The VMworld Europe 2012 winners are: Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: Tiger Wheel & Tyre Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: The National Trust Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project: ...
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VMware has fleshed out its desktop virtualisation strategy with a suite of products designed to make desktop computing more manageable by using workspace aggregation. As 30 June, 2014 – the end of support date for Windows XP – ...
2012 was the year of big data.2011 had been a good year for the hyped concept,too,and 2013 is more than likely to see a continued glut of big data discourse in the IT market. But there are other themes in this collection of top 10 ...
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Major players from the IT world gathered in Dubai Marina this morning for the 2012 Infrastructure Strategies event, hosted by Computer News Middle East. A list of high profile speakers discussed with an energetic crowd, in detail, the ...
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VMware has continued its shopping spree by buying big data analytics tool Log Insight in order to expand its cloud and virtualisation portfolio in its battle against Amazon and Rackspace. The move follows the acquisitions of cloud ...
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Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualisation. The company is augmenting its Application Fluent Network strategy ...
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LONDON -- Cloud computing may have become the “phrase du jour” for the IT industry but the vastly overused term still means different things to different people. Here are a few cloud computing definitions from IT pros, ...
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Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is on its way for 64-bit ARM hardware The companies all announced development plans for 64-bit ARM hardware. ...
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Red Hat announced today that it will host a seven-city tour of two-day partner conferences alongside IBM and Symantec, kicking off on September 17 in Stockholm, Sweden. The tour will be arriving in the Middle East on October 2nd and 3rd ...
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EMC has named former Huawei Technologies executive John Roese as chief technology officer. Roese, also a former Nortel Networks CTO, will play a key role in shaping EMC’s cloud and big data technology strategy, the company said. ...
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What should we take away from EMC’s third-quarter financial results? I am pleased that EMC showed growth in this challenging environment. Our strategy, balanced portfolio, operational model and ability to execute are paying off ...
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Asia Pacific will generate the most cloud traffic by 2016 as compared to North America and Western Europe. The second annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2011-2016) indicates that Asia Pacific will process the most cloud workloads – ...
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ARM on Tuesday introduced its first 64-bit Cortex-A50 series processor designs as the company tries to preserve its dominance in smartphones and tablets while catching up with Intel in servers. The new ARM processors, Cortex-A57 and ...
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Brocade has announced a its new switching platform, the Brocade VDX 8770 Switch, along with VCS Fabric technology enhancements in the hope of taking data centre network simplicity, efficiency and resiliency to a new scale. The Brocade VDX ...
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Brocade today announced support for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server 2012 server operating system across all product lines, including the company’s Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) and Ethernet fabric solutions. ...
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