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Building business cases for unified communications (UC) based on cost savings has proven difficult. What’s more, many organizsations are also concerned about data security issues involved.  It is getting clearer that the real benefit of UC comes from better interaction between company employees and from closer integration of communication and collaboration in a more efficient business […]

As organizations look for ways to lower costs, while still gaining from the benefit of shared storage technology, the choice between an iSCSI and FCoE solution continues to be pitted in IT boardrooms. Both ride on the Ethernet – delivering faster, more reliable performance. Both are robust and highly reliable. And both simplify data management […]

Enterprise workloads are shifting to cloud and hosting environments in ever greater numbers and attacks that have historically targeted on-premises environments are following them, according to a new report. But while attacks on cloud environments have increased significantly in frequency and are becoming as diverse as those targeting on-premises data centers, the data also reveal […]

A serious Internet vulnerability dubbed “Heartbleed” has exposed 66 percent or more of the Internet to attack, according to Finnish digital forensics and security company Codenomicon, which discovered the security hole. By exposing the memory contents of a Web site’s server, the Heartbleed vulnerability potentially allows attackers to steal the most sensitive information such as […]

Industry leaders are looking ahead to see what technologies loom big in the new year. While we won’t hold them to their predictions, especially in heterogeneous Asia, they have their reasoned arguments. Let us know if you agree or disagree, as Matt Kolon, APAC CTO at Juniper Networks, offers his take on the hot technology topics […]

Last week, Seagate launched what it calls “the industry’s most elegant, easy-to-install 3TB desktop drive” – the Barracuda XT hard drive. But what’s most newsworthy about this new piece of hardware is that it eliminates the need to purchase extra hardware or software to overcome the 2TB barrier. The Barracuda XT hard drive delivers just the kind […]

Cisco’s unified fabric solutions consolidates different types of traffic onto a single, general-purpose, high-performance, highly available network that greatly simplifies the network infrastructure and reduces costs.

Remote offices pose special problems for the data center. Each office requires its own local servers for key applications, which then need local backups. However, since so many remote offices lack skilled IT employees, maintenance and backups are left in the hands of untrained workers, leading to serious support problems. Today, the Internet and dedicated […]

Cable&Wireless has won a three-year, multi-million Euro contract to provide a global communications infrastructure for Zegna, the luxury men’s clothing company. Cable&Wireless will proactively manage Zegna’s growing international communications infrastructure from its data centres in Dublin and Munich. The Ermenegildo Zegna Group is the world leader in luxury men’s clothing, employing more than 7.000 staff worldwide with […]

The proliferation of IT equipment associated with remote offices is a major IT concern. Maintaining servers and applications at remote locations is no picnic and remote office backups are often problem areas for non-IT staff. Consolidation has emerged as a way to ease these problems. Instead of maintaining ad hoc IT infrastructures at each remote […]