Enterasys Networks Inc. has announced the K-Series, a new family of edge switches, as well as the A4, a new model of stackable switch. The devices are managed with the Enterasys Network Management Suite. Siemens Enterprise Communications group purchased Enterasys in July, 2008, for $ 550 million. The devices are intended to help users save both operational and capital expenditures by being easier to run and by providing the same features with a smaller footprint that requires less power to run and to cool.
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Enterasys Launches Latest Network Switches
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Queplix Links On-Premise Apps To The Cloud
Queplix Corp., which produces the Queplix Virtual Data Manager platform – a software framework that lets users extract data and metadata from certain source database applications for use in data integration and harmonization with other database applications – has announced an Application Software Blade for Hadoop. Support for Hadoop means that the Virtual Data Manager now supports Hive, HBase and Cassandra.
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Cisco Faces Uphill Battle Selling Data Center Servers
Servers take center stage in the second of NETWORK COMPUTING ‘s four-part series on the changes transforming the data center. Server sales came back with a bang last year, rising 15.3 percent in the fourth quarter, the highest growth rate in three years and capping the fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.
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EMC Acquires NetWitness To Investigate Network Security Breaches
EMC on Monday announced the acquisition of NetWitness, a company whose technology monitors computer networks to detect and re-mediate security threats while also automating the process of investigating security incidents. NetWitness will operate as part of EMC’s security business, RSA. Coincidentally, the acquisition closed on April 1, the same day RSA disclosed that its own systems were the target of a phishing attack. RSA categorized the event as an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT).
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Marvell Tackles The I/O Problem
Marvell Technology Group Ltd., primarily known for its storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions, is unveiling a virtual storage accelerator that addresses the I/O choke-point that has been plaguing the IT industry for years. The company says that its DragonFly VSA board, which plugs directly into all commercially available servers, will deliver 10x server I/O performance, reduce NAS/SAN/DAS storage costs by 50 percent-plus, and cut power and space costs.
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Neebula Systems Introduces The World’s First Cloud-Enabled Business Service Management Solution
Neebula Systems announced today the release of ServiceWatch 1.5, the world’s first Business Service Management (BSM) solution with real-time service modeling. As enterprises migrate to dynamic IT environments they are no longer able to identify the location of resources that support business services. This eliminates the ability of existing management tools to provide true control of business service health.
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More On Chunking
The last time we looked at the chunking process in data deduplication engines (“Your Mileage Will Vary: Chunking”), we were looking pretty favorably at variable chunking that used the contents of the data to assign chunk boundaries. However, as deduplication moves from backup appliances accepting tape, or other backup application-specific format data, into backup applications and primary storage, the advantages of fixed-chunk deduplication start to become apparent.
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FCoTR To Take Over The World
Leading market research firm The D’Plata Group today released their sesquicentennial report on the future of data center networking. One surprising prediction in the report was that the still experimental Fibre Channel over Token Ring protocol will become the dominant data center storage protocol in 2020. The report uses the now familiar hockey stick shaped graph to indicate that FCoTR sales will start small in 2012 but will grow exponentially, exceeding Fibre Channel and FCoE in market share in 2020. By 2030 FCoTR will have 99.44% market share for SAN interconnects.
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Acer CEO Resigns
Acer chief executive Gianfranco Lanci has resigned, following disagreements with the board over the future direction of the world’s third-largest computer maker, which recently reported a dim outlook on PC revenue. The Taiwanese company said Thursday that Lanci’s resignation was effective immediately, and board chairman J.T. Wang would be acting CEO until a permanent replacement is found.
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Narrowcom To Unveil Wi-FiBASE-T
The wireless LAN (WLAN) market is unusual in enterprise IT: It deals primarily with end-users, features an unreliable physical medium, and getting a wireless design right requires experience beyond what most systems administrators posses. But all that is about to change, as leading WLAN chipmaker Narrowcom unveils Wi-FiBASE-T, a wired variant of the familiar protocol. By leveraging commodity Ethernet hardware, Wi-FiBASE-T reduces cost and improves reliability and performance. The initial wave of products should be released around the first of April.
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