Promise Technology released its new range of hyper-converged systems for flexible, streamlined data center and IT operations: VSkyCube to allow for high scaling and performance without the aggravation of individual design considerations for siloed IT resources. The VSkyCube uses a software-defined approach, combining software-defined compute, storage, and networking in the form of hyperconverged nodes. Together with a centralized single pane of glass management system, VSkyView, these technologies deliver a pre-integrated […]
by Richard Whitehead The increase in complexity, along with the accelerating rate of change in IT are the two factors that make it so difficult for IT operations teams to identify issues without having deep knowledge of a particular setup. This complexity also means that technical people are staring at incomplete screens, showing only a part of the overall situation: one layer of the stack, one area of the network, […]
Open source-driven software defined storage provider, Nexenta has teamed with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack, to announce an extension of their partnership, creating a joint solution which pairs Nexenta’s SDS solution with Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack platform. Canonical and Nexenta integrated NexentaEdge, which delivers high performance object and block storage services, with Juju, a high-level service model for automating the deployment and management of applications. The joint solution […]
FinalCode integrated for the company’s file encryption and tracking solution, FinalCode, as an option to the file control and management features of Box, a cloud file sharing and collaboration platform. The new offering, FinalCode for Box automatically applies encryption, usage control and deletion of files outside the secure Box container – directly invoked from the Box interface. Box provides an intuitive cloud file sharing and collaboration platform with comprehensive file […]
Riverbed Technology announced this week that its hyper-converged edge offering Riverbed SteelFusion is extending its reach to cloud environments with support for Azure through Microsoft StorSimple and Amazon Web Services through AWS Storage Gateway. Users now have more flexibility and choice for cloud-based data storage across remote locations and can leverage the cloud as a secondary storage tier for added capacity, backup, or for tiering in conjunction with private data […]
Hortonworks aligned with Hewlett Packard Labs, the central research organization of Hewlett Packard Enterprise to form a new collaboration that boosts Apache Spark, one of the most active Apache big data projects. The collaboration will center around an entirely new class of analytic workloads that benefit from large pools of shared memory. Hortonworks and Hewlett Packard Enterprise plan to contribute the new technologies to the Apache Spark community. Early results […]
Marvell has announced its 32-bit and 64-bit Armada system-on-chip (SoC) ecosystem of software solutions and partners for a variety of applications. Marvell’s expanded, rich ecosystem brings strong support and commitment to the open source community with software offerings including mainline Linux kernel and mainline U-Boot on publicly available community hardware platforms. Marvell’s expansion of its 32-bit and 64-bit Armada SoC software ecosystem with OpenDataPlane (ODP), OpenFastPath (OFP), UEFI, openSUSE, SUSE […]
Four Simple Tips to Help Prepare for the Next “Oops” Moment by Kemal Balioglu Recently I came across a sobering story about how one simple command line resulted in the deletion of the majority of production files for Pixar’s Toy Story 2 from a studio server. While the studio had been creating backups of production files daily, they did not realize, until they went to restore the lost files, that […]
