When you are looking at your next network equipment refresh, be sure to take a long, deep, look at the APIs the vendors are exporting and importing. Integration features should be near the top of your must-have feature list.
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Networking APIs Should Be A Critical Feature
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Most Of Our Benchmarks Are Broken
For years, we in the storage industry have relied on a fairly small set of benchmarks to measure the relative performance of storage systems under different conditions. As storage systems have included new technologies, including data reduction, flash memory as cache or automated tiering, our existing portfolio of synthetic benchmarks are starting to report results that aren’t directly comparable to the performance that this new generation of storage systems will deliver in the real world.
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Year In Review: VDI Explosion Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You
Towards the end of 2010, Gartner reported that more than 80% of enterprises have a virtualization program or project, and it joined a veritable army of research companies and vendors predicting that the desktop would be virtualized via solutions such as VDI or hosted virtual desktops. However, according to a CDW survey, companies are finding that client virtualization is more complex to implement than they realized, that ROI is difficult to calculate, and that training end users can be a challenge.
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BT Goes After Google for a Piece of the Patent Pie
BT is the latest entity to get in on the action when it comes to alleging patent infringement by Google. The British telecom, ISP, and IT services company charges that Google’s search, Android mobile operating system, and other services violate six patents BT holds.
The lawsuit—filed in the United States District Court in Delaware—claims that BT patents are infringed by the Android mobile OS, Google Maps, Gmail, the Google+ social network, AdWords, and even the main Google search engine. The alleged infringement seems broad–like a carpet bombing as opposed to a precision attack.
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ADARA Networks Looks To Virtualize Entire Networks
In a development that the company claims will give information technology organizations the capability to virtualize the entire network, ADARA Networks Inc. has launched its Unified Dynamic Management for Network and Data Center Optimization software, which has previously been sold only to government agencies such as the Department of Defense, to the commercial marketplace.
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Don’t Let Broadband Scrooges Ruin the Gift Of Cloud Backup
It’s the time of year for giving gifts. If you’re the go-to techie in your family (like me), my shopping advice is this: give some cloud this holiday season. Specifically, cloud backup. It’s good for you and good for the recipient. But there are challenges, largely because of the FCC’s spectacularly unambitious broadband plan.
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Year In Review: Flash Comes of Age
If disk is the heavyweight segment of the storage market, dominated by seven vendors – three pureplay (EMC, NetApp and HDS) and four IT generalists (IBM, HP, Dell and Oracle/Sun) holding more than 80% of the market, then flash – solid state – is the cocky up and comer and 2011 was the year that flash finally made the jump to legitimate contender. And while disk continues to muscle along, accounting for the lion’s share of the storage market being driven by data growing at almost 60% per year, the much smaller flash market is undergoing hypergrowth.
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BMC Eases Application And Infrastructure Dependency Mapping
BMC Software has added collaborative application mapping to its BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping product. Instead of having to work with IT to produce such maps, the new functionality means that application owners can provide a small amount of basic information, such as the application type and host names, to the IT department, which then uses ADDM’s search and query-building capabilities to discover information about the application.
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Internet Explorer Silent Updates Are Not a Miracle Cure
Microsoft made waves this week by announcing that it plans to implement automatic, silent updates to push the latest version(s) of Internet Explorer. If you were hoping that silent updates will finally nail the coffin on IE6 and IE7, though, don’t hold your breath.
The Microsoft announcement is welcome news, and it has been generally well received. In fact, one of the most prevailing sentiments seems to be “it’s about time.” Google’s Chrome browser has been automatically updating for some time, and Mozilla already announced plans to implement a similar updating system.
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X1 Improves Search with Facebook Updates and Twitter Tweets
X1 is making waves again with it’s fast-as-you-can-type search tool. X1 Pro 7 now lets you search social network posts, and webmail in addition to local email and documents on the PC.
According to an X1 press release announcing the availability of the public beta of X1 Pro 7, “Professionals waste hours of valuable time searching for information and re-creating work. A recent X1 survey found that the average amount of time lost due to searching for emails and files amounts to approximately $ 9324 per person, per year.”
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