SNIA launches new cloud standard; Storage pros envision pools of capacity

	Storage pros envision pools of capacity | Hardware to drive IT spending growth in 2010
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	SNIA launches new cloud standard The Storage Networking Industry Association last week announced its foray into cloud networking with the introduction of the Cloud Data Management Interface, a standard architecture. CDMI, as the SNIA calls it, is an open standard which will allows interoperable cloud storage implementations between storage vendors and cloud service providers such as Amazon, Nirvanix and EMC Atmos. The standard is intended to present a common data exchange format vendors and service providers can use to build interoperable cloud environments and for moving data securely from cloud to cloud. CDMI is based on a RESTful HTTP protocol and requires adopters to create stong access controls for the encryption of data on storage media and within cloud environments that accommodate multiple tenants. Hopefully, CDMI will be adopted by the nascent cloud industry, who are right at this time developing products for the cloud. Vendors will quickly decide whether to adopt CDMI as part of their efforts, and hopefully make it a better success than SNIA's Storage Management Interface Specification (SMIS). In addition, the SNIA also announced this week that they have recently enhanced its SMI-S Conformance Testing Program to test functionality and identify products that correspond to buyer's needs. Four vendors hare noew CTP certified – EMC, HP, Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Celebrating Unified Storage Leadership NetApp customers mark historical milestone of 150,000 unified storage systems deployed. Customers are leveraging NetApp's unified storage solutions to simplify operations, achieve business breakthroughs, increase productivity, and recognize significant cost savings. To hear these customers tell their stories, click here. In this Issue Storage pros envision pools of capacity Hardware to drive IT spending growth in 2010 Man who left USB drive in shared PC waived privacy claims, court rules WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Storage pros envision pools of capacity The data center of the future will be a set of commodities, speakers and attendees of Storage Networking World said at the conference on Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Top 5 Hyper-V Best Practices Read this whitepaper to get advice on everything from making sure you configure enough network connections, especially in iSCSI, to specifying the specific initiator groups and the correct LUN type when provisioning the NetApp LUN for use with Hyper-V. Learn More! Hardware to drive IT spending growth in 2010 Industry watchers forecast an increase in computer hardware and equipment purchases, followed by investments in software, which both will contribute to a strong economic environment in 2010. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware Increasing Desktop Virtualization ROI Make your transition to desktop virtualization as successful as possible with a platform that supports the PCoIP display protocol. You can expect a superior end-user experience and an increased return on investment. PCoIP delivers a 50% reduction in display latency compared with legacy display protocols. Learn More! Man who left USB drive in shared PC waived privacy claims, court rules A person who forgot to remove a thumb drive from a shared computer that he was using waived his privacy claims to the content on that device, a federal judge in Florida has ruled. Read More
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