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Big data and analytics?

The Big data and analytics question is at the forefront of many business leaders thinking but it’s worth taking a step back and looking at some of the wider macro-economic trends. Since the post war era, UK productivity has risen steadily when averaged over the decades but dropped significantly following the 2008 financial crisis and is now only slowly reaching post crisis levels. In fact, the Office for National Statistics has stated that in the last quarter of 2017, productivity of British...

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Pure Storage launches Cloud Data Services

Pure Storage has introduced Pure Storage Cloud Data Services, a suite of new cloud offerings that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With these new products, customers can invest in a single storage architecture that unifies application deployments on-premises and on the cloud to flexibly turn data into value virtually anywhere.

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University of Birmingham to deploy largest IBM POWER9 AI cluster in the UK

Researchers at the University of Birmingham are set to benefit from the largest IBM® POWER9™ Artificial Intelligence (AI) cluster in the UK, delivering unprecedented performance for AI workloads. Working with OCF, the high-performance compute, storage and data analytics integrator, the University will integrate a total of 11 IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems servers into its existing high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR).

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Predicting and preventing unplanned downtime

Veritas Technologies has introduced Veritas Predictive Insights, a new solution that utilises artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver always-on proactive support.

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1000 percent backup performance gains and 20 percent cost savings

Unitrends and Unitrends MSP have introduced Unitrends version 10.3 software for Recovery Series hardware and Unitrends Backup virtual appliances. The combination of enhanced foundational efficiencies in the Gen 8 Recovery Series appliances along with the new 10.3 software drastically changes the economics of data management – enabling IT managers and MSPs to meet backup and long-term retention requirements without sacrificing recovery time or access to business-critical applications and data.

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New capabilities include one-click failover and testing, less than 10 minute RTO, and improved...
The DiRAC Memory Intensive Service based at Durham University's Institute for Computational...
High performance computing (HPC) is now critical to the advanced level of research being conducted...
Fujitsu's FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX200F system is said to deliver the benefits of...
Arcserve has unveiled Arcserve Business Continuity Cloud, said to be the first fully-integrated,...
Cloudian says that its HyperStore® object storage software is now flash-optimized, enabling...
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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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