SDC Channel Insights

Ostara enhances business with redundancy systems and greater bandwidth

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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.

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Data Continuity Group (DCG) has announced the launch of its managed cloud-based disaster recovery (CDR) service offering organisations the opportunity to deploy a comprehensive and cost-effective DR plan for their entire IT environment for a fixed monthly fee.

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As a prime partner for Akamai, Swisscom will serve as lead “go to” market partner in Switzerland.

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

Less than two in 10 backup all data

Less than two in ten companies backup all of their data, according to new research commissioned by Onyx Group, specialist IT providers of datacentre services, business continuity, and cloud.

ANS Group invests in Sunrise

Successful IT cloud services company reaps efficiency gains and enhances customer service using ITIL to manage support and administration for over 10,000 customer and prospect contacts.

Easynet moves to the Cloud with HP

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

Kawasaki selects Virtustream

Major powersports distributor uses the xStream cloud solution to better serve online customers.

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.

Toshibas 19-nm-NAND-SSDs sind jetzt verfügbar

Mehrere neue SSD-Laufwerke mit 19-nm-NAND-Flash-Speicher von Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) sind ab sofort europaweit verfügbar. Die neuen SSDs der THNSNH-Serie, die eine hohe Performance und Energieeffizienz bieten, sind mit Speicherkapazitäten von 60 bis 512 GB erhältlich

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

Oscar-prämiertes Produktionsstudio Framestore nutzt Quantum StorNext

Framestore, ein international führendes Produktionsstudio für visuelle Filmeffekte und Computeranimationen, hat sich für die Nutzung des Quantum StorNext File-Systems und StorNext Storage Managers entschieden. Sie dienen dem Oscar-prämierten Produktionsteam zur Unterstützung seiner hochperformanten Workflows und Verwaltung der digitalen Archive

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.

WhatsUp Application Performance Monitor launch

IT departments can manage and rapidly resolve application performance and availability issues from a unified, customisable dashboard.

Orange Business Services enhances Security as a Service portfolio

SafeNet Authentication Service provides additional layer of security through multifactor authentication delivered in a cloud model.

Automation key to cybersecurity success

Steven Wood, Director, Solution Consulting (EMEA, APAC), OpenText Cybersecurity, provides some brilliant insights into what actually happens during a security breach, how organisations can address the pain points of skills shortages and the need to consolidate security solutions, and explains how OpenText’s cybersecurity platform provides MSPs and MSSPs with a great opportunity to help end users optimise their cyber resilience strategies.

Delivering an optimised digital customer experience

Emily Bristow, SVP Global Head of Professional Services at SS&C Blue Prism, discusses the use of both automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technology solutions to enhance the digital customer experience. She shares some great insights as to the way in which these technologies can help to optimise customer interactions, emphasising that these solutions are primarily designed to augment, rather than replace, human experience.

UEC to focus on high-performance networking

Eric Eppe, Head of Portfolio & Strategy, HPC/AI/Quantum at Eviden, Atos Group and also the UEC Secretary, discusses the formation of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI & HPC at scale.

Expert Opinion Series - Episode 1 - DCS Talks to Centiel

In the first of a series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Bond, from our series sponsor company, Centiel, shares valuable thoughts on and insights into current data centre industry challenges and opportunities – with sustainability and skills very much the focus. He also reveals what keeps him busy away from the workplace.

Expert Opinions

Considerations and modelling of on-premise hydrogen production in data centres for greenhouse gas abatement – a viable option?

By Joe Sheehan, Technical Director, i3 Solutions Group.

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