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Public IT cloud services spending will reach $56.6 billion in 2014 and grow to more than $127 billion in 2018, according to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). This represents a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.8%, which is about six times the rate of growth for the overall IT market. In 2018, public IT cloud services will account for more than half of worldwide software, server, and storage spending growth.

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SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark measures total solution performance based on common and customized applications; provides extensible framework for future.

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Dot Hill launches next-generation Hybrid Ultra48 arrays

Dot Hill Systems Corp. has announced the Ultra48™ AssuredSAN® ultra-density, next-generation hybrid arrays are now available with Dot Hill RealStor™ version 2.0 application workload-aware intelligence. By combining RealStor 2.0, also announced today, with the Ultra48, Dot Hill is delivering a unique, robust family of hybrid arrays that challenges the current competitive landscape with game-changing enterprise management features and performance at an unparalleled...

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Data centre traffic to nearly triple

In the fourth annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2013 – 2018), Cisco forecasts continued strong growth of cloud traffic, cloud workloads and cloud storage with private cloud significantly larger than public cloud. Over the next five years, the study projects data center traffic to nearly triple, with cloud representing 76% of total data center traffic. By 2018, half of the world’s population will have residential Internet access, and more than half of those users’ (53...

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