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Alternatives to a tangle of tape
by Ian Masters When it comes to backing up data, tape has been the preferred option for many years. At the end of each day, some poor soul has been responsible for managing the transfer of data from production servers to tape cartridges, which then ... News | 25 Aug 2008
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HDD meets rising storage demands
The rise of automated manufacturing processes, automated ticketing machines, self-service/mobile point of sale retail machines, and the widespread use of data capture equipment such as CCTV cameras has led to a data explosion among industrial and com... News | 08 Aug 2008
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Flexibility boosts RAID revenues
Maintaining or increasing revenues from well-established technologies might seem like a hard task, but this is not necessarily the case. Take RAID subsystems, for example. RAID solutions have been around for a long time and in light of the developm... News | 07 Aug 2008
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Time and tide wait for no WAN
In a virtualised environment, IT managers need to pay careful attention to the impact wide area network (WAN) performance has on application performance. When virtual servers are centralised, limited bandwidth, high latency and packet loss on the WAN... News | 01 Aug 2008
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Brocade points to Foundry buy as channel opportunity
Brocade has expanded on its reasons for buying Foundry Networks and the repercussions for the channel underlying the increase in opportunities it presents for partners. The announcement of the $3bn takeover was seen by many as a chance for Brocade t... News | 29 Jul 2008
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Replicate data to protect servers
Many organisations are adopting virtualisation in their data centres to better use hardware, reduce power consumption and simplify management. The reliability of the infrastructure is critically important but what is the best way to protect virtual ... News | 28 Jul 2008
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Demystifying data deduplication
By Kevin Platz 21 July 2008 When it comes to data deduplication technology the opportunities for resellers are clear - provided they present it and match it to their customers' needs effectively. Data deduplication has moved from emerging technol... News | 21 Jul 2008
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Hitachi Data Systems hands rebate power to resellers
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has decentralised its global payment model and given local resellers more say on the mix of rebate and marketing funding they receive. But under the changes distributors will lose out on channel development compensation as ... News | 15 Jul 2008
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Logicalis aims to boost mainframe business
Logicalis has made a bid to ramp up its mainframe computing business with the launch of an IBM System z Test Environment at its Innovation Centre. Open to both end-user customers and partners, the Environment has been designed to dispel some of the ... News | 04 Jul 2008
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Seagate pumps cash into Derry plant
Hard-disk vendor Seagate hasresponded to ever-increasing global demand for digital storage by injecting£120m into its Springbank facility in Northern Ireland. Springbank manufacturesread-write heads exclusively for Seagate drives, and the firm... News | 03 Jul 2008