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VMworld 2010: Vendors Roll Out New Products
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010)
There was lots of news coming out of the VMworld 2010 conference Tuesday in San Francisco. General sessions were held and labs continued as vendors showcased their products and announced new solutions. NetApp supports VMware View 4.5. NetApp (NTAP) announced that the integration of its industry-leading unified storage technologies enable VMware View 4.5 customers to achieve enhanced storage efficiency and virtual desktop scalability, while improving desktop performance levels for end users. NetApp has integrated with VMware View 4.5 several critical operations such as backup and recovery, deduplication, desktop cloning, and storage system monitoring directly to desktop and server administrators.
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With HP Bid at $2B, Dell Mulls Options on 3PAR
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 29 2010)
Dell says assessing 3PAR offer after HP trumps bid – Dell Inc said on Sunday it was assessing its bid for 3PAR Inc after the data storage company’s board of directors late on Friday said Hewlett-Packard Co’s $2 billion offer was a “superior proposal.” From Reuters. Investors in 3Par are big winners – Regardless of who triumphs in the high-stakes battle to acquire Fremont tech company 3Par, the immediate winner in the bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell will be 3Par’s investors, including top executives and three Silicon Valley venture firms that helped the data storage supplier get started 11 ...
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Why the Bidding War for 3Par is Great News for Green IT
Explore Article EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Aug 24 2010)
Wall Street is buzzing this week over the bidding war that has erupted between Dell and HP for 3Par. A brief recap: 3Par has been on the market for a couple of months with an auction. Both Dell and HP submitted sealed bids, and 3Par went with Dell which offered a higher bid than HP. Dell and 3Par then entered into a period of exclusive negotiations which resulted in Dell's agreement to buy 3Par for $18 a share, or about $1.15 billion, about 5.6 times greater than 3Par's annual sales, which are only $204 million (3Par has never been profitable). ...
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Continuity Adds Private Cloud Capabilities To Recovery Software
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 17 2010)
Disaster recovery provider Continuity Software on 16 August upgraded its RecoverGuard product to include a Private Cloud Advisor. RecoverGuard Version 5.2’s Private Cloud Advisor provides full availability and recoverability in the private cloud, or pool of shared data storage. Private cloud computing is a strategy some companies employ to use secure, in-house IT services via virtualised software, such as VMware’s ESX servers. Private clouds have pros and cons. While largely effective for consolidating servers - and hence costs - private clouds can be a bear to manage because the abstraction layers generated by virtual machines (VMs) trigger single points of ...
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Analysis: Dell-3PAR Storage Acquisition
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 16 2010)
Dell today announced an agreement to acquire 3PAR, which provides virtualized storage solutions with advanced management features, in a transaction valued at $1.15 billion. The deal was widely discussed across tech news sites and blogs. Here’s a roundup of noteworthy analysis and commentary from around the web: - Dell shakes up storage array game with 3PAR buy: from Chris Mellor at The Register: “Dell is changing the enterprise storage array supplier landscape by buying 3PAR, adding an enterprise block storage array to its storage product roster and complementing the iSCSI EqualLogic storage arrays it bought in 2007. … We may ...
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Dell Buying 3PAR for $1.15 Billion
Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 16 2010)
Dell on Monday announced it has agreed to acquire virtualized storage provider 3PAR for about US$1.15 billion, a move that will boost its capabilities for building public and private cloud computing environments. The deal is expected to close later this year. 3PAR's Utility Storage platform dramatically cuts administrative, power and space costs over traditional storage arrays, according to the company. It is used by seven of the world's top-10 grossing managed service providers, according to a statement. Dell's $3.9 billion acquisition last year of system integrator Perot Systems showed it has serious designs of its own for that market.
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The IT Department Of Tomorrow
Explore Article Forbes.com (Jul 12 2010)
As new technologies emerge that reshape the data center landscape, IT management is faced with the task of delegating responsibilities. In today's IT department, the roles and responsibilities are well-defined and structured. Teams are siloed into very specific verticals. Networking teams handle all aspects of the network. Storage teams handle everything to do with storage; server or systems teams, servers. With the advent of virtualization, converged infrastructures and cloud computing, this traditional model is no longer valid. All of a sudden, you see systems teams touching networking and becoming a lot more familiar with storage. Networking teams are slowly creeping ...
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Oracle Beefs Up Sun Storage
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 30 2010)
A day after introducing a major rebuild of its data center networking equipment and its Intel-based servers, Oracle yesterday announced upgrades to its Sun Storage 7000 product line. This makes Oracle the first all-purpose data centre systems vendor to include built-in, at-the-gateway data deduplication and DTrace storage analytics in its storage arrays. The powerful new cluster-type systems also feature inline data compression, 4Gbit/sec and 8Gbit/sec Fibre Channel protocol support, multiple storage pools, and new 1TB and 2TB SAS disk drives. Maximum capacity supported by one cluster of these machines tops out at a whopping 576TB, Oracle said.
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Sepaton Brings Storage Pooling to Cloud
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 29 2010)
New storage virtualisation “pooling” feature is designed to enable more efficient multi-tenant service deployments. Sepaton late yesterday introduced a feature it calls “storage pooling” in a new version of its data storage and protection appliance aimed at cloud computing service providers. Pooling is an approach to storage virtualisation that delineates specific areas of the storage system to be dedicated to specific data flows, in order to enable more efficient multi-tenant service deployments.
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Hitachi Storage Update Aims To Cut Data-Center Costs
Explore Article news.yahoo.com (Jun 28 2010)
Hitachi Data Systems is updating the capabilities for its Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 (AMS) line of products to increase storage density, configuration options, and protocol flexibility. The new features include SAS disks for high-density trays and an expanded capacity for rack mounting, enabling what the company called "extremely large capacities" -- up to a full petabyte on a single floor tile. For the AMS 2100 and 2300, Hitachi is offering expanded host port options to allow for combined Fibre Channel and iSCSI ports on the same system, or to add more Fibre Channel host ports. The use of iSCSI and ...
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Green Initiatives in Utilities Start with Telecom Lifecycle Management
Explore Article tmcnet.com (Jun 18 2010)
With the number of different telecommunications solutions, vendors and contracts in use throughout larger enterprises, telecom lifecycle management is satisfying a growing demand to control costs. Interestingly, however, some TEM solutions providers do not stop at managing telecom spend as they also provide Utility Expense Management (UEM) to help control electricity, gas, water and sewer charges. While traditionally there has been a limited ability to directly compare TEM and UEM, trends in corporate telecommunications and energy usage encourage similarities in the analyses of these expenses. The good news is that Best-in-Class TEM implementations provide great lessons for increasing ROI from ...
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SGI Adopts ‘Universal’ Container Approach
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (May 27 2010)
SGI expanded its data center container offerings Thursday, introducing new models that can house different server form factors and brands. The new Universal class of ICE Cube modular data centers will accommodate all SGI server and storage systems, including full-depth servers in addition to the half-depth Rackable brand servers that had been the original focus of the ICE Cube design. SGI will also introduce an air-cooled version of the container in addition to the chilled-water models.
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Green the Data Center with a Network Storage Solution, Flash Memory RAID array - 80% less power and 70% less servers
Explore Article greenm3.com (May 25 2010)
Greening the Data Center is dominated in marketing messages by the big brands - Intel, HP, IBM, and EMC/VMware. But, some of the greenest solutions are coming from small companies that introduce disruptive technologies. As many of you know the Storage Systems can be big power users in the data center, requiring special power distribution for the high power density which then requires extra cooling. Many of you would like to throw those storage systems out if you could. How about if for the same cost as an EMC or NetApp storage solution you could consume 80% less power, shrink ...
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Google unveils new cloud data storage for developers
Explore Article ITWorld Canada (May 19 2010)
The word is that Google will be taking advantage of the Google I/O conference--Google's largest developer event of 2010--to unveil Google Storage for Developers. The cloud-based data storage service pits Google against similar services such as Amazon's S3, but with a specific focus on developers. More than 5,000 developers are gathering at San Francisco's Moscone Center this week for Google I/O--featuring 80 sessions and over 100 demonstrations from developers showing off next-generaton Web, mobile, and enterprise applications built on Google platforms. That makes Google I/O an ideal forum for announcing Google Storage for Developers.
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Green Design Boosts Insurers' Bottom Lines
Explore Article Information Management (May 17 2010)
Some of the Nation's largest insurers, including Aflac, Allstate and Nationwide, are adopting the latest technologies to build and maintain smaller, more efficient data centers capable of managing greater workloads-and producing big savings. Insurers' data storage requirements grow incessantly, spurred by an avalanche of customer data, product information, stored documents, PDFs, video files, e-mail and transaction records. All of this information must be stored for years at a time, resulting in huge loads on data centers. The historic solution has been to throw more hardware at the problem, and even build new facilities to accommodate new hardware, driving up costs ...
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