Jumping into the busy virtualization management application space, Reflex Systems is announcing vCapacity, a capacity planning application for its Virtualization Management Center product. The module adds monitoring, performance, capacity, and configuration management to VMC, which has typically been thought of as more of a security product.
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Reflex Systems vCapacity Adds Monitoring And Configuration Management To VMC
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Horizon DataSys’ Rollback Rx Is A Prescription for Personal Logical Data Protection
There is a critical need to provide data protection for personal computing devices–notably, desktops and laptops. That protection has tended to be in the form of backup, either locally or over the Internet. While that is useful, there is also a need for safe recovery from logical data protection problems, such as restoring crashed systems to a working state. Rollback Rx, Horizon DataSys’ snapshot software product, is designed to provide that level of data protection.
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Private Cloud In A Box
With Microsoft and Google both heavily utilizing containerized data centers for compute capacity, it’s hard not to think about the applicability for enterprise and government private clouds. While containers vary widely, the general concept is that they are a self-contained data center environment complete with network, compute and storage, as well as necessary cooling.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage Tiering And More
With its research indicating that tiering ranks in the top ten planned storage investments for 2011, the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) has published its market landscape report, Storage Tiering: The Case for, Types of, and Purchasing Considerations. The report analyzes the various options, implementations, impacts, and market segmentation for tiering solutions and is among the first such analyses done, says Mark Peters, senior analyst and author of the report.
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Avenda Upgrades NAC Scalability, Administration For RADIUS Server
Network access control (NAC) vendor Avenda Systems has improved scalability to support highly distributed enterprise infrastructures. eTIPS 4.0, Avenda’s RADIUS-based policy server, also adds more granular, flexible role-based administration, management support for mobile devices and expanded endpoint compliance assessment.
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New Guidelines Address PCI Tokenization Issues
Companies interested in PCI tokenization are getting a helping hand from the PCI Security Standards Council, the standards body focused on the PCI DSS Standard. The council has published the PCI DSS Tokenization Guidelines Information Supplement to provide greater clarity on how specific technologies relate to the PCI Security Standards and impact PCI DSS compliance.
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Skype WiFi App Delivers Affordable Wi-Fi around the World
Skype is known primarily for providing Internet-based VoIP (voice over IP) calling, with video chat and conferencing a close second. You might not be aware that Skype also has a service to provide cheap Wi-Fi access at over one million locations around the world. Today, Skype revealed that Skype WiFi is now available for iOS devices as well.
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Enterprise Embraces Flash, But Battle Looming
Solid-state drive technologies and high-speed memory are being openly embraced by the enterprise market, but while adoption appears to be skyrocketing, the market will be hotly contested, according to a new study from Storage Strategies NOW (SSG-NOW). The report, ‘Solid State Drives and High-Speed Memory: Adoption, Practice and Deployment,’ which includes the results of a co-sponsored SNIA/SSG-NOW IT survey, indicates what’s driving this growth and examines the state of the supplier market.
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Google+, Day 12: Following People in Google+
I have already discussed Circles, the pros and cons of Circles, and why I am not a huge fan of the Circle interface. One aspect that hasn’t yet been discussed, though, during this 30 Days With Google+ is the fact that I can follow other Google+ users who I am fairly sure have no intention of adding me to a Circle to read anything I might share.
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