Cisco 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. ...
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Teradici has been forced to delay the release of Arch, which combines VMware and Microsoft server-based desktops using its PCoIP protocol, due to a scalability issue. But a new tech preview will still allow enterprises to familiarize ...
Flash storage vendor STEC is super-sizing the kind of flash storage used in smartphones and portable music players, coming out on Monday with 2TB SSDs in configurations for enterprise equipment vendors. The SSDs (solid-state drives) being ...
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Storage is a key component of IT strategy. After all, data is the lifeblood of any business. But storage is there to provide data for processing by business critical applications, and the way that data is processed is undergoing huge ...
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IT often virtualises new applications and workloads by default.Virtualisation is now the norm,deploying a physical server the exception.Yet,a third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing ...
The benefits of server virtualisation are indeed quite impressive for today's server and datacentre administrators, but what about you – the storage manager? While everyone else is reaping the rewards of their newly virtualised ...
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Partnership aims to avoid business disruptions and loss for Philippine local companies and SMEs MANILA, PHILIPPINES, September 10, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Acer Philippines and ShadowProtect software, through IT distribution company ...
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University deploys Violin flash storage array Anglia Ruskin University has implemented a Violin 3000 Series flash storage array to support a project to virtualise nearly 1,000 desktops for 32,000 students. The virtual desktop ...
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The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users. Microsoft describes the new operating system (OS) – an update to the three-year-old Windows Server 2008 OS ...
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Computerworld - Clustered storage vendor Scale Computing today upgraded its scale-out storage cluster to include compute resources dedicated to applications and a hypervisor component that allows storage and memory to be easily managed and ...
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Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a ...
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Slough-based logistics company Crossflight has implemented an EMC VNX mid-range storage array to support its virtual server environment and has reaped savings of 50% on power and cooling costs. The company chose EMC over HP, IBM and ...
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Dell has announced an upgrade to its Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN operating system (OS) that nudges the array into enterprise SAN territory. The company also said changes to the Storage Center OS laid the ground for all-flash arrays ...
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AMD recently deployed a 6TB NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment and got some amazing results, says Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at the chip maker. In virtualization benchmarking tests, the ...
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