EMC today introduced the world’s first software-defined storage platform at its annual flagship event, EMC World 2013 in Las Vegas. EMC ViPR, which will be generally available in the second half of 2013, allows organisations to ...
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Juniper Networks this week will extend its SDN offerings with the release of its controller, roughly six months ahead of schedule. The controller technology obtained from the acquisition of Contrail Systems?is now called JunosV Contrail. ...
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Ninety per cent of passwords are vulnerable to hacking because even supposedly secure passwords typically share common characteristics. Because people are required to generate so many passwords with particular characteristics - at least ...
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Nine out of 10 companies in the European Union are planning to expand their data centre operations in 2013 or 2014, despite the supposed shift to cloud computing. Some 88 per cent of respondents to a survey by data centre provider Digital ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
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To concentrate more on software-defined data centres, hybrid clouds and end-user computing, VMware has sold the Protect product family to LANDesk. As part of its efforts to focus on those areas, VMware came to the conclusion that asset ...
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After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-power processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily ...
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Continued growth is expected for the Asia-Pacific data centre industry in 2013 and 2014, according to global data centre vendor Digital Realty Trust. In its latest annual Asia-Pacific data centre demand study, which surveyed 401 senior ...
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In-memory computing (IMC) will reach the enterprise mainstream by 2016, creating a market worth $1bn (£700m) by 2016. So say analysts at Gartner. The research firm cites the "rapid maturation of infrastructure technologies" coupled ...
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TRAFFIC visibility specialist Gigamon has chosen Jim Balog to be regional sales director for Australia and New Zealand as it ramps up sales and marketing activities to address growing network challenges of telecommunications, enterprise and ...
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Forrester Research predicts that with the BYOD trend expected to increasingly include laptops as well as smartphones and tablets, the approach to managing such devices is in for some big changes. In its 2013 Mobile Security Predictions ...
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The London Borough of Merton is to deploy cloud and networking firm Citrix's virtualisation technology in a bid to cut costs and provide a flexible working environment to 2,000 of its employees. The Citrix solution will be implemented by ...
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Having completed its acquisition of Linksys on Friday, Belkin said that it will keep the long-time home networking company’s brand, products and support channels. Cisco Systems agreed tosell Linksysto privately held Belkin in ...
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Cortado presented its mobile device management (MDM) and virtual printing solutions at this week’s CeBit trade fair in Hanover, Germany. The vendor said that trends such as BYOD offer companies the potential to substantially ...
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HP today announced new innovations aiming to strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio. At its yearly Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, the tech giant unveiled a new HP BladeSystem, HP Converged Storage and HP Networking ...
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