The future of the data centre explored

The importance, role and functionality of data centres will change over the next five years, leaving many organisations unclear on how to plan their future data centre architectures, according Gartner, Inc. Gartner said technical, fiscal and service delivery concerns will be critical and organisations should plan around eight forces to shape their best data centre strategies.

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Branch network engine

ip|engine40 enhances the ability of mid-sized branch offices to guarantee application performance for new usages (UC&C, BYOD, social media) that require more bandwidth and network availability.

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Ovum finds stronger North American ON market propels Ciena, Fujitsu and Infinera forward in 3Q13

Global optical networking (ON) spending in 3Q13 is down according to the latest market share alert* from Ovum, the global market analyst firm. Revenues of US$3.7bn have decreased 9 percent from 2Q13 and were flat against the year-ago quarter, while sequential and year-over-year gains in North America have mitigated declines in Asia-Pacific, EMEA and South & Central America. Market spending continues to fluctuate by quarter depending on region/sub region and seasonal spending patterns,...

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China rates itself as world’s #1

EMC® Corporation has announced results of an independent survey revealing fresh insights about IT strategies and infrastructures deployed within companies and governments throughout the world. Most notably, respondents cite a startling lack of senior executive confidence that permeates organizations globally, specifically concerning readiness around the critical IT requirements of continuous availability; advanced security; and integrated backup and recovery. Reduced investment in these...

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Technical Discussion: High Performance IP Replication

Why is it so challenging to achieve high performance IP Replication over distance between data centers? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of achieving high performance IP replication over distance, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally and test results comparing IP storage replication workloads showing you the level of performance you can achieve with Brocade's solution.

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