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Redefining power and energy for smart cities

How can we sustainably power the cities of tomorrow? The answers might lie in relooking some central components of smart cities – data centers, electrical vehicles (EVs) and smart homes.More

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Motorola Solutions Penang celebrates 45 years of innovation

Motorola Solutions is celebrating 45 years of innovation in Malaysia, recognising the country’s highly skilled engineering talent and capability to deliver advanced technologies for customers all over the world.More

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NEC introduces new warranty to optimise value for energy storage customers

Customers need to understand how a system's energy storage capacity degrades or fades so that they can predict the life and performance of the system.More

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Akamai introduces solution designed to secure and simplify IoT devices

Akamai unveiled Edge Cloud, a solution that leverages the power of the Akamai edge platform to streamline the delivery of data to connected devices.More

Opinion: The journey to Networking 3.0

Supermicro AI validated for deployment with NVIDIA EGX Edge

Insider threats & breach reports: Why security needs more investment

Whitepaper: Optimising syslog-ng in conjunction with Docker

Western Digital goes all in on Zoned Storage to face zettabyte era

Photo gallery: Inside Lenovo Accelerate 2019

Alibaba Cloud forms three-way strategic alliance

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its latest partnership, in the form of a strategic alliance with WeWork and SoftBank Telecom China, in a move to support its global business expansion into China.More

Server market sees slowest growth in eight quarters

Dell ranked No.1 in vendor revenue share, followed by HPE, Inspur, Lenovo, Cisco, Huawei, and IBM.More

Shipment of 25Gbps ports reached new heights in 1Q 2019

Meanwhile, the rest of the Ethernet Controller and Adapter market remains challenged.More

Tenable's take on effective vulnerability assessment

The report explores how end-users conduct vulnerability assessment, what it says about overall maturity level, and it varies based on demographics.More

Huawei calls on the US to adjust its approach to cybersecurity

"There is no gun, no smoke. Only speculation.”More

The evolution of data centres to accommodate edge computing

Oft-cited applications, such as autonomous vehicles, with their massive sensor arrays and ultra-severe latency requirements, need their intelligence to be local.More

Is it possible to enjoy container agility and be secure?

In line with ever-changing demands on IT, containers are exploding in popularity and look set to become the preferred method for deploying applications.More

Rakuten Mobile and NEC to build open vRAN architecture in Japan

"We are very excited to partner with a network technology leader such as NEC."More

Equinix puts US$77m into expanding data centres in Hong Kong

“Hong Kong is a key gateway to mainland China and home to many headquarters of global corporations. This generates substantial demand for secure data center services to support business expansion in the region."More

Hyatt simplifies backup and recovery with Cohesity

“Cohesity was the bundled solution we needed to simplify and modernize our backup and recovery environment at Hyatt.”More

Infinera and SIAE MICROELETTRONICA complete 500G single-wavelength connectivity trial

“Our joint solution brings a new level of dynamic network optimization to multi-domain, multi-layer, and multi-vendor networks."More

Q&A: 5G, a revolutionary future or hyped fanfare?

With governments and service providers around the world racing to roll out 5G networks in their countries, Opensignal VP Ian Fogg debunks the myths around 5G.More

7 best practices for cloud computing in the public sector

"The ACCA's seven principles for public sector cloud procurement will help address government concerns regarding cloud technologies."More

VoLTE infrastructure market revenue declined 10% - Dell’Oro Group

“Many service providers are not aggressively promoting VoLTE even as LTE subscriptions continue to rise."More

Ethernity releases network appliance optimized for the edge

The UEP is described as a 'low-space, low-power FPGA-based programmable device with up to 40Gbps of networking capacity and 10 Gbps of IPSec security performance'.More

NetDragon expands business with new opportunities empowered by 5G

The advent of the 5G era provides strong technical support to the enhancement of VR experiences.More

Are you fully utilising log messages to understand your systems?

IT environments generate log messages with a variety of functions and significance to an organisation – but they’re only useful if they trigger the necessary responses.More

Microsoft outlines innovations at Computex 2019

With Computex 2019 in full Swing, Microsoft hasn’t held anything back about its latest innovations, technologies, and partnerships.More

Datacenter People expands Asian presence

Global data center industry recruitment firm Datacenter People has revealed it will expand its practice in Asia, via a partnership with Singapore-based HR Exchange. More

Whitepaper: Deploying advanced log classification with syslog-ng

It’s not hard to say ‘I don’t envy you’ to system administrators who are lumped with the burden of classifying log messages every time somebody conducts an action on the network.More

Evolved packet core revenues flatten out worldwide

According to Dell’Oro Group Huawei, Nokia, and ZTE gained share in a market that only grew by one per cent.More

768K day - the day the Internet breaks (again)?

On August 12 2014, the Internet ‘broke’ as Verizon’s introduction of thousands more routes to the web meant the full capacity of the global, fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) routing table was reached.More

Equinix launches new Network Edge services for global businesses

“Digital transformation is driving enterprises to modernise their global IT infrastructures, and the continued adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies further accentuates this need.”More

Intel to acquire ethernet fabric provider Barefoot Networks

Intel is pushing deeper into the data centre market, after the company announced its intentions to buy out emerging ethernet switch and data centre software manufacturer Barefoot Networks.More

phoenixNAP launches server platform powered by Intel Xeon

“The introduction of these new Intel Xeon E processors is a game changer in the entry-level server market and a strong addition to our portfolio of dedicated servers."More

Vertiv certified for energy efficiency in A/NZ

“We’ve always been environmentally conscious, but increased demand from our customers has led us to take this a step further."More

What to do with your logs after storing them in Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch, an easy-to-scale and easy-to-search NoSQL data store, has been gaining momentum as the ultimate destination for log messages in recent years.More

Enterprises choosing multi cloud strategies to enable growth

“Most organisations adopt a multi cloud strategy out of a desire to avoid vendor lock-in or to take advantage of best-of-breed solutions.”More

Quantium teams with Cohesity and Cisco to consolidate data backup

“The joint solution is enabling our IT teams to spend less time on backups and more time focusing on driving business value.”More

Skybox Security launches update to simplify hybrid cloud risk management

Intelligent automation brings harmony and efficiency to multi-vendor environments, integrating data and yielding contextual insight. More

Okta cements its commitment to the APAC market

“Our investment in local infrastructure not only signals our growth plans as a company, but it is also an important step in ensuring that Okta will be able to support our customers as their requirements change over time.”More

Cisco winner in campus switching market

“Demand for Cisco’s Catalyst 9000 is being driven by customers upgrading older products, but Cisco is still in the early stages of the refresh cycle.”More

VDI solution brings 50% time and TCO savings to school district

The Sunnyside Unified School District is one of Arizona’s largest and serves over 16,000 students.More

650 Group recognises Aerohive in cloud-managed wireless LAN

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities are being brought to the enterprise network at a rapid rate.More

Update: Huawei lead counsel speaks out about the US case

“As shown in the motion, section 889 is unconstitutional selective legislative punishment."More

Critical lessons businesses can learn from Huawei - Memset

“Data sovereignty is important and should not just be an afterthought."More

SD-WAN – A new paradigm for the 5G era

After years of hype and market talk, 5G looks set to arrive on Singapore’s shores within the next year or so. More

Whitepaper: Are you getting your money’s worth from your SIEM?

Many organisations are struggling to keep pace with the speed in which hackers are attacking their systems.More

Uptime Institute reveals insights into data center challenges

The Uptime Institute has released the findings of its ninth annual Global Data Center Survey, which describes an increasingly complex data center market as it continues to adapt to change.More

Case study: HiveIO fixes everything modern data centre UIs lack

Hyperconverged solutions provider HiveIO and enterprise development and UX design consulting firm CoNarrative challenged traditional enterprise UI development by removing complexity to modernize HiveIO’s Hive Fabric product UI.More

How to price data for trade in the data economy

A crucial problem remains in that we don’t have a unified, comprehensive way to value data to enable it to be freely traded.More

Exclusive: Veeam’s business development VP looks ahead

Backup and disaster recovery company Veeam is finding new opportunities in partnerships after marking $1billion in bookings this year.More

Infosys collaborates with Microsoft to accelerate digital transformation

Leveraging the latest digital technologies, the solutions aim to improve the entire lifecycle of building construction and operations.More

MEF's final draft SD-WAN service standard is publicly available

Standardisation will enable a wide range of ecosystem stakeholders to use the same terminology.More

Whitepaper: Equipping your DNS with security, availability, and integrity

Attackers can conduct DNS attacks, including DDoS attacks that can take servers offline for minutes, hours, days, or even weeks.More