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12 free cloud storage options
With all the public cloud storage offerings on the market today, many vendors just want customers to sign up for their services. So, in return for a new account, many offer free cloud storage.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
WHITE PAPER: BMC Software
Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs
This paper discusses five levers you can use to lower your mainframe MLC costs by up to 20 percent or more. Explore best practices and real-world examples of dramatic savings through a mainframe MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. Learn More
WHITE PAPER: BMC Software
Best Practices Guide to Manage Mainframe Software Charges
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. This best practice guide provides a step-by-step process to reduce mainframe MLC costs up to 20% without compromising business critical services. Learn More
EMC pools enterprise smarts to create data 'lakes'
EMC is drawing on its "federation" of companies to help customers build data lakes using EMC storage, VMware virtualization and Pivotal big-data smarts.The Federation Business Data Lake will ingest and analyze data from diverse sources to give enterprises new insights that can help them make better decisions, EMC says. It can tie together existing EMC assets with new software to run the data lake, and the whole package can be built and started up in as little as seven days, according to the company.EMC's aim is to help enterprises of all sizes make better use of information they collect, including both structured and unstructured data. Building the data lakes may also show how EMC can make the diverse businesses it owns add up to more than the sum of their parts.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
EMC eying Arista, Brocade?
Stoke the rumor fires once again. Bernstein Research has issued a note this week that states storage giant EMC is prepared to buy, and that Arista Networks and Brocade might make good fits.Arista, for one, combined with EMC's VMware possession and go-to-market capability would create an alternative to Cisco "stronger than anything present in the market today," the note states.The report's authors say the catalyst for the EMC buying speculation were remarks by CEO Joe Tucci at a recent analyst meeting that "consolidation opportunities" existed for EMC that were instantly accretive. They say EMC could do up to a $10 billion+ cash deal.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Portable storage for the paranoid: We test two secure USB drives on keypad vs. software security
Congratulations: You've decided your data is sensitive enough (or you're paranoid enough) to store it on a secure USB drive. Basically encrypted storage on a stick, these portable flash drives come with FIPS 140-2 level three validation, meaning the cryptographic module will be rendered inoperable if tampering is detected. It costs quite a bit to acquire validation, which is part of the reason for premium pricing of these drives.Most people administer and unlock secure USB drives using software apps, which run on the host machines to interact with the drive. That's the approach taken by the Kingston Data Traveler 4000 G2 (second generation) USB 3.0 thumb drive that's reviewed here.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
WEBCAST: IBM Corporation
5 Ways Elastic Storage Provides Performance and Scalability
Please Join IBM and Nuance Communications Inc. to learn how Nuance uses IBM Elastic Storage to improve the power of their voice recognition applications by managing storage growth, cost and complexity while increasing performance. Learn More
Forget about IaaS, PaaS and SaaS - it's all about the platform
The cloud computing market is typically broken into three buckets: IaaS, SaaS and PaaS. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) represents on-demand compute and storage; Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors host applications in the cloud; and Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud-based application development platform. Thinkstock Forrester wants us to blow up the talk of IaaS, SaaS and PaaS. Because the cloud is all about the platform. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, March 23
EMC pools enterprise smarts to create data lakesEMC is pulling assets from its conglomeration of businesses to help customers build data lakes using EMC storage, VMware virtualization and Pivotal big-data smarts. The Federation Business Data Lake debuting Monday will ingest and analyze data from diverse sources—and may also show how EMC can make the diverse businesses it owns add up to more than the sum of their parts.New US bill aims to limit use of student dataA new bill to be introduced in Congress on Monday aims to place checks on the collection and possible misuse of student data by tech companies that supply services to schools. The Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act prohibits companies such as online homework portals or email services from using or disclosing students' personal information for advertisement purposes, according to The New York Times.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
: NexGen Storage
Achieve Consistent Performance With Hybrid Flash Array
Download now and examine Orangefield's journey to find a solution that would meet, and exceed, their performance and capacity requirements. Learn More
Maker spaces boost student tech innovation
Where do college students go to tinker, build and test prototypes, and find commercial support for their ideas? Maker spaces.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
4 ways to beat the Big Data talent shortage
There is no doubt that Big Data has become a growth market, and is becoming one of the few on-premises projects seeing increased spending, as companies move less data-sensitive functions to the cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
The H-1B visa debate: Pain and the politics
This week's hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee concerning the H-1B visa program offered a compendium of thought, insight and friction.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
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