Cisco recently announced a range of new joint technologies and integrated solutions for data centres that utilise Microsoft Cloud technologies. It combines Cisco Unified Data Center architecture with Microsoft Fast Track architecture solutions to help reduce complexity, improve IT productivity and enhance business agility. Architecture The Cisco Unified Data centre architecture platform combines compute, storage, …
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A new study by IDC has revealed some interesting facts about what it terms the “digital universe”. This is defined as a measure of all digital data created, replicated and consumed in a single year. Starting with data collected in 2005 and extending it to 2020, IDC believe that: From 2005 to 2020 the digital …
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Research work by a team at the California Institute of technology (Caltech) has brought about the possibility of an intriguing future with self-healing chips. These are not some new potato-based snack but computer components with the ability to heal themselves, making even more reliable hardware available in the very near future. By building tiny amplifiers …
Like it or not BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is becoming increasingly important to mainframe sites. BYOD is the policy of allowing employees to bring their own mobile devices (laptops, tablets and Smartphones) into work and use them to access corporate applications and data. Research group Ovum has found that whereas 79% of employees in …
