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Efficiency will hold down storage growth, IDC says

Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said.
Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup

Red Hat has announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS.
Juniper keeps its simplification promise

As promised, Juniper has added automation and orchestration features to its campus and data centre switches, including OpenStack support.
VMware: We're building one of the biggest SDN deployments in the industry

VMware hopes to make the networking components of its soon-to-be-released vCloud Hybrid Service one of its biggest selling points, and in doing so the company plans to build one the largest software-defined networking (SDN) deployments in the industry.
Citrix revamps product line for the mobile workforce

Citrix has made a slew of product announcements, designed to make enterprise applications more accessible via mobile devices.
UK law firm replaces NetApp with Nimble Storage array

UK-based law firm Morgan Cole LLP is replacing its NetApp storage platform with a new Nimble Storage array, citing cost and performance benefits.
Oracle opens second UK data centre to support government G-Cloud

Oracle has announced the opening of a new data centre in the UK to support the government?s G-Cloud initiative, following a similar move by Salesforce.com earlier this month.
SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service

SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.
Betfair selects VMware vCloud to speed app development

Online betting exchange Betfair has implemented VMware?s vCloud as its attempts to redefine its IT department as a ?service broker, delivering virtualised environments to its agile development team through software defined data centre tools.
Juniper closer to Cisco in shipping SDN brains

Juniper Networks this week will extend its SDN offerings with the release of its controller, roughly six months ahead of schedule.

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Brocade CEO: Why we are eating our own young

Network fabrics have long been central to Brocade's business model. The company is currently on its sixth generation of fibre channel fabric, and since launching its Ethernet fabric two years ago the company claims to have 1,200 customers with over 200 devices deployed.
Why software-defined security is essential in a virtualised environment

Virtualisation is widely accepted to be the most effective way to improve efficiency and reduce running costs in the data centre. But the issues of security and compliance within a virtualised environment continue to make many enterprise IT managers nervous about the technology.
Project Moonshot can spur widespread VDI deployments, says Carrenza

HP gave the long awaited official launch for its Project Moonshot hyperscale system yesterday, as one of the customer trial participants highlighted the opportunities the high density servers can bring to cloud service providers.
Skeptcism follows Cisco-IBM led OpenDaylight SDN consortium

If you're skeptical about the intentions of the OpenDaylight SDN consortium, you're not alone.
VMware one-ups Microsoft with vSphere 5.1

The race for virtualisation dominance between Microsoft and VMware has become more interesting with VMware's recent release of vSphere 5.1. We obtained vSphere around the same moment as the final release of Windows Server 2012, whose newly included virtual switch and enhanced Hyper-V features were designed to clobber VMware.
The impact of the 'Internet of Things' on corporate IT

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a broad concept plotting to make vast amounts of the physical world interactive, IP-enabled, and ?smart?, according to Forrester Research analyst Andrew Rose.
Windows Server 2012 cannot be ignored - Tech to watch in 2013

Windows Server 2012 packs so many new features large and small that any Microsoft shop looking to gain advantages in cost and functionality will have to seriously consider upgrading this year.
Software-defined networking: one to watch in 2013

Software defined networking (SDN) has been pegged as one of the major enterprise IT trends for the next few years, with analyst firm IDC predicting the worldwide market to grow from $360 million in 2013 to $3.7 billion by 2016.
Red Hat: Most companies are still not cloud-ready

Most companies are still not very cloud-ready, and need to work on virtualising and automating their processes before pursuing a cloud strategy in earnest.
Dell networking chief: taking on Cisco in the data centre

It is just over a year since Dell completed its acquisition of Force10 Networks, but the company already has big plans to challenge Cisco's dominance in the data centre.

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Application-Centric Networking

Trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), virtualisation and cloud are rendering application deployment and delivery more challenging than ever for IT departments. Applications have moved further away from the employees who rely on them, introducing the potential for latency, security and availability issues. Still, these trends can?t be ignored. Download this white paper to read further.
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Is virtualised IT stalled on delivering performance?

Performance is absolutely mission-critical for many business applications, which has often led to expensively over-provisioned and dedicated infrastrucutres. Unfortunately broad technology evolutions like virtualisation and cloud architectures that are driving great efficiency and agility gains wide swaths of the data center can actually make it harder to deliver consistent performance to critical applications. The good news is that best practice performance management can help IT virtualise applications that require guaranteed performance, identify when performance gets out of whack, and rapidly uncover where contention and botlenecks might be hiding.
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is composed of a terminal end point (physical device or web browser), virtualisation layer (includes platforms and possibly applications), network transport, and targetable shared storage. Key to user experience in this environment is good visualisation, fast interface response, and the ready availability of both the basic desktop and user data. Download this white paper to discover how all 3 of these characteristics are directly impacted by the architecture, efficiency, and performance of the networking and storage sub-systems.
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Private Cloud ? It?s More Than Just Virtualisation

Looking at typical enterprise cloud road maps, Forrester finds that an internally based private cloud is a popular approach, but many struggle with setting up this new environment in a way that maximises benefits and positions these organisations for the customer-focused IT future.
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Advancing the state of virtualised backups

Dell Software?s vRanger is a veteran of the virtualisation specific backup market. It was the first agent-less, off-host backup solution available for VMware environments, as well as an assortment of other firsts like restoration of virtual machine (VM) images and individual file data from a single backup.
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