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Have you thought about how to evolve your data centre to support innovation and growth? Are you ready to serve increasingly mobile customers and employees? The Cisco Nexus portfolio leads the transition, enabling you to prepare to handle the explosion of video and find intelligence in large sets of data. Be ready to integrate cloud-based...

Last week Western Digital revealed plans to acquire all of the outstanding shares of SanDisk for a combination of cash and stock. The offer values SanDisk common stock at $86.50 per share or a total equity value of approximately $19 billion. The combination is the next step in the transformation of Western Digital into a storage solutions...

SanDisk helps Lenovo to deliver their flash-enabled data centre solutions. SanDisk solid state storage devices are trusted by Lenovo and their customers, all across their enterprise product portfolio. They’re tried, tested and have the relevant OEM qualifications for many Lenovo server and storage platforms. This means that customers can be confident that SanDisk will work...

SanDisk have proved the perfect partner for PlentyOfFish, the world’s largest online dating site, as they helped them overcome significant challenges with an all-flash solution. The PlentyOfFish environment, one of the largest Microsoft SQL environments in Canada, executes more than 500,000 SQL statements per second over the course of the day, engaging more than 30...

HP recently agreed to a $300m deal to sell HP TippingPoint to strategic partner Trend Micro. This comes as part of a major restructure, as HP plans to split into two seperate business: HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprises. TippingPoint has worked with Trend Micro over past years combining their resources to create security software,...

Networks and interdependency of systems across UK business and Government organisations are growing, and with this growth comes complexity. With complexity comes risk – of data loss, malicious attack and network outages – and a dependency of only few who fully understand it. The traditional network environment has gone; users expect to be able to...

Sales of tablets seem to have stabilised in Europe after their initial roller-coaster phase. According to analyst IDC, total tablet shipments were 7.5 million units in Q2 2015; this was down 1.2% year-on-year but one of the smallest declines since the beginning of 2014. IDC said the drop in tablet shipments stabilized at 4.4% while...

For many years, companies have been building data warehouses to analyse business activity and produce insights for decision makers to act on to improve business performance. These traditional analytical systems are often based on a classic pattern where data from multiple operational systems is captured, cleaned, transformed and integrated before loading it into a data warehouse. Typically, a history of...

The use of analytics will define the successful midmarket business of the next decade, just as it will define the successful larger organization in this information age. The past decade has seen rapid change in the business climates with an explosion of global competition and economic uncertainty. Despite this, many midmarket companies have thrived by...

Global shipments of personal/desktop 3D printers, priced under $5,000, rose by 24% in Q1 2015, resulting in a 114% year-on-year increase according to IT market analysis company, CONTEXT. The North American market continued to lead the way in adoption terms, with 63% of all global shipments with Western Europe next at 20%. The latest Q2...

While the UK tech sector slowed in the second quarter of 2015 due to the General Election and uncertainties over the Euro, confidence for the year ahead is high according to the latest KPMG/Markit Tech Monitor UK survey. The upbeat mood should mean that suppliers are eager to be positive and innovative in their approach...

A study by IDC Retail Insights has revealed that Western European retailers are actively embarking on their digital transformations and creating ‘omni-channel’ environments that allow consumers to buy in the way they want. As a result, the report says, IT systems will need to be adapted to provide a single view of order, customer, and...