There’s a new open source project–led by giant companies such as Facebook, Amazon and Dell–that is looking to change data center hardware in the same way that traditional open source projects have impacted software.
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Facebook-Led Open Compute Project Plans The Future Of The Data Center
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Ethernet Fabric As Core–A Modest Proposal
As a reformed network geek who has turned to the dark side to follow the storage market, I’ve been especially intrigued by the evolution of data center Ethernet as fundamentally different not only from the 10-Mbps shared media Ethernet of old but, more significantly, from the direction of campus Ethernet. As we bring DCB, TRIIL-like Layer 2 multipathing and the like into the data center network, I would like to propose that many of us can eliminate the expensive modular switch that’s typically served as the network core.
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Oracle Solaris 11: Too Little, Too Late?
Oracle is now shipping Solaris 11, which it is calling the first fully virtualized cloud operating system. Solaris 11 is already in production at over 700 companies and deployed on thousands of Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, as well as the Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and X2-8 and the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud engineered systems. Oracle Solaris 11 Express, which started shipping in November 2010, added network virtualization and resource management, and new availability features to reduce planned downtime by up to 50%.
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RedSeal Networks Upgrades Security Intelligence Software Offering
RedSeal Networks this week introduced version 5 of its software product to proactively protect computer networks from increasing threats from cybercriminals. The upgrade monitors IT assets for key risk indicators for network security, vulnerability exposure and policy compliance and can be managed through a customizable dashboard and a Web portal.
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Virident Unveils Big Flash Storage In Small Package
Virident Systems is rolling out FlashMAX MLC, a PCIe storage class memory product, 1.4 TB in a low-profile form factor with vFAS, that delivers over 1.4 Million IOPS, available in 1TB and 1.4TB versions at an MSRP of $ 13,000. The company says its vFAS now includes a data sanitization feature, of particular interest to the public sector, that allows users to remove sensitive or classified data from FlashMAX products in a secure manner, complying with NIST and DOD standards for data sanitization at both the Clear and Purge level for NAND flash media.
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CloudSigma Adds SSD Capabilities To Boost IaaS Performance
In a move that is intended to provide higher performance to its IaaS clients, CloudSigma is adding SSD storage. Such higher-performance drives are particularly important when I/O operations become more random in multi-tenant, public cloud environments, because magnetic storage solutions that rely on physical spinning disks can only process thousands of I/O operations per second, leading to performance bottlenecks.
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AirMagnet Sees One Man’s Feature As Another’s Security Issue
Apple’s Lion OS touts AirDrop as one of its competitive differentiators, allowing multiple users to share files over the WLAN. The problem is that the files may be corporate-sensitive, and the users taking part in the sharing may be on wireless machines not authorized for access. So AirMagnet dares to visit the murky junction where what you can do with your Mac crosses paths with what you shouldn’t do at work, and exposes it for those charged with network security. I have to wonder how Apple feels about AirDrop being deemed a security risk.
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DDN Continues To Tame Big Data
DataDirect Networks is announcing three members of a new series of intelligent storage products designed to accelerate data-intensive applications and consolidate infrastructure. Targeted at ‘big data’, high performance computing, cloud, and content-intensive environments, the SFA12K can house up to 84 3.5” and 2.5” SATA, SAS and SSD devices in 4U of rack space, which DDN says reduces data center sprawl by up to 40% and consumes less power per drive compared to the highest-density offerings from EMC and NetApp, and is 240% more space efficient than high density EMC-Isilon offerings.
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HP Delays Decision on Fate of WebOS
A little birdie (The Verge) revealed earlier today that HP’s new CEO Meg Whitman had scheduled an all-hands meeting for the WebOS crew. The news sparked speculation that HP had perhaps found a suitor for the mobile platform, but those predictions turned up false. Instead, Whitman announced that no decision had yet been made and that WebOS remains in a holding pattern awaiting a final decision.
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Are We Lagging In SLAs?
Nearly 80% of the cloud service providers I have spoken with have told me that they either have very generic SLAs in place for their customers or that they don’t have any formally stated SLAs for customers at all. On the other side of this equation, businesses engaging cloud services have also reported that, by and large, they simply sign and accept the contracts that the cloud service providers present to them. This begs the questions of whether SLA definition and adoption is lagging cloud services.adoption—and whether it is OK if it does.
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