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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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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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9.32 billion total malware attacks in 2017, an 18.4 percent year-over-year increase.
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