Storage virtualization aides disaster recovery While most enterprises begin their virtualization foray at the server level, faith-based financial services firm Mennonite Mutual Aid (MMA) came at it from the storage side of the shop. The primary objective was remote disaster recovery, which a growing variety of virtualization capabilities can neatly address. Microsoft, Citrix drop sponsorship of VMworld after dustup with VMware Microsoft and Citrix are not sponsoring next week's VMworld virtualization conference and are maintaining only a limited presence at the show due to conflicts with rival VMware. Test out SQL Server with iSCSI and a SAN on your laptop! Brian Egler: Recently I wanted to test out SAN access with SQL Server while I was on the road. I wasn't able to get access to our data center which runs with an IBM DS4300 SAN via Fibre Channel using a Brocade switch. Enter the Sun Unified Storage Simulator with support for iSCSI. CommVault CEO eyes cloud storage future Building a storage software company a decade ago was a high-risk venture, but according to CommVault CEO Robert Hammer, the company new it would succeed if it stuck to its original vision -- which now includes data management in the cloud. IBM unveils faster midrange storage array IBM released its newest midrange array, which can support up to 112 drives with expansion units, 8Gbit/sec Fibre Channel or iSCSI. Enterprise clouds will fail without dynamic monitoring Tony Bishop: Congratulations! You've successfully virtualized your network/server/storage environments and saved xx% (insert percentage). But who besides your CFO really cares? All you've done is lower the cost of an increasingly commoditized service, and anyone who's spent a day working for a vendor knows that's a very uncomfortable place to be. EMC adds virtual machine management to Clariion arrays EMC introduced new virtualization-aware capabilities for its Clariion CX4 midrange networked storage systems, which make CX4 software and disaster recovery applications aware of connected virtual machines. Virtual systems management vendors gear up for VMworld Embotics and Surgient separately upgrade product suites to showcase at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco. August Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
No comments:
Post a Comment