Stories by Heather - Page 18
2016 a 'telling year' for SDN as enterprises spend up
Wed, 13th Apr 2016
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network infrastructure
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sdn
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naas
SDN revenue is on a growth trajectory, as companies move from trialling to full adoption. But challenges remain.
IBM, HPE and Cisco leading commercial IoT market
Wed, 13th Apr 2016
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iot
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cisco
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ibm
IBM, HPE and Cisco are among the early leaders in the growth commercial IoT market, with sizeable opportunity for net-new revenue.
Salesforce teams with NEC for second Japanese data center
Mon, 11th Apr 2016
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digital signage
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data analytics
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hyperscale
Salesforce is teaming up with NEC to establish a second data center in Japan to support its growing customer base in the region.
Arbor Networks earns top overall effectiveness in NSS Labs DDoS test
Mon, 11th Apr 2016
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ddos
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arbor networks
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analyst report
Arbor Networks' has garnered the highest overall security effectiveness score for its AP 2800, in NSS Labs' first DDoS Prevention Test.
Software approach breaks data center optical comms records
Mon, 11th Apr 2016
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hyperscale
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dc
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fibre
A Hong Kong polytechnic university has broken world records for fastest optical communications for data centers, logging 24-times the existing speeds.
Greentree International gets SaaS-y with new launch
Mon, 11th Apr 2016
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saas
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risk & compliance
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erp
Greentree International has launched Greentree-as-a-Service, enabling organisations to run their entire Greentree system in the cloud.
HPE continues to dominate cloud infrastructure, but competitors close in
Mon, 11th Apr 2016
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network infrastructure
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datacentre infrastructure
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cisco
Dell, Cisco and EMC are closing the gap marginally on Hewlett Packard Enterprise's number one spot for cloud infrastructure sales.
Rackspace delivers managed private cloud - in any data center
Fri, 8th Apr 2016
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private cloud
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hyperscale
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colocation
Backspace has launched an OpenStack everywhere initiative, offering enterprises fully managed private clouds in any data center.
New Perth-Singapore cable on its way
Fri, 8th Apr 2016
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cable
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telstra
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singtel
A new Perth to Singapore submarine cable link is expected to bolster capacity and add redundancy as demand for international connectivity increases.
Driving insight from marketing data will be a digital economy winner
Fri, 8th Apr 2016
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martech
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marketing
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tbr
Organisations are seeking to manage and actively deliver insight from data generated from the marketing life cycle, offering new growth opportunities.
Data center heat goes 3D and realtime
Thu, 7th Apr 2016
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hyperscale
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dc
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ekkosense
Powerful gaming technology is providing thermal images of data center hot spots - and helping companies to energy savings.
HP goes green; moves towards 100% renewable energy
Thu, 7th Apr 2016
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supply chain
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power / energy
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clean technologies
HP has upped its commitment to being green, with plans to achieve 100% renewable electricity in its global operations - with 40% by 2020.
LinkedIn opens SG$80 million Singapore data center
Wed, 6th Apr 2016
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hyperscale
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dc
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linkedin
LinkedIn has opened its SG$80 million Singapore data center - its first outside of the United States, aiming to bolster speeds for APAC members.
Equinix takes data processing to the edge with Data Hub
Wed, 6th Apr 2016
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hyperscale
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dc
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colocation
Equinix is taking data processing capability to the edge with the launch of Data Hub, designed to help address the ever-growing data management issue.
Vendors eyeing up professional services as opportunities shift
Wed, 6th Apr 2016
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microsoft
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cloud services
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avaya
A new report says network infrastructure vendors are sacrificing deployment opportunities for the more lucrative professional services.
Palo Alto seeks 'security innovators' with partner program upgrade
Tue, 5th Apr 2016
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firewalls
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network infrastructure
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network security
Palo Alto Networks has updated its NextWave Channel Partner Program in a move designed to further enable partners to be 'next-gen security innovators'.
Optus slashes jobs in transformation for 'sustainable growth'
Tue, 5th Apr 2016
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devops
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apm
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software development
Optus is set to cut up to 480 jobs in a bid to reshape the company for sustainable growth amid an increasingly competitive market.
Singapore and Korea tops for APAC data center speeds
Tue, 5th Apr 2016
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hyperscale
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dc
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ciena
Two in five data centers in Singapore and Korea have networks 1Gbps+ connections to enterprise customers. So how does the rest of APAC fare?.
Arista takes on Cisco and Juniper with routing play
Tue, 5th Apr 2016
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cisco
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juniper networks
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arista networks
Arista Networks is taking on Cisco and Juniper with a new switching and routing platform for enterprise data centers and cloud servic.
Data center hardware revenue down as focus moves to software
Tue, 5th Apr 2016
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cloud services
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digital technology
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it infrastructure
Demand for data center hardware is down globally with storage and proprietary server revenues falling as customer demand moves to software.