Navajo Nation gets cloud storage facility

The largest Native American community in the US, the Navajo Nation, this week flipped the switch on an $8m datacentre installation that has been under development since 2009. The move…

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Juniper, VMWare partner on datacentre virtualisation

Juniper Networks on Tuesday extended its partnership with VMWare with a focus on further unifying virtual and physical networks within a datacentre to ensure that customers can more easily migrate…

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Q&A With Simon Pamplin, Brocade: SDN’s impact on the cloud

There’s a great deal of hype surrounding software defined networking (SDN) these days. But sifting through the growing abundance of material alluding to the many benefits SDN it is difficult…

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Netrics taps HP, Microsoft to offer Swiss virtual datacentre

Swiss hosting services provider Netrics has selected HP and Microsoft to help the company deliver a private infrastructure as a service for systems integrators and SMBs that it says will…

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EMC’s to launch software defined storage platform this month

EMC has said that its long-anticipated ViPR software defined storage platform will be available at the end of the month. The storage solution company has been busy announcing a range…

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Microsoft adds cache service to Azure to rival Amazon ElastiCache

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the preview of a distributed cache service it is adding to its Windows Azure platform in a bid to position its cloud infrastructure as a service…

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Intel introduces a slew of datacentre technologies for cloud service providers

In a bid to entrench its technology further into hyper-scale datacentres, Intel on Wednesday showcased chip innovations that will see the manufacturer turn up the heat on rivals AMD and…

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Microsoft to build datacentre in Finland following Nokia acquisition

In the wake of its $7.2bn acquistion of Nokia, Microsoft has revealed plans to build a new datacentre in Nokia’s home country. The company said it would invest more than…

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NEC establishes big data research centre in Singapore

Adding to its global R&D efforts NEC has announced a  research centre that will look to innovate around big data, cyber security and energy efficiency. NEC Laboratories will be based…

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OpenDaylight Project (partially) lifts curtain on SDN platform

The industry-supported open source OpenDaylight project took the wraps off the first release of “Hydrogen” today, its software defined networking architecture billed to accelerate the adoption of SDN among enterprise…

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