Friday, February 10, 2012

IBM Adds Speed, Flexibility To Big Data Storage

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TechWeb Networking News Update -- Issue Highlights:
TOP STORY: IBM Adds Speed, Flexibility To Big Data Storage
ALSO SEE: Nicira OpenFlow: Networking's Next Big Thing?
ANALYTIC REPORT: Cloud SLAs: Don't Sign On The Dotted Line Until You Read This!
WHITE PAPER: 2011 Backup Buyers Guide
MOST POPULAR: Who Is Anonymous: 10 Key Facts
BLOG: Deploying Dual-Stack IPv4 and IPv6 Networks
WEBCAST: Big Data Management Best Practices That Boost Online Performance
RESOURCES: We're Accepting Nominations For The InformationWeek 500

TechWeb
NETWORKING NEWS UPDATE 
  Friday, February 10, 2012
REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS   |     MOST POPULAR   |     BLOG   |     WEBCASTS   |     RESOURCES  
TOP STORY
IBM Adds Speed, Flexibility To Big Data Storage
XIV Storage Systems, tuned for cloud, virtualization, big data implementations, get solid state drives to triple storage speed, plus iPhone app for remote monitoring.

ALSO SEE
Nicira OpenFlow: Networking's Next Big Thing?
$40-million startup emerges with OpenFlow platform for virtualizating the network as effectively as servers.

Big Data Makes Banks Rethink Storage
As banks gather skyrocketing volumes of data, their traditional storage technologies just don't cut it.

Symantec Patches PCAnywhere, But Should You Delete?
Symantec says hotfix 'eliminates known vulnerabilities,' but hackers could use source code to exploit unknown holes. Some users will want to delete the app entirely.

Vblocks: Data Center Hope, Or Hype?
Cisco, EMC, and VMware have supplied a string of high-profile data centers with these special packages--rackmount servers packed with memory and optimized for virtualization, plus built-in storage and network switching.

Riverbed Network Management Tool Can See Virtual Machines
Riverbed Cascade 9.5 adds visibility into virtual switching layer.

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IT's jumping into cloud services with too much custom code and too little planning, our annual State of Cloud Computing Survey finds. Our newest digital issue shows you what to be aware of when using the cloud.

Also in this issue: Cloud success stories from Six Flags and Yelp, and how to write a SAN RFI.


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ANALYTIC REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS:
FEATURED REPORTS
Cloud SLAs: Don't Sign On The Dotted Line Until You Read This!
As enterprises ramp up cloud adoption, service-level agreements play a major role in ensuring quality enterprise application performance. Follow our four-step process to ensure providers live up to their end of the deal.
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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
2011 Backup Buyers Guide
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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM:
Who Is Anonymous: 10 Key Facts
Anonymous 'hacktivists' aim to expose what they call government and establishment hypocrisy. Take a closer look at the group, its offshoots, and its infamous attacks.

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Date Confirmed
Microsoft is set to release a trial version of its touch-centric operating system to everyday computer users.

Windows 8 Upgrade Plans: Exclusive Research
A majority of enterprises have upgrade plans for Windows 8, though it won't be available until next year. See what else IT pros have to say about Microsoft's "reimagined" operating system.

 

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG:
Featured  Blogger Deploying Dual-Stack IPv4 and IPv6 Networks
By Robert Mullins
Doing an IPv6 implementation project does not involve tearing down an aging IPv4 network and replacing it with a new IPv6-enabled network. Instead, the IPv4 and IPv6 networks will run in parallel in what the industry calls a "dual-stack" network. But IPv4 and IPv6 are so significantly different in design that network management tools designed for an IPv4 network may not work the same in an IPv6 environment.

Good Project Management The Difference Between Success And Failure
By Chris Talbot
Demand – and budgets – are growing for IT projects in 2012, but the lack of proper project management typically results in a failed project, according to a new report from InformationWeek.

Riverbed's Granite Virtualizes Branch Office Storage
By Howard Marks
When Riverbed and others brought WAN acceleration to the market around the turn of the century, many of us hoped that with WAN acceleration we could pull the servers, and the headaches they cause, from branch offices. Unfortunately many organizations found reasons to keep servers in the branches. Riverbed's new Granite appliance allows organizations to keep servers in their branch offices while eliminating many of the headaches through what Riverbed's calling Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure.

 

WEBCASTS:

Big Data Management Best Practices That Boost Online Performance
Join Gary Angel, president and CTO of Semphonic, as he details how you can identify the real factors driving online performance and determine the best way to improve results -- with robust, fast data analysis. It happens January 31, 2012.
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RESOURCES AND EVENTS:
We're Accepting Nominations For The InformationWeek 500
Nominate your company for the 2012 InformationWeek 500 -- our 24rd annual ranking of the nation's very best business technology innovators. Organizations with $250 million or more in revenue may apply now!
It happens March 25-29 in Orlando, Fla.


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