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Integration software and middleware

• November 05, 2007 05 Nov'07

  Accenture and Thomas Cook sign 10-year outsourcing contract

  In the wake of its merger and integration with MyTravel, travel agency Thomas Cook has outsourced the management of application, infrastructure and business processes to Accenture for 10 years.

• October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07

  Riverbed posts profit, but stock slips

  Riverbed reports higher sales, but its stock fell 25% on a poor rating from financial analysts.

• October 22, 2007 22 Oct'07

  Consolidation helps Holstein cope with data

  Holstein UK has consolidated its storage infrastructure to make data retrieval quicker and easier, as demand for its services increases.

• October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07

  DreamWorks draws on storage for animation

  DreamWorks' senior technologist says it takes a lot of emerging storage technologies to make an animation movie.

• October 18, 2007 18 Oct'07

  Hard landscaper makes a soft choice on cutting storage costs

  Hard landscaping manufacturer Marshalls has deployed a data management system to increase its storage performance three-fold and reduce costs.

• October 17, 2007 17 Oct'07

  IBM unveils Information Mainframe System 10

  IBM has unveiled a new version of its mainframe Information Management System (IMS) to bolster its on-demand web services offering.

• October 16, 2007 16 Oct'07

  IBM enhances enterprise content management offering

  IBM has unveiled enhancements to its enterprise content management systems.

• October 14, 2007 14 Oct'07

  VMware takes on data migration

  VMware supports migrating data between disc arrays with Storage VMotion, changing the equation between server and storage virtualisation devices.

• October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07

  San supplier Compellent completes IPO

  Compellent goes public at a higher price than expected, but still has its work cut out to succeed against established San suppliers EMC, IBM, HP and NetApp.

• October 08, 2007 08 Oct'07

  Amsterdam airport uses RFID for baggage system

  Schiphol airport in Amsterdam is using IBM to expand its baggage capacity using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.

• October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07

  Cork City Council deploys Sun systems

  Council boosts performance and availability of critical systems with Sun technology

• October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07

  Virtual storage brings savings

  How virtualisation is applied to storage systems to deliver efficiencies and savings

• October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07

  Thin provisioning: the future of storage?

  Thin provisioning cuts the need to have dedicated spare capacity for every application

• October 04, 2007 04 Oct'07

  Pillar announces support for 1 TB SATA drives

  Pillar is one of the earliest to announce 1 TB SATA drives in an enterprise array. IBM's SVC becomes the first storage virtualization product certified with VMware.

• October 02, 2007 02 Oct'07

  VMware brings server and storage virtualisation closer with hardware device certification programme

  VMware is bringing server and storage virtualisation closer together by introducing a storage virtualisation certification programme for hardware that works well with its software.