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ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 15, 2013
Gartner Gives EMC Isilon Top Rating for Scale-Out System Storage EMC Isilon is the only product to get the highest rating of “Outstanding” in Gartner’s new “Critical Capacities for Scale-Out File System Storage” report. Isilon was cited for providing capacity management, resiliency, and scalability, and for its rating in the designated use cases of commercial ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 14, 2013
KPMG Survey Finds Cloud Adoption More Complicated than Anticipated Companies are reporting higher-than-expected costs from Cloud use as well as challenges with implementation, operations, and governance, according to a new survey by KPMG International. The survey, “The Cloud Takes Shape”, polled more than 50 business and IT leaders across 16 major global markets and found ...
SiliconAngle News Briefs for February 13, 2013
Farm Credit Mid-America Chooses EMC in Competitive Selection Farm Credit Mid-America, an agricultural cooperative serving more than 95.000 farmers, agribusinesses, and rural residents, has selected EMC VNX unified storage over NetApp and Dell for its performance, scalability, and manageability. It also chose EMC RecoverPoint for comprehensive disaster recovery. By modernizing its IT infrastructure with EMC, ...
As Base Virtualization Market Growth Slows, VMware Eyes New Opportunities
With the vast majority of data centers worldwide already at least partially virtualized, and competition in the base hypervisor market growing, the halcyon days of hypergrowth may be over for VMware. However, say Wikibon Analysts Stuart Miniman and David Floyer in a trio of new Professional Alerts, that does not mean that VMware will stop ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 12, 2013
NaviSite Achieves UK SSAE 16 Compliance, Announces Successful Audit Period NaviSite Inc., an enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging, and managed cloud service provider, has announced that its cloud-enabled data center in Woking, U.K., and its facility in London, U.K., have achieved SSAE-16 compliance. The new U.K. facilities, along with six additional data centers, were ...
EMC Announces Continuous Availability Advisory Services, Promises Increased Availability with Major Savings
EMC Global Services has announced a new suite of Continuous Availability Services in response to market demands for always-on active/active IT operations at lower cost. EMC promises that the set of infrastructure assessment and strategic planning services will eliminate even the occasional outages caused by site failures in dual-site architectures. Independent tests and EMC customer engagements ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 11, 2013
IBM Names Kenya’s MoDe Global Entrepreneur of the Year Kenya’s MoDe, which provides instant nano-credit and for pre-paid mobile phone users across the African continent, has been named the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year. Nearly 80 percent of mobile phone users in growth markets lack access to traditional banking loans and credit. Moe’s innovative ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 8, 2013
HP Wins 11 Gold Level Endorsements from APM for IT Service Management Tools The global accreditation body APM Group has awarded HP Service Manager 9.3 11 gold-level endorsements on behalf of the Cabinet Office for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-based processes. Built on a consistent set of ITIL industry best practices, HP Service Manager 9.3 ...
EMC, Capgemini to Bring Joint Cloud Business Services to Brazil
EMC and Capgemini have announced a Hyper-Growth Initiative to introduce a set of Cloud business services developed mainly in the European market to Brazil, where they see a large pent-up demand for these services. Both companies have separate decades-long presences in the Brazilian market, and EMC has invested US $200M in a manufacturing plant and ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 7, 2012
Hospital Handles Big Data Explosion with EMC Isilon St. Dominic Hospital, an acute care facility in Jackson, Mississippi, has consolidated its legacy storage infrastructure onto an EMC Isilon scale-out storage system chosen to meet the demands of the Big data explosion. Isilon provides dramatically faster, more reliable access to medical images and patient records and ...