Digitalisation World

Go hybrid: why you need a balanced diet of SSDs and HDDs

Published in Flash Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers

Cost, speed and reliability - the three crucial factors when it comes to choosing your next data storage system, writes Warren Reid, Director of Marketing at Dot Hill Systems.

CIOs need to optimise BYOD for new technologies

According to a new whitepaper revealed by independent datacentre consultancy, Glasshouse Technologies, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives may not have met the expectations of employees, businesses or CIOs.

Published in BC/DR Management Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Virtualisation

Tegile Systems has launched a new reference architecture with Cisco Systems and VMware that dramatically lowers capacity and CPU utilization requirements in VDI environments, freeing up more resources to accelerate I/O performance. The integrated desktop virtualization solution offers users a simple, unified and scalable solution that provides faster deployments, greater flexibility of choice, efficiency and lower risk.

Published in Flash Management Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology

Infortrend® has announced the addition of four new models to its groundbreaking 16G Fibre Channel (FC) storage solutions. Available in 4U/48 and 2U/24 form factors – and for a limited time the same price as 8G FC storage – these models provide users with the choice of higher capacity and density storages to take advantage of the cutting-edge performance, advanced hardware design and virtualisation offered by the 16G FC EonStor DS G7i models.

Published in BC/DR Management Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers

X-IO, a recognised innovator in the storage industry, has won two awards at this year’s 2013 DCS awards. ‘Data Centre Appliance of the Year‘ for its ISE Storage System and ‘SSD/Flash Product of the Year’ for its Hyper ISE solution.

Published in BC/DR Management Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers

Proact will supply a new storage and backup platform to Swedish consumer electronics retailer SIBA. To secure data availability Proact has designed a solution for both primary storage and backup. Under the agreement Proact will also deliver 24/7 support.