ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., is a global container shipping company serving more than 30,000 customers and offering end-to-end multi-modal services reaching destinations on five continents. The 66-year-old company also offers full-service logistics. Its global operations rely on the robust, solid performance of its applications, particularly the applications that serve as the core of its business operations: the SAP business intelligence, ERP, and portal applications and underlying databases.
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New Version Of Precise APM Helps Shipping Company Manage SAP Performance And Prepare For Virtualization
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Brocade Adds IPv6, Performance Increase To ADX Appliance
Brocade’s enhancements to its Server Iron ADX appliance are aimed at service and hosting providers needing to support IPv6, manage increased demand and support automated service management. The enhancements, which are available to existing customers with a support contract, set the ADX up for high volume installations that are going to need future proofing.
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Cisco, IBM And Other Top Vendors Push Smart Networking Standard
Seventeen major technology companies, including Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo, have banded together to develop and promote a new approach to networking called Software-Defined Networking (SDN) through a non-profit foundation, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Other founding members of the ONF include: Broadcom, Brocade, Ciena, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Ericsson, Force10, HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, Marvell, NEC, Netgear, NTT, Riverbed Technology, and VMware.
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NComputing ‘Office In A Box’ Offers Small And Medium Sized Businesses State-Of-The-Art Technology At A Fraction Of The Cost
NComputing, a global leader in desktop virtualization, today launched “Office in a Box” in response to the growing need of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to have access to state-of-art office productivity solutions at a fraction of the cost. This is the second vertical market solution to be delivered by NComputing – the first being Classroom in a Box which was designed to help budget-strapped educational institutions maintain a more viable and less costly IT model.
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Dell’s Storage Strategy To Wean Itself Off Of EMC
Dell is laying out its storage strategy to: exploit the value of several recent acquisitions, expand its product lines and gradually (though not completely) wind down its reseller relationship with storage hardware vendor EMC. Dell’s $ 960 million acquisition of Compellent, completed in February, gives it a multiprotocol tiered storage area network (SAN) product line that’s a direct competitor to EMC offerings. Also, the data compression and deduplication software Dell gained with the acquisition of Ocarina Networks in July 2010 will eventually be included across Dell’s entire storage product line.
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Only The Blocks That Have Changed And Other Platitudes
Many of the technologies we’ve come to rely on in the storage world nowadays use one form or another of changed block tracking. Snapshots, replication (especially the point in time kind), automated tiering and data deduplication all work by identifying changed, or different, blocks and treating them in some special way. The problem is that while parts may be parts, blocks are most definitely not blocks.
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IBM Leverages Experience To ‘Simplify’ Outsourcing
Building on 25-plus years of experience working with more than 1,000 clients, IBM is officially unveiling a ‘pre-engineered technology services model’ that can cut deployment time by more than 60 percent, and slash costs by up to 50 percent. Big Blue’s new services capabilities are based on a set of server, storage, networking and help desk services ‘assets’ that integrate process, software, industry expertise and IBM research to create reusable building blocks. The company says that by ‘baking’ its expertise, software capabilities, experience and best practices into its services offerings in a standardized, systematic way, it can speed up the time it takes to build the basics.
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Tenuous Chains Of Trust In Digital Certificates
Hot on the heels of RSA suffering an attack of unknown origin and resulting in a loss of unknown data with an unknown impact, news that a certificate authority, Comodo Inc, issued nine fraudulent certificates which browser vendors and OS vendors have had to issue a patch for, highlights the fragility of the security systems that protect your data in transit across the Internet. In Comodo’s case, neither the root CA nor any of their systems were compromised, according to their own incident report. Rather, one of their customers, a registration authority, was compromised. It appears the compromise was quickly caught and Comodo started working with vendors to get a fix in place. It’s time to once again question who we trust and why we trust them.
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Tintri Tackles VM Storage Challenges
Organizations are losing the fight against the rising tide of data, and while IT vendors are reaping the rewards of throwing more storage at the problem, it’s not a long-term solution. According to the third annual InformationWeek Analytics State of Enterprise Storage Survey, the amount of actively managed storage continues to expand at around 20 percent per year, with many IT staffs dealing with growth rates exceeding 50 percent, and most data centers doubling storage capacity every two to three years. Another recent study, InformationWeek Analytics Storage and File Virtualization Survey, shows that 82 percent of respondents are using or assessing storage virtualization.
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Gridstore Enhances Scale-Out NAS Lineup
Specializing in scale-out network attached storage (NAS), Gridstore is releasing the second generation of its NASg system, which is targeted at small businesses and service providers, as well as providing some information for the next two releases scheduled for Q4 2011 and Q1 2012, respectively. Founded in 2007, the Mountain View, CA-based company unveiled the beta of its first product at the end of 2009, a scalable storage grid costing about a third of similar solutions and started volume shipments last year.
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