EMC recognises Channel excellence in EMEA

Avnet Technology Solutions has clinched two EMEA awards – ‘Best Distributor of the Year’ and ‘Best VSPEX Distributor’ – at EMC’s annual EMEA Velocity Solution Provider Awards. The ceremony was held at the EMC Global Partner Summit at EMC World in Las Vegas last week.

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Oxford University Press improves SAP application performance

Violin Memory, Inc. has helped Oxford University Press (OUP) to improve its SAP IPM application performance by three times -- cutting month end processing by two and a half days, and reducing average dialog response time -- the time it takes from the first dialog request to the presentation of the final data -- by 30 percent.

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Cloud security turns off 92% of IT decision makers

The fear of security threats is preventing 92% of IT decision makers from adopting the cloud, according to an infographic released today by global web hosting company PEER 1 Hosting. The infographic, based on the results of a survey of 120 IT professionals, revealed a number of concerns when weighing up the cost of the cloud.

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Emulex to support Cisco MDS Storage Switches with 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters

Emulex Corporation (has certified the Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director for use with the Emulex LightPulse® 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs). Emulex 16GFC HBAs, when combined with Cisco storage solutions, provide customers with a Storage Area Network (SAN) solution that includes advanced management, improved SAN efficiency and simplified data protection.

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Silver Peak Software added to NEC SDN Application Centre

Silver Peak Systems has joined NEC Corporation of America (NEC) to include its data acceleration software as part of NEC’s new Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Application Centre. The NEC SDN Application Centre focuses on solutions that address customers’ top-of-mind network concerns. Silver Peak software enables customers to accelerate individual workloads and applications beyond a single data centre with point-and-click simplicity.

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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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