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Mårten Mickos Named CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:31:35 EDT

Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., creators of the leading open source private cloud software, announced today that Mårten Mickos has joined the company as chief executive officer. Mickos comes to Eucalyptus with a track record of building global disruptive businesses, most recently as CEO of MySQL AB, where he grew the company from a start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. Former Eucalyptus CEO Woody Rollins is now Eucalyptus Systems’ chief financial officer.

TransTech One, LLC., a Wholly-Owned IT Services Subsidiary of Transcendent One, Inc., Announces National Retail Expansion

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:35:19 EDT

IceWEB to Launch IceWEB.TV

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:48:31 EDT

IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB: IWEB), www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of building blocks for cloud storage networks and purpose built appliances, announced today that the Company will be launching IceWEB.TV (www.iceweb.tv), an additional medium for communicating with shareholders and business partners. The new channel will deliver up-to-date information on new partners, technology advancements, product awards etc. In conjunction with the Launch, the Company will be making a major announcement in the coming week. The announcement will be made via a press release, an 8(k) filing for compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure and a video broadcast by Mr. Signorello, exclusively on IceWEB.TV.

HE-5 Resources Corp.’s Triple Crown CRM’s Mustang-Look Makes It Happen “In the Clouds” as Opposed to Microsoft Outlook

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:41:32 EDT

HE-5 Resources (other OTC: HRRN.PK) is targeting for a slice of the global Personal Information Manager Software business, and is taking advantage of “cloud computing” as opposed to Microsoft Outlook. With the launch of Triple Crown CRM’s Mustang-Look which has cross-platform compatibility with all computer Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS for example), and web browsers (Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox for example), and with secure, encrypted, world-wide web (W3) access to your information, you are “one internet connection away” (OICA).

FUJIFILM Begins LTO Ultrium Generation 5 Media Production

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:46:33 EDT

FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc., a division of Fujifilm Corporation the leading global manufacturer of data storage media¹, today announced it will be one of the first manufacturers in the world to be certified by the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Technology Provider Companies (TPCs) as successfully completing compliance testing. Fujifilm plans to immediately begin mass production of LTO Ultrium Generation 5 data cartridges. The Fujifilm LTO Ultrium Generation 5 cartridges are available worldwide immediately, and offer a native storage capacity of 1.5 terabytes and native transfer rates up to 140 megabytes per second.

Optametra and LeCroy to Showcase Test Solution Capable of 224 Gb/s PM-QPSK at OFC/NFOEC Exposition

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:55:10 EDT

eHydrogen Solutions Increases Revenue Outlook Based on Pike Research Report Underscoring Demand for the Company's CHP Systems

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:30:02 EDT

(PINKSHEETS: EHYD) eHydrogen Solutions, Inc. (eHS), announced today it increased its revenue outlook for its Residential Distributed Energy and Combined Heating and Power (CHP) development projects based on Pike Research's authoritative CleanTech Update, published March 12, 2010.

Xiotech Introduces Intelligent Application Storage

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:12:01 EDT

Addressing the business challenges and infrastructure burdens created by trends including massive data growth, virtualization, cloud computing and green data centers, Xiotech Corporation unveiled its vision and roadmap to deliver the market's first and only solution for Intelligent Application Storage.

Astute Networks' Caspian Edge Storage Blades Support 3.6TB of Carrier-Grade ATCA Storage Per Slot With New Seagate Savvio Hard Drives

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:00:18 EDT

LenSec Video Surveillance and Management Solutions Now Available as Combined Solution with Intransa VideoAppliance

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:01:16 EDT

Intransa, the VideoAppliance company, today announced that LenSec, the leading provider of IP-based solutions to cities, school districts, and universities for video surveillance and management solutions, is now certified and available as a combined solution on Intransa’s VideoAppliance.

Xiotech Accelerates End-to-End Virtualization

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:34:00 EDT

Xiotech Corporation, a provider of intelligent application-oriented storage solutions, on Thursday announced a new Virtualization Performance Pack that expands on the company's industry-leading performance, scalability and simplicity in virtual environments. Xiotech's new capabilities further unlock the value of its Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology for customers across hypervisors, including VMware, Citrix and Microsoft Hyper-V, and remove the bottlenecks that plague virtualization deployments. The new components within the pack include broader support within ICON Manager's Virtual View, storage adapters for Citrix XenServer and VMware, and best-practice tools. A recent survey of Xiotech customers by TechValidate found that more than a third of customers realized 20 to 30 percent increases in utilization and operational savings of as much as 50 percent with Xiotech Virtual View.

Frank Russomanno to Retire as Imation Vice Chairman and CEO; President and COO Mark Lucas Named as Successor

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:03:56 EDT

Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN)’s board of directors today announced that Frank Russomanno, vice chairman and chief executive officer, will retire immediately following the company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders on May 5, 2010. Russomanno, 62, has served as vice chairman of Imation since March 2009 and as chief executive officer of Imation since April 2007. Mark Lucas, president and chief operating officer, was named by the board to succeed Russomanno as president and chief executive officer, effective immediately following the 2010 Annual Meeting. The board also nominated Lucas for election to the board of directors.

Storage Industry Commentator and Editor Returns to Computer Technology Review

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:31:21 EDT

With the need for reliable information on technologies, architectures, trends and directions especially in the storage and security marketplaces where CTR has played a key role for three decades, veteran journalist Mark Ferelli returns as editor in chief after a five year sojourn. Ferelli served as Editor in Chief for WestWorld’s publications group for 17 years and is a well known and well respected storage industry journalist and commentator.

Isilon Included in Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:00:11 EDT

Selection Further Validates Ascendance of Scale-out NAS as an Enterprise-Ready Storage Architecture

10gen Announces MongoSF Conference

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:00:07 EDT

10gen, the sponsor of the MongoDB project, today announced MongoSF, a full-day conference which will take place Friday, April 30 at Bently Reserve in San Francisco. Hashrocket, an expert web design and development group, is a co-sponsor.

Virtual Storage and Social Media: What Did EMC Not Announce?

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:45:00 EDT

Synopsis: EMC made a vision statement in a recent multimedia briefing that has a social networking angle as well as storage virtualization, virtual storage, public and private clouds.

Basically EMC provided a vision preview of in a social media networking friendly manner of a vision being refereed to initially as EMC Virtual Storage (aka twitter hash tag #emcvs) which of course sounds similar to a pharmacy chain.

The vision includes stirring up the industry with a new discussion around virtual storage compared to the decade old coverage of storage virtualization.

The underlying theme of this vision is similar to that of virtual serves vs. server virtualization including the ability to move servers around, so to should there be the ability to move data around more freely on a local or global basis and in real or near real time. In other words, breaking the decades long affinity that has existed between data storage and the data that exists on it (Figure 1). Buzzword bingo themes include federated storage, virtual storage, public and private cloud along with global cache coherency among others.

Figure 1: EMC Virtual Storage (EMCVS) Vision

The rest of the story

On Thursday March 11th 2010 Pat Gelsinger (EMC President and COO, Information Infrastructure Products) held an interactive briefing with the global analyst community pertaining to future EMC trajectory or visions. One of the interesting things about this session was that it was not unique to industry analysts nor was it under NDA.

For example, here is a link that if still active, should provide access to the briefing material.

The vision being talked about include those that EMC has talked about in the past such as virtualized data centers, or, putting a spin on the phrase data center virtualization, along with public and private clouds as well as infrastructure resource management virtualization (Figure 2):

Figure 2: Public and Private Clouds along with Virtual Data Centers

Figure 2 is a fairly common slide used in many EMC discussions positing public and private clouds along with virtualized data centers.

Figure 3: Tenants of the EMC Virtual Storage (EMCVS) vision

Figure 4: Enabling mobile data, breaking data and storage affinity

Figure 5: Enabling teleporting and virtual storage

Thus setting up the story for the need and benefit of distributed cache coherency, similar to distributed lock management (DLM) used on local and wide area clustered file systems for maintain data integrity.

Figure 6: Leveraging distributed cache coherency

This discussion around distributed cache coherency should ring Dejavu of IBM GDPS (Global Dispersed Parallel Sysplex) for Mainframe, OpenVMS distributed lock management for VAX and Alpha clusters, Oracle RAC, or other parallel and clustered file systems among others. Likewise for those familiar with technology from Yotta Yotta, this should also ring familiar.

However while many are jumping on the Yotta Yotta familiarity bandwagon given comments made by Pat Gelsinger, something that came to mind is what about EMC GDDR? Do not worry if that is an acronym or product you are not up on as an EMC follower as it stands for EMC Geographically Dispersed Disaster (GDDR) solution that is an alternative to IBMs proprietary GDPS. Perhaps there is none, perhaps this is some, however what role if any including lessons learned will come from EMCs experience with GDDR not to mention other clustered file systems?

Figure 7: The EMC vision as presented

One of the interesting things about the vision announcement and perhaps part of floating it out for discussion was a comment made by Pat Gelsinger. That comment was about enabling the wild Wild West for IT, something that perhaps one generation might enjoy, however a notion another would soon forget. Im sure the EMC marke3ting team including their new chief marketing officer (CMO) Jeremy Burton can fine tune with time.

More on the social networking and non NDA angle

As is often the case with many other vendors, these types of customer, partner, analyst or media briefings (either online or in person) are under some form of NDA or embargo as they contain forward looking, yet to be announced products, solutions, technologies or other business initiatives. Note, these types of NDA discussions are not typically the same as those that portray or pretend to be NDA in order to sound more important a few days before an announcement that has already been leaked to get extra coverage or what are also known as media embargos.

After some amount of time, usually the information is formerly made public that was covered in advanced briefings, along with additional details. Sometimes material covered under NDA is done so in advanced such that third parties can prepare reports, deep dive analysis or assessment and other content that is made available at announcement or shortly there. The material is often prepared partners, vars, media, analysts, consultants, customers or others outside of the announcing company via different venues ranging from print, online columns, blogs, tweets videos and more.

Lately there has been some confusion in the broader IT as well as other industries as to where and how to classify bloggers, tweeters or other social media practionier. After all, is a blogger an analyst, journalist, free lance writer, advisor, vendor, consultant, customer, var, investor, hobbyist, competitor not to mention how does information get feed to them?

Likewise, NDAs and embargo have joined the list of fodder topics that some do not like for various reasons yet like to complain about for others. There is a time and place for real NDAs that cover and address material, discussions and other information that should not be shared. However all to often NDAs get watered down particularly on the press release games where a vendor or public relations firm (PR) will dangle an announcement briefing a couple of days or perhaps a week or two prior to an announcement under the guise that it not be disclosed prior to formal announcement.

Where these NDAs get tricky is that often they are honored by some and ignored by others, thus, those who honor the agreement get left behind by those who break the story. Personally I do not mind real NDA that are tied to real confidential material, discussion or other information that needs to be kept under wraps for various reasons. However the value or issues of NDA is whole different discussion, for now, lets get back to what EMC did not announce in their recent non-NDA briefing.

Different organizations are addressing social media in various ways, some ignoring it, others embracing it regardless of what it is. EMC is an example of a vendor who has embraced social networking and social media along with traditional means of developing and maintaining relations with the media (media or press relations), customers, partners, vars, consultants, investors (e.g. investor relations) as well as analysts (analyst relations).

For example, EMC works with analysts in traditional ways as they do with the media and other groups, however they also recognize that while some analysts (or media or investors or partners or customers or vars etc) blog and tweet (among other social networking mediums), not all do (as is also the case with media, customers, vars and so forth). Likewise EMC from a social media and networking perspective does not appear to define audiences based on the medium or tool that they use, rather, in a matrix or multi dimensional approach.

That is, an analyst with a blog is a blogger, a var or independent consultant with a blog is a blogger, or a media person including free lance writers, journalist, reporters or publisher with a blog is a blogger as are vars, advisors, partners and competitors with blogs also treated as bloggers.

Some of the 2009 EMC Bloggers Lounge Visitors

Thus at their EMCworld event, admission to the bloggers lounge is as simple and non exclusive as having a blog to join regardless of what your role or usage of a blog happens to be. On the other hand, information is communicated via different channels such as for traditional press via public relations folks, investors through investors relations, analysts via analyst relations, partners and customers through their venues and so forth.

When you think about it, makes sense as after all, EMC sells and attaches storage to mainframes, open systems Windows, UNIX, Linux as well as virtual servers that use different tools, protocols, languages and points of interest. Thus it should not be surprising that their approach to communicating with different audiences leverage various mediums for diverse messages at multiple points in time.

What does all of this social media discussion have to do with the March 11 EMC event?

In my opinion, this was an experiment of sorts of EMC to test the waters by floating a new vision to their traditional pre brief audience in advance of talking with media prior to an actual announcement.

That is, EMC did not announce a new product, technology, initiative, business alliance or customer event, rather a vision and trajectory or signaling what they may be doing in the future.

How this ties to social media and networking is that rather than being an event only for those media, bloggers, tweeters, customers, consultants, vars, free lancers, partners or others who agreed to do so under NDA, EMC used the venue as an advance sounding board of sorts.

That is, by sticking to broad vision vs. propriety and confidential or sensitive topics, the discussion has been put out in advance in the open to stimulate discussion in traditional reports, articles, columns or related venues not to mention in temporal real time via twitter not to mention via blogs and beyond.

Does this mean EMC will be moving away from NDAs anytime soon? I do not think so as there is still very much a need for advanced (and not a couple of weeks prior to announcement) types of discussion around sensitive information. For example with the trajectory or visionary discussion last week by EMC, the short presentation and discussion, limited slides prompt more questions than they address.

Perhaps what we are seeing is a new approach or technique of how organizations can use and bring social networking mediums into the mainstream business process as opposed to being perceived as niche or experimental mediums.

The reason I think it was an experiment is that EMC practices both traditional analyst/media relations along with emerging social media networking relations that includes practioners that span both audiences. For some the social media bloggers and tweeters are a different audience than traditional media, writers, consultants or analysts, that is, they are a separate and unique audience.

Thus, it is in my opinion and like human knees, elbows, feet, hands, ears as well as, well, you get the picture I think that there are many different views or thoughts not to mention interpretations of social media, social networking, blogging, analysts, consultants, advisors, media or press, customers, partners, and so on with diverse roles, functions and needs.

Where this comes back to the topic of last weeks discussion is that of storage virtualization vs. virtual storage. Rest assured in the time since the EMC briefing and certainly in the weeks or months to come, there will be penalty of knees, elbows, hands and other body parts flying and signaling what is a particular view or definition of storage virtualization vs. virtual storage.

Of course, some of these will be more entertaining than others ranging from well rehearsed, in some cases over the past decade or more to new and perhaps even revolutionary ones of what is and what is not storage virtualization vs. virtual storage, let alone cloud vs. cluster vs. grid vs. federated and beyond.

Additional Comments and thoughts

In general, I like the trajectory vision EMC is rolling out even if it causes confusion between what is virtual storage vs. storage virtualization, after all, we have been hearing about storage virtualization for over a decade now if not longer. Likewise, there has been plenty of talk about public clouds so it is refreshing to see more discussion and less cloud ware or cloud marketecture and how to actually leverage what you have to adopt private cloud practices.

I suspect that as the EMC competition starts to hear or piece together what they think this vision is or is not, we should also start to hear some interesting stories, spins, counter pitches, debates, twitter fights, blog slams and YouTube videos, all of which also happen to consume more storage.

I also like what EMC is doing with social media and networking as a means or medium for building and maintain relationships as well as for information exchange complimenting traditional means and mediums.

In other words, EMC is succeeding with social networking by not using it just as another megaphone to talk at or over people, rather, as a means to engage, to get to know, to challenge, to exchange regardless of if you are a so called independent blogger, twitter, analyst, medial, constant, customer, var, investor, partner among others.

If you are not already doing so, here are some EMC folks who actively participate in two way dialogues across different areas with @lendevanna helping to facilitate and leverage the masses of various people and subject matter experts including @chuckhollis @chrisleblanc @cxi @davegraham @gminks @mike_fishman @stevetodd @storageanarchy @storagezilla @Stu and @vcto among many others.

Note that for you non twitter types, the previous are twitter handles (names or addresses) that can be accessed by putting http://twitter.com in place of the @ sign. For example @storageio = http://twitter.com/storageio

Additional Comments and thoughts:

Some comments and thoughts among others that I posted via twitter last week during the briefing event:

Here are some twitter comments that I posted last week during the event with hash tag #emcvs:

Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call NDA material = Negative
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call a product announcement = NOpe
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call a statement of direction = Kind of
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call a hint of future functionality = probably
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to be shared with general public = R U reading this?
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to be discussed further = Yup
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to confuse the industry = Maybe
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to confuse customers = Depends on story teller
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to confuse competition = probably
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to provide fodder/fuel for bloggers = Yup
Anything else to add about #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call today = Stay tuned, watch and listen for more!

Some additional questions and my perspectives on those include:

What did EMC announce? Nothing, it was not an announcement; it was a statement of vision.

Why did EMC hold a briefing without an NDA and yet nothing was announced? It is my opinion that EMC has a vision that they want to float an idea or direction, thus, sharing a vision to get discussions going without actually announcing a specific product or technology.

Is this going to be a repackaged version of the Invista storage virtualization platform? I do not believe so.

Is this going to be a repackaged version of the intellectual property (IP) assets that EMC picked up from the defunct startup called Yotta Yotta? Given some references to, along with what some of the themes and discussions center around, it is my guess that there is some Yotta Yotta IP along with other technologies that may be part of any future possible solution.

Who or what is YottaYotta? They were a late dot com startup founded in 2000 that went through various incarnations and value propositions with some solutions that shipped. Some of the late era IP included distributed cache coherency and distance enablement of large scale federated storage on a global basis.

Can the Yotta Yotta (or here) technology really scale? That remains to be seen, Yotta Yotta had some interesting demos, proof of concept, early adopters and big plans, however they also amounted to Nada Nada, perhaps EMC can make a Lotta Lotta out of it!

Other questions are still waiting for answers including among others:

Will EMC Virtual Storage (aka emcvs) become a common cure for typical IT infrastructure ailments?

Will this restart the debate around the golden rule of virtualization being whoever controls the virtualization controls the gold and thus vendors lock in?

Will this be a members only vision where only certain partners can participate?

What will other competitors respond with, technology, and marketecture, FUD or something else?

What are the specific details of when, where and how the vision is implemented?

What will all of this cost, will it work with existing products or is a forklift upgrade needed?

Has EMC bitten off more than they can chew or deliver on or is Pat Gelsinger and his crew racing down a mountain and out in front of their skis, or, is this brilliance beyond what we mere mortals can yet comprehend?

Can global data cache coherency really be deployed with data integrity on a global and large scale without negatively impacting performance?

Can EMC make Lotta Lotta with this vision?

Here is what some of the EMC bloggers have had to say so far:

Chuck Hollis aka @chuckhollis had this to say

Stuart Miniman aka @stu had this to say

Summing it up for now

Lets see how the rest of the industry responds to this as the vision rolls out and perhaps sooner vs. later becomes technology that gets deployed and used.

Im skeptical until more details are understood, however I also like it and intrigued by it if it can actually jump from Yotta Yotta slide ware to Lotta Lotta deployments.

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz - Author The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
twitter @storageio

JetStor SAS 616iS RAID Array Achieves VMware vSphere(TM) 4 Certification

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:07:58 EDT

UK2 Group Announces an Industry-Changing 100 Terabytes With Every Dedicated Server

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:08:25 EDT

UK2 Group, http://www.uk2group.com, a global leader of web hosting solutions, today announced a dramatic first in the world of web hosting by offering an unprecedented 100 Terabytes (TB) of bandwidth and 1GigE port as standard with every dedicated server at http://www.10TB.com.

Overland Storage Announces New Silicon Valley Location

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:00:04 EDT

Overland Storage (NASDAQ: OVRL), the trusted global provider of effortless data management and data protection solutions across the data lifecycle, today announced that it has completed plans for a July 2010 move from its Milpitas, California office to a new location in downtown San Jose, California. The newly designed offices in San Jose's Cityview Plaza Towers will accommodate current staff, centralizing the company's sales and marketing organizations, and provide room for expansion to keep pace with planned growth for the organization. Overland's new location offers a modern, open layout created to provide a working environment that fosters creativity and the open exchange of ideas among Overland employees and between Overland's staff and clients.

UK2 Group Announces an Industry-Changing 100 Terabytes With Every Dedicated Server

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:41:08 EDT

New offering provides customers with the web hosting industry's highest data storage space for the lowest cost

EMC Helps Customers Extend the Value of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Environments

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:30:06 EDT

EMC Expands Options to Address Data Protection Requirements for Exchange Server

The Era of Application-Based Storage Begins Today

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:03:04 EDT

For far too long, data storage has been the single biggest bottleneck in the organizational IT environment. For far too long, the world of technology has evolved as fast as Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters, while storage has been stuck in the cloud of smoke and dust back at the starting line. Worst yet, [...]

3PAR Names VeriStor North American Partner of the Year for Third Year in a Row

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:33 EDT

VeriStor and 3PAR Deliver True Enterprise-Class Utility Storage and Exceptional Value

Ceelox Announces Bank Security Products - Financial Services: Identity Access Authentication and Data Security Suite

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:30:02 EDT

Ceelox, Inc. introduces a suite of products that address the issues regarding protection of banking information with Ceelox Financial Services: Identity Access Authentication and Data Security Suite. Ceelox ID®, Ceelox Vault, Ceelox SecureMail, and Ceelox ID Online protect a financial institution's sensitive data against theft, loss and misuse. Ceelox is a biometric software security company offering employee and customer identity access authentication and data and email encryption. Ceelox is a majority-owned operating subsidiary of Nicaragua Rising, Inc. (OTCBB: NCRG) (the "Company" or "Nicaragua").

LSI Updates First Quarter Guidance

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:00:19 EDT

Company announces new $250 million share repurchase program

FireFly Seismic System to Be Deployed by Apache in Argentina's Wine Country

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:00:16 EDT

Original Launch Partner to Be First to Deploy FireFly Using Geophones

BigFix Situational Awareness Incident Response (SAIR) Integration Initiative Addresses Federal IT Infrastructure Mandates

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:02:30 EDT

Supermicro bietet Application-optimierten Lösungen für die Intel(R) Xeon(R) Prozessor 5600/3600 Serie

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:20:24 EDT

Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), ein führender Hersteller von anwendungsoptimierten, leistungsstarken High-Performance-Server-Lösungen, gab heute bekannt, dass sie eine komplette, optimierte Auswahl an Servern, Workstation und Blade Lösungen starten, die die neue Generation der Intel(R) Xeon(R) Prozessor 5600/3600 Series (Codename Westmere) vollständig unterstützt. Die Lösungen, verglichen zu der vorherigen Generation der Nehalem Produkte, erhöhen die Leistung um 60%*. Dargeboten mit Netzteilen mit der höchsten Effizienz (94%+*) im Markt und verbesserten Kühlungssystemen und serverboard designs, bietet Supermicro's neueste Lösung die höchste Leistung, Dichte und Leistung pro Watt.

Spectra Logic Ranks in Top Ten Percent of Government GSA Contractors for Third Consecutive Year

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:02:00 EDT

Spectra Logic, celebrating 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced that it ranked in the top ten percent of U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) information technology (IT) Schedule 70 contractors for 2009. This is the third consecutive year Spectra Logic has ranked as a top vendor based on annual revenues of pre-approved GSA Schedule 70 IT products and services purchased by federal, state and local government agencies. Spectra Logic’s Federal sales division has a proven record of success supporting government organizations, and its sales comprise more than 20 percent of overall company revenue.

Infortrend's ESVA Helps LPS Agency Sales and Posting Improve Data Flow

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:00:10 EDT

in a high availability environment.

Unitrends Launches New Cloud-Based Rapid Disaster Recovery Service

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:53:36 EDT

New Disaster Recovery Vault2Cloud Offering Priced at $0.49 Per Gigabyte

Supermicro Delivers Application-Optimized Servers for Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 5600/3600 Series

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:30:49 EDT

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in application-optimized, high-performance server solutions, today announced that it has launched a complete, optimized selection of server, workstation and blade solutions to support the new generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 5600/3600 Series (formerly codenamed Westmere). These solutions boost performance 60%* compared to the previous generation of Nehalem solutions. Featuring power supplies with the highest efficiency in the industry (94%+*) and advanced tuned cooling subsystems and serverboard designs, Supermicro's latest solutions offer the highest performance, density, performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar.

Supermicro Delivers Application-Optimized Servers for Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 5600/3600 Series

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:30:35 EDT

Over 70 Server, Workstation & Blade Systems plus 55 Serverboards Available to Boost Performance, Density and Performance-per-Watt

IceWEB Launches Revolutionary Secure Tunnel Mode Architecture (TMA) For Cloud Storage

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:19:08 EDT

IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB: IWEB), www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and secure building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that the Company’s Iplicity™ Cloud Storage Appliance now fully incorporates both Internet Protocol Security (IPSEC) secure access capabilities and AES-256 Volume Encryption.

MindTree Brings Product Engineering Expertise to Confluence 2010

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:18:48 EDT

MindTree Ltd., a global IT Solutions Company, today announced that senior executives from the company's Product Engineering Services (PES) group will participate in two panel discussions at the Confluence 2010 Conference, taking place March 17-18 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. MindTree customers CCH and ParaScale will also be featured speakers at the conference. The MindTree experts and customers will provide R&D and product engineering executives in attendance with forward-looking insights on the evolution of client/vendor relationships and emerging market opportunities.

Scale Computing Announces International Expansion

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:12:14 EDT

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of complete, end-to-end midmarket clustered storage solutions, has signed an agreement with BELL DATA, Inc. a leading storage solution provider in Japan. The agreement enables BELL DATA to exclusively distribute Scale’s storage products throughout Japan.

Global Need for Digitalization and Network Security, Heeds Help From the Technology Sector

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:06:48 EDT

standard and electronic. The U.S government has already been spending almost $20 billion creating this transition. Aside from modernization of these records, security to this enterprise should be reliable for safety and privacy of these records. IT experts, hesitating on this move, recommend that the security issue be addressed first.

Glendale Water & Power to Launch Thermal Energy Storage Project

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:42:31 EDT

Southern California municipal utility will integrate Ice Energy's Ice Bear distributed energy storage technology to complement smart grid strategy

Overland SnapServer SAN S2000 Achieves VMware Ready(TM) Status

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:35:04 EDT

Overland Storage (NASDAQ: OVRL), the trusted global provider of effortless data management and data protection solutions across the data lifecycle, today announced that its SnapServer SAN S2000 iSCSI SAN storage solution has achieved VMware Ready status. This designation indicates that SnapServer SAN S2000 has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List.

Overland Storage Announces "Upgrade and Save" Cash Back Program

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:35:04 EDT

Overland Storage, Inc., the trusted global provider of effortless data management and data protection solutions across the data lifecycle, announced that as part of its ongoing mission to provide customers with the best combination of capacity, performance and affordability, Overland has launched its NEO Upgrade and Save Cash Back Program wherein customers can receive cash rebates of up to $12,000 by upgrading their legacy tape drive technologies to newer, faster, higher capacity technologies, including the new NEO LTO-5 solutions.

CapitalSource Bank Invests in Simpana Software to Safeguard Critical Financial Data

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:32:58 EDT

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ExaGrid Disk Backup with Deduplication Speeds Backup and Recovery Through Enhanced Integration with Symantec NetBackup

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:31:35 EDT

ExaGrid Systems, Inc., (www.exagrid.com) the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced the validated integration of its Disk Backup with Deduplication system with Symantec NetBackup via the Symantec OpenStorage (OST) program. The enhanced integration between ExaGrid and Symantec NetBackup offers joint customers a faster, more powerful, and more easily managed solution for disk backup with data deduplication. This news follows ExaGrid’s recently announced support for Symantec Backup Exec 2010. With this announcement, ExaGrid is the first and only disk-backup appliance vendor to achieve both basic and optimized duplication qualification for both Symantec Backup Exec 2010 and Symantec NetBackup 7.

Akorri Receives "VeriStor Certified Technology" Distinction

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:30:02 EDT

Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center and VeriStor Systems, the Southeast region's leading enterprise data storage and virtualization solution provider, today announced that Akorri's BalancePoint software has been validated by VeriStor as a "VeriStor Certified Product." Solutions validated by VeriStor demonstrate exceptional characteristics in terms of technology differentiation, company stability and customer support along with low acquisition and operating costs for a rapid return on investment.

Sanborn Charts New Course in Geospatial Services Using Isilon IQ

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:36 EDT

Geospatial Information Leader Deploys Isilon Scale-out NAS to Increase Image Processing Speeds by 533 Percent, Accelerating Project Turnaround and New Business Acquisition

A New Product from Cortex I.T. Makes Hyper-V Cost-Savings More Realistic for SMBs

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:25:36 EDT

Melbourne, Australia, March 15, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Windows® Hyper-V is an attractive option for SMBs, because it reduces hardware and running costs and provides an easier way to integrate components in specialized I.T. system setups. "Windows® Hyper-V has been creating backup and data protection headaches that drive up costs and make it an impractical and unrealistic option for many SMBs," says Linus Chang, CEO of Cortex I.T. and Lead Developer of BackupAssist.

Now Cortex I.T, a world-leading backup software developer, has neatly resolved these issues with a new BackupAssist Hyper-V Solution. It’s an easily affordable option that simplifies and automates vital data protection functions for Windows® Hyper-V and significantly reduces ongoing labor and maintenance costs.

“Many SMBs invested in new Hyper-V systems to save on costs, only to discover that the backup and restore operations are difficult, frustrating and expensive,” says Linus. “These days, an SMBs entire business relies on the quality of their data – so the inadequate data protection facilities were also exposing them to a big risk,” he adds.

Windows® Hyper-V Server only offers limited drive imaging facilities to perform backup and restore operations. The usual image backup consists of a single VHD file of the Host and Windows® offers no facilities to dig down into the VHD file to retrieve any data that may be required from the Guest VM. According to users, this meant there was no option other than to run a second backup of each Guest VM individually, and this was time consuming, used incredible amounts of data storage space, required manual scripting and was very unreliable. What’s more, manually locating and transferring files during restore operations was also complicated and time consuming.

“Windows® is designed to make it possible and affordable for anyone to use a computer,” says Linus. “We believe the same should be true for backups. Data protection is very important to every business, so BackupAssist is designed and created specifically for the purpose of making backups as simple and easy as possible on any Windows® system. We’re here to eliminate the frustration factor,” he adds.

The new BackupAssist Hyper-V Solution consists of the BackupAssist v5.4 base license used together with the new BackupAssist VM Granular Restore Console Add-on. It uses ‘granular technology’ to make it possible to dig down into a VHD file and quickly retrieve files from within, eliminating the need for multiple backups of Host and Guest VMs.

“This saves a lot of time and data storage space,” says Linus. “There’s no manual scripting, all the media rotations and scheduling are built in and we’ve made it all very easy to manage with simple wizards. And you can restore any file in under three minutes – even from the Guest VMs. It’s so easy that just about anyone can do it.”

BackupAssist doesn’t leave it there. The base license includes backup solutions for all Windows® systems (old and new), and there are affordable add-ons that solve specific problems like the missing Tape Drive Support on Windows® Server 2008 and the problems inherent in mailbox backups for Microsoft® Exchange Servers. To find out more, visit www.backupassist.com

Purchasing information:Purchase online at www.backupassist.com
BackupAssist v5.4 - US$249
BackupAssist VM Granular Restore Add-on - US$249
(Visit www.backupassist.com for pricing in other currencies)
Reseller enquiries welcome.

Contact details:
Cortex I.T. Labs Pty. Ltd.
+61-3-9899-4681
linus.chang@cortexit.com

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Contact Information:
Cortex I.T. Labs Pty Ltd
Linus Chang
+61 3 9899 4681
linus.chang@cortexit.com
www.backupassist.com

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Appistry Announces CloudIQ Storage

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Appistry on Monday announced the latest edition to the Appistry CloudIQ Platform family, Appistry CloudIQ Storage. CloudIQ Storage provides a dynamically scalable, fault-tolerant and low cost storage system for files and binary objects. CloudIQ Storage may be used as a stand-alone cloud storage system or in conjunction with Appistry CloudIQ Engine to enable Computational Storage. Computational storage unifies applications and data by storing data across commodity servers and intelligently migrating application processing to the machines containing the relevant data. As a result, computational storage allows for the delivery of data-intensive applications at unprecedented price points. With the addition of CloudIQ Storage, Appistry significantly extends the lead for its market-leading platform. Now the first enterprise cloud application platform to bring flexible file storage to private and hybrid clouds, Appistry CloudIQ Platform delivers the next-generation of platform-as-a-service, today, and enables a new generation of highly scalable, extremely reliable, data-centric applications to be delivered at a fraction of the time, cost and complexity of traditional approaches.

Intel Brings Affordable Solid-State Computing to Netbooks and Desktop PCs

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:30:29 EDT

Intel Corporation announced today a new addition to its award-winning lineup of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs): the Intel® X25-V Value SATA SSD. Priced at $125, the 40 gigabyte (GB) drive is aimed at value segment netbooks and dual-drive/boot drive desktop set-ups to offer users the performance and reliability advantages of solid-state computing at an affordable, entry-level price.

Comport Consulting to Resell Safe-T Secure Managed File Transfer

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:27:51 EDT

Comport Consulting has announced that it is reselling the Safe-T Secure Managed File Transfer Solution by eTouchware.

GlassHouse Offers Interlock Technology's Centera Migration Service

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:21:12 EDT

Interlock Technology, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of compliant data assessment and migration services for EMC Centera systems, today announced that GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of vendor independent data center consulting services, will offer the Interlock Technology data assessment and migration services as part of its storage services practice. With Interlock's data assessment and migration services, organizations reduce costs, increase storage agility, realize better performance and liberate their archives from proprietary systems.

Compellent Wins Network World's 2010 Best of the Tests Award for Storage

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:43:15 EDT

Compellent's (NYSE: CML) Storage Center was named a 2010 Best of the Tests award winner by IDG's Network World magazine for its superior performance in a hands-on test.