The cloudwashing that’s running rampant throughout the storage industry has clearly got to stop. My latest observation is that traditional monolithic scale-out NAS vendors are so aggressively selling their offerings for the cloud that their claims are completely out of control.
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Monolithic Scale-Out NAS Is Out Of Gas
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Day 3: Dude, Where’s My iTunes?
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 3
OK, so Ubuntu Linux is all installed and ready to go. Now what?
Much of the feedback that I received from yesterday’s post focused on my choice to go with the Wubi install option. Ubuntu purists seem to feel that I am not giving the OS a fair chance if I don’t run it natively rather than on top of Windows.
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Veeam ONE Boosts Virtualization Management Capabilities
Saying that existing systems management software products for VMware are inadequate, Veeam Software has announced Veeam ONE, which performs trend analysis, resource optimization, hardware provisioning planning and what-if modeling. Compared with competing products, Veeam ONE makes recommendations for server and storage upgrades to address upcoming capacity shortfalls, instead of just predicting them.
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Keeping Private Clouds Private
Containing information within a private cloud is getting more difficult, and creating the “hard” boundaries that keep public, hybrid and private clouds apart has become more of an art than a science–much to the chagrin of the harried IT manager.
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Private Cloud Stacks
Interest in private clouds and converged infrastructure continues to grow because organizations can rapidly deploy applications in a scalable fashion. Whether the goal be IT cost reduction, business agility, or any number of other benefits of smarter IT service delivery application delivery. That being said applications don’t run on their own and infrastructure is a major consideration for how those applications will run.
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Apica Unveils US Office, Cloud Offerings
An established load testing and performance monitoring powerhouse in Europe, Stockholm, Sweden-based Apica is entering the U.S. market, opening offices in Palo Alto, Calif., and expanding its cloud portfolio. Apica Watch is a new cloud service that gives customers the ability to monitor their websites from an end user perspective, and the Apica iPhone application provides users with a performance monitoring solution 24/7 from anywhere. The company has also announced a partnership with RightScale, a leader in cloud computing management.
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Calling It: Dell Acquires Brocade
A Canaccord Adams report “Dell Looks Poised for a Networking Move” seems to have merit and industry insiders are claiming to have heard about the deal. The company is dramatically cutting expenses, and the Dell Storage Forum is going on next week, a perfect venue to announce the acquisition.
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A Simple Question With A Complicated Answer: How Fast Should My WLAN Be?
Ethernet speeds are typically easy to discuss. Connection options jump between powers of 10, and range from 10 Mbps to 10 Gig (forget about 40 Gig for this discussion, it breaks my pattern). But the question “what kind of speed should I get on the wireless network?” is a whole different animal. To the uninitiated, this is a reasonable question that should be met with a simple response. But to those of us responsible for providing a plausible answer, the question starts the mind racing through one scenario after another, all which lead to a response that typically begins with “It all depends…” and goes on to make us sound like the Disclaimer Guy who talks real fast at the end of radio commercials.
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Brocade Unveils 1st Fabric Adapter Technology
Analyst reports, press articles and the blogosphere are full of commentary about new fabric architectures from Brocade, Cisco and Juniper, that are designed for flatter scale-out in virtualized clouds, LAN/SAN convergence and 40/100Gbs performance. Brocade was the first to introduce this class of fabric with the unveiling of its Brocade One architecture, VCS technology and VDX switches in June of 2010. Cloud-optimized fabrics built with this class of technology connect virtual servers and their application workloads to other virtual servers, as well as to virtual LUNs in storage resource pools–all while maintaining secure, load-balanced client access to the Web, applications and databases deployed on virtual machines.
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Single Point Of Failure: The Internet
No matter how well you architect for redundancy and availability, there will certainly be single points of failure (SPOF) that you can’t account for. The SPOF, in all of its forms, can make application mobility via VDI, cloud services, and netbooks like Google’s Chromebook less attractive computing options when compared to fat clients, fat servers, and boring but reliable storage. While services can fail, let’s not forget that the most frequent SPOF we deal with is the access networks at the Internet edge.
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