Businesses are replacing departmental databases - known as data marts - with enterprise data warehouses designed to pool information across the company.
Are we alone in the universe? Could life exist on other planets? Questions like these have inspired countless science fiction stories, but at the University of Exeter's Astrophysics department, these queries are at the forefront of research. The department is using a range of supercomputers coupled with its own bespoke open source software to study how stars and planets are formed.
The Networked Storage Company (TNWSC), a leading IT consultancy, that specialises in transitioning customers to proven, simplified and cost-efficient IT data storage solutions has been bought by PDC giant Dell.
Cisco has launched a gateway switch that boosts the performance of applications that run on InfiniBand-clustered servers and network-attached storage and Fibre Channel based storage devices.
IBM bolsters DS8000 high-end systems and Nas management application, but it leaves out Maid, data deduplication, thin provisioning and 1Tbyte Sata drives.