Samsung Produces New High-performance Enterprise SSDs for Data Centers - The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

Samsung's new data center and enterprise SSDs deliver extremely high performance with low power consumption in providing the most efficient storage solutions for data center applications,” said Myungho Kim, vice president of memory marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics. Samsung will aggressively produce its new line-up of SSDs beginning this month to accelerate SSDs’ move into not only the server but also the storage marketplace, as we continue to affirm our leadership in the SSD market.

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Oracle Unveils StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 - Broadcast Newsroom

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 is the first and only mainframe virtual tape storage system to provide a single point of management for the entire system that leverages the security of the mainframe environment. StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 efficiently manages data and storage resources with automated, policy-driven management that simplifies deployment and streamlines ongoing tape operations for data protection, disaster recovery and archive.

With 2x the performance and more than 1.8x the total disk capacity of the previous generation, the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 system(1) scales on-demand to over 640 petabytes to meet the needs of high growth data storage environments in a dense, energy efficient data center footprint that helps lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

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University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chooses Steadfast Cloud Platform for Video ... - Broadcast Newsroom

Steadfast, a data center services provider based out of Chicago and New York with server management, disaster recovery and cloud hosting has been chosen as the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's College of Business and Economics data host for its online streaming. "This partnership underlines how important managed services and 24/7 accessibility to content is in academia," says Joe Bong, Chief Revenue Officer for Steadfast.

The largest business school in Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has been making video recordings since its online MBA (Masters of Business Administration degree) program's inception in 1999. In 2004 all of the media went online and in 2009 they implemented a college-wide lecture recording system that allows faculty to make recordings directly from their classrooms.

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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences - DailyFinance

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services.

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Modify Your Storage Backup Plan to Improve Data Management and Reduce Cost - CIO

By 2016, one-third of organizations will change backup vendors due to frustration over cost, complexity or capability. IT leaders and storage managers must rethink their backup procedures to realize cost savings and improve backup infrastructure resource utilization. Cloud services are attractive options for selected workloads, as they alleviate the burden on the data center backup infrastructure.

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Nexenta Systems Optimizes Storage and VDI Infrastructure for VMware View ... - Equities.com

Nexenta Systems, a world leader in Software-defined Storage solutions, today announced it has optimized storage infrastructure for VMware View Business Process Desktop with its purpose-built storage appliance, NexentaVSA for View.

Integrating VMware View with enterprise-class storage optimization from Nexenta provides a robust solution for the business process outsourcing market by simplifying the management of IT infrastructure and protecting data across locations, said Mason Uyeda, director, Technical and Solutions Marketing, VMware. The flexibility of the virtual storage appliance and centralized management console, combined with the built-in compatibility with VMware View, delivers significant benefits for the enterprise and end users.

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New Novell file service could save hosts on storage - DatacenterDynamics

Novell has launched Dynamic File Services (DFS), which it claims will help data centers and hosting providers to tackle the problems created by unstructured data in enterprises and slash the cost of management.

The product aims to automatically manage data down to an individual file basis, said Novell, meaning that companies can archive data to cloud storage providers like Amazon S3, Box, CloudMe and Dropbox. The stand-alone software runs on servers in the background and, Novell said, is virtually invisible to users, managing files without disrupting workflow.

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Data storage: Going with the grain - Nanowerk LLC

(Nanowerk News) Despite the increasing competition from alternative technologies such as solid-state drives, magnetic disks remain an important data-storage technology. They are not only reliable and inexpensive, but their storage density has potential for even further improvement. One method under current investigation is storing each data bit in a single magnetic grain of the thin film of the recording medium, rather than in several grains as in conventional hard drives. Storage in single grains only would increase stability and reduce the magnetic fields required to write bits.

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Zetta Adds Smart Cloud, Lean Local Copy To DataProtect Cloud Storage Software - CRN

 

Zetta.net has expanded its DataProtect cloud storage technology with new integrated features that reduce local storage footprints while adding the ability to use local network storage to quickly recover or restore lost data.

Zetta.net, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of the DataProtect cloud storage technology for backup, disaster recovery and archiving, on Monday introduced Smart Cloud, a new Web-based file system that allows business users to mount cloud-based versions of their data in case their primary data center is lost.

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Seagate Launches 3 New Enterprise-Class HDDs for Data Centers, Cloud ... - IT News Online

Seagate Technology has announced three new enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDD) optimized for traditional data centers and emerging cloud infrastructures. Perfect for cloud bulk data storage, the Seagate Enterprise Value HDD provides up to 3 TB of storage in a low-power configuration that is perfect for efficiently and affordably storing the ever-growing amount of unstructured data typically stored in the cloud.

The company also announced its next generation of highly-reliable hard disk drives, the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD featuring the industry's widest range of capacities (1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB) of secure data storage for robust data center usage and the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD, which delivers best-in-class performance and built-in security for optimized storage efficiency and data protection.

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Entegrus selects Telvent to provide smart grid services

Meter Data Management (MDM) solution for all operational data in the firm's electrical distribution network, making the new technology’s first production implementation.Telvent's latest technology will provide Entegrus with data storage, management and analysis solution, which would complement the company's advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).

Conductor MDM will also help strengthen the firm's smart grid operations by improving processes including meter data validation, estimation and editing and a shorter meter-to-cash cycle. Entegrus Powerlines president Dan Charron remarked about expanding expanding relationship with their Canadian partner Telvent by integrating the Conductor MDM into the existing Telvent suite.

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Mellanox Announces Creation of Federal Government Subsidiary to Expand Mellanox's Engagements with U.S. Government

Mellanox a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the creation of Mellanox Federal Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mellanox Technologies. Mellanox Federal Systems will be responsible for driving business development for all federal government agencies and the federal integrator market.

Dale D'Alessio has been named CEO of Mellanox Federal Systems, which will be based in Vienna, Virginia. Mr. D'Alessio was previously co-founder and managing member of YottaStor, a professional service and product company specializing in big data storage solutions for the Intelligence and U.S. Department of Defense markets.

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Data Storage Management Software optimizes capacity analysis. - ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)

The TeamQuest Storage Capacity Management solution bridges technology silos, providing single-pane-of-glass management for everything from the service or application layer down to underlying systems and storage.

TeamQuest Corp. announced its new TeamQuest Storage Capacity Management solution that allows users to seamlessly analyze the performance and capacity of SAN storage systems and other infrastructure together. A capability new to the industry, this application-to-virtual server-to-physical server-storage system analysis helps troubleshoot, manage, and optimize virtualized cloud environments.

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Real-Time Agility Made Possible by Latest Teradata Technology - Sacramento Bee

Teradata the leading analytic data solutions company, today announced new Teradata Database capabilities, Teradata Studio, and Teradata Virtual Machine Edition. With today's announcement, Teradata continues to push technology boundaries, with more than 200 new capabilities released in the previous two years.

The Teradata Database has the industry's only intelligent virtual storage solution, which automatically migrates data between drive types based on its frequency of use or temperature. This achieves optimum performance to meet the extreme service level demands of business users. Teradata Virtual Storage places the data on the most cost effective storage device. In addition, users have easy access to the data because it can all be kept in the warehouse for faster business decision-making. The data no longer needs to be moved or placed in different storage mediums.

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Impacts of UA Research Computing Data Center could go beyond academics - Inside Tucson Business

The University of Arizona has unveiled its updated supercomputer facility, the Research Computing Data Center, which has greatly increased the capacity in high-throughout computing, high-performance computing and data storage.

The computing capacity the new center provides is relevant to researchers across most of the hard-sciences including those in astronomy and planetary sciences, biological sciences and agriculture because supercomputers, like those at the Research Computing Data Center, can process massive calculations and help researchers analyze data in ways that would not be possible using conventinal computers.The power of large-scale computing systems like that at the University of Arizona is so great as to be almost incomparable to a standard PC.

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ZL Technologies Announces New Corporate eMemory™ Initiative at Gartner ... - Sacramento Bee

ZL Technologies today announced their new Corporate eMemory™ initiative from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012 where they are exhibiting as part of the Emerging Technologies Pavilion.

ZL's Unified Archive® makes enterprise software to manage all the unstructured Big Data contained in e-mail, files, IMs, multimedia, social media, etc., for e-discovery, compliance, records and storage management.  Unstructured data is, at its essence, human communications.  If such communications can be archived and mined, it forms the basis of Corporate eMemory,™ which harnesses the collective knowledge and memory of all employees to enhance strategic value and competitive advantage.

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With Increasing Data Needs, Its Management Also Needs To Beef Up - OhGizmo!

We live in a time where data storage is cheap.  A 1TB hard drive costs, what, $70? And this is not even the bulk price.  The fact that its so cheap has a bunch of consequences, the major one of which is that businesses are no longer shy to produce reams and reams of data, all of which eventually needs to be secured and properly managed. Customer databases are ever expanding, CAD files are getting exponentially larger, emails remain in inboxes forever, financial transaction spreadsheets that only 15 years ago would have been impossible to handle are being created on a daily basis…  All of them are critical, but their ever expanding nature makes data storage management expertise an emerging necessity amongst businesses of all sizes. As an IT professional, you can decide to try and tackle the problem in house, or delegate to a company like CDW.

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Iomega StorCenter px2-300d and ix4-300d Network Storage Solutions Now ... - StorageReview.com

Imoega has announced the worldwide availability of the latest line of products in their network storage solutions: the new Iomega StorCenter px2-300d Network Storage, a high performance, Intel Atom powered double-drive desktop network storage device with up to 6TB of storage, and the new Iomega StorCenter ix4-300d Network Storage, which is Iomega's next-gen StorCenter ix Series of versatile and easy-to-use four-drive desktop network storage appliances.

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Iomega StorCenter px2-300d and ix4-300d Network Storage Solutions Now ... - StorageReview.com

 

Imoega has announced the worldwide availability of the latest line of products in their network storage solutions: the new Iomega StorCenter px2-300d Network Storage, a high performance, Intel Atom powered double-drive desktop network storage device with up to 6TB of storage, and the new Iomega StorCenter ix4-300d Network Storage, which is Iomega's next-gen StorCenter ix Series of versatile and easy-to-use four-drive desktop network storage appliances.

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Dell, Cisco & NetApp Announce Integrations With Citrix - Data Center Knowledge

The extended collaboration will pair NetApp unified storage solutions and Data ONTAP with both Citrix CloudPlatform and the Apache CloudStack project, providing users with a cloud-ready storage environment that will optimize storage utilization, simplify maintenance, and accelerate the transition to an agile data infrastructure. ”NetApp supporting Cloud Platform powered by Apache CloudStack is an excellent proof point that this open source software project is offering customers the collaborative-based process they need,” said Sameer Dholokia, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix.

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Chelsio Announces Unified Storage Motherboard: High Performance/Low Cost ... - The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

Chelsio Communications, a leading provider of 10Gb Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters, ASICs and Unified Storage solutions, today announced the Unified Storage Motherboard (USM), a single board computer that creates a storage subsystem of up to 24 SAS/SATA disks that is accessible via Ethernet as a high performance, low-cost and easy to use SAN or NAS system.  Chelsio is demonstrating the USM this week at Storage Networking World in Santa Clara.

Chelsio is a leading technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments.  Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards.

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Panasas, Hortonworks Join in Technology Partnership - HPCwire

Panasas, the leader in high performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, today announced a technology partnership with Hortonworks, a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development, and support of Apache Hadoop. As part of the agreement, Panasas will become a member of the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program, which was formed to accelerate the growth of a vibrant Apache Hadoop ecosystem through technology collaboration, technical support, joint testing and evangelism.

Panasas is eager to work with Hortonworks, a premier company in the space, to develop technologies that will allow the rapid adoption of Apache Hadoop in technical computing markets," said Barbara Murphy, chief marketing officer at Panasas.

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Microsoft buys online storage service StorSimple - Boston.com

Microsoft has bought online storage service StorSimple as part of its effort to adapt to shifting technology trends.The deal gives Microsoft another tool to offer to corporate customers who want to back up their data on computers managed and maintained in remote data centers. The concept, known as ‘cloud computing,’ enables workers to retrieve key information wherever they might be, as long as they have an Internet-connected device.

Microsoft Corp., which is based in Redmond, Wash., and other long-established technology companies such as Oracle Corp. have been snapping up smaller cloud-computing specialists during the past two years in an attempt to keep up with the times.

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New Active Infrastructure solutions highlight newly-announced Dell data center ... - eChannelLine

The Active Infrastructure family leverages our investments in best-in-class modular components, to deliver integrated server, storage and networking solutions," said Marius Haas, president of Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell, at a press and analyst event in San Francisco. "Dell is the only player in the market that brings these components together to optimize the enterprise, with price-performance, agility and solutions that scale.

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Iomega releases two new StorCenter NAS drives to contain that ever-expanding ... - Engadget

The StorCenter px2 and ix4 are a pair of full bodied NAS systems that offer a secure and speedy haven for your most important data. Using EMC storage technology, the hardware offers a personal cloud and Time Machine support for Mac using backup-fans. The barebones px2 is $500, with the prices running to $1,200 for a 6TB model, and if you're in need of something heftier, the storage-free ix4 sets you back $600, but can take up to 12TB worth of drive if you splash out $1,300.

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Using Data Storage Management and Virtualization Services - Business 2 Community

 

Data storage management and virtualization services help businesses to manage the amounts of data that they accumulate. For many organizations, data growth is enormous, due largely to email. Rather than delete anything, we like to keep all of it – just in case.These data storage management and virtualization services are made up of the following:

Storage Area Networks: Connected through fiber or iSCSI interface, these devices house data to increase server and application performance.

Blade Servers: This particular kind of server is a traditional server's processing power.

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OCZ Technology to Display Enterprise Storage Solutions at Gartner's ... - Equities.com

OCZ is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high-performance solid-state storage solutions and premium computer components. Offering the industry's widest range of solid-state drives (SSDs), OCZ features SSDs in a variety of form factors and interfaces (i.e. PCIe, SAS and SATA) to address HDD replacement, SAN acceleration, server and storage virtualization, cloud computing, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) opportunities. Having developed firmware and controller platforms to virtualization and endurance extending technologies, the company delivers vertically integrated, customizable solutions enabling transformational approaches to how digital data is captured, stored, accessed, analyzed and leveraged across a wide range of client and enterprise applications.

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Data Center Industry's Biggest Green Challenge Is Storage - The Data Center Journal (blog)

The data center industry has been rife with efforts at making servers more efficient and greener but there is one more area that is going to be an even bigger cause for concern as far as green challenges go and that is storage.This is going to be a challenge within a short time frame of 5 years. One of the biggest reasons for this challenge is the fact that more and more people are using information and storing the same in the cloud as well.

They are using mobile solutions and they are sharing that information across several areas. Technology is also aiding the process of collection of different kinds of data and all this means storage nightmares pretty soon.

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Data Store Solutions Launches New Website Specializing in Data Storage ... - PR.com (press release)

 

New Texas-based Internet Company Data Store Solutions announced the launch of an online Data Storage Products e-store Datastoresolution.com

 

Richardson, TX, September 22, 2012 New Texas-based Internet Company Data Store Solutions announced the launch of an online Data Storage Products e-store Datastoresolution.com.

Data Store Solutions plans to continue to add more products to the website, and is committed to providing customers with easy to find data storage products. The store will also offer Free Ground Shipping to customers on items purchased from the website.

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Avere and Fujitsu Team Up to Offer 100/100/100 Storage Solution

The combined Avere-Fujitsu solution helps businesses overcome the challenges of achieving high performance from data storage without the high cost of traditional storage solutions that require buyers to overprovision due to antiquated architectures or overspend on the fastest storage media," said Ron Bianchini, President and CEO of Avere Systems. "And they can feel secure in the knowledge that their data is protected by a comprehensive set of Fujitsu management functionality and jointly supported by both companies and our selling partners.

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Microsoft Reaches Agreement to Acquire StorSimple - Sacramento Bee

StorSimple solutions combine the data management functions of primary storage, backup, archive and disaster recovery with cloud integration, enabling customers to optimize storage costs, data protection and service agility. With its unique cloud snapshot capability, StorSimple automatically protects and rapidly restores production data using public clouds. Large enterprises across many vertical markets, including retail, oil and gas, manufacturing, consumer goods, healthcare, and financial services, have made their first public cloud deployments using StorSimple.

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Oracle launches new servers, storage solution bundles in India - Times of India

Oracle launched the new x86 servers, entry level SPARC servers and storage solutions to enable mid-sized organization drive superior consolidation and virtualization as they embrace cloud computing.

 Oracle's new offerings address these challenges as it include built in operating system, virtualization, infrastructure provisioning, and system management in one integrated stack. In addition, taking advantage of Oracle hardware and software engineered together, all these components are tested together and supported together by one vendor - Oracle said Stuart Long, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Sales Consulting Director, Systems Division, Asia Pacific and Japan, Oracle Corporation.

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Seagate announces new enterprise storage solutions - Tech2

Primarily for cloud bulk data storage, the Seagate Enterprise Value HDD provides up to 3TB of storage in a low-power configuration. The company also announced its next generation of hard disk drives, the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD featuring the a wide range of capacities (1, 2, 3 and 4TB) of secure data storage for data centre usage, and the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD, which delivers built-in security for data protection.

Anyone building storage systems today, whether for cloud specific applications or enterprise data centers, is looking to maximize capacity in the smallest possible physical footprint with the lowest operating costs while ensuring long-term scalability,” said Scott Horn, Seagate's Vice President of Marketing. Seagate Technology has announced three new enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDD) meant for use in traditional data centres and emerging cloud infrastructures.
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Gridstore acquires $12.5m in funding - Irish Times

GridStore, An Irish data storage company which counts Iona Technologies founder Chris Horn among its backers and directors, has closed a $12.5 million venture capital funding round.It specialises in next-generation data storage solutions for businesses using a grid platform. Its products are sold through resellers who provide IT services and products to both small and large businesses and organisations.

The $12.5 million in funding follows a 2010 seed capital funding round through which the company raised $2 million from a group of investors including the Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund and a number of angel investors, including Chris Horn. That funding was used to scale the business in the US.

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StorIT and Moonwalk forge strategic distributor agreement at Gitex 2012

Entering into this strategic new alliance with Moonwalk Inc. gives us the advantage of offering a unique product that addresses the need to manage complex, data management through the tiers of storage and is comparatively economical as it is a software only solution," said Bobby Joseph, CEO, StorIT. "Our participation at this year's edition of Gitex is made more fruitful with the signing of this new distributor agreement, which ably reflects our continuing move to partner with leading engaging brands and help strenghten our leadership across the MENA data storage segment. We remain confident and look forward to the positive results of this partnership with Moonwalk.

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Photo Release -- Big Data -- Ready, Set, Go! New SGI(R) DataRaptor(TM) With ... - NASDAQ

SGI has been providing compute and storage solutions for Big Data for over a decade. Our solutions are enterprise-hardened and can handle any kind of data. SGI DataRaptor is the latest addition to our Big Data portfolio, and is a complete and open platform that is designed to support applications deriving real business value from semi-structured and unstructured data. This is extremely difficult or impossible to do with a traditional relational database," said SGI CEO Jorge Titinger. "Jointly-developed with MarkLogic, the appliance runs the best-of-breed NoSQL database on a simple to deploy platform: just plug in and go.

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Mellanox Introduces SwitchX-2 - The World's Leading Software Defined ... - DailyFinance

A leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced SwitchX-2, the next generation of its switch silicon optimized for Software Defined Networking (SDN). SwitchX-2 includes advanced capabilities of remote configurable routing tables, lossless and congestion free networks, efficient control planes, and SDN-optimized software interfaces. SwitchX-2 enables IT managers to program and centralize their server and storage interconnect management and dramatically reduce their operational expenses by completely virtualizing their data center network. According to IDC*, the broader SDN/OpenFlow market is expected to see rapid growth, reaching $2 billion by 2016, a significant portion of which will be network infrastructure.

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Huawei Enterprise Middle East shakes up cloud data centre market - AME Info

Huawei Enterprise unveiled at GITEX a complete 'one-stop-shop' cloud data centre solution, providing Middle East businesses with robust and highly secure networks, IT infrastructure and facilities that support applications and systems in the cloud computing era.

The news reflects Huawei's commitment to modernising traditional data centres that can be empowered by safe, intelligent network switches and high capacity storage systems. The new generation of data centres will meet the high growth requirements of Middle East organisations and help them cope easily with the changing landscape brought by cloud computing.

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McAfee Launches New Data Centre Security Suites - CSO Magazine

McAfee today announced four new Data Centre Security Suites to help secure servers and databases in the data centre. The suites offer a unique combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualisation technologies for protecting servers and virtual desktops. These solutions provide optimal security for servers and databases in physical, virtualised and cloud based data centres, with minimal impact on server resources which is a key demand for data centres.

Performance and security are key concerns for servers in the physical, virtualised or cloud based Data Centres,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst, Information Security and Networking at Enterprise Security Group.The new server security suites from McAfee, based on its application whitelisting, virtualisation and blacklisting and AV technologies, provide an enhanced security posture while maintaining the high server performance needs of the Data Centre.

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Citrix and NetApp Collaborate to Simplify Cloud Storage - Equities.com

Citrix and NetApp announced an extension of their current collaboration aimed at accelerating the adoption of enterprise cloud deployments. Together, Citrix and NetApp will provide a fully integrated cloud orchestration and storage solution that will address storage automation, resource allocation, and virtual machine backup and recovery.

Moving forward, collaboration between the two companies will build on this existing success with a focus on combining NetApp unified storage solutions and Data ONTAP®, the world's number one storage operating system, with both Citrix CloudPlatform and the Apache CloudStack project, providing users with a cloud-ready storage environment that will optimize storage utilization, simplify maintenance, and accelerate the transition to an agile data infrastructure.

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Avnet, Inc.'s North American Data Center Stands the Test of Time; Celebrates ... - DailyFinance

The data center has also undergone significant growth during this time too. In 1987, approximately 25 employees worked at the data center; the facility housed approximately five servers; data storage was calculated in gigabytes; and the data center was cooled with a series of pipes pumping water throughout the building. Today, the data center is operated by approximately 100 employees and houses approximately 1,700 servers, manages approximately one petabyte in data storage and is cooled by the first air-side economizer in the Southwest. This air conditioning system uses outside air from the Sonoran Desert and special low voltage motors and compressors to provide an energy efficient way to maintain the low temperatures needed.

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IPR Extends Its ZoneIT Virtual Private Data Center Service with NetApp Storage - CIO

Technology is changing so rapidly that most midsize organizations can't keep pace with it. IPR offers a comprehensive suite of data center services, allowing its clients to focus on their core business operations while simplifying IT. IPR's data protection and private cloud offerings protect client data while enabling business continuity, saving the company the cost of building and managing storage infrastructures.

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HP unveils new fast storage technology - Inquirer.net

 

International technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) unveiled on Thursday its new Storage technology that has a “Ferrari-speed” minus the Ferrari price tag.Mike Prieto, vice president and general manager of HP Asia Pacific and Japan, said in a media roundtable discussion that HP 3PAR P10000 Storage has double the speed of their closest competitor because of its new solid-state drives (SSD).

The new SSD technology is better than the standard hard disk drives (HDD) because it does not have a spinning disk; less moving parts means better durability, faster storage retrieval, and smaller physical footprint. SSDs however are more expensive compared to HDD.The HP 3PAR P10000 Storage can hold a maximum of 512 SSDs in a single array which “reduces equipment costs, data-center footprint, and energy expenses.

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Dell to have strong presence at GITEX - ITP.net

Dell will showcase its portfolio of products and end to end solutions for the enterprise and SMB markets at GITEX Technology Week 2012. Focused around the five core areas of data centre infrastructure; cloud delivery and management; storage solutions; end user connected devices; and security, Dell will show how its solutions help customers meet their business needs and achieve competitive advantage.

Dell will be exhibiting in the Cloud Confex area where its experts will be on hand to show how businesses can leverage Dell’s solutions to gain an edge. The technology on show ranges from desktops, laptops, servers and networking to data centre solutions such as cloud computing and big data.

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Cloud Data Centers Getting Greener, Motivated By Savings - eWeek

There are also rumblings of solid-state storage being deployed as a resource-saving measure," according to the report.

A final example was prefabricated modular (PFM) data centers, which in themselves aren't more efficient but enable companies to achieve efficiencies by avoiding "infrastructure overcapacity.Greenpeace has been a vocal critic of what it calls "data farms" and in April released a report titled "How Clean Is Your Cloud?" It graded the clouds of major companies, heavily criticized Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, and gave the iCloud owner a D in energy efficiency and an F in infrastructure siting. (Apple, which nearly always ignores the press, responded that it was building the "greenest data center ever built.

 

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NetApp names new strategy, technology chiefs - MarketWatch

NetApp Inc. said it named Jay Kidd as its chief technology officer and Jonathan Kissane as its chief strategy officer, as the data-storage company said it hopes the new appointments will help position it for its next phase of growth.

Mr. Kidd will be tasked with shaping NetApp's technology plans and will report to Manish Goel, executive vice president of product operations. Prior to his latest appointment, Mr. Kidd led product strategy and development for NetApp's data management and management products. He previously worked as chief technology officer at Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (BRCD), which makes switches and software used to connect corporate servers and data-storage systems.

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EvidencePix, Box OneCloud integrate data authentication to mobile media ... - eChannelLine

EvidencePix Systems, an enterprise-grade secure mobile media service, has announced its integration with Box OneCloud, a leading mobile cloud for enterprise that unifies business information across devices and applications. The integration gives companies a highly secure, end-to-end solution for capturing, sending, and storing photos and data from mobile devices.

EvidencePix adds Box OneCloud to their recently released VerifyCloud service, a robust backend data management storage solution that works in conjunction with the mobile app VerifyPro to offer a secure, end-to-end solution for capturing, sending, storing, and managing visual data and media files from the field.

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Hitachi targets 2015 for glass-based data storage that lasts 100 million years

 

Hitachi has developed a glass-based data storage medium that is highly heat and water resistant, capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years, and says it may be able to bring it to market by 2015.

The company's main research lab has developed a way to etch digital patterns into robust quartz glass with a laser at a data density that is better than compact discs, then read it using an optical microscope. The data is etched at four different layers in the glass using different focal points of the laser.Hitachi said the new technology will be suitable for storing "historically important items such as cultural artifacts and public documents, as well as data that individuals want to leave for posterity."

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Pre Sales Systems Engineer - Here Is The City

Our Client, a leading global vendor & provider of IT data storage solutions, require a Presales Systems Engineer, with EMC, Netapp, HP, Dell, IBM, HDS, Unix, Linux, storage. We are looking for an individual who has a solid track record in pre sales systems Engineering for Enterprise client organisations based in the UK.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate in-depth experience and technical knowledge of providing and deploying technical architectures that deliver the highest value add with the any of the following storage platforms - EMC, Netapp, IBM, HDS or HP, Dell. You will be required to scope and write detailed statements of work and engage with the sales team to present solutions to customer's unique requirements.

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Cisco and NetApp Expand Data Center Infrastructure Solutions to Increase Market Coverage

Infrastructure Solution for Small and Midsize Organizations For growing small and medium-sized organizations that are beginning to virtualize their networking, storage, and computing environments, ExpressPod offers prepackaged and tested solution bundles. Integrated and delivered by joint channel partners, ExpressPod integrates Cisco UCS® C-Series servers, NetApp FAS2220 or FAS2240 storage, and Cisco Nexus® 3048 switches with infrastructure management, into an affordable, easy-to-deploy infrastructure solution. ExpressPod supports an open ecosystem of management and hypervisor solutions.

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Cisco Delivers Full Solution Portfolio for SAP HANA

Cisco offers customers the flexibility and choice of either EMC or NetApp storage in a scale-out solution for SAP HANA. Each of these world-class storage partners provides unique and critical multisite data replication capabilities that are necessary to deploy SAP HANA across a wide range of critical applications.

The portfolio also includes scale-out blade server solutions, which support up to eight terabytes of memory.  This solution is based on Cisco''s UCS B-Series Blade Servers with best-of-breed external storage.  The architecture enables high-availability and disaster tolerance across multiple data centers.

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Data Storage: Cheaper And Easier With Photonics - RedOrbit

As technology grows and components shrink, data storage usually follows suit, with ever-increasing capacities being packed into the tiniest of spaces.Though their needs are drastically different, consumers, researchers and scientists alike ask for the same thing: More available space packed in a smaller package. The rapid advancement in this area has already given many pause to contemplate how a handful of megabytes was once considered precious real estate. These days, the same amount of data is instantly streamed and then forgotten on our smartphones.

Thanks to a new technology developed by Case Western Reserve University researchers, this kind of massive storage on a tiny optical disk could be possible in coming years. With this new technology, optical discs could be capable of bearing the weight of 1 to 2 TERABYTES of data, providing not only an easier and more flexible way of storing data, but a cheaper way as well.

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Long way before Hitachi's glass storage chip realizes potential

Hitachi has developed a chip which can store data for a long time but industry watchers note while it has potential for usage in data centers and disaster recovery, its material fragility, usage of laser technology and high costs could hinder it from taking off with enterprises.In September, Hitachi developed a glass chip which it said can preserve data for hundreds of millions of years.

The technology stores digital data on slivers of quartz material, which should can store this data "indefinitely" under almost any environmental condition without degradation, the company's vice president and CTO Hu Yoshida, noted in a blog post.

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StorIT reveals strategic new partnership with Mellanox Technologies

 

StorIT, data storage specialist, value added distributor in the Middle East and North African 'MENA' region, has announced the signing of a strategic new distributor partnership agreement with Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems.Partnering with Mellanox Technologies strongly complements StorIT's continuing move to provide the region with complete end-to-end solutions that can help address the growing demand for systems that offer superior application performance, efficiency and scalability.

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IBM Readies New PureSystems For Big Data Tasks - CRN

IBM launched the pureSystems line of converged infrastructure servers back in April, combining computing, networking, data storage and systems management components into a single system. The products are designed to reduce IT system complexity and be easier to install and manage.

PureSystems compete with Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL)'s Engineered Systems, the company's line of servers that bundle Oracle hardware and software into turnkey appliances.The original PureSystems included the PureFlex server for general computing tasks and PureApplications for running Web and database applications.

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How To Choose Best SSD For Midsize Data Centers - InformationWeek

One consistent truth we have seen about solid state disk (SSD) is that the technology can improve performance in almost any size data center. The problem for midsize data centers beginning to explore this technology is how to best afford it. The SSD vendors have a seemingly endless set of options for data centers to consider, but which one is best for the midsize data center?

Overall there are three basic ways to implement flash SSD in the environment. First, SSD can be added or installed to a server's drive bays via drive form factor solid state or via a PCIe card slot. Second, an appliance can be added to the network that either acts as a standalone storage system or as a cache for an existing storage system. And finally, SSD can somehow be integrated into a storage system.

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Leveraging Intel 'Personal Cloud' for SMB Storage, Security - MSPmentor

Intel is releasing what it calls a “next generation” Atom processor-based storage solution that it says allows small businesses to protect their vital digital data. The solution’s “personal cloud” capabilities offer the promise of helping SMBs keep up with rapidly escalating volume of files, documents and other data that may overload their existing storage systems, in a secure manner.

The new Intel solution, which runs on either an Atom processor D2550 or D2500, provides what Intel refers to as a “personal cloud.” This means the system gives employees secure access to files either at the corporate office or from a remote personal device. Thus it effectively meets the need SMBs have for onsite data access and also lets them extend their enterprise with cloud capabilities. The solution also supports multiple file transfer protocols so companies can share data and content regardless of the operating system.

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HMRC moves data to the cloud - Cloud Pro

HMC Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has become the latest government department to embrace cloud computing.The office has chosen UK-based firm Skyscape Cloud Services to provide a data storage solution, making it the first department to deliver G-Cloud Services over the Public Services Network.The contract will centralise data that is currently stored in datacentres around the country on Skyscape’s UK cloud servers.The contract was awarded via the UK Government's G-Cloud framework and is thought to be the first major service contract to be awarded by an organisation as large as HMRC.

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TOP500 Systems Increase Adoption of DDN Offerings - HPCwire

Direct Networks (DDN), the leader in massively scalable storage, today announced a significant increase in the adoption of its award-winning High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data storage solutions by the world’s fastest supercomputers, as ranked by the June 2012 edition of the TOP500 list.

With a decade-long dedication to solving the world’s largest scalability challenges in HPC and Big Data environments, DDN’s award-winning storage appliances are now deployed in more than 150 of the world’s Top500 computer systems and deliver more total storage bandwidth than all other vendors combined. In addition, DDN has deployed to more Top100 systems on the June 2012 Top500 list than any other vendor.

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Next-Generation Intel® Atom™ Processor-Based Storage Platform Powers ... - DailyFinance

The next-generation Intel® Atom™ processor-based storage solution enables consumers and small businesses to protect their vital digital data.Small businesses are grappling with how to manage the dramatic growth of critical files, email and media. Meanwhile consumers are creating and purchasing vast amounts of digital content, including music, movies, photos, e-books and videos. To help them have greater control over of their data, Intel Corporation today announced its next-generation Intel® Atom™ processor-based storage solution.

Intel's next-generation Atom processor provides an ideal solution for powering intelligent storage system designs that will act as a personal cloud inside the office or home, and will deliver better ways to store and access data," said David Tuhy, general manager, Intel Storage Division. "With a range of systems designers on board, the Intel Atom processor-based storage solution raises the bar in how data is stored, managed and shared."

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Paragon Software's NTFS, exFAT, and HFS+ Drivers Support AppliedMicro ... - Broadcast Newsroom

Storage software developer Paragon Software Group (PSG) today announced its collaboration with AppliedMicro®, global leader in energy conscious computing and communications solutions for data center, telecom, enterprise and consumer applications, for the development of the best-of-class solution for the AppliedMicro PACKET pro family of single and multi-core processors for network attached storage (NAS) applications. Paragon's NTFS, exFAT and HFS+ for Linux drivers will target the new APM86xxx system-on-a-chip (SoC) processor family. The bundled solution speeds up communication between AppliedMicro-based network appliances and attached storage.

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11 new smart grid solutions from names you know - Smart Grid News

Dell's new smart Grid Data Management Solution tape  electric distribution system performance data to isolate and predict outages, enabling fast response and potentially averting service interruptions. Dell says the bundled solution combines high-performance computing, networking and storage to manage data and provide actionable results in real-time. Based on customer requirements and the age of the data, the solution provides three tiers of storage that Dells says enables customers to optimize performance at a low cost.

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Data Center Links: Riverbed, Juniper, Dell, Citrix - Data Center Knowledge

The Dell Smart Grid Data Management Solution  combines high-performance computing, networking and storage to manage data and provide actionable results in real-time. The reference architecture uses 12th generation Dell servers, PCI Express Flash drives and Dell Force10 high-performance 10/40GbE network switches. “Smart grid technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way power is produced, delivered, used and conserved – but only if we can effectively capture, analyze and respond to the data that is generated,” said Jeff Gillespey, global energy sales director for Dell. “Managing the data deluge is imperative for utility companies that want to make their operations more efficient, and Dell is committed to giving them the power to improve productivity and enhance service levels.

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Optimus launches low cost Data Management Solution bundles - Al-Bawaba

We are pleased to partner with some of the best global brands to create a powerful low-cost ‘Data Management solution’ bundle for the SMB segment and larger companies with distributed IT environments. Our new bundled solution is ideal for SMBs at a price they can afford and will help them to manage their businesses more effectively. By working closely with Acer, Netgear, Quest Software and Bitdefender, we are able to offer our customers and resellers an outstanding package deal, which is a one-of-its kind in this region. Customers implementing this bundle can expect to have no additional investment for the bundle for 3 years. We are also offering our partners a chance to earn rebates on buying more bundles, either together or at the end of the promotion,” says Meera Kaul, Managing Director, Optimus Technology & Telecommunication.

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Hitachi's New Quartz Storage Technology Lets You Keep Your Data Safe for a ... - ROCKETNEWS24

This new storage technology underwent an accelerated degradation test submitting it to two hours under 1000℃.  Afterwards the data embedded in quartz glass was retrievable with no corruption.  Translating these results under real world conditions we can expect this medium to survive into hundreds of millions of years. Conceivably, culture could never be lost again.If this was around in biblical times we could have had 100% intact records with some pristine digital photos of Jesus and his wife that we’re just getting around to hearing about now.

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Do Business Users Really Need SSDs, Or Will HDDs Work? - Technology Guide

HDD stands for hard disk drive and is the data storage technology that's been in primary use in computers for decades. In fact, hard disk drive technology has been around so long that it might be easier to measure its age in terms of centuries – as in, more than half a century. Originally developed by IBM in 1956, the very first HDD the world has ever known was about the size and weight of a piano and had a maximum capacity of just 5MB. For a fun diversion, check out IBM's original press release dated September 14, 1956. Naturally, they've come an awful long way since. Like we mentioned briefly above, hard disk drives are pretty much the opposite of solid state drives in that they contain moving parts: fast spinning platters and magnetic heads that write and read data.

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STEC to Display Its Leading Solid-State Storage Solutions at Oracle OpenWorld 2012

A leading global provider of solid-state drive (SSD) technologies and products, today announced live demonstrations of the company's latest SSD solutions at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, September 30 to October 4. STEC will have executives and technical experts on hand to showcase its industry-leading SSD solutions that address the growing need in the enterprise for reliable, cost-effective storage that delivers superior application performance.

I/O-intensive applications present a significant performance challenge for IT professionals, which will only become tougher as both growth of data and increase of system speed accelerate year to year. STEC storage solutions help organizations use the latest advances in SSD hardware and software to conquer the application performance challenges presented by even the most complex applications.

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Infortrend EonNAS 1310 and 1510 Announced to Meet Data Storage Demands for SMBs

Data storage solutions provider, Infortrend, has added two new models to its EonNAS 1000 Series - the EonNAS 1310 and 1510, which feature 2U/8-bay and a 2U/12-bay rackmount form factors respectively. These new storage solutions help SMB users to optimize file sharing, IP SAN applications, data storage, and data backup and are specifically designed to protect mission critical business data.

The EonNAS 1310 and 1510 SMBs enterprise-class storage solutions are equipped with advanced data protection features, such as data de-duplication and compression for optimized resource utilization and the ZFS file system for end-to-end data integrity. Features like unlimited snapshot capability, which offers space-efficient differential data copies to quickly rollback data or restore files in the event of data errors, offer even further data protection.

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Budd Van Lines Solves Big Data Storage Challenge with Nexenta Systems - MarketWatch (press release)

Nexenta Systems, a world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced it is powering executive moving company Budd Van Lines' storage area network (SAN) with its flagship NexentaStor storage solution.

Nexenta's OpenStorage solutions solve the storage challenges of Big Data by empowering customers to grow and manage their storage capacity cost effectively, while ensuring all of their information is secure today and into the future. With NexentaStor, Budd Van Lines benefits from higher performing storage management, replication, disaster recovery, and the ability to use in-house hardware to make the entire solution cost efficient.

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Oracle: Big Business Has Big Data Woes - New York Times (blog)

Mr. Hurd made these points to underline the importance of new data storage technologies, like the one Oracle is offering, which, he said, would shrink data storage by close to 90 percent. And once the data is stored, Oracle’s analysis software will be deployed to improve how businesses find and interact with customers, he said.

He also managed a couple of digs at the competition. (Hey, it wouldn’t be Oracle without that, right?) “SAP has not written a line of code for cloud computing; they’ve just purchased companies,” he said. “We’ve spent seven years on it."

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Nasuni's CEO To Speak At Interop On The Secure Use Of Cloud Storage

Nasuni is an enterprise storage company that provides globally-distributed organizations with a simple, unified storage solution that includes mobile access for all of their remote and branch offices. By combining on-premise hardware with cloud storage, Nasuni delivers a secure, all-in-one data storage solution that provides local performance for users, simplified and centralized management for IT, and an easily scalable, complete remote office storage solution for the enterprise.

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Hitachi Quartz Glass Data Technology Unveiled, To Store Data Forever

Hitachi has developed a new data storage solution it has unveiled today, that uses a new quartz glass plate technology to store data indefinitely.

The new data storage solution is capable of storing the data on on slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions, without ever degrading the data stored within.Researches are now developing new solutions with more layers which they say shouldn’t prove a problem. Hitachi researcher Kazuyoshi Torii said.

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DLR Reopens Renovated Facility - Analyst Blog - NASDAQ

Digital Realty operates data centers and digital storage facilities which are primarily used by telecommunication companies to maintain their Internet presence or augment their data networks. Data centers usually incur high costs for building and maintenance, and as such the supply is relatively inelastic.Digital Realty primarily focuses on investment in institutional quality data center facilities in high barriers-to-entry markets with significant potential to generate attractive risk-adjusted return on investments (ROI).

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GridIron Announces TurboCharger GT-1500 Data Accelerator Appliance - StorageReview.com

GridIron Systems has announced TurboCharger GT-1500, a Flash-based appliance that drastically improves the performance of entire data center Storage Area Networks (SANs) to solid state speeds while avoiding the issue of disrupting servers, storage or software applications. The GridIron TurboCharger is an innovative appliance that does away with conventional storage I/O bottlenecks by intelligently caching and accelerating application data delivery. To make sure applications run at optimum performance levels, TurboCharger continuously profiles the behavior of applications and caches performance-critical data for rapid, low-latency delivery.

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