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Peter Chang CEO of Oxygen Cloud Talks Infrastructure at EMC World 2012

Kit Dotson — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:47:55 +0000

EMC has always been about storage and, as a result, how storage effects the use of data in computing architectures. Products such as Oxygen Cloud seeks to be part of this decoupling of data from computation, enabling data to float free from applications and allow it to be available anywhere.

Peter Chang, CEO of Oxygen Cloud, met with John Furrier and Dave Vellante in the Cube at EMC World 2012 to speak about how his company is looking into the market to furrow out their niche. He expects that people can move their processing into the cloud, but you still have to move that data—and currently processing is virtualized, but it’s also important to virtualize data so that it follows behind computing.

“The infrastructure makes things possible,” Chang says, “so Big Data architecture might make it possible for you to store and crunch a lot of data; but what you do with it, that’s what’s next, that’s where the value actually comes from. How can you build on this infrastructure to create things that change people’s lives?”

When asked about use cases and the best traction, Chang explains that he sees people seeing access to enterprise content in the cloud. Employees want access to data via iPad and Android and mobile devices with security and control—such as enterprises really need. At NodeSummit he spoke about a similar expectation from the market, especially with the bring-your-own-device trend creeping into enterprise.

Oxygen Cloud, Furrier believes, is navigating some very choppy and dark waters and the company is just a start up between huge groups such as EMC, VMware, IBM, and HP. Chang sees it as a challenge, but that the market has a need but the big companies don’t have the technology or mobility to deliver what the market needs at the level that smaller startups can nimbly approach. So Chang says that he hopes to provide technology—such as anywhere access to EMC storage, Isilon, etc.—through partnerships with EMC.

Chang sees the end-user as the important linchpin for much storage delivery. While the big companies move and make huge waves through the cloud environment, the enterprise venue involves taking data out of the vast expanse of the cloud and bringing it down to the service level. Such as IT departments look to provide data and storage to end users.

“We’re going to be eventually managing storage as a service, I think that’s a forgone conclusion,” Chang says. “The question is what are the qualities of that service, where does that data live, and how do we drive lower costs?”

His vision is to build out a complete platform that not only provides access to all content across the enterprise—but also take advantage of that data set and provide value added services on top of that. Oxygen Cloud doesn’t provide just cloud storage, Chang explains, as in they’re not just there to provide access to files.

“We don’t think of ourselves as an application,” he says, “we think of ourselves as part of the infrastructure.”

We’re looking at an interesting niche with Oxygen Cloud, especially in comparison to traditional cloud-services such as Amazon Web Services. SiliconANGLE’s Alex Williams recently made a comparison between AWS and Oxygen Cloud looking at just these expectations.

The middle-man making the cloud-storage better. With Oxygen Cloud, certainly there is cloud-storage entailed; but to distribute data means to build out a platform, APIs for accessing that platform, and delivering all the necessary elements that make a solution for a storage-as-a-service. As a result, Chang sees that Oxygen Cloud will be able to compete by providing a superior service for cloud-storage providers to connect with IT departments and the enterprise sector.

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EMC World 2012: Storage Launches, More Data News

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:08:03 +0000

An official statement from EMC World 2012 revealed that the storage giant will be making a total of 42 product announcements during the event. That’s just enough for this year’s Megalaunch to raise the bar beyond the previous record set back in 2011, with 41 product-related updates.

It’s Day 1 of the conference, and a few of the most significant announcements already hit the press. Coming out of Las Vegas is word on new and improved storage systems, scattered across the company’s entire portfolio.

The entry level category now features the VNXe 3150, which supposedly delivers 50 percent more performance and capacity than the previous generation of the solution. And in turn, the higher end family of storage arrays based on the VMAX operating system has also been extended with the addition of the 40K model.

The existing configurations, a low end system with a capacity of 1.5 petabytes and a more advanced one with 2PBs, have been renamed to VMAX 10K and VMAX 20K, respectively. The new 40K packs twice as much capacity than the latter, its predecessor, and doubled performance with up to 32 2.8GHz Intel Xeons under the hood. Each chip features six cores.

In addition, the 40K ships with one terabyte of ECC-protected DDR3 DRAM, improved networking and a number of other enhancements.

The VNXe 3150 and VMAX 40K storage systems are far from being the only new kids on the block. EMC will be showcasing the latest version of the Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system, and the company is aggressively branching out to other industries as well.

One such area is networking. This year a more diverse lineup of companies is attending, including Juniper Networks and Arista, while big data once again made it to the flyers and is in fact the big slogan behind Megalaunch part 2.

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SAP Technology Adoption in the “7th Inning Stretch” says NetApp VP

Guest Author — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:45:40 +0000

As part of their continuing SAP SAPphire 2012 coverage at #theCube, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Thomas Stanley, former baseball player turned tech Global Alliance VP for NetApp (see full interview below). Vellante noted that SAP SAPphire messaging had changed since last year, now focusing more on “speed, simplicity, personalization [and] mobility.”

Using the baseball analogy, Stanley explained in terms of new technology adoption and SAP, “we are definitely in the 7th inning stretch.” Now the products are on the marketplace and the important questions according to Stanley are: “How does the ecosystem come together?…What are [the] workloads [and] customer requirements?…Are we able to fulfill them?”

SAP provides major workloads to NetApp and Stanley explained the company’s go-to-market for SAP meant maintaining their status as leaders in innovation and data solutions.

Stanley also discussed what Vellante considered the “land grab for FlexPod.” Net App has had significant growth in FlexPod architecture and clients appreciate the enhanced innovation and R&D. For NetApp, Flex Pod helps provide the architecture that allows its clients to realize their main goals of reducing time to market, cost and risk. The value Net App brings suggests there should be no premium attached to FlexPod architecture. Vellante predicts that, in the future, most of the market will converge and open architecture will be the largest segment.

NetApp plans to continue integration with SAP, a big drive of workload, to bring significant value to the marketplace. Stanley suggests: “It’s not just what our people do with our software…it’s what do we do with our software connected to the applications that SAP is bringing to the market…our job is to be number 1 in that.”

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Bernhard Schulzki from EMC and Satinder Sethi from Cisco Talk HANA at SAPphire 2012

Kit Dotson — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:52:06 +0000

Bernhard Schulzki, Vice President of EMC Solutions Group, and Satinder Sethi, VP of Service Access & Virtualization Technology at Cisco, spoke with Dave Vellante at SAPphire 2012 about the cloud and HANA infrastructure. (See the video at the end of the article for the full interview.)

Schulzki says that the specific emphasis on solutions with SAP in partnership with Cisco involves HANA and the journey into the cloud. Especially because Cisco is one of the leading providers helping to deliver people into the cloud via broader networking and datacenters.

He also spoke about how EMC intends to use Cisco led certification for HANA in order to move forward with development. “We’re responding to customer needs,” Schulzki said. “Everybody loves HANA,” and this appears to be the direction that the customers want to move in and therefore that’s where EMC and Cisco choose to attend.

Sethi said that Cisco sees a huge need in the market for a differentiated computing architecture and that this will lead modern day infrastructure.

“It doesn’t really matter what application I’m running or what point in time,” Sethi said speaking about abstraction and architecture under the tutelage of Cisco and their technology. “Look at some of the capabilities that HANA is trying to drive such as faster response time, information available instantly…agile infrastructure that can be scaled out, repurpose at any given point of time, and being able to deliver the performance that customers are looking for.”

Dave expanded that SAP becomes part of the mission critical horizontal app infrastructures, enabling the capability of running any app at any time they want and providing the agility to shift between different applications when they need it. With the advent of cloud-technology, applications are no longer tied directly to hardware, but are abstracted across clouds being upheld by a lot of networking infrastructure coupled with storage.

Schulzki went on to speak about how EMC Solutions has brought resilience to HANA architectures through an SAP context by providing fully automated storage tiering and being able to integrate with legacy systems or migrate from older systems. He expects that working with SAP’s infrastructure agnostic systems will help with virtualization and abstraction and as a result may simplify the toolset needed to make datacenters run.

“SAP has a roadmap that we want to attach to,” he said speaking about the cloud-to-cloud, “…and it’s good stuff coming out.”

In-memory computing is a very big deal in this industry because often software decisions are made based on the hardware available at the time. Hardware is a long-term decision that needs to be maintained and upgrade for future projects and an early decision can cripple future agility and growth—however, with SAP HANA solutions and layers of abstraction the hardware underneath doesn’t matter as much to the software on top, thus enabling customers to look to companies like EMC and Cisco to resolve their on-the-ground problems and use the abstraction software layer to provide them agility.

As a result, such products will be very fruitful for companies like Cisco and EMC as they allow them to collaborate with customers to give them the best possible infrastructure without locking them into something that may restrict their ability to remain customers in the future.

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Nvidia Prepares Graphics Card Lineup for the Cloud Gaming Era

Kit Dotson — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:31:02 +0000

The cloud has penetrated everything, even gaming, and Nvidia wants to craft the sails that will lead the gaming world into those cloudy waters with their upcoming Kepler-based graphics chips—these graphics cards will include features designed to enable cloud-gaming across the Internet and facilitate lower-lag with shinier graphics for the next generation of consoles.

Essentially, the way Nvidia and others see it: home consoles can only go so far in power and strength requirements for graphics and this means a cost-barrier to customers. So gaming-as-a-service breaks in by allowing data centers to house extremely powerful graphics cards on servers that run the games, render the graphics, and then stream them to the consoles. Lowering the power and cost needs at the client end and defraying costs for the enterprise.

Dean Takahashi from GamesBeat interviewed Nvidia senior vice president Dan Vivoli about Nvidia’s announcement of the Kepler-based cloud-gaming chipsets and how they might impact the industry as a whole,

But with improved multitasking on Nvidia’s Kepler-based graphics chips, each data center server can handle multiple users at a lower cost. That makes cloud gaming more economical, Vivoli said.

The Kepler-based chips have also been designed to reduce the latency, or time it takes for an interaction between computers, for cloud gaming. That means that there won’t be a perceptible delay in playing cloud games.

Nvidia is partnering with Gaikai, which has 24 data centers in the U.S., to help reduce network latency. Nvidia is building a grid-based computing platform, dubbed Nvidia GeForce Grid, for Kepler-based machines to access. Together with cloud graphics software, the Nvidia GeForce Grid will be enable cloud-gaming companies to operate with lower operating costs, said Phil Eisler, general manager of cloud graphics at Nvidia.

Companies such as OnLive, Gaikai, and Otoy have been seeking solutions to enable gaming services across the cloud for some time now and Nvidia has even sought a partnerships with them. Southern California-based Gaikai, Inc. was in the news last year for their endeavor to provide cloud-streaming and cloud-delivery assets to MMO games such as Dungeons & Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online. We’ve also seen OnLive pushing into mobile with support for Xperia PLAY and appear on Internet-enabled TVs through being preloaded onto Google TV.

“The beauty of this approach is that GPUs will continue to improve all of the time,” Vivoli told GamesBeat. “Your hardware stays the same, but the data center hardware can be upgraded to handle better games.”

By using a datacenter packed with the Nvidia Kepler-based graphics cards, each of these different cloud-gaming outfits would be able to render the games in their servers and then pipe them to devices that would traditionally not be able to play triple-A titles such as Crysis 3—a set of devices that include thin-client consoles, Internet-enabled TVs, low-end PCs, and mobile devices.

With the production of this type of equipment we will probably seen the next generation of consoles have two modes: one that uses the internal graphics to allow the play of games the traditional way (possibly the primary selling point) and the second will be much like Xbox LIVE and other Intenet-enabled services that also allow for cloud-based gaming via OnLive, Gaikai and others using gaming-as-a-service datacenters.

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Oracle VDI Update Means Less Vendor Lock-In?

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:00:08 +0000

Database behemoth Oracle upgraded three applications in its desktop virtualization portfolio with the addition of new features spread across a number of different areas, from storage and security to video playback quality.

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4 now offers a bit less vendor lock-in with support for not only Sun ZFS appliances but also storage solutions from third party vendors. In addition, the Global VDI Centers included with the latest version enable admins to create several deployments which automatically redirect users to the designated server group.

In turn, Sun Ray v5.3 features a few improvements as well. Sun Ray now ‘accelerates‘ Adobe Flash and Windows Media Player, and video can be streamed at 720p if Virtual Desktop Client 3.1 is installed.

On top of that, ‘location tracking’ has been introduced to increase overall convenience – for example, the app automatically adjusts screen sized depending on the monitor the user happens to be logging in from. This is also designed to push security up a notch in some regards, and comes alongside the addition of 802.1X network authentication.

Lastly, Oracle says that its software supports a broader range of USB device and that actual storage performance is increased fivefold.

“With our continued product enhancements, Oracle’s desktop virtualization solution is making it easier and more cost-effective for IT to deliver centrally managed, secure services for end user desktops and provide access to enterprise applications from a wider variety of locations and devices,” Wim Coekaerts, SVP of Linux and Virtualization Engineering.

This latest Oracle update comes just two days after a major development in its case against Google. The judge decided that Android does indeed infringe several Java patents, but the litigation is not over and the plaintiff has only been awarded with a mere $160,000 in damages.

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Scalify Raises $2 Million for Peer-to-Peer Cloud-Gaming Networking

Kit Dotson — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:07:07 +0000

Melbourne-based gaming start-up Scalify is looking to amplify their efforts to bring peer-to-peer networking to the gaming community after an infusion of $2 million in investment from Starfish Ventures.

According to an article in VentureBeat, the start-up intends to use this investment to increase their stake in a networking technology that they’re selling to networked-gaming studio such as massively multiplayer online games and social games that depend heavily on users interacting with one another,

Badumna allows traffic to communicate via peer-to-peer in a decentralized network. The company argues that this approach enables multiplayer apps that were not possible before. It does so by forming a secondary network of trusted nodes that are used for services such as authentication, third-party arbitration, and others tasks. These tasks are executed in the peer-to-peer network, and so, that network offloads work from the servers.

“As each player joins the game, they automatically contribute additional capacity to the network, making the approach inherently more scalable than any client-server approach,” Steve Telburn, chief executive of Scalify, said in an email. “This is obviously important because publishers do not know if their games will be a success or not, so they need to plan their infrastructure based on the ‘best case’ scenario.”

The Scalify product, Badumna, saw its 2.0 release in 2011 and has recently been upgraded to version 2.1.1. Via this technology, players involved in a peer-to-peer networked video game become an extension of the servers that run the game themselves, providing secondary-services to offload some of the bandwidth and load from the main datacenters.

“Badumna 2.0 includes a distributed validation system that allows developers to design fully secure cheat-resistant applications without having to compromise on the scalability offered by Badumna,” wrote Scalify on Badumna. “Distributed validation system raises the bar on cheating and can offer the security of a client-server architecture on-demand with its ability to dynamically switch between client-server mode and peer-to-peer mode.”

With gigantic MMO games such as World of Warcraft and League of Legends, the datacenters hosting servers for these games must account for hundreds of thousands of users a day (games like WoW have almost 10 million active subscribers total) and as a result they must handle a lot of authentication requests, a lot of playtime, and do so without dropping anyone. By taking a card from BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks like Pando, gaming itself can also be distributed across the gamers themselves in order to lighten the load.

Of course, as mentioned in the quote above, technologies like Badumna will need to harden itself against exploits and man-in-the-middle attacks (especially where authentication is concerned.) As we’ve seen with other systems, it’s possible to handle functions on an untrusted system—a client’s computer—by making sure they’re encrypted and hidden from sight and that core functions are not trusted by the server until they’re validated.

Scalify sees what we all see: the gaming sector is growing and it’s growing fast. PC gaming alone is a $18.6 billion dollar market (as of 2011) and that’s only set to increase in 2012; and with it, the increase in proliferation of MMO games will push further into the cloud, into on-demand streaming, and stretch peer-to-peer delivery networks. Free-to-play MMO gaming has seen a 24% rise in profits in the US alone, netting at least $60 per-user every month, and this factor is seeing a need for better delivery options, and cheaper solutions for housing and handling giant data/server warehouses.

Peer-to-peer and the cloud would appear to be the most obvious answers and Scalify have set themselves a straight course right into the heart of that industry.

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ActiveState Adds Control, Debugging with Stackato 1.2

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:00:17 +0000

ActiveState, a software development solutions maker, launched the latest version of its so-called private, development-centric PaaS. The multi-stack, platform-agnostic moto persists, only with a few extra touches that aim to make Stackato a bit better than what it used to be.

Version 1.2 features several new additions. One of the major updates is support for file-system services, which means that an application like Drupal can more easily share data across multiple instances within the cloud environment.

ActiveState also added ‘app store features’ for admins to better manage applications’ lifecycle. That includes a simplified deployment console and a configurable Stackato App Store that can support multiple online storefronts and comes with a built in search function.

On top of all that a permissions system has been installed so that developers accessing the code on a company’s Stackato deployment can only modify the portion they’re working on. And debugging their code should be easier thanks to integration with Komodo, ActiveState’s rather popular IDE.

“Stackato 1.2 is all about control,” said Jeff Hobbs, VP of Engineering and CTO at ActiveState. “It’s the only Cloud Foundry-based PaaS solution to offer group and user-specific controls, a powerful tool for enterprises looking to maintain transparent oversight of cloud application development and deployment processes. With Stackato 1.2, IT administrators can set memory, service and application quotas for individual users, or even groups.”

The latest release is available in the commercial edition and a single freely downloadable VM that customers can play around with before signing up to the former.

Stackato is based on VMware’s Cloud Foundry, and the open-source PaaS’s original developer is looking to make the most out of it as well. Earlier this week we learned that BOSH, a tool originally made for Foundry, is going to be usable in OpenStack deployments as well.

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Cloud Computing Fueling New Healthcare Possibilities

Josette Rigsby — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:21:02 +0000

Cloud computing has evolved from cutting edge technology only adopted by the most technically savvy organizations to being a component of even the most conservative portfolios. The cloud has made it possible for even the smallest organizations to have virtually limitless access to sophisticated, highly robust technology solutions. However, in spite of its popularity, many people don’t realize the cloud’s potential extends far beyond shaving a few thousand from technology budgets and bolstering the next social networking start-up. In fact, cloud computing is proving it can be an important tool for extending or even saving human life.

Cycle Computing created 51,132-core supercomputer on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud to test 21 million synthetic compounds that could be useful in treating cancer. The cluster ran for 3 hours on March 30 and cost $4,828.85. A comparable build out using a traditional infrastructure approach would have cost over $20 million and taken months to deploy. The same research could have taken a year to complete if the simulation was run on the 1,500-core cluster Cycle Computing’s client, Schrödinger, typically uses for biotechnology and pharmaceutical research.

What Cycle Computing accomplished was significant. However, any organization with adequate technical expertise, could create a cluster of equal and processing power using the cloud as infrastructure. This completely changes the dynamics of medical research. Researchers no longer have to endure the longs waits to rent time from supercomputing centers or obtain billions in funding, which is substantially speeding innovation in the industry.

The work being done by Cycle Computing and Schrödinger is just one example of how cloud computing and healthcare are intersecting to create new opportunities. Cloud computing is also providing the computing power and data storage necessary to fuel advances in DNA sequencing. This has allowed the field of genomics to advance even faster than Moore’s law, which is commonly used to describe the pace of computing technology advances. It required over a decade and several billion dollars to map the first genome; cloud computing now makes it possible to map a genome in a few days at a cost of only thousands of dollars. That’s a reduction of time and cost by a factor of one million. By enabling this level of genomics, cloud computing isn’t only advancing human knowledge, it is making the possibility of personalized medicine based on an individual’s unique genetic makeup practical.

Cloud computing may soon impact healthcare in a much more personal way than supporting research. It is now possible to store the sum of all human medical knowledge in the cloud. Access to this volume of data and the processing power of the cloud has the potential to make treatment a much more analytical endeavor.

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Turning Data Into Actionable Knowledge is Key to Big Data Management [CEO Series]

Kristen Nicole — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:30:41 +0000

Scaling mountains of data is becoming a necessary skill set in today’s business and consumer world. Envisioning the systems behind this is ZL Technologies CEO Kon Leong, an inquisitive man with a provocative perspective. Running a company that provides software solutions for enterprise’s unmanageable big data problem, Leong has an idea or two on how systems should be developed, implemented and scaled.

In today’s Snapshot Profile series Leong shares his ideal system for managing unstructured data, the importance of compounded knowledge in today’s enterprise and consumer spaces, and his favorite coding language–profanity.

What are 3 of the most significant historic circumstances that have shaped big data demands for the enterprise?

Big Data enterprise demands on the structured data side are better known and of lesser mystery in evolution.

On the unstructured Big Data side, however, the demand metamorphosis has been fascinating. The set of technologies required to make sense of unstructured data did not come together until recently. For many years, the enterprise simply took the “ostrich” approach and ignored unstructured data. Then came the first tsunami of unstructured content, spawned by the quake of wide-scale usage of the Net. Email and attachments rode the crest of that wave. Still, the enterprise simply stuck its head in deeper into the ground and ignored the tidal wave of content flooding every nook and corner. Finally, around the close of 2006, there came a second quake, with its epicenter coming from the legal quarter – the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) which put the onus on the enterprise to finally get its flood control systems around unstructured content. Since that watershed event, there has been a consistent and concerted attempt to manage unstructured Big Data, spurred further by demands from compliance, corporate governance and records management.

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Your ideal system for managing unstructured data?

The ideal system for unstructured Big Data management is fairly obvious and practically déjà vu. It parallels the evolution of “ERP” from the early days of “silos” in the 1960’s which cobbled various components such as Accounting, Inventory Management, Order Entry, Manufacturing Scheduling, Bills of Material, and so on. This approach did not last long and the compelling need to put it all together into one functioning system led to the emergence of current-day ERP players such as SAP.

There were similar developments in the unstructured data space, where applications cropped up in ad hoc manner and were stood up as “silos.” First came storage optimization (circa 2000), followed by compliance (2002), e-discovery (2005) and records management (2008). However, these silos created more headaches and were exacerbated by the massive volumes of unstructured data, which, in many Fortune 500 enterprises, rivaled data volumes at Google. As with ERP, the emerging and obvious answer to unstructured Big Data is to put it all together in one functioning system – a unified system. There is simply no other choice.

How can compounded knowledge help the enterprise and consumers in the future?

Information is good. More information is better. Today, however, the overflow of information threatens to overwhelm the capacity of human processing. Not many of us have stopped to take stock of the massive leaps and bounds in volumes by which our data have grown in the past few years. It was not so long ago that our PC held a thousand files. Today, they can easily number in the hundreds of thousands. In this context, technology can and should come to the rescue to help grapple with the problem of too much information.

Thankfully, the progress of intelligent search and analytics technologies has been encouraging of late. Turning information into actionable knowledge will be the linchpin of Big Data management.

What gives you confidence in/for the future?

Human adaptability has always been our mainstay for survival, and in the high tech sector, it is no different. No matter how daunting the challenges, we have always collectively stepped up to meet them. We only need to look at the proliferation of disasters of epidemic proportions, such as AIDS, swine flu and avian flu, to realize that while don’t have all the answers, we can usually come up with enough to cope with and then overcome the problems.

Confidence, someone once said, is that feeling you get before you find out what’s really going on. I say it’s the bootstrapping that takes place after you realize you haven’t got much to lose.

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