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Hardware failures to blame as business disruptions rise

Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) has revealed that UK invocations have hit their highest levels since 2009. Overall incidents of downtime, in which staff are unable to work from their usual office or access business critical systems, also rose by over one third (38 per cent) since 2013, leading to concerns that organisations are failing to sufficiently invest in the strategies and solutions required to maintain All-Time™ availability.

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Coping with continual data growth

Fujitsu has launched a high-performing and fast storage subsystem to help businesses – especially SMEs and branch offices – optimise their ICT systems from end-to-end. Attaching directly to the server, the new FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS JX40 S2 is an ideal extension to any server. Fujitsu also announces the brand new FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2560 M1 and TX2560 M1 which identically deliver maximum performance, best expandability and highest availability in a choice of rack-mounted (RX)...

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EMC appoints Ross Fraser as VP and Country Manager for the UK and Ireland

EMC Computer Systems (U.K.) has appointed Ross Fraser as the Company’s new Vice President and Country Manager for the UK and Ireland. After a long track record as one of EMC’s senior executives in the EMEA region, the new appointment is a promotion from his previous role as Vice President of Global Alliances, where he led EMC’s global alliances business across the EMEA region.

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Three benefits of a converged infrastructure

ISG looked at the benefits of converged infrastructures, which combine data center components into centrally managed systems. NFLEX is a pre-configured converged infrastructure solution by NetApp and Fujitsu supporting all three ISG requirements.

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