IBM throws $1B at storage

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	IBM throws $1B at storage IBM's at it again.This week IBM announced it would pump $1 billion into developing new storage technology. Does Big Blue throwing $1B at something sound familiar? That's because it is. Let's recap IBM's other billion dollar bets: 2013: IBM pledges $1 billion for Linux 2014: IBM commits $1 billion for PaaS 2015: z System Mainframe is result of $1B investment This week: devotes $1 billion for storage software IBM isn't alone either. Tech big-wigs love throwing making grandiose funding statements. We've seen HP and Cisco do it each with cloud computing, for example.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   An Insightful Approach to Optimize Mainframe MLC Spend This paper, "An Insightful Approach to Optimizing Mainframe MLC Costs," discusses how you can penetrate the complexity of IBM mainframe MLC products and the MLC price model to gain insight into the MLC cost drivers and leverage that insight to optimize MLC spend. Learn More In this Issue Apple plans two European data centers running on renewable energy Has Equation Group hacked your hard drives? You won't be able to tell. How a university's data center overhaul makes a green impact IBM puts software and cloud at the center of storage INSIDER You've been hacked. Now what? INSIDER Learn R for beginners with our PDF INSIDER New weapons offer hope against advanced cyber-attacks WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   10 Steps to Reduce Mainframe MLC Costs Monthly license charges (MLC) are rising by 7% or more each year, and account for 30% of total mainframe costs. Yet managing MLC costs is an inexact science. Learn More Apple plans two European data centers running on renewable energy With data storage in the European Union, the company will not need to export data to the U.S. or other data protection regimes Read More   Has Equation Group hacked your hard drives? You won't be able to tell. The Equation Group's ability to reprogram hard-drive firmware leaves corporate security pros unable to trust the devices because they can't tell whether disks have been compromised or not."Once the hard drive gets infected with this malicious payload, it's impossible to scan its firmware," says Igor Soumenkov, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. "To put it simply: for most hard drives there are functions to write into the hardware firmware area, but there are no functions to read it back. It means that we are practically blind, and cannot detect hard drives that have been infected by this malware."Beyond that, the tampering Equation Group does with the firmware can survive reformatting the disk and reinstalling the operating system, giving it "extreme persistence," and providing invisible, persistent storage inside the hard drive, according to the Kaspersky report on the Equation Group.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: NexGen Storage   Maximize Your Business Value with NexGen Architecture Download now and learn how IT professionals can use NexGen storage architecture and software to simplify data priority assignment and management process. Learn More How a university's data center overhaul makes a green impact To say that University of Cambridge deployed disparate and diverse data storage and data center infrastructure would be a vast understatement. In a 2013 IT review, data center manager Ian Tasker and his team discovered almost 200 servers across the University's 120 departments. These installations ranged from single servers housed in closets to larger rooms containing 20 to 30 servers, but all contributing to a major drain on power and cooling resources, as well as creating one heck of a management headache."Our IT review is a periodic way for us to look at how we're carrying out the responsibilities of IT, and how to best align IT with the work of the university. What we found was everything was fragmented and each department was doing their own thing when it came to provisioning, storage and management. Where we had a small number of racks, they weren't powered or cooled efficiently, and that was our other mission: to reduce our carbon footprint as a university by about 34 percent by the year 2020," Tasker says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   IBM puts software and cloud at the center of storage   The future of storage may not be in storage itself, but in the intelligence to manage it.Major storage vendors and startups alike are now pushing software-defined systems spanning anything from a set of arrays to a whole enterprise. On Tuesday, IBM placed a big bet on this trend, announcing the first product in a portfolio called IBM Spectrum Storage and saying it will invest $1 billion in storage software over the next five years.The strategy will see IBM offer its traditional storage systems in software form so customers can choose to buy them as appliance, software or service. The first Spectrum Storage product out of the gate is IBM Spectrum Accelerate, software that's based on the company's own XIV high-end storage appliance.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM 5 Tips for Success with Customer Analytics Discover five tips for success with customer analytics, and how a better understanding of your customers in context increases revenue and deepens loyalty. Learn More   INSIDER You've been hacked. Now what? What should a company do after it's been hacked? It's a question Target, Home Depot, Sony Pictures Entertainment and others have had to ask over the past year or so. And it's likely that other organizations will be facing the same question over the coming months.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More     INSIDER Learn R for beginners with our PDF With so much emphasis on getting insight from data these days, it's no wonder that R is rapidly rising in popularity. R was designed from day one to handle statistics and data visualization, it's highly extensible with many new packages aimed at solving real-world problems and it's open source (read "free").To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More     INSIDER New weapons offer hope against advanced cyber-attacks One of the most frightening things about modern cyber-attacks is that a breach can remain undetected within networks for weeks, months or even years. 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