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	Software error complicates Amazon's data center recovery | SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key
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	SSD developments dominate the news Everything was coming up SSDs last week. Major solid state drive (SSD) manufacturer STEC announced last week that it was entering the PCIe-based SSD fray with an advanced drive that supports both Single-Level Cell and Multi-Level Cell (SLC and MLC) configurations and a caching solution that can greatly increase the performance of servers accessing direct attached or shared storage. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xsigo Systems Guide: Converged Infrastructure for the Private Cloud This guide discusses the infrastructure challenges of the next-gen private cloud. Traditional networks limit flexibility and increase your workload. Read this 24-page guide to learn about new fabric architectures that virtualize connectivity to increase efficiency and accelerate management by 100X. Read now! In this Issue Software error complicates Amazon's data center recovery SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key Erasure coding ensures storage durability in environments where RAID falls down Is there a lesson for Google+ in the demise of Baidu Talk? Tech survivors: Geek technologies that still thrive 25 to 50 years later WHITE PAPER: Kaseya How to Launch a Successful IT Automation Initiative In this paper, we'll look at IT automation from the corporation's perspective, and discuss the steps organizations should take before launching such an initiative. We'll hear from companies that successfully implemented computer automation platforms, what their early steps were and what they would do differently if they could repeat the process. Read now Software error complicates Amazon's data center recovery Amazon Web Services' efforts to restore service following a power outage at its Dublin data center were complicated further on Monday by an error in the EBS (Elastic Block Storage) software, the company said. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Three steps to agile change Comprehensive IT change configuration and release management (CCRM) continues to confound and frustrate both IT and the business units for which it provides services. But by first instituting the appropriate foundational processes and supporting tools, many enterprises are experiencing renewed CCRM success. Read Now SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key Flash-memory-based solid-state disks (SSDs) provide faster random access and data transfer rates than electromechanical drives and today can often serve as rotating-disk replacements, but the host interface to SSDs remains a performance bottleneck. PCI Express (PCIe)-based SSDs together with an emerging standard called NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express) promises to solve the interface bottleneck. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Case study: Getting started with desktop virtualization The promise of virtualized desktops is widely recognized and desktop virtualization is topping most IT departments' priority lists. But while the "why" of desktop virtualization is clear, it's the "how" that is most challenging. Follow one customer's journey to a more agile and secure business environment. Learn more.>> Erasure coding ensures storage durability in environments where RAID falls down Erasure codes are a form of forward error correction (FEC) technology that has been used in a variety of ways for decades and is now emerging on a new class of high-capacity storage systems to address the limitations of RAID. Read More Is there a lesson for Google+ in the demise of Baidu Talk? Hey, Google, get a load of what can happen when a major search engine company launches a social network and requires that users provide their real names in order to participate. Baidu Talk, the Twitter equivalent of China's Google equivalent, is about to be no more, just as Google itself wrestles with resistance to its anonymity prohibition within its fledgling Google+ community. Read More Tech survivors: Geek technologies that still thrive 25 to 50 years later These 18 technologies remain core to the computing experience for IT, engineers, and developers Read More
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