ISACA issues governance and assurance guidance for Big Data

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.

Read More

IT services market endured a dismal end to 2012

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.

Read More

Fusion-io acquires ID7

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.

Read More

Desktop Virtualization management from Oracle

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.

Read More

CenturyLink deploys Ciena 100G packet optical technology

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.

Read More


British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is implementing Quantum Scalar® i3 tape libraries on the brand-new...
As reported in International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker, in the second...
With a flagship campus in Coventry, UK, the Coventry University Group operates and delivers in both...
Commvault has introduced at Commvault GO 2019 new capabilities for its Hedvig software-defined...
Global technology provider Arrow Electronics is adding Metallic DMaaS (data...
DDN's AI focused storage solution, EXAScaler®, has been adopted as the dedicated storage of the...
Latest Video

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