On Monday, IBM will take the wraps off a portfolio of products for software-defined storage, an area where established vendors and startups alike are already claiming the future has arrived. ‘Elastic Storage’ aims at some ...
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Dell has released a new virtualised storage accelerator appliance called Fluid Cache for SAN, designed to help customers keep data-intensive applications working quickly under load. The announcement, which was made at Dell's Enterprise ...
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Dell is teaming up with Red Hat to drive its effort to be a force in the burgeoning area of network function virtualization (NFV) technology, aimed at helping carriers reduce costs and quickly roll out new services. Co-engineered Dell-Red ...
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SanDisk has announced an investment in software defined storage firm Nexenta Systems. Nexenta's software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers storage solutions for both private and public cloud environments. The company has over 5,000 ...
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Cisco has expanded its Videoscape TV services delivery platform to include a host of new cloud video capabilities, including a Videoscape ‘as-a-service’ offering and open cloud software technologies based on OpenStack. Cisco ...
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IBM 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 ...
Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, has been selected by online Indian ethnic wear store Cbazaar to host and support its online sales backbone using the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud. “As an online retailer, it’s imperative ...
Eyad Shihabi, Managing Director, HP Middle East HP aims to showcase an enormous range of enterprise solutions at GITEX Technology Week 2013, with cloud, security, Big Data and mobility forming the crux of the vendor’s ...
Nigel Beighton, VP of technology of hosting company Rackspace, outlined the five areas that firms should focus on in order to get the most out of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Speaking at Structure Europe in London, Beighton said ...
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Security 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 ...
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Systems and services giant IBM is being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the reporting of its revenues from cloud computing. The news was buried within one of the company's latest regulatory filings. ...
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After three years, OpenStack has grown into a true enterprise proposition, according to Rackspace VP of Technology and Products, Nigel Beighton, with a user community growing as the technology matures into a viable option for data centre ...
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Apple is on the hunt for cloud infrastructure engineers familiar with building large-scale deployments like those at Amazon Web Services and OpenStack companies, according to a job posting. The eventual hire will work to "build the next ...
Hewlett Packard and Japan's NEC will expand their existing partnership to develop high-end x86-based servers for cloud and Web applications. The companies said Thursday they will team up to accelerate research on HP's next generation of ...
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CERN is making the infrastructure that handles the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) more flexible by upgrading it with OpenStack for virtualization and Puppet for configuration management. The research organization's objective is ...
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