If dispersing data among storage nodes can make it more secure and less prone to loss, wouldn’t spreading it across far-flung cloud data centers make it even more so? If so, IBM has the right idea with its Cloud Object Storage service Read More ▶ |
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| White Paper: A10 Networks Every day, attackers conspire to take down applications and steal data, leaving your data center infrastructure in the crosshairs. Storing the most valuable and most visible assets in your organization - your web, DNS, database, and email servers - data centers have become the number one target of cyber criminals, hacktivists and state-sponsored attackers. This paper analyzes the top five most dangerous threats to your data center. Read More ▶ | A consortium headed by IBM has inaugurated a new, faster standard for system interconnect, which will bring the next wave of system performance improvement. OpenCAPI, as the standard is called, will offer enterprise datacenter applications and major cloud providers an open upgrade path to greater total system performance. Read More ▶ |
| Research firm Gartner laid out a look at the top trends in IT at its Symposium/ITxpo. Read More ▶ |
| Software is beginning to simplify one of the hardest kinds of networking: wide-area networks that link up an enterprise’s remote sites, branch offices and data centers. Now AT&T is getting in on the game. Read More ▶ |
| | Microsoft is adding to its European cloud infrastructure, with plans to open new data centers in France next year, CEO Satya Nadella said Monday. Read More ▶ |
| White Paper: A10 Networks Today's enterprise data center operator faces challenges that are radically different from those seen only a few years ago. Complex new virtualization architectures and cloud data centers are on the rise. Network traffic is expanding exponentially, thanks to the proliferation of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the growing ubiquity of mobile broadband. Read More ▶ | What projects are CIOs prioritizing in the year ahead? Where are they spending those precious IT dollars? These are the questions that will be answered (with your help!) in our 16th annual State of the CIO survey. Make your voice heard! ▶ | Historically, hardware upgrades on Windows PCs that involved major changes (new motherboard and/or CPU, for example) required a phone call to Microsoft to reactivate the Windows license. Microsoft has altered its licensing policy to cut down on calls. Here’s what happened when we tested this hypothesis. ▶ | Cloud-based ERP will eventually rule, and on-premises software is destined for legacy status. How can IT ensure a smooth transition? ▶ |
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