Data Centre Solutions

Ostara enhances business with redundancy systems and greater bandwidth

Published in Design + Optimisation

A Milton-Keynes based company that provides Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) software solutions to blue chip companies has incorporated a back up solution, otherwise known as redundancy, into its business offering and now also has greater bandwidth thanks to Node4.

Published in Design + Optimisation

Agreement provides waste management leader with scalability and efficiency to support growth.

Published in Design + Optimisation

European MD sees link between ideal staff traits and having what it takes to be an Olympic athlete.

Published in Design + Optimisation

City Lifeline has unveiled a new, more interactive website, designed to reflect changing business needs and add value for companies looking to introduce the latest data technologies into their operations.

IT services market endured a dismal end to 2012

Last year was the worst for IT services contract activity since 2002, according to research from Ovum. Performance in the three months to the end of December 2012 fell well below the levels seen in the same period of 2011, ensuring that annual IT services contract activity fell to its lowest level for 10 years, both in terms of total contract value (TCV) and deal volume.

Easynet moves to the Cloud with HP

HP Converged Infrastructure enhances IT agility for global managed services provider.

The biggest threat to your data centre? The people within it

Survey reveals internal threats are still responsible for the most downtime incidents.

Reliability in the cloud is more valuable than low cost and ease of set up

Yet only 30% are very confident that their cloud service provider is reliable.

euNetworks enhances carrier community at LDeX1 Data Centre, London

London Data Exchange (LDeX) has announced details of the latest Tier 1 network provider to establish a Point of Presence at their LDeX1 data centre in North West London; euNetworks.

Neue NetSure 701-Retrofit Lösung für ACTURA-Systeme bietet höhere Zuverlässigkeit und Effizienz

Retrofit-Lösungen von Emerson Network Power ermöglichen Modernisierung von DC-Stromversorgungssystemen

NovaBACKUP mit nahtlosem Cloud Backup und Restore. NovaStor kooperiert mit SITaaS.

Cloud-Storage-Anbieter in Deutschland, UK und USA stehen in NovaBACKUP direkt als Speicherziel zur Verfügung. NovaBACKUP-Kunden erhalten bei SITaaS 5 GB gratis

Exponential-e expands its high-speed connectivity to Virtus Data Centres’ LON1 facility

Virtus Data Centres has partnered with technology firm Exponential-e to boost high-speed connectivity options in Virtus’ LON1 data centre. Exponential-e provides direct connectivity to over 42 different UK financial exchanges and trading platforms.

Power für die IT - Intelligente Stromverteilung für modulare Rechenzentren

Schneider Electric erweitert sein Lösungsportfolio für den Bereich IT Business um die Prisma-Schaltanlagen und die Canalis-Schienenverteiler. Mit ihnen passen Administratoren die Energieversorgung ihrer Rechenzentren jederzeit flexibel an die sich ändernden Anforderungen der IT an. Beide Lösungsreihen können ab sofort über Partner und Reseller von Schneider Electric IT Business bezogen werden

White paper highlights adoption of ODCA Cloud Usage models

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has announced the release of a new white paper focused on how one of its board members has adopted ODCA requirements as the foundation for its cloud implementation and the release of two new usage models focused on Software Entitlement and Data Security. With today's news, ODCA has now released over 20 cloud requirements documents and publications and is demonstrating significant momentum in the adoption of its cloud usage models.

Ovum predicts radical change for the enterprise landscape by 2020

Citrix, Google, VMware and Yammer identified as disruptive players driving this transformation.

Application modernisation and digital data management

Martin James, VP EMEA at Aerospike, discusses the importance of application modernisation, efficient software and IT consolidation – all of which should mean the need for less databases, but with richer feature sets. He outlines both the pitfalls of holding onto legacy applications and systems and the benefits of modernisation and consolidation, with Aerospike well positioned to help customers with the attendant data management challenges and opportunities.

SNIA and STA in storage consolidation

Dr. J Metz, Chair, SNIA Board of Directors and Cameron T. Brett, STA Forum Board of Directors, discuss the formation of the SNIA SCSI Trade Association (STA) Forum and share their thoughts as to what this positive development means for the storage industry (vendors and end users alike) into the future, as well as highlighting the challenges and opportunities facing the sector in the rapidly evolving technology space.

Redefining risk

David Tattam, Chief Research and Content Officer and Co-Founder, Protecht, discusses the company’s mission ‘to redefine the way the world thinks about risk’, with some engaging and informative insights as to how organisations can develop and grow an effective, dynamic risk management framework, with the people-related aspect – culture and conduct – at its core.

Commvault adds advanced security features

Jason Gerrard, Director of International Systems Engineering at Commvault, explains the advanced security features recently added to the company’s data protection solutions portfolio, featuring on-prem and SaaS management integration, risk analysis, threat scan and advisor, auto recovery and Microsoft and CyberArk integrations.