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Encryption, Data-Centric Approach Needed To Secure Cloud, Mobile Users
The ever-growing mobile workforce with its head in the cloud has created what seems like an endless list of IT challenges to overcome, and with anywhere, anytime access to information a necessity for many enterprises, the new IT world is having an impact on the kind of encryption enterprises need to protect their sensitive and proprietary data.
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- Red Hat Rebrands, Reconfigures Virtual Storage Appliance For Amazon AWS
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- OASIS Targets Cloud Portability
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Architectures
Your Cloud Future Is In China
Can we expect that cloud hosting will be focused on China within 10 years? The infrastructure, the money, the central planning and their enviable access to resources make this inevitable. And why not? In the great marketing machine that surrounds cloud computing, the claim is that your data can be anywhere and that compute power should not be close to you, nor should you even care. And as China moves from agrarian subsistence to manufacturing and then onto a tertiary economy, it will be positioned to move into a services economy. Indeed, the country is doing so already in a range of areas. It seems clear that with access to capital, town planning and labor it is not so hard to conceive that China will be better positioned to be an early mover in the cloud marketplace.
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Reviews & Workshops
Rapid Backup And Retrieval With Riverbed's Whitewater
Cloud storage brings cost effective offsite backup and retrieval capabilities to small and midsize businesses, but using cloud storage as an external disk is not as effective as it seems, particularly as the data set grows. It takes time to send and retrieve files to a cloud storage provider and often means using another set of tools to do so. Riverbed's Whitewater appliance makes the cloud storage appear as a backup target and balances the competing needs of speedy read/writes and long-term bulk storage. Using a combination of local file caching and deduplication with cloud storage replication, IT gets the best of both worlds.
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Blogs
FAST Paper Casts Doubt on SSD Future
February 21, 2012 11:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
At last month's FAST (File and Storage Technologies) conference researchers from UCSD and Microsoft Research presented a paper, titled The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory, that's put the rosy all-flash-all-the-time future predicted by some in doubt for the long term. The gist of the paper's argument is that the physics of flash, and the researcher's testing, indicate that as flash density increases, the life and performance of flash will degrade to the point that by 2024 flash will no longer be a viable solution.
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Nimbus Sets The Stage For Mainstream Enterprise SSD
February 13, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Solid-state array pioneer Nimbus Data's new E-Class array system is a sign that solid-state storage is moving from the high-performance fringe to the mainstream of the enterprise data center. Most first-generation, all-solid-state arrays, including Nimbus Data's own S-class, were best suited to targeted applications where high performance with single points of failure was acceptable. The new asset class, like most midrange disk arrays, has a dual-controller design to satisfy my enterprise reliability requirements.
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EMC's Lightning Strikes
February 07, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
The storage cognoscenti have been all atwitter this morning as EMC announces the details of Project Lightning, the flash-based server cache solution it previewed last May at EMCworld. The first version of the renamed VFCache is now available, and it's clearly a version 1.0 product. Hopefully, EMC will get some of the road map items out the door, as well as the just announced Thunder, soon.
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Thai Flooding Drives Disk Prices Up, Warranties Down
January 17, 2012 11:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
The effects of fall's record-setting flooding in Thailand continue to reverberate throughout the storage industry. The flooding put several factories that made both completed disk drives for Seagate and Western Digital and components like platters, spindle motors and heads under several feet of water for weeks. The estimated production shortfall of 20 to 50 million drives in the fourth quarter has had a significant impact on the storage industry.
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GridIron Systems: Mining Big Data 'Gold' in a Flash
January 12, 2012 09:27 AM
Posted by David Hill
Trends in the IT industry sometimes resemble gold rushes as vendors pan for revenue "nuggets." The use of solid state devices (SSDs)--most notably, flash memory--is the central point of one of these, but just as with the real 19th century gold rushes in California and Alaska, not all prospectors (that is, vendors) will be successful. Where the claims are staked can make all the difference in the world, and GridIron Systems is staking one with a focus on accelerating big data analyses.
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Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage
October 21, 2011 09:35 AM
Posted by Joe Onisick
One of the key decisions in architecting an infrastructure for private cloud is selecting a storage platform for the deployment. Storage is a key component of the infrastructure and will play a major role in the overall performance of the private cloud. The storage decision carries additional weight due to its larger investment and typically longer refresh cycle.
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