IDC reports that external disk storage sales revenue rose by 19 percent in the third quarter of this year, compared to the year ago quarter, as companies increased IT spending after a slowdown in 2009 due to the recession. Worldwide sales reached $ 5.18 billion in the three months ending Sept. 30, from $ 4.35 billion a year ago.
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Disk Storage Revenue Up As Customers Open Their Wallets
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Jitterbit And Amazon Combo Unlocks Salesforce Data
Jitterbit has announced what it says is the first in a series of applications that help users more easily integrate and store data with cloud-based services. The first, called CloudReplicate for Salesforce, works with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and mirrors Salesforce data into a relational database on Amazon EC2.
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Enterasys Throws Down Data-Center Virtualization Gauntlet
Building on its June announcement of a data-center strategy, Enterasys Networks has introduced its Data Center Manager, a unified management solution designed to deliver automation, visibility and control over the data center fabric, including network, servers, storage and applications, across both physical and virtual environments. The Siemens Enterprise Communications company says that by providing integrated tracking and monitoring of virtual machines(VMs), applications and an integrated view of virtual server and network environments, DCM allows IT administrators to bring together the ‘islands’ that exist in the data center. The solution integrates with the leading server virtualization products from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix.
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Mellanox and QLogic Play Duopoly
On Monday, Mellanox said it will buy Voltaire for $ 8.75 per share, or about $ 218 million. Excluding Voltaire’s cash, Mellanox is getting the company for about $ 176 million. The $ 200 million per year InfiniBand networking market is now a duopoly comprising Mellanox and QLogic, the two suppliers that design their own adapter and switch chips.
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NetApp Offers Its Version Of Shared Infrastructure
NetApp has introduced a new suite of storage products, an updated operating system, management software and solid state disk drives that, combined, are its offering of a converged IT infrastructure, the current trend in data center design. The different products form a pool of shared IT resources that serve an organization’s needs more efficiently than so-called “siloed” data centers.
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Dell Signs New Partner Deals To Advance Cloud Computing
Dell has announced two new partnership deals that it says will improve its competitiveness in cloud computing. The company has partnered with Joyent, a cloud computing software and service provider, and Aster Data, a data management and analytics firm, to deliver their technology through Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) business.
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Information Governance In The Clouds
In the rush to adopt public and hybrid cloud computing services organizations appear to be ignoring the emerging risks to information governance – policy compliance and enforcement – according to a new report from EMC’s Leadership Council for Information Advantage, a blue-chip panel of IT execs. Using IDC data, EMC says 75 percent of IT organizations are running or plan to deploy applications in a private cloud environment, but only 34 percent have a governance policy for cloud-based information. Over half — 57 percent — believe their organizations need to do more, and almost a third report they are not confident in their preparedness.
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Cisco Beefs Up Cloud Management With LineSider
With the acquisition of LineSider Technologies, Cisco plans to aid its enterprise and cloud-bound service provider customers in their pursuit of superior network provisioning capabilities. LineSider Technologies provides network management software that integrates both physical and virtual network services with a policy-based approach that, according to Cisco, makes networks more flexible and responsive to change.
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NetApp’s Practical Path To A Future Data Center Infrastructure
Although storage announcements occur all year long, fall appears to be a good time for vendors to mount storage “fashion shows” in order to highlight new solutions and initiatives, and NetApp is no exception to that trend. The company’s recent announcement of new products and capabilities gives it a lot of good talking points to share with IT organizations planning for 2011 IT purchases.
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Automation Not The Solution For Human Error
We’ve all had our share of misfortunes with IT devices and services that have failed to perform as expected in an increasingly information-centric world. But as much as we may want to fault the technology, it appears that we are to blame in the majority of cases, at least as far as data-center outages. The solution is not to replace humans with lights-out automation, but provide better training, processes and procedures, says Julian Kudritzki, vice president of the Uptime Institute. “It’s the same things over and over causing the failures, either the lack of processes, procedures and training, or the procedures are not followed.”
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