01 September 2010
Dell’s attempt to establish itself as a go-to supplier of cloud storage infrastructure is hanging in the balance this morning as the market waits to see if it will continue to bid against HP for control of 3PAR.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Storage & Data, Storage Infrastructure, Storage Management, Virtualization, Virtualization Infrastructure0 Comments
19 August 2010
Dell’s ongoing game of catch-up with IBM and HP in the race to be the enterprise infrastructure provider of choice gained vital momentum this week with the company’s $1.15 billion acquisition of virtualised storage vendor, 3PAR.
Posted in Cloud Computing, IP Networks Infrastructure, IP Networks Management, Storage & Data, Virtualization1 Comment
19 July 2010
A storage industry breakthrough was unveiled today after four storage vendors came together to collaborate on a common mission: to promote active archives and simplify online access to all archived data.
Posted in Storage & Data, Storage Management, Storage Security0 Comments
13 July 2010
Storage giant EMC has dropped plans to enter the public cloud service game in the near future, but it’s keeping its options open for the future.
Posted in Cloud Application Services, Cloud Computing, Storage & Data1 Comment
21 June 2010
60 of the best presentations from IP EXPO 2009 archived and presented on demand. This gives you a taste of things to come for the 2010 event which truly will be the biggest techfest in the UK this October. It will have over 240 presentations over two days with a similar amount of exhibiting companies. [...]
Posted in 2009 Presentations, Cloud Computing, Featured Home Page, IP Networks, IP Networks Security, Storage & Data, Virtualization, Wireless & Mobility0 Comments
10 February 2010
An essential part of cloud computing is service provision via the Internet, delivering IT and communications services via a pay-as-you-go model. It seems highly desirable and cost-effective, but there are commercial risks that might not quite make it to the negotiating table for consideration. That service provision has also become known as SaaS (Software as [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Security & Governance, Storage Security2 Comments
06 November 2009
The presentation from Richard Scannell – Senior Vice President of Glasshouse Technologies at IP Expo 2009 was one of the best attended and subsequently most viewed presentations covering data centers at the event. You can view this ondemand here Richards comments still resonate and hold true one year on. The evolution of the data centre [...]
Posted in 2009 Presentations, Storage Management, Video, Virtualization Infrastructure0 Comments
13 October 2009
“…there is a real danger of spending more on storage unless the designers take a holistic view of the infrastructure when considering network performance.” The feedback from IP EXPO 2009 confirmed that the virtualised approach to communications reaches into every corner of the network, from applications and operating systems to storage and files systems. A [...]
Posted in Storage & Data, Storage Infrastructure0 Comments
23 September 2009
A quick look behind the racks where users connect back to the servers and the odds are you’ll discover a veritable spaghetti of cables – almost certainly UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) copper as specified in the EIA/TIA 568 standard. As demand for throughput continues to rise, however, the data centre is under pressure to deliver [...]
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26 March 2009
Within the “current economic climate” we are trying to collectively, as a nation (perhaps world?), save the pennies as Mitel’s Don Smith identifies. Within the business world the paramount concern is how to minimise costs whilst not being detrimental to its ROI. SIS International Research, on behalf of Siemens, have produced a global study that [...]
Posted in Storage & Data, Wireless & Mobility0 Comments
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