IT Infrastructure News - Page 10

Cisco To Buy Cloud Networking Start-Up Meraki For $1.2 Bn

Meraki was founded by members of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

Cisco To Acquire Cloupia

Acquisition extends Cisco's datacentre portfolio with software that enables management of converged infrastructure solutions.

Wave Of New Spending Underway In DC Security Mkt

Infonetics forecasts the datacentre security appliance market to grow to $2.7 billion by 2016.

Is Mistrust A Barrier To Virtualisation?

Sridhar Mittal, General Manager, Service Virtualisation, CA Technologies explains how trust in the concept of virtualisation is the biggest challenge that CIOs face.

CIOs Over-Estimate The Cost Savings Of A DC

Rakesh Kumar, Research VP, Gartner, says that a CIO should consider additional costs like training more people, new software tools, etc, besides the vendor's quotation of cost-saving in the DC.

HP Advances SDN With Integrated Infra, Controller, Application Solutions

Increases agility through "single control plane" to abstract, program and automate the entire network.

Quantum Announces Availability Of LTO-6 Tape Automation Systems

Quantum's Scalar i6000 enterprise tape library can now scale to over 45 PB, and a Scalar i500 midrange system over 2.5 PB.

HDS Unveils Hitachi Accelerated Flash Storage

Features new rack-optimised form factor with increased environmental advantages and low cost per bit.

Intel, HP Tout Newest Itanium Server Technology

Unveil server tech based on Itanium processors at the centre of a recent dispute between HP and Oracle.

Brocade Acquires Vyatta

Brocade on track to deliver on an end-to-end network virtualisation architecture for SDN, cloud computing and virtualised datacentres.

NetApp Updates Its FAS Midrange Storage Systems

New cluster- and flash-enabled FAS3220 and FAS3250 set performance, efficiency, and scalability foundation for a dynamic, always-on agile data infrastructure.

Quantum Unveils Quantum vmPRO Standard Edition

Protects up to 1 TB of VMware data free of charge, with option to scale up.

AMD Adopts Smartphone Technology For Servers

AMD will expand its push into the still-new microserver market, combining ARM's architecture typically used in smartphones with the x86 architecture.

Riverbed To Acquire OPNET Technologies

Acquisition extends Riverbed's network performance management business into high-growth application performance management market.

Juniper's QFabric Now Interoperable With EMC VMAX And VNX Storage Systems

In addition, Juniper Networks QFabric system has been added to EMC's Support Matrix.

Hitachi GST Rebranded As HGST, A Western Digital Company

There will be no change to HGST's current business with the rebranding. All HGST products will continue to be available except for products that reach end-of-life in the ordinary course of business.

Symantec Introduces Integrated Backup And Deduplication Appliances In India

NetBackup 5220 and Backup Exec 3600 appliances protect information completely across virtual and physical systems.

Riverbed Unveils Application-Aware Network Performance Mgmt Solution

Cascade 10.0 performance management solution to address virtual desktop infrastructure, server virtualisation and Software-Defined Networks.

Data Tiering Is Crucial For Any Storage Strategy

Subroto Das shares tips for CIOs on how they need to align their storage strategy to the continuously changing storage requirements.

Riverbed Delivers Network Performance Monitoring To MSPs

Fully virtualised Cascade solution enables Managed Service Providers to deliver application-aware NPM-as-a-Service to end customers.

HP Helps Diversified Agency Services Move To Cloud DC

Through HP Converged Infrastructure solutions, DAS delivers applications and data via the cloud to multiple locations in real-time.

HP To End Storage Resale Deal With Violin Memory: Bloomberg

HP will wrap up its deal with Violin Memory, to focus on selling storage machines from 3PAR, which it agreed to buy in 2010 for $2.4 billion.

Dell Bets On Pre-Packaged Datacentre Systems

Dell announced its "converged infrastructure" product called Active Systems, which can used to set up virtual desktops and private remote-computing capabilities.

Government DCs Undergoing A Major Shift: IDC

IT disrupters and pressure to consolidate fuels migration towards larger datacentres and a shared services approach.

Seagate Unveils New Enterprise-Class HDDs

Announces three new enterprise-class hard disk drives optimised for traditional datacentres and emerging cloud infrastructures.

A Guide To Optical Transport Network

This whitepaper explains the nuances and benefits of Optical Transport Network.

Array Networks Unveils Virtual Secure Access Gateway

vxAGVirtual Secure Access Gateway for virtualised servers gives enterprises and service providers flexibility and improved economics for protection of private and public clouds.

Brocade To Provide Networking Support For Hitachi UCP

Several of Brocade's Ethernet and SAN fabric switches integrated by Hitachi Data Systems in its Unified Compute Platform.

Cisco, NetApp Expand DC Infra Solutions

FlexPod adds storage clustering and Oracle RAC support to enable scalable operations for enterprises.

Ciena Enhances Its Packet Networking Portfolio

Key elements of Ciena's OPn architecture accelerate service deployment, service changes, and service assurance.