Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Cloud storage best practices

Kaminario releases $50K DRAM storage appliance | Intel doubles capacity, drops price in refresh of popular SSD line

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Cloud storage best practices
Someone on a forum asked for a list of best practices in adopting cloud storage. Here's one from the "Cloud Storage: Adoption, Practice and DeploymentReport" which will be launched at Storage Networking World on April 4. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel Xeon Processors

HP Power Advisor utility
This technology brief identifies factors affecting power requirements, explains how the Power Advisor works, and provides an example of how it can be used. Read now

WHITE PAPER: HP

Analysis of HP D2D Product Line
The HP D2D product line was first announced in early 2007, providing both disk to disk and VTL backup. In June 2010, the product line was updated to include StoreOnce powered by Intel Xeon ®processor 5500 series, HP Labs developed inline data deduplication, along with a number of other enhancements. Read More Today!

Kaminario releases $50K DRAM storage appliance
Kaminario has released a new version of its KS DRAM Storage Appliance that starts at $50,000, offers 150,000 IOPS and 1.6GB/sec throughput. Read More

Intel doubles capacity, drops price in refresh of popular SSD line
Intel today released the next generation of its consumer-class solid-state drive, replacing the retail market's best-selling X25-M line and likely heralding the end of an era for SLC-based enterprise-class NAND flash drives. Read More


WEBCAST: Quantum Corporation

Tape's Evolving Data Storage Role
Industry research shows that the best technology for a company's storage needs is a combination of technologies. Join Greg Schulz, founder and senior advisor of The Server and StorageIO Group, for a discussion of trends and perspectives of the storage industry, and how you can gain more value out of your IT data center resources. View now!

Is EMC/RSA poised to buy NetWitness?
Industry rumor is building this week that RSA, the security division of EMC, is poised to acquire NetWitness, a privately-held company whose flagship product is used by U.S. government agencies and in the enterprise to detect and analyze security threats. Read More

RSA breach puts APT back in the spotlight
Ever since Google announced it had been the victim of a sophisticated attack, and the subsequent breaches of many others -- including Adobe Systems, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace -- the term APT, or advanced persistent threat, has leaped from the lexicon of a few cyber-defenders in the military straight into the mainstream IT lexicon. So it has been with the public announcement from the EMC RSA Security division that it'd been the victim of an APT attack that may have resulted in some information about its SecurID tokens being compromised. Read More


WEBCAST: Oracle

How Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Deliver Extreme Java
View this webcast to learn why Exalogic and Exadata are the definitive engineered platforms for enterprise application and database consolidation, with added advantage of extreme Java and database performance, unmatched reliability and scalability, and cloud-enabling elastic capacity. Register Today!

Most approve of hosting games on company gear, survey finds
Only about a third of more than 1,000 respondents to a Network World online survey believe it's always wrong to use company equipment to host private video game sessions for groups of players. Read More

Tablets of CTIA
We round up the hot (and not so hot) tablet computers that are being launched or shown off at the CTIA show in Orlando. Read More



GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here.

SLIDESHOWS

Hot technology at the annual CTIA wireless show
CTIA Wireless offers a look at the evolving mobile landscape, from handsets and apps to core network systems. Here's a few of the things that are hot at the show in Orlando.

First look at Firefox 4
Firefox 4 has finally arrived, after months of delays and after rival Web browsers Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome 10 already shipped. The browser gets a speed boost and several feature enhancements that are so significant that they all have their own proper names, like Panorama, JaegerMonkey and Firefox Sync. Were they worth the wait? Let's take a look.

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. Paul Baran, Internet and packet switching pioneer, is mourned
  2. Microsoft scheme sniffs out unused wireless spectrum
  3. How Apple played hard to get and seduced the enterprise
  4. Apple holding out on iOS 5 until fall?
  5. Microsoft pays Nortel $7.5 million for IPv4 addresses
  6. AT&T-T-Mobile merger widely panned
  7. Nokia looks to make Windows Phone 7 hottest mobile OS
  8. Update Java and you may get annoying McAfee scanner too
  9. Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy?
  10. The RSA Hack FAQ

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