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HDS offers a storage cloud in your data center
The Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering will let customers pay per terabyte, without buying any equipment, while keeping their data local. Instead of asking enterprises to send their information to a service provider's data center, Hitachi will merely set up its own storage arrays inside the corporate firewall.
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Five lessons of a datacenter overhaul
A datacenter makeover and migration can go wrong in many ways. Do as we suggest, not as we did.
Read more..Virtual Instruments shows the way with SAN optimisation
New features of the product include user-definable correlations enable a type of "What-if" analysis based on real production data. Another feature of the new product was the ProbeVM capability which would assist administrators monitor I/O from the virtualised servers through the SAN to the LUNs within storage arrays.
Read more..HP bakes automation into new servers, storage, energy-management wares
HP this week unveiled a slew of new servers, storage and networking gear to advance its "converged infrastructure" blueprint for streamlining IT infrastructure and operations.
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Iomega unveils large USB 3.0 drives
Iomega has become the latest vendor to add SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to its external hard drives, announcing a swathe of portable and desktop products.
Read more..Best Practices For IT Availability
Technology supports disaster recovery preparedness, but it doesn't constitute a strategy or plan. You need to have a framework in place to manage disaster recovery preparedness as a continuous process, not a one-time event.
Read more..NetApp hopes to catch virtualization, cloud computing wave
NetApp says the company's software allows enterprises to manage different types of storage systems, such as network-attached storage (NAS) and fibre channel storage area networks (SANs), as a single infrastructure.
Read more..Research firm releases midrange array buyer's guide
Storage research firm Data Center Infrastructure Group (DCIG) Inc. released a midrange storage array buyers guide , which includes reviews of more than 70 devices from 18 vendors rating them with a Consumer Guide-like recommendation system.
Read more..Greenplum buy puts EMC further into cloud, BI, businesses
EMC's agreement to buy Greenplum Inc. adds a key component to the storage vendor's strategy to boost its business intelligence and data analytics business.
Read more..Virtual Instruments shows the way with SAN optimisation
SAN management company Virtual Instruments has launched a version of its Net Wisdom monitoring product. VirtualWisdom 2.0 measures the effect of virtualised applications on corporate SANs, including 0 includes instrumentation, measurement and analysis tools - the basis for performance and resource optimisation.
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Case Study: Storage virtualization makes Asian Paints agile
Rather than plug more storage into the SAN, but he chose to fix the root of the problem since they realized they needed to virtualize their servers and upgrade their SAP ecosystem immediately.
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Brocade, HP unveil data center extensions
Brocade unveiled data center products available from OEM HP that are designed to support next-generation Fibre Channel rollouts anchored to optimizing application performance and scaling virtual machines.
Read more..Case study: HPCL tackled storage worries with SAN based Solution
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The CIO of a petrochemical manufacturing company got a single SAN implementation to solve multiple issues - from e-mail retrieval to compliance and cost-saving for new servers.
Read more..Storage revenue on the rebound, IDC says
The storage business recovered strongly in the first quarter, showing clear signs that enterprises have shaken off the effects of the worldwide recession, at least when it comes to their fast-growing storage needs, IDC said last week.
Read more..Storage built for HPC speed
As demand for fast, responsive storage increases, HPC will likely become more than just a topic of conversation -- it will be an essential component of IT success for many more companies.
Read more..Lesson from the meltdown: Listen to your architects
To deploy an SOA successfully, you need to tease out common-denominator services across the enterprise and have applications share them to avoid duplicate effort and to centralize management.
Read more..EMC 'boosts' Data Domain de-duplication speed by 50%
EMC announced at its annual user conference recently a new software add-on that increases the performance of its Data Domain appliance by an average of 50%.
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Five questions for prospective storage suitors
Sure, the specs are important, but when you're building a primary storage tier, it's all about the relationship.
Read more..Analyst: 'Pizza box' servers doomed in virtualized datacenters
When it comes to virtualization, the iconic pizza box servers don't have the power or density to compete with larger servers or blades. They can't provide the VM density of blades, nor do they offer the levels of memory and CPU power found in larger 2U and 4U form factor server.
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SanDisk's SD card can store data for 100 years
The WORM (write once, read many) card is "tamper proof" and data cannot be altered or deleted, the card is designed for long-time preservation of crucial data like legal documents, medical files and forensic evidence, SanDisk said.
Read more..Cisco turns SMB storage into multipurpose platform
Cisco Systems is turning its small-business storage platforms into multipurpose devices with several features that might make easy additions to an IT architecture on a budget.
Read more..HP unveils network, storage gear to feed SMB demand
Though HP's offerings are broad, on Wednesday the company focused mostly on networking and storage, both areas where investment is expected to rise over the next few years.
Amazon improves reliability for its cloud-based database
Amazon Web Services has added a new high-availability feature called Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) to its cloud-based Relational Database Service (RDS), the company said on Tuesday.
Read more..Case study: PNB deploys an enterprise wide data warehouse
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R.I.S Sidhu implemented an enterprise-wide data warehouse (EDW) that would leverage the bank's operational data available in multiple sources systems and give access to data required for regulatory, statutory reporting and analytical purposes.
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The Data You Don't Even Know You Have
Let's assume for a moment that Google's collection of Wi-Fi "payload" data really was unintentional. And that Google never used the data, didn't even know it was there and stored it securely. Is it actually a privacy leak if no one has looked at the private data?
Chief General Manager - IT, Sales and Dispatch Division, Maruti SuzukiBenefits of the extended enterprise
By its very nature, business especially the auto industry cannot work in isolation. Rajesh Uppal shows the benefits of bringing suppliers and dealers on the same page as one's organization.
CIO and Head-Delivery Global Transformation Practice, WNS Global ServicesERP: Recipe for Success
It took one ERP implementation and a series of crises for Sanjay Jain to realize the secrets of project success.
CIO and Chief of Corporate Strategy, Asian PaintsOf Data Classification and Integrity
You can get data classification right, but still end up with wrong information or data that’s not in the form your business users want. And then you would not have done a great job.
Divisional VP-IS, UB GroupWork - Life Balance. Finding Equilibrium
Work-life balance doesn’t have to be a tightrope walk, as the CIO of the world’s third-largest spirit’s company tells you. Work with a merged calendar, he says. "It helps me ensure that no clashes — like birthdays — take place".