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Shoden Data Systems UK Expands Across EMEA
London, UK, 1 September, 2010: 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 Data Systems UK gains new green credentials
London, UK, 19 April 2010: 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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Shoden and Avere Systems give NAS filers new lease of life
London, UK, 6 April 2010: 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 Data Systems UK To Support The Open Cloud Manifesto
London, UK, 26 November 2009: 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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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
London, UK, 13 August 2009: 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 Data Systems Europe to resell Texas Memory Systems SSD products in the UK and Ireland
European system integrator to push adoption of solid state disks
London, UK, 16 July 2009: Shoden Data Systems Europe, an innovative provider of server and data storage solutions, and Texas Memory Systems, maker of the World’s Fastest Storage®, today announced their UK and Ireland channel partnership, which will expand the success that both companies have already enjoyed together through their affiliation in South Africa. According to the agreement Shoden Data Systems Europe will resell the full range of Texas Memory Systems’ solid state disk solutions - Texas Memory Systems products lead the field with their levels of performance, flexibility and resilience and are targeted at all enterprise organisations who are searching for a means of improving throughput and reducing response times to allow them to offer better levels of service to their users. 
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Shoden Data Systems UK creates customer service team
London, UK, 1 June 2009: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of data storage solutions for organisations facing backup and data recovery challenges, 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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Hitachi Europe and Shoden Data Systems UK announce blade server launch
Maidenhead and London, UK, 20 May 2009: 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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Shoden Data Systems UK survey reveals disk is the backup medium of choice 
London, UK, 2 April 2009: 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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Shoden Data Systems UK appoints former Hitachi and EMC sales manager
Storage solutions provider continues to expand with appointment of senior account manager 
London, UK, 19th January 2009: Shoden Data Systems UK, an innovative provider of data storage solutions for organisations facing backup and data recovery challenges, today announced the expansion of its team with the appointment of Robert Halford to the position of senior account manager. Tasked with developing the Shoden UK market share in the UK, Halford will report to CEO John Taffinder.
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