I’m building my own SAN as a pilot project at work. I looked at seven storage software packages, including commercial and open source products. Here’s how I decided which was right for me.
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DIY Storage Part 2: Picking the Right SAN Software
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Amazon Cloud is great, but not for business
Amazon added a new element to its Cloud Drive service this week that expands it usefulness. The new Cloud Drive Sync app keeps files in sync across different devices and platforms, and pits Amazon Cloud Drive head-to-head against rivals such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple. However, businesses should steer clear of Amazon Cloud Drive.
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The paperless office continues to elude us
Since the dawn of personal computers there have been predictions of an all-digital future where paper was little but a distant memory. Decades later, it seems like we’ve made progress toward the “paperless office,” but the Utopian vision is still a long way off.
Adobe, which bought digital signature company Echosign in 2011, conducted a study to find out how things are progressing on the road to our all-digital documents future. The study is based on data gathered from an online survey among 1051 U.S. managers who draft, send or sign contracts and agreements at small, medium and large companies.
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CloudStack Graduates to Top-Level Apache Project
CloudStack, the open source software platform for private clouds, has been elevated to a top-level project in the Apache open source community, further validating the project’s viability.
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DAS Builds Twin Data Centers to Serve Internal Users
Diversified Agency Services, a holding company for over 200 marketing and communications agencies, built two data centers to run private cloud services for internal users.
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What Netflix Could Do For Cloud Computing
[ Editor’s note: InformationWeek started a conversation in the cloud community with two recent opinion columns that take opposing views on Netflix’s Cloud Prize, a $ 100,000 contest designed to advance cloud computing in 10 categories. Netflix has committed itself to using Amazon Web Services instead of building out its own data centers, and has shifted all but its core systems into Amazon EC2. So it’s heavily committed to the architecture and continued development of the AWS cloud, as opposed to more open alternatives. Rackspace CTO John Engates is a leading spokesman for OpenStack, the primary open source alternative to both VMware as a private cloud architecture and Amazon as a public cloud architecture. Here, Engates weighs into the debate on Netflix and cloud innovation. Share your opinion in the comments section at the end of this column. ]
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Nebula One Debuts: OpenStack As Hardware
A new hardware version of OpenStack is now available from Nebula, the company that spun out of the NASA Nebula cloud under Chris Kemp, the former CIO of the federal agency.
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New SDN Technology Challenges VMware, Cisco
A new SDN competitor is challenging VMware, Cisco and others. Nuage Networks, an Alcatel-Lucent venture, has announced Virtualized Service Platform (VSP), an SDN technology that employs virtual switches and network overlays.
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Encrypting Backups Requires Key Planning
Some enterprises are adopting an “encrypt everything” policy to address the confidentiality and security of data, including on backups. A new backup product from Sepaton separates encryption from key management.
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Kill the Traditional PCIe Slot: A Modest Proposal
Let’s get rid of traditional PCIe slots and move all the cable connections to the front of the server. We’ll get compelling maintenance and operational advantages. Here’s how and why.
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