MSP Channel Insights

UK businesses yet to develop compelling case for big data

Posted 13 years ago in by Phil Alsop

IT/business divide prevents organisations exploring big data solutions.

Posted 13 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Big data can save big money. A recent McKinsey report found that value gained from data in the US health care sector alone could be more than US $300 billion every year. But traditional tools aren’t enough to manage these extremely large amounts of fast-changing information. To help enterprises use big data effectively, global nonprofit IT association ISACA issued guidance today on how to manage the chaos and address the business benefits and challenges.

Posted 13 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Last year was the worst for IT services contract activity since 2002, according to research from Ovum. Performance in the three months to the end of December 2012 fell well below the levels seen in the same period of 2011, ensuring that annual IT services contract activity fell to its lowest level for 10 years, both in terms of total contract value (TCV) and deal volume.

Posted 13 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Fusion-io adds expertise of innovative software defined storage company and developer of the popular open source SCST SCSI Linux target subsystem used in enterprise storage systems.

Posted 13 years ago in by Phil Alsop

The latest releases of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Sun Ray Software are now available and include integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, providing the industry’s first complete, single vendor desktop virtualization solution that spans hardware, software, and enterprise-class management.

Posted 13 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Ciena’s solutions increase capacity and provide a scalable and programmable OPn network architecture optimized for delivering high performance consumer, enterprise, data center and wholesale services.

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.

Read more

Storage + Servers

UK businesses yet to develop compelling case for big data

ISACA issues governance and assurance guidance for Big Data

IT services market endured a dismal end to 2012

Fusion-io acquires ID7

Desktop Virtualization management from Oracle

CenturyLink deploys Ciena 100G packet optical technology

Latest Video

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

Hornetsecurity launches all-in-one security and backup service for Microsoft 365

Fujitsu adds CommVault HyperScale appliances to storage portfolio

Dell storage advancements accelerate AI and Generative AI strategies

NAKIVO releases v10.11

Panasas introduces Advanced Data Insight and Data Movement Suite

Highest bandwidth and highest compute density?