Enterprise storage infrastructure still contains quite a bit of direct-attached storage (DAS), but SMEs are in the process of making the move to consolidated storage, a shift that has already taken place at the Fortune 500 level. Even as storage consolidation catches on in the enterprise, though, there is a trend towards building scale-out storage architectures.
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Consolidation, Scale-Out Architectures And Virtualization Drive 2012 Storage Trends
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Toward More Reliable Wireless With AirMagnet Enterprise 10
If the phone isn’t ringing, then your wireless users must not be feeling any pain, right? That can be a dangerous assumption in large, complicated wireless networks. Some issues may not be crystallized enough to raise your clients’ ire, but the fact remains that performance is degraded. AirMagnet’s latest Enterprise version wants to make hard-to-find problems more obvious even as the WLAN gets ever more complex.
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Asigra Updates Cloud Backup, Extends NetApp Partnership
Asigra Inc.’s Cloud Backup software update, Version 11.2, offers deeper array snapshot integration, increased support for virtualization and mobile devices, increased performance, and service delivery enhancements. In addition, the company is extending its strategic partnership with NetApp Inc. to provide what it says is the first fully-vetted joint offering from the NetApp Cloud Solutions Team, a Data Processing-as-a-Service that is intended to make it easier for telecommunications companies to launch backup services more quickly – in as little as six months, compared with up to 36 months. Both products are intended primarily for the high-end tier 1 telecommunications market.
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OpTier Tackles APM Silos, Latency Issues
Application Performance Management (APM) is becoming a critical capability in today’s world of cloud-based solutions and applications delivered as a service technology model. The market is crowded with dozens of vendors looking to bring APM to the cloud, and OpTier is the latest seeking to stand out from the likes of Compuware, HP and IBM.
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Giving the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Some Teeth
President Obama unveiled a blueprint for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The initiative is long overdue, and has been received favorably, but protecting consumer privacy may take more than a framework of principles for companies to voluntarily follow.
In a statement from the White House, President Obama said, “American consumers can’t wait any longer for clear rules of the road that ensure their personal information is safe online,” adding, “For businesses to succeed online, consumers must feel secure. By following this blueprint, companies, consumer advocates and policymakers can help protect consumers and ensure the Internet remains a platform for innovation and economic growth.”
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Using MPLS In The Enterprise
In the data center, the MPLS/VPN architecture offers an attractive alternative to increasing the size of Layer 2 domains. Some players in the industry are promoting protocols such as Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) to solve spanning tree protocol (STP) scalability problems.
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Why Mobile World Congress Is Crucial for Windows 8
Microsoft invited the tech press to a Windows 8 event next week. We will undoubtedly learn more about Windows 8, and it is widely expected that Microsoft will also make the Windows 8 Consumer Preview available next week. The most interesting aspect of the entire thing, though, is the venue at which Microsoft is hosting this event: Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona.
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Perdue Streamlines IT Management, Cuts Maintenance Expenses
When Napoleon Crowe, NOC Engineer III, was hired at Perdue (http://www.perdue.com) in early 2007, the SolarWinds Orion management solution was relegated to niche status, mainly monitoring whether network connections were up or down. Gradually, the chicken producer has expanded its use to oversee its Voice over IP (VoIP) connections and data center servers. One of the results of this expansion is that Perdue dumped IBM’s Tivoli, its long standing systems management solution, and reduced its annual maintenance costs by $ 110,000.
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“Do Not Track” Has It Backwards
Google is doing its part for Internet privacy by adding a Do Not Track feature to its Chrome Web browser. The move is admirable, and Do Not Track may be better than nothing, but why should users have to opt out of having their online actions monitored?
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Data Dimension Makes Cloud Adoption Easier
Dimension Data has announced a series of cloud services for both public and private clouds that are intended to make it easier for organizations to adopt cloud computing more quickly. The services perform functions associated with planning, design, deployment, and management of private, public, and hybrid clouds. The new offerings include the Dimension Data Managed Cloud Platform, which helps deliver the cloud services, and Dimension Data CloudControl, a cloud management system that automates provisioning, orchestration, administration, and billing. Services include advisory and consulting services on cloud enablement, integration services across information technology systems and clouds, managed hosting, managed services, and value-added services such as disaster recovery.
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