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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Channel partners are bullish about their growth prospects. In fact, in a recently conducted Forrester survey in North America (NA) and Europe, 59% of channel partners expect to grow by more than 10% in each of the next two years. However, partners will need help and handholding as they aim for greater sophistication and higher […]

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 […]