Articles from Chris Preimesberger

1. Gartner: Data Centre Spending To Surpass Pre-Downturn Levels Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 17 2011) Worldwide data centre hardware spending for 2011 is set to rise 12.7 percent from 2010, says Gartner Who says the future of IT is all in software? All software has to run on some sort of processor, physical or virtual, and all those have to run on something you can see and touch. And with the continuing deluge of data pouring into servers and storage arrays, there is no shortage of processors happening anytime soon. Thus, IT hardware sales are going nowhere but up and to the right. Gartner has some new numbers that back up this trend. Return to 2008 levels The industry researcher is projecting that worldwide data centre hardware spending will reach $98.9 billion (£62bn) by the end of calendar year 2011, up 12.7 percent from $87.8 billion in 2010, according to a report it published on 13 October. Data centre hardware spending ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Europe   Gartner   Chris Preimesberger

2. Intel Unveils New SSDs For Enterprise Data Centre Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 16 2011) Intel has ramped up production of its solid state drives (SSDs) for enterprises and data centres Intel has used the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco to highlight the launch of its latest product line, namely the Solid-State Drive 710 Series. The 710 Series SSDs are purpose-built multi-level cell (MLC) enterprise data centre-level replacements for Intel’s own X25-E Extreme SSD, which came out in 2009. Cheaper Prices The new Intel offering follows a trend toward more enterprise-type deployments for the MLC SSDs. MLC actually is about half the cost of single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory, but it has had reliability problems during its development. Thus, enterprise IT has largely shied away from MLC until manufacturers solved those problems. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Intel   IBM   Chris Preimesberger

3. Enterprise SSD Keeps Hitachi In The Race Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 11 2011) Cloud Computing , Storage Ultrastar high-endurance NAND flash solid state drives serve as Tier 0 layer for high-transaction applications Hitachi’s global storage division, needing to find a way to keep up with the constant advances in NAND flash at competitors such as Toshiba, Samsung, Micron, SanDisk and Seagate, has introduced a new line of MLC (multi-level cell) solid-state disks for enterprise systems. The Ultrastar SSD400M drives, which use Intel’s 25-nanometer high-endurance NAND flash, come in a 2.5-inch form factor with a 6Gb SAS interface in capacities of 200GB and 400GB. They are designed to serve as the so-called Tier 0 layer for high-transaction-type applications. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Intel   Toshiba   Interactive Data Corporation

4. Citrix Buys RingCube For Virtual Desktop Technologies Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 11 2011) RingCube controls security and file access to authorise various mobile devices to access a VDI system Citrix Systems has added a measure of versatility to its virtual desktop product offering with the acquisition of California-based RingCube, which makes user personalisation software for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDIs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. RingCube’s product, vDesk, is a high-performance enterprise workspace virtualisation package that makes the rollout of VDI deployments across an organisation more efficient. It controls various levels of security and file access and allows accredited employees to use various types of mobile devices to access a VDI system. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Citrix Systems   Chris Preimesberger

5. Symform Shakes Up Cloud Storage With Free 100GB Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 27 2011) Storage Symform is looking to an impression in the cloud storage market by offering 100GB of free storage Symform is looking to gate crash the cloud storage market with the announcement that for a limited time, it is giving new and existing customers 100GB of cloud storage for free. Even if customers decide they don’t want to buy additional storage in the Symform cloud, they will be allowed to keep the 100GB of capacity for as long as they need it, Symform said. Thus, enterprises of all sizes can now access “secure, durable, and highly available decentralised” cloud storage at no cost, Symform said. “One hundred gigabytes is a huge amount of storage; you can put an awful lot of files in that amount of space,” President and co-founder Praerit Garg told eWEEK. “This is our way of showing people what we’re all about.” (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Chris Preimesberger

6. Report: IT Downtime Costs Average £3K Per Minute Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 16 2011) Businesses lose an average of about £3,000 per minute in a data centre outage, says a report Data centre managers and CTOs already know that system downtime can be very expensive for an enterprise, but it’s possible they may not know the real extent of that expense when servers, networking and storage suffer a major outage. New industry research from Emerson Network Power released this week at the Uptime Institute Symposium in Santa Clara, California, reported that businesses lose an average of about $5,000 (£3,000) per minute in an outage. At that rate, $300,000 per hour is not something to dismiss lightly. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Uptime Institute Symposium

7. Amazon EC2 Outage Will Not Be Forgotten Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 27 2011) Cloud Computing Amazon has waved the all-clear flag, but there still are a lot of smoldering IT managers who haven’t yet cooled off, says Chris Preimesberger Five full days after its largest outage hit on the morning of 21 April, Amazon Web Services said it finally has restored virtually all services to its customers. However, there still are a lot of smoldering IT managers who haven’t yet cooled off completely from the outage that started at 1.41am PDT on 21 April at the AWS data centre in Northern Virginia. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Chris Preimesberger   Datapipe

8. Data Centre Cabling Gets Built-In Monitoring Capability Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 19 2011) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Networking Network hardware maker TE Connectivity, which used call itself Tyco Electronics until a few months ago, has found its own entryway into the data centre monitoring and control business. The Minneapolis-based corporation on 18 April launched Quareo, a new connection-point product which uses embedded chips inside cables in order to keep track on whatever is going through those wires. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Hewlett Packard   IBM   Chris Preimesberger

9. Many Data Centres Vulnerable To Disaster Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 31 2011) Cloud Computing An AFCOM survey polled 358 managers from around the world and found many ill-prepared for disasters AFCOM, the international association of data centre managers and enterprise IT executives, confirmed on March 30 that a high number of data centres are not fully protected from potential disasters. Loss of service could bring many of these companies to their knees, a fact of which many people in the business are already well aware. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Chris Preimesberger   Sony

10. Proofpoint Launches Mobile Cloud Email Compliance Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 17 2011) Monitoring Enterprise-level email security, compliance and archiving are not functions that one would readily equate with a cloud service, but Proofpoint is showing the IT market how to do it. On March 15, the company released Proofpoint Mobile, a new application suite that adds email security, compliance and archiving capabilities to mobile devices. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Chris Preimesberger

11. Gartner Report Outlines Future Of The Data Centre Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 17 2011) Cloud Computing Cloud computing, smarter physical designs, power saving and big workloads are the biggest factors in new data centre builds, Gartner has found Many IT industry people believe that the incorporation of cloud computing services and systems is the single most influential trend in data centre construction and management, and all the indicators certainly point in that direction. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Chris Preimesberger

12. Japan Disaster Demonstrates Importance Of Backup Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 14 2011) The 8.9-magnitude 11 March earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan and its subsequent Pacific Ocean tsunami destroyed and severely damaged several cities and towns on the island of Honshu, knocking out utilities and communications connections that impacted much of the Pacific Rim. It isn’t immediately known how many IT facilities or data centres were washed away in the disaster, but the mere fact that this horrific crisis happened serves to remind IT managers about their own business continuity systems and how well-prepared they are for such an event. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   SunGard   Chris Preimesberger

13. IBM Joins Crowded Market With Virtual Desktop Platform Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 26 2011) IBM has ensured it found the right in-house technologies and outside partners for its newly launched virtual desktop package. Big Blue collected all the required ingredients and simmered them with quality assurance testing and best practices for nearly two years. Finally, the Virtual Desktop for Smart Business launched 24 January. The new, web-based and channel-enabled IBM enterprise desktop package provides anytime/anywhere secure access to personal desktops on any device – PC or Mac, Windows or Linux (SUSE, Ubuntu or Red Hat). It is designed primarily to run on IBM System x mainframes but works equally well on x86 servers, IBM Solution Strategist Antony Satyadas told eWEEK. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

14. Cisco And BMC Build A Platform For Cloud Service Providers Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 7 2010) Cloud Computing , Storage Cisco Systems and data management provider BMC Software have announced a second strategic alliance to develop a new, generically-named cloud system for large-scale, multi-tenanted infrastructures. The agreement builds on their 2009 Unified Computing System (UCS) partnership. The joint development partnership will use the Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform (ICDP) to target telcos, large and midrange independent applications providers, cloud storage providers, high-traffic social media and retail Websites, and a number of other enterprises. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Chris Preimesberger

15. New SPARC Cluster Is Oracle’s Challenge For HP And IBM Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 3 2010) Oracle's Larry Ellison took several jabs at one of his most formidable competitors - and this time his target was not IBM. Leave it to Larry Ellison, Oracle’s outspoken co-founder and CEO, to “spark up” what, at first, was looking like a pretty standard, no-nonsense product launch. During Oracle’s introduction of a slew of new data centre products, the co-founder and CEO of the world’s second-largest, software-making company took several sort-of-playful jabs at one of his most formidable competitors – and this time it was not IBM. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

16. Virtual Data Vulnerable Due To Poor Backup Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 25 2010) Cloud Computing Business data residing on virtual machines (VMs) is vulnerable due to the astonishing lack of regular backups. Many businesses are enjoying the benefits of virtualisation and storage arrays, but it seems that an astonishing number of businesses are not properly protecting these virtual machines. Data storage and protection provider Symantec revealed 22 November in its annual disaster recovery survey that only about 20 percent of IT managers are using replication and failover technologies to protect mission-critical data in virtual environments. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Chris Preimesberger

17. New Data Centres Deliver Triple-Capacity Upgrades Says Gartner Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 19 2010) Servers IT research company Gartner has reported that most data centres currently being planned and built will have inherent efficiencies that will enable up to 300 percent growth in storage capacity and use 60 percent less floor space to do it. According to consistent reports from eWEEK industry and analyst sources, a large number of current data centres that have been around for 10 years or more are reaching their limits in physical space or in power allocation. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Gartner

18. Data Growth Most Pressing Enterprise Concern, Gartner Warns Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 1 2010) Cloud Computing , Storage The ever growing amount of data, which some believe is growing at 40 to 60 percent each year, means that data storage has become one of biggest challenges to solve for large enterprises. Gartner Research reported 1 November that nearly half (47 percent) of its survey respondents ranked data growth as one of their three biggest daily challenges. The others are system performance and scalability (37 percent), and network congestion and connectivity architecture (36 percent). (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Gartner Research   Gartner   Facebook

19. StorageTek Library Extension For Mainframes Released Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 27 2010) Storage Oracle has released a highly-scalable additional tier of storage for mainframes which can also be used in x86-based systems. Oracle, which has not revealed much about how it intends to keep developing its Sun StorageTek franchise since the Sun Microsystems acquisition 10 months ago, introduced a new Virtual Library Extension that adds new-generation storage tiering into mainframe environments. Oracle is positioning the new library extension as a highly scalable additional tier of disk and tape storage for mainframes, although it also can be used in open standards x86-based systems. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Facebook

20. IBM Launches UK-Based Cloud Support Programme Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 26 2010) Cloud Computing , Microblogging The new programme, based at IBM's Innovation Centre in Hursley, will help enterprises migrate to the cloud. IBM has opened its second European Cloud Computing Lab (CCL) to help its business partner network move their applications and services to a cloud-based architecture. The centre will also cover the sales and marketing skills required for this new market. The facility in the IBM Innovation Centre at Hursley near Southampton joins similar labs in Ireland and nine other countries. It will allow third-party developers to access IBM’s cloud services and its Cast Iron development team in a co-operative venture that will allow them to meet the new customer expectations of the services-based environment. IBM acquired integration specialist Cast Iron earlier this year. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Facebook   IBM

21. HP Builds For The Future With Data Centre Training Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 21 2010) Building a data centre requires a specialised skills set, HP is offering an education path with its new training programme. Before an enterprise can build an expensive new-generation data centre with a converged infrastructure, the CTO, CIO or IT manager needs to get the right training to see that the job gets done correctly. Knowing all about this,Hewlett-Packard introduced what it claims to be the first converged infrastructure training and certification programme at Interop in New York. The course spans the entire enterprise landscape: from networking, storage, servers and software to printing and personal computing. (Read Full Article)

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22. EMC Moves into Big Database World with Greenplum Appliance Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 14 2010) As amazing as it seems, EMC, the world’s largest independent data storage and protection company, really did not have a competitive data warehousing choice in its product portfolio until it bought Greenplum in July. That part of the market, which historically belonged to Teradata - currently about 70 percent - and, to a lesser extent, Netezza (bought by IBM for $1.7 billion), has somehow eluded EMC all these years. Following the Greenplum acquisition, EMC also partnered with Cloudera to handle some other “big data” business and appeared to be set in the data warehousing world for at least a few years. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Intel   Facebook   IBM

23. VMware Automates Its Cloud IT Services Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 14 2010) Cloud Computing At it previewed in September at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, VMware has now added new cloud computing products and services to its catalogue, the company said at it VMworld Europe in Copenhagen. Not only that, but the company is also making it easier for customers to pay for virtual infrastructure services by simplifying the pricing model. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe   Facebook   Chris Preimesberger

24. Green Data Centre Initiative Launched By Snia Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 13 2010) Microblogging , Storage At its biannual conference in Dallas, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) unveiled its Green Storage Initiative Emerald programme, which will eventually lead to the release of its Emerald Power Efficiency Measurement Specification. This is similar to other data centre standardisation efforts already in play, such as those in operation by the Green Grid’s Data Centre Efficiency programme, the US government’s Energy Star programme, the Uptime Institute, and AFCOM’s data centre instructional programmes. (Read Full Article)

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25. QLogic Enables Mix-and-Match Data Centre Networking Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 11 2010) Networking Storage networking provider QLogic on 7 October came out with a new 10GbE converged networking product line that enables network admins to use any one- or a combination-of various data centre protocols to get workloads done. The new group of products, codenamed 3GCNA, is based on Gen 3 of QLogic’s Network Plus architecture and features the new 8200 Series 10GbE converged network adapters, 3200 Series 10GbE intelligent Ethernet adapter (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Fibre Channel   Facebook

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