IT managers want to cut the number of servers they manage, or at least slow the growth, and they may be succeeding, according to new data.
Time to face the facts
Network downtime translates to big financial losses for Middle East businesses, says Sufian Dweik, Regional Manager, MEMA, Brocade
9 storage trends for 2014
CNME asks a panel of experts to look forward to the nine biggest storage trends of 2014.
Ten times the power
The tenth edition of the Powering the Cloud conference held in Frankfurt, Germany, suggested a bigger-than-ever drive to adopt cloud computing, despite continuing security concerns.
Experts debate Cisco’s 2017 cloud computing forecast
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.
Schneider Electric aiming for smart city energy distribution
Schneider Electric representatives used the company’s Power To The Cloud event to underline the importance of smart cities, and its own Next-Generation Mission Critical IT infrastructure policy.
VMware adds increased scale to Virtual SAN beta
VMware has posted a new beta release of Virtual SAN (VSAN) that lets enterprises add more storage capacity and management features.
Huawei collaborates with Enterprise Systems
With the enterprise market being an important area for Huawei, Enterprise Systems will now distribute the company’s portfolio of vertical solutions focusing on the hospitality and public sectors in the UAE market.
Google will build another six solar power plants in the U.S.
Google has announced plans to continue its rollout of solar energy plants in the U.S. with an $80million investment for six new facilities; its second largest to date.
Mayer Brown partner: NSA Spying Will Impact Cloud Providers and Customers,
Congressional lawmakers held hearings this week to determine what, if any, changes can be made to U.S. government surveillance programs, with Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) calling for increased transparency into federal data collection policies.
FVC highlights new vendors
FVC ramped up its annual participation in GITEX this year, thanks to the addition of four new vendor-partners to its portfolio.
Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud
Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that picture as well.
Taking the cloud public
No technology has bulldozed its way onto the global scene and promised to revolutionise enterprise IT as much as cloud computing.
Huawei unveils SDN-ready switch
The Agile Switch S12700 uses a fully-programmable switching architecture, and automatic network deployment and management applications.
HP’s department merger aims to ‘revolutionise’ storage industry
HP’s policy of ‘Converged Infrastructure’ aims to combine the departments of servers, storage and networking into one arm of the business.
F5 shifts focus to cloud computing at GITEX
F5 Networks has used GITEX to big up its cloud credentials this week, as it seeks to educate customers about the reality of doing business on the cloud.
Commvault to plug Simpana 10 at GITEX
Data protection specialist Commvault will use the Gitex 2013 stage to market its Simpana 10 technology, which it claims can cut storage-related costs by up to 50 percent.
GITEX PREVIEW: Cisco
This year, Cisco has adopted the principal theme of ‘Where Technology Means Business’, where we will discuss current ICT trends …
Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands
Facebook’s head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giant’s own infrastructure.
Business as usual for tech, but gov’t crisis casts shadows
The tech sector appears to be going about business as usual in the face of the US federal government shutdown, but some industry insiders are nervous about a long-term stoppage.