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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Internap selects SolidFire

SolidFire is powering Internap Network Services Corporation’s new cloud block storage offering, which delivers guaranteed high levels of storage and application performance. Internap leverages SolidFire’s deep integration with OpenStack to deliver finely tuneable and guaranteed QoS that solves the traditional performance challenges associated with shared public cloud storage. With this launch, SolidFire is now the foundation for Internap’s block storage as a service.

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Business strategy and technology company uses Databarracks for AWS consultancy

Based in London, DrPete is an award winning, independent strategy and technology consultancy. It specialises in taking ideas from their inception to the point of delivering change for its customers.

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Ovum reveals 2014 outsourcing perspective trends shaping customer expectations and prospects in social media

Social media is already a must for CRM vendors and enterprises alike. Ovum’s Social Media Outsourcing 2014 Trends to Watch report predicts that both ends of the social media maturity spectrum will drive new opportunities; outsourcers will look to take social media agents out of silos and train them with additional skills, or recruit multi-channel agents; and privacy concerns and perceptions exacerbated by leaked intelligence information will result in outsourcers helping enterprises to...

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Flexiant partners with Africa Cloud Services

Flexiant has partnered with Africa Cloud Services to facilitate its plans to expand into the African market. Recognizing the need for local service providers to meet customer demands for Pay-As-You-Go computing to reduce typical local overheads of expensive proforma software licensing, electricity and energy costs, and expensive bandwidth availability. Flexiant will use the local expertise and experience of Africa Cloud Services to capture this high-growth opportunity.

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Scale Computing has helped KIB Electronics revamp its infrastructure to avoid downtime and better...
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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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