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Confusion Surrounds Innovation in IT Services
A new survey of IT services buyers has found that innovation is a key factor in their choice of supplier.
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Only a Third of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Have a Business Continuity Plan in Place
SunGard Launches SafetyNet 24/7 to Support Needs of Small Businesses.
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Trustmarque wins £4 million contract with MoD
Trustmarque to provide both hardware and software to MoD, following the consolidation of the Defence Equipment and Supply (DE&S) procurement framework.
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New FibreCAT CX4 series is well equipped for innovative future technologies
New generation midrange storage system provides easy and cost-effective consolidation while reducing energy consumption even further.
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OpenHosting Chooses Geo for Data Centre Fibre Ring
Geo says that OpenHosting, a major UK web hosting company and ISP, has signed a 5-year contract for a diverse fibre ring between three strategic London data centres. This fully scalable solution is designed to complement OpenHosting’s existing London fibre network and help meet their growing capacity needs as its customer base expands
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Standard Life Data Centre gets Chloride power protection
In a major re-fit at its Edinburgh data centre, Standard Life has installed four Chloride 500kVA 90-NET UPS for critical power protection. The choice of this advanced static system, which maintains power continuity at the facility, followed a thorough evaluation of the technical specifications, performance and cost comparisons of the industry’s leading static and rotary UPS systems.
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Avnet Technology Solutions opens THE [resource]
An enhanced meeting and proof of concept centre in Bracknell for Business Partners use.
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Databarracks offers refunds to all users that have paid for Buddybackup
Databarracks is offering refunds to all Buddybackup users who have paid for the full version of its popular Buddybackup software. The decision comes as Databarracks removes all of the limitations within the free version of Buddybackup, a peer-to-peer online backup software used by tens of thousands of people in over 126 countries around the world.
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Servers Made Simple for UK Small Businesses with Launch of serversdirect.co.uk
· New one stop shop for everything servers promises to empower and protect UK small businesses with the best server and network technology to suit their business needs with significant savings and benefits · Provides full range of IT support services including installation, data migration and ongoing management.
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Altron and LS become perfect partners
International data centre design and build specialist Altron is the latest high-profile company to joined forces with cabling giants LS.
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Partners launch business continuity services
Double-Take Software says that a growing number of its partners have launched managed business continuity services in the UK during the first six months of 2008. The services remotely manage the deployment of a Double-Take solution at a customer site, replicating changes to corporate data to a remote data centre in real time and, in the event of failure of production servers, automatically failing-over IT services. The introduction of these services is in line with the growing trend for the channel to offer hosted and managed services to their customers.
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