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  • Coraid’s scale-out architecture

    StorageMojo
    Robin Harris
    9 May 2012 | 6:07 pm
    Over the years StorageMojo has seen several architectures that just seemed smart, but whose market potential was blighted by management and funding issues. Violin Memory was one. Coraid was another. In both cases a new CEO – at Coraid, Kevin Brown – has made a world of difference. New funding, new customers, more focus. All good. What does Coraid do? Storage, of course. Inexpensive block-based, scale-out, network storage. Global namespace. Define inexpensive How does $0.40/GB sound? How? Let’s start at the server. The HBAs are Intel NICs that are re-programmed to present…

  • Big Data Variety

    Hu' Blog
    Hu Yoshida
    14 May 2012 | 11:22 am
    In past posts we talked about Big Data Volume and Velocity requirements and how they could be addressed with Hitachi Data Systems block, file and content storage. Today we will be looking at big data variety. The reason that big data is getting such attention today is the greater variety of new data types that are available. This data is being generated by many new sources, like click streams, smart meters, smart phones, RFID, NFC (Near Field Communications), etc. Almost every new piece of equipment has sensors built in that can transmit information. In some verticals the increasing us of…

  • IBM announces 60th anniversary of digial tape storage systems

    Inside System Storage -- by Tony Pearson
    az990tony
    15 May 2012 | 4:07 pm
    Well it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means.. IBM announcements! Today, IBM announces that next Monday marks the 60th anniversary of first commercial digital tape storage system! I am on the East coast this week visiting clients, but plan to be back in Tucson in time for the cake and fireworks next Monday. Note that I said first commercial tape system as tape itself, in various forms, [has been around since 4000 B.C.]. A little historical context might help: 1845 - surgical tape 1921 - the Band-Aid, self-adhesive bandage 1925 - masking tape (which 3M sold under its newly announced…

  • IBM Edge 2012 Fast Approaching

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    Administrator
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 am
    As regular readers of this blog are aware, I am speaking (and blogging and v-blogging) from IBM’s Edge 2012 event on the first week of June.  I will be delivering a course from the Data Management Institute on Continuity Planning divided up into six one hour chunks. My sessions are Tuesday 9-10:15  Fundamentals Tuesday 10:30-11:45 [...]

  • Storage Old, New and Past Due?

    The Storage Architect
    Chris M Evans
    16 May 2012 | 12:39 pm
    It’s been an interesting day of contrasts in the world of storage, one that shows storage is a diverse and wide ranging segment of IT. The Old Tape has been part of the discussion on the twitterverse and despite everyone’s best attempts, is not dead yet.  Tape and backup may not be seen as cool  - but data protection is an essential requirement of sustainable data management and tape still provides the one of the most cost effective methods of data protection and of course archive.  This has happened because tape continues to innovate.  Tape drive speeds and media capacities…
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  • Big Data Variety

    Hu Yoshida
    14 May 2012 | 11:22 am
    In past posts we talked about Big Data Volume and Velocity requirements and how they could be addressed with Hitachi Data Systems block, file and content storage. Today we will be looking at big data variety. The reason that big data is getting such attention today is the greater variety of new data types that are available. This data is being generated by many new sources, like click streams, smart meters, smart phones, RFID, NFC (Near Field Communications), etc. Almost every new piece of equipment has sensors built in that can transmit information. In some verticals the increasing us of…

  • 99 Notre Dame, San Jose

    Hu Yoshida
    8 May 2012 | 6:50 pm
    This morning I accompanied a young person to the Superior Court in San Jose. This Court is located at 99 Notre Dame in San Jose. Once we went through the metal detectors we joined a long line of people in a crowded waiting room. What surprised me was the display along the south wall, which reminded me that this location was the birthplace for magnetic disk recording. IBM established a research lab at this location in 1952. The first lab director was Reynold B. Johnson and the first Random Access Method of Accounting andControl, RAMAC, was announced here in 1955. The display consisted of…

  • Big Data Velocity Requirements

    Hu Yoshida
    4 May 2012 | 12:10 pm
    Velocity is the next attribute of big data according to Gartner and IDC which I cited in my post Big Data Origins. This velocity has to do with the speed at which we can input and output big data. This becomes particularly important as more and more of the data is machine generated and the size of data objects explode with multimedia and multi-dimensional objects. The performance characteristics of big data will vary. Some will be sequential streaming with large block sizes; others will be short bursts with very random block sizes, with everything else in between. Since everything is…

  • Big Data Volume Requirements

    Hu Yoshida
    2 May 2012 | 7:49 pm
    Referring back to my last post, I am continuing my series on big data where we are looking at the dimensions of big data: volume, velocity, variety and value, and what we need to do to address them. The first dimension has to do with the “big” in big data – volume. “Big” is defined by most dictionaries as “considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude or extent”. Big is a relative term. For instance big may be 2TB when considered for an “in memory database” like SAP HANA, or it could be exabytes for search engines like Google. Big is also a rapidly moving target. When…

  • Big Data Origins

    Hu Yoshida
    26 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
    Wikipedia attributes the concept of big data as follows: In a 2001 research reportand related conference presentations, then META Group (now Gartner) analyst, Doug Laney, defined data growth challenges (and opportunities) as being three-dimensional, i.e. increasing volume (amount of data), velocity (speed of data in/out), and variety (range of data types, sources). Gartner continues to use this model for describing big data. IDC uses these same parameters of volume, velocity and variety, and also adds value as a fourth dimension (source: IDC…
 
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  • Coraid’s scale-out architecture

    Robin Harris
    9 May 2012 | 6:07 pm
    Over the years StorageMojo has seen several architectures that just seemed smart, but whose market potential was blighted by management and funding issues. Violin Memory was one. Coraid was another. In both cases a new CEO – at Coraid, Kevin Brown – has made a world of difference. New funding, new customers, more focus. All good. What does Coraid do? Storage, of course. Inexpensive block-based, scale-out, network storage. Global namespace. Define inexpensive How does $0.40/GB sound? How? Let’s start at the server. The HBAs are Intel NICs that are re-programmed to present…

  • Cleversafe: massive storage, massive patents

    Robin Harris
    7 May 2012 | 10:15 am
    Spoke to Chris Gladwin, founder and CEO of Cleversafe at NAB 2012. Cleversafe had stopped communicating a few years ago – usually a bad sign – so an update was long overdue. When last heard from, Cleversafe had an ISP/MSP target market, offered an open-source version of their software, and focused on safely archiving confidential data on public networks. No more. A 50PB order CEOs are professional optimists. But Chris’s story was good. Their 1st order was 100TB. The 2nd, 50 petabytes. That is a lot of boxes to rack. Now Cleversafe focuses on multi-petabyte orders. They can…

  • SSD symposium tomorrow

    Robin Harris
    24 Apr 2012 | 1:10 pm
    Maximizing value for time spent is a difficult calculus. Especially when it the goal is perspective rather than information. Efficient use of your time will be why the Solid State Storage Symposium works. Starting at 10am at the Doubletree San Jose Airport and going until 4pm, you’ll get to hear about – and question – 9 different SSS-using vendors. The crack StorageMojo research team will be there in force, delivering a keynote that looks at the next 10 years in storage technology and architecture. Not everyone will agree with every point – that would be no fun at all…

  • Amplidata’s distributed object store

    Robin Harris
    17 Apr 2012 | 1:19 pm
    Our digital civilization requires data integrity and long-term preservation, and neither is assured by our current storage infrastructure. But progress continues. Latest case in point: Amplidata. This 4 year old company, based in Belgium with a growing US footprint, brings a new level of erasure code goodness to the both problems with a cluster-based object store. What erasure code goodness, you ask? The first – AFAIK – rateless erasure code, AKA fountain code, storage system in production use. And that is a good thing because? Robustness and efficiency. Amplidata claims storage…

  • Violin’s clean-sheet architecture

    Robin Harris
    11 Apr 2012 | 3:29 pm
    Over 3 years ago StorageMojo saw that Violin Memory was “. . . on the winning architectural track.” Well, it took a lot of time and money, but Violin is making good on that early promise. StorageMojo’s enthusiasm was kindled by Violin’s unique architecture. Here’s a short video that shows how Violin’s architecture addresses key problems with flash: Full screen mode recommended. The StorageMojo take The industry is still in the early days of digesting the implications of fast persistent solid state storage. We’ve built up 50 years of cruft to deal with…
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  • IBM announces 60th anniversary of digial tape storage systems

    az990tony
    15 May 2012 | 4:07 pm
    Well it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means.. IBM announcements! Today, IBM announces that next Monday marks the 60th anniversary of first commercial digital tape storage system! I am on the East coast this week visiting clients, but plan to be back in Tucson in time for the cake and fireworks next Monday. Note that I said first commercial tape system as tape itself, in various forms, [has been around since 4000 B.C.]. A little historical context might help: 1845 - surgical tape 1921 - the Band-Aid, self-adhesive bandage 1925 - masking tape (which 3M sold under its newly announced…

  • VSPEX: EMC strikes back

    az990tony
    3 May 2012 | 3:32 pm
    "Politics makes strange bedfellows." --- Charles Dudley Warner In my September 2007 post [Supermarkets and Specialty Shops], I explain that there are two kinds of clients: Those that prefer to work with one-stop shopping of an IT Supermarket, with companies like IBM, HP and Dell who offer a complete set of servers, storage, switches, software and services, what we call "The Five S's". Those that perfer shopping for components at individual specialty shops, like butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers, hoping that this singular focus means the products are best-of-breed in…

  • Early Bird Special - IBM Edge discounts still available!

    az990tony
    1 May 2012 | 3:24 pm
    There is still time to enroll for [IBM Edge], a conference focused on storage, to be held June 4-8 in Orlando, Florida. There is an early-bird discount until May 6! I will be there all week! Here are the seven sessions I will be presenting at the Technical Edge side of the event: Understanding Your Options for Storing Archive Data to Meet Compliance Challenges This session will cover the IBM software and hardware solutions that your organization can use to store archive data, including features like immutability, Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) technology and Non-Erasable, Non-Rewriteable (NENR)…

  • Busting Four Myths About Tape

    az990tony
    27 Apr 2012 | 10:24 am
    This week, I am in beautiful Sao Paulo, Brazil, teaching Top Gun class to IBM Business Partners and sales reps. Traditionally, we have "Tape Thursday" where we focus on our tape systems, from tape drives, to physical and virtual tape libraries. IBM is the number #1 tape vendor, and has been for the past eight years. (The alliteration doesn't translate well here in Brazil. The Portuguese word for tape is "fita", and Thursday here is "quinta-feira", but "fita-quinta-feira" just doesn't have the same ring to it.) In the class, we discussed how to handle common misperceptions and myths about…

  • Digital IBMer in Argentina

    az990tony
    18 Apr 2012 | 9:44 am
    This week I'm in Argentina, teaching IBM Business Partners and sales reps about the latest System Storage products. Encouraged by my success on my Digital IBMer tour last month in Europe, I decided to get a SIM chip for my smartphone here in Buenos Aires. I did my homework. There are three major mobile service providers that offer pre-paid GSM-based SIM chips: Claro, Movistar, and Personal. I arrived on Sunday morning, but thanks to the local [blue laws], none of them were open. I was able to walk around and find retail outlets for each within blocks of my hotel. All three offer voice and SMS…
 
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  • IBM Edge 2012 Fast Approaching

    Administrator
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 am
    As regular readers of this blog are aware, I am speaking (and blogging and v-blogging) from IBM’s Edge 2012 event on the first week of June.  I will be delivering a course from the Data Management Institute on Continuity Planning divided up into six one hour chunks. My sessions are Tuesday 9-10:15  Fundamentals Tuesday 10:30-11:45 [...]

  • Coming Soon on the Web: Mainstreaming the Mainframe

    Administrator
    15 May 2012 | 10:14 am
    On May 21, I am delivering a talk on the web with CA Technologies for IBM Mainframe Journal called “Mainstreaming the Mainframe.”  Registration is here. Among other things, I plan to tackle some of the misconceptions about the mainframe and to discuss what I see as its promise and challenges as we endeavor to lean [...]

  • Ready for a Really Important Web Event?

    Administrator
    15 May 2012 | 10:03 am
    The tape industry is poised to make its case for its technology tomorrow.  Here is the complete press release on the subject: Subject: Invitation to “2012 Tape Market State of the Union Message” When: May 16, 2012, 9:00-9:30AM Pacific / 12:00 – 12:30PM Eastern What: Teleconference with Broadcast, Cloud & Super Computing users; and, 12 [...]

  • Of Mayans and Disk Drive Shortages

    Administrator
    15 May 2012 | 9:52 am
    I just downloaded the latest Storage Magazine from TechTarget, for which I write a column.  It is worth a read — the magazine, that is.  You decide whether you want to read my words. I guess I would have to say that the meme of the moment is myths.  I wrote about the Mayan Apocalypse [...]

  • Gearing Up for a Busy Day

    Administrator
    8 May 2012 | 9:36 am
    Today, I have two big events on the calendar. First, I am moderating a webinar with IBM and InformationWeek on Storage for Compute Clouds.  It features two IBMers, Steve Kenniston and Ed Walsh.  That’s at 1PM ET/10AM PT and goes on for about an hour.  Registration is here. Then, at 2PM, I’m heading back over [...]
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  • Storage Old, New and Past Due?

    Chris M Evans
    16 May 2012 | 12:39 pm
    It’s been an interesting day of contrasts in the world of storage, one that shows storage is a diverse and wide ranging segment of IT. The Old Tape has been part of the discussion on the twitterverse and despite everyone’s best attempts, is not dead yet.  Tape and backup may not be seen as cool  - but data protection is an essential requirement of sustainable data management and tape still provides the one of the most cost effective methods of data protection and of course archive.  This has happened because tape continues to innovate.  Tape drive speeds and media capacities…

  • HP Cloud – Now Available In Beta

    Chris M Evans
    15 May 2012 | 3:08 pm
    HP have joined the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and released their HP Cloud service in public beta.  Here’s the announcement press release.  The services on offer are: Available Now as Public Beta Compute – on-demand server instances. Cloud Object Storage – object-based storage using RESTful APIs. Content Delivery Network – local distribution of web content. Still in Private Beta Cloud Block Storage – persistent data for compute images Relational Database for MySQL – managed cloud databases There’s also the HP Identity Service for…

  • Dell Allegedly Bid for Fusion-IO

    Chris M Evans
    14 May 2012 | 11:34 am
    Last Friday Eric Savitz over at Forbes reported that Dell may have put in a speculative bid for Fusion-IO (thanks to Don Jennings for spotting the article).  The rumoured price was $33 a share, which is approximately a 50% markup on the share price at the time – we can only assume the offer was rejected. As Chris Mellor recently reported, Fusion-IO have been increasing revenue but making a loss and Eric Savitz also noted that 55% of their revenue comes from just two companies – Apple and Facebook.  From what I understand there are also other storage companies that also…

  • EMC Acquire XtremIO

    Chris M Evans
    10 May 2012 | 3:16 pm
    One of the worst kept secrets in the storage world is finally out.  EMC are acquiring XtremIO for a reported $430 million, as documented in a previous post. The EMC press release talks about XtremIO as “one of the world’s widely regarded Flash storage architecture pioneers”, yet they have no revenue or paying customers to reference.  Although I speculated that EMC may have been acquiring IP to develop for Project Thunder, perhaps the actual reason was to acquire the talent within the company to help bring Thunder (and new products) to market.  Regardless, two things are…

  • Is Google Drive Too Late To The Party?

    Chris M Evans
    8 May 2012 | 4:40 pm
    Like many people, the other week I downloaded and installed Google Drive.  This is the long-awaited competitor to services like Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive, offering free online storage with the ability to upgrade to higher capacity at a cost.  Dropbox and the various other lookalikes have been around for some time, so is Google coming to this market too late and is the party already over? Cloud Storage The concept of Cloud Storage is pretty simple.  Services like Dropbox allow you to share a local folder on your PC or Mac and have that data replicated into “the…
 
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  • Flash's 25th birthday

    Robin Harris
    7 May 2012 | 8:32 am
    Toshiba is rightly celebrating the 25th anniversary of NAND flash. We should join them.

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  • Thunderbolt momentum at NAB 2012

    Robin Harris
    30 Apr 2012 | 9:09 am
    At least 28 Thunderbolt products were shown at NAB 2012. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but it is because many connect Thunderbolt to existing standards. Expect a big jump in Thunderbolt momentum this year.

  • Naked-eye 3D TV that works!

    Robin Harris
    23 Apr 2012 | 12:47 pm
    3D TV was huge at NAB 2011 - in hype and flop. But NAB 2012 delivered the goods: watchable glasses-free 3D on big, colorful and very watchable screens.

  • Holographic storage: this could work

    Robin Harris
    18 Apr 2012 | 5:20 pm
    After burning through $100 million, holographic storage startup InPhase folded several years ago. hVault is rebooting the technology, and they’ve learned from the InPhase debacle.
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  • Zerowait Training Helps NetApp Customers Reduce Storage Costs

    16 May 2012 | 8:44 am
    Zerowait Training Helps NetApp Customers Reduce Storage Costs Zerowait’s NetApp training class gives storage administrators the tools they need to optimize NetApp legacy equipment reducing the need for expensive system upgrades When a student leaves our class they have targeted skills and knowledge that they can apply to their NetApp infrastructures.   Wilmington, DE & Dallas, TX (PRWEB) May 16, 2012  As NetApp’s data storage solutions become more expensive, IT Departments are increasingly seeking to lower cost of ownership and extend the lifecycle of their legacy…

  • NetApp Training class Dallas May 29th

    10 May 2012 | 8:48 am
    Over the last several years of providing practical, operational training to our NetApp customers there have been several times when we have been asked to hold a class in the Dallas area. We are scheduled to hold our first Dallas class at the end of May.   Our Dallas Three day NetApp training class is scheduled for  May 29th and we still  have a few seats open.   If you want to join the class, or would like to schedule a class on your location please give us a call to discuss your needs.

  • Right Tiering your Storage to Match Usage

    8 May 2012 | 3:02 pm
    It is hard to argue with the logic of storage tiering. The consensus among storage  experts is that most stored data is not active data and that  it makes economic sense to store it on cheaper disk, tape, or  some sort of less expensive storage media. At Zerowait we call this process Right Tiering. Some organizations tier to public cloud storage providers, and some enterprises try to build their own storage clouds for their storage tiers. But reducing costs for storage is a major concern for all types of customers and each  rationalizes their costs,  and  the…

  • Resources and Technology

    4 May 2012 | 9:04 am
    Yesterday I was visiting with customers around Baltimore and one of our customer's offices overlooks the Constellation. It was a nice day and the view  of the ship was perfect. I had a good day of visiting customers and all of the folks  I visited are struggling with their costs of storage and storage growth issues.   The issue of resources, technology, and upgrade costs are  on everyone's mind in the IT space.   Clearly corporate  budgeting is being effected by the uncertain  US tax environment and the increase in the costs of business that is due…

  • Big storage does not have to be expensive

    30 Apr 2012 | 8:01 am
    Over the last few weeks I have been working with several of our international clients in the energy, defense, and media sectors to help them solve some of their big data cost issues. Our customers are using RedHat throughout their enterprises and are looking for affordable big  storage solutions. One of our customers sent us a link a few weeks ago about the updates to XFS and how it is going to be included in the next release of RedHat as a supported file system. The  video link below of Dave Chiner giving a talk provides a great overview of how the improved XFS can help our clients…
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  • Windows Server 2012 Beta with SMB 3.0 – Demo at Interop shows SMB Direct at 5.8 Gbytes/sec over Mellanox ConnectX-3 network adapters

    Jose Barreto - MSFT
    7 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    The Interop conference is happening this week in Las Vegas (see http://www.interop.com/lasvegas) and Mellanox is showcasing their high-speed ConnectX-3 network adapters during the event. They are showing an interesting setup with Windows Server 2012 Beta and SMB 3.0 that shows amazing remote file performance using SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA). The short story? 5.8 Gbytes per second from a single network port. Yes, that’s giga bytes, not giga bits. Roughly one DVD per second. Crazy, right? Get all the details in the link below, including a comparison between Windows Server 2012 Beta with…

  • SMB 3 Security Enhancements in Windows Server 2012

    Alpesh Gaglani
    3 May 2012 | 12:41 pm
    Everything here also applies to Windows 8. These features were first available in the Windows Server “8” Beta & Windows 8 Consumer Preview releases. See this document for protocol level details of these features. 1       Encryption SMB 3 in Windows Server 2012 adds the capability to make data transfers secure by encrypting data in-flight, to protect against tampering and eavesdropping attacks. The biggest benefit of using SMB Encryption over more general solutions (such as IPSec) is that there are no deployment requirements or costs beyond…

  • File Server team sessions at TechEd 2012 North America

    Jose Barreto - MSFT
    1 May 2012 | 9:02 pm
    If you're planning to attend the TechEd 2012 North America event in June, here are the scheduled sessions with speakers from the File Server team: Code Title Speaker(s) Day Time Track Level WSV328 The Path to Continuous Availability with Windows Server 2012 Gene Chellis, Jim Pinkerton Mon 4:45 PM Windows Server 300 SIA207 Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control Overview Gunjan Jain, Nir Ben Zvi Mon 4:45 PM Security & Identity 200 WSV308 Standards Support and Interoperability in Windows Server 2012: Storage, Networking, and Management Gene Chellis, Jeffrey Snover, See-Mong Tan, Wojtek…

  • Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server "8" Beta - Now Available (Beta)

    Nir Ben-Zvi
    22 Apr 2012 | 11:28 pm
    The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server "8" Beta.     This powerful toolkit will help you address compliance concerns with new features in Windows Server "8" Beta Join the Beta Program

  • Configuring Primary Computers for Folder Redirection and Roaming Profiles in Windows Server “8” Beta

    Anjli Chaudhry
    30 Mar 2012 | 5:34 pm
      1 Introduction 1.1 Overview of Primary Computer feature In Windows Server “8” Beta, administrators can designate a set of computers, known as primary computers, for each domain user, which controls which computers use Folder Redirection, Roaming User Profiles, or both. Designating primary computers is a simple and powerful method to associate user data and settings with particular computers or devices, simplify administrator oversight, improve data security, and help protect user profiles from corruption. There are four major benefits to designating primary computers for…
 
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  • Technology Short Take #22

    slowe
    3 May 2012 | 1:16 pm
    Welcome to Technology Short Take #22! Once again, I find myself without too many articles to share with you this time around. I guess that will make things a bit easier for you, the reader, but it does make me question whether or not I’m “listening” to the right communities. If any readers have suggestions on sources of information to which I should be subscribing or I should be following, I’d love to hear your suggestions. In any case, let’s get into the meat of it. I hope you find something useful! Networking Trying to learn MPLS? (I am.) I found this article…

  • Carolinas VMware Users Summit 2012

    slowe
    30 Apr 2012 | 2:25 pm
    This year I have the opportunity to once again join a veritable “who’s who” in virtualization at the Carolinas VMUG Summit on May 15, 2012, in Charlotte, NC. (You can register for the event here.) There’s quite a line-up planned for this year: Morning keynote from Satyam Vaghani and Vinay Gaonkar of VMware on the past and future of VMware storage An afternoon keynote from Jake Howering of Cisco (this should be a good talk on data center interconnects) Self-paced labs (provided by Varrow) Instructor-led labs (provided by eGroup, also a Spousetivities sponsor) A series…

  • Updated launchd Property List File for Synergy

    slowe
    30 Apr 2012 | 9:00 am
    After posting my article on running the Synergy server automatically on OS X Lion, a reader added a comment suggesting that it wasn’t recommended to use a shell script to launch a process via launchd. I haven’t been able to find any information to back up that recommendation, but I did create a new launchd property list file that doesn’t require (or use) a shell script to start synergys. Here’s the updated property list file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer/DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"…

  • Spousetivities at EMC World 2012

    slowe
    27 Apr 2012 | 9:00 am
    This year at EMC World 2012 (being held once again in Las Vegas, NV), Spousetivities returns for their second year at EMC’s user conference. As usual, my wife Crystal—who founded and runs Spousetivities—has a great set of activities planned for any spouses, partners, family members, or friends that will be traveling with EMC World conference attendees. (EMC’ers: those of you attending the TC Conference can have your traveling companions attend Spousetivities too!) If you haven’t heard of Spousetivities, it’s a company that Crystal created to organize and…

  • VMware End-User Computing Virtual Conference

    slowe
    26 Apr 2012 | 4:41 pm
    VMware is holding an “End User Computing Virtual Conference” next week. Here’s the text of the announcement/invitation that I saw (and yes, I made sure that VMware was OK with me posting it here so that others could attend if interested): Please join VMware as we discuss the next step forward in end-user computing for the post-PC era. Watch Vittorio Viarengo, VP of End-User Computing, discuss the latest advancements in the VMware End-User Computing Platform. Understand how VMware provides solutions to simplify traditional technology silos, enable policy driven management,…
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  • The Coming Identity Based Network Management Revolution; Interview with Blackridge Technology CTO John Hayes, Part III

    14 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Since the advent of the TCP/IP protocol, network administrators have had a major blind spot: the ability to reliably determine the identity of an individual device or user. BlackRidge's new Eclipse™ solution, built on BlackRidge's patented Transport Access Control (TAC), uses client drivers or gateway appliances to insert unique identity information to every TCP packet. In this third and final post in our blog interview series, BlackRidge Technology CTO John Hayes and I discuss where BlackRidge is heading and the challenge of managing infrastructures from the perspective of devices rather…

  • Symantec Vision 2012 Exposes Attendees to the Real Threat of Today's Constant Barrage of Attacks

    11 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    The keynote given by Symantec's CEO Enrique Salem this past Tuesday and the series of presentations that followed exposed every attendee at Symantec Vision 2012 to just how dangerous today's internet world really has become. Yet the larger threat that every business faces is not putting in place a solution to address them. Rather it is the danger that dealing with these threats will cause organizations to take their eyes off of the ball and fail to focus on where their business needs to go next.Every business realizes it needs to protect its data from loss, keep its production applications…

  • BYOD Trend Finds a Reference Point in HP CV2

    10 May 2012 | 5:30 pm
    The allure of client virtualization is increasing in the eyes of enterprise organizations. Aside from its obvious benefits of eliminating the management headaches and upgrade cycles of corporate desktops and laptops, organizations can better meet the growing demands of employees who want to bring their own devices (BYOD) to access corporate networks. However client virtualization can result in enterprises simply swapping one set of problems for another unless organizations first assess what their requirements are so they may put a solution in place with the right framework for their…

  • Symantec NetBackup 5220 Backup Appliance Assumes Its Own Identity

    8 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
    When Symantec shipped its first backup appliances in late 2010, it could arguably be said the primary intention of these appliances was to simplify the deployment of Backup Exec and NetBackup at customer sites by shipping both hardware and software as a single SKU. While that still holds true, these appliances also opened the door for them to offer specific features and assume their own unique identities. The new NetBackup 5220 begins to deliver on that promise as it now offers specific software and features that make it much more than just a "server with NetBackup software pre-installed on…

  • The Five Primary Features that SMBs Should Look for in a Backup Solution for their Virtualized Environments: Rethinking Backup Strategies for Virtualization Part II

    7 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    As small and midsize businesses (SMBs) virtualize their servers at an increasing pace, many fail to consider the impact this change has on how they do backups - or that it impacts their backups at all. However since many IT administrators who are responsible for backups in these environments would freely admit to not being backup gurus, here are some tips on what features to look for in backup software in order to properly protect and recover your newly virtualized environment.In the previous entry in this series we examined five ways in which virtualization complicates backup:Fewer resources…
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  • Is SSD dead? No, however some vendors might be

    Greg Schulz
    3 May 2012 | 4:41 pm
    Is SSD dead? No, however some vendors might be In a recent conversation with Dave Raffo about the nand flash solid state disk (SSD) market, we talked about industry trends, perspectives and where the market is now as well as headed. One of my comments is, has been and will remain that the industry has still not reached anywhere near full potential for deployment of SSD for enterprise, SMB and other data storage needs. Granted, there is broad adoption in terms of discussion or conversation and plenty of early adopters. SSD and in particular nand flash is anything but dead, in fact in the big…

  • More storage and IO metrics that matter

    Greg Schulz
    3 May 2012 | 4:39 pm
    It is great to see more conversations and coverage around storage metrics that matter beyond simply focusing on cost per GByte or TByte (e.g. space capacity). Likewise, it is also good to see conversations expanding beyond data footprint reduction (DFR) from a space capacity savings or reduction ratio to also address data movement and transfer rates. Also good to see is increase in discussion around input/output operations per section (IOPs) tying into conversations from virtualization, VDI, cloud to Sold State Devices (SSD). Other storage and IO metrics that matter include latency or…

  • What is the best kind of IO? The one you do not have to do

    Greg Schulz
    3 May 2012 | 4:38 pm
    If no IO (input/output) operation is the best IO, than the second best IO is the one that can be done as close to the application and processor with best locality of reference. Then the third best IO is the one that can be done in less time, or at least cost or impact to the requesting application which means moving further down the memory and storage stack (figure 1). Figure 1 memory and storage hierarchy The problem with IO is that they are basic operation to get data into and out of a computer or processor so they are required; however, they also have an impact on performance, response or…

  • Congratulations to new and returning 2012 VMware vExperts

    Greg Schulz
    30 Apr 2012 | 11:54 am
    A quick note of congratulations to all the new as well as too my fellow returning 2012 VMware vExperts from around the world. Here is a link listing the 2012 VMware vExperts including how you can follow them on twitter if you are interested in virtualization, cloud, data and storage networking related topics either VMware specific or industry and technology general. Also, here are some added links to follow and check out. twitter @VMwareCommunity plantetv12n blogs and information Wmware and community blogs VMware communities vExpert spotlights (follow links to various profiles) I’m…

  • More Storage IO momentus HHDD and SSD moments part II

    Greg Schulz
    29 Apr 2012 | 1:00 pm
    This follows the first of a two-part series on my latest experiences with Hybrid Hard Disk Drives (HHDD’s) and Solid State Devices (SSD’s). In my ongoing last momentus moment post I discussed what I have done with HHDD’s and setting the stage for expanded SSD use. I have the newer HHDD’s, e.g. Seagate Momentus XT II 750GB (8GB SLC nand flash) installed and have since bought another from Amazon as well as having some of the older 500GB (4GB SLC nand flash) in various systems. Those are all functioning great, however still waiting and looking forward to the rumored…
 
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  • Who Will Support SMB 3.0, and Which Features Will They Support?

    Stephen
    7 May 2012 | 12:27 pm
    I’m really thrilled about the improvements Microsoft is making to the core SMB protocol in Windows Server 2012. But it won’t really matter if nobody but Microsoft supports the new protocol. So I like to call out to all the enterprise storage vendors: Let me hear your support for SMB3.0! What We Know so Far Obviously, Microsoft is going to support SMB 3.0 in a big way. Windows Server 2012 will certainly be the premier server platform, especially for Windows 8 clients. But who else will support this new protocol? Microsoft is going all-out to work with third parties, and is being…

  • SMB 3 is Going to be Huge, in both Scope and Impact

    Stephen
    6 May 2012 | 12:16 pm
    Microsoft is about to release the third major revision to their ubiquitous network storage protocol, SMB. Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3 will really highlight this technology, and I predict it will transform the way people think about networked storage for Windows systems. But SMB 3 is big in another way, too: there are tons of new features, and not all will be implemented by everyone. SMB Part 3 SMB 3.0 is just loaded with new features. In development, this was going to be SMB 2.2. But Microsoft added so much, it really deserves the major version number recently assigned. As you may…

  • IBM Edge2012 – Orlando

    Stephen
    4 May 2012 | 5:12 pm
    IBM really knows how to put on an event, so come on out to Orlando next month! IBM has really stepped up their game this year, and they will highlight all this at their upcoming storage technology conference, Edge2012. I’m really looking forward to seeing what IBM Edge is all about, and I’ll be attending and speaking at the event in June. Introducing IBM Edge2012 IBM Edge2012 is divided into 3 tracks: TechnicalEdge is targeted at IT professionals; ExecutiveEdge is for business and IT executives; and WinningEdge is sales training for IBM partners. I’ll obviously be focusing…

  • Interop Las Vegas 2012

    Stephen
    4 May 2012 | 4:44 pm
    I'm headed back to Las Vegas for Interop once again I am thrilled to return to speak at Interop next week, though not so much about returning to Las Vegas for the third time already this year. This time around, I’ll be on two Interop panel discussions in Mike Fratto’s storage track. If you will be at Interop and would like to meet up, let me know. Considering Interop The grand old tradeshow, Interop has changed a great deal over the decades. No longer affiliated with Novell (obviously), Interop is unusual in that it attracts a wide variety of companies in many different IT…

  • NAB Show 2012: My Initial Thoughts

    Stephen
    21 Apr 2012 | 12:32 pm
    NAB is one of my favorite trade shows As I mentioned earlier, the  National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show is one of my favorites, with the wonderful variety of companies and products in attendance. Everything from professional video and broadcast equipment to IT infrastructure gear to celebrities (including the cast of Arrested Development) are on display at NAB. But what were the highlights? Here are my thoughts. A Year of Resolution Many people make New Year’s resolutions, but NAB Show 2012 highlights the year of the different type of resolution: professional gear is moving…
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  • Building Virtual Infrastructure in New York City

    Stephen
    11 May 2012 | 10:26 am
    Even though I grew up on the other side of the great baseball divide, I have always loved going to New York City. Next week, I return again, but this time I’m bringing a whole new event to the city: This is the first time the New York audience gets to see my Building Virtual Infrastructure presentation! I’ll miss you, MCA! If you haven’t been to my seminars before, let me give you a brief bit of background. I’m an IT guy, coming from a UNIX systems administration background, and I like to talk tech. But I’m also familiar with the business side of things, and…

  • Who Will Support SMB 3.0, and Which Features Will They Support?

    Stephen
    7 May 2012 | 12:27 pm
    I’m really thrilled about the improvements Microsoft is making to the core SMB protocol in Windows Server 2012. But it won’t really matter if nobody but Microsoft supports the new protocol. So I like to call out to all the enterprise storage vendors: Let me hear your support for SMB3.0! What We Know so Far Obviously, Microsoft is going to support SMB 3.0 in a big way. Windows Server 2012 will certainly be the premier server platform, especially for Windows 8 clients. But who else will support this new protocol? Microsoft is going all-out to work with third parties, and is being…

  • SMB 3 is Going to be Huge, in both Scope and Impact

    Stephen
    6 May 2012 | 12:16 pm
    Microsoft is about to release the third major revision to their ubiquitous network storage protocol, SMB. Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3 will really highlight this technology, and I predict it will transform the way people think about networked storage for Windows systems. But SMB 3 is big in another way, too: there are tons of new features, and not all will be implemented by everyone. SMB Part 3 SMB 3.0 is just loaded with new features. In development, this was going to be SMB 2.2. But Microsoft added so much, it really deserves the major version number recently assigned. As you may…

  • IBM Edge2012 – Orlando

    Stephen
    4 May 2012 | 5:12 pm
    IBM really knows how to put on an event, so come on out to Orlando next month! IBM has really stepped up their game this year, and they will highlight all this at their upcoming storage technology conference, Edge2012. I’m really looking forward to seeing what IBM Edge is all about, and I’ll be attending and speaking at the event in June. Introducing IBM Edge2012 IBM Edge2012 is divided into 3 tracks: TechnicalEdge is targeted at IT professionals; ExecutiveEdge is for business and IT executives; and WinningEdge is sales training for IBM partners. I’ll obviously be focusing…

  • Interop Las Vegas 2012

    Stephen
    4 May 2012 | 4:44 pm
    I'm headed back to Las Vegas for Interop once again I am thrilled to return to speak at Interop next week, though not so much about returning to Las Vegas for the third time already this year. This time around, I’ll be on two Interop panel discussions in Mike Fratto’s storage track. If you will be at Interop and would like to meet up, let me know. Considering Interop The grand old tradeshow, Interop has changed a great deal over the decades. No longer affiliated with Novell (obviously), Interop is unusual in that it attracts a wide variety of companies in many different IT…
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  • #Storagebeers, SNIA Stuff

    Martin Glassborow
    16 May 2012 | 11:32 am
    I posted a whilst ago giving early warning about a #storagebeers event in London. This event will be Wednesday 23rd  May whilst most of the EMC storage world is partying in Vegas and having a great time (who knows, maybe one day I’ll work out how to get there). But we’ll hopefully also be having a good time as well in London. 1) It is Data Centre  Technology Academy time during the day;  come and heckle Alex McDonald or give him generous support as he works his way through a vendor-neutral presentation trying not to abuse his competitors. Always marvellous fun. 2) And then it…

  • Long Term Review: Synology DS409

    Martin Glassborow
    13 May 2012 | 11:01 am
    Over the past three years, my primary home NAS has been the Synology DS409; in this time, I’ve built my own NAS solutions as well and have trialled a number of home-build solutions but my core home NAS remains the DS409. When I bought the DS409, I looked and considered a number of competing solutions; Drobo and QNAP boxes came highly recommended and there are still plenty of people who swear by them. The build quality of the DS409 is excellent and still looks pretty much good as new but then again it is not as it I am kicking it across the room on a regular basis. I give it regular…

  • Death of the Home Directory

    Martin Glassborow
    12 May 2012 | 12:44 pm
    Well, when I say that the Home Directory is dying; I mean that it is probably moving and with it some problems are going to be caused. As I wander round our offices, I often see a familiar logo in people’s system trays; that of a little blue open box. More and more people are moving their documents into the Cloud; they really don’t care about security, the just want the convenience of their data where ever they are. As the corporate teams enforce a regime of encryption on USB flash-disks; everyone has moved onto Cloud-based storage. So yes, we are looking at ways that we can build…

  • Big Data Values for All?

    Martin Glassborow
    7 May 2012 | 10:27 am
    The jury is probably still out on the real value of ‘Big Data’ and what it will mean to our lives; whether it is a power for good or ill or even if it is a power for anything is probably still up for debate. But there is one thing which is probably true, ‘Big Data’ will change data-processing for the better. At present, you will find that the prevailing wisdom is that if you have Data to store, you should store it in a relational database but the ‘new’ data processing techniques which ‘Big Data’ brings to the party changes this or at least…

  • No Pain, No Gain?

    Martin Glassborow
    2 May 2012 | 11:53 am
    I always reserve my right to change my mind and I am almost at the stage that I have changed my mind on blocks/stacks or whatever you want to call them? And for non-technical and non-TCO related reasons. I think in general componentised and commodity-based stacks make huge sense; whether you are building out private or a public infrastructure; a building block approach is the only really scalable and sustainable approach. And I wrote internal design documents detailing this approach eight or nine years ago; I know I’m not the only one and we didn’t call it cloud…we called it…
 
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  • Oracle and Cloud Computing: Database Helps, But Challenges Remain

    16 May 2012 | 1:14 pm
    As Oracle pushes into the cloud computing space, its database gives it an advantage, according to experts. But it will still have to assure application functionality and more.

  • Pure Storage SSDs Address VDI, Database Challenges, But Is Focus Too Narrow?

    Steve Wexler
    16 May 2012 | 8:35 am
    SSD vendor Pure Storage looks to solve the performance issues challenging VDI and database apps, but at least one analyst wonders if the company's focus is too narrow.

  • Time To Say Goodbye To Static IPs

    Mike Fratto
    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Configuring static IP addresses on switches, routers, log servers, databases, management systems and other parts of the infrastructure is a common practice. It's also a bad one. Extending that error to virtual machines and applications is worse.

  • Laserfiche Mobile Brings Enterprise Content Management to iDevices

    Lee H. Badman
    15 May 2012 | 3:56 pm
    Laserfiche's new application puts enterprise content management into the hands of mobile users.

  • AMD Trinity: Intel Ivy Bridge's New Rival

    15 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
    AMD released its Trinity chips Tuesday, its second generation A-series APU (accelerated processing units.) These low-power chips are intended for ultrabook-like laptops, traditional laptops, and some all-in-one desktops. Trinity offers better performance and lower power utilization than the previous AMD Llano family of chips. The new chip designs call for about 10% more transistors on a slightly larger die, using the same 32 nm manufacturing process as the previous family of chips known as Llano. However the new chip uses AMD's latest CPU core design, called Piledriver, which succeeds…
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  • Supporting IT Growth Demand During Uncertain Economic Times

    30 Apr 2012 | 10:09 am
    Doing more with less, doing more with what you have or reducing cost have been the mantra for the past several years now.

  • Converged Infrastructure vs Reference Architecture - Cloud IaaS Choices

    22 Apr 2012 | 9:20 am
    From the remnants and ashes of all these new product names and fancy launch conferences, the resultant war blogs and Twitterati battles ensued. As I poignantly watched on from the trenches in an almost Siegfried Sassoon moment, it was quickly becoming evident that there was now an even more ambiguous understanding of what distinguishes a Converged Infrastructure from a Reference Architecture, what it’s relation was with the Private Cloud and more importantly whether you, the end user should even care.

  • Cisco UCS: Undisputed Computing Success

    19 Mar 2012 | 12:39 pm
    Back in March 2009, when Cisco announced the launch of their UCS platform and subsequent intention to enter the world of server hardware, eyebrows were raised including my own. There was never any disputing that the platform would be adopted by some customers, certainly after seeing how Cisco successfully gatecrashed the SAN market and initially knocked Brocade off their FC perch. We’d all witnessed how Cisco used its IP datacenter clout and ability to propose deals that packaged both SAN MDS and IP switches with a consequent single point of support to quickly take a lead in a new market.

  • StorageIO Momentus Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (HHDD) Moments

    27 Feb 2012 | 9:17 am
    If you have never done a HDD firmware update, its not as bad or intimidating as might be expected. The Seagate firmware update tools make it very easy, that is assuming you have a recent good backup of your data (one that can be restored) and about 10 to 15 minutes of time for a couple of reboots.

  • Is FCoE Struggling to Gain Traction, or on a Normal Adoption Course?

    27 Feb 2012 | 9:14 am
    If you measure FCoE adoption in months, sure, its been slow to gain adoption and deployment similar to how Ethernet, Fibre Channel (FC) and even iSCSI took time to evolve.
 
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    DataCore Announcements & Press Releases

  • N-TEC and DataCore Software Partner to Deliver Easy to Use SAN Appliances with Built-in DataCore Storage Hypervisor to Optimize Storage Performance and Business Continuity

    15 May 2012 | 11:37 am
    Powered by DataCore, the N-TEC Rapidcore Storage Appliance Makes it Practical for Small and Mid-size Businesses to Virtualize and Meet Increasing High-Availability and Performance Demands MUNICH, Germany – May 15, 2012 – DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage hypervisor software, today announced that N-TEC, a European system builder and storage vendor, will build and deliver a range of Storage Appliances under the new “DataCore Ready” program, which is designed to help system builders grow their storage business and serve the increasing market demand for easy to use storage…

  • DataCore Software 2012 Private Cloud and Storage Virtualization Survey: Performance Bottlenecks and Downtime Top Storage-Related User Concerns

    1 May 2012 | 7:33 am
    Storage Costs Continue to be an Issue, But Less so, as IT Decision Makers Put Virtualization Theory to Practice FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – May 1, 2012 – When it comes to the impact of storage on virtualization projects, IT administrators are more concerned about performance issues and less about cost than they were a year ago, according to a “2012 State of the Private Cloud Survey” by DataCore Software, the industry’s premier provider of storage virtualization software. DataCore’s survey, which polled 289 IT administrators worldwide, revealed that 63 percent of respondents consider…

  • CompuTech City Selects DataCore Software’s SANsymphony™-V Storage Hypervisor to Manage Virtualized Storage Infrastructure for Healthcare IT

    18 Apr 2012 | 2:10 pm
    DataCore’s Storage Hypervisor Offers Hardware Flexibility, Scalability, and Uninterrupted Availability to Meet Company’s Growing Storage Demands FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – April 18, 2012 – DataCore Software , the storage hypervisor leader and premier provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that CompuTech City, a provider of healthcare IT solutions, has selected the DataCore SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor to manage its virtualized data storage capabilities quickly, efficiently, and without the need for additional hardware. “Our clients generate a lot of data and…

  • TMS Teams Up with DataCore Software to Provide Advanced Enterprise Features to Supercharge Virtual Environments

    18 Apr 2012 | 1:58 pm
    Bundled solutions of RamSan line of solid state disk systems, SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor dramatically improve efficiency, performance, and management of existing storage infrastructures HOUSTON – April 18, 2012 – Texas Memory Systems, Inc., provider of The World's Fastest Storage®, today announced the launch of a line of bundled solutions featuring its RamSan® solid state disk appliances with DataCore Software’s SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor software that deliver high-performance and feature-rich storage to VMware environments at a reasonable cost. By adding advanced storage…

  • DataCore Software Receives Third Consecutive 5-Star Rating in CRN’s 2012 Partner Program Guide

    27 Mar 2012 | 1:33 pm
    Annual guide and 5-Star designation identifies the IT channel’s most innovative vendor partner programs FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 27, 2012 – DataCore Software, the storage hypervisor leader and premier provider of storage virtualization software, today announced it has been named to CRN’s 2012 Partner Program Guide.  DataCore was also awarded a 5-Star Partner rating. The 2012 CRN Partner Program Guide and CRN 5-Star Rating is the definitive listing of manufacturers and software publishers that service solution providers or provide products to the IT Channel.  CRN’s…
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  • IBM Celebrates 60 years of Tape

    Mary Hall
    23 Apr 2012 | 9:16 pm
        In 1947, singer Bing Crosby decided to do his radio show by recording it at his convenience on magnetic tape, rather than doing it live. This was the motivation for IBM researchers to investigate tape media, delivering the first commercial tape drive in 1952. One tape reel could hold the equivalent of 30,000 punch cards. The first tape drive was the IBM 726 which stored about 2 million bytes and ended up launching decades of IBM tape technology innovation. Today long after Bing Crosby's radio show is over, the tapes of his recordings survive.  As does the need for tape…

  • Special Offer for IBM Storage Community Members: Save on Technical Edge Registration before May 6th

    Mary Hall
    2 Apr 2012 | 11:53 am
        We know many of our Storage Community members are constantly looking for ways to improve their skill sets and implement best practices.   The upcoming Technical Edge conference will offer unique opportunities to learn and networking with IBM experts and your peers. Plus, the technical labs that will be onsite at the event offer the opportunity for you to get "hands-on" with IBM products and learn while you test drive them.   Some of you may be familiar with the technical portion of the conference.  IBM Technical Edge at Edge2012  was…

  • IBM Announces Sessions at Technical Edge Conference: IT Storage Education and Best Practices

    Mary Hall
    28 Mar 2012 | 11:54 am
      IBM System Storage Technical University at IBM Edge2012 (known as Technical Edge) will provide 4.5 days of world-class training with more than 250 technical sessions, hands-on labs and on-site certification, taught by IBM Distinguished Engineers, leading product experts, customers and partners.  Technical Edge is sponsored by IBM Partner, Intel.  Perhaps the best part about Technical Edge is the involvement of customers in putting together the individual sessions.  Sharing expert best practices is so important, as organizations are struggling with monumental data growth…

  • You're Invited: Special March 13th Webcast on IBM XIV Gen3

    Mary Hall
    12 Mar 2012 | 2:27 pm
    The IBM XIV® Storage System has met with rapid market success, with thousands of installations in diverse industries worldwide. IBM XIV integrates easily with virtualization, email, database, analytics, data protection and other solutions – including those from Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, VMware and others.  In early February, IBM made significant enhancements to the product.   The new capabilities are exciting and include a new solid state drive (SSD) caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times, and a new Apple® iPhone® app that lets…

  • Get the Edge on Storage Efficiency: the IBM Edge 2012 Conference

    Mary Hall
    9 Mar 2012 | 3:30 pm
        In 2011, Storage professionals struggled to store more data while at the same time, delivering higher levels of service and lower costs to their organizations. In 2012, the challenge of managing and storing data is getting even tougher.  A new IDC study says the market for big data technology and services will grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015. (IDC report.)  At the same time, data consolidation and savings are being mandated by the US Office of Management and Budget.   While the data grows, and IT pressures to save energy increase, the…
 
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    Paragon Software Blog

  • A significant number of home PC users don’t practice effective personal data safety measures, according to Paragon Software SURVEY

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    15 May 2012 | 6:09 am
    10K users surveyed back up and defrag regularly, but do not take advantage of alignment, wiping, and other data safety technologies. Every third PC user knows little about virtualization Paragon has conducted an online survey of more than 10,000 owners of the company’s latest Hard Disk Manager products where respondents were asked to answer 22 questions [...]

  • Paragon Software offers new exclusive opportunities to affiliates!

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    25 Apr 2012 | 7:19 am
    GREAT DEAL FOR PARAGON AFFILIATE PARTNERS We appreciate the work of our affiliates so much that we decided to increase commissions to 50% for each Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite sold for the next two months! From May through June 2012, all affiliates registered through the Avangate Affiliate Network will earn 50% on our bestselling [...]

  • Softmart now offering Paragon Software’s data backup, disaster recovery, and storage optimization products

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    18 Apr 2012 | 2:34 am
    value-added reseller (VAR) Softmart now carries Paragon’s line of data storage, disaster recovery software and storage optimization software, including Hard Disk Manager (HDM) Server, Drive Backup (DB) Server, Partition Manager (PM) Server and the Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT). Since 1982, Softmart has been a trusted resource for software, hardware, and IT services.Softmart provides turnkey [...]

  • Paragon Software lets users enjoy the benefits of virtualization!

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    17 Apr 2012 | 8:31 am
    Paragon Software invites every single user to enjoy the benefits of virtualization by joining unprecedented 3-DAYs-Giveaway of its newest virtualization solution! Virtualization Manager 12 Compact normally priced at $29.95, is available for FREE to all friends on Paragon Facebook until April, 20th. Click “LIKE” button to get access to the Giveaway and follow the simple steps [...]

  • New Paragon Virtualization Manager 12 Professional solves all virtualization challenges efficiently!

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    16 Apr 2012 | 1:55 am
    New – fastest and safest partitioning engine for all virtual management tasks. Any type of migration (P2V, V2V, V2P and P2P), including migration from 2TB+ physical drive to a smaller virtual drive. Paragon Software’s extensive research into the virtualization and data management markets found that even competent virtualization adopters had common problems with virtualization and data [...]
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  • 64GB Centon RCDSW64GB-001 DataStick Sport USB Flash Drive for $29.99

    16 May 2012 | 8:28 am
    <p> Centon&rsquo;s DataStick Sport is the perfect drive to withstand the bumps and bruises of the daily grind Built with a waterproof and shock silicon resistant case, this drive is guaranteed to keep your important data safe USB flash drives are small external hard drives that can easily be connected to computer peripherals such as keyboards, mice, printers, and digital cameras to conveniently store, share and transfer your data Waterproof up to 1.8M Shock Resistant Silicon Casing Leak-proof Cap Design Carabineer Clip Plug &amp; Play Works with Windows &amp;…

  • 120GB Patriot PP120GS25SSDR Pyro 2.5" Solid State Drive for $99.99

    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
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  • 32GB Transcend TS32GJF530 JetFlash 530 USB 2.0 Flash Drive for $18.99

    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    <p> Imagine doing all your work without the need to take a cap on and off whenever your USB flash drive is used. With a capless retractable design that protects the drive and its contents, the tough yet stylish JetFlash 530 is a durable and convenient tool for storing, transferring, and sharing multimedia and more-</p> More info

  • 16GB Super Talent SDHC16-C10 Secure Digital High Capacity SDHC Card for $8.95

    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    <p> The SuperDigital High-Capacity card offers larger removable storage size than the standard SD cards. With capacities up to 32GB, the SDHC card has become a leader among many removable storage devices, especially in the digital camera marketplace. The need for a large capacity SD is significantly attributed to a growing high-quality video demand. Super Talent SDHC cards have high data protection rates, and are built to endure harsh environmental conditions. They work in standard SD slots and preserve the data even if inserted in an SDHC-incompatible device.+</p> More info

  • 16GB Kingston DT101G2/16GBZ DataTraveler 101 Generation 2 (G2) USB Flash Drive for $10.95

    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    <p> Sleek, practical and attractively designed, the affordable DataTraveler 101 G2 serves the needs of the budget-conscious user as well as those looking for significant storage capacity in a lightweight, compact drive. It features a capless, swivel design for added functionality and ease of use and is available in five fun colors by capacity. Ideal for anyone on the go, the new DT 101G2 with urDrive is like having a customizable, portable desktop &mdash; anywhere. DataTraveler 101 G2 is also a great promotional item for businesses; your company logo can appear on it to increase…
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  • Send Documents to your Bookkeeper or Accountant in Seconds using LedgerDocs Free iPhone App

    11 May 2012 | 6:08 pm
    Ever lose an important business receipt? Ever wondered if you could get that important expense receipt to your bookkeeper or accountant right at the time of purchase? Now you can with LedgerDocs Free iPhone App.This newly released iPhone app works seamlessly with your existing LedgerDocs account. Each accounting related document such as a receipt can be sent securely in seconds to your account while you're on the go. Our online document management system LedgerDocs has been greatly enhanced with this new addition. Ultimately, LedgerDocs allows businesses to connect their electronic accounting…

  • How Bookkeepers Can Get to Inbox Zero and Stay There in Five Easy Steps

    24 Apr 2012 | 1:32 pm
    How many emails do you receive on a daily basis? How many emails do you lose track of on a daily basis because you just cannot keep up? What is that big number of Unread emails that haunts you at night and greets you the first thing every morning? Is a Zero inbox even possible for someone who runs a bookkeeping business?Even for busy business owners, even at tax time, it is possible to get to Inbox Zero and stay there. Here's how with a little effort and even more knowledge: Set up your email application so that it closely matches your data flow. All of the popular email clients allow you to…

  • Celebrate Earth Day by Moving Your Paper Documents to the Cloud!

    16 Apr 2012 | 2:13 pm
    Reduce your environmental footprint, have you heard that phrase? Do you wonder what that means? In simple terms, your environmental footprint is stamped on everything you do and use that impacts the environment. You can reduce your environmental footprint by reducing the amount of products that consume a lot of energy just to be manufactured like paper. That’s what Earth Day is all about.Earth Day started in the U.S. in 1970, after a massive oil spill in 1969 ravaged Santa Barbara California and inspired a U.S. Senator to establish a national teach-in to raise the public consciousness about…

  • LedgerDocs Application Release v3.20

    12 Apr 2012 | 4:05 pm
    Improvements Duplicate folders names are allowed as long as folders are not in the same parent directory Auto-populate rename for folders and documents Login page is updated for improved usability If you have any feedback on LedgerDocs or would like to request a feature, please email us at support[at]ledgerdocs[dot]com, fill out the contact form here, or give us a call toll free at 1.855.998.3041 ext 8.   Get your LedgerDocs 60 day free trial now! (no credit card required to start and leave the trial at any time)"LedgerDocs is a NEW unique online solution purposely built for the storage,…

  • How to View PDF Files On Your Computer or Tablet

    9 Apr 2012 | 3:00 pm
    When most people hear Adobe, they think either of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, or the Adobe Flash Player, the two most used products in the Adobe product line. Although Adobe has made huge improvements to the functionality of its products across all platforms, there are still challenges and many questions for the end-user, especially for businesses that users of Apple's products. Steve Jobs famously stated that Apple products would never run Adobe Flash because the program uses too much memory for Apple's mobile devices. Apple has standardized on the HTML5 model instead.For most people,…
 
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