As enterprises struggle with the need to expand their network resources while working within budget constraints, Modular PCIe is being viewed as a low-cost alternative to expensive SAN infrastructure. But don’t rule out SAN completely yet, storage industry watchers say.
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PCIe Encroaching On SAN Space
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SSD Opportunity & Threat To Storage Vendors
In part two of our examination of the state of enterprise SSDs/flash storage, we look at the implications for vendors, a mix of new and existing companies seeking to capitalize on a large and growing opportunity.
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Help Desk Becoming New IT Frontier?
The help desk traditionally rests among the cobwebs when it comes to IT strategic planning sessions and budgeting. Some in IT even regard it as a “necessary evil,” because it is the customary gathering place for problems and for interruptions of “production” work.
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There’s More To Enterprise SSDs Than Just Speed
Year-on-year, enterprise implementation of solid-state has doubled, analysts say. SSD benefits range from durability – supposedly up to 40-year lifespans – to space and power savings, in addition to the old standby, they’re much faster than mechanical (HDD) devices. In the second part of this series, the vendor implications will be examined.
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HP Unveils Vision Of The Cloud’s Future
HP is aiming to bring to the cloud the host of advantages and improvements virtualization technology has delivered to enterprises, with a new architecture that allows network managers to deploy cloud-based solutions in minutes, instead of weeks.
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Network Visibility The Key to WAN Optimization
The network monitoring and analysis tool vendor Narus uses the ad catch phrase, “You can’t manage and protect what you can’t see.” While it’s maybe not up there with “Just do it,” it does get to the essence of what network monitoring and WAN (wide area network) optimization are all about.
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3 Truths About Cloud Software SLAs
Complex service level agreements (SLAs) have long been the norm for upholding performance and uptime guarantees for traditional on-premises applications and old-world hosted apps. But experts say when it comes to the shared resource world of cloud-based software, enterprise IT must rethink its tried and true notions for IT contracts.
While SLAs for traditional IT services are typically highly tailored to meet the unique uptime, performance, and availability requirements for a particular app
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The Mess That Is Android. A Google Powered Object Lesson
Smart phones need to be easy to use, stable, and reliable. Glitches, bugs, and poor application designs are frustrating to users who simply want to make a phone call, look up directions, or reply to an SMS. Google’s Android is a great OS, but it has significant problems. If Google doesn’t address them, it will become irrelevant. Don’t tell me “I’m the product not the customer.” I paid for my Android phones. Google is the face of Android. I am the customer.
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Red Hat Rolls Out Storage 2.0 Software
Red Hat on Monday announced a new version of its Red Hat Storage software, which allows organizations to build scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) systems for unstructured data.
The beta version of Red Hat Storage 2.0 has a number of new features that make managing unstructured CIFs, NFS, and GlusterFS mount points easier. It allows both file and object-based access to data within a single storage pool, support for Hadoop deployments in big data environments, and performance enhancements such as rebalancing of workloads, tuning improvements, and NFS optimization.
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Preventing SSL Certificate Authority Breaches
SSL (X.509) certificates have been the backbone of public key infrastructure and privilege management infrastructure since virtually the onset of the Worldwide Web. But in recent years, SSL certificates have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with certificate authorities (CAs) from RSA to Dutch company DigiNotar suffering high-profile breaches.
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