Disability insurer Movir recently signed a 3-year contract with Proact for the supply, implementation and management of a converged data center infrastructure solution based on the FlexPod reference architecture. FlexPod is a validated solution from Cisco and NetApp that combines networking, computing and storage in one shared IT infrastructure. The environment as a whole will serve as the basis for increasing the availability, scalability, performance and associated IT infrastructure services.
Read MoreGreenBytes®, Inc. says that former Segway CEO Jim Norrod and former Xyratex CEO Steve Barber have joined the company’s Board of Directors. Norrod will serve as Executive Chairman and will lead a group that includes GreenBytes’ founders and investment partners from Battery Ventures and Generation Investment Management. Both Norrod and Barber bring decades of business leadership experience to GreenBytes, an award-winning developer of patented IO-Offload desktop virtualization...
Read MoreMarcus believes the following will be the defining technology trends for businesses in 2014: • Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software-Defined “Everything” will gain momentum • Businesses will trim the fat in the data centre and the cloud, spelling the end for the traditional three tier network • Clouds will loom large, as adoption of personal cloud services grows and private clouds mature • The Internet Revolution will continue unabated as the...
Read MoreBY Keith Turnbull, Chief Development Officer and SVP at AppSense.
Read MoreDie EMC Corporation hat die Ergebnisse einer weltweiten Umfrage vorgestellt, die das Unternehmen unter 10.700 Teilnehmern der lokalen EMC Foren durchgeführt hat. IT-Entscheider aus 50 Ländern wurden nach ihrer Meinung zu den Herausforderungen und Chancen gefragt, die Big Data und IT-Transformation für ihre Unternehmen mit sich bringen. Zu den Befragten gehörten neben Managern, IT-Verantwortlichen und -Architekten auch Data Scientists sowie Speicher- und...
Read MoreSwisstopo, the federal mapping agency for the Swiss confederation, has deployed Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array™ (VPSA) storage as a service (STaaS) running the NFS protocol at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) EU regional data centre in Dublin. As its growth in Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes and Web users created cost and scalability challenges, Swisstopo moved to Zadara and quickly found that its move to an NFS-based storage architecture dramatically lowered both EBS...
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