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UK SMEs still spending on IT, yet £6.89 billion is wasted

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SolarWinds has revealed the results from SolarWinds Time and Budget Spent on IT Study, (“the study”), which looked into the priorities and challenges faced by 500 IT decision makers in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across the UK and Germany in March 2013.

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IBM has announced new technologies designed to help companies and governments tackle Big Data by making it simpler, faster and more economical to analyze massive amounts of data. New data acceleration innovation results in as much as 25 times faster reporting and analytics.

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Riverbed Technology has announced the availability of Riverbed® OPNET AppInternals Xpert® 8.5, a unified application performance management (APM) suite that provides deep visibility into the performance of complex, multi-tier applications. The new features in OPNET AppInternals Xpert 8.5...

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Hadoop technology leader expands access to the packages and components for Apache Hadoop.

Verne Global extends European presence into Germany

Verne Global, a UK-based developer of green energy-powered data centre campuses, has announced the...

SAS survey signals big data disconnect; only 12 per cent on board

Despite industry hype, most organisations have yet to develop and implement a big data strategy....

MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

MapR Technologies, Inc. and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, have...

Racktivity appoints Scott Roots as UK Sales Manager

Racktivity, pioneer in the development of next-generation power and energy management solutions,...

Dataguise enhances DG for Hadoop

Dataguise has announced DG for Hadoop™ v4.3. Now the first and only solution of its kind to...

Six Degress Group acquires central London data centre operator

Six Degrees Group (6DG has acquired BIS, an independent data centre operator that provides...

Government of Catalonia Agency awards HP $40 million contract

HP to modernize Spanish community’s applications environment to support economic growth,...

Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers added to 6SigmaDC DCIM Library

Fujitsu becomes first IT equipment manufacturer to supply detailed heat and airflow information for...

Daisy chooses Virtus for new data hosting facility

Virtus Data Centres (“Virtus”) has signed a 15 year agreement with the Daisy Group plc;...

Schneider Electric announces new white paper ‘Determining the Power, Cooling, and space capacities when consolidating Data Centres’

Wendy Torell, and Patrick Donavan, Senior Research Analysts at Schneider Electric’s Data...

Helping organisations capitalise on Big Data

HP has announced a complete next-generation data warehouse platform that enables businesses to...

DCS talks to Steve Hone, DCA about their DCT 2024 event!

News and views from the recent DCA-organised Data Centre Transformation 2024 event.

IT modernisation - the dos and don'ts

Neil Fowler, SVP of Hybrid Cloud Engineering at Rocket Software, discusses the challenges and opportunities of IT modernisation, offering some valuable insights as to the essential ingredients of a successful...

IceCloud Integrated Services - setting the standard for sustainable computing

Kenneth Tan, Executive Director at Sardina Systems, Philip Kaye, Co-Founder and Director at Vespertec and Kristófer Andri Kristinsson, Product Manager and Business Development Manager at Borealis Data Center,...

Data centres need to become critical stakeholders in the energy sector

Ciarán Forde, VP, Strategic Accounts & Alliances, Electrical Sector Sales - EMEA, Eaton, discusses the collaboration between Eaton and data centre design and build company CTS Nordics, which has recently seen...

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