Virtualisation giant VMware will need "several data centres" in Europe to satisfy data privacy legislation across the EU and to allay any fears customers have over data location, according to VMware's senior vice president of hybrid cloud ...
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VMware has acquired desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) firm Desktone for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition was announced today in Barcelona at VMworld Europe 2013, as part of the opening keynote. Desktone, which is an existing partner of ...
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Fiona Moon, Commvault's marketing director, EMEA Data protection specialist Commvault will use the GITEX 2013 stage to market its Simpana 10 technology, which it claims can cut storage-related costs by up to 50 percent. Simpana's new ...
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A massive data centre being built by the National Security Agency in Utah has been plagued by “chronic electrical surges” that have destroyed equipment and delayed its opening for a year, according to a report Monday. The ...
The physical location of a data centre is crucial to its security, according to John Noakes, director of product marketing & partners for cloud firm Attenda. Noakes was speaking as part of the 'Insights into the data centre of the future' ...
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A slew of new technologies set to either be released or to go mainstream over the next decade will transform the data centre, a transformation that will go hand-in-hand with a wider revolution in computing that will demand faster and more ...
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In an interview with Computing following his presentation at the Data Centre Summit 2013 today (picture), Robert Bath, VP of engineering at major data centre wholesaler Digital Realty explained that that changes in data centres - ...
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Software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities are to become much more prevalent in the data centre over the next 12 months, according to BT's director of data centre strategy and platform, Adam Low. Low, who was speaking on a panel at ...
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Business critical applications should be analysed before being moved to the cloud, according to cloud provider Intechnology's product director, Stefan Haase. Speaking at Computing's Data Centre Summit held today in London, Haase ...
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The total excess costs over the lifetime of an over-sized data centre is on average 30 per cent of the cost of the power and cooling infrastructure, according to industrial supplier Schneider Electric. According to Schneider, the average ...
The question on cloud security and whether it's possible to enjoy greater data centre flexibility and efficiency without compromising on security comes down to whether you're a John Travolta or a Dennis Bergkamp. That's according to ...
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SAP sees "unlimited" potential for growth in Brazil, according to the firm's managing director of SAP Southern Latin America, Diego Dzodan. Speaking at SAP's Innovation Tour, Dzodan said that the company has had a presence in Brazil for ...
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The idea that cloud computing providers could suffer as a result of the US National Security Agency's (NSA) policy of obtaining data from web companies as part of its Prism surveillance programme is a "red herring", argues Bobby Soni, chief ...
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Few parts of the world house data centres that require air conditioning, and operators need to "push the envelope a little harder" to stop using it. This is the view fo Frank Frankovsky, vice president of hardware design and supply chain at ...
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Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras SA), one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, has emphasised that the tapping of its systems by the US National Security Agency (NSA) is a result of political, and not technical issues. The NSA has ...
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