The Cisco Global Cloud Index was developed to estimate global data center and cloud-based Internet Protocol (IP) traffic growth and trends.
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Tom is the CEO and co-founder of Centrify Corporation, a software and cloud security provider that delivers unified identity services across data center, cloud and mobile.
SeaMicro technologies offer substantial advantages in large data center and cloud environments.
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My views on the subject were strengthened today after a long conversation today with Simon Crosby, the CTO of the data center and cloud division at Citrix Systems (CTXS).
We will see more data center based cloud storage (both private and public) as well as user clouds with addressable storage in a home or small office NAS device or even in a mobile storage device.
Compared to a fully virtualized data center, especially a data center that makes use of private or public cloud resources, a physical data center moves at a snails pace.
It recently launched in Dubai a mobile cloud center which will provide a variety of cloud and data center services to companies in the region.
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SMBs often lack IT staff or expertise to address security and data issues, especially in the event of a cloud data center outage.
Andy Park, Vijay Manwani, and Ravi Reddy previously founded data center software and cloud automation company BladeLogic, which was acquired by BMC Software in 2008.
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For example, you may choose to encrypt the data so if it moves away from the data center to the cloud, you have an extra layer of security.
In many appreciable ways, moving a data center to the cloud reduces the number of boxes CIOs and IT leaders need to check off their lists, but there are still issues to be aware of.
Find out if your data will be stored in more than one data center and if your cloud storage provider will back up your data to geographically diverse locations automatically.
In 2011, 30% of data center workloads were processed in the cloud, with 70% being handled in a traditional data center, but this is shifting very rapidly, Cisco says.
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The business ecosystem Watson epitomizes ranges from the chip and server makers, to Cloud data center builders and operators.
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Strategic services include Verizon Terremark cloud and data center services, security and IT solutions, advanced communications, and strategic networking.
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If Deltacloud succeeds, an application should be able to be created that can run on a VM in a data center, on a private cloud infrastructure, or on the public cloud without modification.
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Verizon Enterprise Solutions launched a comprehensive cloud and data center infrastructure portfolio specifically designed to help the health care industry meet the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic protected health information.
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Finally, what would a data center discussion be without including the cloud.
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Secure, easy to manage, end-to-end solutions from the cloud to the data center to devices remain at the core of our value proposition to you.
Additionally, data center infrastructures need to enable shifts towards cloud computing and enhanced mobility, and applications will need to follow suit.
VMware focuses on the virtualization they know from their data center background with a vision to bring cloud, virtual desktop and application delivery together under one product.
Larger storage capacity for a mobile device can rely on capacity in the cloud from a remote data center or on-board storage, such as in a 128 GB tablet.
In fact, we want to provide services to customers that are moving a portion of their infrastructure to the cloud and provide them with an integrated view, whether from the cloud or from their data center.
Based in Maiden, North Carolina, the data center will help Apple compete with increasingly sophisticated cloud-based services being developed by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.com.
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The advantage of running it as a cloud is getting maximum utilization across a large data center.
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First, HDS has what it calls an Infrastructure Cloud, which serves as a platform for data center convergence, including integrated data management.
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And the cloud is taking on more and more of traditional data center workloads.
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On the other hand, the move to cloud computing provided Intel with the ability to capture data center growth.
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IaaS covers most things that exist in a data center these days, but are delivered as a service from a cloud computing provider.
Our research also shows that test and development projects in the cloud are just as likely to go to production in the cloud as they are to come back to your data center.
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