What’s New at Shoden?
Press Release: 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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Press Release: Shoden and Avere Systems give NAS filers new lease of life
6 April 2010, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced that it has signed a partnership with Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks in tiered NAS with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, to allow NAS (Network Attached Storage) users to get more out of their investments into these filers. The two companies’ shared vision of reducing complexity and outlay while offering unrivalled service cements the partnership. According to the agreement, Shoden will be reselling Avere Systems’ FXT Series of tiered NAS appliances to enable organisations to improve performance and reduce the TCO of their NAS farms. Cutting cost not only offers financial benefits, but green ones too; the use of more affordable NAS servers populated with lower-cost, high-capacity media such as SATA hard disk drives allows end users to extend the lifespan of legacy NAS systems while reducing power consumption, cooling and rack space requirements.
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Shoden in the News: Tandberg Data gets ready for disk battle
11 March 2010, Computing
As the debate rages over the future of the tape storage industry, sector stalwart Tandberg Data has been re-inventing itself as a purveyor of a wider range of storage solutions.
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Shoden in the News: Analysis: How important is the CEO?
12 March 2010, MircoScope
Just how important is the position of a CEO? It is a fair question to ask after watching SAP part company with its CEO Leo Apotheker after just seven months and bring back a dual CEO structure to replace him.
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Shoden in the News: Dedupe Arrives on the Mainframe
24 February 2010, IT Business Edge (UK)
Adding deduplication to the mainframe may seem like a no-brainer to some, so why has it taken so long for an integrated system to show up?
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Shoden in the News: In depth: Review of 2009 - Reasons to be cheerful?
17 December 2009, Microscope
This year will go down as one of recession and credit crunch. The banks collapsed and for many in January it seemed like the world was about to end. It has been tough, but as MicroScope found when it canvassed opinion, it has not been all bad news and there are plenty of positive thoughts about next year.
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Press Release: Shoden Data Systems UK To Support The Open Cloud Manifesto
26 November 2009, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced its support of the Open Cloud Manifesto, a document that aims to initiate exchange of information and ideas between cloud computing solutions providers and end users around a common core set of values. Cloud computing is still in its early stages and with much to learn about the wide extent of its potential, members of the emerging cloud computing community will benefit from the opportunity to work together.
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Shoden in the News: Can Mainframe Use Really Grow
15 September 2009, CIO
Some industry observers still like to kick dents in the mainframe saying it’s not the corporate platform of the future but the Big Iron seemingly takes the licks and keeps on ticking.
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Press Release: Up to 96% of UK organisations are concerned about lack of skills in legacy environments
Mainframe and AS/400 specialists thin on the ground independent survey for Shoden Data Systems UK finds
13 August 2009, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, today announced the results of an independent survey it commissioned in July this year to understand the impact that the decline in legacy environment management skills is having on UK organisations.
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Shoden in the News: Shoden UK And Hitachi In Channel Symphony
4 June 2009, CRN
Storage vendor Shoden Data Systems is on the hunt for UK resellers to offer Hitachi Europe’s new blade servers.
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Press Release: Shoden Data Systems UK Creates Customer Service Team
1 June 2009, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK today announced the creation of a customer service team to support end users located across Europe. The team, who will be responsible for implementing and maintaining Shoden UK’s products, currently includes Paul Miller and Sundeep Dhillon; together they boast nearly 25 years’ experience in the IT industry including positions at EMC and Siemens. The customer service engineers will work closely with their South Africa-based colleagues to develop comprehensive support system backed up by the 24/7 support centre at Shoden Data Systems (Pty) Ltd in Johannesburg.
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Press Release: Hitachi Europe and Shoden Data Systems UK Announce Blade Server Launch
20 May 2009, Maidenhead and London, UK: Hitachi Europe Ltd., and Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of IT solutions, today unveiled Hitachi’s new generation of blade servers. Shoden will be selling Hitachi’s BladeSymphony 2000 and BladeSymphony 320 blade servers in EMEA.
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Press Release: Shoden Data Systems UK survey reveals disk is the backup medium of choice
2 April 2009, London, UK: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of data storage solutions for organisations facing backup and data recovery challenges, today published the results of an independent survey of 100 UK IT decision makers. The findings revealed that in some markets (retail, distribution and transport), up to 72% of organisations have already or are planning to implement disk-based as opposed to tape-based backup in 2009. According to the study, carried out by Vanson Bourne earlier this year, among the biggest proponents of disk-based backup is also the financial services industry, with 64% of respondents opting for disk over tape.
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