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Don't Trade High Availability for Flash Performance
March 05, 2013 01:58 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
The rise of SSDs has also resurrected the single-controller architecture--along with its single point of failure. IT shouldn't gamble on high availability just for flash's amped-up performance.
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Next-Generation Firewalls 101
March 01, 2013 01:37 AM
Posted by Frank J. Ohlhorst
Next-generation firewalls combine application awareness and deep packet inspection to give companies more control over applications while also detecting and blocking malicious threats.
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Seagate Flashes $40 Million for Virident PCIe Cards
January 29, 2013 09:53 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Seagate announced a $40 million investment in Virident, which makes flash-based PCIe cards for servers. The move underlines the broad expansion of flash storage into multiple sectors of the enterprise market.
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Storage Head-Scratchers
January 18, 2013 10:43 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Not every idea that comes out of the storage industry is a good one. Here are three developments in storage encryption, patents and holographic storage that have got me scratching my head.
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Flash Vendors Acquire the Cache
December 19, 2012 11:08 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Samsung’s acquisition of caching vendor NVELO hints that SDD caching may be moving from servers to desktops.
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Bitten By SaaS, But Still Going Back
December 14, 2012 03:16 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
A SaaS application I rely on shut down recently. No massive disruption ensued, but it’s a reminder that companies must take steps to mitigate the potential loss of a SaaS provider.
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Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
