Yesterday’s problems with Amazon's Web Services facility in Virginia, US, causing S3 cloud storage ‘challenges’, has highlighted the need for resilience in data storage, particularly for core, business impacting data.
Let’s face it, failures such as these are not uncommon across the IT industry – so you need to design to avoid the business impact of IT outages, and respond well if and when the worst happens.
Topics: Insider
I am delighted to announce that today Zynstra unveiled a new global agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), under which HPE will package Zynstra virtualization and cloud management software as a key part of its new HPE ProLiant EC200a Managed Hybrid Server.
Topics: Hybrid IT, Product Update, Solutions, ProLiant EC200a, HPE
Retailers often cannot afford to radically overhaul their IT systems. Nor do many have the time for daily attention to IT when there is so much more that needs to be done: stock-management, inventory, pay-roll, marketing, ordering and supplies. As long as the trusty software, tucked away on a server in the back-office cupboard, keeps beavering away, then you need not worry. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – right?
Topics: Hybrid IT, Retail, Hybrid IT as a Service
