October 15, 2015
Pivot3 Study Identifies Major Challenges Driving Data Center Modernization
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Pivot3, a pioneer and innovator in the development of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions, today released findings of a survey seeking to better understand the major data center challenges faced by IT decision makers in Europe.
According to the research, infrastructure complexity and exponential growth in data storage needs are top concerns for IT decision makers in the UK and Germany. More than 65 percent of survey respondents agree that they are extremely frustrated over the levels of complexity of their data centers, and more than one in three (37.60 percent) respondents say that data protection and security are major challenges.
Investments in start-ups have always been one of the key growth strategies of salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM – Analyst Report). In this regard, the company’s investment arm, Salesforce Ventures, recently announced its decision to invest $100 million specifically in European start-ups.
Intel comfortably beat Wall Street estimates on revenue and earnings per share in its third quarter report yesterday, with growth of cloud computing. However profit at $3.1 billion was down 6 per cent from $3.3 billion a year ago. CEO Brian Krzanich said he saw the slumping market for personal computers ”beginning to stabilize” even as the growing needs of the infrastructure that powered the smart and connected world continued to add to Intel’s bottom line.
Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, today announced that it has joined Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member. CSA is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes best practices for assuring security of Cloud Computing and provides education on the use of Cloud Computing to help secure all computing. The Centrify Identity Platform protects against the leading point of attack used in data breaches ? compromised credentials — by securing an enterprise’s internal and external users as well as its privileged accounts, through cloud, mobile or on-premise.
Adaptive Computing, which powers many of the world’s largest private cloud and HPC environments with its Moab optimization and scheduling software, today announced that they have fully deployed Moab 8.1 at the High Performance Computing for Health Sciences, also known as HPC4Health, which today consists of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and University Health Network’s (UHN) Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.
The Xen Project Collaboration Project hosted at The Linux Foundation released Tuesday Xen Project 4.6 focuses on improving code quality, security hardening, enablement of security appliances and release cycle predictability. It also comes with significant amount of contributions from cloud providers, software vendors, hardware vendors, academic researchers and individuals to help with this release.
The joint-chief executive of Oracle, Mark Hurd, has dismissed suggestions that the IT giant is under pressure from the same forces that prompted Dell’s audacious $67bn takeover of EMC. That deal, the biggest in the history of the industry, has prompted claims that many of the powerhouses of corporate IT are now facing an existential threat from the rise of ‘cloud’ services; software delivered over the internet and paid for by subscription.
In the dead of night, two Navy SEALs and a veteran military officer glide toward a U.S. military facility, water lapping quietly against the side of their canoe. Suddenly two navy boats gun their motors as they pass the trio, but they fail to spot the group attempting to break into the secure facility. This is the kind of operation Brian Kelly used to handle in special ops for the U.S. government, to identify gaps in security — in fact, no one spotted him that night, and he was able to penetrate the facility, resulting in the firing of an soldier found asleep on the job.