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World’s Largest Virtual Optical Telescope Created

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:26:00 +0000

erice writes “Astronomers in Chile linked four telescopes together to form a single virtual mirror 130 meters in diameter. Previous efforts had linked two telescopes but this is the first time that all four had been linked. ‘The process that links separate telescopes together is known as interferometry. In this mode, the VLT becomes the biggest ground-based optical telescope on earth. Besides creating a gigantic virtual mirror, interferometry also greatly improves the telescope’s spatial resolution and zooming capabilities.’”

Three Citrix Executives to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences in February

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:54:00 +0000

Citrix Systems, Inc. today announced that executives will present at three upcoming investor conferences. Webcasted presentations will be available… Read more at VMblog.com.

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MindTree Announces the Availability of vmUnify, a Path Breaking Solution for Virtual Infrastructure Management

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:27:00 +0000

vmUnify is a new virtual and cloud infrastructure management solution to hit the market that is designed to help customers address the following… Read more at VMblog.com.

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How DataCore Software Customers are Deploying the Most Recent Storage Hypervisor Release — SANsymphony-V

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:14:00 +0000

For those of you that don’t know about the company, DataCore Software is a provider of storage virtualization software — a centrally-managed… Read more at VMblog.com.

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IT and Storage Economics 101, Supply and Demand

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000

In my 2012 (and 2013) industry trends and perspectives predictions I mentioned that some storage systems vendors who managed their costs could benefit from the current Hard Disk Drive (HDD) shortage. Most in the industry would say that is saying what they have said, however I have an alternate scenario. My scenario is that for vendors who already manage good (or great) margins on their HDD sales and who can manage their costs including inventories stand to make even more margin. There is a popular myth that there is no money or margin in HDD or for those who sell them which might be true for some.
Without going into any details, lets just say it is a popular myth just like saying that there is no money in hardware or that all software and people services are pure profit. Ok, lets leave sleeping dogs lay where rest (at least for now).

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SeaMicro Adapts Xeon for Microservers

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:13:00 +0000

SeaMicro, the ambitious start-up that has been building so-called microservers out of low-power Intel Atom chips, has started building microservers out of low-voltage quad-core Intel Xeon chips using the same architecture its Atom systems use.
The development is called the SeaMicro SM10000-XE. Needless to say, it’s the first fabric-based Xeon microserver ever made.
It’s also supposed to be the most energy-efficient, highest-density, highest-bandwidth Xeon server now available, period.
A single SM10000-XE replaces 32 dual-socket servers, but draws half the power and takes up a third the space without any changes to operating systems, applications or management tools.
It eliminates layers of Ethernet switches, server management devices and expensive load balancers.

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IT Handbook: Introduction to Virtualization

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:40:14 +0000

In this comprehensive IT handbook, build a solid understanding of server virtualization. Get tips for how you can optimize hardware management and performance, ensure high availability and manage your virtual environment. Published by: Dell and VMware

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What’s new in vSphere 5?

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:40:14 +0000

Explore the newest features in VMware vSphere 5, and find out how vSphere helps businesses accelerate the shift to cloud computing. Learn about the new VM format, support for Apple products, improvements in availability and scalability, and more! Published by: Dell and VMware

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Five Stages of a Data Breach

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:52:00 +0000

One thing I’ve noticed over the last couple years is that there are Five Stages of a Data Breach:
Denial: We do not believe these attacks breached our critical servers.
Anger: We want to make it clear that we take security seriously!
Bargaining: We’d like to offer our affected customers a credit monitoring service.
Depression: We wish we could have done things differently.
Acceptance: Well, it just shows that no one is safe from hackers.

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Nutanix Mad Men Spoof: Build Your Private Cloud

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:06:00 +0000

Check out this latest video release from Nutanix entitled, “Building Your Private Cloud.” It’s sort of like Mad Men meets High-tech Virtualization… Read more at VMblog.com.

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