CloudBerry Lab has released
CloudBerry Backup version 1.3 - an application that allows users to backup their data online to their
Amazon S3 accounts.
CloudBerry Backup is also available as a
Windows Home Server add-on. It integrates with the WHS console and offers scheduled backup to cloud storage, hosted on Amazon S3.
Although global shipments of
blade servers are set to decline in 2009, the market is expected to return to robust double-digit growth during the following years as global economic conditions improve, according to
iSuppli.
Blade server shipments will amount to 1.04 million units in 2009, down 9 percent from 1.14 million in 2008. This contrasts sharply with the 31.1 percent increase in 2008.
A recent
IDC survey investigating server virtualization deployments in vorious organizations reveals that the technology is transforming server, storage, and networking infrastructure and even more so the way their datacenters are and will be built and managed.
The survey also suggests that many users are pushing their virtual server environments to the limits, which is causing several problems, such as virtual server sprawl and storage I/O bottlenecks.
DataCore Software, the provider of storage virtualisation, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, announced that it has teamed up with
Citrix Systems to distribute a free to try, downloadable,
DataCore Virtual SAN Appliance. The company also released a
Citrix StorageLink adapter to integrate its storage virtualisation solutions with Citrix Essentials for
XenServer and
Microsoft Hyper-V.
Virident Systems has appointed industry veteran
Bob DeMartino to drive the growth of its GreenCloud server platforms in Web 2.0 data centers.
DeMartino joins Virident from Sun Microsystems bringing over twenty years of sales and market development experience with both large, established enterprise and start-up technology firms.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, has announced that it has developed the world’s first 32 Gigabyte (GB) DDR3 module – for use in server systems.
The new module operates at 1.35-volts, in support of the global trend to cut power usage in mass storage computing environments.
Jakarta-based PT Garuda Indonesia is Indonesia’s flag carrier. Recently, the airline has been challenged by competing international airlines and budget carriers as well as changing economic conditions—placing pressure on the company to maximize its efficiency and effectiveness.This case study describes how Garuda Indonesia deployed a series of high-performance Dell™ PowerEdge™ M600 blade servers with quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors in PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosures to help boost the efficiency of its business operations and support key front-end SAP® and Microsoft® applications. The blade servers, which connect to a set of Dell/EMC CX3-20c storage area network (SAN) arrays, have enabled the company to reduce its power consumption by as much as 40 percent and reduce its data center footprint by 50 percent—helping optimize energy use while maximizing data center performance and density. Although many servers are running in Garuda Indonesia’s data center, the company has entrusted the Dell blades with running the most critical front-end applications, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The Dell OpenManage™ suite, meanwhile, helps simplify server deployment, management, and problem resolution.Garuda Indonesia has received positive feedback from users of applications that run on the blades and from the IT staff benefiting from improved ease of management. Looking ahead, Garuda Indonesia wants to further enhance its operations with new customer-facing applications and the delivery of new fleets for long-haul flights to Europe, and is confident that Dell can help them scale to meet new demands.
Fujitsu has launched a new-generation blade server system as a key part of its global growth program to boost its market share for x86 servers.
The PRIMERGY BX900 is a complete dynamic server infrastructure in a single blade cube.
IBM has broadened its lineup of Express Advantage products for midmarket with the launch of BladeCenter Express servers, a new data protection hardware/software package.
It also unveiled the LotusLive Meetings hosted Web conferencing service.
As
Oracle prepares its USD $7.4bn acquistion of
Sun Microsystem, figures have emerged about the server and software maker's latest quarter losses.
Sun announced on Tuesday that it lost USD $201 million in the three months ended March 29. A year ago, Sun lost USD $34 million.
The global utility storage provider
3PAR has announced the launch of its InServ F400 Storage Server, writes
Samanatha Sai for storage.biz-news.
The company says it is the fastest single-system midrange storage array based on the results of the audit and peer review SPC-1 submitted to the Storage Performance Council (SPC) - a vendor neutral standards company.
Most industries acknowledge that increasing IT Storage needs is a fact of life even in the face of economic downturn.
Newer and more efficient ways of optimizing existing storage facilities are being explored as budgets are tight and capital outlay has been squeezed, writes Samantha Sai for
storage.biz-news.
The latest versions of
DataCore's SANmelody 3.0 and SANsymphony 7.0 storage virtualization software were under preview at the recent
VMWorld Europe 2009.
The products are due to be shipped later this month with 64 bit software architecture and various new features for virtual servers, writes
Samantha Sai for
storage-biz.news.
StarWind Software has appointed
Zorian Rotenberg as chief executive officer and announced the opening of its US headquarters.
The storage software provider's move to its new HQ near Boston, Massachusetts, comes shortly after the announcement of its spin-off from Rocket Division Inc and the investment, led by ABRT Venture Fund, meant to accelerate sales and assist in marketing efforts.
Cloud computing - including cloud storage - will transform the industry and become the predominant way in which IT is consumed.
That's the prediction of
Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Silicon Valley start-up
ParaScale.
He said there has been a rapid heightening of interest recently in all things cloud - applications, computing and storage.
Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst of
DCIG Inc, an independent storage analyst and consulting firm, outlines 10 criteria for selecting the right
enterprise business continuity software.
Lenovo has launched a desktop computing solution that can dramatically help businesses reduce IT costs and security risks by turning off hard drives and storing all data in a non-server remote location.
Called
Secure Managed Client (SMC), the company claims it is the first solution to do all this while still offering users the flexibility and performance of a traditional desktop PC.
A high-performance, energy-efficient solution based on Dell? PowerEdge? blade servers and a Dell EqualLogic? PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network array provides Optimal Blue with an anticipated 50 percent improvement in application response time.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today a storage breakthrough in blade computing that will allow small and medium-sized customers and branch offices to consolidate multiple storage devices onto a single blade computing system. Building on the leadership design of IBM's office-ready blade solution, customers can now share information across all blade servers in a single system to help improve utilization and reliability while reducing costs.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an "intelligent dashboard" that will allow clients to view, maintain and adjust the energy consumption, performance, and hardware utilization of their multi-system, virtualized environment -- all in a single view.
IBM today announced that Northwest Radiology Network has gone live with a new virtualized enterprise of IBM servers and storage to support its growing medical imaging needs, giving its four locations an enterprise-class infrastructure which enables its doctors to recover medical image reports faster for analysis and enables remote 24x7 access to its medical image report system.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and IDUG(R), the International DB2 User Group, today announced the first global competition to identify the next generation of software developers. Known as "The Search for the XML Superstar," the contest will be open to all university students, faculty and professional developers across China, India and Southeast Asia testing knowledge of and skills in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and database technologies.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new supercomputer that NASA scientists will use to simulate and better understand Earth's climate and weather, the planet's relationship with the sun, and the evolution of cosmic phenomena. It will also play an essential role in developing methods to analyze the rapidly increasing amount of data the agency collects from Earth- and space-observing satellites.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) said today it will offer remote, $99 ?test drives? of Microsoft?s newly launched supercomputer operating system, Windows HPC Server 2008, via its global network of IBM® Computing on Demand facilities.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today officially announced that registration for the fourth annual "Master the Mainframe" competition is underway. The annual competition is designed to familiarize students with concepts for the growing large enterprise computing industry and build mainframe skills, enabling them to become the business and IT leaders of tomorrow.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software to help businesses take advantage of the surge in new mainframe software applications and the growing momentum behind enterprise mashups.
High-Definition Storage experts,
Pivot3, have announced the first public demonstration of its Serverless Computing platform at
ASIS International 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia.
The new platform, which runs
NVR software on the
storage node rather than requiring its own
dedicated server, will be demonstrated in three locations at the show at the World Congress Convention Center.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced a three-dimensional Virtual Green Data Center (VGDC) that gives visitors a chance to learn how to manage and improve their data center energy efficiency without leaving the office. The VGDC, the world's first interactive green data center, is on the IBM Virtual Business Center Island in Second Life(R) and was demonstrated at the Virtual Worlds Expo in Los Angeles, September 3 & 4.
VMworld - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced two IBM System x servers featuring new six-core processor technology from Intel. The new servers offer exceptional power-efficiency, performance and virtualization capabilities for today's most demanding datacenters.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a blended human capital management services and software package that helps clients more effectively analyze key trends and metrics in their workforce to get the most from their talent investment. It's a way to provide chief human resource officers with easy access to information with the same rigor as the financial or operational data available to the CEO, CFO or CIO.
Cryptic Studios(TM), a leading independent developer of massively multiplayer online role playing games, has chosen IBM (NYSE: IBM) servers to power its highly anticipated massively multiplayer online (MMO) action game, "Champions Online"(TM), being published by 2K Games and developed for PC and consoles.
Quazal Technologies, the leading provider of networking middleware to the games industry and makers of the award-winning Net-Z, Rendez-Vous and Spark! online multiplayer products, has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) to support its rapid growth in the global games market.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) announced today a major transformation effort to implement the New Enterprise Data Center (NEDC) strategy -- aimed to address PSBank's increasing business and technology requirements in support of its expanding customer base, as well as product and service portfolio.
IBM will today celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stretch supercomputer ? a machine that was not a commercial success in its era, but helped revolutionize the computer industry by pioneering technologies that power everything from today?s laptops and iPods to the world?s largest supercomputers. Just as important, it helped establish a culture of innovation at IBM that carries on to this day.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Godiva Chocolatier, Inc. today announced that the companies have signed a services agreement for IBM to manage Godiva's information technology (IT) infrastructure. The five-year agreement was signed on June 24, 2008.
The Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technology and Communications (SAITC) and IBM Bulgaria today announced the Bulgarian IBM Blue Gene/P - the first installation of the world famous Blue Gene computer in Bulgaria.
Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst of
DCIG Inc, an independent storage analyst and consulting firm, outlines 10 criteria for selecting the right
enterprise business continuity software.
ITU Telecom Asia -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an intelligent blade server designed to help reduce security threats -- such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and viruses -- while helping server providers better manage network traffic for optimal performance.
RHB Banking Group today announced its new department, Central Technology Unit, will enhance its product development and delivery to customers with IBM (NYSE: IBM) System z10 mainframe as the foundation of its new enterprise data center.
IDC reported today that IBM (NYSE: IBM) continues to hold the number one position in worldwide server revenue share with a 33.2 percent revenue share in the second quarter of 2008 -- surpassing HP with a 5.8 percent gap. IBM also topped the industry with a 27 percent revenue growth in overall servers from first quarter 2008.
Gartner has reported that IBM (NYSE: IBM) held its number one position as the leading vendor in worldwide server revenue, widening its lead over the competition in the second quarter of 2008. According to Gartner data, IBM captured 31.2 percent of all server revenue worldwide [1].
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that University of Melbourne Student Dharvinder Bassi has been named Australia's Master of the Mainframe student contest winner after out-performing more than 450 other students across Australia. In addition to becoming Australia's Mainframe student contest winner, Bassi now joins the growing list of approximately 50,000 worldwide students with mainframe computing training. This burgeoning group of future mainframe experts is a direct result of the ongoing resurgence of the mainframe, which continues to serve as a centralized, secure powerful transaction
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that University of Melbourne Student Dharvinder Bassi has been named Australia's Master of the Mainframe student contest winner after out-performing more than 450 other students across Australia. In addition to becoming Australia's Mainframe student contest winner, Bassi now joins the growing list of approximately 50,000 worldwide students with mainframe computing training. This burgeoning group of future mainframe experts is a direct result of the ongoing resurgence of the mainframe, which continues to serve as a centralized, secure powerful transaction
Gartner has reported that IBM (NYSE: IBM) held its number one position as the leading vendor in worldwide server revenue, widening its lead over the competition in the second quarter of 2008. According to Gartner data, IBM captured 31.2 percent of all server revenue worldwide [1].
Adorama, a midsize company and a leading online retailer of photography and video gear, is combating credit card fraud with help from IBM, Curbstone Corporation, an IBM Advanced Business Partner, and CardinalCommerce Corporation.
Adorama, a midsize company and a leading online retailer of photography and video gear, is combating credit card fraud with help from IBM, Curbstone Corporation, an IBM Advanced Business Partner, and CardinalCommerce Corporation.
Today at the TDWI World Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced new versions of two software products, part of its growing InfoSphere portfolio, that deliver information on demand to the people, processes and applications that rely on it. The new products help customers create and manage trusted information from across their enterprises to improve business performance.
Today at the TDWI World Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced new versions of two software products, part of its growing InfoSphere portfolio, that deliver information on demand to the people, processes and applications that rely on it. The new products help customers create and manage trusted information from across their enterprises to improve business performance.
The University of Toronto?s SciNet Consortium and IBM today announced an agreement to build Canada?s most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputer.
At the annual SHARE conference and education symposium today, Columbus State University, TSYS and IBM (NYSE: IBM) celebrated a 20-year milestone as a result of their partnership to meet the needs of the technology workforce of the future. Columbus State University has now educated and trained more than 1,000 students in mainframe and large enterprise skills specifically for careers at TSYS, a leading provider of electronic payments solutions. Columbus State University and TSYS, along with the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, collaborated to create innovative, diverse
IBM today announced that Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., one of the nation's largest food retailers, has consolidated its IT infrastructure to a System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC) mainframe to drive more efficiency from current business-critical processes and data such as store operations, finance, human resources and Web content.
Itaú Bank is the first Brazilian bank to acquire the IBM System z10 mainframe. Launched two months ago, the machine was designed to increase efficiency and performance of data centers while reducing energy and cooling costs. The acquisition was conducted as part of the process of capacity upgrade and update of Itaú's central computer environment, and is included in the strategic IT infrastructure evolution plan to support the growth of the bank's operations. In 2008 alone, it plans on opening approximately 140 agencies across Brazil.
The Hungarian Electricity Transmission System Operator Inc. (MAVIR ZRt) has selected IBM to provide the information technology (IT) infrastructure to upgrade its operations and improve its asset management system. The agreement, worth more than Hungarian Forint (HUF) 1.7 billion (approximately USD$10 million), aims to support the safe and uninterrupted operation of the electricity transmission network -- in line with the latest international practices.
At the opening of the LinuxWorld tradeshow today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced a series of new products, services and initiatives that further expand IBM's commitment to Linux and open source by enabling the next generation of Linux.
IBM today announced a massive expansion of its cloud computing capabilities, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to create two ultra-sophisticated delivery centers that will power the cloud-like computing model that the next era of computing will demand.
Researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have selected a high performance IBM computer to perform research they hope will one day lead to more effective treatment of medical conditions like infertility and thyroid problems.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Rackable Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: RACK) today entered into an agreement allowing Rackable Systems to offer IBM's high-performance BladeCenter servers inside its ICE Cube(TM) modular data centers. The ICE Cube will be outfitted with IBM's most rugged, high performance BladeCenter systems for harsh environments and demanding conditions.
IBM and Juniper Networks, Inc. today announced they have signed a five-year, data center hosting agreement with IBM to support Juniper's global operations.
IBM today announced it has acquired Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), a privately held technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. PSI's technologies and employees will become part of the IBM System z business unit of the IBM Systems and Technology Group. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Kuma Games, the world's leading publisher and developer of free, episodic games, has extended its relationship with IBM and its business partner, Akamai, to support its global business growth. Through this partnership, Kuma Games will dramatically accelerate the speed of game downloads, and support its rapidly growing audience with improved delivery of its 3D episodic games. Powered by the combination of IBM's superior hardware and Akamai's Electronic Software Delivery solution and globally-distributed platform, the collaboration will also facilitate Kuma Games to expand into new
IBM today announced that Microsoft is among the first clients to implement IBM's iDataPlex system -- a new category of server developed by IBM for Internet-scale computing. IBM also introduced today a new high performance computing (HPC) option for iDataPlex, to bring supercomputing power to Cloud environments.
IBM today announced the deployment of a Canada's fastest research supercomputer at the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. The new system will aid in the search for more effective cancer treatments.
BEIJING, CHINA and JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of new 'cloud computing' centers in South Africa and China. Cloud computing enables the delivery of personal and business services from remote, centralized servers (the cloud) that share computing resources and bandwidth -- to any device, anywhere.
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS (MARKET WIRE) Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) and utility based services provider iTricity announced that iTricity will open a brand new Cloud Computing Hosting Center for Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. Based on IBM Blue Cloud technology, iTricity will use the center to host computing services for its customers. The two companies will work closely to build this landmark center.
IBM's history-making hybrid supercomputer, built for the National Nuclear Security Administration?s (NNSA) Los Alamos National Lab, burned its way into the TOP500 Supercomputer record book today as the most powerful system in the world ? by a wide margin. Its sustained performance of 1.02 petaflops (1.02 quadrillion calculations per second) puts the system in a class of its own ? more than three times faster than the nearest non-IBM system.
IBM and Umeå University announced today that the most powerful Windows-based computer in Europe is being installed at the supercomputer center known as HPC2N. Scientists at HPC2N will use the powerful system ? running on a beta version of Windows HPC Server 2008 ? for basic as well as applied research.
Nicholas & Company is building a model data center that delivers significantly more computing power per watt. The Salt Lake City based, 500 employee, food distributor has increased its computing capabilities while holding energy costs level by virtualizing applications, and consolidating its servers and storage on IBM systems.
At an event attended by business leaders from North American utility companies, IBM today issued a call to action between the IT and utility industry around energy efficiency, expanding IBM?s existing collaboration on Intelligent Utility Networks to include corporate consumption of energy for data centers and facilities. The initial utility company to support this initiative is Con Edison of New York.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has signed an agreement to help build a $ CDN 75 million, 150,000 square foot green data center in the heart of British Columbia with gigaCENTER Services Corporation, in partnership with RackForce Networks.
IBM today said it would expand its global efforts to deliver greater energy efficiency to businesses facing skyrocketing energy costs, environmental concerns and corporate sustainability requirements. The company introduced new services, technologies and financing to help enterprises bridge the gap between the mandate for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to build greener technology infrastructures that can meet growing business requirements and the desire of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) to realize rapid financial benefits from such investments.
IBM announced today that a Power Systems™ server shattered another milestone, demonstrating nearly three times the performance per processor core of HP Superdome at a lower cost. According to a Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC-C) benchmark result, the IBM UNIX system is the first and only server to achieve more than six million transactions per minute.
In 2006, the Department of Energy?s National Nuclear Security Administration selected Los Alamos National Laboratory as the development site for Roadrunner and IBM as the computer?s designer and builder. Roadrunner, named after the New Mexico state bird, cost about $100 million, and was a three-phase project to deliver the world?s first ?hybrid? supercomputer ? one powerful enough to operate at one petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per second). That?s twice as fast as the current No.1 rated IBM Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Lab ? itself nearly three times faster than the leading contenders on the current TOP 500 list of worldwide supercomputers.
Following best practices from Dell and Microsoft can help enterprises design a high-performance Microsoft® SQL Server? 2005 database on Dell? PowerEdge? servers and Dell PowerVault? storage. This article provides specific guidance and best-practice recommendations in the areas of storage, OS, and database configuration.
Dell OpenManage? IT Assistant 8.0 enables administrators to configure launch points for management applications and tools for discovered networked devices, such as servers, switches, and printers. This article discusses how administrators can set up, customize, and use this feature in their environment.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) introduces new levels of performance and scalability for direct attach storage. To take advantage of industry-standard SAS technology, Dell offers the Dell? PowerVault? MD1000 storage ex-pansion enclosure. When combined with the Dell PowerEdge? RAID Controller 5/Extended and the Dell OpenManage? Server Administrator application, the PowerVault MD1000 can provide a comprehensive SAS storage system.
As a component within the Dell Modular Server Enclosure, the Avocent Digital Access KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch provides remote access capabilities to Dell PowerEdge 1855 and PowerEdge 1955 blade servers. Digital Access KVM switches can be cascaded to Dell external KVM devices, such as the Dell 2161DS-2 and 4161DS Remote Console Switches, and can be managed using the On-Screen Configuration and Activity Reporting (OSCAR) interface.
VMware ESX Server software on Dell PowerEdge servers enables a virtualization platform that can support a wide variety of applications and operating systems. Dell engineers tested this software on Dell PowerEdge 2850 and PowerEdge 6850 servers to show how ESX Server can manage multiple workloads.
Background Patrol Read, a new feature in Dell PowerEdge RAID Controllers (PERCs), is designed to help prevent data loss in a redundant array. This article describes how Background Patrol Read works and how it interoperates with Consistency Check and SMART alerts within the PERC Fault Management Suite.
