FalconStor Software Inc. has announced version 7.0 of its data protection product family, offering new features across the company’s product line. New features in this version of the software include increasing the Logical Unit Number (LUN) size from 16 terabytes to 64 TB, which allows the software to support larger physical disks of up to 3 TB, and in general helps provide support for larger volumes and increased scalability for users.
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FalconStor Software Updates Product Line To Provide Larger Volumes And Increased Scalability
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Google+, Day 17: Sorting Circles by “Relevance” Is Flaky
Over the course of the 30 Days With Google+ series I have steadily acquired more people following me in Google+. Many of those users I know and interact with, and many of them are perfect strangers. I’d like to be able to easily identify the ones I know and add them to my Circles, but the “Relevance” filter in Google+ leaves a little something to be desired.
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Cisco Jumps Into The M2M Market
Analysts predict that there will be 25 billion connected IP devices by 2015, with machine to machine (M2M) traffic expected to grow by 258 percent, and the managed mobile M2M services market to be worth $ 20 billion by 2014. That’s good enough reason for Cisco to release a new router that will extend corporate networks to billions of non-traditional IP devices such as ATMs, service vehicles, digital billboards and vending machines.
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Death of HP TouchPad Is Prime Opportunity for RIM PlayBook
Perhaps you’ve heard that the HP TouchPad tablet has suffered an untimely demise? There are a lot of lessons that rival tablet vendors can learn from the death of the TouchPad (and the feeding frenzy it created in its wake). More importantly, though, the loss of the TouchPad creates a prime opportunity for a tablet like the BlackBerry PlayBook.
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Ruckus Raises A Ruckus With Unique Antenna Technology, New FlexConnect Feature Set
Ruckus may not be one of the biggest companies in the WLAN market, but they are certainly among the most innovative. The Ruckus antenna story makes those of us who care about things like coverage patterns and beam forming get all tingly, and their latest client-facing feature set aims to balance extremely high performance with minimal client pain for getting securely connected in interesting new ways.
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Coraid Adds SSD, Management Capabilities
Coraid, Inc., a developer of Ethernet-based SANs (storage area networks) that has roots in the Linux environment, is introducing two new products that should provide significant cost and performance benefits, says CEO Kevin Brown. “There is a 5-8x price-performance advantage and power and space savings are over and above that.”
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Apps Developed on eXo Cloud IDE Can Be Deployed On VMware’s Cloud Foundry
A provider of a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) for Java applications, eXo has announced that apps built on its platform can now be deployed on VMware’s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. The eXo support of Cloud Foundry means that developers can gain the same advantages of cloud computing — simplicity, lower costs, no maintenance — to write applications that are deployed by Cloud Foundry.
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Survey: 35 Percent of Tablet Owners Use Device in the Bathroom
The phenomenal sales of tablets like the iPad, and the feeding frenzy caused by the HP TouchPad fire sale, indicate significant demand for tablets. A new survey from Staples Advantage takes a look at how and why people use tablets to try and understand what is driving the popularity of tablet devices.
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Private Cloud Success Factor: Standardization
Private cloud architectures involve a tight coupling of software and hardware, layered with automation and orchestration. These environments can be prone to complexity, which leads to additional deployment time, administrative costs and risks. Removing as much complexity as possible will help ensure a smoother deployment and ongoing environment.
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Paper Contracts Are So Yesterday With EchoSign
With all of the buzz afoot about goings-on in the mobile device space, it’s easy to forget that the productivity enabled by the slick devices is the real story in enterprise mobility. When the gadget becomes a legitimate tool, you realize that the mobile revolution actually has substance behind the hoopla. EchoSign, recently purchased by Adobe, is among the more impressive examples of what’s possible in today’s everywhere-connected business world. Signing and handling contracts will never be the same.
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