Google said its data centres in Taiwan and Singapore have gone online to cater to the growing number of Internet users in Asia.
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ABB snaps up GE’s industrial unit in $2.6 billion deal
As part of the deal, GE Industrial Solutions will be integrated into ABB’s Electrification Products (EP) division.0 1775
Is data complexity blinding your IT decision-making?
According to a new study by Forrester Research, commissioned by Data-as-a-Service firm BDNA, 73 percent of high-level IT decision makers cite the complexity of data as the largest challenge in making effective IT decisions in the next 12 months.
Gartner: future data centres will have more flexibility
Tomorrow’s data centre will be mobile, flexible, highly efficient and secure, says David Cappuccio, Managing Vice President and Chief of Research for Gartner’s infrastructure teams.
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.
Beware: data centres advertising spurious reliability credentials
How reliable is your data centre service provider? Perhaps not as reliable as you think.
Gartner: Global companies should stick to only two data centres on each continent
Most global organisations have “too many data centres in too many countries”, according to analyst Gartner, and that in order to cut costs and optimise service delivery, they only need two on each continent they operate in.
VMware launches network-savvy cloud service
VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from …
Cisco cites data centre, wireless for quarterly revenue increase
Data centre and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending …
SunGard brings cloud service to disaster recovery
Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at …
The big issue
As CNME prepares to host the Middle East’s first event entirely focused on big data, it delves head first into …