Although Code 42 Software provides consumer-based backup software for desktops and laptops, its focus from a money-making perspective is providing that same capability to organizations with a software/hardware appliance or services. What is intriguing is that Code 42 is a self-proclaimed “most expensive” solution, yet continues to grow rapidly. How can that be?
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Code 42: Who Are You?
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VMware Creates Service Offerings To Get Private Clouds Deployed Quickly
VMware is rolling out new cloud consulting services that the virtualization vendor claims can get a private cloud running for a customer in 30 days or less. Also available, as of Monday, is a VMware vCloud reference architecture, which the company describes as a blueprint to help customers quickly create a vCloud solution that has been proven in other enterprise cloud deployments.
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The IPocalypse Is Not A Cause For Panic
Today, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA) will be passing out the last five Class A address spaces to the Regional Internet Registries (RIR), which in turn allocate IP addresses to organizations within their specific geographic regions. This marks the end of the IPv4 central pool, and the countdown to IPv4 exhaustion begins in earnest. The American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN)–which handles allocations for Canada, the United States and many Caribbean islands–is forecasting that it will run out of address space in the July-to-October time frame.
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Unified Storage: What Is It Good For?
There was a time when single-tasking data center equipment was all the rage. CPU cycles and RAM were at a premium, so it made sense to design equipment that did one thing and did it well. Intel has exploded this old assumption thanks to the continual proliferation of transistors according to Moore’s Law: Today’s processors, network adapters and buses have CPU cycles to spare, and most data center equipment is turning to software for differentiation.
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EMC Greenplum Offers Free Open Source Tool For Building Database Apps
The Greenplum division of storage vendor EMC is offering a Free Community License version of its EMC Greenplum Database software, which allows software developers to build new applications to deal with the explosion of so-called “big data” that businesses and other enterprises have to try to manage. The community license is based on code from Greenplum’s massive parallel processing (MPP) database product, and includes the open-source MADlib library of analytic algorithms and Alpine Miner, a data mining modeling tool.
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Quest vRanger Ups Virtualized Backup And Replication Capabilities
Quest Software has announced a new version of its vRanger Data Protection Platform for virtualized systems that integrates backup and replication by incorporating the capabilities of the company’s vReplicator. Other features in version 5.0 include a simplified, lower-cost version of the product aimed at the lower end of the small to midsize business market of 250 or fewer employees, with additional features included in a higher-end vRanger Pro package.
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Unlimited Pricing And The Tragedy Of The Commons
I’ve been amazed over the past few days at the Strum und Drang over Mozy and others killing
off their unlimited use plans. While I like a bargain as much as the next guy, and think some
vendor pricing models are just short of grand theft (like how most wireless vendor’s 20 cents a text if you go over your plan), unlimited pricing and variable costs will lead to reduced service and unfairness as low demand users subsidize the hogs.
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Symantec Releases Cloud-grade Storage And Integrated Backup/Dedupe/Storage Appliances
Symantec has released two major components of its appliance strategy for backup and storage. The NetBackup 5200 integrates backup, deduplication and storage on one box; the FileStore N8300 is designed for cloud-scale storage of unstructured data. The 5200 option complements Symantec’s existing NetBackup and PureDisk deduplication software, as well as the NetBackup 5000 and 5020 deduplication appliances announced earlier this year. The FileStore N8300 is a hardware version of its FileStore soft appliance. Symantec also offers SaaS-based backup and storage.
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Emulex Gains Fibre Channel HBA Market Share Over QLogic In 2010
In 2001, Emulex commanded 80 percent of the $ 25 million Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) market. QLogic unveiled the industry’s first single-chip HBA in 2002, and leveraged its two-year technology lead into market share gains over Emulex in each of the following eight years. Emulex battled back starting in 2008, when the company regained share in various quarters, but still lost ground for the full years 2008 and 2009. Emulex momentum continued through 2010, when, for the first time since the industry started counting Fibre Channel HBAs, Emulex gained market share over QLogic for an entire year.
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