2014 will be a year of escalation, consolidation, and innovation

International Data Corporation (IDC) has offered the first of its annual predictions for the coming year in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. IDC's predictions for 2014 were heavily influenced by the 3rd Platform, the industry's emerging platform for growth and innovation built on the technology pillars of mobile computing, cloud services, big data and analytics, and social networking.

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Data centre availability is primary concern to meet demand for virtualization and SDN

Fabrics gain recognition as the foundation for data center evolution, but reactive approach to network investment risks business growth and stability. As customers look to adopt virtualization, embrace software-defined networking (SDN) and meet the needs of more demanding users, new research from Brocade among channel resellers across the globe has revealed that “data center availability” is their customers’ biggest concern (40 percent of respondents). Moreover, the survey...

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Silver Peak unveils Dynamic Path Control

Silver Peak has announced new Dynamic Path Control that helps IT organisations maximise investments in hybrid wide area network (WAN) services. Dynamic Path Control uses real-time network intelligence to determine the fastest, most-reliable and most-available path for application performance and data mobility.

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Reliance Globalcom upgrades transatlantic submarine network

FA-1 North cable supports high-speed, low latency 100GbE and OTN client services along New York to London corridor.

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Verizon deploys traffic and access policy management

F5 Networks and Verizon Enterprise Solutions have announced that F5 technologies provide network traffic and security management services for the new Verizon Cloud. The F5® BIG-IP® product suite allows enterprises using Verizon Cloud to keep business-critical applications fast, secure, and available. As part of its mission to radically improve the enterprise cloud, Verizon continues to leverage enterprise-grade technologies to provide clients with the consistent performance, user...

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The first-ever British 5G factory trials have been switched on, putting the UK firmly ahead of its...
Prysmian Group highlights the impact of leveraging bend-insensitive fibres across the entire...
CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent Full Fibre platform, has announced the the successful...
Enhances Brocade’s position as a pure-play networking company, addressing critical networking...
Hawk is said to be the industry’s first elastic visibility fabric for all data-in-motion, closes...
Brings highly resilient connectivity to the UK’s Maritime & Coastguard Agency.
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Technical Discussion: High Performance IP Replication

Why is it so challenging to achieve high performance IP Replication over distance between data centers? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of achieving high performance IP replication over distance, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally and test results comparing IP storage replication workloads showing you the level of performance you can achieve with Brocade's solution.

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