APC announced APC TradeOff Tools™, new Web-based applications designed for use in the early stages of datacentre concept and design development. By enabling datacentre professionals to experiment with various scenarios regarding virtualization, efficiency, power sizing, capital costs, and other key design issues, APC TradeOff Tools break down major datacentre planning decisions into a series of smaller, more manageable decisions. Use of these tools helps validate, through modelling, the overall design of a datacentre.

A global study of 600 CIOs, network engineers and IT managers today revealed that up to 125 man days each year are wasted by IT teams correcting repetitive issues on the network rather than establishing their root causes and rectifying them once and for all.

Logicalis has completed a total IT infrastructure refresh and dual data centre operations for Travis Perkins, leading suppliers to the UK building and construction industry. Utilising HP technologies, the solution has successfully consolidated the organisation’s IT infrastructure following a period of acquisitive activity, whilst improving disaster recovery systems and providing the scalability to support the company’s growth strategy.

The security division of Bell Micro has announced findings from a new independent research report which suggests that UK businesses are still failing to address the protection of data assets on the network from staff abuse, misuse or direct theft.