Bandwidth and network speeds exploding with Hyperscale deployments

Emulex Corporation has announced the results of a study of 1,623 European and US IT professionals, in which respondents provided insight into their enterprise data centre networking environments. The study, conducted in October 2014, found that 57 percent (%) of respondents have adopted hyperscale networking environments that require massive scalability in network resources. (tweet this) Of those respondents, more than half (51%) named increasing bandwidth as a major challenge in moving to...

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AWS Direct Connect availability extended to eight Equinix data centres

Equinix, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect cloud service in Equinix’s Germany International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centers. With AWS Direct Connect, companies across Europe can connect their customer-owned and managed infrastructure directly to AWS, establishing a private connection to the cloud that can reduce costs, increase performance, and deliver more consistency. The Equinix Frankfurt location brings the total number...

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HP Helion OpenStack and HP Helion Development Platform available!

Since announcing the HP Helion portfolio in May 2014, customers and partners have shown strong interest in learning more about the value from an open source-based, hybrid cloud. Hybrid solutions resonate with customers because they know that their applications and workloads do not fit in a ‘one cloud fits all model.’ They want the flexibility to deploy apps to whichever cloud (private, public or hosted) is the most appropriate, at a given time. And, they want the benefit of open...

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The most secure data centre in Scandinavia?

Hidden deep in a mountain, Green Mountain’s data centre is cooled by the cold waters of a Norwegian fjord. Working with nature, Green Mountain is saving energy and protecting the environment — leading the way to cutting data centre energy use by a third.

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