IT Infrastructure News - Page 28

Global Server Shipment Growth Weak In 1Q12: Gartner

Global Server Shipment Growth Weak In 1Q12: Gartner

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Worldwide server shipments grew 1.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012, while server revenue declined 1.8 percent year over year.

Brocade, NEC Expand Efforts To Drive SDN Adoption

Brocade, NEC Expand Efforts To Drive SDN Adoption

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Collaboration enables customers to build highly scalable, programmable networks and foster rapid innovation and deployment of services.

Indian Railways Selects Nokia Siemens Networks GSM-R Infra

Indian Railways Selects Nokia Siemens Networks GSM-R Infra

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As part of its GSM-R deployments, Nokia Siemens Networks is providing its Flexi Base Stations and Flexi Base Station Controllers.

Essar Oil Optimises IT Environment With Microsoft Private Cloud

Essar Oil Optimises IT Environment With Microsoft Private Cloud

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Turns to Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and System Center technology.

Cloud Automatically Addresses Key DC Functions

Cloud Automatically Addresses Key DC Functions

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Cloud holistically fulfills key requirements from the DC- availability, continuity and Green IT, says Ranganathan Ramani, VP-IT, Infrastructure, Vodafone India explaining his DC strategy.

VMware To Acquire Wanova

VMware To Acquire Wanova

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Acquisition to advance VMware end-user computing portfolio.

DC Consolidation: Set The Objective Right

DC Consolidation: Set The Objective Right

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Naveen Mishra, Principal Research Analyst, Gartner prescribes the DC consolidation best practices

Slow Start To 2012 Optical Networking Market: Ovum

Slow Start To 2012 Optical Networking Market: Ovum

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Global analysts found revenues declined 9 percent from the year-ago quarter, while annualised spending retreated by $300m, or 2 percent sequentially, wiping out a third of the gains of 2011.

Ethernet Access Device Mkt To Grow 81% By 2016

Ethernet Access Device Mkt To Grow 81% By 2016

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The Ethernet Access Device market grew 17 percent in 2011 over 2010 and is forecast to grow 81 percent between 2012 and 2016, says Infonetics Research.

Key Parameters For Storage Solutions

Key Parameters For Storage Solutions

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Pretisth Mankotia, Head - IT, Sheela Foam, talks about the areas of concern related to storage solutions.

Ciena Unveils Intelligent Control Plane Software

Ciena Unveils Intelligent Control Plane Software

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Ciena's OneConnect Intelligent Control Plane brings distributed software intelligence, mesh network resiliency and Optical VPN service delivery across metro, regional, long haul and submarine networks.

Re-architecting DC Paves Way For Virtualisation

Re-architecting DC Paves Way For Virtualisation

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Building a modular structure leveraging existing investments forms the cornerstone of New Holland's DC re-architecting exercise.

Oracle Strengthens Storage Portfolio

Oracle Strengthens Storage Portfolio

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Adds StorageTek Tape Analytics, Sun ZFS Backup Appliance to its portfolio.

Thane Janata Sahakari Bank Deploys Citrix XenDesktop Solution

Thane Janata Sahakari Bank Deploys Citrix XenDesktop Solution

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As part of the roll-out, over 100 desktops in the bank's head office were migrated to Citrix XenDesktop solution using thin clients.

SGI Expands Rackable Server Line To Support New NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPUs

SGI Expands Rackable Server Line To Support New NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPUs

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The solution is built, completely integrated, and tested so that it can be installed at the customer site and begins running application codes in less than a day.

Virtualisation: What, Why, When And How

Virtualisation: What, Why, When And How

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Virtualisation is one of the most discussed and debated topic not only amongst the IT community but business community as well.

Data Warehouse Must Enable 1st Time Right Decision

Data Warehouse Must Enable 1st Time Right Decision

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Daya Prakash, CIO, LG Electronics, explains how an enterprise's data warehousing platforms should always be in tune with the business strategy and enable good decision-making.

Unified Storage Reduces Both Cost And Complexity

Unified Storage Reduces Both Cost And Complexity

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Mark Adams, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Modular Storage Products, Hitachi Data Systems delves into details of a unified storage platform.

Big Data Impact On Data Warehousing

Big Data Impact On Data Warehousing

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Amrita Gangotra, Director - IT, CIO - India & South Asia, Bharti Airel talks about the impact of Big Data on data warehousing and other emerging trends.

CIO Expectations From Data Warehousing Platform

CIO Expectations From Data Warehousing Platform

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Daya Prakash, CIO - LG Electronics, talks about the evolution of data warehousing and top CIO expectation from their data warehousing platform.

Apple To Use Only Green Power For Main Datacentre

Apple To Use Only Green Power For Main Datacentre

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The company will build two solar array installations in and around Maiden, North Carolina, near its core datacentre.

Cisco Unveils New 'Mobile-To-Immersive' Offerings

Cisco Unveils New 'Mobile-To-Immersive' Offerings

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The innovations, ranging from new desktop and mobile applications include Cisco Jabber and Cisco TelePresence systems.

EMC Unveils New VMAX Service Provider Platform

EMC Unveils New VMAX Service Provider Platform

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Platform enables service providers to purchase and rapidly deploy storage for cloud services.

Emerson Network Power Releases Trellis Platform

Emerson Network Power Releases Trellis Platform

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The infrastructure management solution consolidates vast amounts of real-time information from IT and facilities devices into comprehensive datacentre insights.

Oracle Enhances Desktop Virtualisation Portfolio

Oracle Enhances Desktop Virtualisation Portfolio

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New security features including support for 802.1x identity-based network authentication enhance security.

HP Launches Network Infrastructure Optimization Services

HP Launches Network Infrastructure Optimization Services

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Solutions to help customers evaluate and improve network flow and infrastructure.

Virtualisation, Private Cloud Impact On Storage

Virtualisation, Private Cloud Impact On Storage

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Suresh Shanmugam, Head – Business IT Solutions, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial, elaborates on how Virtualisation and private cloud has impacted storage strategies.

Soon There Will Be No IT Strategy, Only Business Strategy

Soon There Will Be No IT Strategy, Only Business Strategy

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Technology's role in the enterprise is increasing and IT's closer alignment with business, and vice versa, is a topic of much focus, says Gartner.

Asian Paints' Server Virtualisation Strategy

Asian Paints' Server Virtualisation Strategy

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Key points of the virtualisation strategy of Manish Choksi, Chief-Corporate Strategy & CIO, Asian Paints include: not virtualising critical applications; vendor evaluation; handling tech environment and software licensing.

The Rise Of Virtualisation Within The Datacentre Environment

The Rise Of Virtualisation Within The Datacentre Environment

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While cloud currently dominates datacentre discussions, another significant IT transformation is taking place, says Frost & Sullivan.