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Microsoft Adds Data Management Features to Windows 2012, But Are They Useful?
Microsoft’s new Windows 2012 features a list of advanced data storage management tools, and Microsoft has done its best to make those tools as uncomplicated as possible to use. But despite that, writes Wikibon Analyst, Consultant, and former CIO Scott Lowe in his latest Professional Alert, “Microsoft Attacks Storage with Windows 2012”, they are still complicated ...
True Hybrid Flash Storage Can Save Costs Overall for High-Performance Databases
Hybrid flash/disk storage systems, in which data is written first to a flash cache in the server and then later peculated to a traditional storage array, can provide significant direct savings in environments supporting more than 700 IOPs per Tbyte. And hybrid arrays can benefit SMBs as well as large enterprises. Those are the primary ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 6, 2013
Dell to Build 3 Pbyte High Performance Storage Infrastructure for Japan’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Japan’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has chosen dell Compellent arrays for a high-performance, large-capacity storage system for its private cloud environment supporting students and researchers. With an initial available capacity of three petabytes, it will ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 5, 2013
HP Restructures German Services HP has announced a restructuring of its Enterprise Services business in Germany as part of its global multiyear restructuring plan announced on May 23. Under the proposal presented to the German Supervisory Board, the changes will impact 1,100 positions and include closing its site in Russelsheim, Germany. More Dell Expands ...
EMC Announces Overhaul of Velocity Channel Partner Program
On February 5, 2013 EMC announced a major revision of its Velocity Solution Provider program designed to give its channel partners globally a more predictable and profitable relationship. The transformation includes a new Target Products rebate, refinements to the Velocity Specialties requirements and benefits, integration of the EMC Isilon partner program, increased demand-generation opportunities, and ...
IBM Challenges x86 Dominance in SMB, Enterprise Data Centers with Power Systems7+ Announcement
On February 5, 2013, IBM announced a major expansion of its Power Systems computers built on its Power Systems7+ RISC processors, obviously intended to challenge the long dominance of x86 servers. “We have priced these systems to compete head-to-head with x86,” says Jason Gartner, VP of PureSystems Product Management. The PowerExpress 710, 720, 730, and ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 4, 2013
Online Superstore Standardizes on EMC AutomationDirect.com, an online superstore of industrial control products, has standardized on EMC VMAX 10K with FAST VP (fully automated storage tiering for virtual pools) and other EMC software. AutomationDirect is leveraging these EMC technologies to drive rapid business expansion and reduce costs while rolling out strategic initiatives, including disaster recovery, ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 1, 2013
President Obama Awards National Medal of Technology to IBM Scientists President Obama will honor three IBM scientists — James J. Wynne, Rangaswamy Srinivasan, and Samuel Blum — with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for the discovery of the underlying technology for LASIK surgery. The award, the country’s most prestigious honor for technological achievement, ...
The Mobile Office: Mobile Computing, BYOD, and VDI
Like it or not, mobile computing has arrived. Like the PC revolution of the 1980s, it came in through the front door, carried in by C level executives in the form of the first iPads. And like the PC revolution, that led to client/server, the consumer Internet, telecommuting, and the ongoing revolution in retail, mobile ...
Mobile Computing and BYOD Is Editorial Theme for February
Mobile computing, including BYOD, is, according to Gartner, the “single most radical shift” in business since the PC revolution of the 1980s. Over the next decade it will have a huge impact on how people work and live, how companies operate, and on the IT infrastructure. This month ServicesAngle will focus on the issues and ...