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Consumers think online outages are caused by poorly built and designed websites

Rackspace is warning retailers to get their websites ready for predicted traffic spikes after 83 per cent of UK consumers claim a consistently slow or unavailable websites negatively affect their brand loyalty. According to a survey of over 2,000 consumers in the UK[1], over half of consumers (56 per cent) buy something online at least once a week and 59 per cent of shoppers will browse online during big shopping events such a Black Friday.

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Infrequent Access storage option

AWS is adding a new storage class for data that is accessed infrequently. The new S3 Standard – Infrequent Access (Standard – IA) storage class offers the same high durability, low latency, and high throughput of S3 Standard. Customers now have the choice of three S3 storage classes (Standard, Standard – IA, and Glacier) that are designed to offer 99.999999999% (eleven nines) of durability.? Standard – IA has an availability SLA of 99%. This new storage class inherits all of the...

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SolarWinds extends multi-vendor array support with EMC, Hitachi, HP and IBM arrays

SolarWinds has extended multi-vendor support in SolarWinds(R) Storage Resource Monitor, which provides IT with the necessary insight into storage resources and the potential performance impact on virtual machines and applications that are dependent on storage elements. 

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Cabinet Ministers are failing to grasp the bigger picture behind the government’s move to...
CTERA Networks has introduced the CTERA Edge X Series. The new flagship model represents the...
Tegile Systems has closed a $70 million funding round. The new funding brings the company’s...
The University of Queensland has deployed DDN high-performance storage solutions to improve data...
By Gavin McLaughlin, International Solutions Development Director, X-IO.
xStreamTM, Virtustream’s enterprise class cloud solution is recognised for innovation and...
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Modernising Oracle with converged infrastructure

Customers who adopt Dell EMC VxBlock technology experienced 99% less planned and unplanned downtime according to a study by IDC.

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