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Mainframe innovation on the rise

Posted 5 years ago in by Phil Alsop

A new global survey of 400 senior IT leaders highlights that the mainframe is continuing to grow in importance – so much so that the deployment frequency of new mainframe application features is set to surpass that of non-mainframe application features in 2020.

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Downtime costs two work weeks a year

Posted 5 years ago in by Phil Alsop

For a 10,000-person organisation, IT downtime could be costing $25 million (£20 million) a year.

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A dark day for data?

Posted 5 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Massive sprawls of dark data pollute data centres worldwide; deleting data waste could help to reduce the carbon footprint of digitalisation.

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Virtual storage equals real cost savings

Posted 5 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Hitachi Vantara has introduced Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E990, the company’s new storage platform for midsize enterprise customers.

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IT spending to fall in nearly every industry

Posted 5 years ago in by Phil Alsop

International Data Corporation (IDC) currently forecasts worldwide IT spending to decline 2.7% this year due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. While every industry will be affected by the global slowdown, some will reduce their IT spending more than others. In the first of several special releases to the Worldwide ICT Spending Guide: Industry and Company Size, IDC provides an industry-level assessment of how COVID-19 will impact IT spending.

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As easy as EPYC?

Posted 5 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Supermicro's industry-leading portfolio of servers optimized for 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors has achieved 27 world record performance benchmarks and counting. In addition to the industry’s first blade platform, Supermicro’s entire portfolio of new H12 A+ Servers fully supports the newly announced high-frequency AMD EPYC 7Fx2 Series processors.

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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Storage + Servers

Mainframe innovation on the rise

Downtime costs two work weeks a year

A dark day for data?

Virtual storage equals real cost savings

IT spending to fall in nearly every industry

As easy as EPYC?

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