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IT hardware

• Big data storage: Analytics takes small first steps in Turkey

  Etiya’s Somemto social media management project makes pioneering steps in big data with a Hadoop cluster on an Oracle Big Data Appliance.  Continue Reading

• Co-location services and datacentres feel the CCA heat

  A climate change agreement (CCA) for datacentres has come into force. How will its energy-efficiency rewards shape the industry?  Continue Reading

• Harnessing the power of cloud with VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC)

  Firms planning an SDDC strategy need a tool to manage, automate and orchestrate their IT - such as VMware vCloud Automation Centre  Continue Reading

• Big Apple revolution: How to manage Macs in the enterprise

  Apple’s products were once niche devices. Now, following a consumer-led initiative, they are widely used across the enterprise  Continue Reading

• Virtual machine data backup strategies in Turkey

  Turkish organisations explain how they combine virtual machine backup with traditional backup, replication and snapshots as part of their data protection strategy  Continue Reading

• Big players target object storage at cloud and archive

  All but one of the big six storage vendors have object storage products that target public and private cloud environments and/or archiving use cases  Continue Reading

• Enterprises, scientists and academics turn to public cloud for HPC

  Organisations are starting to use supercomputers on demand via public cloud to access HPC capabilities  Continue Reading

• How to support Apple in the enterprise

  The popularity of Apple products is driving adoption in the enterprise. But how should IT departments support iOS and MacOS X devices?  Continue Reading

• Rural communities take the initiative on superfast broadband

  Amidst the furore over the deployment of superfast broadband in remote rural areas, communities and businesses in Oxfordshire took action  Continue Reading

• Backup vs replication, snapshots, CDP in data protection strategy

  Best practice data protection strategy combines backup with snapshots, CDP and replication for different levels of recovery  Continue Reading

• Micro-datacentre: What IT problems it solves and what workload systems suit it

  A micro-datacentre is a smaller containerised datacentre system designed to solve different problems or to handle different workloads  Continue Reading

• Green storage is dead. Long live green storage

  Green storage may have slipped from the headlines, but the need for better energy efficiency in storage is more pressing than ever  Continue Reading

• Virtual server backup products surveyed

  Specialist virtual machine backup products vary in many ways, including hypervisor and application support  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery in Turkey: Some businesses shine but many lag

  Overall disaster recovery readiness is poor in Turkey and the Middle East, but some businesses buck that trend  Continue Reading

• Will silicon photonics replace copper cabling in mainstream datacentres?

  Silicon photonics can increase bandwidth in servers, improve data transfer speeds and reduce complexity. But are datacentres ready for it?  Continue Reading