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JPIX Uses Infinera's Cloud Xpress for Metro Cloud Data-Center Interconnect
Apr 22, 2015Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical transport networking systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that Japan Internet Exchange Co ...
Tags: Infinera Corp, digital optical
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IT Managers Want to Cut The Number of Servers They Manage,or at Least Slow The Growth
Dec 10, 2013IT managers want to cut the number of servers they manage, or at least slow the growth, and they may be succeeding, according to new data. IDC expects that anywhere from 25% to 30% of all the servers shipped next year will be delivered to ...
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IBM Is Developing Software That Will Allow Organisations to Use Cloud Storage Services
Dec 10, 2013IBM is developing software that will allow organisations to use multiple cloud storage services interchangeably, reducing dependence on any single cloud vendor and ensuring that data remains available even during service outages. Although ...
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HP Took Back Its Server Crown From IBM Last Quarter as The Overall Market Contracted
Dec 9, 2013Hewlett-Packard took back its server crown from IBM last quarter as the overall market contracted, IDC reported Wednesday. HP expanded its share of the market only modestly from a year earlier but IBM’s portion declined 4.5 points ...
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There Were Some Unexpected New Entrants Into The Cloud Space This Year
Dec 5, 2013There were some unexpected new entrants into the Cloud space this year, according to IBM Global Technology Services Cloud computing executive, Dean Evans. He said this happened while smaller cloud providers saturated the market further by ...
Tags: IBM, Cloud Market
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Storage Provider WD Today Unveiled Its Latest Personal Cloud Device
Nov 19, 2013Storage provider WD today unveiled its latest personal cloud device; My Cloud. My Cloud allows users to access any information from anywhere, and contains folder level access for individuals, meaning an administrator can control which ...
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Edward Snowden's Disclosures About NSA Collection of Massive Amounts of Personal Data
Nov 17, 2013Congressional lawmakers held hearings this week to determine what, if any, changes can be made to U.S. government surveillance programs, with Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) calling for increased transparency into federal data collection ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Application Services Such as Security and Acceleration Are About to Fit Into That Picture
Nov 7, 2013Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Storage Has Been Slow to Catch up
Oct 29, 2013The model of buying cloud computing resources is different from that of buying traditional hardware and software. Instead of buying licences and investing in equipment, in a cloud computing model, users pay for the resources they use ...
Tags: Pay-Per-Use Pricing, Hefty Storage
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Soni Is Responsible for Building End-to-End Cloud Hosting Capabilities
Sep 22, 2013The 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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Cloud Industry
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Internet Surveillance by The National Security Agency Has Shifted Companies' Priorities
Aug 19, 2013Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), leaked to the media by ex-contractor Edward Snowden, has shifted companies' priorities when sizing up cloud services providers in and outside the U.S., experts say. The economic ...
Tags: Cloud, Computer Products
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The National Security Agency's Programme Could Cost $35bn
Aug 13, 2013The PRISM revelations and the National Security Agency's programme of obtaining data from web firms could cost the American cloud computing industry $35bn (£23bn) over the next three years, as wary customers switch to providers that ...
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Major Cloud Providers Will "Gobble up" The Competion as Smaller Providers Struggle
Aug 13, 2013Major cloud providers such as Google, Amazon and Facebook will "gobble up" the competion as smaller providers struggle to compete with what the giants have to offer. That's what Josko Grljevic, information systems director for ...
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Security Provisions of Commercial Cloud Services Are Frequently Inadequate
Aug 6, 2013Security provisions of commercial cloud services - especially software-as-a-service (SaaS) - are frequently inadequate, with contracts containing "ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and ...
Tags: Gartner, Security provisions
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The Founder of The UpTime Institute, Kenneth G. Brill Who Is Dead
Aug 5, 2013The founder of the UpTime Institute, Kenneth G. Brill, 69, died Tuesday, the institute's parent company announced. Brill, an electrical engineer by training, is credited with playing an enormous role in shaping the modern data center ...
Tags: Ken Brill, Data Center
