Well, it appears again that companies who are good at one thing won’t necessarily be good at trying other things. Iron Mountain Digital, the public cloud offshoot from Iron Mountain– the company that stores papers in caves and giant vaults and drives around in vans all the time–has collapsed.
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Iron Mountain Digital Steps Out Of Cloud Storage; Nirvanix Steps In
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Putting Controller Based Networks Security Risks In Context
OpenFlow is starting to gain some buzz in the industry, with a demonstration at the upcoming Interop show in Las Vegas and vendors starting to adopt the protocol. However, as others begin to learn about OpenFlow and controller based networking, complaints about single points of failure and single target of attack get fired off in an almost knee jerk reaction. Let’s stop and take a breath. Single points of failure and single points of attack are common issues in networking and, frankly, have been dealt with in many ways. These objections are non-issues.
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Lots of Changes But Storage Vendor Lineup To Remain Intact
Having taken a closer look at networking and servers, NETWORK COMPUTING’s four-part series on the changes transforming the data center now focuses on storage. With most data-centers doubling storage capacity every two to three years, while budgets are only increasing in single digits, doing more with less is essential. Couple this data explosion with the changes sweeping the data-center, and the major data-center vendors – HP, IBM, Oracle, Dell and Cisco – have been kept very busy.
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Xiotech Makes ISE Continuously Available
While replicating data in real time does a pretty good job at protecting the data from loss in the event of an array, or larger, failure, replication alone does nothing to ensure that the applications that access that data keep running. If there’s a disaster there better be a recovery procedure or our apps could be offline a long time. Xiotech with ISE Continuous Availability is the latest vendor to come up with a solution that not only keeps the data safe but also keeps it available even through an array failure.
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Sungard Sheds Light On Private Cloud With Automation And Management
Sungard, a software and services company that’s grown rapidly in the past few years via acquisition and successful execution has been on a mission to consolidate its IT operations. The aggressive plan started with server virtualization, which is largely complete. But the Wayne, Penn.-based company, which serves about 25,000 customers in 70 countries and operates four different businesses, knew it would also need a comprehensive management solution that would help it create, track and decommission its new virtual machines (VMs).
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Zyrion ‘Contains’ Hybrid Clouds
A specialist in business service management (BSM) and network performance monitoring, Zyrion Inc. is beefing up its cloud capabilities with business service container technology enhancements to its Traverse network management platform. Officially created in 2007, when NetScout acquired Network General, the company’s roots in infrastructure management go back to 1990 and it currently has more than 100 customers. Traverse provides correlated, end-to-end network and server monitoring capabilities that link underlying applications and the IT infrastructure to business services.
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The SNW Report: Lots Of Flash, Cache Is King
This week I kicked off my spring trade show and conference season at Storage Network World at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It was the first time in recent memory that the show was in Silicon Valley, the center of the tech universe, and that seemed to have brought out a crowd with more end-users than in the past. Aside from the all encompassing cloud, I heard a lot of buzz about flash memory based products, especially those using flash as cache for other storage systems.
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Four Steps On The Path To IPv6
Does this remind you of Y2K? The hard reality that the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses recently hit the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. You know what comes next: business executives get to wondering just how this IPv6 thing will impact their businesses.
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With HP, Egenera Poised For Explosive Growth
Not so long ago Egenera Inc., a developer of an open converged infrastructure and unified computing solution, was considered at best a marginal player with an ‘opportunity to become less irrelevant’. Fast forward to February and the company reported its best financial year on record, with software orders doubling quarter-over-quarter. Its software sales were up 200 percent year-over-year, with the average PAN (Processing Area Network) Manager order size doubling during that time-frame.
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Long-Term Data Retention: It’s More Than Media
The other day I managed to get one of those rare moments where I was sitting with a group of storage guys that worked for vendors but weren’t trying to sell me any thing, not even their companies’ ideas. The topic of the conversation turned to long-term archiving, and I realized that we–as an industry–have been spending too much time worrying about where we store our data and not enough about how.
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