World’s Thinnest and Lightest 14″ Ultrabook What happens when you take a classic ThinkPad business notebook, mix it with an ultrabook and add a generous helping of carbon fibre? You get the all new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon: a 14-inch business class ultrabook that promises to be a corporate executive’s best friend. The ThinkPad X1 [...]
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Looking for a great virtualised backup and replication solution? You can be safe looking no further than the latest offering from Veeam – Backup and Replication Version 6! The fastest growing software company since Google, Veeam has made a huge impression in the virtualised world, taking it by storm with its fantastic ease of use [...]
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A quick note to let you know that you can host your iSeries disaster recovery (DR) system at our premises. Success Story Recently a customer purchased a high availability solution from us for their IBM iSeries environment. This involved Maxava HA software licenses, installation and setup of the Maxava HA software and associated ongoing maintenance. [...]
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In today’s world your data is your life Chances are every piece of data you might ever rely upon to make an important decision has been reduced to a digital format and resides somewhere on your computer or your company network. One wrong click, one nasty virus, one untimely power surge or unhappy employee and [...]
Read More backup, High AvailabilitySoftek Replicator – Helping to recover data more quickly with volume-level replication Softek™ Replicator software provides an efficient, reliable method to help ensure usable data recovery regardless of storage vendor or server platform. In doing so, it enables any data protection budget to stretch further. In addition to being essential for disaster recovery, Softek Replicator [...]
Read More AIX, backup, disaster recovery, ERP, Microsoft, Solaris, VMwareTivoli Storage Manager FastBack eliminates the need for traditional backup windows by continuously capturing data changes at the block level, with extremely low overhead on the systems it protects. Data protection and recovery with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Its flexible policy engine empowers administrators to make the best use of ICT resources, while providing [...]
Read More backup, Microsoft, TivoliDear Margaret, I’m over the rellies! Don’t get me wrong, I love it when they visit but it is always nice to have our home back to ourselves! We had Auntie Martha, Uncle Conrad and their 3 children, 9, 5 and 2 stay with us for the last month. They came over from the motherland [...]
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Magstar 3590 tape drives have been available from the secondhand market for a long time now. Most of you have left, or are about to leave, that technology behind. A lot of our customers are considering newer technologies of 3592 and LTO to replace their 3494 automated tape libraries. What are my non-LTO options? Computer [...]
Read More backup, LTO, refurbished hardware, upgradeDid you know that Computer Merchants is a Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) partner with Sales and Technical certification? What does this mean for our customers – you? It means you get the right advice from Computer Merchants about how you can better manage your system backups and restores. How you can streamline your backup procedures [...]
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“By 2011, some form of CDP will be deployed in 80% of the Fortune 2000.” – Gartner EchoStreamTM for AIX® is a true continuous data protection solution that delivers nearly instantaneous recovery of your applications and data at the push of a button. Unlike traditional backup solutions, it enables you to recover data from any point in [...]
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