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	Should EMC sell off 80% stake in VMware? Breaking up is hard to do, but could a split be in store soon for EMC and VMware?Talk has intensified in the past week that changes could be afoot in the strategic relationship between the two tech companies. EMC currently owns 80% share of VMware, but a new activist investor is asking for that to change.Investment firm Elliott Management bought up about $1 billion worth of EMC shares to gain about a 2% hold of the company. The Wall Street Journal reported that with the new position, Elliott officials planned to try to convince EMC leadership to sell off some of its share of VMware.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Classification of Data Center Infrastructure Tools This paper divides the realm of data center management tools into four distinct subsets and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these subsets. Learn more! In this Issue How to make intelligent flash storage investment decisions Dropbox for Business adds new features, risks thwarting its key advantage Solidifying Microsoft Azure Security for SharePoint and SQL in the Cloud Oracle's new in-memory database option could spark unanticipated costs, expert warns Educator's plagiarism only part of the story 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 How to make intelligent flash storage investment decisions This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.Flash storage, often called solid state drives (SSDs), is a promising technology that will be deployed in nearly every data center over the next decade. The primary downside is the price, which, despite vendor claims, is 3X-10X the price of spinning media (HDDs). Here are two ways storage architects can go about analyzing their current and future requirements to understand which workloads will benefit from flash storage.One of the best ways to understand your deployment requirements is to have an accurate model that represents your current storage I/O profiles. This model can be used to test new architectures, products and approaches. The goal is to enable the development of a realistic-enough workload model to enable comparisons of different technologies, devices, configurations and even software/firmware versions that would be deployed in your infrastructure.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Owning vs. Outsourcing Data Center Physical Infrastructure When faced with the decision of upgrading an existing data center, building new, or leasing space in a retail collocation data center, there are both quantitative and qualitative differences to consider. This paper discusses how to assess these key factors to make a sound decision. Learn more! Dropbox for Business adds new features, risks thwarting its key advantage This morning, Dropbox announced a slew of new security, search, and developer features for its Dropbox for Business file-storage and sharing product. The new features come on top of the company’s recent release of Streaming File Sync, which allows the service to start syncing files before they’re fully uploaded, speeding up the process for large files.At first glance, the new features sound like clear improvements. Full-text search, for example, is a no-brainer, making it much easier to find the file you’re looking for even when you don’t know the name.  More flexible and granular security options are also welcome: View-only permissions for shared folders let you set who can view or edit files within a shared folder, while passwords and expirations for shared links make it safer to share files.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: CommVault 2014 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software Enterprise backup is among the oldest, most-performed tasks for IT professionals. Gartner provides analysis and evaluation of the leading providers that offer a range of traditional to innovative recovery capabilities. Learn More Solidifying Microsoft Azure Security for SharePoint and SQL in the Cloud More and more organizations are moving SharePoint and SQL workloads into Microsoft Azure in the cloud because of the simplicity of spinning up servers in the cloud, adding more capacity, decreasing capacity without having to BUY servers on-premise. What used to cost organizations $20,000, $50,000, or more in purchasing servers, storage, network bandwidth, replica disaster recovery sites, etc and delay SharePoint and SQL rollouts by weeks or month is now completely managed by spinning up virtual machines up in Azure and customizing and configuring systems in the Cloud.But the question always comes up, is it “safe” to put SQL data and SharePoint content up in the cloud? The answer is absolutely YES, that SQL and SharePoint up in Azure are perfectly safe to store protected content up in the cloud AS LONG AS the systems are configured properly!  And in fact, we have configured SharePoint and SQL to actually be MORE SAFE (significantly more safe!) up in Azure than most organizations can claim their security today on-premise.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Oracle's new in-memory database option could spark unanticipated costs, expert warns Oracle database shops that have or are planning to download the latest version of 12c take warning: The vendor’s newly launched, much-hyped in-memory processing database option is turned on by default, according to one expert.The in-memory option costs US$23,000 per processor, according to an Oracle price list updated this week. Customers who don’t realize the option has been switched on may find their next license audit “um, more entertaining,” wrote Kevin Closson, a senior director in EMC’s performance engineering group and a former Oracle architect who worked on its Exadata database machine, in a post on his personal blog this week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Educator's plagiarism only part of the story The school superintendent in Newton, Mass. will lose a week’s pay because he lifted five sentences from a speech by the state’s governor and integrated them unattributed and nearly word for word into a graduation speech.But the plagiarism by Superintendent David Fleishman, while inexcusable, wasn’t the most interesting part of the story. Neither was the punishment decided upon the school committee, which seems light. School Superintendent David FleishmanTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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