On Tuesday Nasuni, a relative newcomer to storage, will officially unveil multi-site access for its data continuity services. By extending file-level snapshots to create an architecture that allows multiple storage controllers to have live access to the same volume of snapshots, the new service provides organizations with a simple, safe and secure way to share data across any number of sites, says Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez.
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Nasuni Smites Storage Goliaths
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ITrinegy Offers Packet-Based Network APM For The Masses
ITrinegy has announced a new generation of its AppQoS software that helps IT administrators solve APM issues associated with correlating data across different networked environments. The company is marketing an appliance, which the company will sell as a real-time operational
application performance management tool, the company says. Unlike competing products, which require a master-slave relationship, the appliances are aware of each other, and any appliance can collect data from any other appliance.
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Why Steve Jobs Is Right about Android
Over the weekend I wrote an article titled “What If Steve Jobs Is Right?” As the title implies, the post was a hypothetical look at the possibility that Steve Jobs’ assertion that Android is a “stolen product” is true.
Many of the comments I have received on the article itself, as well as on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ seem to be based on emotion and the personal opinion the commenter holds of Apple and Steve Jobs. Those things have nothing to do, though, with patent law or the realities of whether or not Android infringes on Apple patents.
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HP Says It’s Getting Larger In Cisco’s Rear-View Mirror
HP is responding to a Cisco Systems study, which said that HP’s networking equipment is not as cheap as HP claims, by sharing industry figures that show HP’s message is resonating with Cisco customers, a third of which are reportedly switching to HP. At the same time, soon-to-be-published survey results from Information Week show that, while Cisco maintains a commanding lead in networking market share, awareness of HP as a credible alternative is growing.
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Implementing Automation
Orchestration platforms have better chances of success now that vendors are offering APIs to effectively manage their products. Routers, virtualization platforms, firewalls and storage arrays are delivering core features to enable external administration using XML-based APIs.
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ITC Deals HTC Setback in Apple Patent War
While Apple continues business as usual with the launch of iOS 5, iCloud, and the iPhone 4S, and Android marches on with the unveiling of Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”, a war between iOS and Android is being waged in courtrooms around the world. In one of those battles–between Apple and HTC–it seems that Apple has the upper hand following a decision from the US International Trade Commission (ITC).
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Syncing iCloud with Windows and Outlook
Apple’s iCloud is a nice tool for keeping contacts, calendar items, and other data in sync between my iPhone and iPad, but what about keeping everything synced up with my Windows PC? Apple has that covered as well with the iCloud Control Panel for Windows.
You can download iCloud Control Panel for Windows from the Apple.com support site. The roughly 40MB utility installs as an option in the Windows Control Panel–just click Start, Control Panel, iCloud to access the tool and manage your iCloud account, as well as what information is synced between iCloud and your Windows PC or Microsoft Outlook software.
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Cisco Fellow On Possible Threat To Cisco Of OpenFlow: ‘Folks Get This’
Software-defined networking, an emerging technology that moves intelligence out of switches and routers to a software controller, is seen as a potential threat to networking vendors, particularly market leader Cisco Systems, but a Cisco fellow speaking at an SDN conference this week said the company is aware of the situation and is preparing to deal with it.
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Can You Secure A Hybrid-Private Cloud?
Cloud services provider Dome9 Security is looking to provide comprehensive firewall capabilities around cloud services and bring some control to the security of private, public and hybrid clouds. In essence, Dome9 is a “cloud server firewall”, basically a cloud security service that provides complete control over access to a hosted cloud service. The product claims to keep all administrative ports closed on a hosted server, without denying access and control of the servers functions.
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