SoftNAS Offers Cloud Storage Management

Storage start up SoftNAS has released a new beta version of its virtual appliance for managing an organization's storage capacity. The software which is also named SoftNAS runs within cloud environments such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or on a customer's existing virtual servers including VMware ESXi vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V and converts storage space into a network attached storage or NAS like environment.The company offers a free Essentials version that's limited to a maximum storage capacity of one terabyte. A paid edition is $995/terabyte per year or $100/terabyte per month.SoftNAS aggregates disks to create a chunk of storage space which function like volumes or file systems. The program offers deduplicating and other features intended to increase storage capacity and system speed. A snapshot capability takes copies of changed data blocks as new data is saved. It also captures snapshots of specified volumes and file systems at scheduled intervals.

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Great Balance Sheet And Low Multiple On Trough Earnings Make NetApp A Buy

App Inc (NTAP) is a leading provider of storage systems and data management solutions for IT infrastructures. The company's products helps its clients manage and store the increasing amount of data that is generated in today's digital world. We are now entering an era of big data in which the amount of data processed and stored by enterprises is pressuring traditional storage architectures. NTAP provides products and solutions optimized to handle growing analytics, bandwidth and content workloads. Economic pressures are depressing IT budgets around the world which has stalled NTAP's previously robust growth trajectory, particularly because Europe and the public sector are key markets for NTAP. Despite these pressures and significant competition from EMC and others we believe that NTAP is well-suited to compete in the midrange and lower-end storage systems space.

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NetApp HPS Rack application helps manage increasing data growth

The new prepackaged and preconfigured storage application is built on the NetApp E-Series platform and delivers high performance that 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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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