In the roughly three years since EMC stuck some STEC SSDs in their disk arrays and brought solid state to the mainstream storage market, we’ve seen flash memory work its way into disk based storage systems both modest and grand. Over the past few months we’ve also seen vendors targeting all solid state systems at mainstream users and applications. Most recently, all-solid-state pioneers Texas Memory Systems and Nimbus Data introduced new versions of their systems.
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Solid State Storage Market Heats Up
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Brocade’s Announces Network Subscription And VDX Switches At VMworld
Brocade’s Network Subscription, new switches, and Network Advisor enhancements are all aimed at establishing Brocade as a data and storage player in cloud infrastructure. Network Subscription brings flexible, on-demand costs to networking—as flexible as installing hardware can be—where enterprises only pay for the ports they need when they need them. The new VDX switches offer more options for Brocades Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS), while Network Advisor catches up with competitor’s offerings by enhancing integration with VMware’s vSphere.
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Wyse PocketCloud Pro Creates Personal Mobile Cloud for Android, Windows
Wyse is introducing the concept of a personal cloud–a seamless connection between your mobile device and your PC–with the launch of the latest version of Wyse PocketCloud Pro for Android. The new PocketCloud Pro challenges file syncing and transfer services by providing drag and drop file sharing between Android mobile devices and Windows PCs.
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VMware Focuses On Cloud Services
While VMware is best known for virtualization technologies, the company is making a significant push into cloud services by enabling service providers to run VMware products and seamlessly integrate with enterprise installations. It’s a fairly targeted move that counters other initiatives like OpenStack, which is an open source alternative being developed for public and cloud providers.
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HyTrust Sees Growing Virtualization Problems, Partners With CA
HyTrust, Inc. is warning that more than 80 percent of organizations are not implementing virtualization and cloud infrastructure correctly, and are leaving themselves vulnerable to attack. And, in a related move, the developer of policy management and access control solutions for virtual infrastructure is also announcing a partnership with CA Technologies to improve security and compliance.
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Juniper Adds AV, Scalability Enhancements To Virtual Security Gateway
Juniper Networks has added antivirus scanning to its security gateway for VMware environments, adding to its existing stateful firewall, IDS and compliance capabilities. The vGW Virtual Gateway, which was announced earlier this year, builds on the acquisition of virtualization security vendor Altor Networks in December 2010.
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Google+, Day 22: Taming the Google+ Stream
30 Days With Google+: Day 22
As the number of people I am following on Google+ grows, following the flow of posts in the main Stream can get overwhelming. Today’s 30 Days With Google+ post takes a look at some tips for filtering the posts and keeping things under control on Google+.
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Google+, Day 21: The New and Improved +1 Button
30 Days With Google+: Day 21
Google+ is still in limited “Field Trial” mode, which is fancy for “beta version”. That means that Google+ is still very much a work in progress, and that teams of developers at Google are hard at work tweaking and implementing new features for the social network. One such tweak that has been introduced during the 30 Days With Google+ series is a significant change for the +1 button.
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Google+, Day 20: Google+ Makes ‘Unfriending’ More Polite
30 Days With Google+: Day 20
Relationships on Google+ may be online, but most of them are with real people–family, friends, co-workers–that I also interact with in real life. It can ruffle feathers and get a tad uncomfortable when I drop someone from my social network, but Google+ gives me a couple options to handle removing someone from my social network in a more gentle, acceptable way.
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