Co-location can serve as an opportunity for organisations to test the waters with various vendors and outsourcing strategies. Nigel Offley of CentriLogic outlines the benefits and risks associated with co-location, and identifies how co-locating IT infrastructure can serve as a strong first step towards virtualisation, cloud, and fully managed hosting as part of a strategic IT outsourcing plan.
Read MoreJenkins Enterprise by CloudBees to be available on Pivotal Network.
Read MoreDruva has announced the appointment of 20-year technology sales veteran Rick Powles to the new position of Regional Vice President, EMEA. Now heading all regional day-to-day and sales operations, Powles will focus on further accelerating EMEA penetration of Druva’s solutions to bring critical business data housed on employees’ desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones under centralized IT control.
Read MoreNew tools enable systems admins to identify cost savings by calculating specific backup sizing requirements and eliminating extraneous storage.
Read MorePernixData has appointed Prianto GmbH to distribute the company’s award winning FVP™ software throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. As part of the new relationship, Prianto and PernixData will co-invest in market development, sales, and technical support activities in the DACH region to facilitate the adoption of decoupled storage architectures in virtualised data centers.
Read MoreEaton has announced the launch of its Intelligent Power Manager™ software version 1.43, which now features even tighter integration with VMWare® vCenter’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM). As a result, the new software allows IT managers to automatically trigger SRM data replication caused by environmental or power alarms. This increases ease of use and reliability of both physical and virtual IT systems, which in turn enhances business continuity.
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