Digitalisation World

SDN/NFV – Is it the breakthrough CSPs need to help level the OTT playing field?

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Infrastructure Platform Storage + Servers Virtualisation

The business communications services market is going through one of its most challenging periods at the moment as CSPs struggle to come to terms with the demand for faster, more reliable and feature-rich services from their customers, whilst also dealing with increased competition and the inevitable pressure this puts on prices. Although this is a typical and predictable scenario in what is a rapidly maturing tech-based market, it means that service providers cannot afford to assume that their...

Cloud hardware spending breaks $4 billion mark

A new International Data Corporation (IDC) study confirmed that cloud is the major disruption factor in the EMEA infrastructure hardware market, accounting for a growing portion of hardware spending and exerting influence on hardware architectures and vendors' strategies. The overall investment in hardware for cloud environments in EMEA is expected to exceed $4 billion in terms of user value by the end of 2014, with a strong 19% YoY growth. 15% of the infrastructure spend in EMEA will be...

Published in Cloud + MS Datacentre + Network Security Infrastructure Security Security + Compliance

Juniper Networks has announced enhancements to its Juniper Networks® DDoS Secure solution that help companies mitigate complex attacks by more effectively leveraging security intelligence throughout the network fabric, taking them one step closer to building a High-IQ Network.

Published in BC/DR Cloud + MS Flash Infrastructure Management Server Technology Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology Virtualisation

Red Hat’s Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 delivers new levels of flexibility and cost advantages through powerful features such as erasure coding and cache tiering.

Apple and IBM forge global partnership

Apple and IBM have announced an exclusive partnership that teams the market-leading strengths of each company to transform enterprise mobility through a new class of business apps—bringing IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities to iPhone and iPad.