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APTARE, a pioneer in data centre optimisation software, has been notified by The US Patent and Trademarks Office that it has been granted a patent to create a, "Catalogue that Stores File System Metadata in an Optimised Manner," (United States Patent No. 8,402,071). This patent provides a method for the persistence and cataloguing of billions of file and folder metadata contained in unstructured file systems through a highly efficient, optimised, and compact mechanism.

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Native SQL server failover clustering in the Amazon Cloud

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Acronis appoints Paul Munday as Sales Manager, UK & Ireland

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