HP is announcing on Monday the general availability of the HP EVA P6000 storage appliance, the fifth generation of its Enterprise Virtual Array storage hardware line. Also at the HP Discover conference this week in Las Vegas, HP is introducing new storage hardware, software and services based on technology from recent acquisitions such as Left Hand Networks, IBRIX and 3Par.
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WhatsUp Gold Gets Makeover
The network management division of Ipswitch, Inc. is unveiling the new and improved WhatsUp Gold suite of network, server, and application monitoring software. While more than 100,000 small and medium business networks worldwide already use WUG solutions, version 15 is drawing rave reviews from early adopters, says Pat Loring, VP of sales, North America.
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Precise Monitors Transaction Performance With A Virtual Appliance
Precise, a provider of transaction performance monitoring (TPM) technology, is introducing its first ever TPM virtual appliance. The appliance can be easily downloaded to a virtual server, without the cost and complexity of provisioning a physical server and configuring an application to run on it. And Precise says the virtual appliance monitors transaction performance from the storage and database level all the way to the end user device.
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HP Contends For IT Heavyweight Crown
While HP has led the IT market for some time on a revenue basis, its latest announcements continue the company’s evolution from its commodity PC, server and printer roots, to the enterprise roost that has been ruled by IBM since the dawn of the information age. It is announcing a number of Converged Infrastructure solutions that bundle hardware, software and services, targeted at what it calls the Instant-On Enterprise. Having kicked sand in Cisco’s face with its network announcements last month, HP is now focusing its sights on combating IT sprawl with turnkey solutions that ‘deliver new levels of speed, simplicity and efficiency that enable clients to capitalize and anticipate change.’
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Two Approaches To Taming Big Data
If today’s data-centers aren’t already drowning in data they will be soon, but two vendors, San Jose-based Infineta Systems and its nearby neighbor, Santa Clara-based Silver Peak Systems, are launching wide area network optimization solutions that will at least address, if not ‘solve’ the problem. According to a recent IDC study sponsored by EMC, the amount of data will grow 44 times by 2020.
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Day 5: You Invited Me to This Party
30 days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 5
Today’s post is going to be dedicated to addressing come issues and concerns from the many comments thus far, and re-establishing the scope and purpose of the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux project. I think it will help the rest of the project be more constructive and productive for all if we all understand the ground rules going in.
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How Not to Do Twitter: The Rise and Fall of My Twitterverse
I came a little late to the Twitter party. Once I embraced the basic concept, I set out to build a massive Twitter following–in all the wrong ways, and for all the wrong reasons. If you are new to Twitter, or trying to gain Twitter followers, perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.
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Day 4: Tweaking the Look and Layout of Ubuntu Linux
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 4
People don’t like change. One of the things that some people get hung up on is the look and feel of the desktop. More precisely, some Windows users who look at Ubuntu Linux get hung up on how it doesn’t look and feel like Windows. Well, it isn’t that difficult to customize the look and feel of Ubuntu Linux to make it be whatever you want it to be.
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Open Source Cloud Stack Community Grows Quickly
A coalition of technology companies has come together in just nine months to deliver an open source software stack to enable cloud computing. At the OpenStack Conference and Design Summit going on this week in Santa Clara, Calif., participants in this open source community provided details on two interrelated open source projects: OpenStack Compute for developing a cloud-based server environment and OpenStack Object Storage for cloud-based storage. Project organizers said open source software will allow businesses to use the same cloud platform in their own environment or with an external cloud service provider.
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