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S3 and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute feature in SNS editorial

4.03.10| Filed In:

SNS-UK talks to Phil Butcher, Head of IT at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, about the challenges of providing the computing and storage infrastructure to support work on the ongoing work of the Human Genome Project.

S3 Appointed NETAPP ASP partner status

9.12.09| Filed In:

NetApp are a global leader in consolidated storage systems with over 130 offices and generating $3Bn in revenue annually. S3 have demonstrated their continued commitment to NetApp by becoming accredited to provide support services through the NetApp Authorised Support Partner Program.

S3 featured in SNS UK magazine

3.11.09| Filed In:

Continuing their Channel series, SNS UK talks to our Managing Director, Simon Ragg, about how S3 has evolved to date, what opportunities he sees ahead, and how the Channel market is changing to address some of the end users’ major pain points.

Environmental Responsibility

27.10.09| Filed In:

The environmental consequences of the way we live and work is having a greater impact on our pockets than ever before. While the costs are important they are not the only factor. Just doing the right thing is seen by most individuals as honourable and just as important.

The Year of iSCSI?

7.05.09| Filed In:

Every year, it seems, is going to be the year iSCSI emerges as a serious threat to the continued dominance of Fibre Channel (FC) as the protocol of choice for Storage Area Networks (SANs). It finally looks as though it may be happening.

S3 Technology Note - Doing More With Less, Using Real-time data compression to reduce data volumes

7.05.09| Filed In:

According to The Storage IO Group “the combination of growing demand for electricity by data centres, density of power usage per square foot, rising energy costs, strained electricity generating and transmission (G&T) infrastructure and environmental awareness prompted the passage of a new law in The United States that instructed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report to Congress on the state of IT data centres energy usage in the United States.”

Doing More With Less - Thin Provisioning

7.05.09| Filed In:

The concept of thin provisioning is really very simple; by being smarter in the way disk space is allocated less disk drives are needed. Consequently less power and space are needed, significant cost reductions are made and the corporate social responsibility requirement to produce a lower carbon footprint is satisfied. It looks like an all round winner!

Doing More With Less – Handling storage growth in recessionary times

7.05.09| Filed In:

According to International Data Corp’s (IDC) Annual European Storage Survey companies are continuing to invest in growing their storage capacity despite the credit crunch squeezing many IT departments. In the face of continuing data growth almost 20% of respondents named increasing storage capacity as their major spending priority in 2009. Enhancing DR capability was the second highest priority. This compares with indications that spending is likely to be frozen in areas such as PCs and printers.