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Sharpen Your Business

Date: 1 Jun 2009

It might be stretching the point to compare the present state of the IT industry with either Charles Dickens’ revolutionary-era France, or the Renaissance, but there’s no doubting that the current global economic turmoil is a great opportunity for UK businesses to innovate. For far too long now, many have been content to simply throw more disks at their storage problem; continued to invest in expensive solutions, with after-sales contracts to match, because ‘they always have’; and employed muddled thinking when it comes to CAPEX- and OPEX-related decisions.

 

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The worst of times, the best of times?
It might be stretching the point to compare the present state of the IT industry with either Charles Dickens’ revolutionary-era France, or the Renaissance, but there’s no doubting that the current global economic turmoil is a great opportunity for UK businesses to innovate. For far too long now, many have been content to simply throw more disks at their storage problem; continued to invest in expensive solutions, with after-sales contracts to match, because ‘they always have’; and employed muddled thinking when it comes to CAPEX- and OPEX-related decisions.

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Smarter connectivity the key to significant customer savings
Recent datacentre technology developments are putting more and more demand on the IT network infrastructure – time for a connectivity refresh?

More than just a business necessity
Enterprise Content Management has been around for some 20 years, but its basic definition remains the same now as then – how best to capture, manage, preserve, process and deliver back unstructured information, or content.

Wire once, scale and save
An irresistible combination of technology, business, economic and commercial drivers has created the ‘perfect storm’ from which network convergence has emerged as one of the buzz topics within the storage and wider datacentre landscape.

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It’s time to discover how much more value can be added to your business by investing in efficient, economical modern storage networking technology.

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