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Shoden to take nlyte's DCIM solutions to the UK market
London, UK, 21 September 2011: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced that it has partnered with
nlyte Software to take its Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions to market in the UK, helping organisations cut their datacentre OPEX by up to one fifth. Shoden is one of the first channel partners for nlyte, which focuses on providing its users with intelligent capacity planning resources that enable them to make the best use of power, cooling and space in their datacentres.
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Press Release: Hitachi Storage users get enhanced performance monitoring from Shoden
13 January 2011, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today unveiled QuickViewTM, a revolutionary dashboard that instantly highlights performance and analysis information of the key performance metrics of the Hitachi (Universal and Virtual) Storage Platforms. Developed by Shoden, the dashboard provides a visual overview that uses a traffic light system to show warnings and errors about current and potential issues, making their detection much quicker that it has been in the past.
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Press Release: German IT provider RZV makes its DR capabilities healthier with Shoden QuickRecover
Storage and Server System Integrator Brings Deduplication Benefits to Mainframe Environment
13 January 2011, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced that it has helped RZV (Rechenzentrum Volmarstein) GmbH, one of Germany’s leading IT providers to the healthcare industry, significantly lower the cost, footprint and energy consumption of its mainframe backup infrastructure. To achieve this, Shoden consolidated the customer’s open and mainframe storage backups onto a single platform where it also replaced tapes with disks. As a result, RZV is now also able to run time-critical backups on time and with greater certainty.
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Press Release: Sainsbury's tries something new with Shoden QuickRecover
13 January 2011, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced that it has helped retail giant Sainsbury’s plan and implement a highly resilient, high-performance backup strategy for mainframe and open storage. As a result the retailer has lowered the cost, footprint and energy consumption of the 250 TB of backup data hosted within its IT infrastructure, while making backups run on time and with increased accuracy.
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Press Release: Shoden to resell Luminex Channel Gateways across Europe
14 September 2010, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced that its appointment as Luminex’ reseller for the United Kingdom has been strengthened further by expanding the agreement to cover all of Europe. Luminex Software, Inc. is the company behind the Channel Gateway modern mainframe virtual tape products, and Shoden has already installed its solutions in several major organisations including grocer J. Sainsbury’s in London, UK, and service provider RZV in Essen, Germany. This success in installing and supporting the Gateway solutions and Shoden’s long-standing experience in helping organisations design, implement and manage cost-effective server and data storage environments were the reasons why Luminex decided to broaden its partner’s geographical reach.
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Press Release: Shoden Data Systems UK expands across EMEA
1 September, 2010, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced the expansion of its European presence to France, Germany, Israel and Spain through channel agreements with Systemic, Comparex, Ankor Systems and IPM respectively. Shoden, whose parent company is Africa’s largest independent IT solutions integrator, is already selling directly in the UK and Eire. Through these new channel agreements, Shoden will now be taking Data Domain, Fujitsu and Luminex solutions to the main European markets.
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Shoden in the News: Bridging the skills gap
7 June 2010, MicroScope (UK)
A sustained economic recovery might be on the horizon but persistent doubt about the immediate future has precipitated a crunch in the skills market as personnel in senior management positions keep their heads firmly below the parapet. MicroScope takes a look at the strategies some channel firms are using to cope with the skills shortage.
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Shoden Data Systems UK gains new green credentials
19 April 2010, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced that it is now an Endorser of the European Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency, a document that aims to provide guidelines for organisations in order to reduce the environmental and economic impact of data centres. Reducing energy consumption while maintaining critical IT functions and high performance is crucial, and the provision of a set of core standards to follow, is already proving invaluable for IT administrators looking to reduce their carbon footprints. These voluntary guidelines provide a set of ‘best practice’ procedures, with the aim of bringing more stringent compliance measures into place in the future.
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