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the new technologies. The fastest
growth in rates of adoption – up 88
per cent year on year – is in the retail
sector where typical M2M applications
include in-store digital signage, smart
payment systems and supply chain
optimisation. The M2M Barometer
also found strong growth in the
healthcare sector (up 47 per cent) –
where M2M is used for applications
such as remote patient monitoring
and patient record systems – and the
utilities sector (up 32 per cent), driven
by the global expansion of smart
metering systems to enhance energy
efficiency. Meanwhile, the automotive
industry continues to embed M2M as
a core technology within the designs
of new vehicles, with the accelerating
production of so-called ‘connected
cars’ accounting for a 14 per cent yearon-year increase in M2M adoption in
that sector.
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Nexenta, a global leader in
Open Source-driven SoftwareDefined Storage (OpenSDS), has
announced that VESK, the UK’s
largest provider of hosted virtual
desktops, has chosen NexentaStor
to support its increasing storage and
IOPS requirements (Input/Output
Operations per Second), and growing
portfolio of cloud services. Founded in
2009, VESK’s customers range from
local government organisations with
more than 500 employees to small
business with as few as three users.
It was one of the first companies to
implement and support the virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) in Britain
and, in recent years, it has expanded
into providing cost-effective, accessible
platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)
capabilities from its three data centres
– located in London, Singapore
and the US. “We have huge IOPS
requirements for a range of I/O
profiles and Nexenta enables us to
optimise and fulfil application and
desktop needs from the storage layer
upward,” said Richard De Napoli,
head of infrastructure at VESK.
“The solution gave us a strong storage
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foundation to expand into IaaS, PaaS,
and DaaS.” The solution, NexentaStor
High Availability (HA) Cluster in
a SAN, provides VESK with more
than 130TB of raw storage, as well as
read and write SSD caching. Disaster
recovery – backup and retrieval – is
also dramatically increased with
VESK’s three disaster recovery
locations connect via 10GbE dark
fibre and provided with an hourly data
auto-sync. Furthermore, unlike with
other suppliers’ solutions, NexentaStor
enables VESK to cluster so it can
simply add more SANs when required,
removing the need to purchase a new
solution when capacity is insight.
“VESK needed a storage solution that
could keep up with, and facilitate, its
continued growth,” explained Mark
Jordan, VP, GM EMEA at Nexenta.
“Its previous setups were simply not
agile enough and prevented it from
meeting the high demands of its client
base. NexentaStor not only empowers
VESK to provide for its existing
customers with higher performance
and reliability, but it also means VESK
has a flexible and scalable architecture
that can be easily expanded to meet the
needs of tomorrow’s users too.”
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Belden Inc. is debuting RED25.
This new family of entry-level,
Fast Ethernet redundancy switches
is designed for industrial automation
applications in need of cost-effective
and high-end redundant network
solutions. The focus on redundancy
makes these switches a solid fit for
the automotive, manufacturing and
machine building industries, which
tend to have automation systems that
are part of the network infrastructure.
When a system failure occurs, it
happens most often within the network
and causes service interruptions.
RED25’s redundancy technology can
reduce the effects of these failures,
minimizing the risk of outages while
maximizing productivity. In addition
to supporting various redundancy
technologies, the RED25 switches have
comprehensive built-in security features
to provide reliable protection against
network attacks or operating errors.
They are also customizable based on
specific port needs or environmental
factors, such as temperature range.
“The RED25 family of switches
offers flexibility and a future-proof
network design. The intent is to
provide industrial network engineers,
system integrators and machine
builders with an entry-level device
at an affordable price,” said Juergen
Schmid, Senior Product Manager.
“This makes RED25 an ideal choice
for applications that need an entry-level
redundancy switch designed specifically
for operation in extreme environmental
conditions.”
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