EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers

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	EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! In this Issue IT shops will become consultants instead of tech managers, says EMC's CIO EMC and VMware spin out big data/cloud division External disk storage shipments surpass 7 exabytes in Q3 Hadoop on Windows Azure: Hive vs. JavaScript for processing big data Big Data, Cheap Storage Bring In-Memory Analytics Into Spotlight NICs and net management: Emulex buying Endace Why did BlackBerry blacklist the 'Pooh' gang? WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! IT shops will become consultants instead of tech managers, says EMC's CIO As with their user forum last year, EMC's Forum Boston 2012 on Friday emphasized cloud infrastructure technology, big data and business intelligence products. Read More EMC and VMware spin out big data/cloud division VMware and EMC today confirmed rumors that have been circulating for weeks that it would spin out its big data and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud products into a new division within the company named Pivotal Initiative, which will be led by former VMware chief Paul Maritz. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell SonicWall The Wild World of Malware: Keeping Your Company Safe Threats are continuously evolving but your firewall protection may not. Now is the time to look beyond traditional network security and incorporate protection against malware and exploits that pass through PCs and mobile devices when users browse the Internet, send or receive email and download applications. Read Now! External disk storage shipments surpass 7 exabytes in Q3 IDC today released its Disk Storage Tracker, showing steady growth in external storage systems worldwide for the third quarter. Read More Hadoop on Windows Azure: Hive vs. JavaScript for processing big data For some time Microsoft didn't offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which was designed for this purpose, is written in Java and was not available to .Net developers. So, Microsoft launched the Hadoop on Windows Azure service to make it possible to distribute the load and speed up big data computations. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Transforming Enterprise Application Deployment This white paper reviews the capabilities of HP's scale-up family of ProLiant Servers and shows how legacy IBM Power System customers can move their applications to HP ProLiant Servers to reduce expenses – without compromising application scalability, performance or reliability. Learn More Big Data, Cheap Storage Bring In-Memory Analytics Into Spotlight In-memory analytics, like virtualization and the cloud, is an old idea that's been given new life. In this case, the combination of big data, inexpensive commodity storage and parallel processing make it possible to analyze terabytes of data without slowing systems to a crawl. Read More NICs and net management: Emulex buying Endace Emulex, a Costa Mesa, Calif., maker of products for connecting servers, storage and switches in data centers, is buying New Zealand network performance management company Endace for about $130 million in cash. Read More Why did BlackBerry blacklist the 'Pooh' gang? A report surfaced earlier this week contending that BlackBerry OS 10 will include a list of 106 prohibited passwords designed to prevent the clueless from choosing the likes of 123456, blackberry, or the ever-popular "password" as their password. However, a RIM spokesman told me today that the list actually applies to BlackBerry ID universally, not only the upcoming operating system, and "has been... Read More
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