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Hardware failures to blame as business disruptions rise

Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) has revealed that UK invocations have hit their highest levels since 2009. Overall incidents of downtime, in which staff are unable to work from their usual office or access business critical systems, also rose by over one third (38 per cent) since 2013, leading to concerns that organisations are failing to sufficiently invest in the strategies and solutions required to maintain All-Time™ availability.

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Coping with continual data growth

Fujitsu has launched a high-performing and fast storage subsystem to help businesses – especially SMEs and branch offices – optimise their ICT systems from end-to-end. Attaching directly to the server, the new FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS JX40 S2 is an ideal extension to any server. Fujitsu also announces the brand new FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2560 M1 and TX2560 M1 which identically deliver maximum performance, best expandability and highest availability in a choice of rack-mounted (RX)...

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Failure to invest in Disaster Recovery is costing IT managers thousands in downtime

New study shows most IT managers estimate downtime costs £10,000-£20,000 per minute.

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EMC appoints Ross Fraser as VP and Country Manager for the UK and Ireland

EMC Computer Systems (U.K.) has appointed Ross Fraser as the Company’s new Vice President and Country Manager for the UK and Ireland. After a long track record as one of EMC’s senior executives in the EMEA region, the new appointment is a promotion from his previous role as Vice President of Global Alliances, where he led EMC’s global alliances business across the EMEA region.

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How Clifton College solved its data backup problems

Clifton College is one of the UK’s leading co-educational independent schools. Cristie Data provides the Bristol-based private school with a fully managed, scalable and reliable cloud backup solution that protects pupil data and can easily scale to meet future data growth.

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