Virtualization key for video surveillance
Pivot3 has unveiled the findings of a survey of 100 UK IT decision-makers carried out in February by market research company Vanson Bourne. The poll asked whether saving costs through server consolidation was one of their top three priorities for 2009. The results were overwhelming, with 72 percent of respondents involved in video surveillance agreeing to the priority alignment. Interestingly, the positive results for IT departments involved in video surveillance were higher than the results for IT environments not involved in video surveillance, where 60 percent of respondents ticked the box.
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Business Leaders Overlook IT Cost Savings In Favour Of Security
· Knowledge of risk reducing concepts dwarfs cost saving practices· Financial pressure top of business agenda
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Research reveals data culture shift amongst UK PLC
Organisations are changing data management practices to meet new IT priorities.
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3Par and Carrenza laugh it up
Cloud Computing Specialist Leverages Utility Storage to Process £20 Million in Charitable Contributions for Red Nose Day 2009.
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Martin Brokers Saves £63,000 PA
By Switching its Managed Online Backup Service to oncore IT.
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Top marks for rapid deployment
Reaseheath College, one of the UK's most successful agricultural colleges, has cut individual PC redeployments across its campus from half a day to just 20 minutes by implementing Acronis Snap Deploy for Workstation.
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Scottish Universities Benefit From New Technology
The Scottish Funding Council Implements Open Text ECM Suite to Improve Document and Record Management, and Knowledge Sharing Abilities.
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VIPRE Enterprise™ Provides Complete Endpoint Security Without Affecting User Productivity
Sunbelt Software says that Surrey Community Development Trust (SCDT) has switched its antivirus solution to VIPRE Enterprise because of its higher levels of performance and minimal use of systems resources. With VIPRE Enterprise, SCDT benefits from comprehensive anti-malware security while protecting the productivity of over 90 staff across 16 sites in Surrey and Berkshire.
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Jigsaw appointed as VAR for Isilon Systems’ full range of scale-out NAS solutions
Jigsaw Systems has been selected as a reseller of Isilon's scale-out NAS solutions. The agreement provides Jigsaw's media and broadcast customers access to a range of products that will allow them to manage large amounts of file-based data in a highly scaleable, easy-to-manage and cost-effective way.
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Not replacing power-hungry storage systems today will cost businesses tomorrow warns TCS
IBM preferred partner, Thesaurus, warns that the traditional storage system is costing organisations dear as, on average, they consume between 76 and 89 per cent more power than the latest technology available, such as IBM's XIV.
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Avnet Technology Solutions picks up Brocade award for 4th year in a row
For the fourth year running Avnet Technology Solutions (Avnet), the value-added IT distributor, has been recognised for its distribution excellence at the annual Brocade Partner Summit in Nice.
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Survey reveals 37% of workers would hand-over company secrets for £1m
Thirty seven percent of London workers would hand over their company secrets to a total stranger if they were offered a million pounds especially now that employee loyalty is at an all time low, with a third of workers saying they felt a lot less loyal towards their employers than they did a year ago.
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