The Middle East and Africa external storage market declined 8.8% year-on-year during the third quarter of 2013, according to the latest figures from IDC. The study ‘EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker’ found that ...
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It's not easy to find IT staff with the right skill-set, and it's even harder to find people with good Cisco skills. That's according to Steve Capper, director of IT at construction firm Skanska, as he told Computing recently. Further ...
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NetApp is upgrading its lineup of dedicated storage systems, rolling out a faster all-flash array and improved platforms for branch offices and large enterprises. The products introduced on Tuesday complement the company’s Data ...
The federal deficit – the amount by which the US government’s total budget outlay exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year – is estimated at $680 billion for 2013. The federal debt – the sum total of the ...
“Collecting more and more unstructured data will open up another whole degree of attractiveness and may well lead to attackers seeing value in a form not previously recognised by the organisation that owns the data.” So ...
The 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 ...
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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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Oracle has claimed its newly launched ZS3 Series storage offers better throughput, latency, price and performance than NetApp, EMC, IBM and HP systems. Citing "new world record performance", Oracle said the disk storage solution enables ...
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Tech companies are hanging onto record amounts of cash, and industry watchers want to see more of it reinvested in the companies or distributed to shareholders. FactSet, a financial research firm, tallied all the cash and marketable ...
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NetApp is now selling software that uses NAND flash in its arrays to increase the performance of servers,the company has announced.It also unveiled a deal with Fusion-io to use that company's PCIe flash cards for arrays running its ONTAP ...
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There's a "lump in the learning curve" for some organisations to overcome in the adoption and use of NoSQL databases. That's what James Tomkins, Met Office Portfolio Technical Lead, told Computing while discussing the organisation's use of ...
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Cisco has overtaken IBM?as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported on Monday. Synergy says there was a $9.7 billion market in the first quarter of 2013 for hardware to support ...
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Global 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 ...
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All that new data flowing into enterprises can bring along an expensive partner: multiple copies. For better or worse, many types of data are copied multiple times for multiple purposes, including backup, archiving and development work, ...
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Cisco today announced upgrades to its director-class and multiservice fabric switches The new Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director delivers six times the bandwidth of its predecessor, while the Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch is ...
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