14 March 2010
Sunday
NetApp unveils new design guides for building cloud storage offerings; HP and IBM now sell Emulex FCoE adapters; QLogic's 8100 Series CNAs gets certified by Cisco.
3PAR introduces 3PAR Policy Advisor for Dynamic Optimization software; Axxana Phoenix System now available through EMC Select; Verari Systems is now shipping Emulex UCNA with Verari's Forest Container solutions.
Panasas launches ActiveStor Series 9; Emulex, IBM team up on encryption; Dot Hill launches AssuredSAN family.
3PAR, Exanet combine for block and file storage; Hitachi Data Systems upgrades SAN monitoring tool; Tandberg sells DAT drives
Enterprise data storage vendors are poised to move in and compete on cloud storage and multi-tenant private clouds.
Rackable buys SGI and takes its name; Hitachi Data Systems upgrades its Data Protection Suite; FalconStor and Idera combine forces for SharePoint deduplication.
Emulex board says Broadcom looking to cash in on unannounced OEM deals and take advantage of its depressed stock price. Also accuses Broadcom of making "inaccurate statements."
IBM's midrange DS5000 now supports 8 Gbps Fibre Channel; QLogic gets InfiniBand OEM deal with IBM; Emulex HBAs support latest HP EVAs.
Atempo rounds out support for Macs in its archiving product, Zmanda bumps up backup for open-source MySQL, Tandberg Data ships 114-slot LTO-4 tape library.
Doube-Take adds failover and high-availability support for Microsoft Hyper-V; Idealstor adds 2 TB removable drives to backup box; Pivot3 protects its servers from data loss.
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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.
