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Global Cloud Traffic Will More Than Quadruple,From 1.2 Zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB
Nov 29, 2013Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. ...
Tags: Cisco Systems, Cloud Computing, Forecast
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The Challenges for Carriers to Ensure End User Satisfaction with Data-Hungry Smartphones
Jul 8, 2013The Strategy Analytics forecast, "Handset Data Traffic (2001-2017)," predicts strong growth in data traffic to mobile phones for the coming 5 years. This presents network challenges for carriers to ensure end user satisfaction with ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Lean Storage Techniques Will Keep a Lid on Storage Investments Over The Next Few Years
Jun 19, 2013Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said. Annual sales of storage capacity ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Global Sales of External Server Storage Have Dropped for The First Time Since 2009
Jun 13, 2013Global sales of external server storage have dropped for the first time since 2009, according to data from research firm IDC. IDC said that first-quarter sales fell in developed markets, causing an overall decline of 0.9 percent year on ...
Tags: Computer Products
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EMC Announced New and Enhanced Management Software Suites
May 8, 2013EMC today announced new and enhanced management software suites designed to provide “360 degree transparency” into storage, network, and compute infrastructures. The new EMC Service Assurance Suite and updates to the EMC ...
Tags: EMC, Computer Products, Software Portfolio
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HP on Monday Unveiled Its Big Data Security Strategy
Feb 27, 2013HP on Monday unveiled its Big Data Security strategy, describing how combining the enterprise search and knowledge management resources from its Autonomy subsidiary with its ArcSight security-event and information management (SIEM) can ...
Tags: HP, Big Data Security Strategy, SIEM
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Worldwide Mobile Data Traffic Will Increase 13-Fold Over The Next Four Years
Feb 16, 2013According to new research from Cisco, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, exceeding the amount of data initiated over fixed lines by three to one by 2017. Cisco estimates that mobile data traffic ...
Tags: mobile data, fixed lines, 2017
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Disk Storage Capacity Shipped by Vendors Worldwide Surpassed 7 Exabytes
Dec 28, 2012Disk storage capacity shipped by vendors worldwide surpassed 7 exabytes for the first time in a quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker report. The total disk storage capacity shipped by vendors in the ...
Tags: Disk storage capacity, exabytes, quarter, IDC
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IDC's Digital Universe Study Predicts There Will Be 40 Zettabytes of Data on The Planet
Dec 24, 2012Analyst group IDC's new Digital Universe study predicts there will be 40 Zettabytes of data on the planet by 2020, an amount that exceeds previous forecasts by 14%. To put that into a real world context, 40 ZB is equal to 57 times the ...
Tags: Analyst group, Digital Universe study, EMC, storage company
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Global Datacentre Traffic Grows Four Times by 2016 to Reach a Total of 6.6 Zettabytes
Dec 24, 2012Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, Cisco Systems' Global Cloud Index has forecast. Cisco Systems' Global Cloud Index also predicted that cloud traffic – a major ...
Tags: Cisco Systems, Global Cloud Index, global datacentre traffic
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EMC's District Manager Declared a 'Business War Cry' at Today's EMC Day 2012 Event
Dec 19, 2012Said Akar, District Manager, EMC, declared a ‘business war cry’ at today’s EMC Day 2012 event, urging enterprises to prepare for the exponential growth of big data. “Big data will transform IT. Never has IT ...
Tags: big data, cloud computing, EMC Day, Keynote, social media
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Astronomers Building a Kilometer-Sized Radio Telescope
Dec 6, 2012Astronomers building a kilometer-sized radio telescope are depending on 60-year-old magnetic tape technology to store the 1 million GB of data per day they plan to generate. The Square Kilometre Array(SKA)is a radio telescope being built ...
Tags: SKA telescope, exascale computer system, deep-space data, ASTRON, IBM
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Dropbox Today Announced That It Has Passed 100 Million Users
Nov 13, 2012Dropbox today announced that it has passed 100 million users,and said its customers now save 1 billion files every day. Dropbox,a cloud storage company,also has paying users in more than 200 countries,it said. As of June,about 7%of ...
Tags: Dropbox, cloud storage company, users, personal cloud
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It Is Hard to Believe The Average U.S. Mobile Subscriber Sent 696 Text Messages Per Month
Nov 12, 2012Anyone who finds it hard to believe that the average U.S. mobile subscriber sent 696 text messages per month in the second quarter of this year may be relieved to know that this figure fell to 678 per month in the third quarter. It was ...
Tags: mobile subscriber, text messages, Short Message System, SMS, Skype
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IBM Is Acquiring TMS to Augment Its Line of Storage and Data Center Systems
Aug 16, 2012To augment its line of storage and data center systems with solid state technology,IBM is acquiring flash memory system provider Texas Memory Systems(TMS).Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. IBM plans to incorporate TMS ...
Tags: IBM, flash memory system, TMS, PureSystems prepackaged hardware systems