Less than four months after its acquisition by Red Hat Inc., Gluster, now known as the Red Hat storage unit, is announcing new storage products. The Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced this week, is essentially a rebranding of the Gluster product, or what the company refers to as “baselined,” which means that it now uses the Red Hat Linux open-source operating system rather than the CentOS operating system it had used previously, and it has also been retested and re-certified. In addition, it now supports a new file system option, the Extensible File System (XFS).
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Red Hat Rebrands, Reconfigures Gluster Virtual Storage Appliance
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SOS Online Backup Offers Secure Collaboration Service
SOS Online Backup Inc. is introducing SOS Collaborate Private Cloud, a cloud-based service that gives users the capability of creating, sharing, and modifying files together, as well as synchronizing changes from different users. The purpose of the service is to allow organizations to give their employees the same functionality and ease of use as public cloud collaboration services such as Dropbox, but in a more secure – and less expensive – fashion. By keeping it on the customer’s own infrastructure, its IT department can control access and security parameters, the company says. In particular, the service is aimed at organizations subject to regulatory environments, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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Dysfunction in DC–The Lightsquared Matter
What happens when the federal agency that is charged with regulating communications in the US butts heads with other agencies who oversee the likes of national defense, transportation, and aviation over issues of potentially devastating radio interference? Why, you get the FCC’s current very strange stance on Lightsquared, a wannabe mobile broadband wholesaler.
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Encryption Key To Evolving Data-Centric Security Model
With data access no longer restricted to the four walls of the enterprise (or branch) and 9-to-5 business hours, enterprises that have traditionally relied on a perimeter-based approach to security are now seeing the benefits of a data-centric approach. Data encryption is paving the way for the transition to data-centric security methods, according to a survey of 506 IT professionals.
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Juniper Routers Deliver 3X More Traffic
Juniper Networks claims its new line of universal access routers for use on service provider networks can deliver three times the throughput of competitive offerings. The routers are called “universal” because they provide network access for mobile devices, residential broadband and business networks. However, the initial rollout of the Juniper Networks ASX Series of Universal Access Routers is expected to be with mobile service providers building 4G, also known as long-term evolution (LTE), networks.
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Why I Switched from AT&T to Verizon
Hey, Verizon dude. Yes, I can hear you now. Thank you for asking.
I did it. I pulled the trigger and made the switch from AT&T to Verizon. But as impressed as I am with Verizon so far, I still find the whole situation with AT&T that led to my terminating our relationship both frustrating and disturbing.
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EMC Delivers On Server-Based Flash Storage
Originally unveiled last May and scheduled to ship in 2011, EMC’s PCIe/flash-based server cache technology, code-named Project Lightning, is now available under the name of VFCache. The enterprise storage giant has been the leader in enterprise flash drive capacity since entering this market in 2008, shipping more than 24 petabytes in 2011, an eight times increase in customer shipments since 2009, says Mark Sorenson, senior VP and general manager of EMC’s Flash Business Unit.
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Easing Some Of Virtual Security’s Complexities
While virtualization and cloud computing pretty much dominate the IT world, security and compliance with IT standards are neither trivial concerns, nor going away anytime soon. But in some ways, security is easier to accomplish in virtual systems than in physical
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dinCloud: Making a Big Impact in the Cloud
Have you reached the saturation point yet on the cloud? The endless cacophony of cloud messages seems to have transformed into white noise, where trying to distinguish and differentiate among competitive cloud offerings can leave one in either a state of decision-making paralysis or trusting that familiar vendors know what they’re talking about without, perhaps, the full measure of due diligence that is appropriate. Enter dinCloud, which plans to break through the droning blather and show how its approach to cloud is different.
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Buyer Beware: 6 Dead Giveaways that a Review Is Fake
Last week the New York Times revealed information suggesting that one vendor is literally buying 5-star reviews on Amazon.com. With customers relying more on star ratings and customer reviews than vendor marketing hype, this revelation poses a problem for consumers.
Get your positive customer reviews the old-fashioned way: earn them.Here are six ways that you can tell an online review is fake, or that a high customer rating is not truly earned:
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