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IBM today announced powerful new server solutions aimed at helping x86 clients accelerate the journey to Smarter Computing. Designed to support the requirements of fast-growing businesses, the new products give data center managers the speed, performance and flexibility they need to implement and manage new and existing workloads.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that AlphaTV, a leading television network in Greece, has overhauled its storage infrastructure with IBM high performance, high capacity tape solutions for greater efficiencies, faster access to video and the ability to store more video in dramatically less space.
Information and communication technology specialist Fujitsu announced the development of software offerings that help customers utilize big data, which consist of two product families: a line of parallel distributed processing and complex event processing products, standard technologies in big data applications, and a line of products to employ big data in a range of uses.
Much of the recent evolution of the web has been centred on data: data publishing, data exchanges, mashing up and recombining data, and access management of personal and enterprise data that spans both business and social networks.
Google Drive lets anyone store a few gigabytes worth of data on Google’s servers. The data can be anything you want — photos, music, videos, word documents, secret dossiers, encrypted transmissions, whatever.
Extending the performance, efficiency and manageability of its third-generation Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, Oracle today announced new enhancements for its award-winning network attached storage (NAS) platform.
Big Data is a top technology trend for 2012 according to Forrester Research.
SpiderOak, the `zero-knowledge’ cloud backup, sync and sharing environment, today announced the release of SpiderOak Blue
Oracle today announced Oracle’s StorageTek Tape Analytics, its intelligent monitoring and management software for Oracle’s StorageTek tape libraries.
EMC Corporation announced a new wave of products and services all with a singular goal – to enable organizations to derive greater insight and economic value from Big Data – datasets so large they break traditional IT infrastructures.
Telefonica Digital, IntelLabs and the Intel Architecture Group have conducted the first phase of a joint research programme to prove technologies that will allow large, small and medium enterprises to migrate computing workloads from their local data centre to a third-party public cloud.
IBM announced new software to provide clients with a way to cope with the data deluge and speed up business processes, making it easier for decision makers to gain insights from data.
Computers are spewing forth data at astronomical rates about everything from astrophysics to internet shopping. And it could be hugely valuable
The Obama Administration Thursday unveiled a Big Data Research and Development Initiative that will see the six federal agencies and departments put $200 million or more into Big Data R&D.
Watch this On-Demand webcast and hear from Jon Toigo, CEO and Managing Principal of Toigo Partners, as he discusses six cutting-edge storage technologies that are ready for prime time and can help transform your data center.
With Western Digital (WD) buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Seagate buying Samsung’s hard drive business, the number of hard drive makers has contracted to three: WD, Seagate, and Toshiba. Still, the technology involved in hard drives continues to improve. This week, WD announced new higher-capacity portable drives and Seagate revealed new technology that should improve capacity in the future.
“There is no such thing as information overload,” Beyer said, because IT organizations must deal with the data and can’t surrender. By 2015, organizations that build a modern information management system will outperform their peers financially by 20 percent.
This keynote offers a critical look at how these trends are fuelling the explosion of what may be the most important market and technology trend for 2012 and beyond: big data — the dramatic increase in the volume and detail of information captured both inside and outside of organizations — and its correlation to business performance.
Big data – the accumulation and subsequent mining of large data stores – carries great potential for businesses looking to gain insight into their markets or customers. But while the concept of big data is simple, the management of big data is not.
The big data problem is that the sheer amount and diversity of this data outmatches the abilities of traditional relational databases.
Leading Provider of 3D Visualization Services Leverages Scale-Out NAS for 400% Performance Increase, Providing Faster Response Time to Customers
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that Ameren Corp., a power company with 3.4 million electric and gas customers in Missouri and Illinois, selected EMC® Symmetrix® VMAX™—the world’s most powerful, trusted and smartest storage array—to manage its explosive data growth in a mission-critical Oracle database and custom application environment.
Banks have long been built on massive amounts of data. But as “big data” gets even bigger, legacy storage systems are growing increasingly inefficient and even obsolete, according to industry experts.
Many newer UPS systems have an energy-saving operating mode known as “eco-mode” or by some other descriptor. Nevertheless, surveys show that virtually no data centers actually use this mode, because of the known or anticipated side-effects. Unfortunately, the marketing materials for these operating modes do not adequately explain the cost / benefit tradeoffs. This paper shows that eco-mode typically provides a reduction of 2-4% in data center energy consumption and explains the various limitations and concerns that arise from eco-mode use. Situations where these operating modes are recommended and contra-indicated are also described.
Data center professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. Whether the data center mess is created over years of mismanagement or whether the cable-choked data center is inherited, solutions for both quick fixes and longer term evolutionary changes exist. This paper outlines several innovative approaches for dealing with the symptoms of chaos and for eliminating the root causes of disorder.
Despite advances in computer technology, power outages continue to be a major cause of PC and server downtime. Protecting computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) hardware is part of a total solution, but power management software is also necessary to prevent data corruption after extended power outages. Various software configurations are discussed, and best practices aimed at ensuring uptime are presented.
IT virtualization, the engine behind cloud computing, can have significant consequences on the data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities that often result can challenge the cooling capabilities of an existing system. Reduced overall energy consumption that typically results from physical server consolidation may actually worsen the data center’s power usage effectiveness (PUE). Dynamic loads that vary in time and location may heighten the risk of downtime if rack-level power and cooling health are not understood and considered. Finally, the fault-tolerant nature of a highly virtualized environment could raise questions about the level of redundancy required in the physical infrastructure. These particular effects of virtualization are discussed and possible solutions or methods for dealing with them are offered.
Security incidents are rising at an alarming rate every year. As the complexity of the threats increases, so do the security measures required to protect networks. Data center operators, network administrators, and other data center professionals need to comprehend the basics of security in order to safely deploy and manage networks today. This paper covers the fundamentals of secure networking systems, including firewalls, network topology and secure protocols. Best practices are also given that introduce the reader to some of the more critical aspects of securing a network.
This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.
Kelser Corporation announced augmentations to their storage solutions portfolio and educational offerings.
