With vendors and customers taking it easy during the holiday season, business likely won’t pick up until we are a few weeks into 2014. Why not use the extra time to fine-tune your home office or small business for the year ahead?
Gitex 2013 Preview: Seagate
Seagate is known for storing the world’s content, and that repute will be seen across our various activities and product lines showcased at this year’s GITEX Technology Week
Review: VMware Workstation 10 turns to tablets
The last few versions of VMware Workstation haven’t been radically different from one another, and Workstation 10 is no exception.
IBM eyeing microservers to compete with HP's Moonshot
IBM is working to develop microservers based on low-power processors but isn’t sure yet when the systems will be introduced.
First look: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V shines on
A number of new capabilities, plus enhancements to existing ones, promise to make Windows Server 2012 R2 an even stronger candidate for the majority of virtualisation tasks most organisations need to support.
Flexible data centres
With demand for storage and networking capabilities skyrocketing, in-house and hosted data centres are being put under greater pressure than …
The next frontier
Some interesting figures first. According to IDC, the disk storage capacity shipped by vendors worldwide has surpassed 7 exabytes for …
Taking the virtual step
Virtualised storage was a game changing technology for IT. The introduction of virtualisation has delivered many benefits for IT departments …
Intel showcases cloud-enabled, Atom-based NAS platform
Intel has introduced two new network-attached storage (NAS) controllers for home and small business users. The NAS platforms can support …
Brocade unveils new VDX 8770 switch platform
Brocade has announced a its new switching platform, the Brocade VDX 8770 Switch, along with VCS Fabric technology enhancements …
Office for Windows RT to ship between November and January
Buyers of computers running Windows RT, the Windows 8 version for ARM-based devices, will receive at no additional cost a …
Asus Transformer Pad 300
Asus has finally dropped the ‘Eee Pad’ from its tablet line-up, and its latest Android tablet is the Asus Transformer Pad 300. We took …
D-Link Cloud Routers 1200 and 2000
D-Link recently introduced the latest additions to its line of wireless cloud routers that are configurable and manageable from a …
LSI launches Nytro application acceleration cards
LSI yesterday announced a portfolio of NAND flash-based PCIe cards aimed at accelerating application performance in servers and storage area networks connected to the …
At home in the cloud: The emerging opportunity for telecom operators
Residential consumers are demanding more and more cloud computing services and storage, and the volume of data they want to store in the cloud is substantial.
Arista 10G switch
Packing 384 10G Ethernet ports into an 11-rack-unit form factor is only the beginning for Arista Networks’ DCS-7508 data centre …
EMC launches ‘Project Lightning’ PCIe cards
EMC today launched its long-awaited “Project Lightning,” now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash …
Quantum offers $5K deduplication appliance for SMBs
Quantum this week unveiled a backup appliance for $5,139 that offers smaller businesses 8TB of capacity and data deduplication capabilities …
Peripheral pressure
Printer, display and storage vendors are facing a host of game changing pressures from multiple and varied areas Across the …
Hitachi Data Systems buys NAS-vendor BlueArc
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today acquired high-end network-attached storage (NAS) vendor BlueArc in an all-cash deal, the company said. HDS …