Technology

UK-based data networking solutions provider Brand-Rexis opening a new European R&D Laboratory as part of its technology investment programme.

Neophase Technologies, a UK-based private cloud software and services company, is to offer Piston OpenStack in Europe.

Fortinet, Barracuda Networks, and Intel are the top three in ABI Research’s latest Competitive Assessment on “Enterprise Virtual Network Security Appliances”. The assessment looks at overall network security market shares in addition to a vendor matrix where top providers of virtual network security appliances.

Fujitsu is working with Intel on the use of Silicon Photonics to develop next-generation technology for the data centre, which increase the throughput of system data by a 50-fold factor and reduce system latency.

EMC's big launch contained a lot of product upgrades and impressive boxes and systems. But underneath this all seems to be a recognition that storage is not the core – it is how it is managed and the parallel tasks needed to support applications.

CA Technologies has announced it has sold its Data Protection Business CA arcserve to Marlin Equity Partners as a part of the strategy to focus on the company’s core capabilities, it says.

New findings from analysts, Juniper Research, argue that over 1.75 billion mobile phone users will have used their devices for banking purposes by the end of 2019, compared to 800 million this year.

Developer skills are changing as software development is increasingly modular, with APIs as the linkage. Matt Robinson (below), Vice President, Technology at Progress says further changes are being driven by this and the moves to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

Europe is expected to lead the way for telco spending in the next few years. Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its latest Global Telecom and Datacom Market Trends and Drivers report, which analyses global and regional market trends and conditions.

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