Some predictions for the New Year from Marcus Jewell, EMEA VP and GM, Brocade

Marcus believes the following will be the defining technology trends for businesses in 2014: • Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software-Defined “Everything” will gain momentum • Businesses will trim the fat in the data centre and the cloud, spelling the end for the traditional three tier network • Clouds will loom large, as adoption of personal cloud services grows and private clouds mature • The Internet Revolution will continue unabated as the...

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Higher rebuild times call for triple parity, writes Heiko Wüst, sales engineer at Nexenta Systems.

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HP unveils Cloud innovations

HP expands cloud leadership, hybrid delivery of OpenStack-based technology with next-generation HP CloudSystem.

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EMEA server revenues down again

According to the latest EMEA Server Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC), factory revenue in the EMEA server market reached $2.8 billion in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), a decrease of 3.0% when compared with the same quarter of 2012. Shipments reached 535,767 units, representing a 4.9% annual decline. The quarter-on-quarter performance displayed a mixed picture with flat growth in volumes, which were up 1.3%, but with revenue displaying a significant decrease of 6.3%. These...

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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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