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Companies are embracing enterprise mobility and consumer technologies to help employees do their jobs in new ways, finds a new survey. Conducted by Avanade, the September 2012 survey of 599 C-level executives and IT decision-makers in 19 countries shows that the “bring your own device” trend continues to take hold, with more than seven in […]

Avere Systems and Fujitsu have announced their plans to develop a joint solution to provide a network attached storage (NAS) design with 100TB capacity and 100,000 IOPS at the cost of $100,000. Named the 100/100/100 bundle, the new NAS solution combines Fujitsu Core filer with UDS NAS controllers and ETERNUS DX80 S2 Disk Storage System […]

Brocade this week will fill out its data center fabric vision with a long-awaited chassis core switch designed for high-density 100G Ethernet. At the same time, Brocade will triple the 10G port density of its high-end router, and add multitenancy capabilities to its Layer 4-7 load balancing switch. The advancements, announced at the Brocade Technology […]

Seagate Technology has announced three new enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDD) catered to data centers and emerging cloud infrastructures. Seagate Enterprise Value HDD, Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD and Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD were recently rolled out to meet rising storage needs in the enterprise. Seagate Enterprise Value HDD, also known as the Constellation […]

Gartner predicts that big data will drive $28 billion worldwide IT spending in 2012 and $34 billion in 2013. Big data currently impacts 45% of social networking analysis and content analysis each year. “Despite the hype, big data is not a distinct, stand-alone market, it but represents an industry wide market force which must be […]

Threat analysis, data harvesting, mobility and the commoditization of IT security products have been cited by analyst firm IDC as the biggest threats to security in 2012. Speaking at the recent NetIQ Rethinking Security conference in Sydney, IDC Asia-Pacific associate vice president Simon Piff told delegates that, according to a recent IDC APAC research report […]

Global recruitment firm Hudson says it has streamlined its operations and improved business continuity with a newly deployed storage and server infrastructure that has also cut power use by half. With a global presence of more than 2,000 staff operating in 20 countries, Hudson offers professional recruitment, talent management, recruitment outsourcing and related staffing services […]

Enterprise cloud synchronization provider TeamDrive has announced successful implementation on the Hamburg-Cloud allowing the innovative service provider IT works! to deliver secure data synchronization and win a prestigious German IT award. Hamburg-Cloud is operated from three professional data centers in Hamburg to ensure that all mission-critical data and applications are held within German jurisdiction and […]

Allowing staff  to telecommute or work from home is a way to establish the work-life harmony and consequently, improve productivity and employee retention. That’s why 87% of Singapore employers polled by specialist recruitment firm, Robert Half, have allowed staff to telecommute.   The Singapore percentage is higher than  the global average of 79% in the […]

Brocade has announced a switching platform, the Brocade VDX 8770 Switch, along with VCS Fabric technology enhancements that “take data center network simplicity, efficiency and resiliency to a new scale.” The Brocade VDX 8770 is designed for enterprises and service providers striving to both simplify and scale-out their data center infrastructure in order to accelerate […]