FCoE may not be the slam-dunk portrayed by some analysts and vendors, but I’m confident an “everything over Ethernet” approach is the right one for the next generation of enterprise data centers. It’s hard to argue with commodity pricing, solid 10Gbit performance, backward-compatible connectivity and network-enabled flexibility. Fibre Channel will eventually succumb to the Ethernet monster, and the data center will be better for it.
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Where Is Intel’s FCoE Solution?
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Lancope Adds Application Awareness, Visualization Tools To Network Behavior Analysis
Lancope’s StealthWatch 6.0 network behavioral analysis tool features granular application awareness, flexible grouping of network assets for reporting and analysis, and relational mapping for network visualization.
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Oracle Boosts Tape to Exabyte (Per Library) Level
While the Tape is Dead Marching Band and Chowder Society was still celebrating Imation’s plant closure, Oracle decided to rain on their parade by announcing a new version of its T10000 enterprise tape system with a native capacity of 5TBytes per cartridge. Since its largest SL8500 library can be built with 100,000 slots, and 640 drives, Oracle is claiming to have built the first exabyte storage system, with compression.
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IT Pros Vote Cisco in FCoE Switch Brand Leader Survey
Cisco recently swept the FCoE Switch Brand Leader Awards for the second year in a row, based on responses from IT professionals who participated in an IT Brand Pulse Brand Leader Survey. The results demonstrate that the IT community recognizes the leadership role Cisco has played in converged networking and FCoE.
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GigaSpaces Update Appeals To Mainstream Developers
GigaSpaces Technologies, which specializes in products that address scalability in the application stack, is now shipping eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) 8.0, which enables organizations to transition their existing infrastructure into more modern systems such as distributed architectures, virtualized environments and the cloud. The company says its Same Data, Any API capability promotes openness and interoperability, supporting all common interfaces for accessing data, such as Memcached, JPA, JMS, Document and the “highly efficient” native object-oriented API.
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Fluke Tightens AirMagnet WLAN Protection
With almost 10,000 customers, including three-quarters of the Fortune 100, Fluke Networks’ AirMagnet is releasing the latest version (9.0) of AirMagnet Enterprise, its wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) for managing and securing enterprise WLANs. Wireless communications is exploding, and security is a huge and growing problem. The company says that by the end of the year, 70 percent of all new worldwide voice and data client-to-LAN connections will be wireless, with 802.11n becoming the de facto standard (with 50 percent of unit shipment in 2011, 63 percent in 2012 and 75 percent by 2014, according to Infonetics).
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IT Is Becoming All About The API
During a visit to Sillicon Valley a few weeks back, I had the opportunity to stop in on Cisco, HP and Juniper and get demos of products that I have been briefed on and written about but haven’t seen in action. These products include Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), Juniper’s JunOS Space and HP’s Intelligent Management Center. What struck me most about all three products is how much emphasis the vendors are putting on developing APIs, both for internal use and third-party integration. APIs, and, by extension, integrated products are going to become much more important in your buying decisions.
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Source vs. Target Deduplication: Scale Matters
I had a nice conversation with the CEO of a backup software vendor, who shall remain nameless, at last week’s Exec Event storage industry schmooze-fest. At the event, the CEO asked why I thought target deduplication appliances like those from Data Domain, Quantum and Sepaton were still around. Why, he asked, doesn’t everyone shift to source deduplication since it’s so much more elegant?
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Cruising For A Bruising: Dell Sinks EMC
Carnival Cruise Lines has swapped out aging EMC Symmetrix storage (and Sun servers) for Dell EqualLogic SAN storage and PowerEdge servers, racking up savings of 7,000 hours per year for its shipboard IT staff. Symmetrix is a great platform, says Carnival’s Doug Eney, VP of IS engineering, but it was time to upgrade and EMC’s prices were too high. “We also looked at Clariion [servers], but didn’t feel it was as resilient as we need. EqualLogic was able to meet our needs.” Other storage companies that were evaluated included LeftHand, 3Par, NetApp and Compellent.
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Aptare Enhances Storage Resource Management Offering
The only pure-play SRM vendor in the visionary category of Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software”, Aptare Inc. is looking to further separate itself with significant enhancements (Feature Pack One) to its unified storage management product suite, StorageConsole. The biggest innovation is an agent-less host data collector that applies multiple methods in order to capture storage capacity metrics from the hosts and heterogeneous storage systems. The collector ‘learns’ and optimizes its data collection for subsequent scheduled collections.
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