Variations in IT sourcing strategies

Apptio has released its first IT Economics Report profiling enterprise IT spending patterns. Every month, the world’s largest organisations use Apptio’s Cost Transparency application to calculate and analyse over $160 billion in annual combined IT spend. For the Apptio IT Economics Report, the company analysed the IT investments made by its customers last year and found three common resourcing strategies. These patterns, or archetypes, each represent...

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June date for VeeamON Forum United Kingdom

Veeam Software has announced that VeeamON Forum United Kingdom will be taking place on Thursday, 11 June at The Science Museum, London. The UK’s premier data centre availability event – part of a series of VeeamON Forums across Europe – will bring together hundreds of IT professionals including customers and partners, and will be the first focused platform in the country to directly address availability challenges and how to enable the Always-On Business.

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Closing the hyperconvergence storage management gap

Maxta has introducedced MxInsight™ and MxCloudConnect™, simplifying hyper-converged IT management across virtualization technologies. MxInsight includes historical reporting, enhanced policy management, and comprehensive storage quality of service (QoS) management for all Maxta MxSP™ and MaxDeploy™ solutions. MxCloudConnect, a remote call home capability, delivers proactive maintenance and support notifications. These capabilities, along with Maxta’s...

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Toshiba demonstrates high performance Object Storage technologies At OpenStack

Key value drive technology combines large capacity HDD, high performance SSD, gigabit Ethernet and compute-for-storage in a single 3.5-inch form factor.

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Hyperscale scale-out Object Storage Management Software

Nexenta has announced the general availability (GA) of NexentaEdge®. The award-winning Block and Object Storage platform offers high-performance, simplified management of petabyte-scale repositories, and is the first software-only scale out storage solution to deliver cluster-wide inline deduplication and compression. NexentaEdge is optimised to support OpenStack clouds, object based active archives and Big Data applications.

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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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