Gartner says beware of the data lake fallacy

The growing hype surrounding data lakes is causing substantial confusion in the information management space, according to Gartner, Inc. Several vendors are marketing data lakes as an essential component to capitalise on Big Data opportunities, but there is little alignment between vendors about what comprises a data lake, or how to get value from it.

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Cloudwatt deploys OpenContrail for sovereign Cloud orchestration

Juniper Networks says that Cloudwatt, a new-generation European public cloud provider, has deployed OpenContrail to improve network operation efficiency and ensure data sovereignty and security for its large-scale cloud deployment.

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Phoenix awarded Huawei Gold Enterprise Partner

Phoenix has been selected by Huawei Enterprise as a Gold Partner. Phoenix will be working strategically with Huawei to deliver network solutions and services to help drive innovative services to the market.

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Hardworking IT network professionals deserve a lot more respect and appreciation

In honour of the recent15th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, or SysAdmin Day, Ipswitch® has released the findings of its second annual Red Shirt Survey taken recently by more than 150 systems administrators from across the UK. The survey results indicate that there¹s a lot more that can be done to appreciate, motivate and collaborate with IT pros.

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Open Networking Foundation announces conformance testing milestones

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking (SDN), says that the ONF OpenFlow™ Conformance Testing Program has welcomed six testing labs and established the ONF Testing Leadership Council (TLC) since its inception one year ago. In addition to its four previously announced testing labs, the China Telecommunication Technology Labs (CTTL), hosted by the China Academy of Telecommunication Research...

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