Variations in IT sourcing strategies

Apptio has released its first IT Economics Report profiling enterprise IT spending patterns. Every month, the world’s largest organisations use Apptio’s Cost Transparency application to calculate and analyse over $160 billion in annual combined IT spend. For the Apptio IT Economics Report, the company analysed the IT investments made by its customers last year and found three common resourcing strategies. These patterns, or archetypes, each represent...

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Mirantis Unlocked Program delivers OpenStack out-of-the-box with 47 partner technologies

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Mirantis has launched Mirantis Unlocked, a partner program that will help infrastructure and solution providers seamlessly deliver technology in the OpenStack ecosystem. Mirantis Unlocked encompasses Mirantis’ technology partnerships with market-leading companies such as Citrix, Juniper Networks, VMware, Brocade, and EMC; and innovative technologies from Nuage Networks, SolidFire, Maxta, Avi Networks, Metaswitch Networks, Cumulus Networks, BigSwitch, ActiveState, Midokura, and ScalR.

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Closing the hyperconvergence storage management gap

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Maxta has introducedced MxInsight™ and MxCloudConnect™, simplifying hyper-converged IT management across virtualization technologies. MxInsight includes historical reporting, enhanced policy management, and comprehensive storage quality of service (QoS) management for all Maxta MxSP™ and MaxDeploy™ solutions. MxCloudConnect, a remote call home capability, delivers proactive maintenance and support notifications. These capabilities, along with Maxta’s...

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Toshiba demonstrates high performance Object Storage technologies At OpenStack

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Key value drive technology combines large capacity HDD, high performance SSD, gigabit Ethernet and compute-for-storage in a single 3.5-inch form factor.

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20% of IT professionals have witnessed a security breach cover-up

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Javvad Malik, Security Advocate at AlienVault, says results show a need for far greater support for employees and businesses when they fall victim to cyber attacks.

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The beginning of the OpenStack Interoperability Era

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Interoperability testing results now available in OpenStack Marketplace; cloud providers commit to deliver globally federated identity services by year¹s end.

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Security considerations for private Cloud

Cybersecurity today can feel complex, especially if you are moving to or managing cloud security. But it doesn’t have to be. Hear from Rackspace Principal Architect, Luke Huckaba, as he explains some of the major concerns around Private Cloud and Security, and how Rackspace is helping to solve these issues both internally and for customers.

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