APTARE granted patent for cataloguing the metadata for billions of files

APTARE, a pioneer in data centre optimisation software, has been notified by The US Patent and Trademarks Office that it has been granted a patent to create a, "Catalogue that Stores File System Metadata in an Optimised Manner," (United States Patent No. 8,402,071). This patent provides a method for the persistence and cataloguing of billions of file and folder metadata contained in unstructured file systems through a highly efficient, optimised, and compact mechanism.

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

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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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. Business analytics leader SAS and SourceMedia surveyed 339 data management professionals about their organisations' use of data management technology. The results show few organisations taking advantage of product, customer and other data sources.

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Modernising Oracle with converged infrastructure

Customers who adopt Dell EMC VxBlock technology experienced 99% less planned and unplanned downtime according to a study by IDC.

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