Annual IT spending by Western European utilities to reach $13.5 billion by 2018

According to a new IT spending forecast report published by IDC Energy Insights, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to reach $13.5 billion by 2018, with an estimated 2013–2018 CAGR of 4.1%. Analyzing current IT spending, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to be $11.6 billion in 2014, with electricity companies accounting for the largest share of spending, at 67% or $7.7 billion of the total.

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HDS acquires Sepaton

Hitachi Data Systems has acquired Sepaton, a leader in incredibly fast, scalable, and cost-efficient purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA). The addition of Sepaton as a wholly-owned subsidiary is part of a larger HDS data protection strategy that offers enterprise customers comprehensive data protection that is scalable and integrated.

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Tintri introduces new generation of smart storage

Tintri has announced the availability of Tintri OS 3.0, Tintri Global Centre 1.1 and Tintri Automation Toolkit. The new capabilities in these product releases enhance the industry’s only storage platform with VM-level operations for data management with multi-hypervisor support and end-to-end VM-level automation to accelerate virtualisation and private cloud deployments.

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Chivas Brothers distillery completes major storage & DR upgrade

Chivas Brothers partnered with CSA Waverley to undertake a storage area network (SAN) and disaster recovery (DR) upgrade using HP technology. This move has created a highly efficient, cost-effective and available storage environment for Chivas Brothers.

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