EMC’s latest storage additions to its backup lineup include a refresh of its top-end Data Domain 800 family, a new high-end deduplication solution, and what EMC calls the industry’s first long-term retention system for backup and archive. Unveiled on Tuesday, the new systems are part of a series of announcements from the storage powerhouse.
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EMC Addresses Surging Backup Demands
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Verizon Ramps Up Cloud Offerings
Verizon Business rapidly expanded its cloud capabilities last year, and plans to do the same in 2011. It’s not previously been seen as a prominent name in cloud computing, but its enhanced capabilities indicate that may be about to change. It started out in 2009 offering simple infrastructure as a service, like Amazon’s EC2. Later this year, it will move beyond infrastructure into platform-based services and start offering customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications online as software as a service (SaaS). Not only is it bringing increased capabilities, but its customers are bringing increased demands, as they broaden the role Verizon’s Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) plays in their operations.
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EMC ‘Doubles Down’ On Core Franchise
In what EMC calls the biggest product launch in its–or the storage industry’s–history, the company has announced 41 new products, ranging from SMB storage to enterprise backup and archiving. Today’s announcements included EMC’s first significant foray into the SMB market and a complete refresh of its midrange Clariion storage area network (SAN) and Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) systems.
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Keynote, ExtraHop Team To Offer More Complete App Performance Picture
Marrying their application performance management (APM) solutions, Keynote Systems and ExtraHop Networks can now offer a more complete view of how an application is performing as it traverses from the Web front end to the back end.
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vSphere Tops Hyper-V in Disk I/O
As a user of server virtualization tools, and a follower of the market, I’ve always thought that VMware’s lead was evident primarily on the management side of the ledger–with vCenter integration, vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and the like. Microsoft Hyper-V, I thought, was a competitive hypervisor that needed a bit more age in the bottle to develop the features that I love in vSphere. Then Overland Storage hired us to test its SnapSAN S2000 in both environments, and I saw that the same hardware could perform about 23 more more input/output operations per second (IOP) under vSphere than under Hyper-V.
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Network Error Disables Fire Department
I try not to use this blog simply to indulge in schadenfreude, but I just couldn’t resist when I found that the Tokyo Fire Department’s emergency call center was down for over four hours on Jan. 5 due to a network error that a few lines in the switch config file could have prevented.
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Nirvanix Gains Increased Market Traction With Triad Of Cloud Solutions
I blogged about Nirvanix here on Network Computing back in November, and opined
that the time to execute with Cloud offerings is now. I have been following Nirvanix
closely since then, and speaking candidly with their customers. It is clear that the company is executing well, providing substantial value to their existing customers, gaining new customers, and fine tuning their offerings in order to take the competition head on. Nirvanix has its sights set on the high end of the competitive spectrum. They are making gains in market traction and turning prospects away from stalwarts like EMC and IBM.
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Storage Gurus Offer Their Best Big-Bang Bets
We are drowning in data with no relief in sight. According to Gartner, this growth – as much as 60 percent or more annually – is driving hardware, software, associated maintenance, administration and services costs. But with 2011 IT budgets seeing more restrained growth, barely 7 percent according to Forrester Research, storage has become the poster child for doing more with less. Here’s what the experts had to say about keeping your storage boat afloat in 2011.
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Pano Logic Raises The VDI Bar
Desktop virtualization specialist Pano Logic is shipping the beta version (4.0) of its Pano System, a zero-client device that supports the three major hypervisor platforms (from VMware, Microsoft and now Citrix). The final version (4.1) will be released at the end of January, according to company officials. The company claims its desktop virtualization approach is unique because it is the only vendor to offer a complete solution that includes the client hardware, software, system management and one year of support and maintenance, priced at $ 389 per unit. Pano Logic also claims that it offers the only desktop virtualization solution available that can support Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere/View interchangeably, as well as interoperate with each platform’s management systems.
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NetApp In Plans To Acquire Storage Firm Akorri
NetApp plans to acquire privately held Akorri Networks, a maker of software that helps companies use their storage capacity more efficiently in virtualized environments. NetApp, which sells storage and data management software, said Wednesday that it expects to complete the all-cash transaction early in its fourth fiscal quarter, which ends in late April. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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