FireHost is extending its scaling options, adding a scheduling capability to its cloud service offering. In addition to scaling on demand, the scheduled scaling feature lets customers that can predict demand manage capacity more effectively.
Network Computing
Network Buyers Survey: Standards Trump Features
When it comes to buying new network equipment, enterprise customers prefer technology built to industry standards over products that may have innovative, but proprietary, features, a newly released survey shows. Although network vendors, including industry leader Cisco Systems, are introducing innovations such as 40 Gbit Ethernet connectivity, multipath schemes such as fabric networks and converged Fibre Channel and Ethernet, buyers ranked ‘adherence to industry standards’ as their highest priority in choosing a vendor.
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Dell Eyes Enterprise Storage
Dell is continuing to reinvent itself as a storage OEM with a series of product announcements that leverage its acquisitions, move it up-market towards the lucrative enterprise space and create new opportunities in the burgeoning Microsoft SharePoint market. Although the company only ended its very successful reseller relationship with storage leader EMC two months ago, Dell grew its storage platform revenues – including its Equallogic and Compellent units – 15 percent year over year in 2011 and they now represent nearly 80 percent of its storage revenues and more than 90 percent of its storage profits. The company’s stated objective is to be the third largest storage vendor behind EMC and IBM in the next couple of years.
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Gorilla Glass 2.0: Stronger, Thinner, Lighter
What’s better than a thin, light smartphone or tablet? An even thinner and lighter smartphone or tablet, of course. Corning is doing its part to bring that vision to life with the next generation of Gorilla Glass.
Corning unveiled Gorilla Glass 2.0 yesterday at CES 2012 in Las Vegas. The new glass is 20 percent thinner, but has the same scratch resistance and endurance as current Gorilla Glass.
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The Cloud, Day 22: In and Out of the Cloud
30 Days With the Cloud: Day 22
Storing my documents, photos, music, and other data in the cloud is great. During the course of the 30 Days With the Cloud series, though, I have also come across a little problem — keeping track of whether I am in the cloud, or not.
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Shared Data Plans Will Have Significant Impact
As the major US carriers get closer to unleashing shared data plans for mobile devices, it’s worth noting how this change in offering will likely impact both the private and corporate sides of the mobile client world. Smartphones and tablets have already been profoundly disruptive in a number of ways, and new multi-device data plans will only magnify the effect.
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Survey: Cisco’s Network Domination At Risk
Cisco Systems’ dominance of the networking technology space remains strong but it will have to work harder to keep it that way, according to a recently released survey of IT professionals. Increasingly, the people who buy networking equipment are considering other vendors, such as Dell, HP or IBM, as an alternative to Cisco. In addition, while Cisco is known for its networking innovations, customers prize technology that adheres to common industry standards over products offering unique features.
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The Cloud, Day 20: What About Security?
30 Days With the Cloud: Day 20
It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some sort of data breach incident. As I venture through the 30 Days With the Cloud journey, it occurs to me that I am placing an awful lot of faith in third parties to keep my data protected. So, the inevitable question becomes, “can I trust my data in the cloud?”
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Marvell’s New SSD Strategy: One Size Can Fit All
Silicon developer Marvell is taking its first steps into the PCI Express (PCIe) SSD controller market with several new products built on the strategy that choice scalability will be the winning formula. The new controllers provide a core building block creating PCIe SSDs in flexible configurations that incrementally scale in cost, capacity and performance. This will enable SSD OEMs and system integrators to create flexible PCIe SSD configurations that eliminate SAS or SATA conversion for better I/O performance required by different market segments.
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