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United Utilities gets connected with Fujitsu

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United Utilities has tasked Fujitsu with transforming its IT estate. This new partnership highlights a move by United Utilities to invest in a modern IT environment and will see Fujitsu implement a high capacity, scalable and secure data centre environment. This supports its vision of becoming a leading service provider in the North West of England and one of the best UK water and wastewater companies. United Utilities is looking to increase its overall agility and encourage business growth,...

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Disability insurer Movir recently signed a 3-year contract with Proact for the supply, implementation and management of a converged data center infrastructure solution based on the FlexPod reference architecture. FlexPod is a validated solution from Cisco and NetApp that combines networking, computing and storage in one shared IT infrastructure. The environment as a whole will serve as the basis for increasing the availability, scalability, performance and associated IT infrastructure services.

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Die EMC Corporation hat die Ergebnisse einer weltweiten Umfrage vorgestellt, die das Unternehmen unter 10.700 Teilnehmern der lokalen EMC Foren durchgeführt hat. IT-Entscheider aus 50 Ländern wurden nach ihrer Meinung zu den Herausforderungen und Chancen gefragt, die Big Data und IT-Transformation für ihre Unternehmen mit sich bringen. Zu den Befragten gehörten neben Managern, IT-Verantwortlichen und -Architekten auch Data Scientists sowie Speicher- und...

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Swisstopo, the federal mapping agency for the Swiss confederation, has deployed Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array™ (VPSA) storage as a service (STaaS) running the NFS protocol at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) EU regional data centre in Dublin. As its growth in Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes and Web users created cost and scalability challenges, Swisstopo moved to Zadara and quickly found that its move to an NFS-based storage architecture dramatically lowered both EBS...

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Varonis Systems, Inc. has announced the general availability of DatAnywhere 1.5, adding to the functionality of a secure collaboration solution that has gained strong customer adoption in its first year of existence.