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IT budgets set to increase according to a third (37%) of financial services organisations

Survey of UK & Ireland financial services sector reveals companies are set to spend as cost-cutting moves down the agenda and customers become priority.

Published in Cloud + MS Flash Infrastructure Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology Virtualisation

All Flash Array performance leader breaks $100,000 street price.

Published in Cloud + MS Flash Infrastructure Management Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Virtualisation

SanDisk Corporation and Super Micro Computer, Inc. have announced that the SanDisk ULLtraDIMM™ solid state drive (SSD), the industry’s first enterprise-class, ultra-low latency, memory-channel connected storage solution, will begin shipping in Supermicro’s Green SuperServer and SuperStorage platforms. Adding flash storage on the memory bus provides Supermicro with a powerful solution to help customers address growing data centre application performance requirements without a...

Worldwide IT market showing tentative signs of improvement

According to the newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book (Doc #250222), recent volatility will gradually give way to a more positive outlook for IT spending in the second half of 2014. With the U.S. and other mature economies mostly heading in the right direction and a significant commercial PC refresh cycle already underway, improvements in business confidence are set to drive a moderate infrastructure upgrade cycle over the next 12-18 months, while...

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure + Hardware Storage + Servers Virtualisation

Database virtualisation is on the rise due to its cost savings, efficiency and agility benefits. According to a recent survey of nearly 500 IT Professionals conducted by SolarWinds, the majority of respondents (76 percent) have virtualised their databases and/or are using a hybrid approach of virtual and physical databases to support their environment.