Cisco kills Invicta storage product line

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	Cisco kills Invicta storage product line Cisco has pulled the plug on its troubled Invicta flash storage appliances in another admission that an acquisition didn't pan out as hoped.Invicta was developed after Cisco acquired solid state flash storage array vendor WHIPTAIL for $415 million in 2013. The product was pulled from the market last year after having scaling issues, and then reinserted.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   : Peak 10 eGuide: Hybrid IT In this eGuide, Computerworld examines how hybrid IT decisions should be made and what the future might hold for this technology. Read on to learn how hybrid IT can help your organization. Learn More In this Issue Google lures businesses to Nearline with 100 PB of free cloud storage How to configure a cheap, secure RAID backup system IDG Contributor Network: Cloud Consolidation Nation Why IBM is hiring 1,000 software designers INSIDER It pays to be CIO: Median pay for 25 Fortune 500 CIOs tops $2.4M WHITE PAPER: IBM WebSphere Portal Version 8.0 Reviewer's Guide Read an in-depth view of new WebSphere Portal features and product capabilities. Learn More Google lures businesses to Nearline with 100 PB of free cloud storage Google had its sights fixed firmly on Amazon Thursday as it launched its new, low-cost Nearline cloud storage service out of beta and into general availability.Originally introduced to much fanfare in March, Cloud Storage Nearline now promises 99 percent uptime, on-demand I/O, lifecycle management and a broadly expanded partner ecosystem. Aiming to further sweeten the deal for companies currently using other providers, Google is now offering the service with 100 free petabytes of storage—equivalent to 100 million gigabytes—for new users for up to six months.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Red Hat First Cloud project? Consider using AppDev/Test As businesses become more digital, IT professionals face the challenge of delivering applications and new business services faster. Implementing an application development/testing cloud not only offers developers a practical starting point for a cloud implementation, but also is the key to staying ahead of the competition. Learn more >> How to configure a cheap, secure RAID backup system We usually store our photos, documents, and more on a single hard disk—or, increasingly these days, a solid state drive (SSD)—but there's always the nagging worry that the disk will fail, taking all your work and memories with it. Backing up using Time Machine, Super Duper!, or CrashPlan, say, is a good way of reducing this risk, but there is another: RAID. RAID can be incredibly complicated, but it's extremely worthwhile—one of the things it can do is to mirror the contents of one disk completely to another, all the time. While cloning your hard disk using Super Duper!, for example, is something that might happen once a day, with a RAID system, every bit of data that's written to one disk is simultaneously written to the second, so that if one drive fails, you have a perfect copy of everything it contained on the second. (And optionally, if you replace the failed drive, everything will be mirrored back across to it automatically.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Apprenda 5 Ways Private PaaS Helps Boost Developer Productivity Digital business has become essential to the success of the enterprise. Custom applications have become a gateway to revenue creation, customer satisfaction, and cost control. This metamorphosis has put line of business developers in a position of strategic importance within the enterprise. Learn More IDG Contributor Network: Cloud Consolidation Nation I titled this post "Cloud Consolidation Nation," but it actually would have been more accurate to call it "Cloud Consolidation World." But that didn't sound as snazzy.If the 1990s and 2000s were marked by the global expansion of the Internet, one might say the 2010s may be marked by the global consolidation of content into a few large cloud providers.Cloud consolidation in two areas Cloud consolidation on the Internet is taking place in two ways: Content is increasingly being consolidated and centralized into cloud providers. Cloud providers themselves are increasingly consolidating. Let's look at each of these briefly and consider some implications.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Why IBM is hiring 1,000 software designers IBM is one of the latest traditional technology behemoths to see design as a key differentiator in enterprise software. In a session at last week's Cultivate Conference (co-located with the influential open-source OSCON event in Portland), IBM's General Manager of Design (apparently a real position) Phil Gilbert told attendees about Big Blue's attempt to create a "culture of design" at the 130-year-old company.Beyond "Big Blue" "We want to bring design to everything we do," Gilbert said, which means changing the people, practices, and places involved in creating software. To help make that happen, he added, the company is committed to hiring 1,000 formally trained designers in the next six years.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More     INSIDER It pays to be CIO: Median pay for 25 Fortune 500 CIOs tops $2.4M Today's CIOs can make millions as they ascend the corporate ladder. While climbing, many tech chiefs take on additional titles and broader administrative roles.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
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