Data Center Management Articles
Although big data promises to dramatically alter the business environment, technology is only a decision enabler.
Posted June 11, 2014
In 2013, Bon Ton Stores invested in upgrading IT, continuing to update and expand its eCommerce sites, and launching a new mobile site supporting delivery of promotions and online purchasing.
Posted June 11, 2014
Less than a year after announcing a $1 billion commitment to Linux on Power, IBM has delivered new Power Systems running Linux. The new scale out Power Systems are built from the ground up to harness big data with the new IBM POWER8 processor, a sliver of silicon that measures just one square inch, which is embedded with more than 4 billion microscopic transistors and more than 11 miles of high-speed copper wiring.
Posted June 11, 2014
Red Hat has announced the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In a new blog post, Adam Jollans, Program Director - Cross-IBM Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy, IBM Systems & Technology Group, highlighted why RHEL 7 is significant for Red Hat, IBM, and most importantly customers.
Posted June 11, 2014
Enterprise data growth is coming from unstructured, social media, and machine-generated data. The resulting storage issues are impacting the performance of associated applications and systems. How and where is this data going to be stored—and how can it be made available, on demand, to users and applications that need information right away?
Posted June 11, 2014
Today, many businesses are looking for ways to rationalize their mainframe capacity in order to contain MIPS growth as well as defer costly upgrades. Unfortunately, some of these stopgap measures involve costly trade-offs, such as keeping only the most recent or even archiving critical data to tape. This can mean that valuable information goes untapped.
Posted June 11, 2014
It's more than just a passing fad when nearly three-quarters of mainframe users are considering or in the midst of big data projects.
Posted June 09, 2014
The latest release of Fusion-io's Atomic Series is built on foundational technology achievements with the latest third-generation Fusion-io memory-based architecture. Flash powers applications that demand more performance and less infrastructure. According to Fusion-io, the series is architected for application acceleration through innovative software advancements, providing the ability to deliver higher performance than typical solid-state disks in less space.
Posted June 09, 2014
IBM is supporting the SAP HANA platform, the SAP HANA ONE service and other SAP applications on IBM's SoftLayer solution set. SAP has verified the SoftLayer platform to run SAP applications, including SAP Business Suite software and SAP BusinessObjects solutions.
Posted June 09, 2014
SAP has certified the integration of CA Technologies' workload management solution with the SAP Solution Manager application management solution, enabling CA Workload Automation AE 11.3 (formerly CA AutoSys) customers to use SAP Solution Manager to manage and monitor business processes in SAP solutions.
Posted June 09, 2014
Progress has acquired platform-as-a-service (PaaS) vendor Modulus, a privately-held company that provides a Node.js and MongoDB cloud platform that is designed to simplify and speed development of business and consumer apps.
Posted June 09, 2014
STORServer is offering CommVault-Dell appliance customers the opportunity to evaluate or upgrade their current systems risk-free and at a discount in the wake of Dell's announcement that it is ending sales of backup appliances powered by CommVault Simpana. The options for current CommVault-Dell appliance customers to evaluate their current backup environments include 50% off a Health Check as well as a free software upgrade from Simpana 8 or 9 to version 10.
Posted June 09, 2014
MapR has launched a Hadoop application gallery to make it easier for companies to find solutions within the Hadoop ecosystem. The company also announced a partnership with Syncsort targeted at helping customers move their mission-critical workloads to Hadoop.
Posted June 03, 2014
Oracle has released Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 which includes a richer service catalog for database as a service, enhanced database and middleware management, and automation for broader cloud services.
Posted June 03, 2014
More than 1,000 developers and Tizen contributors are expected to meet in San Francisco for the 3-day Tizen Developer Conference, which focuses exclusively on the developer ecosystem around the Tizen open source operating system for converged devices. "Whether you are a platform developer wanting to use Tizen or an app developer who wants to build apps for deployment on Tizen, this is the only place you want to go. The whole point of the Tizen Developer Conference is knowledge transfer," said Brian Warner, manager of the Tizen Project.
Posted May 28, 2014
To improve cloud and data interoperability, and deliver new mobile and productivity solutions for joint customers, Microsoft and SAP are expanding their partnership of more than 20 years.
Posted May 28, 2014
Helping customers move toward a software-defined data center architecture, SAP AG and VMware announced the HANA platform on VMware vSphere 5.5 for production use has been released to customers.
Posted May 28, 2014
Oracle Tuxedo 12c, an application server for the deployment of C/C++/COBOL/Java enterprise workloads in private and public cloud environments, has added improvements for better reliability, availability, performance and scalability for conventional and enterprise cloud applications.
Posted May 28, 2014
Oracle has agreed to acquire GreenBytes, a provider of ZFS technology founded in 2007 with domain expertise in deduplication, replication, and virtualization. Oracle said that GreenBytes' technology complements its own storage solutions and is expected to enhance Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliances. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2014.
Posted May 28, 2014
R/Link, a comprehensive, secure file sharing, managed file transfer, and universal information access solution that resides on a customer's network or private cloud, will be showcased in a webcast presented by Rocket Software. The webcast will be presented on Thursday, May 29, at two times - 9 am MT and 4 pm MT.
Posted May 28, 2014
OpenShift Enterprise 2.1, the next generation of Red Hat's on premise platform-as-a-service offering, adds improvements to further enable DevOps practices through the delivery of new capabilities that bring development and operations closer together.
Posted May 27, 2014
Expanding their 23-year relationship, Cisco and Dimension Data will partner to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service solution that will be packaged with Cisco technology and software-as-a-services applications, including Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint.
Posted May 27, 2014
Cetan Corp., whose vertical market expertise and professional services in workload management complement CA Technologies' portfolio of strategic workload automation solutions for distributed, cloud and IBM System z platforms, has joined the CA Global Partner Program as an advanced partner.
Posted May 27, 2014
Endace Fusion Connector for Compuware APM's Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DC RUM), is a new application-aware network performance management solution, created jointly by Compuware and Emulex. The companies are partnering to help deliver a new generation of application performance management (APM) solutions.
Posted May 27, 2014
Organizations are dealing with pressure to bring new or upgraded applications to market sooner, and application teams must work in parallel to complete projects in less time but with higher quality. To address these challenges, Delphix and DBmaestro are partnering to give enterprise application teams the tools required to bring new applications to market faster.
Posted May 27, 2014
Big data is causing a big shift in three areas - people, process and technology, said SAS thought leader Anne Buff, who gave a keynote at Data Summit dotted with examples of the rich opportunities for greater customer insight that can be achieved as well as the pitfalls lying in wait for companies that fail to use their data wisely.
Posted May 21, 2014
Extending organizations' ability to gain insight from a range of data sources and applications, Oracle has announced the latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications, which adds new ways to analyze procurement data, and a new module for analyzing talent.
Posted May 14, 2014
Dell KACE K1000 version 6.0 enables organizations to boost their Internet of Things (IoT) readiness with new features that provide greater visibility across their entire IT infrastructure, and create a foundation for improved endpoint security.
Posted May 13, 2014
More than 30 new cloud services have been added to IBM's BlueMix Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which is designed to help developers more quickly integrate applications and speed deployment of new cloud services. IBM is leveraging BlueMix's foundation on SoftLayer for this expansion.
Posted May 12, 2014
New offerings from IBM are intended to help enterprise developers more rapidly design, deliver and deploy secure mobile apps. The new offerings include additions to IBM's MobileFirst Application Development portfolio, new industry-specific IBM Ready Apps, and the opening of 18 IBM MobileFirst studios around the world to help businesses accelerate mobile initiatives.
Posted May 12, 2014
EMC is acquiring DSSD, Inc., a developer of rack-scale flash storage architecture for I/O-intensive in-memory databases and big data workloads. DSSD is complementary to EMC's all-flash and hybrid storage portfolio, and will support the emerging tier of next-generation in-memory and big data workloads, according to David Goulden, CEO of EMC Information Infrastructure.
Posted May 12, 2014
CA is shipping CA arcserve Unified Data Protection, a new resource-saving recovery point server (RPS), combining global source-side de-duplication, integrated block-level replication, AES 256-bit level encryption, and cascading retention policies.
Posted May 12, 2014
TIBCO Software Inc. says its acquisition of Jaspersoft Corp. accelerates its expansion into embedded business intelligence and reporting, giving the company the portfolio needed to address two fast-growing segments of the business intelligence market.
Posted May 12, 2014
The "Internet of Things" (IoT) is shifting from aspirational buzzword to a concrete and lucrative market. New-generation computing devices require new types of operating systems and networks. While many have been initially based on some variation of the Linux OS and connect using existing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless protocols, new operating systems and networking protocols are emerging.
Posted May 08, 2014
Providing expanded cloud services and enhanced compute and storage, the latest release of Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance - X4-2 - has been introduced. In order to save customers hours of labor and decrease the risk of physical and software configuration errors, the system arrives ready to run production workloads with little software-defined configuration, according to Oracle.
Posted April 30, 2014
CodeFutures has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent Office for its continuous replication technology that helps DBAs perform maintenance and other processing functions without downtime. CodeFutures' new patent provides the technology backbone for dbShards/Replicate, its replication and failover solution for enterprise databases.
Posted April 29, 2014
It was a tough first quarter for IBM, including soft mainframe sales. Overall, the company saw first quarter revenues of $22.5 billion, down 4% from the first quarter of 2013. Net income was $2.4 billion, down 21% year-to-year.
Posted April 28, 2014
New Power Systems servers from IBM enable data centers to manage big data at high speeds, all built on an open server platform. Built on IBM's Power8 technology and designed for managing large data stores, the new scale-out IBM Power Systems servers culminate a $2.4 billion investment, three-plus years of development, and exploit the innovation of hundreds of IBM patents.
Posted April 28, 2014
FalconStor Software has signed a reseller agreement allowing X-IO, an enterprise storage provider, to package and sell FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS). By combining X-IO's Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) solutions with FalconStor NSS, customers will have access to a flash-enabled storage solution that includes data protection and DR solutions.
Posted April 28, 2014
BMC has unveiled a new collaboration console to help development teams design batch workflows that are easier for operations teams to implement while providing built-in workload automation. "We're bringing developers and IT operations together for the first time to streamline the process," said Gur Steif, president of workload automation at BMC Software.
Posted April 28, 2014
Anew version of EMC Disk Library for mainframe (Dlm) offers improved performance, enhanced usability and more storage choices. DLm release 4.1 provides for simplification of D/R testing for EMC VNX based Dlms, single drive performance improvements, deeper operational insights, and IPv6 compliance.
Posted April 28, 2014
NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company, has launched NaviCloud Vault: Data Domain, which provides an on-demand, cloud-based model to scale off-site storage capacity.
Posted April 28, 2014
Splunk is shipping a new version of its virtual environment reporting app. Version 3.1 of the Splunk App for VMware includes 200 out-of-the-box reports, the ability to identify outliers for real-time triage, and built-in correlation into storage systems including a direct drill-down into data from NetApp Data ONTAP.
Posted April 28, 2014