Internet of Things spending to reach $1.7 trillion in 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain momentum as vendors and enterprises begin to embrace the opportunities this market presents. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), the worldwide Internet of Things market will grow from $655.8 billion in 2014 to $1.7 trillion in 2020 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.9%.

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State of Storage survey reveals biggest pain points

Tintri has released its 2015 State of Storage study that captures the pain points and priorities of over 1,000 data centre professionals. While the study highlights performance, capital expenses and management as three of the top storage pains, it also found that organisations are still making buying decisions based on the needs of physical workloads, despite the fact that the percentage of virtualised workloads has grown to 75 percent in the last decade.

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2TB SATA SSD optimised for Cloud Data Services

SanDisk Corporation has launched its CloudSpeed Eco™ Gen. II SATA SSD, a purpose-built storage device for cloud service providers with up to 2TB* capacity. This new SSD is now sampling with select hyperscale customers. Based on 15nm NAND flash, the new CloudSpeed Eco Gen. II SSD delivers greater storage density with 3x the streaming bandwidth vs. hard disk drives (HDDs). Designed as a drop-in replacement for HDDs, CloudSpeed Eco Gen. II provides datacenters with a lower...

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