14 March 2010
Sunday
When Oracle announced the Exadata 1 over a year ago, it drew little interest from media. But following the acquisition of Sun by Oracle and the launched of Exadata 2, now the numbers are starting to look interesting. So much so that IBM launched a new solution aimed squarely at Oracle's Exadata.
Oracle executives state their intentions to keep on using Sun products lines to complete their disk and tape business.
Nexenta Systems is following through with its ZFS-based unified storage despite uncertain factors.
Apple discontinues to integration of Sun's Zettabyte File System; a post on an Open Solaris mailing list details a possible reason.
HP has launched the Sun Complete Care program which is aimed at Sun customers who are looking to transition to HP.
Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystem continues to plough along its path. Apparently, stories are circulating that Oracle management is having no luck looking for potential buyers of Sun's hardware business. Who wants to buy a floundering storage unit?
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the latest release of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, delivering industry leading features in networking, storage and virtualization, along with significant performance enhancements and developer productivity updates.
Sun Cloud Strategic Planning Service is a new portfolio of professional services designed to help drive new efficiencies for businesses of all sizes with quickly emerging cloud computing models.
Sun Microsystems Inc. demonstrates an unwavering commitment to enterprise storage customers through capacity and performance enhancements to its industry leading tape virtualization storage archive solution.
Sun says its commitment to mainframe tape is "unwavering," although Oracle will determine the platform's future. Brings out VSM5e virtual tape library (VTL) and other enhancements.
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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.
