This Article focuses on augmenting your data protection strategy by combining Dell Storage solutions with a modern approach. Some of the features included in a modernized approach to data protection include:
-Data reduction - Shrink backup storage requirements by 80% or more
-Space efficient snapshots, image-level backup - Achieve low-impact, near instant recovery to any RTO
-Remote replication - Ensure business continuity during system or site outages
-Continuous Data Protection (CDP) - Meet mission-critical high-availability requirements
-Database-and application-awareness - Ease administration and ensure consistent recovery
-Virtualization aware - Streamline and accelerate protection of virtual environments
-Private/public cloud enabled - Access cloud-based resources as destination targets.
Tuesday 27 November 2012
CIO Strategies for Data Storage Protection
Sunday 18 November 2012
Online storage company Dropbox reaches 100 million users
According to some online reviews Dropbox allows you to sync files with little effort, offers a wide variety of app for all operating systems and has very dependable servers.
As a freemium service DropBox brings a couple different price options for users starting with the Basic which gives you just 2GB of storage at no cost. If you have a bunch of friends you can actually earn more storage with the use of the referral system, which will get you an additional 16GB at the most at 500MB per referral. If you need a lot more space you can get 100GB of $99 per year, 200GB of $199 per year or 500GB of storage for just $499 per year. DropBox also offers an option for small businesses and that plan starts at $795 per year for 1TB of online storage for up to five users.
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Great Balance Sheet And Low Multiple On Trough Earnings Make NetApp A Buy
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Wednesday 14 November 2012
Box Enhances Data Center Capacity With Equinix
With this deal, Box gets data center capacity outside the USA which is even more important when one considers the fact that more than half of Box customers are outside the USA. Box will now run Equinix IBX data centers in places like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Chicago and Amsterdam. The IBX facilities of Equinix play host to multiple internet service providers and carriers and networks.
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NetApp HPS Rack application helps manage increasing data growth
NetApp E-Series applications are designed to process, analyse, manage and access data at scale to meet customers needs in industries requiring applications with dedicated workloads including oil and gas, financial services, media and entertainment, high-performance computing and the public sector. The new application includes preconfigured servers, management and monitoring software and the open-source Lustre parallel file system enabling organisations to reduce deployment time, lower risk, reduce total cost of ownership and speed time to results.
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How Pandora, Alibris slashed their data-center power needs
Its no secret that data centers consume large amounts of energy. Between powering and cooling all the equipment found in a data center, including servers, networking gear, and storage, a lot of electricity and money goes into maintaining our digital world. With so much budget focused on keeping datacenters running at top speed finding a green solution is a lofty goal, particularly since few companies will go green if it means sacrificing responsiveness to customers.The call for greening the world’s data centers is not new. In 2006, a congressional study released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showed U.S. data centers consumed an estimated 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy each year. This usage accounted for about 1.5 percent of the total electricity consumed in the U.S. in 2006. The report also said data centers cooling infrastructure accounts for about half of that electricity consumption.
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Key Details on Wii U Storage Solutions
USB Hard drives:
The default and barring an update that Nintendo says is coming in the future, Wii U will only allow one USB drive to be connected at a time. These drives cannot be disconnected while Wii U is powered on and the system will support and read up to 2TB of storage.
Drives that will be used by Wii U must be formatted by the system's Data Management system, meaning you can not use the drive with a PC without partitioning. However all data can be moved internally and externally through Wii U's OS.
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Tuesday 13 November 2012
NetApp launches Oregon data center
NetApp launched its new data center in Hillsboro. The data center will house IT infrastructure for the storage vendor’s customer support monitoring and corporate IT services. NetApp designed the facility together with Digital Realty Trust, a global San Francisco-based developer and provider of wholesale data center space.
The data center is part of NetApp’s efforts to modernize its IT infrastructure. Key tenets of this transformation are automatic provisioning and optimization of storage resources, 100% data accessibility and seamless storage-resource scaling capabilities. Describing the infrastructure, NetApp CIO Cynthia Stoddard said, To achieve the growth objectives we have, we need to enable an environment where the data is essentially immortal. it is always available never having to worry about scheduled downtime or gaps in our ability to support our customers. NetApp installed its own storage clusters at the facility using its Data OnTap operating system. The hardware is NetApp FAS6200 arrays providing about 1.5PB of clustered storage total.
More at NetApp launches Oregon data center - DatacenterDynamics
Quantum Announces New Family of Wide Area Storage Solutions for Managing
A proven global expert in data protection and big data management, today unveiled a new family of wide area storage solutions, Lattus, which provides globally distributed disk-based archives that are extremely scalable and cost-effective and allows storage of data forever on disk without interruption or migration. Integrating dispersed object storage and Quantum file system technologies, these solutions offer a new approach to archiving that overcomes the limitations and inefficiencies posed by traditional disk architectures in multi-petabyte storage environments. Lattus-X, the first product in the Lattus family is a wide area storage solution with NAS access that will be generally available next month.
Benefits:
Benefits of Wide Area Storage Solutions Lattus is built to address the challenges inherent in current solutions based on RAID architectures that grow to the petabyte level and beyond in industries such as digital media, science research, surveillance and energy exploration. Incorporating next-generation object storage technology, Lattus products are optimized for managing large and growing repositories of big data indefinitely, thereby enabling customers to extract the data's maximum value over its entire life.
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Brocade and Hyve Solutions Partner to Deliver Fully Integrated Big Data
Big Data applications require a high-performance, fabric-based network infrastructure tightly integrated with purpose-built, high-density, flexible and efficient server and storage solutions. The Brocade VDX 8770 Switch with VCS Fabric technology provides the low-latency, high-performance cut-through architecture to address the bursty and variable traffic patterns inherent in Big Data applications. The result is a flexible VCS fabric that is designed for both scalability and performance. As network needs grow capacity can be added without manual configuration as new switches self-provision when connected to the fabric.
Coupled with Hyve Solutions server and storage offerings this networking infrastructure creates a custom, turnkey, fully integrated, network, server and storage solution specifically designed for Big Data environments that require innovative server and storage designs. Hyve Solutions server and storage solutions integrate density, efficiency, flexibility, quality and cost-effective designs elements that are critical for an effective Big Data platform.
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Cobalt Iron Exits Stealth Mode With Unified Data Protection To The Cloud
Cobalt Iron on came out of stealth mode with the introduction of storage technology that it claims unifies a business data protection requirements into a single on-premises or cloud storage solution.
Cobalt Iron provides a consistent interface that offers businesses the right class of protection that combines file services, file-level backups, continuous data protection, database and email server protection, and virtualized environments across any operating environment via an appliance, said Richard Spurlock, CEO and founder of the Lawrence, Kan based company.
Cobalt Iron's Adaptive Data Protection technology combines enterprise backup and cloud data protection technologies into a single offering to unify the data protection process, Spurlock said.
More at Cobalt Iron Exits Stealth Mode With Unified Data Protection To The Cloud - CRN
Monday 12 November 2012
Xyratex Discusses HPC Data Storage technology at SC12
Xyratex Ltd a leading provider of data storage technology, today announced it will have a strong presence at SC12, the premier international conference for highperformance computing, networking, storage and analysis to be held this week in Salt Lake City. Xyratex will showcase its HPC data storage solutions and demonstrate the value it brings to the market through a number of speeches and presentations as well as in its booth exhibition.
Xyratex also today announced that its Xyratex ClusterStor family of integrated Lustre HPC data storage solutions are available through Dell. With Dell's significant footprint in the commercial sector, HPC customers will now be able to scale both storage performance and capacity while aggressively reducing space, power and administrative overhead.
More at Xyratex Discusses HPC Data Storage at SC12 - HPCwire
Xyratex High Performance Computing data storage solutions now available through Dell
Xyratex also today announced that its Xyratex ClusterStor family of integrated Lustre HPC data storage solutions are available through Dell. With Dell's significant footprint in the commercial sector, HPC customers will now be able to scale both storage performance and capacity while aggressively reducing space, power and administrative overhead.
We have been very pleased with the market adoption of the ClusterStor 6000 HPC data storage solution we launched this summer and we continue to see terrific results from our ongoing investment in the ClusterStor software management framework and the Lustre file system, said Ken Claffey, senior director of the ClusterStor business line at Xyratex. We look forward to showing SC12 attendees the latest advancements we have been working on around these products and others and how our work is delivering significant value to the HPC end users.
More at Xyratex to Drive Discussion About High Performance Computing Data Storage at ... - Sacramento Bee
New Storage and Management Features for IBM PureSystems Help Clients
To help clients increase their IT utilization and reduce datacenter operation costs, IBM today introduced new mobile, management and storage components for its PureFlex and Flex System portfolios. Key among these components is a new storage system to help improve storage utilization as much as 30 percent while delivering extraordinary ease of use.
This storage system is tightly integrated with IBM Flex System Manager and uses IBM Storwize family virtualization and unique IBM Real-time Compression technologies to help clients reduce storage requirements by up to 80 percent. As a result clients can run their most important workloads with no application performance degradation.
IBM also unveiled new capabilities for PureFlex and Flex Systems that will provide the management and administration tools clients need to effectively increase their datacenter utilization. These include: integrated end-to-end storage management; mobile access to the system for clients through a wide range of mobile devices and centralized control of user id's and passwords across nodes and chassis for greater system security. These features will build upon the capabilities of Flex System Manager to help organizations more efficiently create and manage their IT infrastructures.
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Big Data set for big growth
The Big Data technology and services market in the Asia-Pacific excluding Japan is expected to grow from US$258.5 million in 2011 to $1.76 billion in 2016 on the back of a 46.8 per cent five-year compound annual growth rate.
The Big Data market in Asia-Pacific is building the momentum that will deliver a strong acceleration in 2-3 years time. Organisations that start the process now may find themselves with a 12-18 month competitive advantage over those who wait, said Craig Stires research director of Asia Pacific Big Data and Analytics at IDC.
Big Data requires organisations to rethink their technology architectures, processes, and skill sets in order to attain the real value of this phenomenon. Organisations that have already developed an effective business analytics program are positioned to be the first adopters of Big Data technology and approaches.
Sunday 11 November 2012
Active archive software: Not just for the enterprise anymore
Small and midsize organizations face data storage management challenges just like large enterprises. Even though disks are growing in capacity, the amount of data being created, processed and stored continues to grow at ever-increasing rates. While disk-based storage becomes cheaper, facility costs for power, space and cooling continue to grow.
Even for small and medium-sized businesses retaining idle data that is too valuable to delete but too expensive to store on spinning disks is a perfect task for robotic tape libraries with the right software management system. This setup is considered an "active archive" which refers to archive data that's accessible but not instantly available though an active archive can be stored on disk as well as on tape at some point in its lifetime.
More at Active archive software: Not just for the enterprise anymore - TechTarget
NetApp Launches Midrange Data Storage and Management Platforms
NetApp has launched the new FAS3200 series midrange storage systems. The company designed them with the education market in mind to help consolidate operations onto a shared storage platform. The FAS3220 and FS3250 systems are intended for storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) environments. They include native support for high-speed, low-latency flash and according to NetApp, they provide a foundation for highly scalable agile data infrastructure.
They are suitable for virtualize private cloud or traditional environments and a single system can accommodate a wide range of storage requirements from only a few terabytes to more than 2 petabytes. When clustered they can scale performance and capacity across 24 storage nodes, according to NetApp.
More at NetApp Launches Midrange Data Storage and Management Platforms - Campus Technology
EaseUS Deploy Manager 2.0 announced for Windows IT System Managers
EaseUS Software is an innovative software developer that keeps providing cost effective solutions for Storage management and data protection since its inception. Known internationally for its full featured solutions, EaseUS now introduces a system deployment tool: EaseUS Deploy Manager 2.0, which can efficiently deploy system images to multiple computer machines simultaneously providing maximum flexibility and driving down cost.
IT administrators in a school, private business or government agency might always have been troubled by setting up systems to numbers of new machines which could be tiring and complex. However now you can deploy all your laptops, desktops and servers quickly and easily with EaseUS Deploy Manager being a powerful solution for system deployment.
More at EaseUS Deploy Manager 2.0 announced for Windows IT System Managers - eNewsChannels
Active archive software: Not just for the enterprise anymore
Small and midsize organizations face data storage management challenges just like large enterprises. Even though disks are growing in capacity, the amount of data being created, processed and stored continues to grow at ever-increasing rates. While disk-based storage becomes cheaper, facility costs for power, space and cooling continue to grow.
Even for small and medium-sized businesses, retaining idle data that is too valuable to delete but too expensive to store on spinning disks is a perfect task for robotic tape libraries with the right software management system. This setup is considered an "active archive" which refers to archive data thats accessible but not instantly available though an active archive can be stored on disk as well as on tape at some point in its lifetime.
More at Active archive software: Not just for the enterprise anymore - TechTarget
More analytics means advanced data management
How companies manage their informational assets could be incredibly important going forward. Storing data has only grown more vital as analytics becomes a corporate priority. According to recent Forrester research, businesses should focus on their information storage strategies, which often end up complicated. The bigger the company, the more pronounced this tendency will be.
The source noted that there are many new software options available to control variables like data quality. Selecting the right one could represent the difference between strong return on investment and confusion. Firms tend to have assets spread over a wide range, meaning finding a way to combine them could be both difficult and important.
There are many important considerations for modern data storage. According to Forrester, that means supporting options like self-service analytics by business users as well as IT pros. It could also include deviations from the norm to meet new regulations.
More at More analytics means advanced data management - Experian QAS
IU deploys massive data storage resource to support Big Red II supercomputer
Indiana University today announced the successor to its internationally recognized Data Capacitor research data storage platform. The new system, called Data Capacitor II (DCII), is a five petabyte storage resource engineered to provide scientific researchers with high performance access to a robust storage facility. DCII will be used for a range of applications, including management of massive research data sets, high-scale data analysis, genomic sequencing and computational visualization.
Using its GRIDScaler enterprise file storage technology, DDN will also provide a new service for long-term research data storage. This resource will also power IU's IUanyWare cloud-based service, which provides students, faculty and staff with on-demand access to hundreds of software applications.
EMC opens EMC Labs developing data storage technologies
Data storage equipment maker EMC Corp. said it was opening an EMC Labs in Israel aimed at developing innovative technologies for data storage, security and big data.EMC opened an EMC Labs in China last year.
EMC Labs in Israel will primarily be research oriented and will operate without any product, organizational or regional EMC constrictions, EMC said. Its research activities will focus on next generation technology that EMC says it must develop to address the challenges and opportunities in the world of information technology.The first project at EMC Labs in Israel will focus on learning storage behavior in order to foresee the storage needs of various systems and optimize storage performance. It will use machine learning methods and big data analytics and data mining tools.
Saturday 10 November 2012
Review: Surface mostly bridges work-play divide
I have been conditioned just like any other consumer to expect certain things from certain companies. When it comes to tablets, I expect Apple's to look and feel amazing, Google's to seamlessly blend online services such as Gmail and search and Amazon's to have easy access to its online storage.
So when Microsoft came out with its first tablet computer, the Surface, I wanted and expected a machine that is good for work. After all its Windows operating system runs most of the world's computers particularly in corporate environments.
The Surface is Microsoft's first attempt at a general-purpose computer. In the past, it made the software and left it to other companies to make the machines. But to catch the tablet wave led by Apple's iPad, Microsoft felt it needed to make its own device.
More at Review: Surface mostly bridges work-play divide - The Associated Press
Friday 9 November 2012
NetApp HPS Rack Simplifies Growing Data Volumes
Today NetApp is helping customers with these deployment and management challenges with the announcement of the NetApp High-Performance Storage (HPS) Rack. The prepackaged and preconfigured data storage solution delivers high performance that scales to help manage ever-increasing data growth. The HPS Rack includes preconfigured servers, management and monitoring softwar and the open-source Lustre parallel file system, enabling organizations to shorten deployment time from months to days, lower risk, reduce total cost of ownership, and speed time to results.
The NetApp HPS Rack is built on the NetApp E-Series platform. NetApp E-Series solutions efficiently process, analyze, manage, and access data at scale to meet customers’ needs in industries requiring applications with dedicated workloads, including oil and gas, financial services, media and entertainment, high-performance computing and the public sector. Customers can spark innovation, make better decisions and drive successful business outcomes at the speed of today's business.
More at NetApp HPS Rack Simplifies Growing Data Volumes - HPCwire
Thursday 8 November 2012
Best Network Drive Storage Solutions for Your Business
While there used to be a gradual change within the data storage segment, things have changed rapidly with the introduction of network attached storage drives. These NAS drives work at an increased efficiency and enable your business processes to access data in the most efficient manner. While the office space is optimized to the maximum level, the speed and efficacy of your business processes is improved and data crash hassles are completely annihilated. However, the success lies in choosing the best network drive storage solutions for your business.
More at Best Network Drive Storage Solutions for Your Business - Benchmark Reviews
Wednesday 7 November 2012
DDN Announces SFA7700 Hybrid Flash Storage
DataDirect Networks, the leader in massively scalable storage, today announced the availability of its next-generation scale-out storage platform: The SFA7700 hybrid Flash storage appliance with SFX acceleration. This innovative modular, scale-out appliance brings an industry-leading level of performance to data-intensive applications such as computational simulation, government intelligence, media, web and Big Data analytics that require multi-dimensional storage performance and smart storage tiering combined with leading data center density for both structured and unstructured data.
The SFA7700 is a fully redundant hybrid storage platform engineered for performance and capacity optimization of block- and file-based applications. The base system supports 60 Flash and/or spinning disk drives in only 4U of datacenter rack space, and is expandable to support up to 396 disks in just 20U of rack space.
More at DDN Announces SFA7700 Hybrid Flash Storage - HPCwire
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Indian Big Data solutions market to reach USD 153.1 million by 2014
Big Data solutions market opportunity is estimated to grow to USD 153.1 million by 2014, according to a NetApp commissioned IDC study titled "Here Comes Big Data: Perspectives from Indian Enterprises". This represents a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37.8 percent for the period 2011-2014. Big Data solutions market opportunity stood at USD 58.4 million in 2011, with IT services and software contributing the major chunk of the overall Big Data solutions market.
The study revealed that Big Data solutions market in India is currently at a nascent stage, with only 5 percent of the organizations in the large and very large segment (with more than 1,000 employees) having embraced this technology. By 2014, IDC expects the market penetration to reach 18.4 percent of the organizations in the large and very large segment across different verticals.
More at Indian Big Data solutions market to reach USD 153.1 million by 2014: Study - InformationWeek India
Sunday 4 November 2012
Imation Recognized by Tekne Awards for Innovative Data Storage Solutions - DailyFinance
A global scalable storage and data security company, was presented with a 2012 Tekne Award in the Computer Hardware and Electronic Devices category recognizing the Imation DataGuard Data Protection Appliance. Imation RDX Media Secure was also nominated as a finalist.The 2012 Tekne Awards honor Minnesota companies and individuals for technology innovation and leadership.
Data storage demands continue to evolve as IT professionals are now managing more digital content while also addressing security, business continuity and regulatory compliance. We often hear from our technology and channel partners that only Imation can deliver solutions to address the distinct storage needs of SMBs at a cost-effectiv.
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New Update! EaseUS Todo Backup 5.3 and EaseUS Deploy Manager Bring a ... - Massachusetts Newswire
EaseUS Software, as an innovative software developer for providing cost effective solutions for storage management and data protection, today released version 5.3 of its family of EaseUS Todo Backup products and the new release of EaseUS Deploy Manager. The latest version and new product has been enhanced a lot to meet the growing needs of PCs, workstations and servers users.
EaseUS provides software for important data backup, restore and retention of business-critical data. Clients include home, SMB users, service providers as well as international corporations. EaseUS’s cost-effective solutions ensure that optimal technological and economical use. Version 5.3 allows users to back up crucial information to cloud directory folder and then synchronously upload images to clouds like, Google Drive, SkyDrive and Dropbox for double protection of data.
More at New Update! EaseUS Todo Backup 5.3 and EaseUS Deploy Manager Bring a ... - Massachusetts Newswire
Companies think big data quality is high - Experian QAS
According to InformationWeek, the advent of big data storage and management may have given companies some misleading ideas about their own capabilities. For instance, some firms may believe they have the information they need. Despite this confidence, not many have the dedicated data quality sections that could make their plans successful.
The source suggested companies may be neglecting to report issues with their information management capabilities. For instance, such firms will release data to the public but not state important statistics like margin of error. Such careless businesses will have a hard time obtaining the "single point of truth" they strive for.
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Nexsan SAN Storage Certified on Cisco UCS Servers - HPCwire
Nexsan, a leading independent provider of data storage systems, today announced that its E-Series high density SAN storage solution has been certified on both the Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) B-Series and C-Series server lines. The Nexsan E18, E18X, E48, E48X, E60 and E60X products are now all supported on Cisco UCS B-series and C-Series via fibre channel. Nexsan and Cisco have a strong and close technology partnership and this certification enables Cisco UCS customers to leverage all the power, efficiency and price performance of the Nexsan E-Series SAN via the UCS platform environment. Customers opting for the enterprise-class Cisco UCS servers can now enjoy complementary dense storage for unprecedented volumes of compute power and storage capacity in the least amount of space.
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New NetApp Data Center Enables Business Agility and Forms Backbone of ... - Marketwire (press release)
NetApp will launch a new data center facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, that will play an integral role in the company's aggressive plans to expand the services it provides for its more than 12,000 employees and thousands of customers. The data center will be the hub for all NetApp global customer support monitoring and corporate IT services and will leverage the NetApp® agile data infrastructure architecture to deliver nonstop, infinitely scalable operations. At the heart of this agile data infrastructure is NetApp Data ONTAP®, the world's #1 storage operating system. The energy-efficient data center was designed in partnership with Digital Realty, a leading provider of data center solutions.
Fast Five Ways to a High-Efficiency Data Center - The Data Center Journal (blog)
The “Fast Five Ways to a High-Efficiency Data Center” represents a series of best practices and technologies involved in operating a high-efficiency data center.IT professionals must review their network designs in the data center with experts able to ensure it is built to run according to a modern data center operating model. This should include support for wide-area network (WAN), network-attached storage (NAS), local-area network (LAN) and storage-area network (SAN) resources. And it must include the proper redundancy to support a 24/7 data center operation. Rationalization can also mean an in-depth review of data center distribution models and creating zones following new industry standards to optimize cabling and networking efficiency.
More at Fast Five Ways to a High-Efficiency Data Center - The Data Center Journal (blog)
CommVault shares jump on results, outlook - MarketWatch
The company, which provides enterprise level data-storage solutions, reported results for the second fiscal quarter on Monday, during the market closure, that included a 76% surge in earnings for the period. Net income rose to $13.9 million, or 29 cents per share, compared to $7.9 million, or 17 cents per share, for the same period last year. Adjusted earnings were 38 cents a share. Revenue rose 21% to $118.2 million Analysts had been expecting earnings of 28 cents a share on revenue of $115.7 million, according to Thomson Reuters. On a conference call Monday, the company said it believed Wall Street's revenue target for its 2013 fiscal year was "reasonable." Gabriel Lowry of Mizuho Securities wrote in a note that "CommVault is not experiencing the macro effects impacting its peer group, reflecting solid execution and strong underlying market demand.
More at CommVault shares jump on results, outlook - MarketWatch
Thursday 1 November 2012
CommVault IntelliSnap Brings Storage Automation - Channelnomics
CommVault Systems Inc. is continuing its efforts in the data management and backup space with the launch of Simpana IntelliSnap Recovery Manager. The new storage solution provides a holistic backup approach that can accomodate both virtual and physical systems, while stretching across multiple storage arrays and heterogeneous data center environments.
Storage is a constant in the IT world, but storage is also becoming more complex. In other words, CommVault has built an all-encompassing data solution, baked with a layer of automation and application-aware capabilities that untangle complicated storage environments inside the biggest data centers. It’s the right move, because that’s exactly the market CommVault is seeking to attack: the enterprise datacenter.
More at CommVault IntelliSnap Brings Storage Automation - Channelnomics
Cisco Patches Vulnerabilities in Data Center and Web Conferencing Products - Threatpost (blog)
Cisco is warning its customers about a remote command execution vulnerability in its Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager. The product manages Ethernet and storage networks and troubleshoots for performance issues on Cisco products running NX-OS software. Versions prior to 6.1.1 are vulnerable to remote exploits on the underlying system that hosts the application, Cisco said.
An attacker could send abitrary commands via the JBoss Application Server Remote Method Invocation (RMI) service, which is exposed to unauthenticated users. Cisco said no exploits are in the wild, but there is a Metasploit module that would exploit the JBoss configuration in question.
More at Cisco Patches Vulnerabilities in Data Center and Web Conferencing Products - Threatpost (blog)
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Expands Its Big Data Infrastructure Technical ... - Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
DataDirect Networks, the leader in massively scalable storage, today announced the launch of the company's official technical certification program. The three-level curriculum is designed to enable organizations to develop in-house resources to manage DDN's scalable portfolio of SAN, NAS and object storage appliances.
Available immediately, customers and partners can enroll in multi-level courses that are held either within DDN's facilities around the world or via custom onsite classes. Additionally, the company announced expanded support for all DDN partners to develop a minimum of two DDN Certified Storage Professionals on staff as part of the DDN PartnerLink ecosystem