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Tag: infrastructure
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Nipping the AWS Outage Outrage in the Bud
In our Twitter-fueled, Facebook-fed society, it's very easy to get caught up in hype. So after AWS’s outage last week, it was amazing to see all of the anti-cloud pundits coming out of the woodwork to hold AWS responsible for taking down a majority of the internet.
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Speed Read: Brace for Weak IT Spending
IT spending declined $216 billion year-over-year in 2015 — and is expected to remain weak through 2019. In 2016, Gartner predicts, IT spending will hit $3.5 trillion, only a 0.6 percent increase from 2015.
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Can You Deliver Good CX With Old Infrastructure?
The IT department shouldn't have to worry about the state of its network’s infrastructure, a storage systems company executive told me just yesterday.
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Gartner: Top Ten Trends for CIOs, Infrastructure, the Enterprise
In October, Gartner published its list -- or rather a list -- of top ten strategic technologies. At the Gartner conference that is just finishing in Australia today, Michele Caminos of Gartner outlined 10 top trends and how they will affect infrastructure and operations.
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CenturyLink to Acquire Cloud Provider Savvis, But Faces Possible Legal Constraints
The concept of telecom and cloud computing convergence is again demonstrated by another major acquisition. Earlier this week, CenturyLink Inc. announced that it will be acquiring cloud provider, Savvis (news, site ), for a total of US$ 3.2 billion in a cash, stock and debt deal.
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Brocade Launches APAC Eval Program for Cloud, Virtualization Infrastructure
Connectivity is at the heart of cloud computing and vitualization, and given the need for faster connections, networking solutions company Brocade (news, site ) has opened a US$ 100 million facility in the Asia Pacific region that lets businesses evaluate and try out Brocade's Ethernet fabric technology for
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Sensible IT: Knowing What You Have -- The Wise Audit, Automatically
One of the pillars of fiscal responsibility -- individually or as an organization -- is knowing what you have. After all, how can you justify getting more if you don’t know what you've already got or more importantly perhaps, haven't got. Right? Unfortunately, many organizations today have exactly that problem.
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