Virtela adds Cloud Accelerator, a new service to its cloud services portfolio that optimizes network traffic for data centers on any public cloud environment. – Virtela expanded its cloud services portfolio with a new WAN acceleration
service for customers utilizing public clouds for their data centers, the
company said Jan. 26.
Similar to the WAN Acceleration service Virtela launched in the summer,
Cloud Accelerator speeds up application performance be…
HP’s new Critical Advantage services are designed to help companies that are moving their business-critical applications into virtualized environments. – Hewlett-Packard
is unveiling a new set of services to help businesses that are growing their
deployment of virtualization technologies in their x86-based data centers.
Called
HP Critical Advantage, the services come as enterprises and smaller businesses
are moving more of their mission-critic…
Seagate’s Constellation.2, a 1TB hard disk drive for storage arrays and enterprise data centers, will be shipped in Dell systems at the end of the month. – Seagate introduced on Dec. 13 the Constellation.2, a 1TB
hard disk drive designed for enterprise server storage applications.
The 2.5-inch hard disk drives are intended for a variety
of storage environments, including direct attached storage, network attached
storage and storage area network s…
Thanks to virtualization options and improving application and middleware software, storage capacity, processor performance and cooling apparatuses, new data centers are inherently more efficient. – IT researcher Gartner reported Nov. 18 that most new data centers now being
planned and built will have inherent efficiencies that will enable up to 300
percent growth in storage capacity and use 60 percent less floor space to do
it.
According to consistent reports from eWEEK industry and anal…
New VRX-8 v4.0 said to bring "20 times more throughput [up to 1Gb/per second end-to-end]" than the best WAN appliance now available. – Silver Peak Systems, fast becoming a global player in the burgeoning
data center-class wide area network (WAN) optimization world, Nov. 16
announced a new, souped-up version of its VRX-8 virtual appliance for
data centers.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which went into the financial
…
Enterasys’ management software offers IT staffs greater control over virtualized environments with an all-encompassing view of the data center infrastructure. – Enterasys Networks executives in June unveiled
a data center networking strategy that is designed to take on larger rivals
like Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Brocade Communications, and started
with improvements to its S-Series family of switches.
Enterasys
on Nov. 15 rolled out the next s…
Gartner analysts say security must evolve as organizations move away from virtualized servers in the data center towards private cloud computing environments. – Security principles will remain fundamentally the same
across virtualized data centers and private cloud environments, but how
security services are provisioned and delivered will have to change, said
Gartner analysts on Nov. 8.
Most organizations will first virtualize servers in the
data cente…
Data center managers have had to face recurring issues like these for years: How does one manage a data center and keep up with daily demand when dwindling resources threaten production output? How does one indoctrinate an undertrained staff when there are frequent new technical requirements they need to learn and implement? There are others, to be sure. In general, there are other excellent resources in the data center and software development communities who can help you out. For example, check out the AFCOM industry group, which hosts the twice-yearly Data Center World conference in the U.S. for data center managers; its resources for community-based instruction are vast. The SIIA [Software & Information Industry Association] is another good organization to tap for ideas on software development. There are also industry folks who pride themselves on offering help and advice. For example, one is Josh Stephens, a 15-year industry veteran and is currently CTO and vice president at SolarWinds, a provider of downloadable IT management software, based in Austin, Texas. Stephens, the chief resource for this slideshow, is the company’s so-called "Head Geek" and an active moderator on SolarWind’s online community, THWACK.com. – …
Extreme Networks is rolling out a family of Ethernet switches designed to give enterprises greater flexibility in such areas as the campus core, virtualized data centers and cloud computing environments. – Extreme Networks officials are aiming for versatility and
scalability in a new family of Ethernet switches that can be deployed anywhere
from the edge of the network through campus environments and into virtualized
data centers.
The Summit X460 family of Gigabit Ethernet switches, unveiled Oct…
HP certainly is one of the few companies with the knowledge farm to put together such a comprehensive program. – Before an enterprise can build an expensive new-generation data center with
a converged infrastructure, the CTO, CIO
or IT manager needs to get the right training to see that the job gets done
correctly.
Knowing all about this, Hewlett-Packard on Oct. 20 introduced at Interop New
York what it…
New RackSwitch G8264 brings 40G capabilities to the data center with advanced network management and virtualization capabilities – Blade Network Technologies introduced RackSwitch G8264 to
accelerate data center adoption of 10G and 40G, the company said on Oct. 14.
The RackSwitch G8264 is a single-chip 40 Gigabit Ethernet
top-of-rack switch that delivers more than 1 Terabit of low-latency
throughput to the data center. Base…
Hewlett-Packard unveils networking and ProLiant systems to simplify branch office management and data center deployment, and also debuts a TippingPoint-based security service. – Hewlett-Packard rolled out new features Oct. 5 for its Converged
Infrastructure portfolio to provide customers with integrated servers, storage,
networking and software.
The announcement introduced a series of offerings designed to simplify
branch office management, a new HP TippingPoint securit…
Business process orchestration, or automation, can contain costs and improve security for an enterprise. It consists of integrating applications, restructuring labor resources and deploying reliable automatic security measures throughout an organization. Nowhere is this more important than with a mobile workforce. Having reliable processes in place is crucial to ensure proper security and prepare for the inevitable security lapse, such as a lost laptop. However, enforcing effective business processes is one of the most difficult things for an enterprise to do consistently. The flow of information is too fast and voluminous to address in the traditional way. Still, optimizing security response and ensuring consistent results is only the beginning of why businesses should automate. For this eWEEK slide show, data protection and security provider Symantec has compiled a list of advantages of business process orchestration to ponder. – …
Five months after closing its deal for 3Com, HP is announcing that it has purged Cisco networking gear from all six of its data centers and is operating with only HP products. – The disintegrating relationship between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco
Systems continued Sept. 27 when HP officials said they have eliminated
Cisco core routers and switches from their six data centers.
Instead, those six facilities are running on HP networking gear from its ProCurve business and the …
The three IBM Analytics Solution Centers, in Zurich, Budapest and Vienna, will focus on financial services, green technology and Smarter Cities. – IBM opened three new analytics centers in
Europe on Sept. 23, strengthening its offerings in the
growing business analytics market.
The announcement follows just days after IBM’s
$1.7 billion acquisition of Marlborough, Mass.-based Netezza, a data
warehousing and analytics appliance vendor. La…
NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup combines Syncsort backup management software, NetApp snapshot, clone and replication, and NetApp disk storage in a turnkey package. – SAN FRANCISCO Storage
maker NetApp and data
integration/protection software provider Syncsort
announced Sept. 1 at VMworld 2010 here that they have combined to market a new
data protection package for mixed-bag data centers which means just about all
data centers.
Called NetApp Syncsort Inte…
Data center is a computer systems most critical and susceptible part. The basic or uncomplicated description of data center can be that it is the part of office space of an organization where the computer network’s most important systems are kept.
Relative newcomer Convirture holds that it is plugging a major hole by specializing in managing open-source Xen, KVM virtualization and private cloud deployments. – VMware’s ESX hypervisor and its vCenter control
suite are thought to be operating in more than 80 percent of all enterprise IT
systems. And some IT people believe that number is too conservative.
Microsoft’s Hyper-V, still getting its bearings in the market, is growing in
use but its market sh…
IBM has announced a new mainframe system& known as the zEnterprise& that sets up the big iron as the central management point of enterprise data centers, with other systems directly feeding off the mainframes resources. IBM claims the zEnterprise is the fastest mainframe ever. The zEnterprises new systems architecture enables workloads on mainframe, Power7 and x86 systems to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized system. – …
IBM agrees to buy BigFix for an undisclosed sum to grab the company’s systems management technology for endpoint devices and help organizations build smarter data centers. – IBM has agreed to buy systems management
vendor BigFix for an undisclosed sum.
The move brings BigFixs
IT management technology into IBMs
fold, bolstering its configuration and compliance management capabilities and
building on an existing partnership between the two companies. According to Al
…
