U2 rocks with all-Flash technology

With declining revenues from recorded music, road tours are becoming more and more important. Historically, artists could expect up to 25% of their revenue to come from album sales; today they typically receive little more than a penny for 20 plays on YouTube. As a result, a t-shirt sale can generate as much profit as 25,000 plays. For big acts, the figures can be huge. In the first 11 nights of their iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour, U2 grossed $22 million and the band has recently embarked upon...

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Mirantis launches NFV initiative

Adoption of Network Function Virtualization on OpenStack to dramatically accelerate service agility and innovation for $1.6 trillion telecommunications industry.

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Consumers think online outages are caused by poorly built and designed websites

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Infrequent Access storage option

AWS is adding a new storage class for data that is accessed infrequently. The new S3 Standard – Infrequent Access (Standard – IA) storage class offers the same high durability, low latency, and high throughput of S3 Standard. Customers now have the choice of three S3 storage classes (Standard, Standard – IA, and Glacier) that are designed to offer 99.999999999% (eleven nines) of durability.? Standard – IA has an availability SLA of 99%. This new storage class inherits all of the...

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Backup solution proves well above par for golf organisation

Gets back on course with robust, scalable and reliable backup and recovery

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Brocade 'extends leadership' in Open Source Software-Defined Networking  

Brocade has introduced the Brocade SDN Controller 2.0, a commercial distribution of the OpenDaylight (ODL) controller based on the Lithium ODL release, and two new software-defined networking (SDN) applications—Brocade Topology Manager and Brocade Flow Manager. These new solutions reinforce Brocade’s leadership in open source SDN, providing greater innovation, interoperability and choice while eliminating vendor lock-in for customers.

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2022 marks the first year cyber attacks overtake human error as the top cause of data loss.
Lack of robust testing and reliance on replication lead to high risk of data loss.
Micron’s new QLC-based i300 1TB industrial microSD card is the industry’s highest-capacity card...
PeerGFS delivers active-active synchronisation for large CAD and engineering workloads across 13...
AMD EPYC processors enable HPE to transform data lifecycle management with high-performance...
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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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