2014 will be a year of escalation, consolidation, and innovation

International Data Corporation (IDC) has offered the first of its annual predictions for the coming year in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. IDC's predictions for 2014 were heavily influenced by the 3rd Platform, the industry's emerging platform for growth and innovation built on the technology pillars of mobile computing, cloud services, big data and analytics, and social networking.

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Data centre availability is primary concern to meet demand for virtualization and SDN

Fabrics gain recognition as the foundation for data center evolution, but reactive approach to network investment risks business growth and stability. As customers look to adopt virtualization, embrace software-defined networking (SDN) and meet the needs of more demanding users, new research from Brocade among channel resellers across the globe has revealed that “data center availability” is their customers’ biggest concern (40 percent of respondents). Moreover, the survey...

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Silver Peak unveils Dynamic Path Control

Silver Peak has announced new Dynamic Path Control that helps IT organisations maximise investments in hybrid wide area network (WAN) services. Dynamic Path Control uses real-time network intelligence to determine the fastest, most-reliable and most-available path for application performance and data mobility.

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Reliance Globalcom upgrades transatlantic submarine network

FA-1 North cable supports high-speed, low latency 100GbE and OTN client services along New York to London corridor.

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IT professionals cautiously optimistic on 2014 revenues, IT budgets, and hiring plans

Spiceworks has announced the results of a new survey analyzing the perceptions small-to-medium enterprise (SME) and large organization IT professionals have of the United Kingdom (UK) economy, government policies and the perceived IT skills gap. Despite new technology initiatives and policies aimed at driving growth, most IT professionals feel the UK remains in a recession. However, IT professionals, particularly those in large organizations, are optimistic that revenue, IT budgets, and hiring...

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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the global industry body dedicated to driving the seamless...
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Conexus Law, the specialist advisory firm that provides legal and commercial advice to clients who...
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Technical Discussion: High Performance IP Replication

Why is it so challenging to achieve high performance IP Replication over distance between data centers? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of achieving high performance IP replication over distance, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally and test results comparing IP storage replication workloads showing you the level of performance you can achieve with Brocade's solution.

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