonial: Credit Market Analysis

12 Jul 2010

Ryan Sclanders, IT Infrastructure Manager for Credit Market Research talks about the challenges of their high volume data requirements and how they came to choosing their provider to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Videos Cisco Data Center Distribution Supporting Virtualization

08 Jul 2010

CiscoChannels sat down with Disty Dave O'Callaghan to find out the scoop on virtualization and what it means for resellers and distribution partners.

News Isilon chosen by NavTeq to scale out file-based applications

08 Jul 2010

Global Leader in Maps, Traffic and Location Data Deploys Isilon Scale-out Storage to Help Drive Increased Data Availability and Workflow Efficiency

Isilon today announced that NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data, has deployed multiple tiers of Isilon scale-out storage to help support its comprehensive database of digital location content. Working with leading data center solutions provider and Isilon partner Datalink, NAVTEQ has deployed the Isilon IQ X-Series and NL-Series across multiple international data centers to aggregate content, software development and other file-based applications onto a single, shared storage resource, increasing data availability and workflow productivity. Using Isilon scale-out storage, featuring its OneFS® operating system, NAVTEQ can support a wide range of applications simultaneously from a single file system, simplifying management and improving data access, while reducing storage costs and complexity.

Videos Euronics implemented the IBM XIV Storage System

08 Jul 2010

Euronics implemented the IBM XIV Storage System to help them achieve their four goals of reliability, flexibility, performance, and ease of use and to meet the demands of their dealers. They are the largest German buying group in consumer electronics with two thousand dealers in Germany.

News Isilon helps Central and Eastern Europe's largest broadcast over satellite provider meet growing demand

07 Jul 2010

STN gains rock-solid reliability and a huge boost in performance while helping the company reduce number of staff assigned to managing storage by 40%.

Isilon today announced that STN, a leading teleport service provider delivering broadcasts over satellite for Central and Eastern Europe, has successfully implemented an Isilon scale-out Storage platform for its existing environment and to help migrate clients onto its new playout system and meet strong demand for its innovative services.

Blog Storage Optimisation Part 2

06 Jul 2010

The second part of Philip Howard's article on Storage Optimisation.

This is the second of two articles about storage optimisation. In the first I discussed how an optimal solution would be one based around discovering (at a detailed level) all of your SAN infrastructure resources (servers, disks and so on) in real-time to create a consolidated view of the entire environment. Then for the solution to take that awareness, combine it with any specific, unique policy or other restrictions that might be in place, and to apply business intelligence principles to the problem of how you might optimise those resources. As a result of this analysis you would like the software to recommend potential solutions, allowing you to choose which one you prefer and, once that determination has been made, for the software to implement relevant changes (actually prepare the storage for migration and then to perform the data migration) for you automatically.

Videos Hitachi Cloud Services: Instant IT from Hitachi Data Systems

05 Jul 2010

Adopt cloud at your own pace! More data is being created than ever before and unstructured data is the predominant data structure that needs to be managed in new and more intelligent ways. Hitachi Cloud Services offer delivery models that provide instant IT. It services on demand enable organizations to gain advantage in their marketplace -- scaling without additional capital expense.

News Architectural flexibility for virtualisation and The Cloud

02 Jul 2010

Cisco has introduced new technology that supports its Data Center 3.0 strategy to help customers increase the flexibility of their data centers as they become more virtualized and cloud-based. The new technology advances Cisco's underlying unified fabric capabilities that help customers enhance the efficiency of information delivery in physical and virtualized data center environments, and manage public and private cloud resources more effectively.

Videos Andrew Butler highlights Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit 2010

01 Jul 2010

As a Data Center professional you are expected to "do more with less" and be a key enabler towards business growth and manage business change. Find the nuggets of fresh learning and knowledge that will show the business why they should count on you and how you can help the business look beyond the cost discussion to new opportunities for growth.

Videos Isilon Simplifies Data Management for Enterprise IT

30 Jun 2010

Sam Grocott, VP of Marketing at Isilon, talks us through the sixth generation of its OneFS^® scale-out storage operating system and two new data management software applications, SmartPools™ and InsightIQ™. With OneFS 6.0, SmartPools and InsightIQ, Isilon delivers a uniquely powerful yet simple approach to solving complex data management challenges, enabling enterprise IT departments to easily manage data, consolidate applications and scale out a single storage resource in lockstep with evolving business needs.

Videos Raimund Genes on Cloud-based Security

30 Jun 2010

Trend Micro CTO, Raimund Genes, discusses the benefits of Smart Protection Network, Trend's cloud-based security technology. Smart Protection Network is powered by web, email and file reputation to provide protection from today's latest web-borne threats.

Videos Luxembourg Stock Exchange implemented IBM XIV systems

29 Jun 2010

Luxembourg Stock Exchange implemented two full IBM XIV systems at each of two data centers, with synchronous mirroring for protection against disaster. The solution delivers high performance and availability, with automated load balancing and data protection.

Videos Data Backup Compliance - Wockhardt entrusts Tivoli

28 Jun 2010

In this video Suresh of Wockhardt tells us that after evaluating Tivoli & Veritas they chose Tivoli because it scored higher on some key features. After implementing Tivoli, the manual intervention that was required earlier in the areas like media management and data restoration was greatly reduced resulting in increase of productivity.

Suresh Shenoy, Sr. Vice president-IT, Wockhardt hospitals

Blog Assessing Risk in the Virtual Data Center

28 Jun 2010

Brian Gracely from Cisco writes:

Having lived through both the Internet bubble in 2001 and the Housing/CDO bubble in 2008, we’re all too familiar with what happens when large inter-connected entities start having problems. It can often be like watching dominos fall. Things were really great when the systems appeared to be working according to the plan, but then “the plan” got sidetracked and bad things started happening that weren’t on the radar.

News New Opteron platform designed for Cloud and Hyperscale data centers

25 Jun 2010

AMD has introdicedthe new AMD Opteron 4000 Series platform. This is the first server platform designed from the beginning to meet the specific requirements of cloud, hyperscale data center, and SMB customers needing highly flexible, reliable, and power-efficient 1 and 2P systems. This platform is also available for high-end embedded systems such as telecom servers, storage, and digital signage.

News Simplified infrastructure for London Grid

23 Jun 2010

The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), the world's largest fiber network for education purposes, has upgraded its data center network with a high-performance infrastructure from Juniper, including routing, switching and security solutions. The upgraded network enables LGfL to provide bandwidth-rich multimedia teaching and learning services, including videoconferencing with museums and specialist learning centers; content streaming; and online managed learning resources to all 2,600 primary and secondary schools in greater London.

Videos HP BladeSystem Firsts: A Guided Tour

23 Jun 2010

Join HP's Gary Thome on a guided tour of new HP BladeSystem innovations.

News London Grid deploys simplified network

22 Jun 2010

The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), the world's largest fiber network for education purposes, has upgraded its data center network with a high-performance infrastructure from Juniper, including routing, switching and security solutions. The upgraded network enables LGfL to provide bandwidth-rich multimedia teaching and learning services, including videoconferencing with museums and specialist learning centers; content streaming; and online managed learning resources to all 2,600 primary and secondary schools in greater London.

News Q1 Labs Announces QRadar Security Intelligence Operating System (SIOS)

22 Jun 2010

Powering the Network Security Industry’s First Security Intelligence Platform

Q1 Labs today announced QRadar SIOS - the Security Intelligence Operating System - which powers the QRadar family of security intelligence products. QRadar SIOS is the foundation of the industry's first total Security Intelligence Platform, a common framework for collecting, warehousing, filtering, analyzing and reporting on all security intelligence telemetry. This integrated solution will be the platform for risk management, SIEM , log management , and network and application activity monitoring, as well as all new products to be delivered by Q1 Labs and partners.

Videos Intel vPro Technology MSP Case Study - Sabio

21 Jun 2010

Sabio's strategy is to offer enterprise-class service to SMB customers using advanced tools such as Intel vPro technology-based PCs. Intel vPro technology's remote capabilities allow Sabio to reduce PC downtime by 20% and deskside visits by 25%. Antivirus patches can be pushed to PCs that are turned off, reducing technician time spent on patching and speeding critical updates.

News Pacnet delivers next-generation Internet

17 Jun 2010

Pacnet, Asia's leading independent telecommunications service provider, has completed the deployment of a highly scalable Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) based on the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) platform. Pacnet aims to take advantage of the system's innovative features to help increase business profitability, service scalability and operational efficiency while meeting customers' demands for higher bandwidth capacity and greater service flexibility.

News Australian data centre consolidation

15 Jun 2010

Knight Frank has deployed Juniper application acceleration platforms and enterprise routers to boost operational efficiency and support its data center consolidation in Australia. Juniper Networks WX and WXC Application Acceleration platforms optimize Knight Frank’s WAN infrastructure while J Series routers provide versatile, secure routing with low overhead and high reliability.

News IBM selects top-of-rack switches

11 Jun 2010

BLADE Network Technologies' RackSwitch 1Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches have been selected by IBM for inclusion in the IBM System x option portfolio. BLADE's RackSwitch products provide enterprise data centre networking capabilities for IBM System x, including IBM Virtual Fabric, BLADE's VMready Virtual Machine-aware networking and lossless DCB/CEE networking.

Videos Brocade and Microsoft Team Up to Deliver Seamless UC Experience

10 Jun 2010

Warren Barkley, senior director of Microsoft's Unified Communications group, talks about how Brocade networking technologies work with Microsoft products to deliver high performance, best-in-class UC solutions to customers.

Videos SMB collaboration solutions

04 Jun 2010

Introducing new HP products, solutions and services that improve business productivity for SMB (Small and Medium Business) through increased collaboration to help manage, protect and grow

News Switch built for dynamic, virtualised environments

02 Jun 2010

Force10 Networks has extended its S-Series™ access switch line with the introduction of the S60 top-of-rack (ToR) Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch. As the first switch purpose-built for dynamic virtualized data center environments, the S60 answers challenging application needs and lowers operational costs at the rack edge by leveraging new features and functionality, including ultra-deep buffering and “bare metal” auto-configuration, as well as proven Force10 product attributes, such as low power consumption and non-blocking, line-rate switching.

Videos Changing The Rules of Networking

02 Jun 2010

HP's acquisition of 3Com creates a robust set of end-to-end networking solutions that deliver better business outcomes to a full spectrum of customers, from Fortune 100 enterprises to SMB

News Micro-modular partnership

01 Jun 2010

Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS), the global leaders in Micro-Modular Data Centres, has formed a strategic distribution partnership with Hammer, the number one European distributor dedicated solely to storage.

News Data centre hosting services for Saudi market

28 May 2010

Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition helps to secure strategic data center win to enable STC to introduce Managed IT Services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

News Universal ICE Cube

27 May 2010

SGI has introduced a new Universal class of ICE Cube, the company's award-winning modular data centre for extreme server and storage densities.

Videos Fedora 13 Launch

26 May 2010

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project.

News IBM agrees to acquire Sterling Commerce

25 May 2010

IBM and AT& have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for approximately $1.4 billion in cash.

News Core Consultancy Wins "Specialist Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Company of the Year" at Business Continuity Awards 2010

19 May 2010

Innovative, High-Availability continuous data protection and remote recovery solution for small and medium businesses recognised at leading industry awards

Videos American Suzuki Case Study

19 May 2010

American Suzuki is passionate about affordable performance both in their products and how they run the company. When business growth led to IT storage issues, they needed a solution. Backups took 18hrs; users had performance issues with file shares; and data replication took weeks.

News System Integrator MTI Launches Enterprise Backup as a Service

19 May 2010

New Cloud Backup Service Now Meets Businesses-Level Requirements

MTI has unveiled its Cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS) offering for businesses, one of four new service sets to be launched under the MTI Insight Services banner. The other three groups will be MTI Consult (Consultancy Services), MTI Create (Project Services) and MTI Care (Customer and Managed Services).

News Transforming data centre economics and experience

18 May 2010

Juniper Networks has unveiled new software, services, systems and partnerships that will help enterprise IT dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of data center networking while also improving application and business performance.

Videos What does Transparency, Effieciency and Networks mean to you?

18 May 2010

SunGard poses the question to Claudia Feldmann from Commerzbank AG at SunGard's City Days Frankfurt.

News Server sales put pressure on power, cooling and space

14 May 2010

A significant increase in server sales during the next two years will lead to a further acceleration of data center power, cooling and space problems, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that users need to quantify the effects of new deployments and take action without delay.

News Cisco and VMware to accelerate data center virtualization opportunities

06 May 2010

Initiative provides new program benefits for partners delivering Cisco Unified Computing System and VMware vSphere.

Videos The First American Corporation Case Study

06 May 2010

Watch how First American Corporation was able to consolidate and virtualize their infrastructure with BIG-IP LTM, GTM and FirePass SSL VPN providing them with the flexibility & speed to market their business required. From 750 machines to just 75, Jake Seitz of the Enterprise Architecture group talks about how they achieved performance gains, faster log in times, better service and disaster recovery.

News SunGard Achieves Green IT Savings

29 Apr 2010

As part of a green IT initiative to improve the energy efficiency of its data centers, SunGard’s financial systems business is on track to achieve more than $5 million in savings over the next five years. The project, which kicked off in 2009, virtualizes the servers in the twenty-five North America data centers operated by SunGard Financial Systems.

News Iron Mountain Enhances CloudRecovery Solution for Microsoft DPM

29 Apr 2010

Iron Mountain’s CloudRecovery Solution includes Support for DPM 2010, Increased Scalability, and Added Disaster Protection across Microsoft applications such as Hyper-V, Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server

Videos Simple - JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5

28 Apr 2010

With JBoss, your SOA solution is simple to develop, deploy and manage, on top of being responsive to business change. Because it's based on open standards, it will work with everything else. And that means you're in control.

News F5 Unlocks True Potential of ‘On-Demand IT’

28 Apr 2010

New BIG-IP release helps extend enterprise data centre architecture to the cloud through holistic ecosystem supporting the dynamic nature of applications and data

News Beijing Genomics Institute powers one of the world's largest DNA sequencing environments with Isilon IQ

27 Apr 2010

Asia’s Largest Genomics Institute Deploys Isilon Scale-out NAS to Power More than 100 Illumina Sequencers, Speeding Time-to-Discovery while Reducing Capital and Operating Costs

News Pillar Data Systems Gives Customers More Control over Disaster Recovery, Storage Performance and Efficiency

27 Apr 2010

Pillar Data Systems today delivered several new features that increase the performance, efficiency and ease of management for its award-winning Pillar Axiom storage system. These new additions build on the Axiom’s unique Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities and ensure greater flexibility and reliability for storage administrators.

News Hi-tech spending to increase

23 Apr 2010

Marketing spending among high-tech and telecom providers (HTTPs) is picking up in 2010, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 44 per cent of 2010 HTTP marketing budgets will be flat compared with 2009, 41 per cent will increase and only 15 per cent are likely to decrease. This compares favorably to 2009 when more than half of providers' marketing organisations took cuts in their budgets compared to 2008.

News Arrow on target for Avocent in the UK

23 Apr 2010

Avocent has appointed Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions as a key distributor in the United Kingdom. With approved distribution rights, Arrow ECS will play a key role in the development of the company’s channel network in the United Kingdom.

News Native Fibre Channel added to testing solution

23 Apr 2010

Ixia has introduced a new native fibre channel test solution for network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), enterprise data centres, information and storage service providers, and cloud computing services.

Videos CommVault® / Microsoft® Video 2010

21 Apr 2010

CommVault / Microsoft video 2010

Videos CERN Deploys Force10 Networks

20 Apr 2010

CERN deploys Force10 Networks

News Doubling the performance of mission-critical medical applications

19 Apr 2010

The Centre Hospitalier de Douai had one major goal with replacing its storage system: supporting continuous, 24/7 hospital operations to tend to more than 37,000 patients a year. By replacing its IBM storage system with the Pillar Axiom, the hospital doubled its application performance, increased its utilisation (usable capacity) to 92% and achieved 99.999% availability, effectively creating the backbone of its business continuity solution.

News VI inks agreement with HDS

16 Apr 2010

Virtual Instruments has formed a limited purchase agreement for Hitachi Data Systems to resell Virtual Instruments NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom for deployment with its storage solutions.

News DataCentre Expo set for Dusseldorf

16 Apr 2010

Europe’s first fully dedicated, expo led data centre event will take place in Düsseldorf, 16^th – 17^th Sept 2010.

News Taking command of storage growth

12 Apr 2010

Orbital Sciences Corporation, one of the world’s leading space technology companies, has deployed the F5 Networks’ ARX solution to control rising data storage costs and increase operational efficiencies.

News EMC unveils Data Domain Global Deduplication Array

12 Apr 2010

The EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array (GDA) is said to be the industry’s fastest inline deduplication storage system for enterprise backup applications.

News Gartner says worldwide IT spending to grow 5.3 per cent in 2010

12 Apr 2010

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.4 trillion in 2010, a 5.3 per cent increase from IT spending of $3.2 trillion in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. The IT industry will continue to show steady growth with IT spending in 2011 projected to surpass $3.5 trillion, a 4.2 per cent increase from 2010.

Articles Managing IT in tough economic conditions

09 Apr 2010

We are all feeling the effects of the economic situation facing the world markets today, and IT is no exception. In past economic downturns, those companies that focused on cost containment and process improvement emerged in a stronger position. During the current financial implosion, businesses must look at their expenses and determine where they should spend and where they should cut in order to ride out the storm.

News WAN optimisation performance taken to ‘new heights’

09 Apr 2010

Advanced operating system enables easy deployment, management & monitoring with increased levels of optimization.

News More than 400 organisations worldwide adopt EMC SourceOne

09 Apr 2010

In just one year since its introduction, more than 400 organisations worldwide have adopted EMC SourceOne. Customers including Northampton Borough Council, Ogilvy South Africa and TOMRA are deploying EMC SourceOne to help them manage risks, simplify e-discovery and cut storage costs.

Videos Disaster Recovery Set-up for Lincoln Surgical Hospital

08 Apr 2010

Steve Melcher, systems administrator at Lincoln Surgical Hospital, talks about his disaster recovery set-up and what he likes about his Compellent system.

Videos Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010

08 Apr 2010

Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010. For more information, see our events page.

News Additions to Data Center 3.0 portfolio

08 Apr 2010

Cisco has introduced continued innovation and additions to its Data Center 3.0 portfolio, designed to reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity, provide better support for data center virtualization, and improve business agility to deliver strategic competitive advantages.

News Enterprises under-investing in the protection of corporate secrets

07 Apr 2010

Focus on protecting compliance-related data needs to expand to more valuable intellectual property.

News McAfee and Riverbed partner

06 Apr 2010

Joint solutions delivers COMPREHENSIVE wan optimization and multilayer security in a single APPLIANCE.

Articles Centralized Management Software: Best Practices to Control Your Data Center

01 Apr 2010

How to achieve secure access to any server or network device from a single interface.

Articles The business imperative to gain data centre insight

01 Apr 2010

To manage costs, capacity and operations, today’s dynamic data centers require new tools to understand assets and how they’re used in order to deliver consistent, reliable and fast service to the business.

News Consolidation and the Cloud

01 Apr 2010

Leading global manufacturer removes local servers from branch offices while reducing costs and improving employee productivity.

News Skoda selects SGI

31 Mar 2010

Skoda Auto a.s., one of Europe’s best known car companies and daughter company of the VW Group, has selected SGI Altix ICE to augment its computer-aided engineering (CAE) system.

News HP expands LTO portfolio

31 Mar 2010

HP is expanding its Linear Tape Open (LTO) technology portfolio with the upgraded HP StorageWorks LTO-5 Ultrium tape drives, which deliver improved data transfer speeds and management capabilities.

Videos Classify & Collect by Iron Mountain

31 Mar 2010

Iron Mountain's Connected Classify & Collect offering simplifies the collection of laptop and desktop data for eDiscovery

Videos Avocent - MTC Reston

31 Mar 2010

Avocent testimonial video with partner Microsoft Technology Centre in Reston, near Washington DC

News Realising the benefits of SAN virtualisation

30 Mar 2010

More performance, greater available capacity, simplified upgrades and scalability - all on-the-fly.

News HP launches new generation of ProLiant servers

30 Mar 2010

HP ProLiant G7 servers with AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors deliver more value, rapid return on investment.

Articles Alberta Newsprint turns centralized server management into a success story

26 Mar 2010

Thanks to Avocent, we can now remotely access our system from anywhere, anytime, regardless of whether our system is failing at the moment. That’s a huge benefit!”

Stephen Tapp, Systems Engineer, Alberta Newsprint Company.

News Cisco, GDSYS and Incheon Metropolitan City collaborate in building next-generation green data center

26 Mar 2010

Cisco networking solutions and technology to be used to build ubiquitous service platform.

News BMC Software to drive ‘Lean IT’ at NASDAQ OMX

26 Mar 2010

NASDAQ OMX has selected BMC Software’s Business Service Management (BSM) platform to drive a major global “Lean IT” initiative aimed at increasing system agility while reducing costs and maintaining availability.

News Baulderstone slashes IT infrastructure costs

26 Mar 2010

Building and engineering giant cuts WAN bandwidth usage in half and cuts data replication times; expected ROI in 14 months.

News HPC Server market declined 11.6% in 2009

26 Mar 2010

Return to growth expected in 2010, according to IDC.

Videos Capgemini recommends Avocent

26 Mar 2010

Wolfgang Ader, Head of Infrastructure Management Central Europe, describes the consolidation and centralisation of the Capgemini Data Centers in Central Europe.

News Telenor selects Transmode for Metro Core Networks

25 Mar 2010

Telenor Group, a Norwegian global telecommunications services provider, has signed an agreement for Transmode's WDM equipment to build a new optical DWDM metro core network in Norway. Telenor is deploying Transmode's TM-Series throughout 200 sites in order to meet the increasing demand for capacity from both fixed and mobile broadband traffic.

Articles AMD drives customer innovation with out-of-band management tools

25 Mar 2010

As one of the world's leading integrated circuit manufacturers, AMD designs and produces innovative microprocessors, Flash memory devices and low-power processor solutions for the computer, communications and consumer electronics industries. Since its beginnings, AMD's mission has been to go beyond providing the highest quality integrated circuits and transistors to helping its customers use silicon to add value to their own products.

Blog thedatachain of thought2

24 Mar 2010

"The notion that a single converged data center network makes for fewer switches and ports, resulting in a simpler network consuming less power and cooling, is flawed, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner research shows that a converged data center network requires more switches and ports, is more complex to manage and consumes more power and cooling than two well-designed separate networks."

News Converge all data center traffic to a single technology, not a single network

24 Mar 2010

The notion that a single converged data center network makes for fewer switches and ports, resulting in a simpler network consuming less power and cooling, is flawed, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner research shows that a converged data center network requires more switches and ports, is more complex to manage and consumes more power and cooling than two well-designed separate networks.

Articles Reducing operating costs and simplifying management

24 Mar 2010

Aramice capitalizes on its Avocent infrastructure to homogenize access to all elements of its distributed IT system.

News SaaS Cloud platform for Onboard Retail Solutions

23 Mar 2010

Onboard Retail Solutions has signed a three year contract with Attenda to manage the multi-tenanted infrastructure for its SaaS application delivery.

Videos Borderless Networks

19 Mar 2010

Wales, a constituent nation of the United Kingdom with a population of 3m people, is on course to become the first country in the world to achieve the Cisco vision of a completely borderless network embracing all of its public services.

News Consolidation sees total cost of ownership fall by up to 40%

16 Mar 2010

Tele Sistemi Ferroviari (TSF) S.p.A., Italy's leader in the development and management of ICT services for the transport and logistics sector, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System in its data center.

News The insecurities of a virtual world?

15 Mar 2010

Gartner says 60 per cent of virtualised servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace through 2012.

Blog thedatachain of thought

11 Mar 2010

The 'soft' launch of thedatachain continues to go well - with several key content partners on board, and more in the pipeline. Our intention is to use video as the primary delivery mechanism - short, sharp, incisive comment from vendors, analysts and end users as we visit the many data centre, virtualisation and cloud events out there. This content is backed up by vendors own video content, plus the site's strong news focus, articles and, over time, a valuable information source on buzz topics.

News CIOs still not implementing optimum data centre management practices

10 Mar 2010

Despite the recession, large European organizations still expect their spending on staff working on datacenter management to grow by 10% over the next year, approximately nine-times the expected growth in IT spending in 2010, according to IDC.

News Budapest Internet Exchange deploys E-Series switch/router to provide scalable performance

09 Mar 2010

The Budapest Internet Exchange (BIX) has selected Force10 Networks’ E-Series switch/routers to provide highly reliable performance and unmatched scalability for its growing customer base of internet service providers (ISPs) and telcos in Hungary and Eastern Europe.

News Protecting critical medical research

09 Mar 2010

Switzerland-based Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), a part of the Novartis Research Foundation, is relying on two Spectra® T950 tape libraries to archive and backup critical biomedical research data.

News Autonomic storage tiering for high-end arrays

09 Mar 2010

3PAR has introduced Adaptive Optimisation software for autonomic, sub-volume storage tiering with 3PAR InServ^® F-Class and T-Class Storage Servers.

News Brocade expands Channel team

09 Mar 2010

Brocade is expanding its EMEA channel team to better serve the needs of its networking partner community.

News Near 50% reduction in storage TCO

04 Mar 2010

AudienceScience has reduced its storage total cost of ownership (TCO) by nearly 50% as a result of deploying 3PAR Utility Storage in its VMware vSphere environment.

News Cloud solutions for service providers

03 Mar 2010

NetApp helps service providers differentiate their service offerings, accelerate time to market, and reduce costs.

Videos Netcordia

03 Mar 2010

Explore NetMRI's latest features (v.3.0) which help you improve network performance with automated configuration and change analysis across routers, switches, and other layer 2/3 network devices

News SSD read and write acceleration ‘first’

02 Mar 2010

New FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator doubles overall SAN performance at a fraction of the cost of conventional disk storage solutions.

News Automatic backup in a virtual environment

01 Mar 2010

The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) has ensured its growing virtual environment can be backed up reliably without significant hands-on time from system administrators by deploying Vizioncore's vRanger Pro Data Protection Platform (DPP).

News New organisation to coordinate European scientific computing grids

01 Mar 2010

A new organisation that will support the sustainable future development of leading-edge, collaborative scientific computing has been established following the signing of legal documents in Amsterdam.

News Fujitsu and Japan Atomic Energy Agency unveil fastest supercomputer

01 Mar 2010

Top performance in Japan based on LINPACK benchmark.

News NII Holdings selects HP for IT Managed Services

01 Mar 2010

Agreement positions NII to standardize processes and enhance customer satisfaction, and to make service delivery faster and more efficient.

Videos Netcordia

01 Mar 2010

Explore NetMRI's latest features (v.3.0) which help you improve network performance with automated configuration and change analysis across routers, switches, and other layer 2/3 network devices

News Siemon launches VersaPOD ‘high-density’ cabinet

26 Feb 2010

Siemon has launched VersaPOD VP2, an extended-depth version of the super high density data centre cabinet that combines ZERO-U vertical patching capability with additional cable management space for switch, server, SAN and distribution area configurations.

News New level of uptime for critical applications

26 Feb 2010

VMware and DataCore Software deliver an “All Virtualized” IT environment for Dinwiddie County in Virginia.

News Unisys teams with Storage Fusion

25 Feb 2010

Free analytics reveal the environmental and business costs of storage waste and suggest plans to make storage more cost-efficient.

News Mountain swallows up Mimosa

24 Feb 2010

Iron Mountain has acquired Mimosa Systems, a leader in enterprise-class content archiving solutions, for approximately $112 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments.

News UCS improves business operations

23 Feb 2010

Winterflood Securities, one of the leading liquidity providers in London, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System to improve the resilience, agility, scalability and flexibility of its high frequency trading platform.

News New level of uptime for critical applications

02 Feb 2010

VMware and DataCore Software deliver an “All Virtualized” IT environment for Dinwiddie County in Virginia.