Amplidata has seen the future, and it’s unstructured data, especially in the cloud. According to a new report from IDC (Leveraging Metadata Framework Technology to Take Control of the Information Explosion), unstructured data and metadata are the fastest-growing categories, increasing at an average annual growth rate of 62 percent, with up to 90 percent of the digital universe unstructured data and metadata. Corporations will be responsible for 85 percent of that data, so a solution like AmpliStor AS20, a 20Tb storage appliance, looks tailor-made for this opportunity. The company says it makes really reliable, really efficient and really low-cost ‘unbreakable’ storage.
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Amplidata Unveils ‘Unbreakable’ Unstructured Data Storage
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Internap Takes Accelerated IP Internet Traffic Accelerator Service Global
A year ago, Internap Network Services announced its Accelerated IP Internet traffic accelerator service (XIP), which the company claimed could improve performance of enterprise web applications by up to 400 percent by eliminating some of the belt-and-suspenders reliability protection provided by the Transmission Control Protocol. The company is now announcing that the service is available worldwide, after having been tested in several cities during the past year.
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InteropNet’s IPv6 Plans
One of the more interesting aspects of attending Interop is seeing the demonstrations that the InteropNet team is putting on. At the upcoming show, the InteropNet is running several IPv6 capable networks that are supporting both exhibitors and attendees. This marks the first show since Interop returned it’s Class A address space to ARIN in 2010. If you are at Interop, checkout the various InteropNet locations offering IPv6. I caught up with some of the InteropNet team by phone to talk about IPv6 while they were hot staging the network prior to the show.
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Utilities Don’t Consider Security To Be A Strategic Priority, Ponemon Study Shows
Utility and energy industry executive management hasn’t fully bought into IT security, according to a Ponemon Institute survey of IT and security practitioners in these critical infrastructure companies. Fewer than half the respondents said that security is a strategic priority across the enterprise, and only 29% said that their C-level executives fully understand and appreciate security initiatives.
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DevOps: May Help, May Not
DevOps is one of the ongoing trends that is shaping IT organizations by merging developers and operations staff into dedicated or shared teams with the goal of breaking down the barriers between the two groups in order to improve communications, speed application delivery time, and better design applications and the systems on which they run. However, you do need to set your expectations on what DevOps can provide. Your organization may already be efficient and well run.
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Sophisticated Targeting, Spike In Web Attacks Highlight Symantec Threat Report
Web-based attacks nearly doubled in 2010 and criminals are now making use of social networks and other information sources to launch targeted attacks against both enterprises and SMBs, according to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Symantec reports a 93% increase in Web-based attacks, driven by the proliferation of attack toolkits that put sophisticated malicious software in the hands of a broad base of criminals.
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New EMC Database Appliances Come Preloaded With SAS Business Analytics Software
On Tuesday EMC introduced three additions to its Greenplum database appliance line that are paired with SAS High-Performance Analytics software. The appliances leverage massively parallel processing architecture to quickly process and analyze the growing volume of data that businesses are accumulating. EMC introduced the High Capacity DCA (data computing appliance), the High Performance DCA and the Data Integration Accelerator as well as version 4.1 of Greenplum Database software. EMC acquired Greenplum in July 2010.
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Add A Dash of Trellia To Thicken The Mobile Management Stew
And I thought that the Wi-Fi space could be fast moving … It seems like every time I turn around of late, there is yet another mobility management vendor with a story to tell. Given that one analyst report after another hammers us with the fact that mobile devices are taking over the world, it makes sense that the management of these devices is a growth market unto itself. The latest player in this space that I’ve gotten wind of is Trellia Networks. Like their competitors, Trellia answers many of the mobile device management questions that not enough network and security admins are asking yet, as we collectively come to grips with both the advantages and the more worrisome side of having highly mobile workforces.
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Riverbed Broadens Backup, Cloud Storage Appeal
Riverbed Technology is expanding the total addressable market for its Whitewater family of cloud storage accelerator and backup products with the addition of EMC NetWorker, Quest vRanger, and CA ARCserve Backup support. The company says that this gives it access to more than 75 percent of the backup market. In addition, it has signed on the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN) to the list of major cloud storage service providers that includes EMC Atmos and Amazon’s Simple Storage System (S3). According to Nirvanix, the combination will mean customers needn’t be concerned about the performance, complexity, manageability or costs associated with off-site tape storage.
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HP Prescribes Cure For Information Management Malaise
Setting the stage for the next evolution of the “Instant-On Enterprise”, which it started talking about late last year, HP is updating its Information Management (IM) portfolio, in part based on a customer survey indicating that 70 percent of organizations lack a holistic approach to managing business-critical information, and instead are focused on managing infrastructure.
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