Tackling data growth, performance and virtual sprawl

Symantec has announced the latest version of its NetBackup solution, bringing new functionality to protect the largest scale VMware-based environments as enterprises move to a software-defined data centre architecture. NetBackup 7.6 is the only backup product designed for enterprise level scale, which can accommodate hundreds of thousands of virtual machines and petabytes of data while giving customers 400x faster virtual machine recovery than a standard restore. IT organisations can now...

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SMEs give IT suppliers positive feedback

Nearly 80% of UK small to medium sized (SME) businesses have a positive relationship with their IT suppliers, according to independent research by data centre and communications specialist, Node4. The survey of 250 IT decision makers in companies between 50-500 employees, revealed that 45% of SMEs are working closely together in a strategic relationship with their IT vendor and a further 34% agreed that their supplier totally understands their business and meets its needs.

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Kroll Ontrack launches data recovery relief to UK flood victims

Kroll Ontrack is offering support to UK residents affected by the recent storms across Britain. During the Christmas and the New Year period a series of severe storms, flooding and power cuts have damaged homes and appliances, including personal computers and mobile devices. In response to the crisis, Kroll Ontrack has pledged to provide victims with the following services for data files impacted by the storms:

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Brocade divests network adapter business

Brocade has announced the sale of its network adapter business to QLogic, as part of its stated business strategy to focus on meeting the data center networking needs of customers through next-generation fabrics and software defined networking -- the two critical building blocks for modern data centers.

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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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