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Storage Virtualisation Solutions and Services

• Zero clients: The future of mobile security for the channel?

  As cyber attacks and security breaches continue to grow, IT managers are seeking new ways to secure their critical business data. While thin clients have been a good option in the past, they have limited benefits for remote working. That is where ...  Continue Reading

• Nand, flash, SSDs and HDDs – what’s happening?

  It is estimated that the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. How will storage technology cope?  Continue Reading

• What do crystals, glass and DNA have in common?

  DNA, glass and crystal have an unexpected common link – they are all innovative new ways to meet the growing demand to store vast amounts of data  Continue Reading

• CAE and i-Storage have something to market

  A couple of British firms caught the eye of Nick Booth with both deserving recognition  Continue Reading

• Hybrid-Cloud VDI profitability in seven steps

  Atchison Frazer from Xangati provides a roadmap for the channel to deliver a successful Virtual Desktop Infrastructure  Continue Reading

• Infrastructure as a utility – The next stage in cloud evolution

  Philippe Fosse, VP EMEA channels at EMC, shares his thoughts on the channel, innovation and the cloud  Continue Reading

• Myth conceptions about IT

  There are many myths and legendary figures in IT and as Nick Booth finds some are still around trying to pull their own sword out of the stone  Continue Reading

• Finding some virtual problems

  Nick Booth walked the stands at the recent VMworld 2014 event to find out if anyone in the land of virtualisation had any problems to declare  Continue Reading

• Messages of bravery and comfort from VMware

  Billy MacInnes finds a contradiction in the messages coming out of senior management at VMworld 2014  Continue Reading

• A seismic shift is about to hit the SAN

  VMware says VSAN will simplify storage in the virtual environment. If this is simplifying things, what happens when they try to make things hard? Nick Booth takes the temperature among VMware-watchers  Continue Reading

• What's in store for storage in the year ahead?

  Federica Monsone, director at A3 Communications, finds out from her clients just what they think will happen in the world of storage in 2014  Continue Reading

• Storage may be boring - but it matters and makes money

  Fujitsu’s Craig Parker says we should remember that storage performance is vitally important to the performance of virtualised datacentres.  Continue Reading

• Moving virtual storage to the cloud

  Parallels' John Zanni shares some guidelines for hosting firms who want to enhance their offerings with cloud-based storage.  Continue Reading

• Selling storage to the SME sector

  Comms-care's Darren Briscoe looks at some SME storage scenarios and explores how resellers can leverage this market.  Continue Reading

• Column: How will you celebrate world backup day?

  Some cynics said it would never take off, but World Backup Day has really caught the public's imagination.  Continue Reading

• Column: Toilet paper as a storage metaphor

  It's not often we get toilet references in MicroScope, understandably so, writes Billy MacInnes. Usually, if people are talking about technology they like to make references to aerospace engineering.  Continue Reading

• Column: The messy case of the recovery discs

  I find the story of Microsoft's legal action against retail giant for allegedly creating and selling over 94,000 counterfeit copies of Windows Vista and XP intriguing, writes Billy MacInnes.  Continue Reading

• Helping customers avoid information overload

  In today's modern world, information floods in to companies in a number of different forms. Data from emails, invoices, purchase orders, and so on, all needs to be captured in order for a company to have a complete overview of transactions that have...  Continue Reading

• Managing the data deluge

  All too often, storage is simply taken for granted. After all, the price of storage has dropped from approximately $100 in 1997 to around $0.10 last year.  Continue Reading

• Bucking the trend in tough times can bring its own problems

  If you talk to people at Citrix you can't escape the impression that whatever the conditions elsewhere in the industry or the wider world, life is pretty good at the vendor right now.  Continue Reading

• Desktop virtualisation is not so easy PC

  Having attended VM world and Citrix Summit in the space of a week, one of the main impressions I came back with was that for all the talk about desktop virtualisation over the past two years or so, it is turning out to be a bit more complex and ...  Continue Reading

• Not everything is virtual at VMworld

  As more than one observer has already remarked, this year's VMworld Europe event in Copenhagen was occasionally like a conference in reverse.  Continue Reading

• Steve Jobs: business genius or football manager?

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs has a reputation for being tough but the latest anecdote about the less than perfect launch of its MobileMe online service in 2008, shows that a brutal boss can also be, intentionally or otherwise, quite funny.  Continue Reading

• Baffling headline: StorageCraft Releases ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange v6.1

  What can it mean?  Continue Reading

• Is Seagate about to launch a hair dressing service - in the cloud?

  Seagate has sent this picture and a sparsely worded invitation to an event.  Continue Reading

• The ups and downs of the SME market

  Today's announcement of a new business range of Drobo products from Data Robotics, based on its Beyond RAID technology that allows users to mix and match drives, is another instance of a company moving up from the consumer and very small business ...  Continue Reading

• Dell attacks HP over 3Par but has either got strategy right?

  Michael Dell, founder of the eponymously named firm, reckons HP paid too much for 3Par and he was right to bow out of the bidding war when it reached $2.35bn.  Continue Reading

• EMC/Dell, what happens next?

  The EMC/Dell relationship appears to be unravelling at a rate of knots. EMC CEO Joe Tucci didn't mince his words couple of days ago when he told analysts the company's relationship with Dell had moved from "strategic to tactical", adding "it's now ...  Continue Reading

• Tech Data memory deal means you won't look back in anger

  Here's Jane Asher starring in John Osborne's iconic play, Look Back in Anger. Today, however, a very different John Osborne is equally passionate about a deal he's just signed with two top memory brands.  Continue Reading

• Encryption hardware a data lifesaver

  The first thing most of us do when we get into a car is put on a seatbelt. Whether we are driving or just along for the ride, it is so important that it is the law in the UK. We don't plan to have an accident but, just in case we do, we are ...  Continue Reading

• Software-based deduplication brings new options to SME market

  Data deduplication has been a hot topic in the storage world for the past year or so, and with good reason.  Continue Reading

• Keeping your data in order with disk back-up

  The volume of data created and stored by organisations continues to grow at amazing rates.  Continue Reading

• Downturn cannot hold back firms' growing data storage requirements

  P6One of the slides that was put up by Hewlett-Packard during the announcement of its Storage Works product enhancements last week caught the eye and summed up the state of the industry.  Continue Reading

• Comment: Resellers can profit from helping buyers cut costs

  The winners in storage selling in 2009 will be suppliers that convince customers that storage products and services will help them cut costs. Through this year, the stronger customers will want to cut costs and look to prune expenses or deliver ...  Continue Reading

• SSD – the real winner against HDD?

  The solid-state drive (SSD) has big shoes to fill. Its reputation as the technology frontrunner set to replace hard disk drives (HDD) means it faces a public downfall if its promises are not delivered. They can, and will, be compared against each ...  Continue Reading