14 March 2010
Sunday
Backup and recovery best practices are entirely different than they were 10 years ago. Downtime entirely unacceptable (sometimes fatal) and businesses are moving towards near-zero RPOs and RTOs for all business-critical applications. And the most business-critical service of all is email. This presentation transcript describes some of these technologies and offers implementation tips.
Need a portable data center? Jimmy Pike, self-confessed Chief Geek and director of systems architecture for Dell's enterprise solutions group proved that it can be done with a little of patience and ingenuity.
Brocade is rumored to be looking for a buyer. Yes, its not Brocade being serenaded by another vendor. Its Brocade quietly putting out its feelers for a potential buyer. What will this mean to the thousands of Brocade customers out there in Asia? For sure, Cisco sales people are having a field day!
For decades companies depended on software encryption technology to protect data stored on hard drives. But what about when the drive is taken out of the data center for repair? Everyday 50,000 HDDs leave the data for repair or to be destroyed. Who guarantees no one looks at the data on those HDDs?
Dell just announced its acquisition of Perot Systems. This signals Dell's more serious entry into the services arena.
Hitachi resells InMage OEMs; Dot Hill adds iSCSI RAID storage;
Dell rebrands network devices from Brocade to challenge Cisco in the server market.
Managed Health Care Associates opts for a 3PAR InServ F-Class disk array over its former Dell EqualLogic SAN.
New workstations with self-encrypting SSDs can be remotely managed by IT administrators.
Dell is planning to expand via acquisitions while storage experts rundown likely targets.
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Knowledge Central
Backup and archiving have changed over recent years partly riding on advances in technology. When do you perform backup and when to archive? What are the technical and operational considerations that need to be looked into for each. This paper looks at Simpana Software as a platform for achieving both.
This paper looks at Simpana as a platform for seamlessly extending local backup and archive to a new tier of cloud-based storage. Virtually unlimited storage capacity from our integrated cloud storage partners helps users dramatically reduce costs and operational complexity while improving long-term compliance.
The move to cloud computing is not easy, and its important to get it right the first time. Curtin University of Technology with the help of Optus Business, Alphawest, Cisco, EMC, and VMware, takes the first steps that will provide Curtin with an on-demand access to a fully virtualized private data center.
Asian sports associations looking to improve performance (winning gold medals) can take a leaf off the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA)'s book, when it comes to blending the best in both athletic and IT infrastructure.
