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Lyons Seafoods, Europe’s leading processor of king prawns, has become the first UK food and drink business to gain a BS 25999 certification from the British Standards Institution for its business continuity management system. Lyons Seafoods now has 300 different business interruption plans which are being continuously updated. The certificate was awarded to Lyons Seafoods after two years of continuous work with BSI, proving its success in building and imbedding a continuity culture across the whole business, and at all levels.
Compellent has announced that Fordway, one of its key UK channel partners, has won the ‘Data Centre Solution of the Year’ award at the 2008 Channel Network Awards. Fordway won the award for its deployment of a virtualised storage platform and disaster recovery solution for gm2 Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company near London. Fordway combined Compellent’s SAN with VMware’s platform to deliver a fully virtualised storage and server environment. This enabled gm2 to lower the number of overall drives required and decrease its data centre footprint by a third, while also reducing power consumption and related carbon emissions. Aside from delivering a greener storage environment, Compellent’s SAN has also helped gm2 reduce its server management costs by around £9,000 per year. http://www.compellent.com
- Q3 revenue up 12 percent year-over-year driven by solid 8 percent internal growth and balanced performance across business segments.
- OIBDA (excluding asset gains and losses) increases 14 percent year-over-year on revenue growth, gross margin gains and disciplined cost management; operating income increases to $136 million. Read press release.
A new International Standard establishes general principles and gives recommendations for the care and handling of digital optical discs during use with a view to maximizing their effective life. ISO 18938:2008, Imaging materials – Optical discs – Care and handling for extended storage, applies to the families of compact disc (CD), digital versatile disc (DVD), high definition digital versatile disc (HD DVD), Blu-ray disc (BD), and any hybrids of these families, as well as each type of disc within a family, e.g. injection moulded [read-only memory (ROM)], dye-layer [recordable (R)] and phase change [rewriteable (RW), random access memory (RAM)] technologies. www.iso.org
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