Chinese networking giant Huawei is trying to make itself more transparent in an effort to convince the world that it’s not spying on global communications for the Chinese government. The 25-year-old-company, founded in 1987 by ex-military officer Ren Zhengfei, kept the majority of its business operations behind closed doors for much of its existence but […]
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Big Data delivery viewed as the next challenge for digital oilfields, reveals poll
Oil and gas industry professionals believe that implementing real-time “Big Data” analytics will be the next challenge facing the development of the digital oilfield, according to a poll conducted today at the SPE Intelligent Energy International 2013 exhibition in Dubai. All of the participants saw “Big Data” as the next big challenge. The poll was […]
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New offering from Cisco and NetApp support data-intensive workloads
In a continuing move to make data center infrastructures more responsive to applications’ dynamic needs, Cisco and NetApp have broadened the FlexPod portfolio with new validated designs across the entire portfolio, highlighted by the introduction of FlexPod Select for dedicated data-intensive workloads. The FlexPod portfolio now includes FlexPod Datacenter (formerly FlexPod) for core enterprise data […]
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Citrix: ITV Customer Story Video
Discover how ITV uses Citrix solutions for networking and virtualization to create a more mobile, spontaneous work environment for it employees in the UK and around the world.
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Southeast Asian data centre hub pushed
Cooperation and collaboration between data centre operators in Singapore and Malaysia will help drive growth for both markets and see a ‘win-win’ situation for both said Adrian Yong CEO of CSF Group, a regional data centre space provider with operations in multiple countries across the region. Rather than compete with each other countries should work […]
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Beyond Caching: Google engineers reveal secrets to faster Web sites
In the fiercely competitive world of Internet services, Google constantly seeks ways to speed up the delivery of content to its hundreds of millions of users. At the O’Reilly Velocity conference this week in New York, two Google engineers presented some of their favorite tips and research for expediting delivery of Web pages and applications. […]
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Virtualization helps Asia Pacific companies avoid US$98bn in IT spending
A new study reveals that US$98 billion worth of spending is expected to be avoided in the Asia Pacific region from 2003-2020 in the areas of server spending, power and cooling, floor space and cost of manpower and overheads. The VMware-sponsored IDC Server Economies Index provides an analysis over the past 10 years and looks […]
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Actuate integrates BI and SaaS platforms with Amazon’s cloud service
Actuate Corporation has integrated ActuateOne – a suite of commercial products for development and deployment of custom business analytics applications – and BIRT onDemand – a SaaS version of ActuateOne – with Amazon Redshift, AWS’s new petabyte-scale cloud warehouse service. When the visualization and analysis features of ActuateOne are combined with Amazon Redshift’s performance, scalability […]
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Gain the speed to lead with the VSPEX cloud trailblazer
Cloud computing and virtualization are transforming the way IT is procured, managed and delivered within mid-sized companies. IT executives and administrators are under pressure to respond to new sets of business requirements and expectations faster and more cost-effectively than ever before. Addressing these challenges, the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure – built on EMC’s award-winning VNX […]