Data Centre
Avaya gives data centres the SDN treatment
Avaya has announced its Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC) framework, which it said was designed to deliver productivity, agility and time-to-service enhancements to businesses operating highly virtualised data centres.
Enlogic teams up with SJ Malaysia to reduce data centre power consumption
Global intelligent Power Distribution Unit (PDU) manufacturer Enlogic has announced its first OEM (original equipment manufacturing) partnership, with SJ Manufacturing’s Malaysian facility.
Google, IBM, NVIDIA and others in open development cloud alliance
Google, IBM, Mellanox, NVIDIA and Tyan have announced plans to form the OpenPOWER Consortium that would deliver more choice, control and flexibility to developers of next-generation, hyperscale and cloud data centres, based on IBM's POWER microprocessor architecture.
Do businesses need to develop a converged infra strategy?
As CIOs look to converged infrastructure solutions deliver IT services, maximise data centre efficiency and strengthen IT service quality, there are some issues they would need to consider, writes KT Ong of Dell.
Seagate unveils new enterprise HDDs with big power savings
Seagate Technology has unveiled two new enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDDs) it said were optimised for emerging cloud infrastructures and large scale data centres: The Seagate Terascale HDD (pic) and the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7.
New Check Point appliance offers multi-layer data centre security
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd has launched its 13500 unit, the first in a new line of 13000 appliances designed specifically to expand the company's data centre network security offerings.
World Vision revamps M'sian-based global data centre with Brocade
Global relief, development and advocacy organisation World Vision International has succeeded in cutting its data centre network operating costs by 40% following the implementation of an Ethernet fabric-based network infrastructure from Brocade.
Trend Micro launches DS 9 – Deep Security, that is
Trend Micro Inc has announced the latest version of its server security platform designed to provide server, application and data security across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Western Digital presents future of hard drives in cloud era
Earlier this month in Taipei, Western Digital (WD) unveiled its vision for the role hard drives play in the future of personal computing.