Each year September rolls around, bringing with it the annual IT Professionals Day—a day dedicated to appreciating IT professionals, and the critical role they play in end users’ lives and in operating successful organisations across every sector. IT professionals are the hidden heroes regardless of where they work, but for those in the public sector, keeping technology up and running can be the difference between life and death in an operating theatre, or between a law being passed and a...
Read MoreFor organisations operating Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the end is near; both are being shelved by Microsoft and will officially reach “end of life” status as of January 2020 and July 2019 respectively. It is impossible to determine the exact market share of each individual Microsoft Server operating systems in use; however, Ned Pyle, principal program manager in the Windows Server high availability and storage group, provided information indicating that the market share...
Read MoreDataCore Software has introduced vFilO™ software, its next-generation distributed file and object storage virtualisation technology, that is uniquely designed to help enterprises organise, optimise, and control large volumes of data scattered on-premises and in the cloud. This newest addition to the company’s leading software-defined storage (SDS) portfolio complements data services provided by DataCore™ SANsymphony™ software for block-based storage. The two products can be used...
Read MoreDDN has introduced new infrastructure and multicloud solutions ahead of its return to the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC19).
Read MoreSignificant risk of data loss due to misguided trust in service providers’ backup provisions.
Read MorePanasas says that its re-engineered PanFS® parallel file system, delivered on the Panasas ActiveStor® Ultra appliance, is now shipping and in early deployment at Sumitomo Metal Mining and the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.
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