Five virtualisation challenges impacting IT pros and data centre management

Virtualisation capabilities are built into networking, storage, applications and databases giving shape to the software defined data centre, problems with management and visibility across data centre boundaries will emerge. A recent survey by SolarWinds revealed that more than 700 IT professionals in six countries across the globe agreed virtualisation technology contributes significantly to management challenges, indicating the impact is undeniable and vast.

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Capgemini launches Elastic Analytics

Capgemini has announced ‘Elastic Analytics’, a new end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data Analytics solution, is available via Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Wick Hill is now shipping Check Point’s new 13500 Appliance

Combines multi-layer data centre security with market-leading performance.

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Hybrid Cloud for public sector

Extends use of VMware technologies allowing transfer of workloads between connected cloud.

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Lack of guidance and information are key reasons for cloud of disillusionment, says Databarracks

A lack of information and guidance are the key factors behind the slow uptake of cloud services by government departments, says Peter Groucutt, managing director of Infrastructure as a Service provider Databarracks.

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College benefitting from new scalable storage system designed and integrated by OCF.
Daisy Corporate Services has helped Royal Holloway University London (RHUL) reduce its data centre...
New AMD EPYC™ processors are said to be the world’s fastest and most energy efficient, allowing...
Disaster recovery specialist Databarracks has launched a new DR service designed specifically...
The University of Birmingham upgrades its data centre with a new supercomputer from Lenovo.
OpenStack based Cloud enables cost-effective self-provisioned compute resources.
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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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