EMC looks to the clouds with TwinStrata and new VMax3 array

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	EMC looks to the clouds with TwinStrata and new VMax3 array EMC’s TwinStrata acquisition announced on Tuesday is just part of a bigger move to keep its venerable VMax storage platform up to date with large enterprises as they enter the cloud era.TwinStrata, which EMC is acquiring for an undisclosed sum, makes software to move data from in-house storage to public clouds. EMC plans to make that capability part of the VMax3, a new generation of the large-scale VMax storage family that was also announced on Tuesday at the company’s Redefine Possible event in London.While promising to help enterprises shift backups or archives to public clouds with TwinStrata, EMC has also architected the VMax3 series as an engine for internal data services and hybrid clouds. By making an in-house storage array into a platform for cloud services, the company hopes to help IT departments retain or regain control of their data while offering workgroups a way to use storage that’s much like what they’ve found in flexible public cloud services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ConnectIT Free Pass: Attend ConnectIT Seminar - New York - Aug 21 Computerworld invites you to ConnectIT, a NEW peer networking forum with sessions surrounding Private Cloud, Data Management, and Storage. The event takes place on Thursday, Aug 21 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. Register today for free at: http://events.computerworld.com/ConnectIT.NY14 In this Issue Arista targets at Big Data, IP storage with 100G to leaf switches OCZ flash accelerator takes a sharper focus on SQL Server AWS rolls out enterprise document storage and sharing Microsoft says new hybrid storage options can cut costs up to 60% Y2K bug resurfaces and sends draft notices to 14,000 men born in the 1800s NSA Data Center photo set free for all to use WEBCAST: VCE Vblock™ Specialized System for SAP HANA® Deploy SAP HANA® fast and with low risk. VCE brings together all of the necessary components for SAP HANA® into a single, standardized converged infrastructure system to ensure maximum performance at scale even with high data volumes. Learn More Arista targets at Big Data, IP storage with 100G to leaf switches Arista Networks this week unveiled a fixed configuration top-of-rack switch with 100G Ethernet uplinks for congestion-sensitive big data, streaming video and IP storage workloads.Arista also rolled out extensions to its EOS operating system software, and optical transceivers that allow users to deploy 40G Ethernet over single or multimode fiber.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More OCZ flash accelerator takes a sharper focus on SQL Server Storage has always affected how fast software runs, but IT shops now have more tools they can bring to bear on the problem.Microsoft SQL Server is such a big target that storage vendors build specific products to speed it up, such as the updated SQL accelerator appliance that OCZ Storage Solutions introduced on Monday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.The ZD-XL SQL Accelerator 1.5 can speed up only the database files that need it, work with multiple virtual machines running SQL Server workloads at the same time, and link databases with flash located across a network. It’s part of the trend toward making better use of flash, which is rapidly becoming mainstream but still carries a cost premium. OCZ’s accelerator plugs directly into a server via PCIe, bringing flash close to computing resources.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Infortrend Optimized Efficiency for SMB Datacenters Did you know that Infortrend's EonStor DS systems are ideal solutions for storage infrastructure consolidation, high-availability clusters, server virtualization and green datacenters? And now, they're 16Gb Fibre Channel-ready. Learn more >> AWS rolls out enterprise document storage and sharing Amazon Web Services is offering a new document sharing service with management and security features designed to appeal to businesses.Werner Vogels, Amazon chief technology officer, introduced the service, called Zocalo, at the AWS Summit, Thursday in New York City.Zocalo is a “fully managed document storage and sharing service,” Vogels said, referring to how AWS will take care of the storage, authentication, security and other aspects of running a document sharing service. AWS also introduced services to aid in mobile application development and system administration.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Microsoft says new hybrid storage options can cut costs up to 60% Microsoft is coming out with new hardware and cloud management features for its StorSimple hybrid storage offering that promises lower costs and better data protection. The new products, available Aug. 1, include two models of the new StorSimple 8000 storage array that are tied into a management platform and a virtual storage appliance, both deployed within Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The package is called Microsoft Azure StorSimple. With it, customers can cut storage costs 40% to 60%, receive faster disaster recovery and access tools that provide detailed views of storage status and trends, Microsoft says in a blog.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software MyIT- Consumer Cool for Business Apps Rich Ptak discusses how BMC's MyIT combines the ease and familiarity of accessing today's consumer apps with the stability, security and strengths of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Learn More Y2K bug resurfaces and sends draft notices to 14,000 men born in the 1800s That Y2K bug that made life miserable for so many IT professionals in the late 1990s has proven to be problematic just recently for the next of kin of some 14,000 men who were born in the 1800’s.From an AP report: The Selective Service System mistakenly sent notices to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897, ordering them to register for the nation’s military draft and warning that failure to do so is ‘‘punishable by a fine and imprisonment.’’The glitch originated with the Pennsylvania Department of Motor Vehicles during an automated data transfer of nearly 400,000 records to the Selective Service. The records of males born between 1993 and 1997 were mixed with those of men born a century earlier, Selective Service spokesman Pat Schuback told The Associated Press on Thursday. The federal agency didn’t know it because the state uses a two-digit code to indicate year of birth.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More NSA Data Center photo set free for all to use The Electronic Frontier Foundation yesterday released a copyright-free photograph of the NSA’s sprawling Utah Data Center (above) that was captured from a Greenpeace airship June 27 during a protest the government’s mass surveillance program.The gesture is intended to help journalists, among others, illustrate news stories and blog posts about a secretive operation that can be otherwise difficult to illustrate.It’s also clearly a poke in the NSA’s spying eye.From an EFF press release: Today, continuing in the spirit of transparency and building on earlier efforts to shed some light on the physical spaces the US intelligence community has constructed, we're releasing a photograph of the Utah Data Center into the public domain, completely free of copyright and other restrictions. That means it can be used for any purpose—copied, edited, or even sold—online or in print, with or without attribution to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We hope that making such an image available will help support conversations about the actions of the NSA.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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