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December 2013 - Posts
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At Spiceworks, we have a thriving community of 4 million IT pros that provide one-of-a-kind visibility into the current and future tech challenges and opportunities for SMBs. As such, my predictions here are based not just on my own perspective but also on the stories and observations of the Spicew... Read More...
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2013 was the year of the cloud. Organizations achieved great success by being able to cut IT costs and improve efficiency. 2014 looks to be even bigger in cloud as the market continues to grow. As always, there are areas of growth and some challenges to be aware of in the New Year.... Read More...
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The growth of data centers globally continues to be fueled by the explosion in cloud traffic, which is anticipated to increase fourfold between 2012 and 2017, reaching 7.7 zettabytes by 2017 (Cisco Global Cloud Index). And in 2017 nearly two-thirds of all workloads will be processed in the cloud and... Read More...
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In October this year, industry expert Brian Madden conducted a survey that looked at the desktop virtualization trends across various organizations. One question that Brian asked the respondents was to name the features and parameters that influenced their decision making. Interestingly, the leading... Read More...
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I'm starting off my 2014 predictions like I do every year, by calling the Atlanta Braves as the winners of the World Series. Eventually I'll be right, like the last time they won in 1995, and when I do I'd like to have it in print somewhere. I was going to make a prediction about Bitcoin at $800, ... Read More...
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Converged infrastructure will continue to be at the heart of every data center conversation in 2014. A trend of accelerated innovation in data center-centric technologies will continue, enabling more capabilities in cloud operating models for customers around the world. And although there will be fu... Read More...
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The game of speeds and feeds is over. It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between storage vendors, incumbents and startups through the usual lens of capacity or latency or IOPs. There are no disruptive benefits left doing things the old way.... Read More...
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Worldwide, enterprises are advancing in various facets of technology - from BYOD to SDN and Cloud, new technologies and changes to improve efficiency levels are implemented every year. Of course, some of these are overhyped. While others are a more accurate depiction of the enterprise IT space and s... Read More...
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In the past year networking continued to be one of the key components in the design of scalable private clouds / automated data centers. With various software defined networking solutions aimed to satisfy the requirements for those environments, 2014 is the year when the path for enterprise adoption... Read More...
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Every year around this time, since the beginning of time, predictions for the year to come have been something that people come to expect. So lets have at it.... Read More...
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Inktank, the company delivering Ceph - the massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system - today announced a 294% growth in customers over 2013. Fueled by aggressive demand for Ceph-based OpenStack storage solutions and an expanding list of OEM and reseller partnerships, this grow... Read More...
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NAKIVO announced that it has released v3.8 of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. The new version adds vSphere 5.5 support and self-healing for backup repositories.... Read More...
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2013 was yet another banner year for IT, proving that it is at the center of just about everything we do in our personal and business lives.... Read More...
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Prediction pieces are _always_ wrong at some level, and often they're wrong in important ways that mislead the reader about the true nature of the issues driving an industry.... Read More...
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As 2014 approaches, organizations are faced with some difficult decisions when it comes to selecting the right technical business tools to facilitate growth. However, no decision is more critical than evaluating an overall strategy versus buying a product or solution that may only address immediate ... Read More...
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As the cloud market matures there will be some churn in the space, but mostly through consolidation and recalibration. While some smaller companies may fall away or run out of fuel, larger companies are recalibrating their objectives. They may be spinning off new business units or recalibrating thr... Read More...
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Zerto, setting the standard for disaster recovery in virtualized and cloud environments, today introduced Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) 3.1, which builds on the advancements of ZVR 3.0 to centralize and simplify disaster recovery with improved scalability, maintainability and alerting capabilities... Read More...
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Microsoft has released a new whitepaper titled: "Windows Azure Network Security." The 14-page whitepaper provides guidance on securing network communication for applications deployed in Windows Azure, enabling customers to determine how best to protect their virtual infrastructure and data.... Read More...
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Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.6 is now available. The release improves stability and fixes regressions.... Read More...
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With the end of the year buzz around predictions, it's hard not to join in the conversation. Our CenturyLink Cloud leadership team came together for a few predictions for the year ahead - and to show we are keepin' it real, we scored last year's predictions as well.... Read More...
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